12/11/2009: LONELY CHRISTOPHER & REBECCA NAGLE.


Friday, December 11, 2009
10PM - MIDNIGHT

Lonely Christopher writes across forms; he is a poet, playwright, director, editor, and unpublished novelist. His poetry has been collected in the chapbooks Satan (Small Anchor) and Wow, Where Do You Come from, Upside-Down Land? (No Know) and the first two installments of his Gay Plays, a trilogy of dramatic explorations into the queer situation, have been released together by Small Anchor. Withal, the Gay Plays have been staged internationally and published in China in a Mandarin translation. He is a founding member of the Corresponding Society, the manager of its blog, and an editor of its biannual literary journal Correspondence; he is the curator of the press’ second series of poetry chapbooks What Where (forthcoming in winter). He lives in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn.

Rebecca Nagle is a performance, new media and community artist. She grew up in Kansas. After attending Interlochen Arts Academy, she studied at Maryland Institute College of Art. She is an internationally exhibited and collected artist with works in the New Museum, NY and Ssamzie Art Warehouse, South Korea. Nagle has shown at Current Gallery, Art in General, Site Santa Fe, Artscape, and Conflux Festival. She was hailed by Baltimore City’s Paper’s senior arts editor Bret McCabe as “Baltimore’s very own life-is-art-is-life performance maven…mingling the internet and performance into a fresh and vital new thing”. Rebecca’s performative, interative and community art projects challenge people around issues of intimacy, the body, power, boundaries and efficacy. She is currently trying to make the world a more open, equitable and creative place through community organizing and radical performance art.

11/20/2009: POETS' POTLUCK V.



Friday, November 20th
10PM - MIDNIGHT

All ye gather ‘round, for it is time for thanks & communal turkey (or tofurkey) burgers at the Poetry Project Friday Night Series’ precariously annual Thanksgiving potluck. Come join us for a warm thanking of friends & good times with food, drinks, music, poetry, & other forms of shareable merriment.

Readings & performances by:

Jim Behrle / Kate Berlant / Will Edmiston / Gordon Faylor / Corrine Fitzpatrick / Lawrence Giffin / Kelly Ginger / Eddie Hopely / Diana Hamilton / Josef Kaplan / Arlo Quint / Judah Rubin / Nicole Wallace / Andrew James Weatherhead / Dustin Williamson / & some music by BOOM CHICK too.


11/13/2009: MENSA & AMJ CRAWFORD.



Friday, November 13th
10PM - MIDNIGHT
$8 General / $7 Students & Seniors / $5 or FREE for Members

AN EVENING OF MYSTICAL DO-WOP-ING BY THE MENSA COLLECTIVE & A POETRY READING BY THE WONDERFUL ALEJANDRO MIGUEL JUSTINO CRAWFORD.

- MENSA / AMJ CRAWFORD COLLABORATIVE BROADSIDES READY & WILLING FOR THE PICKING & KEEPING -

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"We are mensa ::gong:: there is no tao for this sort of thing. there are no cults or team sports or nature retreats that fix this for us. each day is a buffet of choice, have you been eating well today? we’ve been communing with nature and so far what we’ve heard is that a vast fleet of insects have gone into rebellion. rogue warriors. manifest destineee! we’re working on our fun skills. Prescriptions for your mother gurus for your friends. Fun fun fun it’s where the sidewalk ends."

Mensa is a performance collective formed by the installation artists Ariele Affigne and Sarah Maurer and performer Jordan Petros-Chin. Maurer and and Affigne are previously known for work that may be described as nested architectures: built spaces which make physical the personal within a larger area. Synthesizing the structural conceits of a magician’s theater with the discourse charged trans-identitarianisms (and object mutation) of alchemical practices, their performance for the Poetry Project will seek to enact this prescriptive fun within the spaces and sensoria made available by their audience. Jordan Petros- Chin is a dynamic singer, actor, and creative mind whose vocal talents have been lended both to rock bands and classical theatre.

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AMJ Crawford is the author of Morpheu (BlazeVOX 2009), editor of zenSLUM, & co-editor of Le Dodo. He is a former Fulbright Scholar to Portugal and currently studies at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program.

11/06/2009: JOSÉ FELIPE ALVERGUE & PATRICK LOVELACE.



Friday, November 6th
10PM - MIDNIGHT
$8 General / $7 Students & Seniors / $5 or FREE for Members

With an MFA from the Cal Arts School of Critical Studies, José Felipe Alvergue is currently a student of the SUNY Buffalo Poetics Program. His writing on the poet/artist Cecilia Vicuña & the architect Toyo Ito, and the Tijuana based art collective Torolab & the philosopher Martin Heidegger have been presented at academic conferences at home and internationally. He has been published in Nocturnes, Black Clock, P-Queue, Jacket Magazine, and has written a definition of “Impermanence” for the Dictionnaire International de Termes Litteraires (International Dictionary of Literary Terms in criticism). He is the author of us look up/ there red dwells (Queue Books 2008).

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Patrick Lovelace resides in Brooklyn. His publications, through Patrick Lovelace Editions (PLE), include books and other media with Jarrod Fowler, Marie Buck, Brad Flis, Seth Kim-Cohen and Danny Snelson. The Collective Task, a project featuring a dozen poets and artists, edited by Rob Fitterman and designed by Dirk Rowntree, is due in the fall. His most recent endeavor is an executive production collaboration with the CLEVELAND TAPES collective. Forthcoming projects are numerous and dubious.


10/23/2009: MICHELE BECK, JORGE CALVO, JENNIFER BARTLETT & BILL KUSHNER.


Friday, October 23rd
10PM - MIDNIGHT
$8 General / $7 Students & Seniors / $5 or FREE for Members

JOIN US FOR THE SCREENING OF TWO FILMS BY MICHELE BECK & JORGE CALVO ABOUT THE LIVES OF TWO POETS -- BILL KUSHNER & JENNIFER BARTLETT. THE SCREENINGS WILL BE FOLLOWED BY A PERFORMANCE BY BECK & CALVO, AS WELL AS A READING BY JENNIFER BARTLETT & SPECIAL GUEST BILL KUSHNER.

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ABOUT THE FILMS/PERFORMANCE FROM BECK & CALVO:

"The films about Bill Kushner and Jennifer Bartlett come out of series of videos called "Video Portraits in a Day" that we have been creating over the past couple of years. The actual interviews for these videos are usually quite short- just a couple of hours in one day or perhaps we will meet for a few more hours another day, but not more than that. Our interest is to see what we can capture of a person's essence in these short visits. For both Bill and Jen, we met them at their homes, had them read their poetry, followed them for some of their daily routine and asked them to speak about their work. The editing of the footage is a key element in these videos, reflecting each subject's different rhythm, timing and character."

"The performance we want to do is part of an evolution of performances we have been doing in conjunction with our performance-based video work. For this performance we will be wearing full bodied costumes of white stretching fabric. The costume is a kind of amorphous bag covering our bodies. We will speak into the microphones and our voices will be processed live. In this performance, like most of our performances, we are creating an unconscious atmosphere. In honor of our poets, we want to use words."


Michele Beck (USA) and Jorge Calvo (Costa Rica) are multidisciplinary artists working with video, sound and performance. Michele and Jorge met in New York City in December 1998 and have been working together ever since. They are recipients of the Manhattan Community Arts Fund Grant and an SOS grant from the New York Foundation for the Arts. Michele and Jorge have shown their work nationally and internationally at venues including The ICA in London, The Blaffer Gallery at The Art Museum at the University of Texas Museum, Galerie Chez Valentin in Paris, France, The Bronx Museum, and The Queens Museum of Art.

Michele
completed her Bachelors in Art History at New York University and Masters of Fine Arts at Parsons School of Design. She teaches at the New School University and the International Center for Photography. Jorge pursued his studies in experimental theatre in Sydney, Australia. After finishing his training, he performed with the alternative theatre companies G.R.O.U.P and Dangerous Visions Theatre, both of which received funding from the Australian Arts Council. He works as a sound designer for film and video.

To see some of their work visit here.

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Jennifer Bartlett was a 2005 NYFA Poetry Fellow. Bartlett is the author of Derivative of the Moving Image (UNM 2007) and (a) lullaby without any music (forthcoming). Individual poems have recently appeared in New American Writing and The Raleigh Quarterly. In 2008, she curated a collection on mentorship for How2. She is currently working on a project on the life and work of Larry Eigner. Bartlett teaches poetry to students with disabilities at United Cerebral Palsy and lives in Greenpoint Brooklyn with the science fiction writer Jim Stewart and their son, Jeffrey.

Bill Kushner is the author of Night Fishing, Love Uncut, He Dreams of Rivers, That April, In The Hairy Arms of Whitmanand In Sunsetland With You. His works have been awarded the Dylan Thomas Prize For Poetry and have appeared in numerous anthologies, including In Out Time: The Gay and Lesbian Anthology, Poetry After 9/11: An Anthology of New York Poets and Best American Poetry 2002. He has been a 1999 and 2005 Fellow of the New York Foundation of the Arts.

10/9/2009: JARROD FOWLER & JOSEF KAPLAN.




FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9th
10PM - MIDNIGHT
$8 General / $7 Students & Seniors / $5 or FREE for Members

Jarrod Fowler and Josef Kaplan will most certainly make for an evening of alternations -- rhythms/rhythmics/philosophics/and, naturally, poetry --

Jarrod Fowler is a conceptual percussionist with a focus around rhythm. In his work, he activates sources in order to emphasize their percussive and rhythmic forces and processes. These works may be presented in the form of documents or site specific happenings.

To hear/read about some of Jarrod's work, see his myspace or read his interview with Live Frequency radio.
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Josef Kaplan's work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in Sprung Formal, Model Homes, Lana Turner, mid)rib, NAP and the West Wind Review. He edits Sustainable Aircraft, an online journal of mostly critical writing on contemporary poetry, and lives in Brooklyn.

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10/2/2009: VIBRANT FUTURES - EPISODE TWO PREMIERE.



10PM - MIDNIGHT
$8 General / $7 Students & Seniors / $5 or FREE for Members

Vibrant Futures, directed by Robin Schavoir and Lea Cetera, is a fictional mini-series about a tree-dwelling community living in giant redwoods that experience a rebirth of consciousness. Originally written and conceived as a five hour long film, it has been subdivided into an episodic miniseries being produced and released in consecutive order. Episode One, the 55 minute pilot, was completed in September of 2008, and was screened at Guild and Greyshkul Gallery, NYC. To view Episode One, and learn more about this project please visit www.vibrantfuturesmovie.com or their facebook page.



Vibrant Futures: Episode Two is the second installment of this five part miniseries. Watch as Trey solves the mystery of Lucy's hat, Carl shows off his skatting skills and Moonface is visited by her old love. Approx. running time: 60 min.

Robin Schavoir is a Belgian-born artist. He attended the Cooper Union School of Art, and the Longy School of Music in Boston. He now lives and works in New York City.

Lea Marie Cetera is a New York City based artist. She was born in Brooklyn, NY and received her B.F.A from the Cooper Union School of Art in 2005. She is the co-founder and director of the experimental puppetry collaborative, IMAGINATIONEXPLOSION.

6/12: FRIDAY NIGHT SERIES END-OF-THE-SEASON / SUMMER-TIME POTLUCK.



FRIDAY, JUNE 12th 
10PM - MIDNIGHT 

Greetings all.

As you may, or may not know, the poetry (project) season will soon be coming to a close so that we can all go hibernate in our humid apartment holes for the summer. In wake of the end of our first season of co-coordinating the Friday Night Reading Series and Diana's last Friday Night event (Eddie Hopely will co-coordinate the Friday Night series with Nicole Wallace next season), Diana and I will be celebrating with a potluck in the parish hall on Friday, June 12th.

As many of us are mid-westerners (or otherwise), a potluck in June inside a stuffy church parish hall will instantly beckon our memories back to the days yore; the days when we cautiously perused plastic draped card tables for sugary red fruit punch, ham sandwiches on mustard swabbed buns, "pasta" salads drown in various mayonnaise dressings, cottage cheese infused canned fruit salads and pastel mint jello concoctions with cool whip clumsily, but lovingly, dolloped atop.

With that said, please bring along your favorite potluck food, dessert, beverage and/or concoction. There will be some poems read, a song or two sung, some super 8 films screened, fits of nostalgia had, and most certainly some summer revelry & some pretty decent opportunities to really over-imbibe. As always, this will begin at 10PM & is $8 general / $7 students / $5 or free for Poetry Project members at the door. Looking forward to seeing you sooner than later and most certainly there.



Until then & then again,
Nicole & Diana.

MAY 29TH / STEPHEN MCLAUGHLIN & PHILLIP DMOCHOWSKI PRESENT AN EVENING OF POETRY & COLLABORATIONS.



FRIDAY, MAY 29TH
10PM - MIDNIGHT

Stephen McLaughlin and Phillip Dmochowski are the editors of Principal Hand Publishing Series. 

Stephen is a poet/programmer whose first release, with Jim Carpenter, was Issue 1, a 3,785-page e-chap. Stephen edits the podcast “PoemTalk at the Writers House,” and is a contributing editor at PennSound and ubu.com

Phillip is an artist, DJ, and director of DNA Gallery in Provincetown, MA. His first book, Indian Method, documents a systematic disfigurement of rare books and is forthcoming from Patrick Lovelace Editions.

APRIL 24th: LAWRENCE GIFFIN & NICO VASSILAKIS.




FRIDAY, APRIL 24

10:00PM
$8 General / $7 Students & Seniors / $5 or FREE for Members


LAWRENCE GIFFIN is the author of a chapbook, Get the Fuck Back into That Burning Plane, as well as three volumes of Comment Is Free, an ongoing print-on-demand work of social philosophy compiled from newspaper comment streams. As a member of the publishing collective Lil’ Norton, Lawrence Giffin is the series editor of the journal The Physical Poets Home Library. A kind of historical novel, Aa, co-produced with Fernando Diaz, is forthcoming from Patrick Lovelace Editions.

Lawerence's reading on Ceptuetics radio show.

Physical Poets Home Library.


NICO VASSILAKIS works in both textual and visual poetry. He is a curator for the Subtext Reading Series in Seattle. His vispo videos have been shown in exhibits and festivals of innovative language arts. Nico’s recently published Text Loses Time is available from ManyPenny Press. Forthcoming books include Disparate Magnets (BlazeVox) & Protracted Type (White Lion Books).

APRIL 17th / A NIGHT WITH HERETICAL TEXTS VOL. 4


Friday, April 17, 2009
9:30PM - MIDNIGHT *
$8 general / $7 students & seniors / $5 or FREE for members

Heretical Texts is an ongoing Factory School book series published in volumes of five books each. The series aims to test old assumptions about the political efficacies of poetic texts while utilizing the series structure as a framework for documentation and investigation. Since 2005, Factory School has published twenty titles under the Heretical Texts series banner, with future volumes appearing in 2010 and beyond. Volume 4 includes books by Jules Boykoff, Brett Evans, Erica Kaufman, kathryn l. pringle and Frank Sherlock. Please join us for an evening of readings and festivities celebrating Heretical Texts Vol. 4. Participants include Erica Kaufman, kathryn l. pringle, Frank Sherlock and Bill Marsh. Erica Kaufman is the author of Censory Impulse (Factory School 2009) and co-curates Belladonna*. kathryn l. pringle is the author of Right New Biology and lives in Durham, NC. Bill Marsh has co-directed Factory School since its founding in 2000. He is the author of Plagiarism (SUNY Press) and, with Steve Carll, Tao Drops, I Change (Subpress). He lives in Queens, NY. Frank Sherlock is the author of Over Here (Factory School 2009) and the co-author of Ready-To-Eat Individual (Lavender Ink 2008) with Brett Evans. A collaboration with CAConrad entitled The City Real & Imagined: Philadelphia Poems is forthcoming from Factory School later this year.

* This particular reading will stray from usual programing & begin at 9:30PM instead of 10PM.

MARCH 27th / ALI LIEBEGOTT & CRISTY C. ROAD.


Friday, March 27, 2009
10PM - MIDNIGHT

This Friday Ali Liebegott will leave San Francisco for New York to read/show her most recent illustrated novel, The Crumb People, at the Poetry Project. Likewise, Cristy C. Road will leave Brooklyn for Manhattan and do a similar thing, but with her own work, of course.  If you would like to find yourself on the internet looking at their work, you can find it here:


  
As for getting your hands on more information that is quicker than a click away, here it is:

Ali Liebegott is the author of the award winning books, The Beautifully Worthless and The IHOP Papers. For the last seven years she’s been drawing and illustrating a full-color illustrated novel, titled The Crumb People, about a post-September 11th obsessive duck feeder. She’s also writing a sequel to her first book-length poem called, The Summer of Dead Birds. You can find her stacking cat food in aisle 9 of Rainbow Grocery Co-Op in San Francisco. She also writes for The Advocate sometimes. 

Cristy C. Road is a writer and illustrator who’s obsessed with human imperfection and deconstructing the norms which have sheltered her world. Aside from illustrating for countless record covers, book covers, radical organizations, and magazine articles, Road published an independent zine, Greenzine for ten years, and has released three books - Indestructible, a graphic memoir about being a teenage Latina, queer punk in high school; and Distance Makes the Heart Grow Sick, a postcard collection. She recently released Bad Habits, an illustrated love story about a faltering human heart’s telepathic connections to the destruction of New York City. She currently hibernates in Brooklyn, NY.

of course & as always,
see you there.

nicole & diana

March 6th / ELLIE GA & MARINA TEMKINA: AN UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE BOOK RELEASE PARTY.


Friday, March 3
10PM - Midnight

The Poetry Project Friday Night Series presents:

AN UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE BOOK RELEASE PARTY
featuring poet/visual artists ELLIE GA & MARINA TEMKINA

This Friday, we will revel in the release of two new Ugly Duckling Presse publications by Ellie Ga & Marina Temkina. You are invited. As always, readings take place in the parish hall at the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church & start at 10PM.

ELLIE GA’s projects explore the limits of photographic documentation. Her work spans a variety of mediums, often incorporating her exploratory writing, and generally culminating in lectures, slide-presentations, handmade books and instructional installations. Classification of a Spit Stain (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2009) is the result of her two-year project photographing and analyzing stains on city pavements. A combination of urban flaneurie and garbology, Classification of a Spit Stain is a mysterious field guide to the landscape underneath the soles of our shoes. For the Poetry Project Friday Night Series, Ellie will present "The Catalogue of the Lost (and other revelations)" a work done in the lecture format, created during a residency at the Explorers Club (NYC). Comprised of 282 images and lasting approximately 28 minutes, this work focuses on the missing pieces of early exploration–lost places, people, and concepts as well as the successes and failures to document “the unknown." During 2007-2008, Ellie Ga was the artist-in-residence on the Tara, a polar schooner locked in the pack-ice of the Arctic Ocean. Her work from these projects were exhibited recently at the Konstmuseum in Malmo, Galerie du Jour in Paris, and Projekt 0047 in Oslo and PNCA in Portland, Oregon. She has also been an artist-in-residence at the Newark Museum of Art and the Women’s Studio Workshop. Her performances, videos and installations have been shown in New York at Dispatch, Swiss Institute-Contemporary Art, 16 Beaver, Rubin Museum of Art and Gigantic Art Space. Ellie Ga received her MFA in photography from Hunter College in 2004 and is a founding member of Ugly Duckling Presse.

MARINA TEMKINA is a poet and an artist. She is an author of four poetry books in her native Russian, and two artists books made in collaboration with Michel Gerard & published in France. Her new book What Do You Want? will be published by Ugly Duckling Presse this spring. Marina received a National Endowment for the Arts in 1994 and she was a Revson Fellow on the Future of New York at Columbia University. Marina shows her visual art and concrete poetry internationally. Her public art project could be seen on the Second Street Stop of the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail in Hoboken in 2004.


See you there, of course.
Nicole & Diana. 

FEB. 27th / FLIM FORUM PRESS PRESENTS: A SING ECONOMY


Flim Forum Press Presents: A Sing Economy
Friday, February 27th / 10:00 pm

The evening was alive with first responders. Poets, report, restoring song to the dollar. Daily drilling, bottom lines, dying signs, in the streets all day. Negotiate atoms and national ethos, form and efficiency, input and output, sin and celebration. Sense and memory, happiness radii, spatial happenstance interface. Desire, dinner, damn cameras, family houseflies, worms and a swarm of eyes. Rain for rent, cattle for sale, cryotext sandwiches, a pumpkin in the bassinet. Cost of walking, cost of talking, breathing shoals of technology, new kinds of knowing. Oh, emotional ecosystems. Oh, local and global grief. Key conservation, relative abundance, savior selves, we are on that brink, over / whelmed thin dime. Sing: shingle and shingle and bricks and windows. Sing: research and development, fall off and shatter, offer/answer/transaction. Sing: Gigigigigigigive. Sing: next and next and next annexed. Love with a love that was love than love. Sing it to the ceiling.

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Flim Forum Press presents the poetry anthology A Sing Economy, featuring readings by Jessica Smith, Stephanie Strickland, Jennifer Karmin, Thom Donovan, John Cotter, Laura Sims, Jaye Bartell, Kate Schapira, Deborah Poe, Eric Gelsinger, and editors Matthew Klane and Adam Golaski. Flim Forum Press provides space to emerging poets working in a variety of experimental modes. Other FF volumes include the anthology Oh One Arrow and The Alps by Brandon Shimoda.

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What is Flim Forum Press?

Flim Forum Press provides SPACE to emerging poets working in a variety of experimental modes. Editors Matthew Klane and Adam Golaski. Flim Forum volumes include the anthologies Oh One Arrow and A Sing Economy, and just out, The Alps by Brandon Shimoda.

What is the anthology, A Sing Economy?

A Sing Economy is an anthology that contains new work by: Kate Schapira, Barrett Gordon, Jennifer Karmin, Stephnie Strickland, Mathew Timmons, Kaethe Schwehn, Harold Abramowitz & Amanda Ackerman, Jaye Bartell, Jessica Smith, David Pavelich, Erin M. Bertram, Laura Sims, Deborah Poe, a.rawlings & francois luong, Michael Slosek, Kevin Thurston, Hannah Rodabaugh, and Tawrin Baker. W/ 3 cover films by Scott Puccio. Edited by Matthew Klane and Adam Golaski.

At Flim Forum, we don't build our anthologies according to specific organizing principles, except that the anthos are meant to display the poetic/aesthetic/contemporary interests/range of the editors, AND the volumes are meant to be cohesive i.e. the work is chosen and arranged to belong together. the manifold theme/tropes (principles?) of the book become apparent in the process. that said... we publish mostly (tho not exclusively) serial work from emerging experimental poets and give our poets SPACE w/in a communal context to show who they are and what concerns them.

& HERE IS FLIM FORUM PRESS.

love
nicole & diana.