Bum Rush The Show

Join us for a special WoM event!

Word of Mouth
December 11th at 7pm
@ Bluestockings Radical Books
172 Allen St. (Between Stanton and Rivington)

Readers will be:

Jackie Clark (poetry)
Alana Joblin (poetry)
Brooke Shaffner (non-fiction)
Tara Betts (poetry)

Visit www.megpunschke.com/wordofmouth.html for a complete list of events.

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EARSHOT!

Friday, December 12th @ 8 PM
Rose Live Music, 345 Grand Street
Hosted by Nicole Steinberg

Featuring:
The ONE O'CLOCK POETS (This Full Green Hour)
Guillermo Castro, Amy Lemmon, Katrinka Moore, Joan Lauri Poole, Elizabeth Poreba, and Sarah Stern
Tennessee Jones (Hunter College)
Michelle Brule (Brooklyn College)
Marina Kaganova (Columbia University)

Rose Live Music is located at 345 Grand Street in Brooklyn, between Havemeyer and Marcy. Visit their website for directions: http://liveatrose.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 Nicoleearshotnyc@gmail.com.

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more nicole:

Upstairs at Erika's Literary Salon

Saturday, December 13th at 7:30 PM

Featuring Joanna Cooper, Tim Stark, and Nicole Steinberg

Hosted by Erika Lutzner and Kate Hall

85-101 North 3rd Street, Apt. 508
b/w Wythe and Berry

Williamsburg, Brooklyn

Closest trains: L to Bedford, G to Nassau

$4 donation includes food + drink

This will be a special event as it will also be a holiday party: food, libations, music, and some good, old-fashioned poetry, prose, and non-fiction.

Joanna Cooper holds a PhD from Temple University and teaches literature and writing at Fordham University. Her work has appeared in the Cortland Review and Pleiades, and she has a poetry chapbook entitled The Crocodile Lady and Other Poems. Joanna is currently working on a book-length poetry manuscript, tentatively titled "How We Were Strangers."

Tim Stark is the proprietor of Eckerton Hill Farm in Lenhartsville, PA. His writing has appeared on National Public Radio as well as Gourmet, Condé Nast Traveler, Washington Post, Missouri Review, Alimentum, and Organic Gardening. Tim and his farm have been profiled on National Public Radio. He read at the first salon here at Erika's loft. He is an amazing farmer, writer, and friend. His book Heirloom: Notes from an Accidental Tomato Farmer is awesome and available everywhere. If you have ever been to Erika's house in the early fall, you've had his tomatoes, and Erika will make something for the party with some of his chili's.

Nicole Steinberg is co-editor of LIT and a contributing editor to BOMB. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Barrow Street, RealPoetik, Coconut, No Tell Motel, Eleven Eleven, Barrelhouse, Spooky Boyfriend, and elsewhere. She hosts and curates EARSHOT, a reading series dedicated to emerging writers of all genres (http://earshotnyc.com) and lives in Queens, NY.

There will also be an amazing musician and an open mike. Please bring something to read for the open mike - three minutes maximum!

No spikey shoes please, Erika's floors are too old...

Potluck welcome in lieu of the four dollar donation.
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Darling,

It occurs to me as I rediscover all these tiny, burning altars of our love that never were they paper-made. Never were they ash-born, nor have they blown into every hungry wild eye to seed. I rediscover them, relics of these months we've spent together in my home, and although I remain devoted to you love, I hope that you will pen this letter, or one of your own, light a match and set it free. I want us all to experience a new love, this Saturday, to walk in off of the cold streets, bleary-eyed and starving, unsure of how we got here, ready hold to so many strange and unfamiliar faces, with our words, like a hand.

Soon to pen and set on fire,

Madame

The Poetry Brothel

Saturday, December 13th

9pm-2am

The Zipper Factory

336 W. 37th St. (btwn 8th and 9th Ave.)

$15 admission (includes a free drink and one private reading with your very own poetry whore!)

Featured Reader: Patricia Smith

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How about a some sommer (browning) for your winter? Musically speaking, that is:

Hello Friends!

I am playing music this Sunday with Sportsman's Paradise!

A seven-man-and-woman-strong army of guitarists will generate a
forty-minute-long blast of psychedelic blissout mash-up with Tibetan
bell interludes.

There will also be four screens of hypnotic and luminescent video
accompaniment.

How does that sound?


It's free (except it's not. You have to buy $10 in food/drink. They
have good burgers.)

It will be loud.

Monkeytown
58 N 3rd St
(btw. Kent & Wythe)
Williamsburg, Brooklyn

Sunday, December 14, 8pm

http://monkeytownhq.com/monkeytownhome.html

I like Monkeytown and will make a huge effort to check this out.

We put our peaches where they had to go

One of the best feelings is finding out you don't have to teach on a day you thought you had to teach- in other words, no Staten Island Ferry for me on Friday.
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Yesterday I had to do cross-exam-grading. It wasn't as bad as I thought it would be, but definitely happy to be through with it.

Right before I left yesterday I stopped at a bench in the hallway to make a call. As I was on the phone a student passed by me and smiled. Then she said I was "cute." This was unexpected so I said nothing. She laughed and walked away (slowly). I thought maybe it was a joke, but I didn't see anyone else around, as yesterday the school was pretty empty except for evening students who had finals during the day. Weird. I was seriously rocking some corny, boring, black, teacher pants and need a haircut....
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I recently watched the French film, Elevator to the Gallows (1957) and I'm thinking about seeing Tell No One. Has anyone seen it?
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This week is the final Word of Mouth of 2008. I'll post details tomorrow. I also have a friend's bday party. Then holiday parties on Friday and Saturday night. Hopefully I'll get my haircut on Sunday.
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Today, I received an unexpected text declaring love for a particular poem I wrote. That was sweet and made my day!
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I'm eating Tempting Trail Mix from Trader Joes, ever have it? I recommend it. Tonight I think I'm making gnocchi with mushrooms, carmelised onions (sauteed if I get impatient), fresh salted tomatoes, black olives, and arugula in a cream sauce. I'll have to make it soon, before I lose motivation.

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!

3 Ways To Get Your Ears Filled

Thursday's can be fairly intense when it comes to attending readings- this Thursday is no different with three heavy-hitters- 2 in Manhattan & 1 in Brooklyn.

Word of Mouth April 10th at 7pm@ Bluestockings Radical Books1
72 Allen St. (Between Stanton and Rivington)

Readers will be:
TBD (poetry)
Melissa Febos (non-fiction)
John Findura (poetry)
Colie Hoffman (poetry)

Visit www.megpunschke.com/wordofmouth.html for a complete list of events.

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We hope you will join us at 7 PM on Thursday April 10th at Melville House Books for a celebration of the need for a second printing of The Agriculture Reader, a handmade arts annual. Editors Jeremy Schmall and Justin Taylor, and Ag contributor (and Melville House author) Tao Lin will read. Akashic Books editor Aaron Petrovich will perform A Kind of Madness. The spirit of the independent press will be venerated. Cans of beer will hiss when you open them. You'll be sure you've seen that guy before, but where? No, not that guy, Sarah—the one over there, by the front door, with the blonde. Maybe we went to school with him. Copies of The Agriculture Reader #2, as well as all Melville House Books, will be available for purchase at the event.
Melville House Books is located at 145 Plymouth Street in DUMBO. F to York Street.

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Tao Lin is the author of the books Bed, Eeeee Eee Eeee, you are a little bit happier than i am, and several e-books. His new poetry collection, Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, will be published this May by Melville House. His website is http://reader-of-depressing-books.blogspot.com/

Jeremy Schmall is the editor and founder of The Agriculture Reader, a small-run, handmade art journal, and the author of a chapbook, Underneath an Obnoxious Moon, and an artist book, The Slapdown. He's been published in Hotel St. George, Pilot, Juked, and Forklift, OH: A Journal of Poetry, Cooking, & Light Industrial Safety. He lives in Brooklyn.

Justin Taylor is the editor of The Apocalypse Reader, and Come Back, Donald Barthelme. His writing has been published by NPR, Paste, YETI, and numerous other journals, magazines and websites. His essay, "Fort Smith, Arkansas: A Monologue" was an honorable mention in Best American Essays 2007. http://www.justindtaylor.net/

Aaron Petrovich is a writer of fiction and theatre. He is the editor and cofounder of Hotel St. George Press and an associate editor at Akashic Books. His theatrical works have appeared inn the Midtown International Theatre Festival, Manhattan Theatre Source, and elsewhere. His debut novella, The Session, was published by Hotel St. George in 2007. A Kind of Madness is the audio portion of Agriculture Reader #2.

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Thursday April 10, 7pm (doors open at 6)
Jimmy's No. 43, NYC7th St between 2nd and 3rd Ave

Justin Marks
Jessamyn LeeAbry Montablano
Daniel C. MetzJ
eff Paris
Matt Henriksen

Musical performance by The Acoustic Sprinkle Geni

Last Word of Mouth Reading for 2007

Word of Mouth
December 13th at 7pm
@ Bluestockings Radical Books
172 Allen St. (Between Stanton and Rivington)

Readers will be:

Jill Alexander Essbaum (poetry)
Kate Greenstreet (poetry)
Jared Hohl (fiction)
Evie Shockley (poetry)
Jennifer Bartlett (poetry

Upcoming this week: An acoustic show and a reading- my oh my

A reading featuring Bruce Covey and my friend Kiely Sweatt on Thursday and an acoustic performance from Anjulie (on Wednesday)- she's pretty much an r&b type of singer/songwriter so i'm not sure what to expect from the show but I'm sure it'll be worth catching.

The show:

Hey
I'm playing an intimate acoustic show this wednesday in the west
village if you'd like to come.

kenny's castaway
157 Bleecker Street btw sullivan and thompson
@ 830pm
no cover charge

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www.myspace.com/anjulie

As some of you may know I am no longer involved with Word of Mouth in any capacity so this will be the 1st one I've attended since my departure. Brian Kloppenberg read at the very last WoM I was a part of. He's pretty good and has a poem in the newly released issue 63 of The New York Quaterly which also features Matthew Yeager who was another reader (twice) at WoM.

The Reading:


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

Readers will be:
Bruce Covey (poetry)
Paul Rome (fiction)
Brian Kloppenberg (poetry)
Kiely Sweat (poetry)


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Frequency
August 11th at 2pm
@ The Four Faced Liar
165 West 4th St. (at 6th Ave.)

Readers will be:
Bruce Covey
Meghan Punschke
Gina Myers


Visit www.megpunschke.com/wordofmouth.html for a complete list of 2007 events.