Stuff and then some

Date: November 20, 2008 06:30PM
Description: Hey Fishes, it's been too long, so we're gonna raise a very special poetry ruckus in the back room of the Four-Faced Liar.

Chris Tonelli is coming all the way up from Carolina, Sampson Starkweather is making a rare departure from his makeshift laboratory deep in the North woods, and Justin Marks is getting out of bed to come celebrate their synchronous publications by Rope-a-Dope press.

Rope-a-Dope Press is a collective of former pugilists in South Boston who create fantastic handmade chapbooks, broadsides, and other collaborations between visual artists and poets.

So come meet us at 6:30 PM in the dank dungeon of the Famous Face, 165 W. 4th St. and 6th Ave., on Thursday November 20th. This isn't one to miss.

Love,
Shafer

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Justin Marks' first full length collection, A Million in Prizes, is forthcoming from New Issues Press in spring 2009. His chapbooks include Voir Dire (Rope-a-Dope Press, forthcoming) and [Summer insular:] (Horse Less Press, 2007). He is the founder and Editor of Kitchen Press Chapbooks and lives in New York City.

Sampson Starkweather is the author of City of Moths, forthcoming from Rope-A-Dope Press, and The Photograph from horse less press. He lives in the woods.

Chris Tonelli is the author of three chapbooks: For People Who Like Gravity and Other People (Rope-A-Dope Press, forthcoming), A Mule-Shaped Cloud (w/ Sarah Bartlett, horse less press, 2008), and WIDE TREE: Short Poems (Kitchen Press, 2006). He teaches at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC.

Founded in the spring of 2007 by painter Robert daVies and poet Mary Walker Graham, Rope-a-Dope Press fosters collaborations between artists, writers, and their communities through the publication of handmade, letterpress printed chapbooks, broadsides, and artists' books.
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I going to try and check out the reading then meet up with TMS to see her friend's band, Miracles.

MIRACLES

11-20-2008 20:30 at Death by Audio - Creative Capitalism record party w/ Lo Moda, Thrust Lab, Antimagic, Weekends
49 S 2nd St, Brooklyn,

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Check out the new ish of Pax Americana
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Then watch some shorts on Black Masculinity

Dear all:

My friend David Moore has made two short films on the subject of black
masculinity. Please check them out. The short titled REALNESS is about a
woman transitioning to becoming a man; it's fascinating watching her acquire
masculine traits, both good and bad.

This is part of the Masculinity Project (www.masculinityproject.org)

"Realness":
http://blackpublicmedia.org/project/masculinity/media/97

"Dr. Al's Rebels" (Part One):
http://blackpublicmedia.org/project/masculinity/media/98

http://www.davidbarclaymoore.com

Enjoy,

Bruce

& you/ you're not doing so well/ all the blogs are about you/

I spent Saturday in Bk: fort greene, williamsburg, greenpoint, fort greene, williamsburg. Highlights? Eating a bagel from Verb Cafe, seeing Ethan (my ex's cat) eating at General Greene, and Spector's bday party. I spent Sunday running errands and attempting to recover from Saturday- got in late so I was quite tired all day.
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Deep Disco invited me to this today:

Can We Save the World Economy?

Conversation with George Soros, Nouriel Roubini, and Jeffrey Sachs

Monday, October 20, 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm

Columbia University, Miller Theater, Broadway at 116th Street

It was definitely worth making the hike up to Columbia. I was quite impressed with Roubini and Sachs. Sorros was already a given and I loved the way he illustrated the complexity of the economy and its bursting buy using bubbles. I kept thinking of the bubble blower who stands on the coner of Centre and Canal- somehow this guy and the people that ru(i)n our economy didn't seem so different, you know?

Sachs, by way of Sorros' book, The Bubble of American Supremacy, mentioned that students trained in economics are not trained to be skeptics and that they project depth via the surface. In other words, they take surfical economics then infer the depth via this reflection which is why they are so reckless and aren't accounting for the collaspe which came from the murky depths of an ill-structured system.

I couldn't help but think about my biggest and most consistant complaint in regards to students is that they are not skeptics nor do they want to investigate intelligence and own it. They are more than too happy being told and accepting surface as the complete and (un)complex reality.

A h h u m a n i t y

Wait up Bartleby I'm beyond depressed & on my way

Brooklyn Pigs & Manhattan Roofies

I'm not reading at this// this is more of a hangout and paaaarty sorta affair.... I will TRY to make it into BK for this at some point in the evening
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The Academy of American Poets Presents:

Poetry From the Rooftops. Join us for our final reading of the summer. Step out of the flow of traffic and hear these three poets "bare their brains to heaven":

Oni Buchanan, Darcie Dennigan, and Abraham Smith
Tuesday, August 5
6:30 p.m.
FREE
Email rsvp@parks.nyc.gov to reserve your free ticket.

Location: Rooftop of The Arsenal Building, Central Park, 64th Street at 5th Avenue.

Rain Venue: In case of rain, readings will be moved inside The Arsenal Building.

Sponsored by the Academy of American Poets, the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, and Poets & Writers

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About the Readers:

Oni Buchanan's second poetry collection, Spring, was selected by Mark Doty as a winner of the 2007 National Poetry Series, and is forthcoming from the University of Illinois Press. Her first collection, What Animal, was published by the University of Georgia Press in 2003. Buchanan is an accomplished concert pianist and maintains a private piano studio in Boston.

Darcie Dennigan's first collection, Corinna A-Maying the Apocalypse, was selected by Alice Fulton for the Poets Out Loud Prize published by Fordham University Press in 2008. She is a recipient of the 2007 Discovery /The Nation poetry prize. Dennigan lives in Rhode Island.

Abraham Smith is the author of Whim Man Mammon, recently published by Action Books. A 2004 Writing Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center, he is originally from Ladysmith, Wisconsin.

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Apparently they are already saying this is full so if you haven't rsvp'd come at your own risk...

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I had a mad fun night with deep disco yesterday & got a super-AWESOME (that capitalization is for David Lehman-peep his poem in Coconut) acceptance letter from No Tell Motel, which is super exciting 'cause it 's one of my regular reads and I was just telling J.Mae that recently I have only gotten rejection letters/emails.

Speaking of J.Mae she'll have poem(s) forthcoming in Prairie Schooner. J.Mae and Veronica Wong workshopped at least two of the poems that I just got accepted. These two poets are LEGIT and speaking of V. super excited/envious that she'll have poems in Denver Quarterly. Big ups to J & V.