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The Tang Extending from the Blade, an Ahadada e-book; to artists and educators throughout the city. In the early ’60s, for Boog City and the Poetry Project’s Wednesday night FRIDAY Justifying the Margins: Essays 1990-2006; and Aljibar I & II he was heavily involved in Umbra, a consortium of primary reading series curator for the 2010-2011 season. SEPTEMBER 24 (poems). Other recent publications include the CD Routes, African-American artists of all disciplines, including such literary not Roots and Meditations on the Stations of Mansour luminaries as Ishmael Reed, Calvin Hernton, Victor Hernandez, 7:00 P.M. Al-Hallaj 1-21. Recent translations include Paul Celan: David Henderson, and Lorenzo Thomas. Anne Waldman and Ambrose Bye 9:10 p.m. $5 suggested and Selections and Lightduress by Paul Celan, which received the 2005 PEN Poetry Translation Award. With Jerome Nicole Peyrafitte 8:00 p.m. Anne Waldman two-drink min. Rothenberg he edited the award-winning anthologies Poems www.nicolepeyrafitte.com www.jacketmagazine.com/27/index. for the Millennium (volumes I & II). He teaches at the Nicole Peyrafitte is a shtml University of Albany, SUNY. performance artist “She is the fastest, wittiest woman Sidewalk Café born and raised in to run with the wolves in some 94 Ave. A Maureen Thorson 7:35 p.m. the French Pyrenees. time.” —Ken Tucker, The New www.maureenthorson.com She considers herself a York Times (at East 6th Street) Maureen Thorson is the Gasco-Rican (half Gascon, Poet Anne Waldman has been NYC author of three chapbooks: half American) and a an active member of the “Outrider” Directions: F/V to 2nd Avenue, L to 1st Avenue Twenty Questions for the citizen of Brooklyn. She pursues related multicultural and experimental poetry community for Drunken Sailor (dusie/ multimedia investigations that integrate her voice, texts, over 40 years as writer, sprechstimme flynpyntar press), Mayport visuals, and also cooking. performer, professor, editor, magpie Noelle Kocot 7:00 p.m. (Poetry Society of America), scholar, infra-structure, and cultural/political activist. Her www.wavepoetry.com/authors/25- and Novelty Act (Ugly Talk Talk 8:20 p.m. published work is prodigious, and she has concentrated on noelle-kocot Duckling Presse). Her poetry the long poem as a cultural intervention with such projects Noelle Kocot is the author of four has recently appeared or is David Shapiro reading and as Marriage: A Sentence, Structure of The World Compared books, most recently, Poem for the forthcoming in Lungfull!, Barrelhouse, and Hotel Amerika. in conversation with Joanna Fuhrman to a Bubble; the recent Manatee/Humanity (Penguin Poets), End of Time and Sunny Wednesday She lives in Washington, D.C., where she co-curates the In which is a book-length rhizomic meditation on evolution and (both from Wave Books). She has Your Ear reading series at the D.C. Arts Center and runs endangered species; and the 900-page Iovis Trilogy, Colors In a poetry book, The Bigger World, and a discography David Shapiro Big Game Books, the tiniest press in the world. www.jacketmagazine.com/23/shap-p.html The Mechanism of Concealment, which will be published by also forthcoming from Wave. She has won awards from Coffee House Press in 2011. The National Endowment for the Arts, The Fund for David Shapiro has published more than 20 volumes of art and literary criticism, Publishers Weekly recently referred to Anne Waldman Poetry, The American Poetry Review, and the Academy of Steve Cannon 7:55 p.m. as a “counter-cultural giant.” Waldman grew up on American Poets. Originally from Brooklyn, she now lives Originally from the cultural translations, and anthologies. He has won many prizes and was the first to Macdougal Street in the heart of Greenwich Village, in South Jersey. hotbed of New Orleans, Steve where she still lives. She bifurcated to Boulder, Colo. Cannon developed a taste for write a book on John Ashbery and a monograph on Jasper Johns’ drawings. in 1974 when she cofounded The Jack Kerouac School Afternoon the arts at a very young of Disembodied Poetics with Allen Ginsberg at Naropa A white trumpet ends the silence. age. An institution himself, His New and Selected Poems (1965–2006) came out from Overlook Press. University, the first Buddhist-inspired school in the West, A bird in the hand speaks. Professor Cannon has been where she currently serves as artistic director of its There is no other afternoon. active in the multicultural celebrated summer writing program. artistic community on the Lower East Side in New York City Joanna Fuhrman Waldman helped found and direct The Poetry Project Pierre Joris 7:20 p.m. for almost four decades. As the executive director and founder www.redroom.com/author/ at St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery, where she worked first of Tribes, he has been the central figure of the organization joanna-fuhrman as assistant director and then director for a decade. www.pierrejoris.com/home.html since its inception in 1991. He continues to pave its artistic Joanna Fuhrman is the author Pierre Joris is a poet, translator, She has also been working most recently with other direction, despite having lost his eyesight over a decade ago, of four books of poetry, most media, including film and video with her husband, writer essayist, and anthologist who left an unfortunate occurrence that has only served to sharpen his recently Pageant (Alice James Luxembourg at 19 and has since and video/film director Ed Bowes. She also performs with vision and heighten his desire to advance the development of Books) and Moraine (Hanging her son, musician/composer Ambrose Bye. Their latest CD is lived in France, England, Algeria, the arts. A retired professor of the humanities at Medgar Evers Loose Press). She teaches poetry and the United States. He has Matching Half with Akilah Oliver. College in the CUNY system and the author of the underground at Rutgers University and in public schools through Some of her performances may be viewed on YouTube. published over 40 books, most recently Canto Diurno #4: classic Groove, Bang and Jive Around, he is closely connected Teachers & Writers Collaborative. She is the poetry editor Ambrose Bye SATURDAY www.flyingguillotinepress.blogspot.com Matt Reeck, No, Dear magazine 1:55 p.m. www.myspace.com/ Mark Horosky is the author of the chapbook collection fastspeakingmusicmyspace SEPTEMBER 25 of prose poems, Let It Be Nearby, and the forthcoming Ambrose Bye, musician (piano/ chapbooks More Frisk Than Risk (Flying Guillotine Press) keyboard, guitar, voice) and composer, 12:00 P.M., Free and Fabulous Beasts (The Equalizer). He is a special www.nodearmagazine.com grew up in the environment of The education teacher in Brooklyn, New York. Matt Reeck has published poetry Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied In 2008, Tony Mancus and Sommer Browning, two and translations in magazines and Poetics at Naropa University, counting Unnameable friends from poetry school, started Flying Guillotine Press. chapbooks, including Midwinter by Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs as “poetic” godfathers. They endeavor to make pretty, small, handbound, medulla Fact-Simile Press. Coyote Pursues, his He has performed on stage a number of times, accompanying Books oblongata-exploding poetry chapbooks cheaply. They work marionette theater collaboration with the visual artist poets and performers at New York’s Issue Project Room, The 600 Vanderbilt Ave. in Denver, Colorado and Arlington, Virginia. Deborah Simon, was performed during St. Ann’s Warehouse’s Poetry Project, The Bowery Poetry Club, KGB Bar, The Boulder (bet. Prospect Place/St. Marks Avenue) Labapalooza in June. Theatre’s “Music and Poetry for Progressives” headlined by Abby Walthausen, Fractious Press 1:05 p.m. No, Dear is a hand-sewn print poetry publication Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth, Naropa University, The New Brooklyn www.literature featuring the work of New York City poets. School, White Columns Gallery, and San Francisco’s Meridian Directions: 2, 3 to Grand Army Plaza, sandwich.com Gallery. He is in production with his next CD, Hombres. C to Clinton-Washington avenues, Q to 7th Avenue www.fractiouspress. Tom Orange 2:05 p.m. His most recent CD is Matching Half with Anne Waldman com www.destinationout.vox.com and Akilah Oliver, which was produced by Farfalla, McMillen, 7th Annual Small, Abby Walthausen After eight years in the D.C. Parrish. His previous composing/production credits include likes to write what poetry scene and adjunct In The Room of Never Grieve, (produced by Coffee House Small Press Fair could be considered teaching there and a year in Press) and The Eye of the Falcon (Farfalla, McMillen, Parrish) the “historical fiction” of poetry. She spends her time Nashville, Tom Orange moved with poetry by Waldman. His music accompanies the video taking all the fun out of poetry for high school students. Fay Chiang, Bowery Books 12:35 p.m. back to his hometown of The Wake-Up Call of a Poet, produced by the Buddhist Her poetry book The Internet is forthcoming from Cleveland, where he is active Broadcasting Foundation, the Netherlands, and was broadcast Fractious Press. in the local arts and music over Dutch TV last year. Nathaniel Siegel photo. Fractious Press is a small artist-run publishing scenes. Recent work includes Tremont Poetography, a collective founded in the Bronx and Washington Heights, group poet-photographer book and exhibition at Doubting Magnetic Island 9:50 p.m. New York in 2005. Since its first release, which was named Thomas Gallery; solo and small group experimental www.nyu.edu/clubs/generasian/ www.myspace.com/ in The Village Voice’s Best of New York 2005, the press has music performances on alto sax, clarinet, guitar, banjo, spring03/Features/faychiang.htm magneticislandband published emerging artists and writers of fiction, poetry, and dulcimer at The Scarab Club (Detroit), Sp@ce 224 www.boweryartsandscience.org/?page_id=5 Magnetic Island is a comics, and zines, and has occasionally co-hosted day-long Gallery (Buffalo), Audio Visual Baptism (Cleveland), and the Fay Chiang is a writer, artist, and community/cultural activist musical collective helmed zine and small press fairs in Upper Manhattan. The May Post_Moot Convocation (Oxford, Ohio); and an excerpt from living and working in Chinatown and the Lower East Side by Lisa Liu and SMV, the 2010 edition of the fair was held with support from his chapbook American Dialectics (Slack Buddha Press) being of New York City for the past four decades. She believes creative core of Renminbi (defined as “People’s Currency,” the Manhattan Community Arts Fund. ForeWord magazine reprinted in Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual culture is a psychological weapon to reclaim our past, the official cash of the People’s Republic of China). called the press “innovative … a kind of counterculture Writing, edited by Craig Dworkin and Kenneth Goldsmith, define our present, and envision possibilities for our future; As a result of Boog City’s Classic Albums Live series, collaborative.” due out this December from Northwestern University Press. and that the development of culture is an integral part the duo made its first recording, a track from John Cale His music blog can be found at the above url. of progressive social change and social justice movements. and Lou Reed’s Songs for Drella. “A Dream,” an Andy Warhol Currently working at Project Reach, a youth and community Jeffrey Jullich, Litmus Press/Aufgabe 1:15 p.m. point-of-view stream-of-consciousness tune, was transformed center for young people at risk in Chinatown and the Dennis Leroy Kangalee, Nomad Junkie 2:20 p.m. from an atmospheric space poem into an organic rocker Lower East Side, she lives in the East Village. with a serious host of guest musicians. Savage Paw Press Bowery Books is the independent poetry press of Now, Liu and SMV have shed Renminbi in favor of a Bowery Arts & Science, the nonprofit that also provides SSavageavage fresh approach. “At the very least,” Liu explains, “the name programs for The Bowery Poetry Club. Its mission is PPawaw change is meant to signify a new way of thinking about, to reflect the vigor and diversity of poetry, to publish Preessss playing, and creating music.” poetry books and recordings by exceptional established The two work with a rotating cast of collaborators to www.outlawpoetry. and emerging poets whose work might otherwise lack create a unique brand of experimental indie rock. “Magnetic com/2010/07/13/dennis- representation, and to expand the audience for poetry. www.litmuspress.org/portraitofcolondashparenthesis.html Island will be more like a collective than a typical band, a leroy-kangalee-its-not-life-thats-bad-its-society Edited by Bob Holman and Marjorie Tesser, Bowery Books www.litmuspress.org project dedicated to collaboration with all the many people www.nomadjunkie.com has published essential anthologies, such as Bowery Women: Jeffrey Jullich is the author of Portrait of Colon Dash we’d like to collaborate with, whenever we can get them Known as the Nomad Junkie due to his peripatetic lifestyle and Poems, and Estamos Aquí, Poems by Migrant Farmworkers, Parenthesis (Litmus Press) and Thine Instead Thank (Harry together with us in one room,” says Liu. artistic restlessness, Dennis Leroy Kangalee is an N.Y.C.-based as well as works by unique poets like Taylor Mead, the Tankoos Books). His poetry, criticism, and translations have Magnetic Island has been releasing singles in anticipation of writer from Queens born to West Indian parents. An outsider octogenarian Andy Warhol intimate. It sponsors the Bowery appeared in numerous journals and magazines including its debut EP, Out At Sea, due any day now. Speed to market is artist from the get go, he has no degree and has won no Voices series, thus far: Body of Water by surrealist poet American Letters & Commentary, Aufgabe, Boston Review, clearly the intent. “It will be about writing as many songs as awards. His stories, plays, essays, and satire reflect his own anger Janet Hamill, with photographs by Patti Smith, The Touch Chain, Ecopoetics, Fence, LUNGFULL!, New American Writing, possible and putting them out while they’re still fresh, dismissing and frustration as he sees the world’s injustice in an everyday by punk medievalist Cynthia Kraman, and most recently Poetry, Rain Taxi, Shiny, Spoon River, and VeRT. the old ‘rules’ of how to be a band, how to put out music, how observation. An expelled performing artist from Juilliard and activist-artist-poet Fay Chiang’s 7 Continents 9 Lives. Litmus Press is a nonprofit literature and arts to interact with fans and critics,” adds Liu. —Jonathan Berger organization dedicated to supporting innovative, cross- maverick of the New York underground, Kangalee has led several genre writing, with an emphasis on poetry and lives and is constantly looking for meaning. Since 1997, he has Bob Dylan’s 10:50 p.m. Michael Gottlieb, Faux | Other 12:45 p.m. international works in translation. Litmus press publishes begged, borrowed, and stolen to support his art. www.brooklynrail. two to three single author works a year, in addition to Urged by the Last Poets to continue writing prose Highway 61 Revisited org/2010/07/books/memoir- Aufgabe, an annual journal of poetry, translations, essays, during the creation of his 2001 cult-film about racism and Performed live for its yin-and-lang reviews, and art. its consequences, As an Act of Protest, Kangalee’s writing is 45th Anniversary by Michael Gottlieb is the political and personal. Inspired by the Black Arts Movement, author of The Likes of Us, punk, and the Theater of the Absurd, Kangalee draws Lost and Found, Gorgeous Miriam Atkin, little scratch pad editions 1:25 p.m. inspiration from his own life as opposed to Literary History i feel tractor Plunge, The River Road, New or knowledge of the classics. Adopting the “Nomad Junkie” as www.myspace.com/ York, Ninety-Six Tears, and his nom de plume while homeless and later in a self-imposed ifeeltractor other books of poetry. His remarkable Memoir & Essay exile overseas, he writes for the little man caught in the snow i feel tractor is a five- was just published to wide acclaim by Faux | Other. It and beneath the corporate avalanche, those who draw lines piece band that has contains a memoir about New York City as it was home in the sand, the losers, the rebels, the tormented, and the been around for over a in the ’70s and ’80s to the nascence of Language Poetry, romantic rovers hovering on the margins of the mainstream decade, released a self- with candid cameos of many of those involved, and an who dare to try to make sense of “Life in Society” and the titled 7”, appeared on numerous comps including Frequency essay about the possible means of survival that younger www.remembertoforgetmybuffalo.blogspot.com doorway of 21st century-Brave New World ethos. - Issue One, Polyamory’s new skin for the old ceremony, and poets have available to them. The book has been widely www.dougfinmanson.blogspot.com Currently, he is developing his first full-length spoken Goodbye Better’s Weird Terrain, and came out with its first discussed on blogs, in reviews, and in interviews. His poem Miriam Atkin’s recent study of the resurgence of the word album, My Dying City, an experimental radio drama full-length, Once I had an earthquake (Goodbye Better) in This I Find Hard to Believe is just out in the July/August pastoral in visual art, Art and Artifice in the Garden: that presents itself as a cubistic portrait of a spirit crushed 2005. Its newest album, Mellow Crypt, should be appearing issue of The Brooklyn Rail. Species-Being and the Memory of Paradise, examines the under the weight of corporate-friendly gentrification. sometime in the near future. Faux | Other was begun in 2010 by Alan Davies critique of technology and industry in literature, painting, Kangalee is married and lives in N.Y.C. Nina Fleck photo. and Jack Kimball to publish and promote new works and film, beginning with the Lascaux petroglyphs and Elastic No-No Band 12:00 a.m. of poetry by Susie Timmons, Jack Kimball, and Michael concluding with New Landscape photography. She holds an M.F.A. in art criticism and writing from the School of Visual David Mills, Straw Gate Books 2:30 p.m. www.elasticnonoband.com Gottlieb, and to reissue the ’70s magazine A Hundred Arts and lives in Brooklyn. Her first collection of writing, Elastic No-No Band sings songs Posters (edited by Davies). Don’t Have One, is out from little scratch pad press. about manboobs and Klaus Kinski little scratch pad press publishes significant chapbooks and cheese fries. Also, songs about Mark Horosky, Flying Guillotine Press 12:55 p.m. by new and established poets and writers. Founded in www.brooklynrail.org/2010/07/ love and sex and pain and stuff. 1996, it has published works by Aaron Lowinger, Kristi books/rapid-transit-june10-2 Sometimes the band is made up Meal, Jonathan Skinner, and Michael Basinski. Just out is www.leafscape.org/StrawGateBooks/ of many people, and sometimes it’s just one guy. That guy Don’t Have One by Miriam Atkin, and forthcoming is a set index.html is Justin Remer, and he turns 30 on September 24, the day of meditations on painter Chaim Soutine, Excoriate Exhale, Author David Mills has received Henry of this show. As a birthday present, you should come to this by Heller Levinson. James, Cave Canem, and Breadloaf fellowships, as well as New show and enjoy yourself. (If you want, you could buy one York Foundation of the Arts, Brio, and Hughes/Diop awards. He of our CDs too. That certainly wouldn’t hurt.) [ed’s. note: www.activedriveway-mth. Break 1:35 p.m.-1:55 p.m. also won the inaugural 2008 Pan African Literary Forum Poetry you could also buy Justin an adult beverage.] blogspot.com 2 BOOG CITY WWW.WELCOMETOBOOGCITY.COM Prize and a Soros grant. His work has appeared in Callaloo, that information comes across has changed over time, and Cathy Eisenhower 6:50 p.m. Of course, the number of guitar strings keeps Kelly Rattapallax, The Pedestal, Hanging Loose, Aloud, and elsewhere. each book, a variation of beautiful lyric work, has its own www.brooklynrail. requiring regular employment, but perhaps Wish Upon a He has recorded his poetry on RCA Records and toured Europe unique complexity. org/2010/04/poetry/two- Bottlecap, along with her newish band, will allow her to performing his work with jazz bands. His book, The Dream In City of Corners, a cloud between self and other is sections-from-distance-decay leave behind a series of low-paying jobs and attain those Detective, is a 2010 publication of Straw Gate Books. at the center of each poem where one might expect a Cathy Eisenhower is the original, high-spirited musical aspirations. Founded by Phyllis Wat in 2005, Straw Gate Books person to be. It’s an amazing kind of technical/conceptual author of the chapbook Her trio, More of the Mess, sounds like a much publishes poetry and occasional related texts. They are accomplishment—the creation of an unusual, decentralized Language of the Dog-head fuller outfit and reflects the development of her songs particularly interested in works by women and non-polemical relationship to the world for the reader to take part in. The (Phylum Press), and the books clearing without reversal with arrangements that belie her mere quarter century. writing with an underlying social content. Straw Gate also last stanza of the book’s title poem expresses the situation (Edge Books) and would with and (Roof Books). “American Daydream,” for example, with its soaring features new authors and authors whose work is underserved. concisely: “So my defense is love/ for a city of corners/ you harmonies and eloquent lyrics, is exquisite pop indeed. This disappear around/ and inside I die.” girl’s potential is quite clear. Break 2:40 p.m.-3:00 p.m. What’s left of the “I” is all outside, and the “you” is Rod Smith 7:10 p.m. In addition, Kelly publishes on feminist blogs, reviews ephemeral. Maybe these few lines could be passed over as www.epc.buffalo.edu/authors/ music, and writes poetry. She appears regularly on local smithr Binary Marketing Show 3:00 p.m. “poetic-sounding language” if the rest of the work didn’t so radio and podcasts (WUSB, Long Island Acoustic Podcast, actively explore the state described. But the poems follow Rod Smith is the author of and Radio Free Astoria, to name a few) and plays frequently www.binarymarketingshow.com Deed, Music or Honesty, Protective Abram Morphew set out through, and so we find ourselves with love in a city that at festivals and clubs throughout the tri-state area. Kelly, a doubles as real and psychological space. These lines become Immediacy, and In Memory of My strong believer in grassroots and fair-trade efforts, has so for the wilderness of the Theories. He edits the journal Aerial, publishes Edge Books, and Birkhead Mountains in search possible: “Drop you at the A train/ droplets baffle headlights/ far toured fairly close to home. It doesn’t hurt, of course, World shares lightlessness with me and Storefronts are dark manages Bridge Street Books in Washington, D.C. He is also that currently “the majority of my friends are somewhat of seclusion and a place to let currently editing The Selected Letters of Robert Creeley with his thoughts wonder in peace. He was delighted to discover in honor of/ No One from No Where.” And this strange closer to where I’m at: broke as a joke!” orientation of being is not all darkness: “For now I can sleep/ Kaplan Harris and Peter Baker for The University of California Her main goal in life is to travel around in her little tunnels, previously only known to the elders of Birkhead, Press. Mel Nichols photo. leading to a magical city where he would happen upon a with you on all sides.” —Arlo Quint blue car, making music and art everywhere in the known fellow survivor of the elements … universe, and saving the world through song and good Bethany Carder, awaking from a hypnotic state Jenn McCreary 5:00 p.m. Rorie Kelly 7:35 p.m. intentions. —Jonathan Berger FJL photo. induced by a small band of mystics, discovered Abram www.jennmccreary.com www.roriekelly.com Morphew wandering the ancient underground tunnels Jenn McCreary is the author of :ab ovo:, Rorie Kelly, singer, songwriter, and self-styled Lach 8:10 p.m. beneath the mystical city. Carder was fascinated by published by Dusie Press in the spring sonic subjugator, grew up in various towns www.lachtoday.com Morphew’s ideas of healing through experimentation of 2009. She is also the author of two on Long Island. She started writing songs As a songwriter Lach founded the with light, sound, energy, and the power of intent. chapbooks, errata stigmata (Potes & early in high school, playing them in the Antifolk art and music movement, Emotional turmoil, once so powerful, was released Poets Press) and four o’clock pocket privacy of her home. She graduated a year which is sited as a main inspiration through instruments and moving images. They continued chiming (Beautiful Swimmer Press), the early, and, eschewing higher education, fled by hundreds of performers today forward, energetic pullies attached to cages covered in e-chapbook :Maps & Legends: (Scantily Clad Press), and a the East Coast for Ohio to be with her girlfriend. Eventually from Beck and Jeffrey Lewis to flesh, time travelers in moments of here connection, doctrine of signatures (Singing Horse Press). realizing the error of her ways, she bounded homeward, Hamell on Trial, The Moldy Peaches, near connections, missing the point only to find it Her poetry has been published in magazines including prepared to take the musical world by storm. and Regina Spektor in U.S.A. to the resides within and without you. This is the story of the Combo, Lungfull!, Tool: A Magazine, POM2, So To Speak, Sous It hasn’t worked out quite as she planned, although, likes of Laura Marling and Emmy the Great in the U.K. binary marketing show. Rature, Tangent, and How2. She lives in Philadelphia, with in the process, Kelly has become one of the “Top 10 Indie Artists You’ve Never Heard Of,” according to Long Island Their new EP, Clues from the Past, was released last her husband, the writer Chris McCreary, and their twin Douglas Rothschild 8:40 p.m. month, and their tour kicked off in Philadelphia, taking sons, where she co-edits ixnay press with Chris, works Pulse. Wish Upon a Bottlecap, Kelly’s first full-length album, was just released in August, after languishing un-pressed for www.pierrejoris.com/blog/?p=1377 them as far west as East Glacier, Mont. for the Mural Arts Program, and serves on the board of DglsN.Rthsjchld has been walking and the Philly Spells Writing Center. almost two years. Says Kelly, “It sounds great.” Kelly’s more than just a composer and musician, though. thinking for a long time. Occasionally erica kaufman 3:30 p.m. As the curator of the Women Who Will Rock Your Socks he sits. Sometimes he writes these sites.google.com/site/ericajane0808/ Beat Radio 5:20 p.m. concert series, she puts together shows that will—well … thoughts down. Many great poems erica kaufman is the author of you get the idea, right? She plays with enough passion have come to him in this manner, censory impulse. to break guitar strings every five minutes, and she’s and you can read some of them in professional enough to go on without batting an eye. his book Theogony published last spring by SubPress. Sommer Browning 3:45 p.m. www.asthmachronicles.blogspot.com �� Sommer Browning writes poems, www.beatradio.org draws comics, and makes books. Her Beat Radio is an American indie pop project guided by New latest chapbook, written with Brandon York singer-songwriter Brian Sendrowitz. The current lineup Shimoda, is The Bowling (Greying also features Dan Bills, Brian Ver Straten, Evan Duby, and Ghost). She lives in the Mountain Time Zone. Mike McCabe. Beat Radio released its debut LP, The Great Big Sea, in 2007, and the follow-up, Safe Inside the Sound, in fall 2009. The band has embarked on a singles series Peter Davis 4:05 p.m. for 2010, releasing two songs each month via bandcamp. www.artisnecessary.com Gilbert Ng photo. Peter Davis is the author of Hitler’s Mustache and Poetry! Poetry! Poetry! He edited Poet’s Ken Jacobs 5:55 p.m. Bookshelf: Contemporary Poets on www.phylumpress.com/covers/

Books that Shaped Their Art. His poems have been in sooner.htm �� journals like Jacket, No Tell Motel, and Court Green. More Ken Jacobs’ pamphlet Sooner info, including about his music project, Short Hand, is (Phylum Press) was released available at the above URL. in December 2009. He lives in Washington, D.C. Mel Nichols 4:25 p.m. www.stevenfama.blogspot. Urayoán Noel 6:15 p.m. com/2009/11/mel-nichols-catalytic- www.urayoannoel.com exteriorization.html Urayoán Noel was born Mel Nichols’ recent books are in Puerto Rico, divides Catalytic Exteriorization Phenomenon his time between the (National Poetry Series finalist; Edge Books) and Bicycle Day Bronx and upstate, and (Slack Buddha Press). Recent journal publications include teaches English at SUNY- Poetry, New Ohio Review, and The Brooklyn Rail. Albany. His creative and critical writings have recently appeared in Fence; Orbis (U.K.); Diasporic Avant-Gardes (Palgrave); and Malditos John Godfrey 4:45 p.m. latinos, malditos sudacas: Poesía hispanoamericana made www.wavepoetry.com/authors/57- in USA (México, D.F., El billar de Lucrecia). His new book, �� john-godfrey Hi-density Politics, is forthcoming from BlazeVOX. �� City of Corners, Wave Books Chris McCreary 6:30 p.m. John Godfrey has been living in �� the East Village for the past four www.furniturepressbooks.com/books/ decades. He’s a registered nurse mccrearyundone �� who’s spent a lot of time working www.ixnaypress.com with homebound AIDS patients in Brooklyn, and it’s easy Chris McCreary’s new book, Undone, �� to see his compassion and connection to the city in his was just published by Furniture Press. Along with Jenn McCreary, he co-edits ixnay press a small �� writing. City of Corners is his ninth book of poems, and �� his first, 26 Poems, will turn 40 next year. All of the books Philadelphia-based poetry press. He teaches English at a private are intensely personal and emotional, but the way in which high school outside of Philly.

WWW.WELCOMETOBOOGCITY.COM BOOG CITY 3 SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 26 12:00 P.M., Free work has appeared in Colorado Review, Dusie, Eoagh, ixnay reader, The Poker, The Poetry Project Newsletter, Unnameable Books and The Tangent. She has taught literature and creative writing at Queens College-CUNY, Loyola University 600 Vanderbilt Ave. Maryland, Towson University, and, currently, Temple (bet. Prospect Place/St. Marks Avenue) University. She lives in Philadelphia. Brooklyn Directions: 2, 3 to Grand Army Plaza, Brian Speaker 1:20 p.m. C to Clinton-Washington avenues, Q to 7th Avenue www.myspace.com/speakerb www.reverbnation.com/brianspeaker Brian Speaker is a Brooklyn-based singer, 7th Annual Small, songwriter, producer, and engineer. From September 3, 2008 to September 2, Small Press Fair 2009, Brian wrote, recorded and posted a song onto the Internet every single day. The entire 365-song Dustin Williamson 12:00 p.m. catalog, titled Spiral Notebook, is available for free www.rustbucklebooks.blogspot.com online. He is putting the finishing touches on The Dustin Williamson is the author of the Mars Chronicles, a rock opera about a lone spaceman’s chapbooks Obstructed View (Salacious mission for inner-galactic peace. Several of his songs POSTGAME COMMENTS BY CELTICS’ CAPTAIN PAUL PIERCE Banter), Gorilla Dust (Open 24 Hours), have appeared on television, and his list of recording AS AN APPROACH TO THE CREATIVE PROCESS and Exhausted Grunts (Cannibal Books). and production credits for independent music in New He is the publisher of Rust Buckle York City is vast. by Carson Cistulli Books. He served as the Monday Night coordinator last season at the Poetry Project. Ivy Johnson 1:50 p.m. People don’t understand what Ivy Johnson is a vegetarian. Her first chapbook, the game of poetry is all about Kevin Varrone 12:15 p.m. Walt Disney’s Light Show Extravaganza, will Pierce said it’s www.uglyducklingpresse.org/catalog/browse/ be out this fall from Boog Literature. a physical war item/?pubID=66 but people don’t understand Kevin Varrone’s most recent collection, g-point the psychology of the poetry almanac: passyunk lost, is just out from Ugly Carlos Soto Román 2:05 p.m. I was just trying to Duckling Presse, as is a companion chapbook, www.the-otolith.blogspot.com/2010/04/ The Philadelphia Improvements. His previous collection, g-point get my poetry fired up carlos-soto-roman.html almanac: id est, was published by Instance Press. Individual Carlos Soto Román was born in get my emotions into my poems are available electronically at Duration Press, Big Bridge, poetry and poetry Valparaíso, Chile. He has published Cross Connect, and [out of nowhere]. He lives in South Philly the books La Marcha de los responded and teaches at Temple University. Quiltros (The Mongrel’s march), Haiku Minero (Miner Haiku), and Cambio y Fuera (Over and Out). His work “POST GAME COMMENTS” by Carson Cistulli, from Some Common Weaknesses Illustrated. has been collected in the anthology Bar and in the Casagrande Press. Brandon Holmquest 12:35 p.m. www.essay-poems.blogspot.com collective book Pozo. In 2004 he received the Creation Brandon Holmquest is the author of City: Fellowship of the Book & Reading Council of the Bolshevik superpoem in 5 cantos (Ugly Chilean Government. He has resided in Philadelphia Duckling), a translation of Manuel Maples since March 2009, and he is a member of The Arce; Stereo Daguerreotype (Splitleaves Press); New Philadelphia Poets and the editor of the new and The Sorrows of Young Worthless (Truck cooperative anthology of U.S. poetry, Elective Affinities. Press). He lives in Philadelphia. Shafer Hall 2:25 p.m. Pattie McCarthy 12:55 p.m. www.shaferhall.blogspot.com Vanitas 5 : Film is imminent! www.apogeepress.com/authors_mccarthy.html Shafer Hall is a poet and bartender in New Pattie McCarthy is the author of Table York City. His first collection, Never Cry Woof, is Alphabetical of Hard Words, Verso, and bk available from No Tell Books. He can be found New work by Rae Armantrout, John of (h)rs, all from Apogee Press. Recent on the Internet at the above URL. Ashbery, Michael Basinski, Max Blagg, Michael Brownstein, Tom Clark, Ray �� DiPalma, Clayton Eshleman, Nada �� Gordon, Richard Hell, Robert Hershon, �� Anselm Hollo, Jack Kimball, Gerard �� Malanga, Eileen Myles, Jerome Sala, �� David Shapiro, Jeremy Sigler, Tony �� Towle, Anne Waldman, Geoffrey �� Young, and many more. �� Plus! 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4 BOOG CITY WWW.WELCOMETOBOOGCITY.COM You Are Here: On the Site- Specific Poem y site-specific poetry we mean poetry concerned with notions Bof place and grounded in geographical locations. The panel will investigate how sites infect these poetries and how poetry itself can investigate sites: their histories and evolutions, meanings and convolutions of meaning. Following the panel, most of the panel- ists will gather to share their own and others’ site-specific poems. Both events are co-curated and co-hosted by Pattie McCarthy and Kevin Varrone.

author of Advanced Elvis Course and Deviant Propulsion 3:15 P.M., Free (both Soft Skull Press), (Soma)tic Midge (Faux Press), and PANEL a collaboration with poet Frank Sherlock, The City Real & Imagined (Factory School). The son of white trash asphyxiation, his childhood included selling cut flowers along the highway for Unnameable Books his mother and helping her shoplift. Faye Murman photo.

______Marcella Durand www.futurepoem.com/bookpages/ trafficandweather.html 7:00 P.M. Futurepoem Books published Marcella Durand’s book-length site-specific poem, READING Traffic & Weather. The poem was written $5 Suggested during a six-month residency at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council in which she worked alongside visual artists in a raw office space. Her other books include, most recently, Deep Eco Pre, a collaboration with Tina Darragh published Zinc Bar by Little Red Leaves, and AREA, published by Belladonna 82 W. 3rd St. Books. She is currently working on a new collection of poems (bet. Sullivan and Thompson sts.) written mostly from the same table in the New York Public Library’s Leroy Street branch. John Sarsgard photo. NYC Directions: A/B/C/D/E/F/V to W. 4th St. Tonya Foster—panel only www.writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/ Allison Cobb Foster.php www.factoryschool.com/pubs/heretical/ Tonya Foster is the author of poetry, fiction, vol5/cobb/index.html and essays that have been published in Allison Cobb is the author a variety of journals including Callaloo, of Born2 (Chax Press) about growing DrumVoices, Gulf Coast, the Hat, LUNGFULL!, up in Los Alamos, N.M., and the just-published Green- nocturnes, and Traffic. She was an art/poetry columnist for The Wood (Factory School), which chronicles her experiences Poetry Project Newsletter and has published non-fiction essays in Brooklyn’s famous nineteenth-century cemetery. She in NY Arts Magazine, NYFA Quarterly, and The Poetry Project lived for a number of years in New York City, where she Newsletter. Her work has also appeared in the anthologies: worked for the Environmental Defense Fund. She now lives Free Radicals: American Poets before their First Books, in Portland, Ore., and works for an energy conservation (Subpress), edited by Jordan Davis and Sarah Manguso; and nonprofit. POeP! (Rattapallax Press), edited by Edwin Torres and Anselm Berrigan, one of the first eBook literary journals dedicated to From Green-Wood innovative poetry. She’s the author of A Swarm of Bees in High LITTLE WONDER leaf blower Hi daddy Court (Belladonna Books) and co-editor of Third Mind: Teaching in black marker on a pumpkin partly Creative Writing Through Visual Art (Teachers and Writers eaten near no grave tucked today Collaborative). Foster is currently completing A Mathematics of amidst the Astroturf the flag Chaos, a cross-genre, multi-media piece about New Orleans, draped coffin of a soldier bowed head home, and home-buoys; Monkey Talk, an inter-genre piece honor guard beside the road bus horn about race, paranoia, surveillance, and need; and A History of blast from Jackie Gleason depot I skirt the Bitch, a collection of poems. the mourning circle almost stumble Foster received her master of fine arts in creative writing on a soldier in the trees waiting from the University of Houston, and is a Ph.D. candidate at with his trumpet to play taps the sun City University of New York Graduate Center. A recipient of floods out from clouds hands lift to eyes a number of fellowships, notably from the Ford Foundation, to noses warm I stand in changing the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, and the light muscles tensed like the intruder City University of New York, Foster teaches at Bard College. A that I am two white-gloved soldiers native of New Orleans, she writes and resides in Harlem. work to tuck the folded flag ends in peaked hats pressed together after in the subway sings Carlos Soto Román a guy with few teeth in clear bell voice (see Sunday, 2:05 p.m.) I ain’t gonna study war no more but I am more and more

CAConrad www.caconrad.blogspot.com www.phillysound.blogspot.com CAConrad is the recipient of the 2009 politics and culture Gil Ott Book Award for The Book of Frank (Wave Books). He is also the onthewilderside.net

WWW.WELCOMETOBOOGCITY.COM BOOG CITY 5 MONDAY Cate Peebles 6:15 p.m. Musty Bone and Situations, which published authors such as www.foumagazine.net Mitch Highfill, Kim Lyons, Douglas Rothschild, Shannon Ketch, SEPTEMBER 27 I matter more somehow Cate Peebles’ work has appeared in numerous Lisa Jarnot, Bill Luoma, Kevin Davies, and Marcella Durand. for the stitch I sow print and online journals including: Tin He is the author of numerous chapbooks, including: You Gotta 6:00 P.M., Free I mean this stitch who House, Octopus, CutBank, Cannibal, No Tell Go In It’s The Big Game, Poems To Be Centered On Much is a person is a poem Motel, La Petite Zine, and Forklift, Ohio. Her Much Larger Sheets Of Paper, 15 Clanking Radiators, 14 Knots, who forges a hand less alone chapbook Taco Truck to Awesometown was Reduced, Half Gross (a collaboration with artist John Koos), Unnameable Books but can a hand shock published by Scantily Clad Press last year. She co-edits Fou, an and Object Lesson (a collaboration with artist Rich O’Russa). with just the dented heart online poetry magazine, and lives in Brooklyn. Granary Books published If It Rained Here, a collaboration 600 Vanderbilt Ave. to start it up? with artist Julie Harrison. His work has appeared in many (bet. Prospect Place/St. Marks Avenue) A sudden salience grooms magazines, including The World, Poker, Giants Play Well In these fiendish moods Julian T. Brolaski 6:30 p.m. The Drizzle, The Poetry Project Newsletter, Torque, and Arras. Brooklyn into a truck www.electiveaffinitiesusa.blogspot. His long poem, 101 Designs for The World Trade Center, was Directions: 2, 3 to Grand Army Plaza, C to for driving com/2010/02/julian-t-brolaski. published by Faux Press’ e-mag, and Subpress published a Clinton-Washington avenues, Q to 7th Avenue through truth html collection of his work, Opposable Thumb, in 2006. I mean truth Julian T. Brolaski is the editor, Chris Martin 6:00 p.m. is a truck with erica kaufman and E. Tracy Grinnell, of No Gender: E. Tracy Grinnell 8:00 p.m. www.flavors.me/chrismartin that moves through Reflections on the Life & Work of kari edwards (Litmus www.jacketmagazine.com/40/at-grinnell- Chris Martin is the author of American bitter and unfriendly mouths Press). Xe is the author of Buck in a Corridor (flynpyntar tracy.shtml Music (Copper Canyon). Coffee House so I’ve forged you press, see review below), gowanus atropolis (Ugly Duckling E. Tracy Grinnell is the author of Helen: Press will publish his second book a foot for each hand Presse, forthcoming), and Advice for Lovers (City Lights A Fugue (Belladonna Elder Series #1), of poetry, Becoming Weather, next and we will only walk Books, forthcoming). Brolaski lives in Brooklyn where xe Some Clear Souvenir (O Books), and year. After editing the full 11-issue run of Puppy Flowers, where the truth is in stitches is an editor at Litmus Press, curates vaudeville shows, and Music or Forgetting (O Books), as well as the limited he recently retired it, though they can all still be seen on to join and explode at will plays country music with The Low & the Lonesome. edition chapbooks Mirrorly, A Window (flynpyntar); Leukadia your computer. He lives around the corner. over the poem’s glowing people (Trafficker Press); Hell and Lower Evil (Lyre Lyre Pants on and even the dullest light Buck in a Corridor, flynpyntar press Fire); Humoresque (Blood Pudding/Dusie #3); Quadriga, a The Truth will shine in spite collaboration with Paul Foster Johnson (gong chapbooks); for Gaston Bachelard of the truth’s unfriendliness Of the Frame (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs); and Harmonics the truth’s fiendish xe[zi]—subject xem—object (Melodeon Poetry Systems). She is the founding editor of Sudden salience and utter beauty xir—possessive Litmus Press and Aufgabe, and she lives in Brooklyn. he calls it’s said xirs—possessive pronoun that electric stitch we follow xemself—reflexive pronoun or orangely born our beautiful fathers Jared White 8:15 p.m. in mute neural blooming no we don’t www.jaredswhite.blogspot.com Julian T. Brolaski’s Buck in a Corridor is as ambitious as Jared White was born in Massachusetts it is studded with lexical play that teases the storied pasts, and lives in New York. His chapbook presents, and futures of language. These poems address the Yellowcake was included in the hand- engendering and gendering of language as it is culturally sewn anthology Narwhal from Cannibal digested—as the speaker of “adverse yaw” asserts, “with Books. He has poems recently published what one engenders one/ is gendered/ adore/ adorable.” or forthcoming in Action Yes, Coconut, Fulcrum, Laurel Brolaski, instead of “going around adding –ess to nouns/ Review, and Modern Review, and essays in Harp & Altar, ‘lion-ess’/ poet-ess,’” embraces the threshold of potential Open Letters Monthly, and Poets off Poetry. He co-directs variable distinctions of speech. Xir exploratory play envisions the Yardmeter Editions event series in Brooklyn and blogs versions of aversions to inherited conceptions of sex and gender. occasionally at the above URL. Xe notes that xir lyric seeks to articulate “the legibility of trans and gender variant persons who might fall through the cracks of the binary.” In “maperson x,” for example, “one is aggregate Mariana Ruiz Firmat 8:30 p.m. www.brooklynrail.org/2010/03/poetry/ among lassoes/ plying for some/ agreed-upon consciousness.” two-mariana For the speakers of these poems, a codified experience appears www.3sadtigers.blogspot.com just out of reach but is also ostensibly unnecessary. Mariana Ruiz Firmat is a poet and Brolaski nods to the potential found in restraint publisher of Three Sad Tigers Press. through the alphabetic ordering of this book. For it is at Recent work can be found in the March the end of the alphabet that one reaches variable points 2010 issue of the Brooklyn Rail. She is the author of Another of mobility: the axial x, y and z. Within the inherited set of Strange Island (Open 24 Hours Press) and Smiling Into the material language that Brolaski explores, xir gender-neutral Noise (Boog Literature). After riding her bicycle cross-country modifications liberate an essential reimagining. “From one 11 years ago, she landed in Brooklyn and has been there nomenclature to another” Brolaski wanders, is a troubadour, ever since. She currently works as union organizer. and the resulting works navigate the ever-transitional and perennially courted self. —Douglas Piccinnini Laura Elrick 8:45 p.m. Farrah Field 6:45 p.m. www.electiveaffinitiesusa.blogspot. com/2010/06/laura-elrick.html www.adultish.blogspot.com Laura Elrick’s latest text-based work (as Farrah Field’s first book of poems, Rising, yet untitled) is a book-length series of won Four Way Books’ 2007 Levis Prize. poems that proceeds by accretive and Her poems have appeared in many migratory iteration. Other works include the video-poem Stalk, publications including Harp & Altar, We a set of audio pieces for doubled-voice, and two books of Are So Happy to Know Something, and Ploughshares, and are poetry, Fantasies in Permeable Structures (Factory School) forthcoming in Lit, Fou, and Mantis. She co-hosts a reading and sKincerity (Krupskaya). Her essay “Poetry, Ecology, and series called Yardmeter Editions and blogs at the above URL. the Production of Lived Space” was recently published in the eco language reader edited by Brenda Iijima (Portable Press J.J. Hayes 7:05 p.m. at Yo-Yo Labs/Nightboat Books). She lives in Brooklyn. www.myspace.com/jjhayes J.J. Hayes writes poetry, song, and philosophy. He has been published Jeremiah Birnbaum, The Ramblers 9:05 p.m. www.theramblersnyc.com occasionally. Steven Pinker in The www.jeremiahbirnbaum.com Stuff of Thought quotes J.J’s 2004 The Ramblers are a rock letter “One World Scientific Language?” as an example of ’n’ roll band based out of neo-Whorfian linguistic determinism. J.J. is thinking about New York. They released how to respond, but he wonders if his response will be their new fan-funded CD, determined by his language. Getting There, to a packed house at Joe’s Pub, and great reviews, including a Break 7:35 p.m.-7:45 p.m. Critic’s Pick from New York Magazine, and Blogcritics. Advertise in BOOG CITY org, which compared them to Little Feat, The Band, and Joe Elliot 7:45 p.m. the E Street Band. With Jeremiah Birnbaum, proverbial www.sptraffic.org/html/book_reviews/ son-of-a-preacherman (his dad’s a rabbi) and Scott Stein elliot.html at the helm—sharing singing duties and writing the [email protected] Joe Elliot ran a weekly reading series band’s material together—The Ramblers’ unique brand at Biblios Bookstore in the early ’90s of Americana fused with the best of Southern rock has and helped move the series to the Zinc earned them a devoted following and the opportunity to 212-842-BOOG (2664) Bar where it continues. He co-edited two chapbook series, A open for Levon Helm at his Midnight Ramble.

6 BOOG CITY WWW.WELCOMETOBOOGCITY.COM On Color, Criticism, and Creating Community on the Page TUESDAY Todd Colby www.gleefarm.blogspot.com SEPTEMBER 28 Todd Colby has published four books of A Few Minutes with Satellite poetry: Ripsnort, Cush, Riot in the Charm 6:00 P.M., Free Factory: New and Selected Writings, and Tremble & Shine, all published by Soft Skull Telephone’s Robert Dewhurst d.a. levy lives: Press. Todd has performed his poetry on PBS and MTV, and his collaborative books Satellite Telephone’s Robert Dewhurst—poet, Would you like to tell readers more celebrating the and paintings with artist David Lantow can be seen in editor, publisher, and scholar—wants readers to about the book series? The Brooklyn Museum of Art and The Museum of Modern experience soft pink. Boog City’s small press The book series will be off the ground renegade press Art special collections libraries. Todd serves on the board editor, Douglas Manson, talks to him on the very soon. The first chap that is planned is a of directors of The Poetry Project, where he has also way. wonderful collaboration CAConrad and Thom Season 8 Kickoff taught several poetry workshops. Donovan wrote after locking themselves in Boog City: What is your interest in, and someone else’s house for a day and playing featuring My Thoughts of Bears love of, the color pink all about? Arthur Russell on a loop for 12 hours. When bears are depicted as playing poker or smoking cigars, Robert Dewhurst: In The Fast, Hannah Satellite Telephone it contributes to people feeling like they could be friends Weiner writes: “I was trying to purify myself What is Wild Orchids? with bears, or that hanging out with a bear in nature to pink,” and “I thought one could become a Wild Orchids is a journal I co-edit with a magazine might be a funny or entertaining way to pass the time and pale translucent pink tinged with gold the color friend in Buffalo, the poet and medievalist Sean (Buffalo, N.Y.) make a new friend. Most of the bears I know are stupid of cut glassware my grandmother had.” Isn’t it Reynolds. Each issue features a single author and selfish and yet bears are rarely held accountable for and asks contributors to write about their their actions simply because they’re bears. That’s bullshit. work using invented and nonacademic ACA Galleries critical forms. I’m personally interested When stupid and selfish bears slap people on the back in the realm of literary affect and in sort 529 W. 20th St., and surprise them with outward signs of affection, people of muddying the waters of normative often get the wrong idea and get too friendly with bears critical discourse by inviting contributors to 5th Flr. (bet. 10th/11th avenues) and like, want to hang out with bears, and play sports include material from their own emotional with bears, and g-chat with bears, and other stuff like that. lives in their essays. Sean tends to solicit NYC That’s not fair to all the people that need real friends. I Directions: C/E to 23rd Street, 1/9 to 18th Street a wider range of work that is a bit like pictures of bears better where the bears are doing more far-flung, often Language-y things things that they would normally do in the wild. that take on collage, appropriation, and Satellite Telephone intermedia. It’s a good balance. www.nolongdistance.endingthealphabet.org Satellite Telephone was founded in Robert Dewhurst How do you pay for the costs of Portland, Ore. in 2007, on a contact- www.endingthealphabet.org your magazines and books? high from the mimeo retrospective Robert Dewhurst edits Satellite I pay for Satellite Telephone, and will A Secret Location on the Lower East Telephone and co-edits Wild Orchids. pay for Scary Topiary, out of pocket. Side (Granary Books). Three editions His poetry and critical prose have Wild Orchids knits together a lot of have been issued since, as the publication has moved appeared in Peaches & Bats, On different funding from the University from Portland, to Los Angeles, to Buffalo. The vision of Contemporary Practice, and The Poetry at Buffalo. I have a small salary as a the zine will soon be manifest in a series of chapbooks Project Newsletter. An essay of his on great that Weiner experienced soft pink as the teaching assistant there and in the past have and broadsides as well, to be published under the imprint the ’70s newspaper Gay Sunshine will appear in the color of purity itself? worked in a factory bakery and as a proofreader. Scary Topiary Press. volume Porn Archives, forthcoming from SUNY Press. He I’d love to hear what CAConrad thinks currently lives in Buffalo, where he attends the Poetics of pink. I’ve always felt proud that a few of Is there a group of writers or style that Franklin Bruno Program at SUNY-Buffalo. best identifies the kind of writing you like www.nervousuntothirst.blogspot.com I try to keep the to publish? Franklin Bruno is a musician and writer I try to keep the aesthetic of the magazine based in Queens. He has recorded and Dorothea Lasky www.birdinsnow.com aesthetic of the relatively eclectic, and one thing I’m increasingly toured as chief songwriter for the bands Dorothea Lasky is the author of two interested in is introducing writers to one another. Nothing Painted Blue and (currently) The magazine relatively full-length collections of poetry, AWE So often literary magazines just pull in a crowd Human Hearts, and as a solo artist. His and Black Life (both Wave Books), and eclectic, and one that already knows itself. A style of which I’m most recent release, Local Currency 1991-1998 (Fayettenam numerous chapbooks. Currently, she especially fond could loosely be described as Records) collects four-track/lo-fi recordings from out-of- researches creativity and education at thing I’m increasingly New Narrative: first-person poems and stories print vinyl seven-inches and compilations. He is a frequent the University of Pennsylvania. interested in is where the “I” actually serves as a sort of pivot or collaborator with The Mountain Goats’ John Darnielle, both prism for whole clusters of other things. as a multi-instrumentalist on the acclaimed 4AD albums introducing writers to The Sunset Tree and Tallahassee, and in the occasional one another. What are your thoughts about the East duo The Extra Glens. He is the author of a book on Elvis Eileen Myles Village in New York City? Costello’s Armed Forces in Continuum Books’ 33 1/3 series, www.eileenmyles.com I have never lived in New York City but and of the poetry chapbook Policy Instrument (Lame House Eileen Myles has written thousands of Conrad’s very first (Soma)tic experiments—an certainly draw inspiration from a kind of picture Press). His poetry has appeared in Satellite Telephone, poems since she gave her first reading enduring and captivating series—were published I’ve mentally collaged of what the East Village The Brooklyn Rail, and Abraham Lincoln; his essays and at CBGB’s in 1974. Her books include The in Satellite Telephone #1. These were the ones might have been like in the 1960s through ’80s— criticism, in The Nation, Oxford American, and The Believer. Inferno, The Importance of Being Iceland, about colors, where he immersed himself in a a low-rent, utopian past that is only available to Sorry, Tree, Skies, on my way, Cool for single shade for a day and kind of let it wash poets of my generation as mythology. There is a lot of interest right now in thinking You, School of Fish, Maxfield Parrish, Not Me, and Chelsea over him and come out as a poem. I first visited the East Village a few years about the poetic implications of phenomena Girls. In 1995, with Liz Kotz, she edited The New Fuck You: I simply think pale, translucent pink is one ago when I was doing research on David like Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter, but Adventures in Lesbian Reading, for Semiotext(e). of the prettiest colors. Living in Buffalo, it’s Rattray and was delighted to discover that a my own relation to poetry feels much more important to maintain a relation to color, to poet who is so obscure in the wider scheme of kindred with this passé sort of lived, embodied Rebekah Rutkoff surround yourself with it, because the sun things could have had such an extraordinary connectivity. There is that great anecdote in the www.fence.fenceportal.org/v13n1 disappears for so long every year. Also, I draw and indelible local presence. People told me Arthur Russell film [Wild Combination] about Rebekah Rutkoff is an artist, moving image a lot of inspiration from indie twee and crush as much about his poetry as about running into how [Allen] Ginsberg ran an extension cord curator, and Ph.D. candidate in the English pop, where preciousness and bright colors him on the street and getting caught in long, through the halls of 437 E. 12th St. so that department at the CUNY Graduate Center. reign supreme. If you’re ever sad, surf over to winding conversations about judo and Sanskrit Arthur could keep recording when he couldn’t She lives in Brooklyn. www.kiiiiiii.com and let the colors cheer you. with brimming laundry baskets in their hands. pay his electric bill.

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