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:

http://www.aliliebegott.com/

http://www.croadcore.org/

  

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.

Jan. 16th: Justin Katko & Michael Basinski

Friday, January 16th

10PM

Justin Katko is a poet and publisher. He edits the small press Critical Documents, which specializes in contemporary poetry from the UK and the US. He is completing an MFA in Electronic Writing at Brown University.

Michael Basinski is the curator of The Poetry Collection at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He performs his work as a solo poet and in ensemble with BuffFluxus. Among his many books of poetry are Of Venus 93 (Little Scratch Pad); All My Eggs Are Broken (BlazeVox); Heka (Factory School); Strange Things Begin to Happen When a Meteor Crashes in the Arizona Desert (Burning Press); and AuXin (an Amphibole book, Amphibole is a vehicle of They Are Flying Planes). His poems have appeared in Dandelion, BoxKite, Antennae, Unbearables Magazine, Open Letter, Torgue, Leopold Bloom, Wooden Head Review, Basta, Kiosk, Explosive Magazine, Deluxe Rubber Chicken, First Offense, Terrible Work, Juxta, Kenning, Witz, Lungfull, Lvng, Generator, Tinfish, Curicule Patterns, Score, Unarmed, Rampike, First Intensity, House Organ, Ferrum Wheel, End Note, Ur Vox, Damn the Caesars, Pilot, 1913, Filling Station, Public Illumination, Words, They Are Flying Planes and in others. 

12/5: HEY, WHAT'S ALL THE HOOPLAH?

Friday, December 5th

10PM

Forget the impending breadlines, grab your polka-dotted canvas bindle, bundle up and bustle your way over to hear the tales of times said and gone and the prophetic parables of a new generation of poets, storytellers and musicians. Featuring music and performances by John Houx, Elizabeth Devlin, Frank Hoier & Jessy Carolina. 

Mr. Houx grew up in West coast cattle country and "hoboed" his way to New York in 2007, where he was quickly embraced by the East Village's Antifolk scene and traditional folk music circles. With appearances on radio and television (broadcast and online), John is presently planning his first full-length record and a small European tour. 

Elizabeth Devlin has traveled the world to invoke influences from scratchy American and French phonographs, combining bitter-sweet, haunting vocals with angelic, cacophonous Autoharp melodies. Her forthcoming full-length album will be released on December 6th, 2008. 

Frank Hoier is poised at the front of a new wave of modern Americana roots music. Backed by rock'n'roll prodigy siblings, The Weber Brothers, Frank's self released album Lovers & Dollars is set for it's national debut on November 11, 2008. Frank Hoier brings a fresh perspective and a rock'n'roll energy to Folk music. His Guthrie-esque anthem "Jesus Don't Give Tax Breaks To The Rich" has been hailed as "the most perfect protest song written yet this millennium" (PopHeadWound).

Nov. 21: Potluck & Thanksgiving Reading

Poets' Potluck III

Friday, 10:00 pm

Natives and newcomers alike join the Three Sisters (the harvest; or Diana Hamilton, Nicole Wallace and Corrine Fitzpatrick) for a giving of thanks, foods, poetry, music, and autumnal beverages. A two-time staple of last-year's series, the night will again feature performances by many and food by everyone so inclined, including Stacy Szymaszek, who will be grilling turkey burgers in the parish hall on the George Foreman and who has already contributed one can of corn to the cause. Other confirmed gobblers, to name a few: Jim Behrle, Will Edmiston, Kareem Estefan, Gordon Faylor, Kelly Ginger, Susi Gomez, Stephanie Gray, Eddie Hopely, Ellis Isenberg, Derek Kroessler, Judah Rubin, Anne Tardos, Dustin Williamson, Sara Wintz and the Three Sisters themselves. So, grab your canned pumpkin, plastic cool whip containers, and blue-lined notebooks, and pilgrim your way over...

Halloween!

This Halloween, performers including (but not limited to) writer Chris Leo, dancer Amy Baumgarten, poet Nathaniel Siegel, performance artist Jennifer Berklich, and the musical sounds of So L'il will be channeling other artists, dead or alive, and performing their works. The evening will also feature guest appearances of as-yet unidentified ghosts, including the 1986 echoes of Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson . Please join guest host Ben Malkin of So L'il for this haunted and certainly magical evening. Come dressed as an other, living or gone.

Ben Malkin's updated list of performers is now:

Jennifer Berklich

Amy Baumgarten

Control Freak

Chris Leo

Gracefully

Nathaniel Siegal

Somebody Else's

and Bernie Q

+ special guests...

Oct. 17: Marie Buck, Gordon Faylor & Eddie Hopely

Marie Buck's first book of poems, Life & Style, is forthcoming from Patrick Lovelace Editions. She co-edits, with Brad Flis, the small poetry journal Model Homes. She lives and studies in Detroit. 

Gordon Faylor and Edward Hopely will read from, perform and distribute a new collaborative work for two readers. Gordon Faylor presently serves as the Assistant Editor of mid)rib and as Editor of its upcoming chapbook series. Edward Hopely is the author of some chapbooks and ran the “Hammered All Around Their Nail Heads” reading series this past year.

Oct. 10: Vanessa Place and Steven Zultanski

Vanessa Place is a writer and lawyer, and co-director of Les Figues Press. She is the author of Dies: A Sentence, a 50,000-word, one-sentence novella, the post-conceptual novel La Medusa (Fiction Collective 2), a chapbook, Figure from The Gates of Paradise (Woodland Editions/Five Fingers Review) and the forthcoming Conceptualisms: An Ill-Conceived Guide to Kinda Conceptual, Post-Conceptual, Extant and Taxonomical Writings, etc., written with Robert Fitterman (Ugly Duckling Presse). Her nonfiction book, The Guilt Project: Rape and Morality, will be published in Fall 2009 by Other Press. Her collaboration with artist/performer Lamya Regragui will debut at Cent Quatre in Paris/Los Angeles in 2009, and she is collaborating with conceptual artist Stephanie Taylor on Olady, a visual/sound project. She lives in Los Angeles.

"Babygirl, you're going to pop," her daddy said once, catching her.
But that was a long time ago and not true. Two ways not true, that is, she wasn't going to pop and her daddy never said that to her, though it was the sort of thing she thought he would say if he could, like if he thought of to say it. But people are mostly not like how they could, for example, she rolls over, for example, the last time when Daddy came back from overseas, she was so excited.

From La Medusa

Steven Zultanski is the author of the chapbooks Homoem (Radical Readout, 2005), This and That Lenin (BookThug, 2008) and Steve's Poem (Lettermachine, forthcoming). He edits President's Choice magazine, a Lil' Norton publication. His poetry has appeared in Antennae, FO(A)RM, The Physical Poets, Shiny, and elsewhere.

Steve will be performing with a musician.

Why don’t you have a boyfriend?
It’s no secret to you that I have an irrational little crush on Chicken John.
Keith fixes his belt, stuffs a tissue in his pants’ front pockets. The tassels on his fly swing. He paces around the living room with Marcus on the phone.
“I’m no pumpkin-eater.” He whistles. “I don’t wait for moods.”
He leaves el casa del Marcus.
Paco is rubbing puddle water. Keith breaks into a passing song about heartbreak and
joy and mold.

From "Paula and Keith"

Sept. 26: Slovene Poetry: Cucnik, Pepelnik, Podlogar, Šalamun, Skrjanec

A book-release celebration with the participation of the following visiting poets from Slovenia: Primoz Cucnik, Ana Pepelnik, Gregor Podlogar, Tomaž Šalamun and Tone Skrjanec. A book signing for the second editions of Tomaž Šalamun’s Poker and Tone Skrjanec's Sun On A Knee. A special chapbook featuring the work of all five poets in English translation comes free with admission. *This event, a collaboration between Ugly Duckling Presse (Brooklyn) and Literatura Magazine (Ljubljana), kicks off a whole weekend of Slovene poetry in New York City.

In the future, there will be important information to consult. Now, there is an empty blog. With links to friends.

The season starts the last week of September. We'll see you there.