& tomorrow
Tuesday, July 8 at 6:30 PM
in New York, NY
Jennifer L. Knox, Dara Wier & James Tate
read for KGB Night in Bryant Park
Hosted by Laura Cronk & Michael Quattrone
Word for Word SeriesBryant Park Reading Room
42nd Street between 5th & 6th Ave
(Behind the NYPL; look for the green umbrellas near 42nd)
FREE
Rain location:
The General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen
20 West 44th Street
(between 5th & 6th Avenues)
Labels: recommended
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
Enter views
One with Stacy Szymaszek by Sina Queyras
here.& another with Rachel Blau DuPlessis by CAConrad
here.Labels: recommended
NaPoWriMo begins...
Erm, Happy National Poetry Month to everyone
except Amazon.I'll be posting my daily poems, along with Jennifer L. Knox and Danielle Pafunda, over at the
Bloof blog.We're also going to be posting reading reports, pics, video and audio
from the road, starting tomorrow.
Didi Menendez suggests
another great way to celebrate. I'll try that when I get back. (I can't read in a car, I get motion sickness.)
Anne Boyer's The Romance of Happy Workers is just released today and one of the best books you'll read all year, promise.
See you at
Flarffest.Labels: bloof, DIY blog, NaPoWriMo, recommended
Yo, Buffalo
Flarf comes to town 3/21. (That's tomorrow.) Don't miss it or you will be simultaneously crying, kicking yourself, and choking on a flaccid tentacle of regret shortly thereafter. Not only will the show be terrific (100% money-back guarantee), but the people rawq.
Labels: recommended
No bit...
...for yesterday. Because I went to a slam instead. T'was fun.
Robbie Q. be funny.& speaking of slam,
Cristin's Words in Your Face is finally out.Labels: recommended
You've got nothing better to do
Sez Jennifer L. Knox:
"I'm reading tonight at KGB with Billy Collins.
That's right, I am! for the anthology,
Great American Prose Poems
along with some other very cool poets.
Like Mark Bibbins, Charles Bernstein, Jenny Boully,
Mark Strand, Paul Violi, Susan Wheeler, and others.
KGB Bar
7 p.m.
85 West 4th St NYC 10003
It would be awesome to see your friendly,
or short of that, familiar face.
Knoxoxoxo"
Labels: bloof, recommended
Big Game in the Big Apple...tonight!
Tues. Nov. 27,
6:00 p.m. sharp
free!
D.A. Levy Lives series, sponsored by BOOG City
ACA Galleries
529 W. 20th St., 5th Flr.
NYC
Event will be hosted by Big Game Books editor Maureen Thorson
Featuring readings by
Sandra Beasley
Shafer Hall
Ada Limón
Logan Ryan Smith
and music from Alex Battles
See you there?
Labels: recommended
Go, if you know what's good for you
I think I'm gonna go
to this tomorrow night. Especially since
the stars have predicted the audience will be full of "enemies."I've been reading Reb's book at breakfast every morning and it kicks ass. You can get it
here.If you're in NYC, you can also catch Reb on Friday night at
Earshot. (Always a good time.)
Labels: recommended
We interrupt this lull . . .
...just to note that Elizabeth Zechel has a
paintings blog!Labels: recommended
Frequency tomorrow
I'm probably going to miss this, but if you're in NYC...
The Frequency Reading Series presents
Saturday, August 11th, 2PM
Bruce Covey, Gina Myers & Meghan Punschke
The Four-Faced Liar
165 West 4th Street
West Village, Manhattan
Labels: recommended
Never Cry Woof
My good buddy, fellow Texan-New Yorker-poet, and erstwhile collaborator
Shafer Hall has just released his debut!
Go on &
git it now, ya hear?
Labels: recommended
If you're in NYC today . . .
. . . CAConrad is reading with Kenward Elmslie at the Segue Series at 4PM (sharp!).
The Segue Reading Series presents
CACONRAD & KENWARD ELMSLIE
Saturday, April 7, 2007
4PM (sharp!)
at the Bowery Poetry Club
(308 Bowery, just north of Houston)
$6 admission goes to support the readers
hosted by Erica Kaufman & Tim Peterson
CAConrad's childhood included selling cut flowers along the highway for his mother and helping her shoplift. He escaped to Philadelphia the first chance he got, where he lives and writes today with the PhillySound poets (www.PhillySound.blogspot.com). His book Deviant Propulsion was published in 2006 by Soft Skull Press.
It Really Was For Love
one day we
said let's
replicate
flowers
and not
buy real
ones any
more
Kenward Elmslie's recent publications include Agenda Melt, Snippets, Cyberspace, all with visuals by Trevor Winkfield, and Routine Disruptions, selected poems.
Thaw
Farmer Martin's widow
of old-time bulk
is picking dandelion greens
as mutt strains at rope
to nip Land Rover tires.
I wave too soon.
She cranes too slow-
in rear-view mirror,
back picking dandelion greens.
This is going to be so good!
I just read some of Conrad's new poems a few days ago--the ones he's planning to read. They are just
astounding. He is writing "under the influence" of a different color each day--wearing, eating, and keeping on his person only things that correspond to that day's color--and seeing what kind of effect that has on that day's poem. (But the poems are not "about" the colors, if that makes sense.)
I really wish I could go.
Somebody please report!
Labels: recommended
I always want to say more here . . .
. . . about what I am reading, but never seem to get around to it all.
The list (click stack of books at right) will have to do for now, and this bit I snipped from the post below before I pasted today's poem: Was reading some more of
FOLLY on the train this morning & could NOT STOP. You won't be able to
either.Maybe more later. Gotta finish that article by Friday, write a poem a day, & OH YEAH, work at my J-O-B.
What an annoying invention, the job.
Labels: recommended
New! Saints of Hysteria
This week in NYC there are three readings from this HUGE anthology from Soft Skull, each with a different cast of collaborators.
I think I will be at the Cornelia Street one on Wednesday night (I hope). Hope to see some of you there!
More info on the just-released book
here. It was my last big hurrah (as project editor/book designer) for Soft Skull, and if I may say, is a terrific collection of rare and romping pieces by more than 200 poets & their friends.
Monday, March 19, 7 pmSaints of Hysteria: A Half-Century of Collaborative American Poetry
Hosts: Denise Duhamel and David Trinidad
Readers include: Elaine Equi, Joanna Fuhrman, Noelle Kocot, Chris Martin, Jean-Paul Pecqueur, Susie Timmons, Karen Weiser, Susan Wheeler & Rachel Zucker
KGB85 E. 4th St., 2nd Floor
New York, NY
212-505-3360
FREE
Subway: 6 to Astor Place or F/V to 2nd Ave
Wednesday, March 21, 2007, 6-8 pmSaints of Hysteria: A Half-Century of Collaborative American Poetry
Hosts: Denise Duhamel and David Trinidad
Readers include: Tom Breidenbach, Guillermo Castro, Ron Drummond. Tom Fink, Eric Gamalinda, Stacey Harwood, Jacqueline Johnson, Nathan Kernan. Timothy Liu, Bob Rosenthal, Daniel Shapiro, David Shapiro, Sparrow, Mike Topp & William Wadsworth
Cornelia Street Cafe29 Cornelia St
New York, NY
(212) 989-9318
$6 includes a drink
Subway: A/C/E or B/D/F/V West 4th
Saturday, March 24 2007, 3:00 pmSaints of Hysteria: A Half-Century of Collaborative American Poetry
with Jeff Conway, David Trinidad & others
Ear Inn326 Spring Street
New York, NY
FREE
Subway: C/E to Spring Street; 1/9 to Canal Street; N/R to Prince Street
Labels: recommended
"So, what has the author done here? She has taken some of those questions or statements that form the strata or basis of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory and laid them out as, as it were, a grid... and then she has immersed this grid or frame, or trap (like a lobster trap), into the nearest thing we have to a currently up-and-running collective consciousness/unconsciousness. Then she hauled up her catch. And that collective un/consciousness is the web, the internet itself.... which is actuated or realized or effectuated or made actionable or decipherable — let us for a moment stipulate it so — in the Google realm. Then she sits back and sees what the depths offer up (or, at least, we assume that is in fact the degree of agency she devolves upon this activity and that search engine’s capabilities). And this is what we get... pure, terrible, frightening, hilarious, scarifying, doom-girdled, evanescent, malodorous, uplifting, pathetic, transcendental poetry. Poetry from the depths, from the cockpit of humanity — or so it seems — itself."
Labels: recommended
What the flyer doesn't specify: Atlanta, GA; AWP; ass-kicking
Labels: Pussipo, recommended
FUND RAISER FOR FRANK SHERLOCK tomorrow at the Poetry Project
I can't go, but you should go.
More info here.Saturday, February 17, 3:00-4:00 pm
The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church
131 East 10th Street (at Second Avenue)
New York City 10003
Trains: 6, F, N, R, and L.
info@poetryproject.com
$20 suggested donation (please give what you can)
Performers include Anselm Berrigan, Eddie Berrigan, John Coletti,
Cori Copp, Marcella Durand, Greg Fuchs, Brenda Iijima,
Mark Lamoureux & Carol Mirakove
Labels: recommended
DC & Baltimore, get ready to rhumba
This weekend is gonna boss a nova & spontaneously create several new black holes in parallel universes, such as the one where POETRY READINGS ARE NOT BORING.
SATURDAY: An Evening of Flarf
i.e. reading series presents
The Flarf Collective
Sat. Feb. 17th- 7 pm til? @!
Dionysus Restaurant & Lounge
8 E. Preston Street, Baltimore, MD
410-244-1020
SUNDAY: An Afternoon of Flarf
IN Y O U R E A R R E A D I N G S E R I E S
@ District of Columbia Arts Center
2438 18th Street NW, Washington DC
Sun. Feb. 18th, 3 - 6 pm
Performers will include:
Katie Degentesh, author of The Anger Scale
Drew Gardner, author of Petroleum Hat & Sugar Pill
Benjamin Friedlander, author of A Knot is Not a Tangle & Simulcast
Nada Gordon, auhor of V. Imp & Foriegnn Bodie
Rodney Koeneke, author of Musee Mechanique & Rouge State
Michael Magee, author of Mainstream & My Angie Dickinson
Sharon Mesmer, author of In Ordinary Time & The Empty Quarter
Mel Nichols, author of Day Poems
Rod Smith, author of Music or Honesty & The Good House
Gary Sullivan, author of How to Proceed in the Arts & Elsewhere
+ Film by Brandon Downing, author of Dark Brandon
Labels: recommended
My good buddy, fellow Texan-New Yorker-poet, and erstwhile collaborator Shafer Hall has just released his debut!
