FURTHER LANDSCAPES, a reading and community discussion
Taking the image of the “urban wasteland” or “third landscape” as a broad conceptual platform, this event will include readings and interactive audience discussion with poets & interdisciplinary writers/artists around the question: What does it mean to be currently engaged in writing around/about ecology while living in an urban/industrialized area?
Featuring: CAConrad, Tina Darragh, Marcella Durand, Brenda Iijima, Patrick Lucy, Hoa Nguyen & Jonathan Skinner
SAT, Nov. 13: 4-7pm
@ Fergies Pub
For more information contact J. Townsend at: greybridge@gmail.com
CACONRAD is the author of The Book of Frank (Wave Books, 2010/Chax Press, 2009). He is also the author of Advanced Elvis Course (Soft Skull Press, 2009), (Soma)tic Midge (Faux Press, 2008), Deviant Propulsion (Soft Skull Press, 2006), and a collaboration with poet Frank Sherlock titled The City Real & Imagined (Factory School, 2010). The son of white trash asphyxiation, his childhood included selling cut flowers along the highway for his mother and helping her shoplift.
TINA DARRAGH ’s recent books include Deep eco pré, a collaboration with Marcella Durand freely available from Little Red Leaves (http://www.littleredleaves.com/), and the Elders Series #8 with Jane Sprague and Diane Ward (belladonna 2009). “No Rights Observed” - an opposable dumbs project report - will soon be available from Palm Press (http://www.palmpress.org/)
MARCELLA DURAND ’s recent books include Deep Eco Pré, a collaboration with Tina Darragh (Little Red Leaves, 2009); AREA (Belladonna Books, 2008 ), and Traffic & Weather, a site-specific book-length poem written during a residency at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council in downtown Manhattan (Futurepoem Books, 2008). She is the 2010-2011 Fellow in Poetics and Poetic Practice for the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing at the University of Pennsylvania where she will be teaching a course in ecology and poetry.
BRENDA IIJIMA is the author of Around Sea (O Books), Animate, Inanimate Aims (Litmus Press), revv. you’ll—ution (Displaced Press) and If Not Metamorphic (Ahsahta Press) as well as numerous chapbooks and artist’s books. She is also the editor of the eco language reader (Nightboat Books and PP@YYL). Currently she is working on a body of work titled Some Simple Things Said by and about Humans—a chronicle of how humans have used animals as surrogates. She is also choreographing ecstatic creaturely movements and gestures. She is the editor of Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs (http://yoyolabs.com/).
PATRICK LUCY lives and writes in Philadelphia, where he is a member of the New Philadelphia Poets. Recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in Gulf Coast, The Corduroy Mtn, Elimae, Elective Affinities, and more. He is the author of two chapbooks: LIVE FIELD: GROWTHS 1-5 (_Catch/Confetti press) and WILLIAM (Con/Crescent press, forthcoming).
HOA NGUYEN was born in the Mekong Delta, grew up in the DC area and studied poetics in San Francisco. She is the author of 8 books and chapbooks, most recently *Hecate Lochia* (Hot Whiskey, 2009), *Kiss a Bomb Tattoo* (Effing Press, 2009) and *Chinaberry* (Fact Simile, 2010). Based in Austin, Hoa curates a reading series and leads a creative writing workshop.
JONATHAN SKINNER ’s poetry collections include With Naked Foot (Little Scratch Pad Press, 2009) and Political Cactus Poems (Palm Press, 2005). He founded and edits the journal ecopoetics (www.ecopoetics.org), which features creative-critical intersections between writing and ecology. Skinner also writes ecocriticism on contemporary poetry and poetics: his essay “Thoughts on Things: Poetics of the Third Landscape” appeared recently in the eco language reader (ed. Brenda Iijima). Skinner teaches in the Environmental Studies Program at Bates College, in Central Maine, where he makes his home.
Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010
NPP PRESENTS 2 poets from Philadelphia & 2 poets from Seattle!
Melissa Degezelle is a Birth Arts International trained DOULA, a mother to Hazel, & a graduate of the Master of Fine Arts program in Poetry at Brooklyn College.
Paul Siegell is the author of three books of poetry: wild life rifle fire (Otoliths Books, 2010), jambandbootleg (A-Head Publishing, 2009), and Poemergency Room (Otoliths Books, 2008). He is a staff editor at Painted Bride Quarterly, & has contributed to the American Po…etry Review, Coconut, Rattle, & many other fine journals. He has also been featured in two national music & culture magazines, Paste & Relix, as well as elsewhere exciting. Having lived in the midst of the Long Island Expressway, the Cathedral of Learning, the Magic Kingdom, Stone Mountain, & now the Liberty Bell, he currently bikes to a building where newspapers are published, & there he writes for a living, but not as a journalist. Kindly find more of Paul’s work at ReVeLeR@eYeLeVeL (http://paulsiegell.blogspo t.com/).
Crystal Curry was born in Greenville, Illinois in 1974. Her work has appeared in Denver Quarterly, Open City, Conduit, VERSE, & The Hat, & is featured online at Wave Books’ The Bedazzler. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Curry lives in Seattle where she helps manage a gourmet deli & studies to be a cheesemonger. She recommends Cypress Grove Cheve’s Humbodlt Fog for any & all occasions. She is also a mother to Cor Finnegan.
Nico Vassilakis lives in Seattle. His more recent books include Diptych (Otoliths), Askew (bbc press), TEXT LOSES TIME (manypenny press), StarReduction (Book Thug), Disparate Magnets (BlazeVox), Protracted Type (Blue Lion Books), Irrational Dude with Robert Mittenthal (tir aux pigeons), & West of Dodge (redfox press).
These two cities will merge in magic Tuesday, November 2nd, at 6pm, at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Samson Street, Philadelphia, PA.
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16th, 7pm
An evening of readings from:
James Belflower (Instance Press)
Kate Greenstreet (Ahsahta)
Joe Hall (Black Ocean)
Steven Karl (Flying Guillotine)
Lauren Bender (Publishing Genius)
Andy Devine/Jamie Gaughran-Perez (Publishing Genius)
Dan Magers (Immaculate Disciples Press)
Adam Robinson (Publishing Genius)
Ben Segal (Publishing Genius)
at Philly’s FERGIE’S PUB: 1214 SANSOM
James Belflower is the author of Commuter (Instance Press) and Bird Leaves the Cornice, winner of the 2010 Spring Gun Press Chapbook contest. Commuter was recently voted 2009’s “Best Book Length Long Poem/Sequence by ColdFront magazine. His work appears, or is forthcoming in: EOAGH, Denver Quarterly, Apostrophe Cast, 1913 & Greatcoat among others. He curates the Yes! Reading Series in Albany NY.
Lauren Bender is co-director of Narrow House, Feminine Arbiter of Phrases for the Performance Thanatology Research Society, and curator of Show&Tell, a new performance series in Baltimore. Books include Whale Box (Publishing Genius) and The Dictionary Poems(Furniture Press). Work has appeared in various print and online places including onedit, Featherproof’s iPhone app, and The Shattered Wig Review. Performances have included Big Pink with William Bender at the BMA as part of the Franz West: To Build a House You Start With the Roof exhibition, and CorpOreo I and II, video performances as part of the Transmodern Festival in Baltimore and the Los Solos Series, respectively. Sporadic postings can be found at http://www.times-infinity.blogspot.com/.
Andy Devine’s alphabetical fiction and essays have appeared in a variety of literary magazines, including New York Tyrant, Unsaid, Elimae, Everyday Genius, and Taint. In 2002, he was awarded the Riddley Walker Prize (for a work that ignores conventional rules of grammar and punctuation). In 2007, he published a chapbook, “As Day Same That the the Was Year” (Publishing Genius). In 2009, Andy Devine was awarded The Ivory-Billed Woodpecker Award (for fiction in the face of adversity). WORDS (2010, Publishing Genius) is his first book. Andy Devine Avenue — in Flagstaff, Arizona — is named after him.
Kate Greenstreet is the author of The Last 4 Things and case sensitive, both on Ahsahta Press, and four chapbooks, most recently “but even now I am perhaps not speaking” (Imprint Press, 2010). Her new work is in current or forthcoming issues of Chicago Review, Colorado Review, Cannibal, VOLT, and other journals. More information at kickingwind.com.
Joe Hall’s first book of poems is Pigafetta Is My Wife (Black Ocean Press 2010). Pigafetta has appeared on the Small Press Distribution Best Seller List and is a Poetry International Notable Book of the Year. His poetry and fiction have appeared in Gulf Coast, HTML Giant, Barrelhouse, The Boog Portable Reader, Zone 3 and elsewhere. With Wade Fletcher he co-organizes the DC area reading series Cheryl’s Gone. He no longer lives in a trailer park.
Steven Karl is the author of (Ir)Rational Animals (Flying Guillotine Press, 2010) and with Joseph Lappie, the collaborative chapbook, State(s) of Flux (Peptic Robot Press, 2009). He has e-chaps forthcoming from h_ngm_n and Scantily Clad Press. He’s the News Editor for Coldfront and an assistant editor for Sink Review. He adjuncts at many places and calls Brooklyn, NY his home.
Dan Magers graduated from The New School’s MFA program and works on engineering books for a publishing company. He is co-founder and co-editor of Sink Review (sinkreview.org), an online poetry magazine, as well as a chapbook press called Immaculate Disciples Press. He has poems published in Sixth Finch, Eleven Eleven, the tiny, and forthcoming in Forklift, Ohio, among other places. A regular contributor of books reviews at New Pages (newpages.com), he currently lives in Brooklyn, NY.
Adam Robinson is the publisher of 15 books of innovative prose and poetry through his small press, Publishing Genius. He has also written two books of his own poetry, including Adam Robison and Other Poems, which Narrow House released last spring. He holds an MFA from the University of Baltimore, where he won the Yale Gordon advisory committee award. He writes about poetics and small press culture for HTMLGIANT, the literary blog of the future, and plays guitar in the rock band, Sweatpants.
Ben Segal is the author of 78 Stories (No Record Press). His chapbooks ‘Science Fiction Pornography’ and ‘Weather Days’ were published by Publishing Genius and ML Press, and his short fiction has appeared in various publications including Gigantic, The Collagist, Eyeshot, and elimae. He is also the co-editor of The Official Catalog of the Library of Potential Literature.
Poets from all over the Eastern Seaboard! You do not want to miss this spectacular.
Sunday, October 10th, 7pm
The JUBILANT THICKET SERIES features Daron Muellar, CAConrad, and Cedar Sigo.
This event occurs at Molly’s Bookstore, 1010 South 9th Street, in Philadelphia’s Italian Market. Hosted by Debrah Morkun. Bring Your Own Bottles!!!
DARON MUELLAR is a poet and filmmaker living in New York City. His poems have appeared in The Long Beach Art Walk, The Stolen Purse, Nancypants, and Transition. He was the assistant director for the film Flip. Daron studied poetry at Naropa University with Lisa Jarnot, Anne Waldman, and Anselm Hollo.
CACONRAD is the recipi…ent of the Gil Ott Book Award for The Book of Frank (Chax Press, 2009). He is also the author of Advanced Elvis Course (Soft Skull Press, 2009), (Soma)tic Midge (Faux Press, 2008), and a collaboration with poet Frank Sherlock titled The City Real & Imagined (Factory School, 2010). The son of white trash asphyxiation, his childhood included selling cut flowers along the highway for his mother and helping her shoplift. For correspondence, contact CAConrad13@aol.com .
CEDAR SIGO is a poet and sometime teacher, active in the literary and art world since 1999. He studied Writing & Poetics at Naropa University. He is the author of Selected Writings (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2003), Expensive Magic (House Press, 2008), and most recently Stranger in Town (City Lights, 2010). His poems have been included in many magazines and anthologies, and he has published poetry books and magazines under the Old Gold imprint. He participated in “Coordinates: Indigenous Writing Now,” a conference at California College of the Arts. He has read at the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church, The Bowery Poetry Club, PS1 Museum of Contemporary Art, Beyond Baroque, The San Francisco Poetry Center, The San Francisco LGBT Center, Intersection for the Arts, Small Press Traffic, and elsewhere. He has collaborated with visual artists including Cecilia Dougherty, Frank Haines, Will Yackulic, and Colter Jacobsen. He lives in San Francisco.
Tuesday, September 21st, 6pm
The New Philadelphia Poets Present Nicholas A. DeBoer, Peter Davis, Jennifer L. Knox, & Shana Compton.
This all happens at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, at 6pm.
Here’s some info about the night’s fabulous readers:
Nicholas A. DeBoer: On October 30, 1952, his parents were born in separate cities, twelve hours apart. Mine was on the 23rd, WSB’s #. EzPo in 1887, me in 1981 (94 years). The SI supported the barricades as long as they could, hands like miniature infidels, 1968 (13 years). Tumbled out in the middle of the night, without any breath in the lungs…. Policy Wonk degree from WMU (2004), the rest from JKDP (2008). Ushered White Waiting (2009) available from Con/Crescent Press. Published poems in Fact-Simile, Bombay Gin, In Stereo Press and other(s). My poem of some length caught in the graveyard, a tarantula on the right shoulder, inking venom into a tattoo: ‘ante mortem no scortum’” www.concrescentpress.org
JENNIFER L. KNOX was born in Lancaster, California—home to Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart, and the Space Shuttle. Her other
…books of poems, Drunk by Noon and A Gringo Like Me, are also available through Bloof. A volume of her verse in German, Wir Fürchten Uns,is available through Lux Books. Her poems have appeared in three volumes of the Best American Poetry series, Best
American Erotic Poems, Great American Prose Poems: From Poet to Present, and Free Radicals: American Poets Before Their First Books. One of Jen’s poems recently appeared in The New Yorker. http://www.jenniferlknox.com/
PETER DAVIS writes, draws, and makes music in Muncie, Indiana, with his sweet kids and sweet wife. His first book of poetry is Hitler’s Mustache (2007), and he edited Poet’s Bookshelf: Contemporary Poets on Books That Shaped Their Art (2005) and coedited Poet’s Bookshelf II (2008) with Tom Koontz, all from Barnwood Press. He teaches English at Ball State University. Poems from Peter’s new book Poetry! Poetry! Po…etry! are forthcoming in The Best American Poetry 2010, edited by Amy Gerstler & David Lehman. http://artisnecessary.com/
SHANNA COMPTON’s books include For Girls (& Others) (Bloof, 2007), Down Spooky (Winnow, 2005), Gamers (Soft Skull, 2004), and several chapbooks, including a new one called Good Morning, Romantics (Bloof, 2010). Her third poetry collection, The Seam Rovers, is forthcoming from Bloof Books in February 2011. New poems have appeared or are forthcoming in No Tell Motel, The Black Warrior Review, Dusie, The Equalizer, and LIT. http://www.shannacompton.com/
The New Philadelphia Poets read at Philadelphia Center for the Book on South!
The New Philadelphia Poets read Friday, September 10th, from 6pm - 8pm at Philadelphia Center for the Book on South, 626 South Street. Come one & all, it is sure to be delightful.
Friday 9/3: Triple Header
the most poetry-packed September eve in memory…
6:00 pm: Eastern Seaboard Showcase: Sarah Heady, Hailey Higdon & Angel Hogan [from Philly] and Mike Lala, Eric Nelson, & Matt Zingg [from New York]. Philadelphia Center for the Book on South, 626 South Street, Philadelphia. Free, BYOB.
7:30 pm: NPP Presents Carlos Soto Roman, Julie Doxsee, Frank Sherlock, & David Wolach. Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia.
9:30 pm: Mostly Books presents Sarah Dowling, Chris Alexander and Kristen Gallagher. Mostly Books, 529 Bainbridge St, Philadelphia.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 14TH, 7PM
Come to the Milkweed Pod Sculpture next to the DOW CHEMICAL BUILDING in Philadelphia (SW corner of 6th & Market) to see Joshua Beckman, Debrah Morkun, Frank Sherlock, and Laura Spagnoli read for CAConrad’s amazing new reading series TRANSGRESSORS!
For more information, go here.
