New Philadelphia Poets

June 16th, 7pm

Come tonight to see Sarah Heady, Tyler Doherty, John Landry & Andrew Schelling.

This will promise to be a night soaked in the tradition of the Eastern Ecstatic.  You will love it.  And like the sun in the day we will rise.

FERGIE’S PUB, 1214 Sansom Street, 7pm.  Bring your bells & whistles.

Tuesday, June 15th, 7pm

Debrah Morkun & CAConrad will present their collaborative (Soma)tic exercise & poems —

#42:  TRECARTIN ALLELUJIAH DEVIANT

at Moonstone Arts Center, 108 South 13th Street, Philadelphia PA

DEBRAH MORKUN & KIM GEK LIN SHORT READ IN CHICAGO!

Come to Myopic Books, Chicago, Illinois, to hear Debrah Morkun & Kim Gek Lin Short read their poems.  7pm.  If you happen to be in Chicagoland, come, come!!!

Stargazing Landis and Fullerton Moths

JUBILANT THICKET
poetry  +  artways  +  local spirits
at Molly’s Bookstore on second Sundays

Matthew Landis Chapbook Release Party!

with lovely chanteuse Liz Fullerton

featuring 3 local wines:
Pinot Noir 2005  :::  Briar Patch  :::  Solar Celebration
 from Stargazers Vineyard

Sunday, June 13th
7:00 pm
Molly’s Bookstore (1010 S. 9th St. Phila, PA 19147 in the Italian Market)
$5 (includes local wine)
Open reading to follow

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MATTHEW LANDIS is a poet, musician, and songwriter from the Philadelphia area. He is a graduate of U Penn’s MLA program, where his capstone was a collection of poems and as well as an experimental essay on poetics and cultural theory. Matthew’s poems & essays have appeared or will be appearing online/in-print in places such as Critiphoria, Try, Literary Kicks, & EOGAH. He has been playing music locally as a jazz musician, classical musician, session musician, sideman and singer-songwriter for over a decade and has toured Europe and the Northeast extensively as a keyboardist for Brooklyn cabaret-circus-punk band The World/Inferno Friendship Society.
LIKE A MOTH FROM HIS DEAD MOUTH is Matthew Landis’ first, self-published chapbook and is comprised of the first three parts of two related serial poems, “Glossolalia” and “Aphasia” which are bookended three separate, individual pieces (“Our Fathers Were All Thieves”, “Modern Priapeia in Pseudo-Middle English” & “Cresting”). The chapbook also contains an addendum which features Matthew’s translations of Rimbaud and Celan. The poems in the book all explore different textual strategies, limitations, and conditions deploying strategies as varied as diastic reading, acrostics, cut ups, textual collage, pastiche, & neologisms. The pieces all attempt to explore concepts such as personal & institutional memory, as well as the complicated and tenuous relationship between language & identity (specifically the construct of the author and sexual identity) in a posthuman(ist) age.

LIZ FULLERTON says: Acoustic music doesn’t mean much unless you’ve got a reason to listen. Liz Fullerton’s voice, intoxicating and sedate as it is without words, will force you to stop everything you’re doing to hear tales of slow journeys toward the center — the place where our hearts are filled, our minds put to ease, and our spirits brim with wholeness. She will grab your attention like a baby wolf, 
and it will be impossible to watch her leave when the songs are through. But you will be better for it.

STARGAZERS VINEYARD & WINERY are owned and operated by Alice and John Weygandt.  The Vineyard was first planted in 1979; the winery was established in 1996. The Vineyard overlooks the Brandywine Creek from its south facing slopes just north of Unionville, PA in Southern Chester County. Terroir, individuality and character represent traditional values which we at Stargazers cherish and which result in wine with elegance, complexity and depth of flavor, an intense mineral quality from our schisty Chester County soils, and a lingering finish.  

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NPP PRESENTS:

Eric Ekstrand, Hannah Gamble & Sean Bishop

Poems @ Fergie’s Pub (1214 Sansom St) @ 6 pm 

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Chapter & Verse Presents: 

Eugene Ostashevsky, Carolina Maugeri & Kyle Conner

Poems @ Chapterhouse Cafe (620 S 9th St) @ 8 pm

Get messed up on local wine at Molly’s

JUBILANT THICKET
poetry  +  artways  +  local spirits

at Molly’s Bookstore on second Sundays
INAUGURAL READING
Sunday, May 9th
7:00-9:00 pm
Molly’s Bookstore (1010 S. 9th St. Phila, PA 19147 in the Italian Market)
$4 suggested donation (includes wine)


A gritty Philadelphian lineup featuring

• the poetry of Ryan Eckes


• Jeffrey Stockbridge and Liz Moore’s collaborative photo essay on Kensington:  While photographing abandoned houses in various neighborhoods of Philadelphia, Jeffrey Stockbridge began to meet and photograph residents of Kensington.  His initial focus was on a group of women who struggle with addiction and support their habits through prostitution; since then he has broadened his interest to include other people, places, and features of the neighborhood.  In the fall of 2009 he invited writer Liz Moore to accompany him on his visits to Kensington.  She is working on a related, long-form piece of creative nonfiction.

….and two lovely springlike wines from Penns Woods Winery  in Chadds Ford, PA: their 2008 Traminette and 2006 White Merlot

NPP Presents: Sueyeun Juliette Lee and Erica Kaufman

Saturday May 1st from 7-10 - Fergies Pub (upstairs), 1214 Sansom St. Philadelphia, PA

Sueyeun Juliette Lee grew up 3 miles from the CIA. She edits Corollary Press (www.corollarypress.org), a chapbook series devoted to multi-ethnic experimental writing. Her books include That Gorgeous Feeling(Coconut Press) and the recently released Underground National (Factory School). She is completing her doctoral dissertation at Temple, and is writing about the social geographies of Asian American avant garde literature.

Erica Kaufman is the author of the book-length poem censory impulse (Factory School), as well as several chapbooks. Kaufman’s poems can be found in LIT, Aufgabe, Jacket Magazine, The Mississippi Review, and elsewhere. Her creative work has been translated into Spanish and Portuguese. Essays and reviews can be found in The Poetry Project Newsletter, Rain Taxi, Jacket Magazine, among other places. Kaufman is currently a Ph.D. Candidate in Composition and Rhetoric at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her research interests include exploring the interstices between composing practices and non-linear poetics. Kaufman currently teaches at Baruch College, New York City College of Technology, and is a faculty member of both Bard College’s Institute for Writing & Thinking and Institute for Language & Thinking.

NPP Presents Fletcher & Schomburg

This Friday, April 23

6:30 - 9:00 pm @ FERGIE’S PUB (1214 Sansom St)

Sasha Fletcher’s novella WHEN ALL OUR DAYS ARE NUMBERED MARCHING BANDS WILL FILL THE STREETS & WE WILL NOT HEAR THEM BECAUSE WE WILL BE UPSTAIRS IN THE CLOUDS is due out from ml press this June. In October the Greying Ghost will release his chapbook I AIN’T ASKED ANY PARDON FOR ANYTHING I DONE. His poetry manuscript EVERYTHING HERE IS OK was a finalist for Octopus Books. He is an MFA candidate in Poetry at Columbia University in the city of New York.

Zachary Schomburg is the author of Scary, No Scary (Black Ocean Press, 2009), The Man Suit (Black Ocean Press, 2007), and several chapbooks, including, most recently, collaborations with Emily Kendal Frey called Team Sad (Cinemathique Press 2010), Feelings Using Wolves (Small Fires Press, forthcoming), and Ok, Goodnight (Future Tense Books, forthcoming). His translations from the Russian of the poems of Andrei Sen-Senkov have been published in Circumference, Jacket, Harp & Altar, and Aufgabe among others. A DVD of his poem-films, Little Blind Things, is now available from Poor Claudia. He and Mathias Svalina co-edit Octopus Magazine and Octopus Books. He lives in Portland, Oregon.