Yes, Dear, Yes!

For 4 minutes that will feel like forever (in the best way possible) I will be reading at No, Dear Magazine's launch party. It will be fun. PROMISE. Will you consider coming? Should I read something old or something new or just what's in the journal?

Saturday, April 17, 2010
6:00pm - 8:00pm
Pete's Candy Store

Please join us in celebrating our spring 2010 publication!

Issue #5: Edges
features poems by Jessica Beyer, Marina Blitshteyn, James Copeland, Iris Marble Cushing, Steven Karl, Eric Pitra, Matt Reeck, Martin Rock, Matthew Rohrer, Levi Rubeck, Adam Wiedewitsch, and Helen Witherspoon.

Reading at 6pm.

www.NoDearMagazine.com

Yuri G Coming Up Man-Size

I plan on checking this out- then meeting my roommate to watch the debate!

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Event Title:	Poets Out Loud Reading
Date:	Wednesday, 8 October 2008
Location:	Lowenstein Center 12th-floor Lounge, Lincoln Center Campus
Contact Name:	Poets Out Loud
Contact Phone:	(212) 636-6792
Contact Email:	pol@fordham.edu

Poets Out Loud Reading

Wednesday, 8 October 2008 | 7:00 p.m.
Lowenstein Center 12th-floor Lounge, Lincoln Center Campus


Poets Out Loud, a community of poetry at Fordham University at Lincoln Center, organizes a series of readings at the University by noted and emerging poets.

Scheduled Readings:
Kundiman Poets with

Sarah Gambito
Myung Mi Kim
Ravi Shankar
Kelly Tsai

For more information about this and upcoming readings, visit www.fordham.edu/pol, call (212) 636-6792 or e-mail pol@fordham.edu.

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I'm going to Wire on Thursday, but you should do this:

Word of Mouth
October 9th at 7pm
@ Bluestockings Radical Books
172 Allen St. (Between Stanton and Rivington)

Readers will be:

Matt Reeck (poetry)
Justine Manzano (fiction)
Darcie Dennigan (poetry)

& Submissions are now open for the 2009 Reading Season!!! Check out the guidelines at www.megpunschke.com/wordofmouth
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Who's hot? Earshot!!
EARSHOT

Join us for the next star-studded event at The Lucky Cat in Williamsburg, Brooklyn!

Friday, October 10 @ 8 PM
Hosted by Nicole Steinberg

Featuring:
Heather Christle
Chris Hosea
Jennifer Kikoler (Brooklyn College)
Levi Rubeck (New York University)
Claire Shefchik (Sarah Lawrence College)

The Lucky Cat is located at 245 Grand Street in Brooklyn, between Driggs and Roebling. Visit their website for directions: http://www.theluckycat.com.

EARSHOT is a bi-monthly reading series, dedicated to featuring new and emerging literary talent in the NYC area. Visit http://www.earshotnyc.com for more information or e-mail Nicole Steinberg at earshotnyc@gmail.com.

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EARSHOT!
http://www.earshotnyc.com
http://myspace.com/earshotnyc

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Salon, Saturday Style:

Please join me Saturday Oct 11th at 7:30pm for another writer's salon

Please be at Erika's loft no later than eight - the doorman rings each and every time someone come up...

We have three amazing readers, two all the way from New Hampsire! One right here from brooklyn... and a great musician.

Food and Drink
pumpkin libations and sweets–
no spiky heels
come and have fun
open mike, please bring something to read, this part of the evening is a little weak, love to hear your words
four bucks


Jean-Paul Pecqueur's first book,
The Case Against Happiness, was published by Alice James Books in 2006. New poems have recently appeared in The Hat, Cranky, and Gulf Coast.
Jean-Paul currently lives in Brooklyn, teaching writing at the Pratt Institute.



Lea C. Deschenes resides in Worcester, MA and holds an MFA in Poetry from New England College.
Her poetry has appeared online, on stage and in print (Spillway, Snakeskin, So Luminous the Wildflowers, Ballard Street Poetry Journal, et al.)
A former member of four National Poetry Slam teams and a coach to two more, she also dusts off her BA in Theater to perform. She has received a Jacob Knight Award, been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and represented Worcester in the 2005 Individual World Poetry Slam. She is the author of thirteen chapbooks. Her first full-length collection The Constant Velocity of Trains is available through Write Bloody Publishing



Victor D. Infante is the Editor-in-Chief of The November 3rd Club, an online literary journal of political writing,
and a writer whose poems and prose have appeared in dozens of periodicals internationally, including literary journals such as The Los Angeles Review, Pearl, Ballard Street and AntiMuse, and anthologies such as Poetry Slam: The Competitive Art of Performance Poetry, Spoken Word Revolution Redux
and The Last American Valentine: Poems to Seduce and Destroy. He's recently released his first full-length poetry collection, City of Insomnia, on Write Bloody Publishing. He currently resides with his wife and pet ferret in a three-decker apartment in Worcester, Mass., and is a devoted fan of The Family Circus.

And finally, last but not least, Kyle Ervin will be performing on the guitar.
He is currently recording an album with his band fighter plane. You can find him on myspace: myspace.com/kyleervinmusic.

Erika's Loft
85-101 N 3rd St #508
Bedford stop on the L
917.865.4875 make note its a new number....

Hope to see you there!

Has bar loving Vamps become park loving Hippies?

Monday nights at KGB Bar have become infamous for poetry, but it looks like all the summer light has gotten them a little misty-eyed & restless to leave behind the aching read interiors and sticky sweet beer smells for something a little more green










Monday becomes Tuesday and KGB at Bryant Park
with James Tate, Dara Wier and Jennifer L. Knox
Tuesday, July 8
6:30pm - 8:00pm
Bryant Park Reading Room
(42nd Street side of park)




Join the KGB Poetry Series for a summertime appearance at Bryant Park!
Featuring a superstar line-up: James Tate, Dara Wier and Jennifer L. Knox
Hosted by Laura Cronk and Michael Quattrone

James Tate is the author of 15 books of poems, most recently The Ghost Soldiers: Poems (Ecco Press, 2008). His Selected Poems won the Pulitzer Prize in 1991. He teaches at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst and is currently a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.

Dara Wier is the author of 10 books of poems, most recently Remnants of Hannah (Wave Books, 2006). She has received grants from the Guggenheim Foundation and the NEA and directs the MFA Program for Poets and Writers at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.

Jennifer L. Knox is the author of two books of poems, Drunk by Noon and A Gringo Like Me, both available from Bloof Books. Her poems have been widely anthologized, most recently in The Best American Erotic Poems: From 1800 to the Present.

The Bryant Park Reading Room:
42nd Street side of the park
marked by maroon umbrellas

Rain Venue:
The General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen
20 West 44th Street (between 5th & 6th Avenues)

http://www.bryantpark.org/
http://www.kgbbar.com/
KGB has this little reading planned in the park. Bring you picnic baskets!

So Many Readings Yo Head May Implode

With AWP rolling into town next week there are going to be a c-r-a-z-y amount of readings. Here's what's on my radar:

Monday Jan 28th
A & B reading
St. Petersburg Review &
Ugly Duckling Presse present

Peter Gizzi
Aleksandr Skidan
Genya Turovskaya

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Thursday, Jan 31st
READING BETWEEN A & B
is proud to celebrate its
10 year anniversary
on Thursday, January 31,
during AWP! 7-9 PM.
Journals and books will be
available for purchase!

We're pleased to be joined by
1913: A Journal of Forms
Failbetter
Indiana Review and
Saturnalia Books

Please come out and join us for a reading from the following authors:

Christopher Stackhouse
John Keene
Shin-Yu Pai
Daniel Nester
Ross Gay
Kathleen Graber
Catherine Pierce

or


Thursday, 31 JAN 08 8-10 pm
AWP NYC
Ahsahta Press / Litmus Press reading
with Kate Greenstreet, Susan Briante, Kate Colby, Brenda Iijima, Kristi Maxwell, Rusty Morrison, Stacy Szymaszek, Mark Tardi, Susan Tichy, & others TBA

The Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery at Bleecker
212.614.0505
F train to Second Ave

or

STEAL THIS READING:
A Brooklyn Book Burning
Featuring 15 authors from 6 publishers:
Thursday, January 31st
Doors @ 7 PM
East Coast Aliens
216 Franklin Street (Greenpoint neighborhood), Brooklyn, NY
tel (718) 514-7625

Killer Lineup:

CD Wright
Eleni Sikelianos
Graham Foust
Joyelle McSweeney
Joshua Marie Wilkinson
Julie Doxsee
Max Winter
Adam Clay
Zachary Schomburg
Morgan Lucas Schuldt
Lily Brown
Rauan Klassnik
Cindy Savett
Jon Thompson
Melanie Hubbard

Hosted by Black Ocean, Cannibal Books, Free Verse Editions, Kitchen Press, Octopus, Tarpaulin Sky Press & Typo.

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Friday looks like this





Saturday to come soon!