Do Gummi Bears Dream of Rubber Passion Fruit?
Wednesday, June 04, 2008
i read you poems on monday, yes?
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¶ 9:01 AM 0 comments
IDIOLEXICON
MONDAY, JUNE 9
8PM
FREE
CAFE ROYALE
800 POST ST.
SAN FRANCISCO
USA
Friday, April 25, 2008
Artifact presents:
Rae ARMANTROUT
C.S. GISCOMBE
Alli WARREN
Saturday, April 26, 2008
Rae ARMANTROUT
C.S. GISCOMBE
Alli WARREN
Saturday, April 26, 2008
6pm
***New Location:
Oakland Art Gallery
Frank Ogawa Plaza
199 Kahn’s Alley
Oakland CA 94612
***New Location:
Oakland Art Gallery
Frank Ogawa Plaza
199 Kahn’s Alley
Oakland CA 94612
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Thursday, April 17, 2008
READINGS I WILL UNFORTUNATELY MISS THIS WEEKEND BECAUSE I'LL BE IN THE COUNTRY OF TEJAS
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FRI., APR. 18 @ 7:30 PM
AMANDA NADELBERG
JOHN SAKKIS
PEGASUS BOOKS
2349 Shattuck Ave
Berkeley, CA 94704
what: BOTH BOTH Reading Series w/ Michael Carr and Aaron Tieger
where: my apartment, 415 Pierce St. #3 (between Oak and Fell) Lower Haight, SF
when: this Saturday April 19th, 7pm
extras: boozy (i'll provide some but please feel free to bring more), dancey, loungy, foody (if you bring it yourself'y), record'y, flirty, late night'ish'y
Michael Carr is the author of Softer White, published in 2007 by House Press, and Platinum Blonde, a chapbook of poems and collages (Fewer & Further Press, 2006). He has edited a manuscript journal of John Wieners' called A book of PROPHECIES. He co-edits Katalanché Press, and lives in Cambridge, Mass.
Aaron Tieger's most recent book is Spring Poems (Big Game Books). Others include February (Fewer & Further) and After Rilke (Anchorite Press). Forthcoming work includes Anxiety Chant (Skysill Press) and Secret Donut (Pressed Wafer). He is also the editor of the first American edition of Richard Caddel's Uncertain Time (Pressed Wafer). A native New Englander, he lives and
writes in Cambridge, MA, where he edits CARVE Poems and feeds a very fat cat.
FRI., APR. 18 @ 7:30 PM
AMANDA NADELBERG
JOHN SAKKIS
PEGASUS BOOKS
2349 Shattuck Ave
Berkeley, CA 94704
***
what: BOTH BOTH Reading Series w/ Michael Carr and Aaron Tieger
where: my apartment, 415 Pierce St. #3 (between Oak and Fell) Lower Haight, SF
when: this Saturday April 19th, 7pm
extras: boozy (i'll provide some but please feel free to bring more), dancey, loungy, foody (if you bring it yourself'y), record'y, flirty, late night'ish'y
Michael Carr is the author of Softer White, published in 2007 by House Press, and Platinum Blonde, a chapbook of poems and collages (Fewer & Further Press, 2006). He has edited a manuscript journal of John Wieners' called A book of PROPHECIES. He co-edits Katalanché Press, and lives in Cambridge, Mass.
Aaron Tieger's most recent book is Spring Poems (Big Game Books). Others include February (Fewer & Further) and After Rilke (Anchorite Press). Forthcoming work includes Anxiety Chant (Skysill Press) and Secret Donut (Pressed Wafer). He is also the editor of the first American edition of Richard Caddel's Uncertain Time (Pressed Wafer). A native New Englander, he lives and
writes in Cambridge, MA, where he edits CARVE Poems and feeds a very fat cat.
Labels: both both reading series, John Sakkis, readings
¶ 9:09 AM 4 comments
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
TODAY!!!
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from Michael Slosek:
Cedar Sigo and David Larsen at Books and Bookshelves
Dear Friends,
Please come and join House Press for a reading on February 19th at 7:30 at Books and Bookshelves: 99 Sanchez Street (between 14th St & Duboce Ave), San Francisco, CA 94114 (415) 558-9019. In support of the publication of Expensive Magic, Cedar Sigo and David Larsen will be reading. House Press books will be on sale, as well as the remarkable selection of small press titles B&B's carries. Hope to see you there!
MS
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from Michael Slosek:
Cedar Sigo and David Larsen at Books and Bookshelves
Dear Friends,
Please come and join House Press for a reading on February 19th at 7:30 at Books and Bookshelves: 99 Sanchez Street (between 14th St & Duboce Ave), San Francisco, CA 94114 (415) 558-9019. In support of the publication of Expensive Magic, Cedar Sigo and David Larsen will be reading. House Press books will be on sale, as well as the remarkable selection of small press titles B&B's carries. Hope to see you there!
MS
Labels: House Press, readings
¶ 9:35 AM 0 comments
Friday, January 25, 2008
I'M READING IN LOS ANGELES THIS SUNDAY
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from THE SMELL reading series folks:
Dear Friends and Language Lovers,
You are invited to the next installment of
THE SMELL LAST SUNDAY READING SERIES
SUNDAY, JANUARY 27, 2008
With featured readers
John SAKKIS
Mady SCHUTZMAN
Logan Ryan SMITH
The Smell is located at
247 S. Main Street
Between 2nd and 3rd Street
The entrance is through the back, by way of the alley, west of Main Street.
The doors will open at 6:30 pm. Five dollars at the door.
A bit more about the featured readers:
John Sakkis's recent chapbooks include Rude Girl (Duration Press), The Moveable Ones (Transmission Press) as well as the art book post bulletin (Taxt Press). A new chapbook, Gary Gygax, is forthcoming from Cy Gist Press. With Angelos Sakkis he translates the work of Athenian multi-media artist Demosthenes Agrafiotis, Chinese Notebook being the latest. Recent poetry, interviews, translations and reviews and have appeared in New American Writing, Aufgabe, Mirage #4/ Period(ical), Dusie, The Poker, Beyond Baroque, Hot Whiskey, Shampoo, The Bedside Guide To No Tell Motel, Bombay Gin, Shuffleboil, and Mipoesias. He curates the BOTH BOTH reading series in his apartment in the Lower Haight, SF and DJ's under the moniker ONLYMERK! having opened for Outkast, Heiroglyphics, Black Eyed Peas and the Living Legends among others.
Mady Schutzman is writer and theater artist. She has worked for over 25 years as free lance practitioner of the interactive theatre techniques of Brazilian director Augusto Boal, and co-edited two volumes of essays on his work with Routledge. In 2006, she wrote UPSET! -- a Boal-inspired, Brechtian comedy about the L.A. riots -- which was performed at REDCAT by 30 youth from the Plaza de la Raza youth program. She has published scholarly essays and creative non-fiction in several anthologies and journals including Black Clock, The Drama Review, Errant Bodies, Theatre Topics, and The Journal of Medical Humanities. Mady writes a lot about ambiguity and paradox, comedy, jokes, and trickery as forms of resistance, divination practices and performative tropes like ventriloquism, ritual, and hysteria. She is currently working on a film about the Socialist City a utopian collective started in the high desert 70 miles from L.A. in 1914. She teaches at California Institute of the Arts.
Logan Ryan Smith lives in San Francisco where he publishes Transmission Press chapbooks and the poetry mag, small town. He is author of 2 books of poetry, THE SINGERS (Dusie Press Books), and STUPID BIRDS, which he released under the Transmission Press imprint. His poetry has been published in New American Writing, Bombay Gin, Hot Whiskey Magazine, the tiny, string of small machines, Sorry for Snake, as well as numerous other mags, and also in the anthologies, Bay Poetics (Faux Press) and The Meat Book (Hot Whiskey Press). ¶ 11:17 AM 0 comments
from THE SMELL reading series folks:
Dear Friends and Language Lovers,
You are invited to the next installment of
THE SMELL LAST SUNDAY READING SERIES
SUNDAY, JANUARY 27, 2008
With featured readers
John SAKKIS
Mady SCHUTZMAN
Logan Ryan SMITH
The Smell is located at
247 S. Main Street
Between 2nd and 3rd Street
The entrance is through the back, by way of the alley, west of Main Street.
The doors will open at 6:30 pm. Five dollars at the door.
A bit more about the featured readers:
John Sakkis's recent chapbooks include Rude Girl (Duration Press), The Moveable Ones (Transmission Press) as well as the art book post bulletin (Taxt Press). A new chapbook, Gary Gygax, is forthcoming from Cy Gist Press. With Angelos Sakkis he translates the work of Athenian multi-media artist Demosthenes Agrafiotis, Chinese Notebook being the latest. Recent poetry, interviews, translations and reviews and have appeared in New American Writing, Aufgabe, Mirage #4/ Period(ical), Dusie, The Poker, Beyond Baroque, Hot Whiskey, Shampoo, The Bedside Guide To No Tell Motel, Bombay Gin, Shuffleboil, and Mipoesias. He curates the BOTH BOTH reading series in his apartment in the Lower Haight, SF and DJ's under the moniker ONLYMERK! having opened for Outkast, Heiroglyphics, Black Eyed Peas and the Living Legends among others.
Mady Schutzman is writer and theater artist. She has worked for over 25 years as free lance practitioner of the interactive theatre techniques of Brazilian director Augusto Boal, and co-edited two volumes of essays on his work with Routledge. In 2006, she wrote UPSET! -- a Boal-inspired, Brechtian comedy about the L.A. riots -- which was performed at REDCAT by 30 youth from the Plaza de la Raza youth program. She has published scholarly essays and creative non-fiction in several anthologies and journals including Black Clock, The Drama Review, Errant Bodies, Theatre Topics, and The Journal of Medical Humanities. Mady writes a lot about ambiguity and paradox, comedy, jokes, and trickery as forms of resistance, divination practices and performative tropes like ventriloquism, ritual, and hysteria. She is currently working on a film about the Socialist City a utopian collective started in the high desert 70 miles from L.A. in 1914. She teaches at California Institute of the Arts.
Logan Ryan Smith lives in San Francisco where he publishes Transmission Press chapbooks and the poetry mag, small town. He is author of 2 books of poetry, THE SINGERS (Dusie Press Books), and STUPID BIRDS, which he released under the Transmission Press imprint. His poetry has been published in New American Writing, Bombay Gin, Hot Whiskey Magazine, the tiny, string of small machines, Sorry for Snake, as well as numerous other mags, and also in the anthologies, Bay Poetics (Faux Press) and The Meat Book (Hot Whiskey Press). ¶ 11:17 AM 0 comments
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Saturday, January 19, 2008
I WOULD LOVE TO READ POEMS TO YR FUCKIN' FACE THIS THURSDAY
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Labels: pegasus books, readings, sorry for snake
¶ 2:38 PM 0 comments
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
HEY LOS ANGELES, IMMA COMIN' TA GIT YOU!
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from THE SMELL reading series folks:
Dear Friends and Language Lovers,
You are invited to the next installment of
THE SMELL LAST SUNDAY READING SERIES
SUNDAY, JANUARY 27, 2008
With featured readers
John SAKKIS
Mady SCHUTZMAN
Logan Ryan SMITH
The Smell is located at
247 S. Main Street
Between 2nd and 3rd Street
The entrance is through the back, by way of the alley, west of Main Street.
The doors will open at 6:30 pm. Five dollars at the door.
A bit more about the featured readers:
John Sakkis's recent chapbooks include Rude Girl (Duration Press), The Moveable Ones (Transmission Press) as well as the art book post bulletin (Taxt Press). A new chapbook, Gary Gygax, is forthcoming from Cy Gist Press. With Angelos Sakkis he translates the work of Athenian multi-media artist Demosthenes Agrafiotis, Chinese Notebook being the latest. Recent poetry, interviews, translations and reviews and have appeared in New American Writing, Aufgabe, Mirage #4/ Period(ical), Dusie, The Poker, Beyond Baroque, Hot Whiskey, Shampoo, The Bedside Guide To No Tell Motel, Bombay Gin, Shuffleboil, and Mipoesias. He curates the BOTH BOTH reading series in his apartment in the Lower Haight, SF and DJ's under the moniker ONLYMERK! having opened for Outkast, Heiroglyphics, Black Eyed Peas and the Living Legends among others.
Mady Schutzman is writer and theater artist. She has worked for over 25 years as free lance practitioner of the interactive theatre techniques of Brazilian director Augusto Boal, and co-edited two volumes of essays on his work with Routledge. In 2006, she wrote UPSET! -- a Boal-inspired, Brechtian comedy about the L.A. riots -- which was performed at REDCAT by 30 youth from the Plaza de la Raza youth program. She has published scholarly essays and creative non-fiction in several anthologies and journals including Black Clock, The Drama Review, Errant Bodies, Theatre Topics, and The Journal of Medical Humanities. Mady writes a lot about ambiguity and paradox, comedy, jokes, and trickery as forms of resistance, divination practices and performative tropes like ventriloquism, ritual, and hysteria. She is currently working on a film about the Socialist City a utopian collective started in the high desert 70 miles from L.A. in 1914. She teaches at California Institute of the Arts.
Logan Ryan Smith lives in San Francisco where he publishes Transmission Press chapbooks and the poetry mag, small town. He is author of 2 books of poetry, THE SINGERS (Dusie Press Books), and STUPID BIRDS, which he released under the Transmission Press imprint. His poetry has been published in New American Writing, Bombay Gin, Hot Whiskey Magazine, the tiny, string of small machines, Sorry for Snake, as well as numerous other mags, and also in the anthologies, Bay Poetics (Faux Press) and The Meat Book (Hot Whiskey Press).
from THE SMELL reading series folks:
Dear Friends and Language Lovers,
You are invited to the next installment of
THE SMELL LAST SUNDAY READING SERIES
SUNDAY, JANUARY 27, 2008
With featured readers
John SAKKIS
Mady SCHUTZMAN
Logan Ryan SMITH
The Smell is located at
247 S. Main Street
Between 2nd and 3rd Street
The entrance is through the back, by way of the alley, west of Main Street.
The doors will open at 6:30 pm. Five dollars at the door.
A bit more about the featured readers:
John Sakkis's recent chapbooks include Rude Girl (Duration Press), The Moveable Ones (Transmission Press) as well as the art book post bulletin (Taxt Press). A new chapbook, Gary Gygax, is forthcoming from Cy Gist Press. With Angelos Sakkis he translates the work of Athenian multi-media artist Demosthenes Agrafiotis, Chinese Notebook being the latest. Recent poetry, interviews, translations and reviews and have appeared in New American Writing, Aufgabe, Mirage #4/ Period(ical), Dusie, The Poker, Beyond Baroque, Hot Whiskey, Shampoo, The Bedside Guide To No Tell Motel, Bombay Gin, Shuffleboil, and Mipoesias. He curates the BOTH BOTH reading series in his apartment in the Lower Haight, SF and DJ's under the moniker ONLYMERK! having opened for Outkast, Heiroglyphics, Black Eyed Peas and the Living Legends among others.
Mady Schutzman is writer and theater artist. She has worked for over 25 years as free lance practitioner of the interactive theatre techniques of Brazilian director Augusto Boal, and co-edited two volumes of essays on his work with Routledge. In 2006, she wrote UPSET! -- a Boal-inspired, Brechtian comedy about the L.A. riots -- which was performed at REDCAT by 30 youth from the Plaza de la Raza youth program. She has published scholarly essays and creative non-fiction in several anthologies and journals including Black Clock, The Drama Review, Errant Bodies, Theatre Topics, and The Journal of Medical Humanities. Mady writes a lot about ambiguity and paradox, comedy, jokes, and trickery as forms of resistance, divination practices and performative tropes like ventriloquism, ritual, and hysteria. She is currently working on a film about the Socialist City a utopian collective started in the high desert 70 miles from L.A. in 1914. She teaches at California Institute of the Arts.
Logan Ryan Smith lives in San Francisco where he publishes Transmission Press chapbooks and the poetry mag, small town. He is author of 2 books of poetry, THE SINGERS (Dusie Press Books), and STUPID BIRDS, which he released under the Transmission Press imprint. His poetry has been published in New American Writing, Bombay Gin, Hot Whiskey Magazine, the tiny, string of small machines, Sorry for Snake, as well as numerous other mags, and also in the anthologies, Bay Poetics (Faux Press) and The Meat Book (Hot Whiskey Press).
Labels: readings
¶ 2:34 PM 0 comments
Saturday, January 12, 2008
Today
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Mark Linenthal and John Sakkis
@ The Last Laugh Café
1551 Dolores (corner of Valley, btn 28th and 29th)
Saturday, January 12
4 – 6 pm
Mark Linenthal and John Sakkis
@ The Last Laugh Café
1551 Dolores (corner of Valley, btn 28th and 29th)
Saturday, January 12
4 – 6 pm
Labels: readings
¶ 12:13 PM 0 comments
Friday, January 11, 2008
John Sakkis and Mark Linenthal read TOMORROW
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from ROB HALPERN:
from ROB HALPERN:
Dear friends:
Come out for the next in a series of occasional readings at the Last
Laugh Café and hear two local but rarely heard poets:
Mark Linenthal and John Sakkis
@ The Last Laugh Café
1551 Dolores (corner of Valley, btn 28th and 29th)
Saturday, January 12
4 – 6 pm
I've been anticipating this event for a long time. Mark Linenthal--a
former director of the Poetry Center--recently turned 85, and while
his last book was published some twenty years ago, his commitment to
poetry in general, and to Oppen and Stevens in particular, remains as
strong as ever. As for John Sakkis, most of us know him--indeed, he's
a faithful presence in the local poetry scene--but few of us have ever
heard him read, and considering his cornucopia of new chap titles,
it's time to change that!
--
Mark Linenthal is the author of two books of poems, Growing Light
(Black Thumb Press, 1979) and The Man I Am Watching (e.g. Books,
1987). He was married to the poet Frances Jaffer and he taught at San
Francisco State University from 1954-1992, where he also directed the
Poetry Center during the politically tumultuous late sixties and early
seventies.
John Sakkis has two recent chapbooks, Rude Girl (Duration Press) and
The Moveable Ones (Transmission Press). He also has two chapbooks
forthcoming early in 2008: Gary Gygax (Cy Gist Press) and post
bulletin (Taxt). John is from the 925 and lives in the 415.
The Last Laugh Café is at 1551 Dolores St. in SF (corner of Dolores
and Valley, between 28th and 29th) and it's easily accessible by BART
(24th Street) and/or any of the Mission street buses.
Come out for the next in a series of occasional readings at the Last
Laugh Café and hear two local but rarely heard poets:
Mark Linenthal and John Sakkis
@ The Last Laugh Café
1551 Dolores (corner of Valley, btn 28th and 29th)
Saturday, January 12
4 – 6 pm
I've been anticipating this event for a long time. Mark Linenthal--a
former director of the Poetry Center--recently turned 85, and while
his last book was published some twenty years ago, his commitment to
poetry in general, and to Oppen and Stevens in particular, remains as
strong as ever. As for John Sakkis, most of us know him--indeed, he's
a faithful presence in the local poetry scene--but few of us have ever
heard him read, and considering his cornucopia of new chap titles,
it's time to change that!
--
Mark Linenthal is the author of two books of poems, Growing Light
(Black Thumb Press, 1979) and The Man I Am Watching (e.g. Books,
1987). He was married to the poet Frances Jaffer and he taught at San
Francisco State University from 1954-1992, where he also directed the
Poetry Center during the politically tumultuous late sixties and early
seventies.
John Sakkis has two recent chapbooks, Rude Girl (Duration Press) and
The Moveable Ones (Transmission Press). He also has two chapbooks
forthcoming early in 2008: Gary Gygax (Cy Gist Press) and post
bulletin (Taxt). John is from the 925 and lives in the 415.
The Last Laugh Café is at 1551 Dolores St. in SF (corner of Dolores
and Valley, between 28th and 29th) and it's easily accessible by BART
(24th Street) and/or any of the Mission street buses.
Labels: readings
¶ 8:46 AM 0 comments
Tuesday, January 01, 2008
LARRY KEARNEY AT THE BOWERY POETRY CLUB
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The Bowery Poetry Club presents a rare East Coast reading by Larry Kearney.
Saturday, January 12th, at three pm.
[about] Five—Robert Creeley: "This is a primal geography wherein all the terms of the so-called world gain articulation and a place. And his propositions will haunt you, or bless you, forever."
Stephanie Young: "All the mysteries are here—chiropractic effects on the air, cards falling in and out of place, a fire poking holes in itself to burn hotter. Larry Kearney's poems say there's nothing that can't come in here if it's required. Then the wind and a ball and the sound of a light moving through the room."
Kevin Killian: "His ear is uncanny, tuned with perfect fidelity to culture high and low, to all the temptations of language and heaven. His curiosity about form and metric have turned his work into a palace of music. Some people say, 'We don't have to a poet to match William Carlos Williams,' but I don't break a sweat, as long as Larry Kearney's alive and writing.”
David Meltzer: “Kearney is one of those unsung cats who has been producing intelligent thoughtful snarly deeply musical poetry, deeply felt wryly wrought astute poetry of the first rank, for decades for a select few—you're in for a rare treat.”
The Bowery Poetry Club presents a rare East Coast reading by Larry Kearney.
Saturday, January 12th, at three pm.
[about] Five—Robert Creeley: "This is a primal geography wherein all the terms of the so-called world gain articulation and a place. And his propositions will haunt you, or bless you, forever."
Stephanie Young: "All the mysteries are here—chiropractic effects on the air, cards falling in and out of place, a fire poking holes in itself to burn hotter. Larry Kearney's poems say there's nothing that can't come in here if it's required. Then the wind and a ball and the sound of a light moving through the room."
Kevin Killian: "His ear is uncanny, tuned with perfect fidelity to culture high and low, to all the temptations of language and heaven. His curiosity about form and metric have turned his work into a palace of music. Some people say, 'We don't have to a poet to match William Carlos Williams,' but I don't break a sweat, as long as Larry Kearney's alive and writing.”
David Meltzer: “Kearney is one of those unsung cats who has been producing intelligent thoughtful snarly deeply musical poetry, deeply felt wryly wrought astute poetry of the first rank, for decades for a select few—you're in for a rare treat.”
Labels: larry kearney, readings
¶ 10:03 AM 0 comments
Thursday, December 20, 2007
from Sara Mumolo & Jack Morgan (editors):
Sorry for Snake 2 is now out and available at Pegasus Downtown and Book Zoo for only four dollars and online at:
Stormy Petrel Press
Featuring the talents of:
Hillary Gravendyk
Chelsey Minnis
Michael York Kelsey
Chris Stroffolino
Michael Earl Craig
Bronwen Tate
Logan Ryan Smith
Cover by Liz Howe
Edited by Sara Mumolo and Jack Morgan
January 24th, Issue two release reading at Pegasus Downtown with Hillary Gravendyk and Logan Ryan Smith @ 7:30pm
See you there!
Logan Ryan Smith lives in San Francisco and publishes Transmission Press chapbooks. He is the author of THE SINGERS (Dusie Press Books) and STUPID BIRDS, a "full-length" book released thru his own Transmission Press. No matter what you think he thinks, he thinks the world of you. Amen.
Hillary Gravendyk's poetry has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Tarpaulin Sky, MARY, The Colorado Review, 1913: A journal of forms, and other publications. Her chapbook, The Naturalist, will be published by Achiote Press in January of 2008. She is a PhD candidate in English at the University of California, Berkeley, where she is also the co-curator of The Holloway Series in Poetry and Poems Against War. Originally from the Pacific Northwest, she and her husband now live in Oakland.
Sorry for Snake 2 is now out and available at Pegasus Downtown and Book Zoo for only four dollars and online at:Stormy Petrel Press
Featuring the talents of:
Hillary Gravendyk
Chelsey Minnis
Michael York Kelsey
Chris Stroffolino
Michael Earl Craig
Bronwen Tate
Logan Ryan Smith
Cover by Liz Howe
Edited by Sara Mumolo and Jack Morgan
January 24th, Issue two release reading at Pegasus Downtown with Hillary Gravendyk and Logan Ryan Smith @ 7:30pm
See you there!
Logan Ryan Smith lives in San Francisco and publishes Transmission Press chapbooks. He is the author of THE SINGERS (Dusie Press Books) and STUPID BIRDS, a "full-length" book released thru his own Transmission Press. No matter what you think he thinks, he thinks the world of you. Amen.
Hillary Gravendyk's poetry has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Tarpaulin Sky, MARY, The Colorado Review, 1913: A journal of forms, and other publications. Her chapbook, The Naturalist, will be published by Achiote Press in January of 2008. She is a PhD candidate in English at the University of California, Berkeley, where she is also the co-curator of The Holloway Series in Poetry and Poems Against War. Originally from the Pacific Northwest, she and her husband now live in Oakland.
Labels: readings, sorry for snake, stormy petrel press
¶ 1:12 PM 1 comments
Monday, November 12, 2007
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So, I'm still thinking about my move to New York. When looking at apartment listings thru Craiglist, I was surprised to see that apartments in the buroughs of NYC are actually cheaper than SF. Seriously. I'm paying over 800 fuckin' bucks a month for my tiny studio, and I see listings in Queens and Brooklyn for studios between $600 and $750. WTF? Not to mention that the kind of work I actually want to be involved in is editing/ copywriting, and there seems to me to be a lot of that kind of work out there, while here in SF there is zilch.
So, what the fuck am I still doing here, you ask?
Beats the holy hell out of me.
After I get back from my trip to NYC later this month I will begin saving some cash for my move and I *will* make New York my new home by February or March. I'm putting my goddamned foot down. Come hell or highwater, I will be out there by that time. No matter what.
While we're on the subject, can somebody explain to me how these "buroughs" of New York work? I mean, in SF we have neighborhoods, you know, like North Beach, The Richmond, The Sunset, The Mission, etc., but the actual mailing addresses of all those places is still San Francisco. In New York, there's Queens, the Bronx, Brooklyn, and Manhattan. But Astoria--which received a very positive endorsement from Mark Lamoureux as the best and cheapest place to live in New York--is part of Queens. HOWEVER, Astoria *is* the mailing address, NOT Queens. But Queens is a "burough" of NYC??? WHAT THE FUCK??? I DON'T GET IT!!! Just like Manhattan. There's Manhattan, but really, it's New York City. WTF!!!
Anyway, New Yorkers, don't forget I'll be taking part in the Big Game Books reading there on November 27. Here's the info again:
Tues. Nov. 27, 6:00 p.m. sharp, free
ACA Galleries 529 W. 20th St., 5th Flr. NYC
Event will be hosted by Big Game Books editor Maureen Thorson
Featuring readings from
Sandra Beasley
Shafer Hall
Ada Limón
Logan Ryan Smith
and music from Alex Battles ¶ 9:41 AM 6 comments
So, I'm still thinking about my move to New York. When looking at apartment listings thru Craiglist, I was surprised to see that apartments in the buroughs of NYC are actually cheaper than SF. Seriously. I'm paying over 800 fuckin' bucks a month for my tiny studio, and I see listings in Queens and Brooklyn for studios between $600 and $750. WTF? Not to mention that the kind of work I actually want to be involved in is editing/ copywriting, and there seems to me to be a lot of that kind of work out there, while here in SF there is zilch.
So, what the fuck am I still doing here, you ask?
Beats the holy hell out of me.
After I get back from my trip to NYC later this month I will begin saving some cash for my move and I *will* make New York my new home by February or March. I'm putting my goddamned foot down. Come hell or highwater, I will be out there by that time. No matter what.
While we're on the subject, can somebody explain to me how these "buroughs" of New York work? I mean, in SF we have neighborhoods, you know, like North Beach, The Richmond, The Sunset, The Mission, etc., but the actual mailing addresses of all those places is still San Francisco. In New York, there's Queens, the Bronx, Brooklyn, and Manhattan. But Astoria--which received a very positive endorsement from Mark Lamoureux as the best and cheapest place to live in New York--is part of Queens. HOWEVER, Astoria *is* the mailing address, NOT Queens. But Queens is a "burough" of NYC??? WHAT THE FUCK??? I DON'T GET IT!!! Just like Manhattan. There's Manhattan, but really, it's New York City. WTF!!!
Anyway, New Yorkers, don't forget I'll be taking part in the Big Game Books reading there on November 27. Here's the info again:
Tues. Nov. 27, 6:00 p.m. sharp, free
ACA Galleries 529 W. 20th St., 5th Flr. NYC
Event will be hosted by Big Game Books editor Maureen Thorson
Featuring readings from
Sandra Beasley
Shafer Hall
Ada Limón
Logan Ryan Smith
and music from Alex Battles ¶ 9:41 AM 6 comments
Sunday, November 04, 2007
I <3 NY
.
from Maureen Thorson:
Boog City presents
d.a. levy lives: celebrating the renegade press
Big Game Books
(Washington, D.C.)
Tues. Nov. 27, 6:00 p.m. sharp, free
ACA Galleries
529 W.20th St., 5th Flr.
NYC
Event will be hosted by
Big Game Books editor Maureen Thorson
Featuring readings from
Sandra Beasley
Shafer Hall
Ada Limón
Logan Ryan Smith
and music from
Alex Battles
There will be wine, cheese, and crackers, too.
Curated and with an introduction by Boog City editor David Kirschenbaum
------
**Big Game Books
http://www.reenhead.com/biggame/biggame.html
Big Game Books, which may or may not be the tiniest press in the world,
operates out of Washington, D.C. It publishes small editions of handbound
chapbooks and "tinysides," wee little six-page booklets featuring a range o'
up-and-coming poets.
*Overall Performer Bios*
**Alex Battles
http://www.whiskyrebellion.com/
Alex Battles is a country singer and songwriter, and the leader of The
Whiskey Rebellion, a country band based in Brooklyn. Originally from
Chesterland, Ohio, Battles writes country songs by turns funny and
bittersweet on his grandfather's tenor banjo. His influences are John Prine,
Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, Tom Waits, and Tom T. Hall. Battles has written
a respectable 113 songs. He is also the founder and host of such events as
the The Brooklyn Country Music Festival, The CasHank Hootenanny Jamboree,
and The Johnny Cash Birthday Bash. He things funny thongs.
**Sandra Beasley
http://www.sandrabeasley.com/
Sandra Beasley won the 2007 New Issues Poetry Prize for her book Theories of
Falling, selected by Marie Howe. Her poems have also been featured on Verse
Daily; in magazines such as 32 Poems, New Orleans Review, and Blackbird; and
in the 2005 Best New Poets. She lives in Washington, D.C., where she works
on the editorial staff of The American Scholar
**Shafer Hall
http://shaferhall.blogspot.com/
Shafer Hall is happy to live in a world where for enough money he can have
syndicated reruns of Coach on his television at almost any time of day. He
has poems forthcoming from Lungfull, and his Never Cry Woof is available
from No Tell Books.
**Ada Limón
http://www.adalimon.com/
Ada Limón is originally from Sonoma, Calif. A graduate of the creative
writing program at New York University, she won the Chicago Literary Award
for Poetry and has received fellowships from the Provincetown Fine Arts Work
Center and the New York Foundation for the Arts. She works as the Copy
Director for GQ Magazine and is teaching a Master Class for Columbia
University's MFA program in Spring 2008. Her first book, lucky wreck, was
the winner of the 2005 Autumn House Poetry Prize. Her second book, This Big
Fake World, was the winner of the 2005 Pearl Poetry Prize.
**Logan Ryan Smith
http://theredgummibear.blogspot.com/
Logan Ryan Smith lives in San Francisco where he publishes Transmission
Press chapbooks. Up until recently he published a poetry mag called small
town. In the summer of 2007 the San Francisco Bay Guardian recognized him
for his publishing efforts in their "Best of the Bay 2007" issue. His first
book, The Singers, was published by Dusie Press Books in the same summer. In
the fall of '07 he released Stupid Birds--a collection of chapbooks and
poems written between 2004 and 2006--under the Transmission Press imprint.
Other poetry has appeared in New American Writing, Bombay Gin, Spell, string
of small machines, Hot Whiskey Magazine, the tiny, Mirage #4/ Period(ical),
and elsewhere, as well as in the anthologies Bay Poetics (Faux Press), and
The Meat Book (Hot Whiskey). A few online chapbooks can be found at
detumescence.com and dusie.org.
----
Directions: C/E to 23rd St., 1/9 to 18th St.
Venue is bet. 10th and 11th avenues
from Maureen Thorson:
Boog City presents
d.a. levy lives: celebrating the renegade press
Big Game Books
(Washington, D.C.)
Tues. Nov. 27, 6:00 p.m. sharp, free
ACA Galleries
529 W.20th St., 5th Flr.
NYC
Event will be hosted by
Big Game Books editor Maureen Thorson
Featuring readings from
Sandra Beasley
Shafer Hall
Ada Limón
Logan Ryan Smith
and music from
Alex Battles
There will be wine, cheese, and crackers, too.
Curated and with an introduction by Boog City editor David Kirschenbaum
------
**Big Game Books
http://www.reenhead.com
Big Game Books, which may or may not be the tiniest press in the world,
operates out of Washington, D.C. It publishes small editions of handbound
chapbooks and "tinysides," wee little six-page booklets featuring a range o'
up-and-coming poets.
*Overall Performer Bios*
**Alex Battles
http://www.whiskyrebellion.com
Alex Battles is a country singer and songwriter, and the leader of The
Whiskey Rebellion, a country band based in Brooklyn. Originally from
Chesterland, Ohio, Battles writes country songs by turns funny and
bittersweet on his grandfather's tenor banjo. His influences are John Prine,
Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, Tom Waits, and Tom T. Hall. Battles has written
a respectable 113 songs. He is also the founder and host of such events as
the The Brooklyn Country Music Festival, The CasHank Hootenanny Jamboree,
and The Johnny Cash Birthday Bash. He things funny thongs.
**Sandra Beasley
http://www.sandrabeasley.com/
Sandra Beasley won the 2007 New Issues Poetry Prize for her book Theories of
Falling, selected by Marie Howe. Her poems have also been featured on Verse
Daily; in magazines such as 32 Poems, New Orleans Review, and Blackbird; and
in the 2005 Best New Poets. She lives in Washington, D.C., where she works
on the editorial staff of The American Scholar
**Shafer Hall
http://shaferhall.blogspot.com
Shafer Hall is happy to live in a world where for enough money he can have
syndicated reruns of Coach on his television at almost any time of day. He
has poems forthcoming from Lungfull, and his Never Cry Woof is available
from No Tell Books.
**Ada Limón
http://www.adalimon.com/
Ada Limón is originally from Sonoma, Calif. A graduate of the creative
writing program at New York University, she won the Chicago Literary Award
for Poetry and has received fellowships from the Provincetown Fine Arts Work
Center and the New York Foundation for the Arts. She works as the Copy
Director for GQ Magazine and is teaching a Master Class for Columbia
University's MFA program in Spring 2008. Her first book, lucky wreck, was
the winner of the 2005 Autumn House Poetry Prize. Her second book, This Big
Fake World, was the winner of the 2005 Pearl Poetry Prize.
**Logan Ryan Smith
http://theredgummibear.blogspot.com/
Logan Ryan Smith lives in San Francisco where he publishes Transmission
Press chapbooks. Up until recently he published a poetry mag called small
town. In the summer of 2007 the San Francisco Bay Guardian recognized him
for his publishing efforts in their "Best of the Bay 2007" issue. His first
book, The Singers, was published by Dusie Press Books in the same summer. In
the fall of '07 he released Stupid Birds--a collection of chapbooks and
poems written between 2004 and 2006--under the Transmission Press imprint.
Other poetry has appeared in New American Writing, Bombay Gin, Spell, string
of small machines, Hot Whiskey Magazine, the tiny, Mirage #4/ Period(ical),
and elsewhere, as well as in the anthologies Bay Poetics (Faux Press), and
The Meat Book (Hot Whiskey). A few online chapbooks can be found at
detumescence.com and dusie.org.
----
Directions: C/E to 23rd St., 1/9 to 18th St.
Venue is bet. 10th and 11th avenues
Labels: big game books, boog city, readings
¶ 4:31 PM 0 comments
Thursday, October 18, 2007
saturdAY satURDAY SATURDAY! then SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY!!!
.
9poets9cities Reading
.
Don't forget that I'll be giving my 9poets9cities reading (CAConrad's brainchild) this Saturday. It's being hosted by John Sakkis, the Bay Area's own Party Poet King. No poet parties with more persisitence and personality than our very own Boom Boom Sakkis. So come to the reading even if you don't like me (but quit kidding yourself, you fucking ADORE me), because there'll be a party and I'll be reading from 8 other poets' work besides my own.
.
Don't forget that I'll be giving my 9poets9cities reading (CAConrad's brainchild) this Saturday. It's being hosted by John Sakkis, the Bay Area's own Party Poet King. No poet parties with more persisitence and personality than our very own Boom Boom Sakkis. So come to the reading even if you don't like me (but quit kidding yourself, you fucking ADORE me), because there'll be a party and I'll be reading from 8 other poets' work besides my own.
The reading will be:
.
7pm, October 20, THIS Saturday
@
415 Pierce Street #3 (between Oak and Fell)
San Francisco, CA
BYOB and yr dancin' shoes, yr beautiful face, and some cherry lip gloss.
Hugs,
Logan
----------------
And don't forget that the very next day is THE NEW YIPES with Demosthenes Agrafiotis, straight outta Athens. I think Sakkis will be reading some of the translations he and Angelos Sakkis have been working on for the past year or more. Also at New Yipes will be Dolores Durantes and video by Katie Edmonds.
New Yipes readings are held at 7 pm on third Sundays at 21 Grand, 416 25th St @ B'way Oakland CA. For lack of $5 none will be turned away.
Labels: readings
¶ 11:13 AM 2 comments
Thursday, October 11, 2007
from SUSAN GEVIRTZ
.
Please come over and welcome Greek poet Demosthenes Agrafiotis visiting from Athens. Poet John Sakkis, his American translator, will read some of the translations they've worked on together -- Agrafiotis will read the Greek. He's also giving 4 readings !!! while in the Bay Area so try to catch him at The Poetry Center, The International Poetry Festival, U.C. Berkeley, or The New Yipes. Please feel free to forward this to anyone who might be interested, and/or to bring anyone along.
Hope to see you,
Susan & Steve
Please come over and welcome Greek poet Demosthenes Agrafiotis visiting from Athens. Poet John Sakkis, his American translator, will read some of the translations they've worked on together -- Agrafiotis will read the Greek. He's also giving 4 readings !!! while in the Bay Area so try to catch him at The Poetry Center, The International Poetry Festival, U.C. Berkeley, or The New Yipes. Please feel free to forward this to anyone who might be interested, and/or to bring anyone along.
Friday, October 12
5 - 7pm, 72 Carmel St.
SF 94117 between Cole and Belvedre Streets
rsvp 415 731-5311
or e-mail
Hope to see you,
Susan & Steve
Labels: readings
¶ 9:36 AM 0 comments
Thursday, October 04, 2007
ADVANCED WARNING
.
.
Click on that link to get the all the requisite info. But, basically, CAConrad is currating this 9poets9cities reading series long distance. He's asked 9 poets in 9 different cities to give readings that feature their own poetry as well as the poetry of the 8 other poets. a.rawlings already gave her reading recently in Toronto, and you can get some info how that went thru the link above.
.
My reading will be:
.
7pm, October 20, a Saturday
@
415 Pierce Street #3 (between Oak and Fell)
San Francisco, CA
.
Put that in yr Blackberry and smoke it. Anyway, this'll be taking place at John Sakkis's pad. BYOB is encouraged so we can all, you know, get comfortable, loose, breezey and SWING! I'm only kidding. Unless, you know, you're, like, down to swing, or something. Nope, still kidding. Don't be gross people. But you should bring some drinks because there will be loud music, possibly dancing, and then at some point, me reading 9 poets' poetry. It'll be a party. Also, my reading will be between 30 and 40 minutes, so it shouldn't get in the way of your happenin' Saturday night plans, if you happen to have them. But, really, ain't I enough?
.
So, don't be a douchebag, and mark yr fuckin' calendars.
.
xoxoxo,
Logan
.
.
PS
Showing up earlier than 7 and staying after the reading is a good idea. Let's try to have some fun, people. Shit. Why's it like pullin' teeth with yous people?
.
.
Labels: 9poets9cities, readings
¶ 9:20 AM 0 comments
Saturday, July 07, 2007
TONIGHT!
.
Mike Young
Logan Ryan Smith
Elliot Harmon
.
Saturday, July 7th @ 7:30pm and FREE
Pegasus Books
2349 Shattuck Ave.
Berkeley, CA 94704
.
THE SINGERS will be there for a bargain basement price of $10 a pop. FREE STUFF I'll have will include some small towns, some TRANSMISSIONs, and my chap, MUCH LIKE YOU SHARK.
.
Please show up in your finest digs and with your best adoration on.
Labels: pegasus books, readings
¶ 10:29 AM 0 comments
Saturday, June 23, 2007
2 WEEK NOTICE
.
I'll be reading at Pegasus Books with Mike Young in 2 weeks. I'll be reading from THE SINGERS and my new manuscript, IN A STATE.
You'll be able to purchase THE SINGERS from me at the reading for only $10--that's something like $5 off. PLUS, I'll have free stuff available like TRANSMISSION PRESS books and copies of old small towns, AS WELL as copies of my new *dusi/e-chap kollectiv book, MUCH LIKE YOU SHARK.
So, you should come and buy my book at this special LOW LOW discount, get some free stuff, and hear me read, which never ever happens. I get invited to read in the Bay Area once every 5 years, so you don't want to miss this opportunity--I mean, come on, it's the only chance you have to just STARE at me for, like, 15 minutes straight and not have to feel awkward about it. And don't pretend like you wouldn't relish the chance to stare DREAMILY at me for a WHOLE 15 MINUTES!
Saturday, July 7th @ 7:30pm and FREE
Pegasus Books
2349 Shattuck Ave.
Berkeley, CA 94704
I'll be reading at Pegasus Books with Mike Young in 2 weeks. I'll be reading from THE SINGERS and my new manuscript, IN A STATE.
You'll be able to purchase THE SINGERS from me at the reading for only $10--that's something like $5 off. PLUS, I'll have free stuff available like TRANSMISSION PRESS books and copies of old small towns, AS WELL as copies of my new *dusi/e-chap kollectiv book, MUCH LIKE YOU SHARK.
So, you should come and buy my book at this special LOW LOW discount, get some free stuff, and hear me read, which never ever happens. I get invited to read in the Bay Area once every 5 years, so you don't want to miss this opportunity--I mean, come on, it's the only chance you have to just STARE at me for, like, 15 minutes straight and not have to feel awkward about it. And don't pretend like you wouldn't relish the chance to stare DREAMILY at me for a WHOLE 15 MINUTES!
Saturday, July 7th @ 7:30pm and FREE
Pegasus Books
2349 Shattuck Ave.
Berkeley, CA 94704
Labels: me me me, pegasus books, readings
¶ 4:16 PM 3 comments
