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FRI. AUGUST 1 granola and paints. Her first chapbook, the 7:30 p.m. Break Carol Mirakove 8:05 p.m. christ hairnet fish library, is out from http://www.carolmirakove.info/ 6:00 P.M. Dancing Girl Press. Her second, a small man Buck Downs 7:40 p.m. Carol Mirakove has served as poetry looked at me, is due from Little Red Leaves http://www.buckdowns.com editor and politics co-editor of Boog $5 suggested Press. She also has an e-chapbook coming Buck Downs has been writing poems and City. Unnameable Books from Poetry Crush. Lefsyk has previous work in Bateau, Phoebe, creating opportunities for poets to publish Poetry Crush, and The New Orleans Review, among others. and perform in Washington, D.C. for two Rodrigo Toscano 8:15 p.m. 600 Vanderbilt Ave. decades. He curates the In Your Ear reading series at the Rodrigo Toscano is the author of six (bet. Prospect Place/St. Marks Avenue) Boni Joi 6:50 p.m. D.C. Arts Center, and serves as poetry editor for Boog City. books of poetry, including Deck of Prospect Heights, https://twitter.com/bonijoi His latest books are New Personal Problem and Assorted Deeds (Counterpath Press) and Collapsible Boni Joi was born in North Miami Beach, Books of Buck Downs. Poetics (a 2007 National Poetry Series Brooklyn Fla.; raised in New Jersey; and discovered her Selection). His writing has appeared in the anthologies Directions: 2, 3 to Grand Army Plaza, lost lineage in Salem, Mass. Her poems have Joanna Fuhrman 7:55 p.m. Against Expression, Diasporic Avant Gardes, and Best C to Clinton-Washington avenues, Q to 7th Avenue appeared in Arabella, Big Hammer, Long Shot, http://www.joannafuhrman.com/ American Poetry. Toscano works for the Labor Institute in Lungfull!, The Brooklyn Rail, The Portable Boog Reader, and Joanna Fuhrman is the author of four conjunction with the United Steelworkers and the National many other journals. Joi is a rotating cast member of the show Sasha Fletcher 6:00 p.m. books of poetry, most recently Pageant Institute for Environmental Health Science. Toscano’s home Mortified. A clip of her performance was featured on National base is the Greenpoint Township of Brooklyn. http://anicecoldcocacola.blogspot.com/ (Alice James Books.) She teaches poetry Public Radio’s This American Life during an interview with the writing at Rutgers University and in her Sasha Fletcher is author of a novella, the poetry progenitor, David Nadleberg, and her piece was published in book it is going to be a good year (Big Lucks apartment in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn. She is working on a Susan Landers 8:25 p.m. the book Mortified: Love is a Battlefield. Her first collection multimedia project with the artist Toni Simon. Books, forthcoming), and several chapbooks of of poetry, Before During or After Rainstorms, was published in http://susanlanders.tumblr.com/ poetry, including dear gloria, dear madeline, dear Susan Landers is the author of 248 mgs., a 2012. She works as a photograph and reference archivist and Justin Bieber Visits the Anne Frank House: siobhan, dear ethel, dear eloise, dear wendy, dear lives with musical chef Tobi Joi in Kensington, Brooklyn. panic picnic and Covers (both O Books); 15: A becky, dear lisa, dear liza, dear michelle, dear tamika, dear 4/13/13 Poetic Engagement with the Chicago Manual of tanya, tonight (Big Lucks Books). A young girl in neon orange is not an iced donut, Style (Least Weasel); and What I Was Tweeting Yeti 7:00 p.m. despite a shared resemblance to sprinkles. While You Were On Facebook (Perfect Lovers). http://yetimusic.co/ Tracey McTague 6:10 p.m. Staten Island, from whence I hail, occa- Light bounces off the elevated expressway’s http://htmlgiant.com/reviews/super-natural-by- sionally produces an interesting scene passing cars. Adeena Karasick 8:35 p.m. tracey-mctague of real worth to the larger world, as http://www.adeenakarasick.com/ Tracey McTague lives up on Battle Hill in the particular waves of music, poetry, Here is a white apple. Adeena Karasick is a poet, cultural Brooklyn, down the street from where she was dance, and art intersect at a sort of There is a whiter sun. theorist, media artist, and author of born and across the room from where her daughter was born. triple or quadruple witching hour. The latest intersection seven books of poetry and poetic She is the ornithologist consigliere for Lungfull! magazine by has been happening for a good five years or so by my A rattling bicycle doesn’t need theory, most recently, This Poem, Amuse day. By night, she is a root doctor, alchemist, and hunter- reckoning and there are at least three worthwhile venues words to be understood. Bouche, and Memewars (all Talonbooks). gatherer. Her book Super Natural (Trembling Pillow Press) was walkable from the ferry and there is serious cross water Writing at the intersection of Conceptualism and neo-Fluxus born in New Orleans. anticultural commerce of sorts. Yeti is one of the products On the curb, a pink suitcase, performatics, her urban, Jewish feminist mashups have been o’ the County of Richmond you should be listening to. Yeti seams bursting, stuffed with loss. described as “electricity in language” by Nicole Brossard. She Susana Gardner 6:20 p.m. is one of those bands that you want on your bill, so you is professor of pop culture, gender and media theory at Fordham University. “The Adeena Karasick Archive” has just been http://www.archiveofthenow.org/authors/?i=29 can say “and Yeti is playing,” which then gives you some My heart is a door, established at Special Collections, Simon Fraser University. Susana Gardner is the author of three full- credibility. Yeti describes themselves as “bass-driven, philo- the color of cracked walnuts length poetry collections, Caddish and Herso sophical, dream-punk with cute killer harmonies,” which is (both from Black Radish Books) and [Lapsed accurate I think, but I am haunted by having heard them says the woman Meaner Pencil 8:45 p.m. Insel Weary] (The Tangent Press). cover Jefferson Airplane’s “White Rabbit.” So while it may be on the stoop. http://meanerpencil.bandcamp.com/ true that “their music fuses Sleater-Kinney sensibilities with Meaner Pencil is a singing cellist with a warm, Sara Lefsyk 6:35 p.m. The Cranberries’ emotional power,” I can’t help but think- What color is that? dark, sweet way of twisting her words around. ing that a lot of Yeti’s power comes from this chained, not asks the air. Originally from Nebraska, she is most often http://www.poetrycrush.com precisely cute Casady-like Thunder Goddess threatening to heard in the subway late at night, hoping to Sara Lefsyk lives in Cororado where she handmakes books and burst through at any moment. —J.J. Hayes console passing strangers. poetry. Mandel likes to take readers SAT. AUGUST 2 and listeners by the hand into 11:00 A.M. surreal narratives where stingrays stalk overhead and teenagers trade $5 suggested Rilke’s late French language suite “Roses” (June 2014), bodies with pipe smoke, towns of Unnameable Books David’s “Offshore St. Mark/Songs In-Between the Day” will people lose their voices, and the future of the planet is be out from Three Count Pour in fall 2014. decoded in an orange peel. She embodies characters when We’ll Never Have Paris is the literary zine of nonfiction An award-winning graphic design, letterpress printing she sings, coming from a place of sincerity even when her 600 Vanderbilt Ave. memoir, “for all things never meant to be.” Published since (bet. Prospect Place/St. Marks Avenue) studio, and fine press publisher, Horse & Buggy Press is characters have gone and done the awful, awful wrong. 2007, the are submissions-driven and grass roots. located in Durham, N.C. Originally established in 1996 in Patrick Plattner photo. Prospect Heights, Raleigh, they headed west and crossed over the county line in 2003. For the last eight years, they’ve been working out CarlaJean Valluzzi 1:00 p.m. 2:45 p.m. Break Brooklyn of the Bull City Arts Collaborative (which they co-founded) http://imisspaperletters.com/ Directions: 2, 3 to Grand Army Plaza, at 401 Foster St. in downtown Durham. CarlaJean Valluzzi is a native of beautiful C to Clinton-Washington avenues, Q to 7th Avenue Season 12 kick-off, d.a. levy lives: western Massachusetts. She received her celebrating renegade presses 2:55 p.m. Geer Austin, Poets Wear Prada 12:30 p.m. B.F.A. from the Massachusetts College of Art and her M.F.A. in creative writing 11th Annual Small, http://www.amazon.com/Geer-Austin/e/B00ICYD62K/ and publishing arts from the University of Baltimore. Based http://www.brooklynbookfestival.org/onepage-items/poets- Stockport Flats (Ithaca, N.Y.) in the Station North Arts District, she photographs using http://www.stockportflats.org/ Small Press Fair wear-prada film and a camera that doesn’t make phone calls, creates http://pwpbooks.blogspot.com/ Jared Harel, Brooklyn Arts Press 12:00 p.m. collages and hand-bound books, as well as many other http://www.jaredharel.com/ forms of paper-based ephemera under the moniker Kitchen Table Press. Jessica Baldwin photo. http://www.brooklynartspress.com/ Geer Austin is the author of Cloverleaf, a poetry chapbook from Poets Wear Prada Press. His poetry and fiction have appeared Joseph Riipi 1:15 p.m. in numerous anthologies, print and online journals, including http://www.josephriippi.com Lori Anderson Moseman, editor In the muddy mop-up after Federal Disaster #1649, Big Bridge, BlazeVOX Colere, MiPOesias, Potomac Review, Joseph Riippi is the author of the worst of three 100-year floods, poet Lori Anderson and This Literary Magazine.