Flat Top vs. Flat Screen TV Press

So many readings beginning this weekend and all through next week, courtesy of AWP happenings. I'm going to post some of the readings I want to go to below. This is really so I can keep track of them. Although some rival each other for date/time so there will be a few audience show downs. Hopefully all will be well attended.


READINGS:

This Friday:

Friday, January 25th @ 7:00 p.m.
Stain Bar – Williamsburg, Brooklyn

WILLIAM STOBB is the author of Nervous Systems, a 2006 National Poetry Series selection and For Better Night Vision, a limited edition chapbook produced by the Black Rock Press at the University of Nevada. His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Colorado Review, American Literary Review, Denver Quarterly, and online at MiPOesias, Three Candles, Cricket Online Review, and nthposition. 1.

TAO LIN is the author a poetry-collection, you are a little bit happier than i am (Action Books, 2006), a story-collection, Bed (Melville House, 2007), and a novel, Eeeee Eee Eeee (Melville House, 2007). Melville House is publishing his second poetry-collection, Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, in 2008. His web site is called Reader of Depressing Books.

MIKE YOUNG is the co-editor of NOÖ Journal, a free literary/political magazine. His work has or will appear in MiPOesias, Backwards City Review, realpoetik, Juked, elimae, BlazeVOX, 3:AM and elsewhere. A chapbook of his work is forthcoming from Transmission Press. He sleeps most of the time in Massachusetts.

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(I wish it well, but I'm not going. Many reasons, one being that I'm going to have a quiet Friday and clean my apartment, starting with the kitchen. This will involve bleaching the floor. Is it bad to treat your kitchen floor like a bathtub?

Saturday i'm going to finish cleaning and then write some belated essays. THEN I'm going to celebrate a friend's birthday.

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This Saturday:
Susan Howe & James Thomas Stevens
January 26th, Saturday
4 pm-6 pm (punctual)
The Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery, just north of Houston
NYC

Susan Howe’s most recent books are The Midnight (New Directions) and Kidnapped (Coracle Books). Two CDs, Thiefth and Souls of the Labadie Tract, in collaboration with the musician/composer David Grubbs were recently released on the Blue Chopsticks label. A new collection of poems, as well as a re-print of her critical study My Emily Dickinson will be published by New Directions.

James Thomas Stevens is the author of seven books of poetry, including A Bridge Dead in the Water, Combing the Sadness from His Hair, and Bulle/Chimere. Stevens is a 2000 Whiting Award recipient and a 2005 National Poetry Series Finalist.

December and January curated by Brenda Iijima & Evelyn Reilly
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Again, this sounds awesome but it interferes with me trying to finish those bloody essays. They are literally bloody, I cry academic blood tears over every page I read for the third time of Coetzee's Elizabeth Costello. Just kidding, Polito.

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Next Monday:

A & B reading, JANUARY 28
St. Petersburg Review &
Ugly Duckling Presse present
Peter Gizzi
Aleksandr Skidan
Genya Turovskaya

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I AM SO GOING TO THIS OR I WILL BE ANGRY WITH MYSELF. The lovely poet Keith Newton promised to make sure I go. Right? Right?

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Next Tuesday:
Boog City presents

d.a. levy lives: celebrating the renegade press

Instance Press
(Boulder, Colo.; New York City; Oakland, Calif.)

Tues. Jan. 29, 6:00 p.m. sharp, free

ACA Galleries
529 W.20th St., 5th Flr.
NYC

Event will be hosted by
Instance Press co-editor Stacy Szymaszek


Featuring readings from

Kimberly Lyons
Kevin Varrone
Craig Watson

and music from

Toby Goodshank


There will be wine, cheese, and crackers, too.

Curated and with an introduction by Boog City editor David Kirschenbaum

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Maybe? I'm kinda thinking it would be good to stay home and read my Harpers, The World Without Us, and The Totality for Kids- the three things I'm juggling between right now. I told myself on Monday that this week would be quite time.
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Next Thurs:

STEAL THIS READING:
A Brooklyn Book Burning
Featuring 15 authors from 6 publishers:
Thursday, January 31st
Doors @ 7 PM
East Coast Aliens
216 Franklin Street (Greenpoint neighborhood), Brooklyn, NY
tel (718) 514-7625

Killer Lineup:

CD Wright
Eleni Sikelianos
Graham Foust
Joyelle McSweeney
Joshua Marie Wilkinson
Julie Doxsee
Max Winter
Adam Clay
Zachary Schomburg
Morgan Lucas Schuldt
Lily Brown
Rauan Klassnik
Cindy Savett
Jon Thompson
Melanie Hubbard

Hosted by Black Ocean, Cannibal Books, Free Verse Editions, Kitchen Press, Octopus, Tarpaulin Sky Press & Typo.
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Challenging the above Thursday reading to a dual is:

Ahsahta Press & Litmus Press present readings by:

Kate Colby, Kate Greenstreet, Brenda Iijima, Kristi Maxwell, Rusty Morrison, Heidi Lynn Staples, Stacy Szymaszek, & Mark Tardi.

Join us!

Thursday, January 31, 8 pm
Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery (at 1st St.)
New York City

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And then we also have Red Hen, up to the Thursday challenge:

Red Hen Press Reading
Thursday, January 31
8:30 PM
Cornelia Street Café

29 Cornelia Street 10014
between Bleecker and W. 4th, 212-989-9319

Sarah Bein, Elizabeth Bradfield, Elena Karina Byrne, Charles Hood, Doug Kearney, Carol Potter, Eva Saulitis, Cecile Rossant

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Who will bring home the trophy?

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Next Friday:

When: Friday, February 1, 5-7pm
Where: at the Bowery Poetry Club / http://www.bowerypoetry.com

Who: Zoland Poetry hosts a group reading with New Directions, Ugly Duckling Presse and Zephyr Press. Zoland contributors include Forrest Gander, Mani Rao, and Jeffrey Yang. Admission is free.

Directions: 308 Bowery {foot of First Street, between Houston & Bleecker across the street from CBGBs; F train to Second Ave, or 6 train to Bleecker; 212.614.0505}

http://www.zolandpoetry.com

http://www.bowerypoetry.com

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And then no need to move because after this another reading blows up the same spot:

bin ramke, donald revell, laynie browne, peter gizzi, anthony, et al. 7-10pm, bowery poetry club

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I think there is also a Coconut reading Friday but I misplaced the info so I'll get back to you about it.

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Next Saturday:
the Cannibal Birthday Party
featuring

poets from Cannibal: Issue Three
Phil Cordelli, Jeff Encke & Andrew Hughes

& Cannibal Books authors

Melanie Hubbard (Gilbi Winco Swags)
Ben Mazer (The Foundations of Poetry Mathematics)
&
Bronwen Tate (My Proust Vocabulary, forthcoming 2008)

Saturday, February 2nd 6 PM
Jimmy’s No. 43 Stage
43 East 7th Street, NYC
btwn. 2nd & 3rd Aves.

http://www.jimmysno43.com/

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PHEW, I think I got most of the off site readings I'm aware of.

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and do not forget about this hot news:

Two new chapbooks from horse less press!

Vale Tudo by Sommer Browning
http://www.horselesspress.com/chapbooks.html
http://www.horselesspress.com/valetudo.html

A Mule-Shaped Cloud by Sarah Bartlett and Chris Tonelli
http://www.horselesspress.com/chapbooks.html
http://www.horselesspress.com/mule.html

And the reading period for our collab/response anthology has almost come to an end! Send your work! Info below:

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

HORSE LESS PRESS will publish a print anthology in 2008. THE THEME is response. WE ARE INTERESTED in the following 1) writings that respond to, collaborate with, collage from, extend, elaborate, etc. a piece of writing that HAS APPEARED in horse less review, 2) COLLABORATIONS WITH WRITERS who've been published by horse less press or review, 3) BEGINNINGS, FRAGMENTS, PROPOSALS, HALF-MADE WORKS which desire some attention. We may also be interested in collaborative or response-based writings that do not fall into these categories. Please query early if you have an idea. SUBMISSIONS GO to horselessresponse at gmail dot com. Our deadline is January 31, 2008. Send work IN THE BODY of email or as a single word, rtf, or pdf file. IN A COVER letter please tell us a little about yourself and a little about the work you are submitting. PLEASE CLARIFY whether your submission falls into category 1, 2, 3. If #1, MAKE SURE you identify the source work. IF YOU NEED MORE information, visit our website or send questions to the above email address.

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Ok, now I'm tired.