tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74850724568753433822024-03-05T00:46:57.445-05:00= UNCALLED-FOR READINGS =MOSTLY POETS, MOSTLY QUEER.Ari Baniashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06495207127985958673noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7485072456875343382.post-79987473762773885162011-05-24T19:37:00.005-04:002012-03-05T16:59:34.692-05:00TUESDAY JUNE 21, 2011: Doyle, Martin, Sarai, & Trigg!<span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204); font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >it's true:</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br style="font-family: arial;"><br style="font-family: arial;"></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204); font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >R. ERICA DOYLE</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br style="font-family: arial;"></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204); font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >DAWN LUNDY MARTIN</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br style="font-family: arial;"></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204); font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >SARAH SARAI</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br style="font-family: arial;"></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204); font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >NICOLE TRIGG</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br style="font-family: arial;"><br style="font-family: arial;"></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204); font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" class="text_exposed_show" >will read to you outside in our backyard.<br /><br />Tuesday June 21, 2011 / 7pm<br /><br />+<br /><br />R. ERICA DOYLE was born in Brooklyn to Trinidadian immigrant parents, and has lived in Washington, DC, Farmington, Connecticut and La Marsa, Tunisia. Her poetry and fiction have appeared<span style="font-style: italic;"> Best American Poetry, Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Lesbian and Gay Writing from the Antilles, Callaloo, Ploughshares, Best Black Women's Erotica, Bum Rush the Page, Bloom, </span>and <span style="font-style: italic;">from the Fishouse</span>, among others. She has received grants and awards from the Hurston/Wright Foundation and the Astraea Lesbian Writers Fund, and she was a New York Foundation for the Arts Poetry Fellow. Erica is also a fellow of Cave Canem: A Workshop and Retreat for Black Writers, and her manuscript, <span style="font-style: italic;">proxy</span>, was a finalist for the 2007 Cave Cavem Poetry Prize, selected by Claudia Rankine. Excerpts from <span style="font-style: italic;"> proxy</span> were also published as a Belladonna* chapbook. She received her MFA in Poetry from the New School, and lives in New York City, where teaches in the NYC public schools and facilitates Tongues Afire: A Creative Writing Workshop for queer women and trans and gender non-conforming people of color.<br /><br />DAWN LUNDY MARTIN is the author of <span style="font-style: italic;">DISCIPLINE </span>(Nightboat Books 2011), which was selected by Fanny Howe for the Nightboat Poetry Prize, <span style="font-style: italic;">A Gathering of Matter/A Matter of Gathering </span>(University of Georgia Press 2007), winner of the Cave Cavem Prize; and, The <span style="font-style: italic;">Morning Hour,</span> selected in 2003 by C.D. Wright for the Poetry Society of America's National Chapbook Fellowship. Among her many honors include Massachusetts Cultural Council Artists Grants for Poetry in 2002 and 2006 and the 2008 Academy of American Arts and Sciences May Sarton Prize for Poetry. She is a founding member of the Black Took Collective, a group of experimental black poets; co-editor of a collection of essays,<span style="font-style: italic;"> The Fire This Time: Young Activists And The New Feminism</span> (Anchor Books, 2004); and a founder of the Third Wave Foundation in New York, a national young feminist organization. She is an assistant professor of English in the Writing Program at the University of Pittsburgh.<br /><br /><span>SARAH SARAI’s collection, <span style="font-style: italic;">The Future Is Happy </span>(BlazeVOX [books] was published in 2009. Her chapbook <span style="font-style: italic;"> Look Up, Up</span> will be out this summer from Hank’s Loose Gravel Press. Reviewing Happy in American Book Review, Melissa Studdard wrote “Sarai is sexy, funny, philosophical, gracious and irreverent—sometimes all in the same poem, combining the elevated with the lowly, the drab with the lyrical, the complex with the simple.” Poems are forthcoming in <span style="font-style: italic;">EOAGH, Mary, Boston Review, Gargoyle</span> and <span style="font-style: italic;">POOL</span>. Published in <span style="font-style: italic;">Threepenny Review, Mississippi Review, PANK, Eleven Eleven</span> and others. Short stories in <span style="font-style: italic;">South Dakota Review, Fairy Tale Review, Tampa Review, Storyglossia, ragazine</span> and others. She has an M.F.A. in fiction from Sarah Lawrence College, a blog (my3000lovingarms.blogspot</span><wbr><span class="word_break"></span>.com) and a can-do soul.<br /><br />NICOLE TRIGG lives in Brooklyn, binds and repairs books, and co-curates the CROWD reading series. Writing is was or will be featured in <span style="font-style: italic;">Flying Fish, Cap Gun, The Poetry Project Newsletter, Love Among the Ruins</span>, and on the website Ink Node.</span>Uncalledhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14047705727411837361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7485072456875343382.post-73265456003268908942010-05-20T19:53:00.004-04:002012-03-05T19:06:26.189-05:00Celebrate two years with us on June 15th!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: 85%;"></span><link href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5CAdam%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List"></link><link href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5CAdam%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_themedata.thmx" rel="themeData"></link><link href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5CAdam%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_colorschememapping.xml" rel="colorSchemeMapping"></link><style>
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #330033; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"> </span><span style="font-size: 100%;">LUCY IVES is the author of <i>Anamnesis</i>, a long poem, published by Slope Editions on the last day of 2009. She lives in New York, where she is a PhD student in Comparative Literature at NYU.<span class="il"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 204);"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #330033; font-family: arial;"><span class="il" style="font-size: 100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #330033; font-family: arial;"><span class="il" style="font-size: 100%;"><o:p><br />
</o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #330033; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">DOUGLAS A. MARTIN is the author most recently of <i>Once You Go Back,</i> a novel (Seven Stories Press). His other books include <i>Your Body Figured</i> (Nightboat Books, 2008); <i>Branwell,</i> a novel of the Bronte brother; <i>They Change the Subject</i>, stories; and <i>In the Time of Assignments,</i> poems. <i>Outline of My Lover</i>, his first novel, was named an International Book of the Year in the Times Literary Supplement and adapted by the Forsythe Company for their multimedia dance-theater piece, "Kammer/Kammer." He is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Wesleyan University and also teaches in the Low Residency MFA Writing Program at Goddard College.<span class="il"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 204);"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #330033; font-family: arial;"><span class="il" style="font-size: 100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #330033; font-family: arial;"><span class="il" style="font-size: 100%;"><o:p><br />
</o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #330033; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">MARTHA OATIS is poet who lives in Massachusetts now, where for the last three years she has been in virtual retreat while becoming a physician of chinese medicine. She is the author of <i>from Two Percept </i>(Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs) and several other works-in-progress. Poems have appeared most recently in <i>Try! Magazine, EOAGH</i>, and <i>Aufgabe</i>.<span class="il"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 204);"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #330033; font-family: arial;"><span class="il" style="font-size: 100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #330033; font-family: arial;"><span class="il" style="font-size: 100%;"><o:p><br />
</o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="il" style="color: #330033; font-family: arial; font-size: 100%;">RONALDO</span><span style="color: black; font-family: ";"><span style="color: #330033; font-family: arial; font-size: 100%;"> V. WILSON is the author of </span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><i style="color: #330033; font-family: arial;">Narrative of the Life of the Brown Boy and the White Man</i></span><span style="color: #330033; font-family: arial; font-size: 100%;">, winner of the 2007 Cave Canem Poetry Prize (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008), and </span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><i style="color: #330033; font-family: arial;">Poems of the Black Object</i></span><span style="color: #330033; font-family: arial; font-size: 100%;"> (Futurepoem Books, 2009). He is a graduate of the PhD program in English at the CUNY Graduate Center, and NYU's Graduate Creative Writing Program. Wilson has won numerous fellowships to include the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, Cave Canem, Kundiman, Djerassi, and Yaddo. A co-founder of the Black Took Collective, he teaches creative writing and African American poetics at Mount Holyoke College. </span><o:p></o:p></span></div><span style="color: black; font-family: ";"><o:p></o:p></span> <span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: black;"></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>Ari Baniashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06495207127985958673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7485072456875343382.post-61222355469656539152010-03-19T22:30:00.004-04:002012-03-05T19:07:12.910-05:00TUESDAY 4/20: Bordowitz, Szymaszek, and Zolf<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">GREGG BORDOWITZ</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">STACY SZYMASZEK</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">RACHEL ZOLF</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">GREGG BORDOWITZ (Born August 14, 1964, Brooklyn, N.Y.) is a writer, film and video maker and teacher. A collection of his essays, titled </span><span style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;">The AIDS Crisis Is Ridiculous and Other Writings 1986-2003</span><span style="font-size: small;">, was published by MIT Press in the fall of 2004. For this collection, Bordowitz received the 2006 Frank Jewitt Mather Award from the College Art Association. Recently, his writings have appeared in </span><span style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;">Massachusetts Review, Fence, Casco,</span><span style="font-size: small;"> and </span><span style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;">Texte Zur Kunst</span><span style="font-size: small;">. A long poem titled </span><span style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;">Admissions </span><span style="font-size: small;">was included in the book </span><span style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;">Considering Forgiveness</span><span style="font-size: small;">, edited by Aleksandra Wagner and Carin Cuoni (Vera List Center, 2009). His most recent book consisting entirely of questions, titled </span><span style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;">Volition</span><span style="font-size: small;">, was published by Printed Matter (2009). His films, including </span><span style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;">Habit</span><span style="font-size: small;"> (2001), </span><span style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;">The Suicide </span><span style="font-size: small;">(1996), and </span><span style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;">A Cloud In Trousers</span><span style="font-size: small;"> (1995), </span><span style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;">Fast Trip Long Drop</span><span style="font-size: small;"> (1993) have been widely shown in festivals, museums, movie theaters and broadcast internationally. In addition, he has received a Rockefeller Intercultural Arts Fellowship and a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, among other grants and awards. Bordowitz is Chair of the Film, Video, and New Media Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and he is on the faculty of the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">STACY SZYMASZEK was born and raised in Milwaukee, WI. From 1999 to 2005, she was the Literary Program Manager for the nonprofit literary organization Woodland Pattern Book Center. In 2005 she moved to New York to serve as Program Coordinator at the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church, where she became Artistic Director in 2007. She is the author of the chapbooks</span><span style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;"> Mutual Aid </span><span style="font-size: small;">(gong press, 2004), </span><span style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;">Some Mariners </span><span style="font-size: small;">(Etherdome, 2004), </span><span style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;">There Were Hostilities </span><span style="font-size: small;">(repair, 2005),</span><span style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;"> Pasolini Poems</span><span style="font-size: small;"> (Cy Press, 2005), </span><span style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;">Stacy S: Autoportraits</span><span style="font-size: small;"> (OMG! Press, 2008), </span><span style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;">Orizaba: A Voyage with Hart Crane</span><span style="font-size: small;"> (Faux Chaps, 2008) and</span><span style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;"> from Hart Island </span><span style="font-size: small;">(Albion Books, 2009), among others. Her first full-length book, </span><span style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;">Emptied of All Ships</span><span style="font-size: small;">, was published in 2005 and her second book </span><span style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;">Hyperglossia </span><span style="font-size: small;">in 2009, both with Litmus Press.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">RACHEL ZOLF's fourth full-length book, </span><span style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;">Neighbour Procedure</span><span style="font-size: small;">, was recently released by Coach House Books. Previous collections include</span><span style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;"> Human Resources</span><span style="font-size: small;"> (Coach House), which won the 2008 Trillium Book Award for Poetry and was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award, </span><span style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;">Masque</span><span style="font-size: small;"> (The Mercury Press), </span><span style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;">Shoot & Weep</span><span style="font-size: small;"> (Nomados), </span><span style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;">from Human Resources</span><span style="font-size: small;"> (Belladonna books) and </span><span style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;">Her absence, this wanderer</span><span style="font-size: small;"> (BuschekBooks). Zolf’s work has appeared in journals throughout North America and in anthologies such as </span><span style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;">Prismatic Publics: Innovative Canadian Women’s Poetry and Poetics</span><span style="font-size: small;"> (Coach House) and a forthcoming anthology of conceptual writing from Les Figues Press. She was the founding poetry editor for </span><span style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;">The Walrus</span><span style="font-size: small;"> magazine and has edited several books of poetry. Zolf lives in New York.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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Her writing has appeared in the </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 51, 0);">Mississippi Review.</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 0);"> Jaime is a member of Accidental Movement, an ongoing dance project led by Mariangela Lopez, and serves as the curator of </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 51, 0);">dear someone</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 0);">, a queerly collaborative letter-making endeavor, available soon in chapbook form.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 0);">SARA JAFFE's writing has appeared, most recently, in </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 51, 0);">Fourteen Hills, NOON, Gladtree Journal, </span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 0);">and </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 51, 0);">Skein</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 0);">. She is co-editor of </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 51, 0);">The Art of Touring</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 0);">, a collection of writing and visual art by musicians, available from Yeti Publications. She plays a treble-heavy guitar and teaches various forms of writing. She lives in Brooklyn. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 0);">ANDREA LAWLOR, a fiction writer and the editor of </span><a style="color: rgb(51, 51, 0);" href="http://pocketmyths.blogspot.com"><span style="font-style: italic;">Pocket Myths</span></a><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 0);">, has had stories published or forthcoming in </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 51, 0);">Persiflage, The Brooklyn Rail, Cash Free,</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 0);"> and </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 51, 0);">Encyclopedia, Volume II</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 0);">. Lawlor is currently pursuing an MFA in Fiction at UMass Amherst.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 0);">+</span>Ari Baniashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06495207127985958673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7485072456875343382.post-38263405320126694762010-01-15T13:59:00.004-05:002012-03-05T17:00:13.879-05:00February 17: Jennifer Bartlett, Tonya Foster, and Joy Ladin<meta name="Title" content=""><meta name="Keywords" content=""><meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 11"><meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 11"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span><link style="font-family: arial;" rel="File-List" href="file://localhost/Users/milleroberman/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/msoclip1/01/clip_filelist.xml"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:documentproperties> <o:template>Normal</o:Template> <o:revision>0</o:Revision> <o:totaltime>0</o:TotalTime> <o:pages>1</o:Pages> <o:words>190</o:Words> <o:characters>1084</o:Characters> <o:lines>9</o:Lines> <o:paragraphs>2</o:Paragraphs> <o:characterswithspaces>1331</o:CharactersWithSpaces> <o:version>11.1282</o:Version> </o:DocumentProperties> <o:officedocumentsettings> <o:allowpng/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif][if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:donotshowrevisions/> <w:donotprintrevisions/> <w:displayhorizontaldrawinggridevery>0</w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery> <w:displayverticaldrawinggridevery>0</w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery> <w:usemarginsfordrawinggridorigin/> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><style> <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:"Times New Roman"; panose-1:0 2 2 6 3 5 4 5 2 3; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:50331648 0 0 0 1 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-parent:""; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} span.il {mso-style-name:il;} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span><!--StartFragment--> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Wednesday February 17<br /></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"><span class="il" style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"><span class="il" style="font-size:100%;">JENNIFER BARTLETT</span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"><span class="il" style="font-size:100%;">TONYA FOSTER</span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"><span class="il" style="font-size:100%;">&</span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"><span class="il" style="font-size:100%;">JOY LADIN</span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">7pm / free /downstairs at Unnameable Books<br /></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"><span class="il" style="font-size:100%;">+<br /></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"><span class="il" style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"><span class="il" style="font-size:100%;">JENNIFER BARTLETT'S</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> first collection is </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" >Derivative of the Moving Image</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> (UNM Press). Individual poems have appeared in </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" >New American Writing, The Brooklyn Rail, Rattapallax</span><span style="font-size:100%;">, and others. She lives in Brooklyn with the writer Jim Stewart and their son, Jeffrey.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">TONYA FOSTER is the author of </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" >A Swarm of Bees in High Court</span><span style="font-size:100%;">, forthcoming from Belladonna and Futurepoem in 2010. She is currently completing </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" >A Mathematics of Chaos</span><span style="font-size:100%;">, a cross-genre, multi-media piece on New Orleans, </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" >Monkey Talk</span><span style="font-size:100%;">, an inter-genre piece about race, paranoia, and surveillance, and </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" >A History of the Bitch</span><span style="font-size:100%;">, a collection of poems. A native of New Orleans, she resides and writes in Harlem.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"><span class="il" style="font-size:100%;"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"><span class="il" style="font-size:100%;">JOY LADIN</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><b> </b>is the author of three books of poetry from Sheep Meadow Press: the just-published <i>Transmigration, The Book of Anna</i> (as J. </span><span class="il" style="font-size:100%;">Ladin</span><span style="font-size:100%;">) and <i>Alternatives to History</i> (as Jay </span><span class="il" style="font-size:100%;">Ladin</span><span style="font-size:100%;">). Her poems and essays have been widely published, and have recently appeared in or are forthcoming in American Poetry Review, Prairie Schooner, Parnassus, to which she is a regular contributor, and other publications. She holds the David and Ruth Gottesman Chair in English at Stern College of Yeshiva University, and has also taught at Sarah Lawrence College, Princeton University, Tel Aviv University, Reed College and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-size:100%;" >+</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><span class="il" style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <!--EndFragment-->Ari Baniashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06495207127985958673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7485072456875343382.post-26845353620825021912009-12-15T15:30:00.004-05:002012-03-05T19:08:11.788-05:00Wednesday 1/6: Cyrus Cassells, Tim Peterson (Trace) and Magdalena Zurawski<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="color: #993399;">CYRUS CASSELLS</span><br />
<span style="color: #993399;">TIM PETERSON (TRACE)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #993399;">MAGDALENA ZURAWSKI</span><br />
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<span style="color: #993399;">Cyrus Cassells is the author of four acclaimed books of poetry: </span><span style="color: #993399; font-style: italic;">The Mud Actor, Soul Make a Path through Shouting, Beautiful Signor, </span><span style="color: #993399;">and </span><span style="color: #993399; font-style: italic;">More Than Peace and Cypresses.</span><span style="color: #993399;"> His fifth book, </span><span style="color: #993399; font-style: italic;">The Crossed-Out Swastika,</span><span style="color: #993399;"> and a translation manuscript, </span><span style="color: #993399; font-style: italic;">Still Life with Children: Selected Poems of Francesc Parcerisas,</span><span style="color: #993399;"> are forthcoming. Among his honors are a Lannan Literary Award, a William Carlos Williams Award, a Pushcart Prize, two NEA grants, and a Lambda Literary Award. He is a Professor of English at Texas State University-San Marcos and has served on the faculty of Cave Canem, the African American Poets Workshop. He divides his time between Austin, New York City, and Paris, and works on occasion in Barcelona as a translator of Catalan poetry. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #993399;">Tim Peterson (Trace) is the author of </span><span style="color: #993399; font-style: italic;">Since I Moved In</span><span style="color: #993399;"> which received the Gill Ott Award from Chax Press. Chapbooks include the recent </span><span style="color: #993399; font-style: italic;">Violet Speech </span><span style="color: #993399;">(2nd Avenue Poetry), as well as </span><span style="color: #993399; font-style: italic;">CUMULUS</span><span style="color: #993399;"> (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs), and </span><span style="color: #993399; font-style: italic;">Trinkets Mashed into a Blender</span><span style="color: #993399;"> (Faux Press). Peterson continues to edit </span><span style="color: #993399; font-style: italic;">EOAGH: A Journal of the Arts</span><span style="color: #993399;"> which features a special issue on Queering Language dedicated to kari edwards(http://chax.org/eoagh). Peterson also curates TENDENCIES: Poetics & Practice, a talks series titled in honor of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick at CUNY Graduate Center which explores the intersection of queer poetics and the manifesto (http://tendenciespoetics.blogspot.com).</span><br />
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<span style="color: #993399;">Magdalena Zurawski's novel </span><span style="color: #993399; font-style: italic;">The Bruise </span><span style="color: #993399;">won the 2008 Lambda Award for lesbian debut fiction. Currently she is working on a manuscript of poems. She lives in Durham, NC.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #993399;">hosted by Danica Colic & Ari Banias</span></div>Ari Baniashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06495207127985958673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7485072456875343382.post-19555243520947165472009-10-29T21:48:00.003-04:002012-03-05T19:08:49.607-05:00November 18: CAConrad, Betsy Fagin, and Rachel Levitsky<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: 100%;">Wednesday November 18, 7pm<br />
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downstairs at Unnameable Books<br />
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CAConrad, Betsy Fagin, & Rachel Levitsy<br />
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CACONRAD is the recipient of THE GIL OTT BOOK AWARD for </span><span style="font-size: 100%; font-style: italic;">The Book of Frank</span><span style="font-size: 100%;"> (Chax Press, 2009). He is also the author of <span style="font-style: italic;">Advanced Elvis Course</span> (Soft Skull Press, 2009), <span style="font-style: italic;">(Soma)tic Midge</span> (Faux Press, 2008), <span style="font-style: italic;">Deviant Propulsion</span> (Soft Skull Press, 2006), and a forthcoming collaboration with poet Frank Sherlock titled <span style="font-style: italic;">THE CITY REAL & IMAGINED: Philadelphia Poems </span>(Factory School Books, 2010). CAConrad is the son of white trash asphyxiation whose childhood included selling cut flowers along the highway for his mother and helping her shoplift. He invites you to visit him online at http://CAConrad.blogspot.com and also with his friends at http://PhillySound.blogspot.com<br />
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BESTY FAGIN is the author of <span style="font-style: italic;">Belief Opportunity</span> (Big Game Books, 2008), <span style="font-style: italic;">Rosemary Stretch </span>(dusie e/chap, 2006) and <span style="font-style: italic;">For every solution there is a problem</span> (Open 24 Hours, 2003), as well as a number of self-published chapbooks. She received degrees in literature and creative writing from Vassar College and Brooklyn College and completed a MLS degree in Information Studies at the University of Maryland. Recent work appears online at La Fovea (http://lafovea.org/La_Fovea/betsy_fagin.html) and is forthcoming in the anthology <span style="font-style: italic;">Starting Today: Poems for the First 100 Days</span> (University of Iowa Press). She is currently living in Brooklyn, NY.<br />
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RACHEL LEVITSKY’s second book, <span style="font-style: italic;">NEIGHBOR</span>, is published by Ugly Duckling Presse (2009). Levitsky’s first full length volume, <span style="font-style: italic;">Under the Sun</span> was published by Futurepoem books. She’s released five chapbooks of poetry, <span style="font-style: italic;">Dearly </span>(a+bend, 1999), <span style="font-style: italic;">Dearly 356, Cartographies of Error </span>(Leroy, 1999), <span style="font-style: italic;">The Adventures of Yaya and Grace</span> (PotesPoets, 1999) and<span style="font-style: italic;"> 2(1x1)Portraits </span>(Baksun, 1998). Levitsky writes poetry plays, three of which (one with Camille Roy) have been performed in New York and San Francisco. With Jan Lauwereyns she is currently guest editing DWB, in the 2010 issue of the Dutch language magazine, “The Empire of Women.” She was the founder and is now a collective member of Belladonna* a multi-faceted feminist avant-garde writing confluence. For paid work, she is an adjunct professor and is currently teaching literature and comp courses for the Bard Prison Initiative and for Eugene Lang College at Arthur Kill Correctional Facility in Staten Island.<br />
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</span></div>Ari Baniashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06495207127985958673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7485072456875343382.post-36358753326332196022009-09-28T10:16:00.018-04:002009-10-09T09:35:58.562-04:00October 28: Katz, Masini, and Teare<meta name="Title" content=""> <meta name="Keywords" content=""> <meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"> <meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 11"> <meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 11"> <link rel="File-List" href="file://localhost/Users/aribanias/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/msoclip1/01/clip_filelist.xml"> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:documentproperties> <o:template>Normal</o:Template> <o:revision>0</o:Revision> <o:totaltime>0</o:TotalTime> <o:pages>1</o:Pages> <o:words>332</o:Words> <o:characters>1895</o:Characters> <o:lines>15</o:Lines> <o:paragraphs>3</o:Paragraphs> <o:characterswithspaces>2327</o:CharactersWithSpaces> <o:version>11.1280</o:Version> </o:DocumentProperties> <o:officedocumentsettings> <o:allowpng/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:donotshowrevisions/> <w:donotprintrevisions/> <w:displayhorizontaldrawinggridevery>0</w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery> <w:displayverticaldrawinggridevery>0</w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery> <w:usemarginsfordrawinggridorigin/> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--> <style> <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:"Times New Roman"; panose-1:0 2 2 6 3 5 4 5 2 3; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:50331648 0 0 0 1 0;} @font-face {font-family:Arial; panose-1:0 2 11 6 4 2 2 2 2 2; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:50331648 0 0 0 1 0;} @font-face {font-family:Geneva; panose-1:0 2 11 5 3 3 4 4 4 2; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:50331648 0 0 0 1 0;} @font-face {font-family:Garamond; panose-1:0 2 2 4 4 3 3 1 1 8; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:50331648 0 0 0 1 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:Garamond;} table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-parent:""; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style> <!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(204, 102, 0);">three poets:</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(204, 102, 0);"><b>
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<br />AMANDA KATZ
<br />DONNA MASINI
<br />BRIAN TEARE</b></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(204, 102, 0);">
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<br /></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(204, 102, 0);">Wednesday October 28 / 7pm / free</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(204, 102, 0);">
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<br /></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(204, 102, 0);">AMANDA KATZ is a writer, editor, translator, and critic. Formerly an editor at Bloomsbury USA, she received her MFA in poetry from Brown University in 2009. She has published poetry and translations in journals including <i>Aufgabe, EOAGH, The Germ,</i></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(204, 102, 0);"> and the <i>New Yinzer</i></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(204, 102, 0);">, and her book reviews have appeared in the Boston Globe and the San Francisco Bay Guardian. She is the editor of Fox Point Press, and she lives in Beacon, New York.
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<br />DONNA MASINI was born in Brooklyn and has always lived in NYC. She attended Hunter College and received her MFA in Poetry from New York University in 1988. Her first collection of poems, <i>That Kind of Danger</i></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(204, 102, 0);"> (Beacon Press, 1994), was selected by Mona Van Duyn for the Barnard Women Poet's Prize. Her second book was a novel, <i>About Yvonne</i></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(204, 102, 0);"> ( W.W. Norton and Co., 1997) which the New York Times called “a stunning novel of sexual obsession.” In 2004, she published her second collection of poems, <i>Turning to Fiction</i></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(204, 102, 0);"> (WW Norton and Co.) Her work has appeared in journals and anthologies including <i>APR, Open City, TriQuarterly, Paris Review, KGB BAR Book of Poems, Parnassus, Boulevard, Lyric,</i></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(204, 102, 0);"> et al. A recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts Grant, a Pushcart Prize, et al, she is an Associate Professor of English at Hunter College where she teaches in the MFA Creative Writing Program. She is currently at work on <i>The Good Enough Mother</i></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(204, 102, 0);">, a novel.
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<br />A recipient of Macdowell Colony, National Endowment for the Arts and Stegner fellowships, BRIAN TEARE is the author of three books of poetry, most recently <i>Sight Map</i> and the forthcoming <i>Pleasure</i>. He’s also published three chapbooks, including <i>Transcendental Grammar Crown </i>and </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Symbol; color: rgb(204, 102, 0);"><span style=""></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(204, 102, 0);">, which won the 2009 Pavement Saw Press Chapbook Award. His poetry and criticism have appeared in <i>American Poetry Review</i>, <i>Boston Review</i>, <i>Denver Quarterly</i>,<i> HOW2</i>, <i>Provincetown Arts</i>, <i>St. Mark’s Poetry Project Newsletter</i>,<i> Seneca Review</i>,<i> Verse</i> and <i>VOLT</i>, as well as in the anthologies <i>Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century</i> and <i>At the Barriers: The Poetry of Thom Gunn</i>. He lives in San Francisco, where he teaches and makes books by hand for his micropress, Albion Books.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(204, 102, 0);">
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A native New Yorker, Ammi was living in New Orleans at the time of the storm and, after evacuating, spend time in Texas, Kentucky, Michigan, Brooklyn and Arkansas, all the while observing how people reacted to displacement and to the changes in the country and the natural world. Ammi has written the zine </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 51, 51);">Emergency</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 51);"> since 1998.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 51);">VALENTINE FREEMAN is a poet and archivist from Portland, Oregon. Twice the recipient of the Burnam Award for Poetry, she lectures and facilitates workshops about lesbian history and queer gender, and recently taught a writing workshop with incarcerated women and their daughters. Valentine lives in Brooklyn and is currently at work on a short play, two essays, and a long list.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 51);">PAUL FOSTER JOHNSON's first collection of poetry, </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 51, 51);">Refrains/Unworkings</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 51);">, was published in 2008 by Apostrophe Books. With E. Tracy Grinnell, he is the author of the g-o-n-g press chapbook </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 51, 51);">Quadriga</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 51);">. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in a number of literary journals, including </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 51, 51);">Cannot Exist, GAM, EOAGH, Pom2, Fence, The Portable Boog Reader 2, Antennae, Bird Dog,</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 51);"> and </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 51, 51);">Octopus</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 51);">. From 2003 to 2006, he curated the Experiments and Disorders reading series at Dixon Place. He is an editor at Litmus Press and currently lives in New York, NY.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 51);">+</span>Ari Baniashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06495207127985958673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7485072456875343382.post-32971681306715106892009-06-25T07:26:00.004-04:002009-07-21T11:44:14.433-04:00Tuesday, July 21, Bryant Park Reading Room: Ana Božičević, Jericho Brown, Suzanne Gardinier<span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">Uncalled-for Readings teams up with Word for Word & Bryant Park for a special reading!</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">Ana Božičević, Jericho Brown, and Suzanne Gardiner read poems</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">RAIN OR SHINE</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">Letterpress chapbooks by Micah Slawinski Currier</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">TUESDAY, July 21 / 7:30 pm / Bryant Park Reading Room* / free</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">+</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">Ana Božičević emigrated to NYC from Croatia in 1997. Her first book, <span style="font-style: italic;">Stars of the Night Commute</span>, is forthcoming from Tarpaulin Sky Press in Fall 2009. She's also the author of fresh chapbooks <span style="font-style: italic;">The Stars on the 7:18 to Penn</span> (Dusie Press) and <span style="font-style: italic;">God, Sebastian, Amy</span> (Flying Guillotine Press), as well as <span style="font-style: italic;">Document</span> (Octopus Books, 2007) and <span style="font-style: italic;">Morning News</span> (Kitchen Press, 2006). Look for her recent work in <span style="font-style: italic;">Denver Quarterly, Hotel Amerika, Forklift, Ohio, absent, typo, fou</span> and elsewhere. With Amy King, she is currently editing an anthology, <span style="font-style: italic;">The Urban Poetic</span> (Factory School, forthcoming). </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">Jericho Brown worked as the speechwriter for the Mayor of New Orleans before receiving his PhD in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Houston. He also holds an MFA from the University of New Orleans and a BA from Dillard University. The recipient of a Bunting Fellowship from the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University and two travel fellowships to the Krakow Poetry Seminar in Poland, he has served as poetry editor at <span style="font-style: italic;">Gulf Coast </span>and assistant poetry editor at <span style="font-style: italic;">Callaloo</span>. His poems have appeared in <span style="font-style: italic;">The Iowa Review, jubilat, New England Review, Oxford American,</span> and several other journals and anthologies. Brown teaches creative writing as an Assistant Professor of English at the University of San Diego. New Issues Poetry & Prose published his first book, <span style="font-style: italic;">PLEASE</span>. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">Suzanne Gardinier is the author of the long poem <span style="font-style: italic;">Dialogue with the Archipelago</span> (Sheep Meadow, 2009), <span style="font-style: italic;">Today: 101 Ghazals</span> (Sheep Meadow, 2008), and the long poem <span style="font-style: italic;">The New World </span>(Pittsburgh 1993), chosen by Lucille Clifton for the Associated Writing Programs Award Series in poetry in 1992. She has received awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Lannan Foundation, teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and lives in Manhattan. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">+</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">Bryant Park Reading Room is located at 42nd St. between 5th and 6th Avenues in Manhattan.<br /><br />*Rain location is </span><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">the General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen, 20 W. 44th St between 5th & 6th Aves, just 2 blocks north of Bryant Park.</span>Ari Baniashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06495207127985958673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7485072456875343382.post-67395743952851224802009-05-23T12:07:00.007-04:002009-05-26T12:05:36.240-04:00HAPPY BIRTHDAY to us, June 17<span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Come celebrate with us out back at the new Unnameable Books on Vanderbilt Ave!</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">KAT CASE</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">JULY COLE</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">MISTY HARPER</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">DANIEL LIN</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Wednesday June 17 / 7pm / Unnameable Books / free</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">letterpress by Micah Slawinski Currier</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">beer + snacks</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">+</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">A recent San Francisco transplant, KAT CASE is NYC Teaching Fellow at a public high school in East New York, where she teaches English and lets her students use the words "wylin" and "bitchass” in their short stories. She has written and carefully duct-taped several issues of the zine </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Snapshots</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">; the most recent issue was </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">The Bro-Job Chronicles</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">, where it doesn’t matter as long as there’s a warm mouth. As a tutu-wearing, bourbon-spilling columnist for </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Maximum Rock ‘n’ Roll</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"> for five years, she covered queer punks, sexual politics, and even the occasional brilliant show. Right now, she’s trying to find time in-between lesson planning to finish writing a novel about a beat-era woman artist which explores the meaning of success in a world where neither the lives of harlots nor the creation of useless objects are valued.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">JULY COLE is a displaced Appalachian transsexual now studying poetry and environmental science at the University of Montana. He swam the Bitterroot River and the North Fork of the Flathead this year in mid-May, his earliest start yet.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">MISTY HARPER studied poetry at Indiana University and Georgia Tech. She lives in Atlanta. In 2005, her chapbook <span style="font-style: italic;">Guarding the Violins </span>was chosen for the PSA chapbook series.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">DANIEL LIN </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);" >has a chapbook, <em>TINDER</em>, from Nightboat Books, and has recently published poems in <em>Unsplendid, Notre Dame Review</em> and <em>The Jewish Quarterly</em>. He was a N.Y. Times Fellow at NYU and a Tennessee Williams Scholar at Sewanee Writers’ Conference. He co-edits <em>Love among the Ruins</em>, which will publish limited-edition chapbooks and an online journal. </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"><br />+</span>Ari Baniashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06495207127985958673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7485072456875343382.post-59872379615234919332009-04-28T20:47:00.006-04:002009-04-28T21:00:31.991-04:00MAY 20: E. Tracy Grinnell, Laura Jaramillo, and Jenny Johnson<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Join us at Barrette again for fantastic queer poets</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">E. TRACY GRINNELL</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">LAURA JARAMILLO </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><br /> &</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">JENNY JOHNSON</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Wed May 20 / 7pm / Free</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">+</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">E. TRACY GRINNELL is the author of </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Helen: A Fugue </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">(Belladonna Books Elder Series #1 with Leslie Scalapino, 2008), </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Some Clear Souvenir </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">(O Books 2006) and </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Music or Forgetting </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">(O Books 2001), as well as the limited edition chapbooks </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Leukadia </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">(Trafficker Press, 2008), </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Humoresque</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> (Dusi/e-chap kollectiv, 2008), </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Hell and Lower Evil </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">(Lyre Lyre Pants on Fire Press, 2008), </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Quadriga</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">, a collaboration with Paul Foster Johnson (gong chapbooks, 2006), </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Of the Frame</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, 2004), and </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Harmonics </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">(Melodeon Poetry Systems, 2000). Since 2001, she has edited Litmus Press and its annual journal of poetry and translation, </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Aufgabe</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">LAURA JARAMILLO is a poet from Queens. She's the author of </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">The Reactionary Poems</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">(Olywa Press). Her work has appeared in </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Pocket Myths: The Odyssey, P-QUEUE, X-Connect, The Poker, </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">and other journals.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">JENNY JOHNSON is an M.F.A. candidate at Warren Wilson College. Her poem “Ladies’ Arm Wrestling Match at the Blue Moon Diner” appeared in the anthology </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Best New Poets 2008</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">. She currently lives in Charlottesville, VA where she is assistant director of the Young Writers Workshop at the University of Virginia.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">+</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Barrette is wheelchair accessible</span>Ari Baniashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06495207127985958673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7485072456875343382.post-9347035379963641662009-03-29T11:53:00.004-04:002009-04-20T23:11:58.661-04:00April 22: KING + SIME + THOMPSON: in a new venue!<meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 11"><meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 11"><link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CAdam%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="Street"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="address"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="State"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="City"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PlaceType"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PlaceName"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place"></o:smarttagtype><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]><object classid="clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D" id="ieooui"></object> <style> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } </style> <![endif]--><style> <!-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} a:link, span.MsoHyperlink {color:blue; text-decoration:underline; text-underline:single;} a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed {color:purple; text-decoration:underline; text-underline:single;} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]--> <p style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);" class="MsoNormal">AMY KING / <span style=""> </span>RICHARD SIME / <span style=""> </span>L.B. 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<br />Wednesday, April 22 / 7pm / free</p> <p style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);" class="MsoNormal">
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<br /></p> <p style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);" class="MsoNormal"><st1:street st="on"><st1:address st="on">601 Vanderbilt Ave.</st1:address></st1:street> @ Bergen St. </p> <p style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);" class="MsoNormal"><st1:place st="on"><st1:city st="on">Brooklyn</st1:city>, <st1:state st="on">NY</st1:state></st1:place></p><p style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);" class="MsoNormal">
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<br /></st1:state></st1:place></p> <p style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);" class="MsoNormal">AMY KING is th author of <span style="font-style: italic;">I'm the Man Who Loves Yo</span>u and <span style="font-style: italic;">Antidotes for an Alibi</span>, and forthcoming, <span style="font-style: italic;">Slaves to do These Things </span>(Blazevox Books). She teaches English and Creative Writing at <st1:place st="on"><st1:placename st="on">Nassau</st1:placename> <st1:placetype st="on">Community College</st1:placetype></st1:place>, moderates the Poetics and Women's Poetry listserves, and co-curates The Stain of Poetry: A Reading Series (<a href="http://stainofpoetry.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">http://stainofpoetry.wordpress.com/</a>). Please visit her at <a href="http://www.amyking.org/" target="_blank">http://amyking.org</a> for more.</p><p style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);" class="MsoNormal">
<br /></p> <p style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);" class="MsoNormal">RICHARD SIME grew up in rural North Dakota, graduated from college in Minnesota, moved to New York City to attend graduate school at NYU, drifted into publishing, and eventually returned to school at Sarah Lawrence College, where he earned an MFA in fiction writing and where a course on prosody planted a seed. He began to write poetry in workshops at the <st1:placename st="on">New</st1:placename> <st1:placetype st="on">School</st1:placetype> in <st1:city st="on">New York City</st1:city> and the <st1:placename st="on">Fine</st1:placename> <st1:placename st="on">Arts</st1:placename> <st1:placename st="on">Work</st1:placename> <st1:placetype st="on">Center</st1:placetype> in <st1:place st="on"><st1:city st="on">Provincetown</st1:city>, <st1:state st="on">MA</st1:state></st1:place>, where he returns each summer. His work has appeared in <st1:address style="font-style: italic;" st="on"><st1:street st="on">Barrow Street</st1:street>, <st1:city st="on">Provincetown</st1:city></st1:address> Arts, Radical Faerie Digest, and <span style="font-style: italic;">Passager</span>.</p><p style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);" class="MsoNormal">
<br /></p> <p style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);" class="MsoNormal">L.B. THOMPSON received her B.A. from <st1:placename st="on">Sarah</st1:placename> <st1:placename st="on">Lawrence</st1:placename> <st1:placetype st="on">College</st1:placetype> and her M.F.A. in Poetry from <st1:place st="on"><st1:placename st="on">New York</st1:placename> <st1:placetype st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place>. Her poetry has been published in journals including <span style="font-style: italic;">Fence, Pool, Lyric, The Women's Review of Books</span> and <span style="font-style: italic;">The New Yorker</span>. She received an award for emerging women writers from the Rona Jaffe Foundation in 2002, and won the Center for Book Arts’ annual chapbook competition in 2003. L.B. teaches English to college freshmen, works as a free-lance copyeditor, and lives on the North Fork of Long Island.</p><p style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);" class="MsoNormal">
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<br /></p> Ari Baniashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06495207127985958673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7485072456875343382.post-68117084948564802932009-02-25T14:59:00.014-05:002009-09-30T11:16:01.204-04:00MARCH: Joblin, Levi, Oliver, Schneiderman<div style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhRoKbxVxzN3EKmkph4E7aRD7rq84W4C9D-ZFhR4WB0T6rDZaZCfc0m5INFr5suzLDZn7GMwyOJE7Fcl_Ms1b2FNEysAGWdHlW4Fr9b2plOv2mMK_heV8sBTq4zWgC3hIDusMXtjOcrGg/s1600-h/P1000898.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhRoKbxVxzN3EKmkph4E7aRD7rq84W4C9D-ZFhR4WB0T6rDZaZCfc0m5INFr5suzLDZn7GMwyOJE7Fcl_Ms1b2FNEysAGWdHlW4Fr9b2plOv2mMK_heV8sBTq4zWgC3hIDusMXtjOcrGg/s320/P1000898.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308629311264659250" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">Our Wednesday, March 25 reading will feature </span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">these poets</span><br /></div><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">and letterpress cards of their poems!</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">As always<br />7pm / Unnameable Books / free</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">+</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">ALANA JOBLIN grew up in Philadelphia. Prior to making Brooklyn her home eight years ago, she earned her B.A. at Oberlin College, studying English and Religion. Alana earned her MFA in poetry at Hunter College, where she has also taught undergraduate literature and creative writing. Her work has recently appeared, or is forthcoming in </span><i style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">Quarterly West, Crab Orchard Review,</i><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);"> and </span><i style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">RealPoetik</i><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">.</span><br /><br /><i style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">Skyspeak </i><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">is JAN HELLER LEVI'S second book of poems; her first collection, </span><i style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">Once I Gazed at You in Wonder</i><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">, won the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets. Levi is also the editor of </span><i style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">A Muriel Rukeyser Reader</i><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);"> (1994), which </span><i style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">Utne Review</i><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);"> named on their Loose Canon list of "150 Great Works Guaranteed to Set Your Imagination on Fire"; she is consulting editor for the new edition of </span><i style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">The Collected Poems of Muriel Rukeyser </i><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">(2005) and co-editor of </span><i style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan</i><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);"> (2005). Her poems have appeared in </span><i style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">Field, Mid-American Review</i><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">, and other journals, and in anthologies including </span><i style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">Poetry 180 </i><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">and </span><i style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">Bowery Women Poets</i><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">. In </span><i style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">Black Warrior Review</i><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">, Mark Sullivan described Levi as "a poet whose humanity encompasses both our urge for completeness and our necessary dwelling in the work-in-progress of the world." She is an Associate Professor at Hunter College in New York, where she teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">AKILAH OLIVER is the author of </span><i style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">the she said dialogues: flesh memory</i><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);"> (Smokeproof/Erudite Fangs, 1999, Winner of the PEN Beyond Margins Award), a book of experimental prose-poetry. Her chapbooks include a </span><i style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">(A)ugust</i><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);"> (Yo-yo Labs, 2007), </span><i style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">The Putter’s Notebook</i><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);"> (Belladona, 2006), and </span><i style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">An Arriving Guard of Angels, Thusly Coming to Greet</i><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);"> which was published by Farfalla Press (2005) in a text-and performance CD edition. Oliver’s work is included on the CD “Matching Half”, featuring Anne Waldman, which won CA Conrad’s “sexiest poet alive” award. She is faculty at The Jack Kerouac School at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado, where she also taught at CU-Boulder. She held the Distinguished Author position in the Creative Writing Department at Long Island University (Spring, 2008) and was curator of the Monday Night reading series at the Poetry Project in NYC (2007-2008). She is a founding member of The Sacred Naked Nature Girls, which performed out of Los Angeles in the 1990s. She currently makes her home in Brooklyn, NY. Oliver has a new book, </span><i style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">A Toast in the House of Friends</i><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);"> </span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">(Coffee House Press 2009).</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">JASON SCHNEIDERMAN is the author of </span><i style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">Sublimation Point</i><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">, a Stahlecker Selection from Four Way Books. His poems and essays have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including </span><i style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">Best American Poetry</i><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);"> (2005), </span><i style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">American Poetry Review, Tin House, Poetry London</i><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">, and </span><i style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">The Penguin Book of the Sonnet</i><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">. He has received fellowships from Yaddo, The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. He is currently a Chancellor's Fellow in the Doctoral Program in English at the Graduate Center of CUNY. He lives in Brooklyn with his husband Michael Broder.</span>Ari Baniashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06495207127985958673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7485072456875343382.post-49686949803837992522009-01-14T12:25:00.014-05:002009-03-29T12:14:45.124-04:00FEBRUARY: Becker, Broder, Fetzer, Weir<span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 0);font-size:11;" >First reading of 2009!<br /><br />Wednesday, February 18 will feature:<br /><br />PRISCILLA BECKER<br />MICHAEL BRODER<br />CHELSEA LEMON FETZER<br />&<br />JOHN WEIR<br /><br />LETTERPRESS BROADSIDES by Micah Slawinski Currier of Woodside Press<br /><br />7 pm / Unnameable Books/ free<br /><br />+<br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 0);">PRISCILLA BECKER's </span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 0);">first book of poems,</span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 0);"> Internal West</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 0);">, won The Paris Review </span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 0);">book prize, and was published in 2003. Her second book, </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 0);">Stories That Listen, </span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 0);">is forthcoming from Fourway. Her poems have appeared in </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 0);">Open City, </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 0);">The Paris Review, Fence, Small Spiral Notebook, Raritan, Verse, American </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 0);">Poetry Review,</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 0);"> and </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 0);">The Boston Review</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 0);">; her music reviews in </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 0);">The Nation</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 0);"> and </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 0);">Filter</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 0);"> magazine; and her essays in </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 0);">Open City</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 0);"> and </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 0);">Cabinet magazine.</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 0);"> Her essays </span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 0);">have also been anthologized by Sarabande, Soft Skull Press, and Anchor Books. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 0);font-size:11;" >MICHAEL BRODER holds an MFA from New York University and is completing a PhD in Classics from The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His poems have appeared in <i>Bloom, Court Green,</i> and <i>Painted Bride Quarterly,</i> among other journals and anthologies. His essay on Sappho is included in <i>My Diva: 65 Gay Men on the Women Who Inspire Them,</i> edited by Michael Montlack and due out from the University of Wisconsin Press this spring.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 0);">CHELSEA LEMON FETZER received her MFA in Creative Writing from Syracuse University. In 2006, she was chosen as second place winner for poetry by the Summer Literary Seminar in Kenya, and in summer 2008 was the John O. Killens Scholar in Fiction for the inaugural Pan African Literary Forum. Her work has appeared in <span style="font-style: italic;">Stone Canoe, Callaloo,</span> and is upcoming in <span style="font-style: italic;">Tin House</span>. She is currently living in Brooklyn and working on her first novel, <span style="font-style: italic;">Rivermaps. </span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 0);">JOHN WEIR is the author of two novels, </span><i style="color: rgb(102, 102, 0);">What I Did Wrong</i><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 0);">, and the Lambda Award-winning </span><i style="color: rgb(102, 102, 0);">The Irreversible Decline of Eddie Socket</i><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 0);">. His fiction and non-fiction have appeared in </span><i style="color: rgb(102, 102, 0);">Gulf Coast</i><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 0);">, </span><i style="color: rgb(102, 102, 0);">New South</i><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 0);">, </span><i style="color: rgb(102, 102, 0);">Tri-Quarterly</i><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 0);">, </span><i style="color: rgb(102, 102, 0);">Spin</i><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 0);">, </span><i style="color: rgb(102, 102, 0);">Details</i><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 0);">, and </span><i style="color: rgb(102, 102, 0);">Rolling Stone,</i><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 0);"> and in various anthologies, including </span><i style="color: rgb(102, 102, 0);">Vital Signs: Essential AIDS Fiction</i><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 0);">, </span><i style="color: rgb(102, 102, 0);">Between Men: Original Fiction by Today's Best Gay Writers</i><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 0);">, and the upcoming </span><i style="color: rgb(102, 102, 0);">Between Men 2</i><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 0);">. He has taught in the MFA Creative Writing programs at Queens College/CUNY and the University of Houston, and he is currently Director of the MA English program at Queens College.</span><br /><br /></span>Ari Baniashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06495207127985958673noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7485072456875343382.post-42607026383763071092008-11-03T14:09:00.006-05:002008-11-03T15:38:37.447-05:00NOVEMBER: Brown, Fitzpatrick, Jones<span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Wednesday, November 19 will feature the lovely:</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">JERICHO BROWN</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">CORRINE FITZPATRICK</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">and </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">TENNESEE JONES</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Unnameable Books / 7 pm / free</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">+</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">JERICHO BROWN worked as speechwriter for the Mayor of New Orleans before receiving his Ph.D. in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Houston. He also holds an M.F.A. from the University of New Orleans and a B.A. from Dillard University, and he has served as poetry editor at </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts</span><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">. His poems have appeared in </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Callaloo, The Iowa Review, jubilat, New England Review,</span><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"> and </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Prairie Schooner</span><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">. The recipient of a Cave Canem Fellowship, two scholarships to the Bread Loaf Writer's Conference, and two travel fellowships to the Krakow Poetry Seminar in Poland, Brown is currently an Assistant Professor of English at the University of San Diego where he teaches creative writing. Western Michigan University's New Issues Poetry & Prose published his first book, </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Please</span><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">CORRINE FITZPATRICK</span><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"> is the author of </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Zamboangueña</span><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"> (sona books, 2007) and </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">On Melody Dispatch </span><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">(Goodbye Better, 2007). She is currently working on </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Minor Crimes and Casualties.</span> <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Corrine is in the MFA program at Bard College and is Program Coordinator for the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church, where she curated the Friday Late Night Series from 2006-2008. Recent work is out or soon to be out in </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Denver Quarterly </span><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">and </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Tight</span><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">TENNESSEE JONES is an excommunicated Appalachian living in Brooklyn. He is the author of the Lambda Literary Award nominated short story collection </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Deliver Me From Nowhere</span><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">. He is currently knee-deep in his first novel and a second collection of short stories. He is a 2008 Javitz Fellow and an obsessive gardener. The flask in his back pocket reads "Hungry Heart."</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"> </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">+</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Down one flight of stairs at 456 Bergen Street, Brooklyn, NY.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7485072456875343382.post-5086770200754612482008-09-24T13:48:00.008-04:002008-09-28T21:21:30.670-04:00OCTOBER : Brolaski, Carnahan, Hall<span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);">Join us Wednesday, October 15 for the next queer installment</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);">featuring:</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);">JULIAN T. BROLASKI</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);">KERRY CARNAHAN</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);"> and</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);">JAMES ALLEN HALL</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);">Unnameable Books / 7pm / free</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);">+ </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);">JULIAN T. BROLASKI co-curated the the New Brutalism series in Oakland from 2003-2005 (with Cynthia Sailers) and the Holloway Poetry Series at UC Berkeley from 2004-2006. </span><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);" id="st" name="st" class="st">Brolaski</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);"> is the author of the chapbooks </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 204, 0);">Hellish Death Monsters </span><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);">(Spooky Press 2001), </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 204, 0);">Letters to Hank Williams </span><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);">(True West Press 2003), </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 204, 0);">The Daily Usonian </span><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);">(Atticus/Finch 2004), </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 204, 0);">Madame Bovary's Diary</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);"> (Cy Press 2005) and the defunct blog Swimming for Dummies (under the name Tanya </span><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);" id="st" name="st" class="st">Brolaski</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);">). Xe is a poetry editor at Litmus Press in Brooklyn and is writing es dissertation on rhyme in medieval, Renaissance and Apache poetries.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);">Brooklyn resident KERRY CARNAHAN has co-authored and edited a number</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);"> of publications, including the </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 204, 0);">New York City High Performance Infrastructure Guidelines, Cool and Green Roofs</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);">, and </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 204, 0);">Sustainable Urban Sites </span><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);">(forthcoming).</span><br /><br /><div><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);">JAMES ALLEN HALL is the author of </span><em style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);">Now You're the Enemy</em><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);">, which was selected for the 2008 University of Arkansas Poetry Series and was a finalist for the Walt Whitman Award. His poems and personal essays have appeared in </span><em style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);">TriQuarterly, Boston Review, Redivider, American Letters and Commentary, </em><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);">and others. He is working on a memoir (tentatively titled </span><em style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);">I Liked You Better Before I Knew You So Well</em><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);">) and a second book of poems. He teaches creative writing at SUNY--Potsdam.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);">+ </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);">down one flight of stairs at Unnameable Books, 456 Bergen Street, Brooklyn.</span><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7485072456875343382.post-19729782360438624842008-08-06T15:56:00.010-04:002012-03-05T19:11:27.917-05:00September 17: Colic + Gardinier + Liu<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="color: purple;">Bring your queer ears forth to hear September's Uncalled-For poets:</div><div style="color: purple;"><br />
</div><div style="color: purple;">DANICA COLIC</div><div style="color: purple;">SUZANNE GARDINIER</div><div style="color: purple;">&</div><div style="color: purple;">TIMOTHY LIU</div><div style="color: purple;"><br />
</div><div style="color: purple;">Wednesday September 17 / 7 pm /free</div><div style="color: purple;"><br />
</div><div style="color: purple;">DANICA COLIC lives in Brooklyn and teaches writing at Hunter College, where she also received her MFA. Her poems have appeared in <span style="font-style: italic;">Terrain, Realpoetik, Arts & Letters,</span> and <span style="font-style: italic;">Pebble Lake Review</span>.</div><div style="color: purple;"><br />
</div><div style="color: purple;">SUZANNE GARDINIER is the author of <span style="font-style: italic;">The New World, A World That Will Hold All the</span><span style="font-style: italic;"> People</span>, and <span style="font-style: italic;">Today: 101 Ghazals</span>. Next year Sheep Meadow will publish another of her long poems, called <span style="font-style: italic;">Dialogue with the Archipelago</span>. She teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and lives in Manhattan.</div><div style="color: purple;"><br />
</div><div style="color: purple;">TIMOTHY LIU has two new books forthcoming, <span style="font-style: italic;">Bending the Mind around the Dream's Blown Fuse</span> (Talisman House) and <span style="font-style: italic;">Polytheogamy</span> (Saturnalia Books). He lives in Manhattan.</div><div style="color: purple;"><br />
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</div><div style="color: purple;">as usual, we'll be downstairs at Unnameable Books, 456 Bergen St. Brooklyn NY.</div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7485072456875343382.post-87859808551877826702008-07-15T19:31:00.016-04:002012-03-05T19:10:39.444-05:00August 13 = Jack Lynch + Laura Newbern + Miller Oberman<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="color: #134f5c;">Climb down into the cellar of Unnameable Books</div><div style="color: #134f5c;">for another summer Wednesday reading</div><div style="color: #134f5c;">to hear the poems of your friends or strangers</div><div style="color: #134f5c;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #134f5c;">JACK LYNCH</div><div style="color: #134f5c;">LAURA NEWBERN</div><div style="color: #134f5c;">&</div><div style="color: #134f5c;">MILLER OBERMAN</div><div style="color: #134f5c;"><br />
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</div><div style="color: #134f5c;">Wednesday August 13 / 7pm / free</div><div style="color: #134f5c;"><br />
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</div><div style="color: #134f5c;">JACK LYNCH received his BFA from the New School and he holds an MFA from Hunter College. His poetry has appeared in Ology, POZ Magazine, various on-line literary journals, as well as the forthcoming issue of The Paterson Literary Review. Jack’s short story “Cocktails With Jennifer” can be found in the anthology Diva Complex, which will be published by University of Wisconsin Press in 2009. He lives in New York City.</div><div style="color: #134f5c;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #134f5c;">LAURA NEWBERN's poems have appeared in <span style="font-style: italic;">The Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, TriQuarterly</span>, and elsewhere, and are anthologized in <span style="font-style: italic;">Urban Nature</span> and <span style="font-style: italic;">Best New Poets 2007</span>. Her manuscript <span style="font-style: italic;">Love and the Eye</span> has been a finalist for several first-book awards. She teaches at Georgia College and is the Poetry Editor of <span style="font-style: italic;">Arts & Letters</span>.</div><div style="color: #134f5c;"><br />
MILLER OBERMAN was the 2005 recipient of Poetry Magazine's Ruth Lilly Fellowship and has recently had poems in <span style="font-style: italic;">Bloom Magazine</span>, <span style="font-style: italic;">the minnesota review</span>, and <span style="font-style: italic;">Lilith</span>.<br />
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Readings are held down one flight of stairs in the basement of Unnameable Books, at 456 Bergen Street (between Flatbush Ave. & 5th Ave.) in Brooklyn, NY, one half block from the 2/3 at Bergen, or a short walk from 4/5/B/D/N/Q/R at Atlantic/Pacific.</div><div style="color: #134f5c;"><br />
</div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7485072456875343382.post-69522050070766345272008-06-19T16:16:00.009-04:002008-06-21T00:25:07.419-04:00Uncalled-For in July: Funaro + Legaspi + SanyalBring friends, bring wine, bring yourselves...<br />down to the lower depths of Unnameable Books again<br />to hear friends or strangers<br /><br />MAYA FUNARO<br />JOSEPH O. LEGASPI<br />&<br />RONICA SANYAL<br /><br />Wednesday July 16 2008/ 7:00 pm /free<br /><br />*<br /><br />MAYA FUNARO completed her MFA in poetry at Hunter College this spring. She works in the field of entertainment and copyright law, and has studied printmaking, bookbinding and letterpress printing in Providence, Bologna and New York. She's from New Jersey and lives in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.<br /><br />JOSEPH O. LEGASPI is the author of <span style="font-style: italic;">Imago</span> (CavanKerry Press). Born in the Philippines, he was raised there and in Los Angeles where he immigrated with his family when he was twelve. Currently, he lives in Manhattan and works at Columbia University. A graduate of New York University’s Creative Writing Program, recent works appear in <span style="font-style: italic;">Callaloo, North American Review, Poets & Writers, New York Theater Review, Crab Orchard Review, Gay & Lesbian Review</span> and the anthology <span style="font-style: italic;">Language for a New Century </span>(W.W. Norton). A recipient of a poetry fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts, he co-founded Kundiman (www.kundiman.org), a non-profit organization serving Asian American poets. Visit him at www.josepholegaspi.com.<br /><br />Sometimes, in the wee hours of the night, RONICA SANYAL writes her novel in hospital back rooms teeming with bacteria. The colonization and domination properties of the roiling bacteria remind her of war and how we may all one day succumb to the inevitable biological battleground. Are hospital-based infection deaths better than death by terrorists? She asks you to reconsider your allegiance to the War on Terror fight because this type of completely imaginary, explosive death (in these days of prolonged, science-filled, terrible life) would most likely be a kinder one. Ronica is one of the founders of the writing group, Agent 409.<br /><br />*<br /><br />Readings are held down one flight of stairs in the basement of Unnameable Books, at 456 Bergen Street (between Flatbush Ave. & 5th Ave.) in Brooklyn, NY, one half block from the 2/3 at Bergen, or a short walk from 4/5/B/D/N/Q/R at Atlantic/Pacific.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7485072456875343382.post-34561565502736088202008-06-19T15:56:00.007-04:002008-06-21T00:25:50.033-04:00THAT was Uncalled-For.Thanks to the readers and listeners who came out in the rain to make last night's series launch so excellent!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7485072456875343382.post-19384488953908443592008-05-29T12:41:00.011-04:002008-06-17T19:10:33.995-04:00Uncalled-For Reading Series, First Reading!at Unnameable Books<br /><br />Wednesday June 18 2008 / 7:00 pm / free<br /><br />featuring<br /><br />Tamiko Beyer<br />Ana Božičević<br />Tisa Bryant<br />&<br />Daniel Lin<br /><br />*<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">TAMIKO BEYER'S</span> work has appeared numerous journals including <span style="font-style: italic;">Calyx, Crab Orchard Review, Gay and Lesbian Review, The Progressive,</span> and the anthology <span style="font-style: italic;">Cheers to Muses: Contemporary Work by Asian American Women</span>. She is a Kundiman Fellow and a member of Agent 409, a multi-racial, queer writing group based in New York City. Through the NY Writers Coalition, she leads writing workshops for homeless LGBTQ youth, and she works as a freelance writer. She will be pursing an M.F.A. at the Writing Program at Washington University in St. Louis, beginning in the fall.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">ANA BOZICEVIC</span> emigrated to NYC from Croatia in 1997. She's the author of chapbooks <span style="font-style: italic;">Document</span> (Octopus Books, 2007) and <span style="font-style: italic;">Morning News</span> (Kitchen Press, 2006). Fresh poems are forthcoming in <span style="font-style: italic;">the</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">Denver Quarterly, Hotel Amerika, absent, typo</span>, and elsewhere. Ana co-edits <span style="font-style: italic;">RealPoetik</span> with Caroline Conway.<br /><br />Poet, writer and radical cineaste <span style="font-weight: bold;">TISA BRYANT</span> makes work that often traverses the boundaries of genre, culture and history. Her first book, <span style="font-style: italic;">Unexplained Presence</span> (Leon Works, 2007), is a collection of hybrid essays that remix master narratives in film, literature and visual arts to zoom in on the black presences operating within them. She teaches writing at St. John’s University, Queens, lives in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, and is a founding editor/publisher of the hardcover annual, <span style="font-style: italic;">The Encyclopedia Project</span>.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">DANIEL LIN</span> has published poems in <span style="font-style: italic;">Chelsea, Verse, Washington Square, Agni and Indiana Review,</span> as well as a chapbook, <span style="font-style: italic;">Tinder, </span>with Nightboat Books. He was a Tennessee Williams Scholar at Sewanee Writers Conference and a NY Times fellow in NYU's graduate writing program. He is currently working on a campus novel.<br /><br />*<br /><br />Unnameable Books can be found at 456 Bergen Street (between Flatbush Ave. & 5th Ave.) in Brooklyn, NY, one half block from the 2/3 at Bergen, or a short walk from 4/5/B/D/N/Q/R at Atlantic/Pacific.<br /><br />Readings are held down one flight of stairs in the basement.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0