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.
