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FILM Haunted Landscapes MUSIC Zoe Z POETRY Clark, Devereux, Guarie, Lederer, Roylance, Townsend BOOG CITY PRINTED MATTER McCarthy, Steck A COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER FROM A GROUP OF ARTISTS AND WRITERS BASED IN AND AROUND NEW YORK CITY’S EAST VILLAGE ISSUE 87 FREE SMALL PRESS Fact-Simile .5 Sun. Feb. 16-Mon. Feb. 17, 2014 Jonathan Allen art SUNDAY, as fucking sweet as a naturalization ceremony Anthology; Forklift, Ohio; Painted Bride Quarterly; Post Road; Eric Seader 2:50 p.m. that ends in beautifully choreographed slaughter and Washington Square, among others. Her chapbook You http://theburntroses.wordpress.com/ FEBRUARY 16 Americans was published by Green Zone Editions. ‘We Will Mend: Youth Edmund Berrigan 12:40 p.m. 12:00 P.M., Free Edmund Berrigan is the author of Anselm Berrigan 1:30 p.m. Violence and the Healing Unnameable Books two books of poetry, Disarming http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Berrigan-Anselm.php Power of Music’ Matter (Owl Press) and Glad Stone Anselm Berrigan’s recent publications Eric Seader is a paralegal, singer- 600 Vanderbilt Ave. Children (farfalla press/McMillan & include Loading, a collaborative songwriter, and a progressive socio-political advocate living (bet. Prospect Place/St. Marks Avenue) Parrish), and a memoir, Can It! book with painter Jonathan Allen in New York City. He credits his parents with instilling (Letter Machine Editions). He is published by Brooklyn Arts Press, within him progressive values from an early age, and Prospect Heights, editor of The Selected Poems of Steve Carey (Sub Press), and Sure Shot, a pink chap from fueling his drive toward activism and advocacy. Brooklyn and co-editor, with Anselm Berrigan and Alice Notley, of The Overpass Books. Primitive State, a book-length poem, will be A singer-songwriter for over 18 years, Seader strives Directions: 2, 3 to Grand Army Plaza, Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan and The Selected Poems of published by Edge Books in 2014. to touch as many genres with his music as possible, and C to Clinton-Washington avenues, Q to 7th Avenue Ted Berrigan (both University of California Press). He is an has recently returned to his roots, writing songs with a editor for poetry magazines Brawling Pigeon and Vlak, and Joshua Garcia 1:40 p.m. message, as he did when he first began. Following the on the editorial board of Lungfull!. He records and performs http://joshuagarciamusic.tumblr.com/ tragic events in Newtown, Conn. in December 2012, he Zoe Z 12:00 p.m. music as I feel tractor. Greg Fuchs photo. Joshua Garcia is a folk singer- wrote a song to help him cope with the tragedy in hopes http://m.reverbnation.com/artist/zoezelkind songwriter based in Bedford-Stuyvesant, that it would help others heal as well. His friend, and now Zoe Z is a singer-songwriter Amelia Bentley 12:50 p.m. Brooklyn. writing partner, Rorie Kelly, took his lyrics and rewrote from Santa Monica, Calif. She http://www.speakwright.org/ the music, lending her vocal and instrumental talents to just Moved to New York City’s Amelia Bentley is composed of a the piece. The two formed the duo The Burnt Roses in Stuyvesant Town, where she has patina and erosion of texts, slowly late 2013 as they recorded their first single, “We Will been playing and writing. 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He currently lives in suit shit & candy in the water your stare philosophy) and exteriority (performance, deed). have appeared in such publications as Lungfull!, Vlak and Charleston, SC. like a block of hash just sitting there impassively the Brooklyn Rail. She lives in Lefferts, Brooklyn with her Published books include The Re-echoes (Furniture Press), waiting it’s about a basic interrogation organic husband and his cat. Jennifer Arlia photo. 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Their aesthetic is best described by the content featured in each His best work is always in the future, worry. of their past issues. from Postdromal Hymns Julia Bloch Evergrey snow mapped / quarterly onto the bankfront http://jacket2.org/” http://jacket2.org/ subevergreen edgeways flanging like winter. Dented and Julia Bloch grew up in Northern California and nonprominent / sky stubbed extremely on the poster rolled Sydney, Australia, and is the author of Letters up depicting you-guessed-it a glass of carbonated liquid to Kelly Clarkson (Sidebrow Books), a Lambda analysts. Weak grey scent of grey / calenture at man’s groin Literary Award Finalist. Recent poems and insulating an ephemeron for nothing but remonetized and translations have appeared in Fence, Manor damn hideless lightness. All stoned on wooing his distortion House Quarterly, and Sixth Finch. 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