Steven Karl "Some Other Country's Othering"

I'm doing this on Friday

No, Dear on Friday, September 16th 2011 for a reading at Unnameable Books as we honor some of the fine poets published in past issues over the past few years. We have an incredible line-up: Marina Blitshteyn, Anelise Chen, Steven Karl, Matt Reeck, Matthew Rohrer and, Ken L. Walker!

Manhattan & Brooklyn Get Up to Get Down

LaunchPad
721 Franklin Avenue
Brooklyn, NY
Curated by Niina Pollari, Steven Karl
Hosted by Niina Pollari

100,000 Poets for Change (http://www.bigbridge.org/100thousandpoetsforchange/) is a forum for GLOBAL readings for social change, happening on the same day (Sept. 24th). This format/forum is especially exciting because it simultaneously demonstrates the potential of both individual and international communities. Our Brooklyn edition of the reading will feature:

Tricia Taaca
Mark Bibbins
Brenda Ijima
Amy King
Ana Bozicevic
Hanna Andrews
David James Miller

Come to LaunchPad for the reading, hang out with us in the garden afterward, and support poetry as a forum for social change. And remember to check the website for all the global updates -- and see the updated information for our edition at http://www.bigbridge.org/100thousandpoetsforchange/?p=3618#comments.

Poems (or Prose) by People I Saw While I Was Away

"I am you who destroyed yourself. Your dream will be the death of all your kids"


excerpt from the essay, "Hawthorne" by Rebecca Brown from her book of essays, American Romances (City Lights, 2009)

Poems by People I Saw While I Was Away (or translated by people I saw while I was away)

Crickets

Crickets plant their blue flags
atop the evening
with tiny glass hammers.


Summer Music

In its embers, summer
is grilling a cicada,
intimate flesh of the tree.


from Micrograms by Jorge Carrera Andrade
translated by Alejandro De Acosta and Joshua Beckman (Wave Books, 2011)

Poems by People I Saw While I Was Away

Everyone I Knew in High School Is Dead


I put a down payment on the jungle
Disfigured liquid milking out what was
left of the vine.
Can you say it? Say I'm here because
innocent people are dying
To have extra saliva to spare
A hardhat for a castle
of canned peas
Pinch to make
sure you're not the ghost or
a book. As we speak someone else
rewrites language, as in papery stomach, as in
lift off. It's cramped inside the magnet
but it's a good day for fox hunting
A volunteer, a willing blonde

-Julia Cohen
from 1 + Scattered = 0 (ypolita press, 2011)

Stain of Poetry for August 26th has been canceled.