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Minor/American Rose Slumber” and “Places I’Ve Lived” Are Forthcoming in Has Appeared in Minor/ (Durham, N.C.) Liv Carrow Hambone, Effing, and Minor/American MUSIC Wakey!Wakey! POETRY Elise Ficarra, Kristianne Meal POLITICS Race and Poetry: Integrating the Experimental BOOG CITY PRINTED MATTER Arlo Quint A COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER FROM A GROUP OF ARTISTS AND WRITERS BASED IN AND AROUND NEW YORK CITY’S EAST VILLAGE ISSUE 51 FREE THURSDAY Samar Abulhassan David Need Ken Rumble www.jacketmagazine. www.desertcity.blogspot. SEPTEMBER 18 com/35/dk-abulhassan.shtml com Samar Abulhassan recently www.coconutpoetry. 6:00 P.M., Free left San Francisco, where she org/rumble2.htm taught poetry to children, to Ken Rumble is the author live among many creatures of Key Bridge (Carolina d.a. levy lives: at a Zen center in New Wren Press) and the Mexico, where she wakes forthcoming President celebrating the early, brews soups, and Letters (Scantily Clad hears and sounds many Press). His poems have renegade press bells. She is finishing a second chapbook for Dusie and appeared in the tiny, Cutbank, One Less Magazine, Talisman, recently collaborated with a Butoh dancer in San Francisco www.indyweek.com/gyrobase/Archive?author=oid%3A18317 Parakeet, and others. He lives in Greensboro, N.C. on a movement/text piece that was performed at Yerba www.mipoesias.com/2006Volume20Issue1/needcolumn.html featuring Buena Center for the Arts last spring. She waits for the David Need is a Massachusetts boy who has lived in North Dianne Timblin night to surface words and is looking for a watery Carolina since 1994. He teaches South Asian Religions at Dianne Timblin lives in landscape to write into. Duke University. Excerpts from recent projects “St. John’s Durham, N.C. Her work minor/american Rose Slumber” and “Places I’ve Lived” are forthcoming in has appeared in minor/ (Durham, N.C.) Liv Carrow Hambone, Effing, and minor/american. His poetry has been american, Phoebe, So to www.myspace.com/ published in Fascicle and Ocho, and essays and memoirs Speak, Rivendell, and other livcarrow have appeared in Talisman and on Mipoesias. He is working journals. She has been Liv Carrow’s songs are on “Voicing St. Mark’s” and a further section of “Places I’ve featured as a reader ACA Galleries like the little animals Lived,” as well as an academic study of Jack Kerouac and for the Poetry at Noon that your 4-year-old Buddhism. As he writes this, he sits among the dead in a series at the Library of 529 W. 20th St., nieces and nephews mall in Raleigh (but they are quiet). Congress, and one of her make out of Play-Doh—lumpy yet distinguishable in form, poems was a finalist for the Brenda L. Smart Prize. (10th/11th avenues) 5th Flr. rudimentary to the point of psychedelic complexity, dry Andrea Rexilius NYC and crumbly on the outside but “all kinds of squishy” on www.parceljournal.org REST OF FESTIVAL Directions: C/E to 23rd St., 1/9 to 18th St. the inside. The mysterious and oddly lovable bassist from www.poetryfoundation. ecstatically weird Huggabroomstik and Griffin and the org/harriet/2008/08/ SCHEDULE INSIDE True Believers takes the scenic back road to your heart the_era_of_video_ with her clever-ish observations on life, death, love, health poetics_is_im_1.html minor/american food, human reproduction, geography, the unseen world of Andrea Rexilius is FRI. SEPT. 19 www.minoramerican.blogspot.com the earth spirits and cosmic currents, awkward crushes, working toward her Ph.D. minor/american is a small-edition, themed, hand-made poetry metaphysics, and everyone’s favorite—despair. Liv plays in literature and creative Sidewalk Café journal first released in the summer of 2007, and edited frequently in NYC and the surrounding area as a solo writing at the University NYC by Elise Ficarra and kathryn l. pringle. An offshoot of acoustic act and accompanying Huggabroomstik and the of Denver. Her poetry AT EPT the minor/american blog, originated by Maggie Zurawski burgeoning alternapop collaboration Feel The Feelings. She and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Bird Dog, S . S . 20 in 2004, minor/american prints the work of not-so minor is also available for Tarot readings which can be obtained Coconut, Colorado Review, How2, minor/american, P-Queue, and Cakeshop Americans, with a preference for longer selections. The for a song. Volt, among others. She is the editor of the online journal NYC theme for issue two, due this fall, is citi. Issue three’s PARCEL and assistant editor of The Denver Quarterly. theme will be evolution. Submissions can be sent to SUN. SEPT. 21 [email protected]. Unnameable Books BROOKLYN FRIDAY Gillian McCain 9:35 p.m. Thanks for the www.limpwristmag.com/ SEPTEMBER 19 (Photogenic) Memories conwaymccaintrinidad.html B Y J O H N MULROONEY www.epoetry.org/issues/issue8/text/ 7:00 P.M. poems/trinidad1.htm Photogenic Memory Gillian McCain is the author of Free w/two- Arlo Quint two books of poetry—Tilt and Lame House Books Religion—and is the co-author, with drink minimum he first word of Arlo Quint’s long poem Legs McNeil, of Please Kill Me: The Photogenic Memory (Lame House Uncensored Oral History of Punk (Grove Press) is a verb. More than half of Sidewalk Café T Press), which has been translated the poem’s 60 odd stanzas begin likewise, into 10 languages. They are currently working on a and action, as much in relationship to other 94 Ave. A new oral history. McCain is also collaborating with David actions as to actors, drives this remarkable (at E.6th St.) Trinidad and Jeffery Conway on “Descent of the Dolls,” a poem. book-length poem inspired by the film Valley of the Dolls and The poem begins with what might almost NYC the book the Inferno, among other projects. Directions: F/V to 2nd Ave., L to 1st Ave. be a thesis, “evolving the reach/for what can be described.” To this end, the Lou Reed, New York Jim Behrle 7:00 p.m. 9:50 p.m. americanpoetry.biz Arlo Quint 8:05 p.m. Jim Behrle lives in Brooklyn. www.puppyflowers.com/9/quint.html Babs of Queens Arlo Quint is the author of Days On The following stanza begins: www.myspace.com/ End (Open 24 Hours) and Photogenic babssoft Memory (Lame House Press). seriously the morning will be —“Romeo Had Juliette” —“Halloween Parade” lucky to reach midday in pieces Babs Todras is a songwriter from Queens. speaker coordinates a “spaced out tour” and then it does for instance A child of two classical through seemingly disconnected images musicians, she has been that are jarring not only for their seeming describing the feel of cherry flavor in training since before she could form sentences. After a incompleteness, but for the syntactical tension long mid-youth rebellion against her folks, she returned to Daniel Nester 7:15 p.m. created between lines. The poet suggests Finding the reached for description is what www.danielnester.com music in high school and college where she teamed up with this evolution of the describable is the “eighth gets us to midday. It also eases the syntactical Seth of Dufus and Jeffrey Lewis on various musical projects, Daniel Nester is the author of basic plot,” and that plot seems to be tension that defines the early part of the The History of My World Tonight and she can be found on several of their albums. She plays concerned with making images and how poem. Before the quatrains that will return the mostly short songs about love and science, and also likes to (BlazeVOX Books), as well as our memory and experience compel them. sun, the poet notes “I am trying to say it simply God Save My Queen and God crash Huggabroomstik tours. While there are many literary references …solar flare lighting the big poem.” Save My Queen II (both Soft in the poem (including Wordsworth, Frank The final stanzas are energized by Skull Press), two collections O’Hara’s Second Avenue, and a great quip unexpected repetitions and inversions. The Rabbits on his obsession with the “February is the most/totally fucking insane We are back in the dangerous city, www.myspace.com/ rock band Queen. He lives in month”), the visual nature of our culture is of contemplating “kicking some landlord ass” deadrabbitmusic upstate New York with his wife equal concern to its inquiry. Photographers and how our own illogical weavings relate —“Dirty Blvd.” Maisie and their daughter Miriam. Elsa Dorfman and Elsie Dorman switch places to time. These stanzas are as syntactically —“Endless Cycle” and filmmaker Fellini is present early on as is challenging as the openers, but they are The Rabbits are an indie Dibson T. Hoffweiler 7:35 p.m. the Elm Street of the famous nightmares. no longer disconnected. The speaker has rock band from Staten www.dibson.net The poem is comprised mostly of sestets Island. They sound like www.myspace.com/dibson with only two interruptions. The first is a David Bowie, Jefferson Airplane, and ABBA having a crazy Dibson T. Hoffweiler is the series of three rhymed quatrains in an AAAA While there are many literary orgy weekend. latest in a long line of quirky scheme two of which rhyme with “light” and references in the poem (including anti-folk ingénues, among are concerned with light and dark and the Wordsworth, Frank O’Hara’s Dibson T. Hoffweiler and them Beck, Adam Green, and shift from day to night. The second is a short Second Avenue, and a great quip Preston Spurlock (below) Jeffrey Lewis. With a low voice prose paragraph in which the poet’s focus 'February is the most/totally fucking www.myspace.com/ that’s sweet and deadpan, and returns “wholly on the line” and where we insane month'), the visual nature of prestonspurlock a guitar-style that’s virtuosic “only obtain a single point from where each our culture is of equal concern.
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