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BROADSIDES POETRY READING SERIES AT CBA TONIGHT!

Two of my favorite poets read 

TONIGHT

at 6:30 at the Center for Book Arts in NYC

Mónica de la Torre and Anna Moschovakis

A reception accompanies the reading, and a limited-edition broadside print of work by each poet is produced by an artist at the Center and distributed at the reading.

Mónica de la Torre has published poetry and conceptual art books in Spanish and English, including the artist book Appendices, Illustrations and Notes (Smart Art Press) and the poetry books Acúfenos (Taller Ditoria) and Talk Shows (Switchback Books). She is co-editor of the multilingual anthology Reversible Monuments: Contemporary Mexican Poetry (Copper Canyon) and translator and editor of the bilingual volume Poems by Gerardo Deniz (Taller Ditoria/Lost Roads).

Anna Moschovakis is the author of a book of poems, I Have Not Been Able to Get Through to Everyone (Turtle Point Press), and of several chapbooks. Her translations from the French include texts by Henri Michaux, Claude Cahun, Pierre Alféri, Annie Ernaux and Blaise Cendrars. She is also an editor at Ugly Duckling Presse.

This reading has been organized and will be introduced by Rodrigo Toscano, the author of To Leveling Swerve, 

Platform, The Disparities, and Partisans.

The Center for Book Arts

28 West 27th Street, Third Floor

Between Broadway and Sixth Avenue

Subway: N, R, W to 28th Street; F, V to 23rd Street; 1 to 28th Street

HOW MUCH: Suggested Admission: $10/$5 members

And after this reading, head over to the Poetry Project for Kenward Elmslie's 80th Birthday Party (starts at 8:00)

ANNUAL BOOKS PARTY NYC

Put on your spring finery
and come celebrate
with the best small presses in NYC!

Annual Books Party
Thursday, May 7, 2009
6-8pm
Jack Shainman Gallery
513 W. 20th, NYC

Featuring
Belladonna • BootStrap • The Figures • Granary • Roof
Talisman • Ugly Duckling • United Artists • Portable Press at Yo-yo Labs

Belladonna
Area by Marcella Durand
mauve sea-orchids by Lila Zemborain
Open Box by Carla Harryman
The Elders Series

The Figures
Space by Clark Coolidge
No. 111 by Kenneth Goldsmith
Ted by Ron Padgett
Mon Canard by Stephen Rodefer

BootStrap
Rancho Weirdo by Laura Chester
I No Longer Believe in the Sun:
    Love Letters to Katie Couric by Derek Fenner
Parish Krewes by Micah Ballard
Riot Act by Geoffrey Young

Granary
Faster Than Birds Can Fly by John Ashbery & Trevor Winkfield.
Nine Nights Meditation by Anne Waldman & Donna Dennis
Oaths? Questions? by Marjorie Welish & James Siena
The Square by Emily McVarish

Roof
Styrofoam by Evelyn Reilly
Rob the Plagiarist by Rob Fitterman
Public Domain by Monica de la Torre
Quadragene by Larry Price

Talisman
Eschaton by Michael Heller
Bending the Mind Around the Dream’s Blown Fuse by Timothy Liu,
Hearth by Simon Pettet
Petals of Zero   Petals of One by Andrew Zawacki

Ugly Duckling
Classification of a Spit Stain by Ellie Ga
Notes on Conceptualisms by Vanessa Place and Rob Fitterman
The Russian Version by Elena Fanailova
    (translated by Genya Turovskaya and Stephanie Sandler)
A Plate of Chicken by Matthew Rohrer

Portable Press at Yo-yo Labs
Shaved Code by Frances Richard
Materialisms by Miranda Mellis
Generic Whistle-Stop by Thomas Fink
The Book Called Spring by David Brazil

United Artists
Absolutely Eden by Bobbie Louise Hawkins
My Autobiography by Barbara Henning
The Influence of Paintings Hung in Bedrooms by Phyllis Wat
Join the Planets by Reed Bye

CELEBRATING AFTER THE CHAPBOOK CELEBRATION

Ammiel Alcalay, myself, Aaron Cohick, Matvei Yankelevich (photo by Brenda Iijima)

Matvei Yankelevich, Ammiel Alcalay, myself, Aaron Cohick (photo by Brenda Iijima)

Matvei and Brenda

Aaron, Brenda, Matvei
Brenda and Aaron

CHAX BLOG

Check out Charles Alexander's reflection on Buffalo's Poet-Publisher Symposium by clicking here.

SARAH MANGOLD AND RYAN MURPHY

This Monday, April 27 at 8:00 I'll have the pleasure of introducing  Sarah Mangold and Ryan Murphy at the Poetry Project. 

Sarah Mangold is founder and editor of Bird Dog, a journal of innovative writing and art. Currently working as a Program Coordinator at the University of Washington Extension Program—after seven years in a private library. BA University of Oklahoma; MFA San Francisco State, 1999. Recipient of an Individual Artist Award form the Seattle Arts Commission and residencies at MacDowell and Djerassi. Her books include Household Mechanics, Parlor, Picture of the Basket, and Boxer Rebellion. 

Ryan Murphy is the author of Down with the Ship from Otis Books / Seismicity Editions as well as the chapbooks The Gales, Ocean Park, and On Violet Street. His second book, The Redcoats, is forthcoming from Krupskaya. He has received awards from Chelsea Magazine and The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art as well as a grant from The Fund for Poetry. He is an editor for Four Way Books and teaches at Pratt Institute. He lives in New York City.

Become a Poetry Project Member!  http://poetryproject.org/become-a-member

Calendar: http://www.poetryproject.org/program-calendar

The Poetry Project is located at St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery

131 East 10th Street at Second Avenue

New York City 10003

Trains: 6, F, N, R, and L.

info@poetryproject.org

www.poetryproject.org

Admission is $8, $7 for students/seniors and $5 for members (though now those who take out a membership at $95 or higher will get in FREE to all regular readings).

We are wheelchair accessible with assistance and advance notice. For more info call 212-674-0910.

THE CHAPBOOK REVIEW

At the Celebration of the Chapbook hosted by CUNY I was lamenting the fact that very few of the Cuneiform chapbooks had been reviewed, and even went so far as to suggest that I would be reluctant to publish another unless the manuscript called for that form in particular. Now, it seems that a group of individuals have come together to review chapbooks. Check it out at: http://www.thechapbookreview.com/

ALAN LONEY'S NEW BLOG

http://alanloney.blogspot.com/

REMINDER: A CELEBRATION OF THE CHAPBOOK

I was representing Cuneiform Press at "A Celebration of the Chapbook" yesterday, and I'm on my way out the door now for more. If you're in NYC, take advantage of the beautiful weather and head out to CUNY for more readings, lectures and books. I'll be there all day next to Aaron Kohick who has traveled all the way from Oakland to represent his terrific New Lights Press. Here's the rest of the schedule:

Friday, April 24

at The Graduate Center, CUNY, 365 Fifth Avenue & 34th St 

Chapbook Fair
10:00am-4:00pm, Rooms 8301/8304

Chapbook Now: Producing Chapbooks
A Workshop for Poets
10:00-11:30am, Room 8400
With Rachel Levitsky (Belladonna*); Sharon Dolin (The Center for Book Arts); and Ryan Murphy (North Beach Yacht Club). Moderated by Alice Quinn (Poetry Society of America). WORKSHOP FULL

Chapbook Now: Producing Chapbooks
A Workshop for Publishers
11:30am-1:00pm, Room 8402
With Mark Wagner (Booklyn); Matvei Yankelevich (Ugly Duckling Presse); and Brenda Iijima (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs). Moderated by Rob Casper (Poetry Society of America). WORKSHOP FULL


Friday, April 24
at The Center for Book Arts, 28 West 27th Street, 3rd Floor

Bookmaking for Writers: A Studio Workshop
With Susan Mills and Karen Randall
2:00-5:00pm

To register, call (212) 481-0295 or e-mailinfo@centerforbookarts.org <mailto:info@centerforbookarts.org>  – registration is
offered on a first-come, first-serve basis. There's a $20 materials fee for each workshop.

Bookmaking for Publishers: A Studio Workshop
With Susan Mills and Karen Randall
2:00-5:00pm

To register, call (212) 481-0295 or e-mailinfo@centerforbookarts.org <mailto:info@centerforbookarts.org>  – registration is
offered on a first-come, first-serve basis. There's a $20 materials fee for each workshop.

RECEPTION
at The Center for Book Arts, 28 West 27th Street, 3rd Floor
6:00 pm

All are welcome! Visit the exhibitions at The Center for Book Arts: \’fl \:art, text, new media, Roni Gross: Zitouna at 20, and Spotlight: 2008 Artists-in-Residence.

 

Saturday, April 25

at The Asian American Writers’ Workshop, 16 West 32nd Street, Suite 10A

Collector’s Show-and-Tell:
The Secret History of Asian American Literature
Patricia Wakida
2:00-3:00pm

Publishing from the Margins
4:30-6:00pm
With Tan Lin; Dawn Lundy Martin (Third Wave Foundation, Black Took Collective); and Bushra Rehman. Moderated by Ken Chen (The Asian American Writers’ Workshop). Followed by a brief reading from the Workshop's Postcard Poetry Project.

RECEPTION
at The Asian American Writers’ Workshop, 16 West 32nd Street, Suite 10A
6:00 pm
 

Participating Publishers
Achiote Press
Belladonna*
Book Thug
Cuneiform Press
Dancing Girl Press
Diagram/New Michigan Press
dusie chapbook kollektiv
ellectrique press
Finishing Line Press
Flying Guillotine Press
Forklift, Ohio
hand*held*editions
Interlude Editions
NewLights Press
Noemi Press
North Beach Yacht Club
Octopus Books
Pilot Books
Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs
Rain Taxi
Sarabande Books
Slapering Hol
Small Anchor Press
Small Fires Press
TinFish Press
Toadlily Press
Ubu Editions
Ugly Duckling Presse
Web del Sol’s World Voices
X-ing Press
­and others

Sponsored by
The Asian American Writers’ Workshop
The Center for Book Arts
The Center for the Humanities, The Graduate Center, The Office of Academic Affairs, and MFA Programs in Creative Writing of the City University of New York
Poetry Society of America


For more information visit http://centerforthehumanitiesgc.org/festival <http://centerforthehumanitiesgc.org/festival> 

CENTER FOR BOOK ARTS

Paul Moxon, Daniel Morris and Emily Larned at the Center for Book Arts on Wednesday night lecturing on the Vandercook. 

POET-PUBLISHER SYMPOSIUM SNAPSHOTS

Margaret Konkol, David Hadbawnik, Joel Brenden, Aaron Lowinger

Charles Alexander (photo by Brenda Iijima)

Andrew Rippeon, Geoffrey Gatza, Robert Dewhurst (photo by Brenda Iijima)

Andrew Rippeon (photo by Brenda Iijima)

Richard Owens, Robert Duncan, Robert Graves (photo by Brenda Iijima)

WNYBAC

I've just returned to Brooklyn from an outstanding Poet-Publisher Symposium at the University at Buffalo organized by Andrew Rippeon and Richard Owens. You can see the program of events by clicking here. Of course, it is always great to be back in the town where I lived (2001-2007), and seeing friends, old and new, was certainly the most fun part of the trip. Special thanks to Jim and Lauren Maynard for hosting a warm and generous reception in their beautiful new home! Aside from the symposium and readings, the other real highlight was visiting the Western New York Book Arts Collaborative, a dream come true. It was also wonderful to meet the terrific Vandercook guru Paul Moxon, who was in town doing a maintenance workshop. 

Above, a picture of Hal Leader (all photos by Brenda Iijima, with thanks). Hal generously invited me to us Paradise Press in downtown Buffalo a number of years ago, and I still don't quite know how to thank him for giving me permission to study and make use of his historic collection of type.

Me and Charles AlexanderMe and Mike Kelleher

ENVIRONMENTAL ARTISTS' BOOKS

Curated by Jeffrey Lee of Crane's Bill Books

MY READING AT BPC ON 12.20.08 NEW @ PENNSOUND

Listen to me read with Larry Fagin at the Bowery Poetry Club by clicking this.

Phil's Bloggin'

at The Hermetic Press

THE VANDERCOOK RENAISSANCE

Don't miss

The Vandercook Renaissance

at the Center for Book Arts, NYC
Wednesday, April 22nd , 6:30 pm
Current American cultural production (literary, artistic, and graphic) with the Vandercook will be examined by educators who are passing on letterpress knowledge to a new generation of printers. With Paul Moxon, Emily Larned and Daniel Morris.
$10 suggested donation/ $5 CBA members. 

Click here for directions.

POET-PUBLISHER SYMPOSIUM

This weekend I'll be driving up to Buffalo from Brooklyn to participate in the Poet-Publisher Symposium organized by Andrew Rippeon and Richard Owens. I haven't been to Buffalo since Rich Kegler and friends established the Western New York Book Arts Collaborative. If you're in town, check out Paul Moxon's course on Vandercook maintenance Saturday and Sunday, then head up to the Karpeles Manuscript Library for poetry readings by Anna Moschovakis, Jay Millar, Richard Owens, and yours truly. Here's the full schedule of events:

04.19.09

Anna Moschovakis, Jay Millar, Kyle Schlesinger & Richard Owens
Reading their poems on
Sunday, April 19, 8:00 PM
Karpeles Manuscript Library, 453 Porter Avenue

04.20.09
UB Poetry Collection
420 Capen Hall, North Campus

Schedule:
10:00-10:45: KEYNOTE: CHARLES ALEXANDER (Editor, Chax Press)
Between Poetics, the Poetics of Between, Pressing Between

11:00-1:00: INTERSTITIAL PRACTICES: A POET-PUBLISHERS ROUNDTABLE
Joel Brenden (The Enthusiast), Robert Dewhurst (Satellite Television), Geoffrey Gatza (BlazeVOX), David Hadbawnik (Kadar Koli | Hadbenicht Press), Margaret Konkol (Small Press in the Archive Series), Aaron Lowinger (House Press), Edric Mesmer (Yellow Edenwald Field), Douglas Manson (Little Scratch Pad), Richard Owens (Damn the Caesars | Punch Press), Andrew Rippeon (P-Queue | Queue Editions), Andrea Strudensky (Broke).

2:00-2:45: KEYNOTE: MICHAEL BASINSKI (Curator, UB Poetry Collection)
"Exploration and Acquisition: Collecting All of Small Press Poetry"

3:00-5:00: RETHINKING POESIS: MAKING | REMARKING | RESPONDING

"Five Micro-Ecologies: A Presentation of 5 Portable-Press at Yo-Yo Labs Chapbooks," Brenda Iijima (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs)

"__________," Jay MillAr (Bookthug)

" the temptations of anti-sustainability, or wherefore survival?," Anna Moschovakis (Ugly Duckling)

"Ragged Edges," Kyle Schlesinger (Cuneiform Press)

MONDAY EVENING READING
THE KARPELES MANUSCRIPT MUSEUM
453 Porter Ave, Buffalo

8:00PM: Poetry readings by Charles Alexander, Michael Basinski, Brenda Iijima and Andrew Rippeon

Periodic Table

of Typefaces

O Solé Mimeo

Check out Stephen J. Gertz's review of Mimeo Mimeo, the journal I edit with Jed Birmingham, in Fine Books & Collections.