The first "review" of my chapbook, State(s) of Flux is up on Goodreads. The person gave it 3 stars, which I think is pretty good since I know the reviewer couldn't have possibly read it. The thing is I sold about 6 at the Cakeshop reading & happen to know that new books haven't shipped yet. It's possible that this person read a copy from one of the six purchases of the book but since her profile has her living far away from the USA, again this is unlikely. I believe the first chapbook of mine to leave the states will happen in December when I send my friend, Nicole (in Hong Kong) a bunch of stuff I've been collecting for her over the past year or so so three stars & not being read-Ha, I love it!
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You know who Christie Ann Reynolds loves (or at least likes)? Sarah Gambito. Read about it here
I had the same grad class as Christie Ann (taught by Prageeta Sharma) & also fell smitten with Gambito's poems. Speaking of Ms. Reynolds, come out and see her this Saturday at the Bushwick Library:
Douglas Piccinnini
Alexis Sullivan
Martin Rock
Christie Ann Reynolds
Garrett Burrell
So get your thinking hats on – we’ll see you at the library on October 10th promptly at 3PM, cool cats.
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Then get your evening on at Yardmeter:
Please join us for Yardmeter No. 4!
We'll be presenting paintings by Austin, Texas artist Raphael Umscheid,
poetry readings by Chris Martin and Claire Donato,
and music written for the occasion by the Ray Talley Dancers, all the way from Portland, Oregon.
October 10th, 2009, 6:30 p.m.
at Shelton Walsmith's studio
267 Douglass Street
in the Gowanus, Brooklyn, NY
Check out our blog for directions and more info about our readers and presenters:
http://yardmeter.blogspot.com/
The wine will flow freely! Please come!
Your host and co-curators,
Shelton Walsmith, Jon Pack, Farrah Field, and Jared White
http://www.sheltonwalsmith.com/
http://jonpack.com/
http://adultish.blogspot.com/
http://jaredswhite.blogspot.com/
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Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Monday, May 11, 2009
Chin Up Hawk
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Chin Music with Sarah Gambito, Mrigaa Sethi, and Solmaz Sharif
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| Date: | Thursday, May 14, 2009 |
| Time: | 7:00pm - 9:00pm |
| Location: | Pacific Standard Bar |
| Street: | 82 Fourth Avenue |
| City/Town: | Brooklyn, NY |
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Description
Please join us for the next evening of Chin Music. We're thrilled to feature three exciting poets: Sarah Gambito, Mrigaa Sethi, and Solmaz Sharif. For more details, visit our website: http://chinmusicpoetry.blogspot.com . Hope to see you then!
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Reasons To Leave Your Apartment
Turnstyle Reading Series
Nicole Cooley, Kathryn Harrison and others
Start Time: Thursday, March 12 at 6:30pm
End Time: Thursday, March 12 at 8:30pm
Where: The Graduate Center, CUNY
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Dearest friends,
March is Small Press Month and EARSHOT's got your small press fix! Both readings this month are official SPM events, the first on Friday, March 13th at 8 PM! As usual, you can find us at ROSE LIVE MUSIC, on 345 Grand Street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn!
Our two small press superstars will be IDRA NOVEY, author of The Next Country and representing Alice James Books, and TARA L. MASIH from Rose Metal Press, editor of the forthcoming book, The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction! Three MFA readers will round out the evening in spectacular fashion.
Admission is a paltry $5, which scores you a free drink! Don't miss it!
For the entire Small Press Month event calendar, visit http://smallpressmonth.org
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Nicole Cooley, Kathryn Harrison and others
Start Time: Thursday, March 12 at 6:30pm
End Time: Thursday, March 12 at 8:30pm
Where: The Graduate Center, CUNY
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Dearest friends,
March is Small Press Month and EARSHOT's got your small press fix! Both readings this month are official SPM events, the first on Friday, March 13th at 8 PM! As usual, you can find us at ROSE LIVE MUSIC, on 345 Grand Street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn!
Our two small press superstars will be IDRA NOVEY, author of The Next Country and representing Alice James Books, and TARA L. MASIH from Rose Metal Press, editor of the forthcoming book, The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction! Three MFA readers will round out the evening in spectacular fashion.
Admission is a paltry $5, which scores you a free drink! Don't miss it!
For the entire Small Press Month event calendar, visit http://smallpressmonth.org
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WHEN: Sunday, March 15th from 4:40 to 6 pm
WHERE: 440 Gallery, 440 6th Ave. at 9th St., F to 7th Ave., Park Slope, Brooklyn
CONTACT: Brooke Shaffner at brshaffner@hotmail.com
Admission Free
WHO:
Patrick Rosal is the author of two full-length poetry collections, Uprock Headspin Scramble and Dive, which won the Members' Choice Award from the Asian American Writers' Workshop, and most recently My American Kundiman, which won the Association of Asian American Studies 2006 Book Award in Poetry as well as the 2007 Global Filipino Literary Award. His poems and essays have been published widely in journals and anthologies including Harvard Review, Literary Review, Brevity, Columbia, Language for a New Century and the Beacon Best. His work has been honored by the annual Allen Ginsberg Awards, the James Hearst Poetry Prize, the Arts and Letters Prize, and Best of the Net among others. He has served as visiting writer at Penn State Altoona, Centre College, and the University of Texas, Austin. He taught creative writing for many years at Bloomfield College and twice served on the faculty of Kundiman’s Summer Retreat for Asian American Poets.
Ryan Berg, a graduate of The New School, received an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Hunter College in 2008. There he was a Hertog and Nita Koblin Fellow. Last summer Ryan was a recipient of a MacDowell Colony artist residency. He is currently working on a memoir about the two years he spent as a group home caseworker for GLBT youth in New York City, the first chapter of which appeared in Ploughshares.
Sarah Gambito is the author of the poetry collections Delivered (Persea Books) and Matadora (Alice James Books). Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Iowa Review, The Antioch Review, Denver Quarterly, The New Republic, Field, Quarterly West, Fence and other journals. Her honors include the Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award from Poets and Writers and grants and fellowships from The New York Foundation for the Arts, Urban Artists Initiative and The MacDowell Colony. She is Assistant Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing at Fordham University. Together with Joseph O. Legaspi, she co-founded Kundiman, a non-profit organization serving Asian American poets.
Ellen Kahn’s work has been exhibited extensively throughout the United States and abroad. Her most recent solo exhibitions were at Graficas Gallery, Nantucket, MA, and Metaphor Contemporary Art, Brooklyn, NY. She has been in many group exhibitions, including Von Lintel Gallery, New York City; National Library of Argentina, Buenos Aires; Centro Cultural San Angel, Mexico City; Museo Regional de Michoancan, Morelia, Mexico; Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY; and The Drawing Center, New York City. She was awarded residencies at the Fundacion Valparaiso, Vermont Studio Center, and the Millay Colony for the Arts. Kahn studied at Carnegie Mellon University and received her BFA from the Boston Museum School and her MFA from the University of Pennsylvania.
About 440 Gallery: Park Slope’s only artist-run gallery, a jewel box space offering an alternative venue for Brooklyn artists. 440 Gallery seeks to present surprising, unexpected art to the community through exhibitions, talks, readings and events centered around direct contact with the artist. Open Thursdays and Fridays from 4-7 pm, and Saturdays and Sundays from 12-6 pm, or by appointment.
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Hi from Patricia sitting at the Internet Cafe
Oh Patty, you keep changing your name. I named you SPAM, yet you uname yourself then rename yourself something sleek that slips through my filters & then there you are... awaiting me in my inbox. Patty please leave me alone as I am feeling humorless heading into Valentine's Weekend.
Am I the only one that receives these internet cafe girls' spam mail? Of course, I get plenty of spam to for ejaculation, erection, and pills, pills, pills. I think Claudia Rankine needs to do a follow-up to her Don't Let Me Be Lonely.
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I finished reading the novel, The End. I also finished Sarah Gambito's poetry collection, Deliverance- I'll have to reread it though because I consumed most of it on the train, which means I missed a lot, as I'm easily distracted & tend to have a short attention span on trains.
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I'm going to check out the Boog City reading tonight. Tomorrow night is my friend's birthday party. I thought I was going to go to a Takashi Miike lecture on Saturday, but it looks like it was last Saturday. I was sick last Saturday. Well there's always the Bushwick reading on Saturday:
Spend the afternoon before date-night or hate-night with poets, prose-ists, and nonfictionaries! The reading will feature the multifarious talents of the following fabulous readers:
Rohin Guha
Matt Carney
Aaron Short
Marc Jaffee
Also, there will be some special commemorative quarters, and we will act out the pieces silently. Actually, those things might not happen -- but you can bet on the literary antics, baked goods, and cheer that you've already come to expect from us. So be there.
Also, be sure to check out the website to follow our ever-growing list of books. http://bushwickreadingseries.org.
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The lastest edition of Action Yes is up.
Am I the only one that receives these internet cafe girls' spam mail? Of course, I get plenty of spam to for ejaculation, erection, and pills, pills, pills. I think Claudia Rankine needs to do a follow-up to her Don't Let Me Be Lonely.
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I finished reading the novel, The End. I also finished Sarah Gambito's poetry collection, Deliverance- I'll have to reread it though because I consumed most of it on the train, which means I missed a lot, as I'm easily distracted & tend to have a short attention span on trains.
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I'm going to check out the Boog City reading tonight. Tomorrow night is my friend's birthday party. I thought I was going to go to a Takashi Miike lecture on Saturday, but it looks like it was last Saturday. I was sick last Saturday. Well there's always the Bushwick reading on Saturday:
Spend the afternoon before date-night or hate-night with poets, prose-ists, and nonfictionaries! The reading will feature the multifarious talents of the following fabulous readers:
Rohin Guha
Matt Carney
Aaron Short
Marc Jaffee
Also, there will be some special commemorative quarters, and we will act out the pieces silently. Actually, those things might not happen -- but you can bet on the literary antics, baked goods, and cheer that you've already come to expect from us. So be there.
Also, be sure to check out the website to follow our ever-growing list of books. http://bushwickreadingseries.org.
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The lastest edition of Action Yes is up.
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Heart's Needle
I had a rather frustrating start to my day as I lost an hour and a half waiting around for ferries and shuttles to & from Staten Island. Naturally, my deskbook copy wasn't there which means no syllabus/ no book for tomorrow's 4 hour class. I also don't have a syllabus or book for my F.I.T. class, but that's only an hourish so no problem there.
I came home from Staten Island and ate plantains and picked up W.D. Snodgrass' Heart's Needle. I seem to recall buying this book not once but twice, yet it's never on my bookshelf. Anyways, here's to you Snodgrass.
There's a great reading at Stain Bar tomorrow, but I'll still be on Staten Island.
I think the latest copy of Zoland Poetry is out or is soon to be out. I just got my contributor copies in the mail. I feel pretty lucky to be amongst this collection of awesome poets:
I came home from Staten Island and ate plantains and picked up W.D. Snodgrass' Heart's Needle. I seem to recall buying this book not once but twice, yet it's never on my bookshelf. Anyways, here's to you Snodgrass.
There's a great reading at Stain Bar tomorrow, but I'll still be on Staten Island.
I think the latest copy of Zoland Poetry is out or is soon to be out. I just got my contributor copies in the mail. I feel pretty lucky to be amongst this collection of awesome poets:
ZOLAND POETRY No. 3
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Jared Stanley
Nuno Júdice (from Portuguese by paulo da costa)
Chris Glomski
Laura Madeline Wiseman
Gary Fincke
Nick Twemlow
Matthew Shenoda
Zhai Yongming
Nathaniel Tarn
Jean-Paul Auxéméry (from French by Nathaniel Tarn)
Tsering Wangmo Dhompa
Brent Cunningham
Noah Eli Gordon
Lê Pham Lê (from Vietnamese by Nancy Arbuthnot and Lê Pham Lê)
Andrew Kozma
Chris Pusateri
Raquel Chalfi (from Hebrew by Tsipi Keller)
John Harper
Susan Baran
Iana Boukova (from Bulgarian by Jonathan Dunne)
María Banda (from Spanish by Joshua Edwards)
Alex Cigale
Liliana Ursu (from Romanian by Sean Cotter)
Alice Miller
Albert Goldbarth
Joshua Marie Wilkinson
Roxanne Halpine
Knuts Skujenieks (from Latvian by Bitite Vinklers)
Nathanaël (Nathalie Stephens)
Lynn Xu
Marc Cohen
Chen Li (from Chinese by Arthur Sze)
Elizabeth Hughey
Major Jackson
Steven Karl
Rafael Felipe Oteriño (from Spanish by Lisa Rose Bradford)
Ron Horning
Ed Barrett
Menna Elfyn
Philip Jenks & Simone Muench
Oles Ilchenko (from Ukrainian by Michael Naydan)
Tsvetanka Elenkova (from Bulgarian by Jonathan Dunne)
D. A. Powell
Deborah Woodward
William Corbett
Jac Jemc
Ron Padgett
Andrei Sen-Senkov (from Russian by Peter Golub)
Peter Shippy
Julie Marie Wade
Derek Pollard
Jason Zuzga
Édouard Glissant (from French by Nathalie Stephens)
They are still accepting submissions for the 4th edition so get on it!
& now for the readings:
Sarah Gambito and Patrick Rosal tonight at McNally Jackson 7pm Prince between Lafayette and Mulberry
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Join us for an excellent new spring season at Stain! The first reading is next Friday with Bill Berkson, Cindy Cruz, Aaron Fagan, Jennifer Fortin, Jean-Paul Pecqueur and Bill Rasmovicz. Wine, great crowd + hugs from hosts an added perk! xo A & A
Stain of Poetry
A Reading Series Spring 2009
January 30
Bill Berkson, Cindy Cruz, Aaron Fagan, Jennifer Fortin, Jean-Paul Pecqueur, Bill Rasmovicz
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Katie Fowley & others
In celebration of football and the lunisolar ox year, I will be
reading poetry this Sunday, February 1st at The Stain Bar in
Williamsburg.
I will be reading with the people in my writing group--lovely people all.
Also, the Stain Bar has good microbrews, comfy seating, and allows small dogs.
The Stain Bar is at 766 Grand street near the Grand stop on the L
train. The reading is from 3:30, so you can still catch the Super
Pooper Bowl...
Hope you can make it!
Katie
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Matthew Zapruder will read at the Polestar Reading Series with Rebecca Keith and Idra NoveySunday, February 1st, 5 pm
Polestar Reading Series Cakeshop Downstairs, 152 Ludlow (between Stanton & Rivington), L.E.S.
http://polestarpoetry.blogspot.com
He will also read at Poems and Pints with Dana GoodyearTuesday, February 3rd, 6:30 pm
Fraunces Tavern, 54 Pearl Street (at Broad Street)
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How about checking this out on Saturday??
Untitled New York: Speculations on the Expanded Field of Writing
FREE. No RSVP necessary.
Organized by Matias Viegener and Christine Wertheim
"Untitled New York" is a day-long conversation about writing which in some manner exceeds the printed page. It assembles a notable group of experimental writers to discuss the currently expanded and still-expanding field of writing that challenges assumptions about the nature of writing and the potentials of text. While we are familiar with visual artworks constituted as a set of instructions, secrets written by visitors in a book, or one artist erasing of another artist's work, what would be their equivalents in the literary world? "Untitled New York" is composed of 2 day-time panels and an evening reading where participants perform their work. The program is as follows:
1:30 Introduction
2:00 “Appropriation and Citation” – This panel looks at the many practices of appropriation so popular in the literary world in the last several years, asking questions about whose work and what material gets appropriated, cited or resurrected, who owns texts, and if there is a difference between appropriation and citation. Panel participants include Vanessa Place, Steven McCaffrey, Kenneth Goldsmith, and Julie Patton.
4:00 “Litterality” examines how writers use what we normally consider non-linguistic elements, such as symbols, diagrams, maps, or scores placed in the context of writing. We will also look at invented writing systems, and what it might mean to think about the book as an object rather than as a collection of words or sentences. Panel participants include Christine Wertheim, Latasha Diggs, Rob Fitterman, and Shanxing Wang.
8:30 Reading with all participants.
“Untitled New York” is a reprise of “Untitled: Speculations on the Expanded Field of Writing,” held in October 2008 at REDCAT in Los Angeles, organized by Matias Viegener and Christine Wertheim of the Writing Program at CalArts, and funded by the Annenberg Foundation.
Monday, October 6, 2008
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)
Justine Manzano (fiction)
Darcie Dennigan (poetry)
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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!
Friday, May 16, 2008
& They Just Don't Stop
So you already know about the huge reading for tomorrow (Saturday, May 17) but Sunday and Monday have some pretty nice readings going on too!
Alex Smith
Alex Smith was born in Washington, DC. He received his BFA from Pratt Institute and his MFA from the New School. His stories have appeared in Eleven Bulls, Facsimilation, Black Ink Horror and Pig Iron Malt. Recently he completed a novel titled An American Coward. Alex teaches English at John Jay College and lives near Union Square.
JOIN US FOR A READING AT PARK SLOPE'S 440 GALLERY!
Kaveh Bassiri, J. Mae Barizo, and Alex Smith
WHEN: Sunday, May 18th from 4:30-6:00 pm
WHERE: 440 Gallery, 440 Sixth Avenue (at 9th St., F to 7th Ave.)
CONTACT: Dan Magers at daniel.magers@gmail.com
Admission Free
Kaveh Bassiri
Kaveh Bassiri was born in Iran and moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in his early teens. He has an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College, where he was the Editor of the 2006 issue of its graduate literary journal, Lumina. He is also the co-curator of the poetry series, Reading Between A and B, in the East Village.
J. Mae Barizo
Born in Toronto, J. Mae Barizo was shortlisted for the 2008 Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry. In 2007 she received an International Publication Award from Atlanta Review, and was an Editor's Prize finalist for Spoon River Poetry Review. Her work has also appeared or is forthcoming in the Baltimore Review, Sink Review, Nimrod, Atlanta Review, Bellingham Review, Boxcar Poetry Review and the Antietam Review, among others. Her poetry chapbook, "The Concert Review", is forthcoming in 2008.
Alex Smith
Alex Smith was born in Washington, DC. He received his BFA from Pratt Institute and his MFA from the New School. His stories have appeared in Eleven Bulls, Facsimilation, Black Ink Horror and Pig Iron Malt. Recently he completed a novel titled An American Coward. Alex teaches English at John Jay College and lives near Union Square.
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Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond
This event is scheduled for Monday, May 19th - 7:00 PM
And poets Sarah Gambito, Timothy Liu, and Vijay Seshadri
In a time when so much of the American understanding of Asia and the Middle East is rooted in politics, we need a broader knowledge of the artistic offerings of the region. In Language for a New Century, editors Tina Chang, Nathalie Handal and Ravi Shankar have assembled an exhaustive selection of poems from fifty-nine different countries and territories in this vast and often nebulous region, grouped thematically rather than geographically for a varied, rich and experiential portrait of the so often over-simplified East. Join poets Timothy Liu, Sarah Gambito and Vijay Seshadri along with editor Ravi Shankar for a reading and a discussion on the proliferation of poetics and limitations of identity politics around the world.
Saturday, December 22, 2007
The New School Represents
so i've been reading the lastest ish of H_NGM_N (http://www.h-ngm-n.com/cur_ent-i_sue)
& damn if new school isn't reppin' hard! it has three poems from ns alum, david sewell, as well as poems from 2nd yr, julia cohen, and 1st yr ben mirov- now that's a hot platter served with extra sauce.
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also checking out the lastest ish of Fence which is like Prageeta's party in print. It has poems from her, Sarah Gambito, and Major Jackson. daaaaaaanm, how come I'm not up in that mug? o right, they rejected me a coupla months back- it's cool though like the trail blazer i'm gonna get some comeuppance, you just wait and see... ah the stuff of dreams... sigh
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been waiting for my contributor ish of KNOCK to arrive, as well as, the lastest issue of Claque, but what i wasn't expecting arrived in the form of reb livingston's new book sent courtesy of b.covey for review on coldfrontmag.com dope & good lookin' bruce! the funny thing is that i already own the book 'cause meghan (www.megpunschke.com) did the cover art and gave her second contributor copy so if anyone wants a copy of reb's new book and you'll write a review for say jacket, or cutbank, or litonline, or pretty much anywhere except coldfront holla at your boy.
& damn if new school isn't reppin' hard! it has three poems from ns alum, david sewell, as well as poems from 2nd yr, julia cohen, and 1st yr ben mirov- now that's a hot platter served with extra sauce.
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also checking out the lastest ish of Fence which is like Prageeta's party in print. It has poems from her, Sarah Gambito, and Major Jackson. daaaaaaanm, how come I'm not up in that mug? o right, they rejected me a coupla months back- it's cool though like the trail blazer i'm gonna get some comeuppance, you just wait and see... ah the stuff of dreams... sigh
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been waiting for my contributor ish of KNOCK to arrive, as well as, the lastest issue of Claque, but what i wasn't expecting arrived in the form of reb livingston's new book sent courtesy of b.covey for review on coldfrontmag.com dope & good lookin' bruce! the funny thing is that i already own the book 'cause meghan (www.megpunschke.com) did the cover art and gave her second contributor copy so if anyone wants a copy of reb's new book and you'll write a review for say jacket, or cutbank, or litonline, or pretty much anywhere except coldfront holla at your boy.
Sunday, November 11, 2007
Been a while
Well it's been a while since I've actually blogged, as opposed, to merely posting readings/reviews. What can I say I've been recovering from a cold + work has been hell as of late so I come home with nothing but a big thud for a head.
I went to the Carl Phillips, Erin Belieu, and Sarah Gambito reading this past Monday, but had to leave before Carl Phillips read. Just wasn't feeling well. Erin Belieu had been hyped the hell out of so I was more curious to actually see and hear Gambito, esp since if I were to continue curating the T&W reading series I was going to ask her to read- let's just say parts of her reading were spell-binding. She's a great reader and she read a lot of new poems which seemed more haunting or haunted than her previous work in Matadora. She's also funny- which is something I always appreciate in a poet.
Yesterday, I went to the Four Faced Liar and Dan Magers held his own having memorized most of his poems, Alex Smith was all wit and charm and Steve Roberts' poems were wonderful to hear.
Jules Cohen was wearing a retro Knicks hoodie which is worth mentioning.
Niether Modi or myself felt like drinking or doing shots on a Saturday afternoon so we left the bar and caught up with each other over falafels and turkish coffee. We went to this little spot on 7th and Perry and it was delish.
My evening should of consisted of a wine and cheese and then going over to a party thrown by some NS Alums, Kiely and April. But the wine and cheese was so cozy and fun that I never made it to the second party. But hey, Amyjoy brought a 10 year old bottle of wine and Mellisa made puff pastries with carmelized onions, figs, and blue cheese. Would you leave?
I have loose plans for the afternoon that I can tell right now just aren't going to happen. Despite staying in every night except Monday and Saturday I still haven't done any writing or worked on my Stegner, Yale Youngers, Crab Orchard, Provincetown, etc... I have to go to Traders Joes and do some food shopping too. Where does the time go?
I went to the Carl Phillips, Erin Belieu, and Sarah Gambito reading this past Monday, but had to leave before Carl Phillips read. Just wasn't feeling well. Erin Belieu had been hyped the hell out of so I was more curious to actually see and hear Gambito, esp since if I were to continue curating the T&W reading series I was going to ask her to read- let's just say parts of her reading were spell-binding. She's a great reader and she read a lot of new poems which seemed more haunting or haunted than her previous work in Matadora. She's also funny- which is something I always appreciate in a poet.
Yesterday, I went to the Four Faced Liar and Dan Magers held his own having memorized most of his poems, Alex Smith was all wit and charm and Steve Roberts' poems were wonderful to hear.
Jules Cohen was wearing a retro Knicks hoodie which is worth mentioning.
Niether Modi or myself felt like drinking or doing shots on a Saturday afternoon so we left the bar and caught up with each other over falafels and turkish coffee. We went to this little spot on 7th and Perry and it was delish.
My evening should of consisted of a wine and cheese and then going over to a party thrown by some NS Alums, Kiely and April. But the wine and cheese was so cozy and fun that I never made it to the second party. But hey, Amyjoy brought a 10 year old bottle of wine and Mellisa made puff pastries with carmelized onions, figs, and blue cheese. Would you leave?
I have loose plans for the afternoon that I can tell right now just aren't going to happen. Despite staying in every night except Monday and Saturday I still haven't done any writing or worked on my Stegner, Yale Youngers, Crab Orchard, Provincetown, etc... I have to go to Traders Joes and do some food shopping too. Where does the time go?
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