DC this Sunday
Sunday, May 18 at 3:00 PM in Washington, DC
Jennifer L. Knox, Shanna Compton & Wade Fletcher read for the In Your Ear Series
Hosted by Maureen Thorson & Cathy Eisenhower
DC Arts Center
2438 18th Street NW
(Between Belmont & Columbia)
Washington, DC
Free for DCAC members or $3& some more
Bloofy news here.Labels: bloof, readings
BEGINS TONIGHT: Flarf is life
2008 Holistic Expo & Peace ConferenceTHURSDAY, APR 24, 8:00 P.M., DIXON PLACE, 258 BOWERY, $8
Film, neo-benshi, and theater by:
Brandon Downing: Two new short films
Rob Fitterman: Film: Bisquick / Bismarck
Nada Gordon: Neo-benshi: "Uzumaki"
Mitch Highfill: Play: "The Secret History of the '60s"
Rodney Koeneke: Neo-benshi: "Mary Poppins"
Michael Magee: Play: "William Logan: A Sedentary Life"
K. Silem Mohammad & Gary Sullivan: Play: "Chain: A Dialog"
Kim Rosenfield: Neo-benshi: "Meglio Stasera / The Libido Theory"
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FRIDAY, APR 25, NEW TIME ***8:00 P.M.***, 300 Bowery, buzz "Sherry/Thomas," FREE
Publication party for new books and DVDs by:
Brandon Downing: Dark Brandon (DVD)
Mitch Highfill: Moth Light
Sharon Mesmer: Virgin Formica
K. Silem Mohammad: Breathalyzer
Mel Nichols: Bicycle Day
Rod Smith: Deed
Gary Sullivan: PPL in a Depot
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SATURDAY, APR 26, 6:00 P.M., BOWERY POETRY CLUB, 308 BOWERY, $8
A Segue reading to benefit Bowery Arts and Sciences, featuring the FLARF ORCHESTRA, conducted by Drew Gardner
Musicians:
Franklyn Bruno - guitar
Ehran Elisha - drums
Francois Grillot - bass
Dave Ross - guitar
The Saw Lady - saw
Poets:
Shanna Compton
Katie Degentesh
Benjamin Friedlander
Drew Gardner
Nada Gordon
Mitch Highfill
Rodney Koeneke
Michael Magee
Sharon Mesmer
K. Silem Mohammad
Mel Nichols
Eiríkur Örn Nor∂dahl
James Sherry
Rod Smith
Christina Strong
Hosted by Gary Sullivan & Brandon Downing
This benefit reading will help keep Segue readings at an affordable $6.
Labels: flarf, readings, recommended
The refractory period of my excitable membrane
Got back home early Friday A.M. Spent most of yesterday zombielike or napping! That drive from Fargo to Milwaukee in sideways rain was a beeyotch, y'all. Pictures, reports, recordings and other goodies
here, with more to come.
But the tour's not actually quite over.
Jen & I go to Binghamton, NY on Thursday.
Danielle comes to Brooklyn on Friday.
And you can catch me reading unpublished, unexpurgated flarf (so, like, the opposite of
For Girls) with the Drew Gardner Flarfestra at the
Flarf Festival on Saturday 4/26 in Manhattan. (Catch the whole festival if you want your poetry nerve singed and tickled. It's gonna RAWK.)
Details
here.Other than getting ready for that stuff, I'm preparing the review copy mailing for
My Zorba and looking forward to starting work on Sandra's book for fall.
I fell behind on NaPoWriMo while on the road, but am hoping to catch up by doing 2 a day for a while.
UPDATE:Three today, so I'm getting there. Gonna keep posting them on the
Bloof blog, because that's what people have linked in their NaPoWriMoBloRos. But since I'm back at my computer they'll be expiring in 24 hrs like previous years.
Labels: bloof, NaPoWriMo, readings
The end of February happened so fast.
Sunday, February 24th at 4:00 PM in PhiladelphiaShanna Compton, Teresa Leon & Elizabeth Scanlon
Hosted by CAConrad
Robin's Bookstore
108 S. 13th Street
FREE
Monday, February 25 at 7:00 PM in NYCBloof Books kicks off Spring's Monday Night Poetry Series at KGB
Shanna Compton & Jennifer L. Knox
Hosted by Laura Cronk & Michael Quattrone
KGB Bar
85 E. 4th Street
Between 2nd and 3rd Aves.
F to 2nd Ave or 6 to Astor Place
FREE
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Sundrious & vandry
A couple of readings coming up:
Sunday, February 24th at 4:00 PM in Philadelphia
Shanna Compton, Teresa Leon & Elizabeth Scanlon
Hosted by CAConrad
Robin's Bookstore
108 S. 13th Street
FREE
Monday, February 25 at 7:00 PM in NYC
Bloof Books kicks off Spring's Monday Night Poetry Series at KGB
Shanna Compton & Jennifer L. Knox
Hosted by Laura Cronk & Michael Quattrone
KGB Bar
85 E. 4th Street
Between 2nd and 3rd Aves.
F to 2nd Ave or 6 to Astor Place
FREE
Also...
For Girls (& Others) is at last available via the distributors (Ingram in US, Gardners & Bertrams in UK), which means it's finally up at
Amazon (including .co.uk, .de, etc.),
Barnes & Noble, et al., and available to your favorite indie bookstores (they'll order it if you ask 'em), in addition to
directly from Bloof and our good buddies at
Powells.com.And hey...check out this new interview with Jennifer L. Knox in the
Southeast Review.Labels: bloof, for girls, readings
Pics & video from the pageant...
...have been posted
here.Labels: bloof, readings, that conference thingy
The future of our road trip depends on it.
Hey, if you're in/near Des Moines, or Iowa City, or Central Illinois, or Minneapolis, or St. Louis & feel like having your brain picked, please drop me a line? (Email at top right.)
Ms. Knox, Ms. Pafunda & I are coming through there in April and have some spots to fill to complete our little tour, is why.
Roadside attractions & chowhound tips more than welcome too!
& how excited are we for part 2 of "Funcie in Muncie"? Oh, very. Who knew Muncie was the funnest town in the Midwest?
(The schedule so far is
here. Some local stuff coming up too!)
Labels: bloof, how we roll, readings
Back from Buffalo & Brooklyn
Buffalo was a freaking blast. Kevin & Aaron are fun hosts, Rust Belt's backroom stage with its beetle-jigsawed podium, mural-painted wall, & cooler full of cheap beer constituted a real swank setup, the folks were all welcoming & funny, & I picked up some House Press stuff from the great local section, as well as Michael Kelleher's
Human Scale, & Aaron Belz's
The Bird Hoverer.More photos
here &
some from Aaron Belz too.The Brooklyn reading was awesome too, but I'm not sure there's photographic evidence. Nicole always packs the place with lovely attentive not-afraid-to-hoot-n-holler people. Many books were sold, then we hit Snacky & I crashed at my sister's place while the Prius napped safely in Greenpoint.
Hey, if you're near DC, do *not* miss Jennifer L. Knox tomorrow night, with Aaron Belz (again), Peter "Funcie from Muncie" Davis (with whom we overlapped Friday nite, damnit), & Michael Schiavo at
Burlesque.Labels: bloof, readings
Today & tomorrow
Today, Jen & I are driving to Buffalo to read with Aaron Belz...
Tomorrow, we're gonna see Niagara Falls (quickly) & then we're gonna drive all the way back down to Brooklyn, for this...
Friday, October 26 at 8:00 PM
Earshot
Hosted by Nicole Steinberg
Jennifer L. Knox (author of Drunk by Noon and A Gringo Like Me)
Shanna Compton (author of For Girls and Down Spooky)
John Reid Currie (Queens College)
Seamus Scanlon (City College)
Olivia Kate Cerrone (New York University)
The Lucky Cat
245 Grand Street
(between Driggs & Roebling)
Brooklyn, NY
(718) 782-0437
$5 admission includes a drinkOn Saturday, I'll probably take a loooooooooong nap.
Labels: bloof, readings
Everything is fine.
& the books are not pink this time.
This means there will indeed be books for
Buffalo & Brooklyn. Rock.
Will probably go live in the store this weekend, with Amazon, Ingram, etc. to follow within a few weeks.
Labels: bloof, for girls, readings
We promise not to bore you, befuddle you, or drone on tooooooooo long.
Bonus: We do not read in "the poetry voice." Unless we are kidding.
Jennifer "El" Knox & I are starting to book some readings for the fall when our new books are out. Probably not as many as last time. That was nuts (but the fun kind of nuts).
Confirmed so far: Buffalo & Brooklyn (at least twice). Also Jen will be going to DC & Tallahassee.
We be driving, so allllllllll that distance to Buffalo would be better with more than one gig.
Anybody in Toronto or Saratoga Springs or Ithaca or upthataway wanna play, say late Oct?
Anybody else, anywhere else?
Holla, puhlezze. [Email in upper right.]
Labels: how we roll, readings
TOMORROW! Garden Party with Boog City & Olive Juice Music!
Garden Party with
Olive Juice Music &
Boog City This Sat., June 30, 2:00 p.m.
FREE FREE FREE
A summer series, in the
Suffolk Street Community GardenSuffolk St., bet. Houston & Stanton sts.
NYC
Readings from Shanna Compton &
Corrine Fitzpatrick Music from
Yoko Kikuchi &
Phoebe Kreutz New this season: each musical act will be taking a poem from one of the day's poets and turning it into a song for the event. Phoebe Kreutz will be working with the words of Shanna Compton, and Yoko Kikuchi with those of Corrine Fitzpatrick.
[Isn't that cool? I can't wait to hear them!]Curated and with introductions by Olive Juice Music head Matt Roth and Boog City editor and publisher David Kirschenbaum.
Labels: please come, readings
A week from today in DC & the following weekend in NYC
Shanna Compton, Gwendolyn Joyce Mintz and William Allegrezza are taking it off for Lolita and Gilda at Bar Rouge in Washington D.C. Monday, June 25. Reading will begin at 8:00 p.m. in The Dark Room at Bar Rouge.Click linky for details. If you are near, pls come!
Also coming up:
Saturday, June 30 in Manhattan, I'll be reading with Corinne Fitzpatrick at the Garden Party with
Boog City & Olive Juice Music. Not sure which band(s) yet, so stay tuned. I believe they will be performing a song based on our poems as well. (How cool is that?)
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