Some Work Here & There

My poem, "& I Dragged My Sister's Feeble Body Up The Mountain" was featured on Everyday Genius today. You can read it here.

Issue 23 of jubilat has an untitled poem of mine. It should be out any day now.

I've also done interviews with Amy Lawless, Eric Baus, & Jackie Clark which you can read here, here, & here.

Interviews with Sampson Starkweather, Farrah Field, and Christie Ann Reynolds forthcoming so keep an eye out on Coldfront Magazine.

Come To This Reading Please

Some Upcoming Events

I'm reading with tons of awesome people on Feb. 5th for Polestar's The White Album. See flyer in previous post.

On March 3rd I'm chairing a panel at AWP on chapbooks with awesome writers/publishers, Angela Veronica Wong, Mathias Svalina, Farrah Field and Sommer Browning.AWP 2012 | Saturday, March 3, 3:00 PM to 4:15 PM | The Chapbook Beyond Cultural Artifact: Contemporary Poetry and the Economics and Vitality of Chapbook Publishing | Honore Ballroom, Palmer House Hilton | Chicago, IL

I'm guest-editing the next chapbook for Immaculate Disciples Press which will be a double collaborative effort by Julia Cohen & Mathias Svalina. Seriously, it's so damn good! Cover art my Joseph Lappie- HOT DAMN! Come find us at Table Y.

Also, at AWP there will be copies of the collab chapbook by Veronica Wong & myself over at the Lame House table. Veronica's full-length from Coconut will also be for sale (I think).

Shortly, before AWP there will be a new edition of Sink Review. We have a new assistant poetry editor, Stephanie Willis. New things ahead for Sink!

Shortly after AWP, Veronica & I, along with Jackie Clark, B.C. Edwards and Amy Lawless will be reading on March 31st for an off-site reading in conjunction with the CUNY Chapbook Festival- location of the reading TBA.

I believe Veronica, Carter & I will read in Philly in either April or May.
Veronica and I will also read in DC in May. Details forthcoming.

Your Friday/ Your Saturday

Stain of Poetry: A Reading Series

Friday, March 25 · 7:00pm - 9:00pm

Goodbye Blue Monday

Come out and be wowed by the ever-awesome Jackie Clark!! Ben Fama!! Matt Reiter!! Bianca Stone!! Amish Trivedi!! and Genya Turovskaya!!

More info at http://stainofpoetry.wordpress.com/

Yardmeter Editions

Saturday, March 26 · 7:30pm - 10:30pm

267 Douglass Street

Yardmeter 17 presents:

poetry readings by
Dan Magers and Francesca Chabrier,

a Max Ernst presentation
by Keith Newton,

and an operatic collaborative performance
featuring the music and visuals
of Rusty Banks and Karen Graffeo.

Please bring festive beverages.

http://yardmeter.blogspot.com/

The Year In Review- Coldfront Style

Come by & say hi to us at AWP or pick up your copy right now.

Here & There Again

Victoria Chang has a coffee chat with Allison Benis White here.

Evening Will Come has C.D. Wright here.

& I'm reading this Friday for Supermachine!
Fri., Jan, 14, 8pm
Steven Karl
Jacke Clark
Anna Fitzgerald
Levi Rubeck

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ALL READINGS TAKE PLACE AT OUTPOST

1014 Fulton St between Grand & Classon

Your Friday/ Your Sunday

Harp & Alter have out a new issue and will be featured on Friday at the Poetry Project.
New ish here, info for reading below:
Please join us this Friday, Dec. 10, at the Poetry Project for a reading to celebrate the release of the eighth issue of Brooklyn-based online magazine Harp & Altar. Edited by Keith Newton and Eugene Lim, Harp & Altar has emerged over the past four years as an important new source for innovative and risk-taking literature, publishing poetry and fiction alongside criticism and reviews of writing and art. Keith Newton will give a brief talk about the magazine, and readings will be given by Harp & Altar contributors Jared White and Shane Book.

As usual, this all gets started at 10pm in Parish Hall.


Keith Newton is co-editor of The Harp & Altar Anthology (Ellipsis Press, 2010), a selection of writing from the online magazine Harp & Altar, which he founded in 2006. His chapbook Sent Forth to Die in a Happy City was published last year by Cannibal Books, and his writing has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Denver Quarterly, 1913, Harvard Review, Konundrum Engine, Typo, Cannibal, Saltgrass, Sink Review and Ekleksographia, among other journals. He lives in Brooklyn.

Shane Book recently directed a film based on his first poetry collection, Ceiling of Sticks, which won the 2009 Prairie Schooner Book Prize and was published this fall by University of Nebraska Press. He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. His work has been translated into Italian and has appeared in numerous American, British and Canadian magazines, in anthologies—including Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry and Breathing Fire 2: Canada’s New Poets—and on film. His honors include a New York Times Fellowship in Poetry, an Academy of American Poets Prize, and a National Magazine Award.

Jared White’s chapbook Yellowcake was included in the hand-sewn anthology Narwhal from Cannibal Books in 2009. His poems have been recently published or are forthcoming in Action Yes, Coconut, Fulcrum, La Petite Zine, Laurel Review, Meridian, Modern Review, No, Dear, and Horse Less Review, and his essays on poetry and music have appeared in Open Letters Monthly, Poets Off Poetry, and Harp & Altar. He lives in Brooklyn, where he co-directs the Yardmeter Editions event series and blogs at jaredswhite.blogspot.com.

Some Thing I've Been Up To Including News On An Exciting December Reading

I have a collab list with Katy Henriksen up on Coldfront featuring some excellent poetry subscriptions. Check it out here.

I also have an essay write-up on the Poets House (Re)Writing Culture panel featuring Sueyeun Juliette Lee, Barbara Jane Reyes, and Craig Santos Perez. Check that out here.

InDigest Magazine is having a 3 year anniversary reading & I've been invited! There will be broadsides & an amazing line-up featuring: Becca Klaver , Martin Rock , Leigh Stein , Ronaldo V. Wilson , Erica Wright , me , Bianca Stone , Jackie Clark and Autumn Giles. It's on December 12 at 7pm. All info here.

Chapbook Round-up

I have been told that (Ir)Rational Animals is sold-out. Awesome. What a year! Thanks to all those who purchased a copy.

I have recently picked up (but not read) the following chapbooks:
The Archers by Macgregor Card
ATM by Chris Salerno
Office Work by Jackie Clark

Cannibal Disciples Eating a Finch

The Heart is Green From So Much Waiting by Sampson Starkweather is available for purchase from Immaculate Disciples Press. Go here. I own it & think it's pretty damn good!



I also just finished reading the new Cannibal which you can purchase here. This is what is inside:
Cannibal: Issue 5
112 pages, hand-sewn, silk-screen printed cover
w/ poems Carrie Olivia Adams, Samuel Amadon, Claire Becker, Susan Briante, Lily Brown, Adam Clay, CAConrad, Kate Dougherty, Farrah Field, Laura Goode, Kate Greenstreet, Jane Gregory, Whit Griffin, Melanie Hubbard, Andrew Hughes, MC Hyland, Grant Jenkins, Jeff T. Johnson, Jon Leon, Sam Lohmann, Sara Mumolo, Hoa Nguyen, Danielle Pafunda, Alison Palmer, Kyle Schlesinger, Cedar Sigo, Nate Slawson, Tony Tost, Steven Toussaint, Amish Trivedi, G.C. Waldrep, & Joseph Wood.

Also, there's a new ish of Sixth Finch, which I've only read a quarter of so far, but love the poems by Jackie Clark and Kim Gek Lin Short and Farrah Field. Read it all here.

Coldfront Magazine- The Year in Review

coldfront magazine is pleased to announce the publication of Coldfront Yearbook 2009, a book of work published in 2009 -- it also announces the WINNERS of our 2009 Year in Review.

Copies of the book will be available at a discount during the AWP Conference in Denver, CO. They are already available here, and will soon be available at amazon.com.

It is the first in what will be an annual series, and features writing by:

Jason Bredle, Erin Belieu, Stephen Burt, Jackie Clark, John Deming, DJ Dolack, PJ Gallo, Matt Hart, Steven Karl, Rick Marlatt, Mike McDonough, Rachel Mennies, Jason Schneiderman, Matt Soucy, Bryan Stokes II, Mathias Svalina, Ken L. Walker, Melinda Wilson

about work by:

Samuel Amadon, Fred Astaire, Aase Berg, Mark Bibbins, Katie Cappello, Maxine Chernoff, Arda Collins, Mahmoud Darwish, Michael Dickman, Farrah Field, Ellie Ga, Louise Gluck, Geoffrey Hill, Janet Holmes, Fady Joudah, Ellen Kennedy, Noelle Kocot, Melissa Kwasny, Justin Marks, Shane McCrae, Wayne Miller, Keith Newton, Carl Phillips, Cole Porter, DA Powell, Angela Shaw, Laura Sims, GC Waldrep, Charles Wright

Because 4 Is A Nice Number

How about two (new to me) online journals worth your eyes, ears & poems:

InDigest (be sure to scroll through the archives too for some great stuff!)

Whiskey & Fox (which is a damn fine name!)

& two more readings for Friday:


This Friday, March 26, at 7pm

Amy McNamara, Ekoko Omadeke, Priscilla Becker, Mark Leidner & Ben Mirov walk into a bar. The bartender says, "What is this joke? Some kind of Objective Correlative?"

*ba dum chik*

Amy McNamara is a writer and photographer. Her poems have made appearances in Barrow Street, Conduit, jubilat, Linebreak, LIT, The Literary Review, 2River View and are coming out soon in New CollAge and Versal. Amy is married to the artist Doug McNamara and they live in Brooklyn with their two kids.

Ekoko Omadeke is a Virginia native who refuses to get a NY state ID. She currently pursues an MFA from New York University and curates the Southern Writers Reading Series at Happy Ending Lounge. Though her heart belongs to Brooklyn sidewalks and bodega sandwiches, Ekoko lives and writes in Manhattan.

Priscilla Becker’s first book of poems, Internal West, won The Paris Review book prize, and was published in 2003. Her poems, book reviews & essays have appeared in Fence, Open City, The Paris Review, The New York Sun, Cabinet and Open City. Her essays have also been anthologized by Soft Skull Press, Anchor Books, and Sarabande. She teaches poetry at Pratt Institute, Columbia University, and in her apartment. Her second book, Stories That Listen, is forthcoming from Four Way Books

Mark Leidner is the author of two chapbooks, The Night of 1,000 Murders (Factory Hollow Press, 2007) and The Empire (Scantily Clad Press, 2009). He lives and tweets in western Massachusetts.

Ben Mirov is the author of the chapbooks I is to Vorticism (New Michigan Press, 2010) and Ghost Machine (forthcoming from Caketrain Press, 2010). He is general editor of pax americana. He is also poetry editor of LIT Magazine.

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709 Lorimer Street
Williamsburg, Brooklyn

(718) 302-3770

"L" to Lorimer, "G" to Metropolitan, "X" to Oblivion


FREE!

Visit http://www.multifariousarray.blogspot.com/ for links to their
work and email me for more information.

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"Bozek Braid Broder Clark Marvin & Ralph!" on Friday, March 26 at 7:00pm.

Event: Bozek Braid Broder Clark Marvin & Ralph!
Start Time: Friday, March 26 at 7:00pm
End Time: Friday, March 26 at 9:00pm
Where: Goodbye Blue Monday

Winter Mix

New York City finally got hit with all the snow the rest of the East Coast has been dealing with. I had to teach my Eng 101 course today but then the school closed for its afternoon classes, so after I had two student conferences I headed home to enjoy a grilled cheese and some coffee.

The weather is the perfect complement to the new Winter 2009/2010 issue of Free Verse which contains a special spotlight on New England poets edited by Chris Tonelli. I'm thrilled to say I have two excerpts from a couple of longer poems. I'm also happy to be in the company of two of my manuscript workshoppers- Dan Magers & Kaveh Bassiri & the my other "crew" ColdFront Mag is well represented too with poems by John Deming, Jackie Clark and DJ Dolack. There's a ton of other great poets and essays to be read as well so head on over and check it out here.

Po' Hustle

I have two prose poems up here.

Sawbuck brings the heat here.

Always a great read is Jacket & the new ish is here.

This is happening tonight:

Chin Music at Pacific Standard
7:10-9:10
Please join us for our next evening of Chin Music @ Pacific Standard. On December 3rd, we are thrilled to feature two wonderful poets: Mónica de la Torre and Aracelis Girmay. Mónica de la Torre is the author of TALK SHOWS (Switchback Books, 2007) and PUBLIC DOMAIN (Roof Books, 2008). Aracelis Girmay is the author of TEETH, published in 2007 by Curbstone Press. Boni Joi's poems have appeared in Arabella, Long Shot, Big Hammer, Mind Gorilla, The Brooklyn Rail and many other journals.

Located on Fourth Avenue in downtown Brooklyn, near the Atlantic/Pacific subway hub, Pacific Standard is a literary bar serving up eighteen microbrews on tap and cask (including both West Coast and local breweries), fine wines and liquors, and tasty snacks like chips and salsa, and meat and cheese plates.

Tomorrow night:
Subject: Vanitas 4 Launch this Friday, December 4, 6 PM, at Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery, New York City

VANITAS 4 : TRANSLATION IS OUT!!

Come pick up a copy & hear readings by contributors

Joanna Fuhrman
Ron Horning
Ron Padgett
Raphael Rubinstein
Mónica de la Torre
Paul Violi
Anne Waldman
&
Bill Zavatsky

Contributors to Vanitas 4 : Translation also include Tim Atkins, Mary Jo Bang, Charles Bernstein, Lindsey Boldt, Augusto de Campos, Sean Casey, Mark Du Charme, Alan Davies, Brandon Downing, Kenneth Goldsmith, Jack Hirschman, Jen Hofer, Lisa Jarnot, Mary Maxwell, David Meltzer, Jess Morse, Ray DiPalma, Charles Perrone, Kit Robinson, Ed Sanders, Barry Schwabsky, Cedar Sigo & Sara Bilandzija, Eileen R. Tabios, John Tranter, Anne Waldman, Lewis Warsh, Dalt Wonk, Laura Wright, Elizabeth Young, and many more. In addition to poems, there are critical texts, examining the work of Borges and Bandeira, Lorca, Haiku, Pindar’s choral songs for young girls, and the poetry scene of the 1970s. The cover and a special insert were created by Francesco Clemente specifically for this issue.
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I have a poem in Vanitas so I'll be at this & then it's off to my friend Francis' bday party, but if I had an extra set of legs & ears I'd also go to this:

Multifarious Array
Pete's Candy Store
709 Lorimer Street,BK
7pm

December 4
Crystal Williams, Tyrone Williams, Jackie Clark & Tara Betts

13 Most Beautiful and Four Poets in a Backyard

Celebrate Brooklyn! Presents Dean & Britta: 13 Most Beautiful…Songs for Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests


Dean & Britta perform original scores to Warhol's rarely seen short silent film portraits

Celebrate Brooklyn

Saturday, August 1, 7:30 p.m.
with Crystal Stilts

Dean & Britta, who are beloved as one of the sexiest duo’s in rock, in addition to being alumni of the groundbreaking alt-rock band Luna, perform original scores to Warhol's rarely seen short silent film portraits, which captured Factory superstars, celebrities, and anonymous teenagers in mesmerizing four-minute shots.
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Lawless Pebbles Backyard Miniseries 3pm-6pm
Help us put the "ass" back in "class" and join us for readings by:

Ada Limon
Mark Lamoreaux
Dan Hoy
Jackie Clark

And bring something to drink!

DIRECTIONS TO THE PLACE

Take the Q to 7th Ave and walk down Park Place until you get to 318, between Underhill and Washington. Or the 2/3 to Grand Army Plaza:

GET LIT

Lolita Bar is at 266 Broome Street in the LES of Manhattan. For
directions,
visit http://www.lolitabar.net or call 212.966.7223.**


LIT *15/16 Contributors Include:

Poetry and Prose by Cynthia Arrieu-King, Kate Baldus, A K Beck, Mark
Bilbrey, Sommer Browning, Jennifer Bryan, Blake Butler, Tyler Carter,
Jeff Chang, Jamison T. Crabtree, Mónica de la Torre, Christopher Deweese,
Denise Duhamel, Brian Foley, Andrew Grace, Kate Hall, Casey Haymes, Chris
Hosea, Christine Hume, Kirsten Kaschock, Sean Kilpatrick, Amy Lemmon, dawn
lonsinger, Julianne Lynch, Anthony Madrid, Scott Miles, Ander Monson,
Linnea Ogden, Shelly Oria, Jeffrey Pethybridge, Marie Ponsot, Brett Price,
Justin Quarry, Kathleen Rooney, Catie Rosemurgy, Brian Russell, Michael
Schiavo,Roy William Scranton, Craig Morgan Teicher, Brendon Vayo and Dean Young…*

10 Years: An Editors’ Retrospective*, with an introduction by Nicole
Steinberg and Peter Bogart-Johnson, LIT co-editors, featuring work by
Mary Jo Bang, Erin Belieu, Mark Bibbins, Liz Brown, Jenna Cardinale,
Clifford Chase, Shanna Compton, Elaine Equi, Paul Feldman, Andy Fitch, Jonathan
Franzen, Caroline Knox, Wayne Koestenbum, Thomas David Lisk, Justin
Marks,Chris McCabe, Nancy Nalven, Kathleen Ossip, Angela Patrinos, Rebecca
Reilly,Joseph Salvatore, Maureen Thorson, Chris Tonelli and Matthew Ulland…*

Bars Across Sky Across Feeling: A Selection of German Poetry in Translation*,
curated by Liesel Tarquini, with work by Susan Bernofsky, E.H.
Bottenberg,Marica Bodrozic, Katy Derbyshire, Catherine Hales, Victoria Hill, Wendy
Ann Kopisch, Friederike Mayröcker, Alistair Noon, Veronika Reichl, Monika
Rinck,Silke Scheuermann, Lutz Seiler, Tzveta Sofronieva, Donna Stonecipher,
Matthias Traxler and Chantal Wright…

AND amazing art by Alana Celii and Anna Knoell!

For more info, visit us online at http://litmagazine.wordpress.com.

Queens Stand Up

Jackson Heights Poetry Festival

Saturday, June 20, All Day: Outdoor Festival


10:30-11:40

Sommer Browning (Flying Guillotine)
3rd Place Middle School Student
Roger Sedarat
Ivy Johnson (Portable Press at YoYo Labs)


11:40 - 12:50

Tony Mancus (Flying Guillotine Press).

2nd Place Middle School Student
Laren MccCLung
Alex Cuff (No, Dear)


12:50-2:00

Jackie Clark (LIT Magazine)
1st Place Middle School Student
Richard Newman
Esther Smith (Purgatory Pie Press)


2:00-2:30 band, Jon Sandler

2:30-3:40

Katie Fowley (Lightful Press)

3rd Place High School Student
Ocean Vaung
Emily Brandt (No, Dear)

3:40-4:50

Georgia Luna (Purgatory Pie Press)
2nd Place High School Student
Julio Marzan
Matvei Yankelevich (Ugly Duckling Presse)

4:50-6:00

Steve Dalachinsky (Ugly Duckling Presse)


1st Place High School Student
Nicole Cooley
Regan Good (Ugly Duckling Presse)

6:00-6:30 Closing band, Jon Sandler
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Coldfront Magazine Goes POP

The fine people behind Coldfront (for whom I've written a review or two) have given the magazine's look a face-lift and added a new section: POP. Jackie Clark (the editor of this section) refers to it as poets off poetry. Well sorta- its more like a poet writing an essay/review whose primary focus is music, but in the debut article Mr. Frank O'hara makes a guest appearance and the article ends with a poem. I think this is an excellent and exciting expansion and can't wait to read more of them.

Check out the first one here!