Friday Face-off/Saturday Best

Friday, April 23, 2010
7:00pm - 9:50pm
Shelton Walsmith's studio, 267 Douglass Street, Gowanus, Brooklyn

Yardmeter 9 presents:
visual art by Renata Marallo,
comics and a musical performance
by Sommer Browning,
poetry readings by Paige Taggart
and Dorothea Lasky,
and a poetic event
by Kirsten Kaschock.
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SUPERMACHINE
geoffrey nutter, ben mirov, christie ann reynolds, lonely christopher

outpost lounge

friday april 23, 1014 fulton st. @ 8 pm
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THE ENCLAVE XXIX

FEATURING: CHRISTEN CLIFFORD, MOLLY GAUDRY & LEE YEW LEONG

Saturday, April 24th @ 4 PM
Cake Shop
152 Ludlow Street
New York City
Free
For info: www.myspace.com/enclavianmatter

CHRISTEN CLIFFORD is a writer and performer in New York. Her
nonfiction has appeared in Salon, Nerve, Huffington Post, Identity
Theory, Time Out New York Kids and Smith Magazine's Memoirville.
Flavorwire called her comic My Home Birth "hilarious and uncensored."
She recently served as an interpreter in Tino Seghal's This Progress
at The Guggenheim. She has been a mainstage storyteller at The Moth
and her solo performance has been shown at PS 122, Galapagos, and 45
Bleecker as well as the Oni Gallery and Grace Exhibition Space as part
of The Armory Show/SITE 2010. She can currently be seen as a performer
in Alix Pearlstein's video art Finale and Talent at On Stellar Rays.
She is a recipient of a NYFA for nonfiction, has an MFA from the New
School Writing Program, and is the proud mother of Felix and Vera.
Website: www.christenclifford.com

MOLLY GAUDRY is the author of the verse novel, We Take Me Apart (Mud
Luscious Press, 2009), and the editor of Tell: An Anthology of
Expository Narrative (Flatmancrooked, 2010). She edits Willows Wept
Press and Willows Wept Review, is a co-founding editor of Twelve
Stories, and is an associate editor for Keyhole Magazine. She writes
occasional book reviews for East&West Magazine, and she's currently
tweeting a chapter of her new verse novel, FLORA THE WHORE, every few
days on Twitter.
Website: www.mollygaudry.blogspot.com

A poet and fiction writer, LEE YEW LEONG has written for The New York
Times and DIAGRAM, among other publications. His translation into
English of Nobita, the latest collection of poems by Jing Siang
Hai--at 33, he is the most acclaimed Taiwanese poet of his
generation--is expected to be completed by the middle of the year.
Website: http://hokusai.sg

THE ENCLAVE Reading Series has organized monthly readings in downtown
Manhattan since 2006. The series features established and emerging
authors of both national and international recognition who create
innovative and ambitious work.

Around the Internet & Saturday Real Time

New ish of SOandSO! Pretty Damn Good!

Also one of my fave poets, Christie Ann Reynolds over here

Vanitas Blog has Ceravolo's "Ho Ho Ho Caribou" with photos- check it out here

Ross Brighton has some great stuff on his blog about Ariana Reines which is over here

An interview with CA Conrand & Frank Sherlock here

SATURDAY LOOKS LIKE THIS:
THE ENCLAVE XXVIII

FEATURING: RENATO ROSALDO, ARACELIS GIRMAY & JARED HOHL

Saturday, February 27th @ 4 PM
Cake Shop
152 Ludlow Street
New York City
Free
For info: www.myspace.com/enclavianmatter


RENATO ROSALDO started writing poetry in English and Spanish while
recovering from a stroke in 1996. His first book of poetry, Prayer to
Spider Woman/Rezo a la mujer araña, received an American Book Award
(2004). Individual poems have won the El Andar poetry contest (2000)
and the Many Mountains Moving poetry contest (2005). He teaches at New
York University. As an anthropologist, he is the author of Culture and
Truth and Ilongot Headhunting, 1883-1974.

ARACELIS GIRMAY is the author of the collage-based picture book,
changing, changing (Braziller, 2005) & the collection of poems, Teeth
(Curbstone, 2007). Her work has been published in Ploughshares,
Callaloo, The Massachusetts Review, & MiPoesias, among other journals.
She has been awarded a Jerome Foundation Travel & Writing grant & a
GLCA New Writers Award for Teeth. A Cave Canem Fellow, Girmay also
serves on the board of the Acentos Foundation.

JARED HOHL is from Iowa. His fiction has appeared in The Apocalypse
Reader, The Agriculture Reader, The Washington Square Review, and
Torpedo, a literary journal based in Melbourne, Australia.
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Handsome Black Cold Ocean Front Reading & Party Saturday

Black Ocean and Coldfront Magazine are celebrating the release of the new HANDSOME by co-sponsoring a poetry reading slash dance party at COCO 66 in Greenpoint on Saturday, February 27.

Weather reports are inconclusive.

Featured poets will be: Brianna Colburn, Jordan Davis, DJ Dolack, Shafer Hall, and Justin Marks

The reading will be followed by a DANCE PARTY. DJs Tobychoo & J. Cannibal will spin funk, garage, freak 40 and 60s soul. Get down so you can get down. Or at least have a few...

As Richard Chamberlain once said: “Realistically, it doesn't hurt to be good-looking, especially in this business.”

Candy Stain Punks

Medical FACT!

The human body has over 452 organs!

Medical FACT!

The smallest bones in your body are located inside the biggest bones
in your body!

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Your Blood is made up of 30% Red, 30% Dreams Involving Rodents and 40%
The Multifarious Array!


This Friday, May 29th, at 7pm

Dr. Stucky, Dr. Lasky and Dr. Taransky

Dissect You Like You've Never Been Dissected!

(Have You Seen Hellraiser?)


Janaka Stucky is the founder and managing editor of Black Ocean, and
publishes the magazine Handsome. He likes his whiskey neat and his
music dirty. Since receiving his BFA from Emerson and an MFA in Poetry
from Vermont College in 2003, he remains rooted in Boston--spending
his life traveling, writing, and caring for the dead. Some of his
poems appear or are forthcoming in: Cannibal, Denver Quarterly, North
American Review, Redivider, and VOLT.

Dorothea Lasky is the author of AWE (Wave Books, 2007) and Black Life
(Wave Books, 2010). Her chapbooks include Tourmaline (Transmission
Press, 2008), The Hatmaker's Wife (Braincase Press, 2006), Art
(H_NGM_N Press, 2006), and Alphabets and Portraits (Anchorite Press,
2005). She has been educated at Washington University, University of
Massachusetts-Amherst, and Harvard University. Currently, she studies
creativity and education at the University of Pennsylvania.

Michelle Taransky was born in Camden, NJ. Her first book, "Barn
Burned, Then" was selected by Marjorie Welish for the 2008 Omnidawn
Poetry Prize and will be published during September 2009. With her
father, architect Richard Taransky, she is the author of The Plans
Caution (QUEUE 2007). She lives in Philadelphia and works at Kelly
Writers House. Poems appear, or are forthcoming in VOLT, New American
Writing, HOW2 and Denver Quarterly.


Only at Pete's Candy Store
709 Lorimer Street
Williamsburg, Brooklyn

(718) 302-3770

"L" to Lorimer, "G" to Metropolitan

FREE!

Visit http://www.multifariousarray.blogspot.com/ for links to
their work and email me for more information.
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Ana Božičević sent a message to the members of Carrier, Firestone, Kaufman, Klane, Pindyck & Sims!

Subject: Stain Bar is closing -- join us for the sendoff!

Dear friends of Stain,

We write to share some sad news from the proprietors of Stain Bar: due to disputes with the landlord (read: astronomic rent raise), the bar is closing at the end of this month, in just a few days. Join us this Friday to send off our beloved (soon to be old) venue with a stellar lineup! Great poetry, drinks & a few tears guaranteed. & stay tuned for Stain of Poetry news as we head for a new home. If you're a fan of a bar, performance space or other venue that you think would be perfect for us, write to us at amyhappens@gmail.com and anabobo@gmail.com.

Smallest violins,
Amy & Ana
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Buy the album!

THE ENCLAVE XXII: THE FESTIVAL OF CRACKED CODES (a Punk Lit Reading)

FEATURING: MICHAEL MUHAMMAD KNIGHT, CRISTY C. ROAD & ANDREW ZORNOZA

Saturday, May 30th @ 3 PM
Cake Shop
152 Ludlow Street
New York City
Free

MICHAEL MUHAMMAD KNIGHT’s work has been censored, boycotted,
confiscated, and threatened with legal action. He is the author of The
Taqwacores, Blue-Eyed Devil, The Five Percenters, and Impossible Man,
and his novel Osama Van Halen is forthcoming from Soft Skull Press
this spring. He is a frequent speaker at colleges and academic
conferences. The feature film adaptation of The Taqwacores is
currently in post-production, and a documentary about the taqwacore
movement his novel created is also nearing completion. His travelogue
Journey to the End of Islam is forthcoming from Soft Skull in December
2009. He lives in New York state.

CRISTY C. ROAD is a writer and illustrator who’s obsessed with human
imperfection and deconstructing the norms which have sheltered her
world. Aside from illustrating for countless record covers, book
covers, radical organizations, and magazine articles; Road published
an independent zine, Greenzine for ten years, and has released three
books - “Indestructible”, a graphic memoir about being a teenage
Latina, queer punk in High School; and Distance Makes the Heart Grow
Sick”, a postcard collection. She recently released “BAD HABITS”, an
Illustrated love story about a faltering human heart's telepathic
connections to the destruction of New York City. She currently
hibernates in Brooklyn, NY.

ANDREW ZORNOZA is a writer and visual artist born in Houston, Texas.
He is the author of the photo-prose novel, "Where I Stay," (Tarpaulin
Sky Press, 2009). His fiction and essays have appeared in magazines
such as, Sleepingfish, Confrontation, Porcupine Literary Arts, CapGun,
H.O.W and Matter Magazine, among others. He can be found teaching
writing at The New School University and fiction at Gotham Writer's
Workshop.

"Language constitutes a set of codes and social agreements. Speaking
nonsense does not per se break down the codes; speaking precisely that
which the code forbids breaks the code." - ????

Know where this quote comes from? Stop by Cake Shop on the 30th and
find out. You're invited in.

The Enclave is a writers’ collective based out of New York City that
aims to present innovative writing to the public. We host monthly
readings at Cake Shop in the Lower East Side. Our next reading will be
held Saturday June 27th @ 4pm and will feature Paul Ford, Doree
Shafrir and Marty Beckerman. For more information on this reading and
other upcoming Enclave events go to: myspace.com/enclavianmatter.

Prune juice- live a little

There are so many readings this week. I'll prolly only make it to my friend tim's and the earshot one on Friday- but here's the list of what's going down this week:

Event: Joshua Beckman & Elena Karina Byrne!
"This Monday @ KGB"
What: Listening Party
Host: KGB Poetry
Start Time: Monday, March 23 at 7:30pm
End Time: Monday, March 23 at 9:00pm
Where: KGB Bar
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Tuesday, March 24 2009
7:00pm
Field Magazine 40th Anniversary Reading

An evening to celebrate the famed magazine published by
Oberlin College, featuring Martha Collins, Angie Estes, Cathy Park Hong, Carol Moldaw, Charles Simic, Jean Valentine, and Jonah Winter, with editor David Young
Co-sponsored by The New School Graduate Writing Program

The New School
Wollman Auditorium
66 West 12th Street
Free | www.poetrysociety.org | rob@poetrysociety.org | 212-254-9628
Subway: 1/2/3 to 14th Street, or F/L/V to 6th Avenue/14th Street, or L/N/Q/R/W/4/5/6 to Union Square
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I'm (CA) reading next week in NYC and hope you can make it! It's part of the READINGS AT CHRYSTIE STREET RIDE AGAIN SERIES hosted by the amazing Lauren Ireland!

www.thereadingseries.blogspot.com

saddle up:

CACONRAD & IAN DREIBLATT

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25
HOME SWEET HOME
131 CHRYSTIE ST.
7 PM SHARP
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Hello lovely and local writers, artists, and friends,

I (Tim) am reading from my novel-in-progress this coming Wednesday, March 25, at Bar on A as part of the Guerrilla Lit Reading Series. Also on the program are Susan Buttenwieser and Sam J. Miller, both of whom seem radical in every sense imaginable. You can read up on them and the series here: http://guerrillalit.wordpress.com/ Bring your friends, Romans, and good country people. The reading starts at 7:30 and is free.

Bar On A (or "Barona," nobody seems to know) is in the East Village, at 170 Avenue A, between 11th and 12th. The nearest train is the L (1st Ave); Essex St (F, V, J, M, Z) and Union Square (N, Q, R, W, 4, 5, 6, and L) will get you there in a 10-15 minute walk.
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Dear spring chickens,

Just a small reminder that March is Small Press Month and EARSHOT's got your small press fix! Both readings this month are official SPM events, and the next one is on Friday, March 27th 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 AMY LEMMON, author of Saint Nobody and representing Red Hen Press, and DOROTHEA LASKY from Wave Books, author of the acclaimed collection Awe! Three MFA readers will round out the evening in spectacular fashion, including Tanya Rey of short fiction-collective One Story!

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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please indulge us with your presence...


THE ENCLAVE XX: THE FESTIVAL OF DREAMS DREAMT BY NO ONE

FEATURING: TED MATHYS, CHRISTOPHER LOUVET & CHRISTOPHER R. BEHA

Saturday, March 28th @ 4 PM
Cake Shop
152 Ludlow Street
New York City
Free and open to the public

TED MATHYS is the author of The Spoils, forthcoming in April from
Coffee House Press, and Forge (Coffee House, 2005). A recipient of
fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York
Foundation for the Arts, his poems have appeared in American Poetry
Review, BOMB, Conjunctions, Fence, Jubilat, LIT, Verse, and elsewhere.
Originally from Ohio, he has lived and worked in Hong Kong, Berlin,
and New York and currently studies international environmental policy
in Boston.

CHRISTOPHER LOUVET's poems have appeared in Best New Poets 2008,
McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and elsewhere. He lives in Miami Beach
and manages information systems in Washington, DC. Find him at
www.louvetian.com.

CHRISTOPHER R. BEHA is an assistant editor at Harper's Magazine. His
essays and reviews have appeared in the New York Times Book Review,
The Believer, Tin House, Bookforum, and elsewhere. He is the author of
a memoir, The Whole Five Feet, and the co-editor, with Joyce Carol
Oates, of the Ecco Anthology of Contemporary American Short Fiction.

"There was no one in him; behind his face (which even through the bad
paintings of those times resembles no other) and his words, which were
copious, fantastic and stormy, there was only a bit of coldness, a
dream dreamt by no one." -????

Know where this quote comes from? Come to the Cake Shop on the 28th
and find out.

The Enclave is a writers’ collective based out of New York City that
aims to present the newest writing on the cutting edge to the public.
We host monthly readings at Cake Shop in the Lower East Side. For more
information on this reading and other upcoming Enclave events goto:
myspace.com/enclavianmatter.

What's Good

Host:	The Stain of Poetry: A Reading Series
Type:	Music/Arts - Listening Party
Network:	Global

Date:	Friday, February 27, 2009
Time:	7:00pm - 9:00pm
Location:	stain bar
Street:	766 grand street
City/Town:	Brooklyn, NY

Jason Gray is the author of Photographing Eden (Ohio Univ. Press, 2008), winner of the Hollis Summers Prize, and two chapbooks, How to Paint the Savior Dead (Kent State Univ. Press, 2007) and Adam & Eve Go to the Zoo (Dream Horse, 2003). His poems and reviews have appeared in Poetry, The American Poetry Review, Poetry Ireland Review, Shenandoah, and elsewhere. He coedits the online magazine, Unsplendid (www.unsplendid.com). Web site: jason-gray.net.

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Tony Mancus’ poems have appeared or will be appearing in cream city review, Handsome, Forklift, Ohio, Memorious and elsewhere. He teaches writing at Montclair State University and Hunter College. He co-founded Flying Guillotine Press (flyingguillotinepress.blogspot.com) and makes books in Brooklyn and Queens.
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Deborah Poe is the author of the poetry collection Our Parenthetical Ontology (CustomWords 2008) as well as chapbooks from Furniture_Press and Stockport Flats Press. Poe has received several literary awards including the Thayer Fellowship of the Arts (2008) and three Pushcart Prize nominations. Her writing is forthcoming or has appeared in journals such as Coconut, Diode, Ploughshares, Filter Literary Magazine, Denver Quarterly, Copper Nickel, and FOURSQUARE Editions as well as in the anthologies In Our Own Words (MW Enterprises 2009), Fingernails Across the Chalkboard: Poetry and Prose on HIV/AIDS From the Black Diaspora (Third World Press 2007) and A Sing Economy (Flim Forum 2008). Her current projects include “Elements” (her poetry collection based on the periodic table), a short fiction collection entitled “Event Landmarks,” and an anthology of short fiction. Assistant Professor of English at Pace University, Pleasantville, Poe teaches creative writing, contemporary fiction and theory. Visit her Web site, www.deborahpoe.com, for more.
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Ric Royer is a writer, performer, writer of performances and performer of writings. Other works of literature include Hystery of Heat (Publishing Genius), There Were One and It Was Two (Narrow House Records), and Anthesteria (Bark Art Press). The Weather Not The Weather is forthcoming from Outside Voices Press. He is also a founding editor of Ferrum Wheel.

An imprint of Bootstrap Productions (Cambridge, Mass.), Buffalo N.Y.-based Outside Voices publishes poetry & experimental text-based art.

http://www.ricroyer.com
http://www.looktouch.com/press
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A witness and survivor of the war in Bosnia, Mario Susko moved to the US in 1993 where he lived in the 70s and got his M.A. and Ph.D. from SUNY Stony Brook. He has published 77 books, 28 of which are his poetry collections. His most recent work includes an integral edition/translation of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, as well as an anthology of modern Jewish-American short stories A Declaration of Being which he co-edited with M. Schwartzman and translated into Croatian. His 6th poetry collection in English, Closing Time, was released in 2008 by Harbor Mountain Press. This January his Croatian publisher Meandarmedia put out a Croatian edition of Closing Time and the erbacce-press from Liverpool, UK, released his chapbook Rules of Engagement.
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Jessica Reed’s poetry has appeared in The Paris Review, Tin House, LIT, The Huffington Post, Zeek: A Journal of Jewish Thought and Culture, as well as various online journals, and has been anthologized in Satellite Convulsions: Poems from Tin House. She is the 2007 recipient of the Marie Ponsot Poetry Prize and the Jerome Lowell Dejur Award. Originally from Asheville, North Carolina, she lives in New York City, where she works as a technical editor and where she received her MFA from the the City College of the City University of New York.
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Hosted by Amy King and Ana Božičević
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Saturday night, February 28th, @ Unnameable Books, Flim Forum Press presents, in coordination w/ Peace Events, a multivocal performance of Jennifer Karmin's aaaaaaaaaaalice. w/ Tisa Bryant, Jennifer Firestone, and a few surprise guests.

There will also be readings by Flim Forum Press editors Matthew Klane and Adam Golaski.

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Jennifer Karmin curates the Red Rover Series and is a founding member of the public art group Anti Gravity Surprise. Her multidisciplinary projects have been presented nationally at festivals, artist-run spaces, community centers, and on city streets. She teaches creative writing to immigrants at Truman College and works as a Poet-in-Residence for the Chicago Public Schools. Recent poems are published in Cannot Exist, MoonLit, Otoliths, and the anthologies Come Together: Imagine Peace (Bottom Dog Press), Not A Muse (Haven Books), and The City Visible: Chicago Poetry for the New Century (Cracked Slab Books).

Adam Golaski has some new work in Little Red Leaves, Torpedo, The Lifted Brow, and an anthology of horror stories called Exotic Gothic II. His story "They Look Like Little Girls" won the Supernatural Tales readers' poll--$35! Some of his translation of Sir Gawain & the Green Knight--called "Green"--will be reprinted in the next Drunken Boat "Mistranslation" feature. He edits Flim Forum Press books with Matthew Klane. Adam's review of There Are Birds, by John Taggart, appeared in the January issue of Open Letters Monthly, and has been receiving some very nice attention. His daughter Elizabeth can recite most of the alphabet, loves the letter "W," and is learning how to jump.

Matthew Klane is co-editor/founder of Flim Forum Press, publisher of the anthologies Oh One Arrow (2007) and A Sing Economy (2008). His book is B_____ Meditations from Stockport Flats Press (2008). His latest chapbooks include Friend Delighting the Eloquent, Sorrow Songs, and The- Associated Press. Also see: The Meister-Reich Experiments, a sprawling hypertext, online at www.housepress.org. He currently lives and writes in Albany, NY.

Date:	Saturday, February 28, 2009
Time:	8:00pm - 10:00pm
Location:	Unnameable Books
Street:	456 Bergen Street
City/Town:	Brooklyn, NY

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Hi friends,

You've probably already received an email blast fro the Enclave Reading Series that I curate, but I wanted to give some of you a more personal invitation to this Saturday's Enclave reading with Wayne Koestenbaum, Christopher Stackhouse, and the incomparable Eileen Myles.

I couldn't be happier with this eclectic powerhouse line-up. So if you're free late Saturday afternoon, come by our wonderful new venue at the Cake Shop, have a drink (or several) and hear readings from three of my favorite poets and authors living in NY.

Here are the details...hope you can drop by!

The Enclave Reading Series
Saturday
Feb. 28
4 - 6pm
Cake Shop
152 Lulow St.
Lower East Side
www.myspace.com/enclavianmatter
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Just a reminder to come out for some Japanesey-Jazz this Saturday!
There is also a Brazilian party after us in the same venue if anyone
is interested!

Thanks! Nobuko

Diaspora Crossings presents:
THE TOKYO ZAGAN QUINTET
Saturday Feb. 28, 2009, 7.30pm (doors open 7pm)
at DROM
85 Avenue A, between 5th & 6th Streets
$10 general admission www.dromnyc.com / 212-777-1157

Nobuko Miyazaki - flute & shinobue
Bartosz Smoragiewicz - sax & clarinet
Izabela Buchowska - cello
Emi Inaba - piano
Laiyo Nakahashi - taiko & drums
With special guest Kaoru Watanabe (formerly of KODO)

www.nobuflute.com(click on "Projects"),www.myspace.com/
diasporacrossings
for more info contact me: nobuflute@gmail.com / 917-318-6915

You can get tickets online:http://dromnyc.com/home/index.php?
option=com_gigcal&task=details&gigc...

Map:http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=85+Avenue+A,+New
+yor...

Thanks for your support!
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More Friday & Saturday Rumblings

Friday, there's supposed to be a debate & there's Earshot:

EARSHOT!

Five emerging talents read for YOU at The Lucky Cat in Williamsburg, Brooklyn!

Friday, September 26 @ 8 PM
Hosted by Nicole Steinberg

Featuring:
Irina Reyn (author of What Happened to Anna K.)
Jackie Corley (author of The Suburban Swindle)
Quressa Robinson (Columbia University)
Caledonia Kearns (Hunter College)
Greg Santos (The New School)

Admission is a mere $5 plus one free drink (beer, wine or well drinks only)!

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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Saturday looks like this: Eiten Ohsiro, Shiho Yamamoto, & Siori Kiatjima for the DUMBO Art Festival
25 Washington St. #546 11am-7pm

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Aeolian Electric

Opening Reception - Saturday, September 27th, 6:00-10:00pm
Work on display - September 27th & 28th, 10:00am - 6:00pm

East 23rd Street at the East River bank, New York City

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AEOLIAN ELECTRIC | Wind Power Exploration Project

Renewable energy technologies are being heavily researched and have made great gains in efficiency as a result. Despite these advances, renewables have yet to gain popular acceptance in the United States. Aeolian Electric is the result of a group of artist's explorations into wind powered systems in an effort to provoke thought, capture the imagination, and build a connection between energy sources and energy users.

Aeolian Electric features work by Eric Forman, Elliott Montgomery, Dominic Muren, Cade Peterson, Benjamin Renneberg, Dustyn Roberts, Joshua Space and Garth Zeglin, and is curated by Elliott Montgomery. The artists' work will be on display on the grounds of Solar One.

Opening Reception - Saturday, September 27th, 6:00-10:00pm
Work on vdisplay - September 27th & 28th, 10:00am - 6:00pm
East 23rd Street at the East River bank, New York City

Sponsored by Toyota and O2NYC
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THE ENCLAVE XV: THE FESTIVAL OF THE MESS

FEATURING: MOLLY ROSEN & DOROTHEA LASKY

Saturday, September 27th @ 4 PM
Kenny's Castaways, 157 Bleecker Street, 212-979-9762
For updates and more info go to: www.myspace.com/enclavianmatter
Free and open to the public

MOLLY ROSEN's novel "She's Dead I'm Not I'm Yours" will be published
by Grove/Black Cat in the Fall of '09.

DOROTHEA LASKY is the author of AWE (Wave Books, 2007). Currently,
she studies creativity at the University of Pennsylvania.

The Enclave Wrap-up

The reading went well. I'm pretty sure it was the absolute nicest day thusly this summer so the fact that some people choose to spend it in a dark bar on Saturday afternoon is the mark of the devoted. All the readers did a nice job and it was a personal pleasure to read with CAConrad (another illadelph born OGP). I picked up and have already read his chapbook consisting of "Frank" poems. Good stuff. Odd. Wit and introspective intellect in the fuck-offish way- i.e. so perfect punk I felt new again.

Since I have such a long commute to work I've been reading the journals Lilies and Cannonball and Jubilat (which has a poem by David Sewell (also graduated from NS same year as I) and two poems by Prageeta). The new ish of BOMB has an amazing interview with the artist, Kristen Mamma Andersson- though my one fey knock would be that perhaps Christian Hawkey (yes the poet) did write a bit too much and I felt as if I read more about him than the subject of the interview... oh well

Me + poesia + m.i.c.= The Enclave June 23rd-Free

So I didn't make it to the opera tonight but I did see Panda Bear last night (amazing!!!!) and now I'm updating my blog. Come out for this reading- it'll be fun (do I always say that?)


THE ENCLAVE READING SERIES: FESTIVAL of the GLOW WORM*
featuring
C.A. Conrad
Iris Smyles
Christen Clifford
Steven Karl
Molly McCloy
Chris Louvet

hosted by
Jason Napoli Brooks and Scott Geiger

Saturday
June 23, 2007
3:30 - 6:30 pm
Kenny's Castaways
157 Bleecker St.
New York

Free!

The Enclave is proud to present its most impressive program yet (and considering the high quality of its past programs, this is a serious claim to make). Please join us for an afternoon with six of the East Coast's most innovative fiction writers, poets, and performers.

Bios...

C. A. Conrad' s childhood included selling cut flowers along the highway for his mother and helping her shoplift. He escaped to Philadelphia the first chance he got where he lives and writes today with the PhillySound poets. Soft Skull Press published his book Deviant Propulsion in 2006. His book The Frank Poems is forthcoming from CHAX Press in 2008. A small selection of The Frank Poems was translated into German by the Berlin poet Holger, and is now available from YPOLITA Press. He is the author of several other chapbooks, including (end-begin w/chants) , a collaboration with Frank Sherlock. You can see his work online at http://CAConrad.blogspot.com

Iris Smyles is a writer and cartoonist whose fiction may currently be seen in BOMB magazine's Spring issue. She was awarded the Doris Lippman Prize for her recently completed novel in 2007, and her acclaimed comic book, The Naked Woman, is availableonline and in select New York City bookstores. She teaches creative writing and literature at The City College of New York and Marymount Manhattan College. She is the editor of Smyles & Fish magazine (www.SmylesAndFish.com)

Christen Clifford is a writer and performer who has performed her solo work at The Culture Project, The Uno Festival in Victoria, Canada. and at the National Theatre of Slovenia in Ljubljana, Slovenia. She won "Best of Fringe" at the 2006 San Francisco Fringe Festival and The Audience Choice Award at the 2007 Frigid Festival. She's been an actor in plays Off Broadway, independent films, and has probably had about twenty lines total on soap operas. She's been a mainstage storyteller at The Moth and various other storytelling shows in New York. Her writing has been published in Salon.com, Nerve.com , Blue, and in the anthology Everything You Know About Sex Is Wrong (Disinfo) and she has a piece upcoming on Smith Magazine's Memoirville. She has received fellowships and residencies from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, The Ragdale Foundation, and the Vermont Studio Center. Her work has received support from Time Warner and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council as part of the Hourglass Group Solo Lab. She just got her MFA in Creative Writing from The New School and won the 2006 New School Chapbook Award for Nonfiction. Clifford just found out she is a 2007 fellow in Nonfiction Literature from the New York State Foundation for the Arts. She is married to writer McKenzie Wark adn has a 3 year old son, Felix and they lived in Williamsburg, Brooklyn for over 15 years until they got priced out and had to move to Queens.

Molly McCloy, a non-fiction writer from Arizona, has been published in Nerve.com, Slate.com , and MrBellersNeighborhood.com. She recently won the Storytelling Slam sponsored by the NYC-based storytelling organization, The Moth.

Steven Karl received his MFA from The New School. His poems and reviews have appeared in Real Poetik and Lit online. He has an article forthcoming in Teachers & Writers Magazine. He lives in Brooklyn.

Christopher Louvet writes code in Miami, FL for computers in Washington, DC. His poetry has appeared in The Bitter Oleander, Tigertail: A South Florida Poetry Annual , and online at McSweeney's Internet Tendency.

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I heard a glow-worm, big as a house, say to me: `I will give you the light you need. Read the inscription. It is not from me that this supreme order comes.' A vast blood-coloured light, at the sight of which my jaws clacked and my nads fell inert, suffused the air as far as the horizon. I learned against a ruined wall, for I was about to fall, and read: `Here lies a youth who died of consumption: you know why. Do not pray for him.'
Wanna know this comes from? Come to The Enclave: Festival of the Glow Worm...June 23