April 15th Poetry Party in a Warehouse Full of Books
So, I think this is going to be good. I think you should come to this poetry party! Poets in a warehouse on Frankford Avenue. Some of these poets live in New York City and are in a group called the Corresponding Society. Some of these poets live in Philadelphia and are in a group called the New Philadelphia Poets. Some of these amazing poets reside in Philadelphia, but claim no category. Let’s explore the possibility of correspondence. Between cities. Between people who live in cities and write things down.
Thursday, April 15, 7:00 pm -Readers feature: members of the Corresponding Society: Robert Snyderman, Christopher Sweeney, Lonely Christopher, members of The New Philadelphia Poets: Debrah Morkun, Patrick Lucy, Jamie Townsend, Gregory Bem, Carlos Soto Roman, Sarah Heady, Matthew Landis AND Brandon Holmquest, Hailey Higdon, Jeff Brennan, and Ryan Eckes. Hosted by Marion Bell & Debrah Morkun. Come to BookSpace (formerly Philadelphia Book Company), 1113 Frankford Avenue in Fishtown! Just a block from the Girard El Stop on the Market-Frankford Line. Starts at 7pm and goes until 11.
Free dinner, free friends, just $10
Sunday, March 28, 7:00-11:00 pm
* BYOB DINNER PARTY * POETRY READING * OPEN MIC *
to benefit the legendary MOLLY’S BOOKSTORE
featuring
JOE ROARTY & LUIS HUMBERTO VALADEZ
PLUS: Free Body Painting by Stephanie Stoner!
“There is no canvas more magnificent than that of living human flesh.” Images and text from beyond the imagination, custom for anyone.
WHEN: Sunday, March 28th, 7:00-11:00 pm (reading begins at 8:00, open mic to follow)
WHERE: Molly’s Bookstore, 1010 S. 9th St. (between Carpenter and Washington, in the Italian Market)
WHY: You love poetry and people! You want to support local, independent bookstores and build strong communities around them!
COST: $10 gets you a delicious vegetarian/vegan dinner cooked by Molly herself! Proceeds go to support renovations of Molly’s Bookstore.
This is a casual event—please remember to BYOB!
(The most convenient Wine & Spirits is on South Street between 7th and 8th).
JOE ROARTY, by way of bio:
born on a mountain
raisd n a cave
fukkn & fiten
is all i crave
LUIS HUMBERTO VALADEZ writes poetry and plays music and is from Chicago Heights, IL. He received his B.A. from Columbia College Chicago, where he studied Sound Recording and Poetry, and an MFA in Writing and Poetics from the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University. His influences range from Frank O’Hara, Anne Sexton, Harryette Mullen, Sonia Sanchez, and Amiri Baraka, to Chino XL, Saul Williams, Anne Waldman, Federico Garcia Lorca, Alice Notley and Ted Berrigan. His first collection of poems, “what i’m on,” was published by the University of Arizona Press in March of 2009. His first CD “wat ahm on (ep)” was released in conjunction with the book by Last Minute Records. He currently works as AmeriCorps VISTA Leader for Chicago Public School Students in Temporary Living Situations Program, leading the management of their homeless shelter based after-school tutoring program Chicago HOPES.
Haiti Benefit This Sunday
Sunday, February 28th
5 pm, $10.00 donation (to OIC International)
@ The LAFF House (221 South Street)
BLEND, NPP & Light of Unity Association team up to host a benefit show @ The LAFF House. All proceeds go to OIC International.
Featuring readings and musical performances by:
Allegra Fletcher, Angel Hogan, Asttarte Deva, Jaz, Ish Klein, Peter Baroth, Elliott Levin, Alla Vilnyanskaya, Greg Bem, Sarah Heady, Courtney Bambrick, Debrah Morkun, Francesca Costanzo, Iain Pollock, Tamara Oakman, & Nate Graham
Thanks!
Thanks to everyone who made it to the Magic Gardens yesterday for NPP’s poem and chapbook making event.
Together we added bunches of poems & nearly thirty chapbooks to the world. Be proud.
They were weird & wonderful &, more often than not, about cats.
Special thanks to the Garden’s staff for making the afternoon happen!
Jan 16: NPP to NYC
REDEMPTIVE STRIKE: RECKONING THE DECADE
At the beginning of the century, we found ourselves in a dark wood. The past ten years saw the collapse of the Twin Towers, the marriage of religious fundamentalism and global politics, and the rise of digital communities. With this in mind, The New Philadelphia Poets launch a redemptive strike on the past decade. Join us for a reconsideration of this yet unnamed era.
Bowery Poetry Club (308 Bowery)
Saturday, Jan. 16, 2010
6:00 pm, $6.00
Featuring: Gregory Bem, Sarah Heady, Debrah Morkun, Patrick Lucy, Angel Hogan, Matthew Landis, Carlos Soto Román, and Jamie Townsend.
Audio: 12/8 Highwire Gallery
Audio from the 12/8/09 reading at the Highwire Gallery is up. The night includes music by Josh Carrigan, two sets by Cuddle Magic, and readings by Greg Bem, Patrick Lucy, Sarah Heady, Debrah Morkun, Matthew Landis, Carlos Soto Román, and Jamie Townsend.
The recording is available for download at Greg Bem’s blog »
Tues, Dec. 15: Erotic Literary Salon
Philadelphia’s Erotic Literary Salon. Featuring- Debrah Morkun, a Philadelphia-based poet whose work travels through the realms of love, confusion, illusion, hyper-meta-cognition and metaphor. She will read her most brazenly erotic pieces while Asttarte Deva, sacred healer, will engage in tantric breathing & chanting. The forces of poetry and tantra will combine to create a unique evening of tantra-poetics -Along with New Salon Erotic Readings.
Where: TIME (The Bohemian Absinthe Lounge) 1315 Sansom Street, Center City, Philadelphia.
When: Tuesday, December 15, 7:30 pm
Doors open at 7:30 p.m. (limited seating), for cocktails, food and conversation. The event begins promptly at 8:00 p.m. Admission is $10, discounted for F/T students and seniors (65+) – $8. Salon attendees ages 21+ are invited to recite original erotica, words of others, an extemporaneous narrative or poetic work; share distinctive authors, books, and websites; and join in friendly discussions — all pertaining to this most intimate and human of literary genres.
More information and audio of past salons at the Erotic Literary Salon’s website »
Poetry, Wool & Music: Tues @ 7 PM
Join NPP for an evening of music, poetry and visual art, featuring Cuddle Magic and singer/songwriter Josh Carrigan, and fiber art by Wool Mammoth on Tuesday, December 8th from 7-10 at the Highwire Gallery (2040 Frankford Ave., Fishtown, Phila.) 5$ cover
Cuddle Magic (pictured above) is a large ensemble with members from Brooklyn, Philadelphia & Boston that performs lush, whimsical songs with wide-ranging instrumentation including strings, percussion, vibraphone, trumpet, clarinet, keyboards, guitars, and sweet vocal harmonies. The ensemble, which sometimes swells to 12 or more, plays deftly crafted arrangements of their complex and varied set of original music. They are as friendly and inclusive as their name might suggest — after forming as a quintet over a year ago, they have gradually come to incorporate more and more of their musical friends into the band, constructing intricate soundscapes that include elements of folk music, avant-garde classical music, world music, and urban music.
Josh Carrigan is a multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, and composer living in Philadelphia. His music admires and incorporates musique concrete, tape music, free improvisation, electronic sounds, vocal musics, percussion ensembles, field recordings, erotic psychedelia, drone maps, old radio programs, and pop classics from Seoul to Memphis. He has recorded hundreds of cassettes, using and re-using these as sound material for future tapes, accumulating and overdubbing humming networks of aural references & their sonic sources. Live performances feature these sounds juxtaposed with electroacoustic orchestrations and vocal aromatics.
Wool Mammoth: A fiber artist living in Philadelphia. Involving organic creations; animals, plants, a personal mythology emerging from the movement of eyes and hands. Works in various materials; whatever breathes, shrinks, and stretches itself to fit. Small things, big things, installations, knitted musculature. Like in long-legged dreams, an assemblage of seeing. Her creatures appear (sporadically) in various Philly venues, online, and at home roosting in Kensington. Sleeping cats keeping wool warm.
Poets include Debrah Morkun, Patrick Lucy, Jamie Townsend, Sarah Heady, Carlos Soto Román, Greg Bem, and Matthew Landis
