What's New Buttercup?

Nicolle Elizabeth has a review of last week's Triptych reading here.

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Ben Mirov interviews Mark Bibbins here.

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Tony Mancus has poems up all week over at No Tell Motel.

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HTML GIANT interviews Molly Gaudry here.

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I'm going to this on Thursday. You should too!

THE READING AT CHRYSTIE ST, Nov 19th, now no longer at Chrystie St.
7:00pm - 8:00pm
Four Faced Liar, 165 West 4th Street
THE READING AT CHRYSTIE IS BACK!!!!


The one rule that we haven't changed is having amazing and talented readers, and this month is no exception, as you will have the EXTREME pleasure of seeing and hearing Christie Ann Reynolds and Jeremy Schmall reading this month! The pleasure is all yours! We're so excited!

So come join us once again at a new place on a new day, and we'll all continue to call it the Reading at Chrystie St just to be eccentric and difficult. Deal?

DoomsDayYouNow!

Doomsday Film Festival & Symposium
Sunday, October 25, 2009
12:30pm - 2:00pm
DCTV
87 Lafayette St. (between Walker & White)
New York, NY

• Selections from The Animatrix | Shinichiro Watanabe & Mahiro Maeda, U.S., 2003 (feat. The Second Renaissance Parts 1 & 2, A Detective Story, Kid's Story)

Panelists:
• Bob Fingerman, author and comic artist
• Hilary Florido, comic artist
• Matt Hawkins, journalist
• Justin Taylor, author
• John Joseph Adams, editor of Wastelands, The Living Dead and Seeds of Change
• Jonathan Maberry, author of Patient Zero, They Bite and Doomwar

Readers:
• Jeremy Schmall, poet
• Sommer Browning, poet
• Emily Brandt, poet
• Alex Cuff, poet
• Martin Rock, poet

Limited Edition copies of The Apocalypse Anthology of Poetry edited by Sommer Browning will be available for sale from Flying Guillotine Press.


About the festival:
The 2009 Doomsday Film Festival explores our collective obsession with the Apocalypse in film, art, and culture.

From raptures, plagues, meteorites, nuclear holocausts, aliens, zombie attacks, ecological catastrophe, and cybernetic revolt to the 2012 doomsday predictions, the Festival will touch upon all possible permutations of our collective demise.

We'll be screening films from across the board, with works ranging from premieres to established classics to rediscovered gems. On the schedule for the 2009 Festival are nuclear fallout cartoons, early '60s atomic parables, '80s zombie punk, award-winning independent shorts, and much more.

The event will incorporate a panel-based symposium featuring authors, artists, and all manner of experts on the End of Days. We plan to tackle the Apocalypse in all its forms, and hope you'll join us for the ride!

http://www.doomsdayfilmfest.com
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A Canadian Invasion!

Nick Thran (Insomniac Press)
J. Mae Barizo (Fields Press)
Moez Surani (Wolsak & Wynn)


8PM, Oct. 26
Unnameable Books
Neighborhood: Prospect Heights
600 Vanderbilt Ave
(between Dean St & St Marks Ave)
Brooklyn, NY 11238
(718) 789-1534


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Join us for a wonderful reading by Myung Mi Kim (author of Penury, Commons, DURA, The Bounty, and Under Flag), Jena Osman (author of Essay In Asterisks and The Character) and Tony Tost (author of Complex Sleep and Invisible Bride). We are also celebrating the publication of Myung Mi Kim's new book, Penury.



MONDAY, OCT 26, 2009 7:00 PM
Triptych Readings
(pairing established and emerging writers)

MYUNG MI KIM
JENA OSMAN
TONY TOST

11th Street Bar

510 East 11th Street (between Avenues A & B)
Closest subway stop is the L at 1st Ave.
other close stops include L at 3rd Ave and Union Square (N, R, W, Q, 4, 5, 6).

Admission is FREE.

Visit our website for poems, more about our readers,
and upcoming readings: www.triptychreading.com

Bio for the readers:

Myung Mi Kim is Professor of English and a core faculty member of the Poetics Program at the State University of New York at Buffalo. She is the author of Penury, Commons, DURA, The Bounty, and Under Flag. Kim was awarded The Multicultural Publisher's Exchange Award of Merit for Under Flag. She also received a fellowship at the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, awards from the Fund for Poetry, a Daesan Foundation Translation Grant, and the State University of New York Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activity. The anthologies in which her work has appeared include American Poets in the 21st century: The New American Poetics, Moving Borders: Three Decades of Innovative Writing by Women, Premonitions: Kaya Anthology of New Asian North American Poetry, Making More Waves: New Writing by Asian American Women.

Jena Osman's books of poetry include The Character, An Essay in Asterisks, and the forthcoming The Network (winner of the 2009 National Poetry Series). An excerpt from "Public Figures," her continuing project on statuary in Philadelphia, can be found in the online journal HOW2 (vol. 3, issue 1). She co-edits the ChainLinks book series with Juliana Spahr and teaches in the Creative Writing program at Temple University.

Tony Tost is the author of Complex Sleep (Iowa 2007), World Jelly (Effing 2005) and Invisible Bride (LSU 2004). He is currently writing a book on Johnny Cash's first American Recordings album for Continuum's 33 1/3 series of books on classic record albums, and is also completing a new poetry manuscript called Consequence. Poems and prose have recently appeared in Hambone, Open Letter, Mandorla, Talisman, American Literature, Colorado Review and Effing Magazine, and are forthcoming in Cannibal, Ping Pong and The Yale Anthology of Younger Poets. He lives with Leigh and Simon in Durham, NC, where he is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English at Duke University.

Human Heat for Winter Weeks

Thursday, January 22nd 7:30 at Solas Bar 232 E. 9th Street
With New York legends Simon Pettet and Susie Timmons!

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EARSHOT is off to a great start this year! Help us keep going strong and join us on Friday, January 23rd at 8 PM at ROSE LIVE MUSIC, on 345 Grand Street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn!

Our featured readers will be X-ing Books superstars JUSTIN TAYLOR (author of More Perfect Depictions of Noise) and JEREMY SCHMALL (author of Open Correspondence from the Senator)! As usual, three MFA readers of the highest caliber will be joining them. And admission is a mere $5, which gets you a free drink! Call it the Recession Special. See you there!

Your pal,
Nicole


EARSHOT!

Join us at our new venue, ROSE LIVE MUSIC, located in Williamsburg, Brooklyn!

*Friday, January 23rd at 8 PM*
Admission: $5 + FREE DRINK!

Hosted by Nicole Steinberg

Featuring:
Justin Taylor (More Perfect Depictions of Noise)
Jeremy Schmall (Open Correspondence from the Senator)
Monica Wendel (New York University)
Dawn Marie Knopf (Columbia University)
Barbara Sueko McGuire (Sarah Lawrence College)

ROSE LIVE MUSIC is located at 345 Grand Street in Brooklyn, between Havemeyer and Marcy. Visit their website for directions: http://liveatrose.com.
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Dear Friends,

We are very pleased to announce the launch of Triptych Readings* on Monday January 26, when we will be hosting the venerable Charles Bernstein, former editor of L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E magazine and myriad anthologies, author of fifteen poetry collections and four collections of essays; Shanxing Wang, author of the enthusiastically reviewed collection, Mad Science in Imperial City; and Christopher Stackhouse, visual/performance artist, author of the chapbook Slip and generator of drawings and collaborative author (with John Keene) of a collection entitled Seismosis. We are thrilled to have these three fantastic poets with us and hope you'll come out to the 11th Street Bar and listen up!

Monday January 26, 7 PM
Charles Bernstein
Shanxing Wang
Christopher Stackhouse

510 E. 11th Street
Between Avenues A & B
Closest subway: L to 1st Avenue. Also walkable: F/V at 2nd Ave, L at 3rd Ave or 14th Street / Union Square 4/5/6/N/Q/R/W/L.
Look for a small porch and the Guinness sign outside the bar.

Check out our brand-new website: www.triptychreading.com. Click on the bar's address on our site for a google map, and click on readers' names to read their poems!

Charles Bernstein's books include Blind Witness: Three American Operas (Factory School), new in 2008; Girly Man (University of Chicago Press), now in paperback; Shadowtime (Green Integer), libretto for an opera on Benjamin; Republics of Reality: 1975-1995 (Sun & Moor Press), Content's Dream: Essays 1975-1984 (Northwestern), and Controlling Interests (Roof). He is Donald T. Regan Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. More info: epc.buffalo.edu.

Shanxing Wang was born in Qi county, Jinzhong, Shanxi province, China in 1965. In 1991, he moved to the U.S. to pursue a PhD in Mechanical Engineering at the University of California at Berkeley. He began reading and writing poetry in 2002 while teaching Engineering at Rutgers University. His first book, Mad Science in Imperial City (Futurepoem, 2005), was the winner of the 2006 Asian American Literary Award for Poetry. He lives and writes in Queens, New York.

Christopher Stackhouse is the author of poetry collected in the chapbook Slip (Corollary Press, 2005); co-author of Seismosis (1913 Press 2006), a collaboration featuring Stackhouse's drawings and John Keene's text. He holds an MFA from Bard College; is a Cave Canem Writers Fellow; and is a 2005 Fellow in Poetry, New York Foundation for the Arts. His recent essays have been published in the literary journal American Poet, and the anthology A Best of Fence: The First Nine Years. He will be a guest faculty member in the Naropa University Summer Writing Program 2009, at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics in Boulder, Colorado. Currently completing a manuscript of poetry, while also doing research for the development of a non-fiction book on poetics, Stackhouse lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

Line Up

Stain Bar
*thurs 23 - An evening of readings and music with a set by JOHN FOTI Followed by readings from the authors JEREMY SCHMALL and GRAEME BEZANSON start time 7:30 p.m.
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STAIN OF POETRY presents

Fri., Oct. 24th @ 7 p.m. - Stain Bar - Williamsburg, Brooklyn

** Browning, Cohen, Herron, Howe, Rumble, and Svalina **

stain
766 grand street
brooklyn, ny 11211
(L train to Grand Street,
1 block west)
718/387-7840
open daily @ 5 p.m.

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EARSHOT!

Join us for the next installment of EARSHOT at The Lucky Cat, located in Williamsburg, Brooklyn!

*Friday, October 24th, 2008 at 8 PM*
Admission: $5 + FREE DRINK!

Hosted by Nicole Steinberg

Featuring:
Amy Lawless (Noctis Licentia)
Alex Smith (Lux)
Danielle Grace Warren (Hunter College)
James Shultis (Queens College)
Caedra Scott-Flaherty (New York University)

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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The Poetry Brothel Masquerade

Featuring David Lehman

Saturday, October 25th, 9pm-2am

The Zipper Factory

336 W. 37th Street (between 8th and 9th Avenues)

$15 cover (includes a complimentary Le Tourment Vert Absinthe, one free raffle ticket, and a private reading with your pick of a poetry whore!)
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FAUX CHAPS PARTY

Friday, Oct. 24

630 to 830pm

at Jimmy's No. 43
43 E. 7th St. - downstairs (b. 2nd & 3rd Ave.) NY

Short readings by:

CAConrad - (SOMA)TIC MIDGE
Alan Davies - ODES
Brenda Iijima - SUBSISTENCE EQUIPMENT
Jack Kimball - PATHOLOGIES
Jeni Olin - THE PILL BOOK
Stacy Szymaszek - ORIZABA

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second reading:

Saturday, October 25

at 8 pm

at Unnameable Books

456 Bergen St.

(btwn 5th and Flatbush)

Brooklyn, NY

Please join us for a reading by Laura Jaramillo and CAConrad in celebration of Laura's chapbook The Reactionary Poems, just published by olywa press. Chapbooks will be available for purchase at a discount.

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3rd reading:

MONDAY, OCTOBER 27TH

KGB BAR 85 East 4th St., NYC

7:30pm, admission free

Rick Barot and CAConrad
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Event: Swedish Poetry In Translation
"Fredrik Nyberg, Johannes Gorannson, Jennifer Hayashida"
What: Listening Party
Host: Unnameable Books
Start Time: Friday, October 24 at 8:00pm
End Time: Friday, October 24 at 10:00pm
Where: Unnameable Books
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2008 8:00 PM Reading Language for a New Century BMCC TRIBECA Performing Arts Center 199 Chambers St. New York City, NY 10007 Website: http://poetshouse.org/progcoming.htm#october Cost: FREE for students and members of AAWW and Poets House. Others: $10 Description: Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia and Beyond Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge, Tina Chang, Monica Ferrell, Eric Gamalinda, Kimiko Hahn, Nathalie Handal, Cathy Park Hong, Khaled Mattawa, Ravi Shankar & Barbara Tran A panel discussion with Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge, Tina Chang, Kimiko Hahn, Nathalie Handal, Khaled Mattawa, and Ravi Shankar will precede the reading, at 6:30PM. Co-sponsored by the Asian American Writers Workshop and the TRIBECA Performing Arts Center at BMC