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Tarpaulin Sky readings
& Tarpaulin Sky writers reading elsewhere
December 29, 2007: New York, NY
BookThug Book Party
Featuring authors Cara Benson, Greg Betts, Evan Kennedy, Camille Martin, Gregory Pardlo, publisher Jay Millar, others.
2:00pm - 4:00pm@ Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery @ Bleecker, right across from CBGB's
F train to Second Ave / 6 train to Bleecker
$8
December 17, 2007: New York, NY
Jenny Boully
KGB Bar Great American Prose Poems reading
85 E. 4th Street, 2nd Floor
December 12, 2007: New York, NY
Jenny Boully
Release party for The Book of Beginnings & Endings
5-8 pm @ Baruch College.
137 East 25th St., 3rd floor, room 323
December 12, 2007: New York, NY
Joyelle McSweeney with Daphne Beal and Porochista Khakpour.
With music from Marcellus Hall.
Doors at 7. Show at 8pm.
@ The Happy Ending Music and Reading Series
302 Broome Street
Forsyth and Eldridge
December 10, 2007: New York, NY
Matthea Harvey & Rachel Zucker
7pm @ KGB Bar
85 E. 4th St
December 6, 2007: New York, NY
Face Out Book Party
5 new books
by 5 new york authors
published by 5 new york presses
w/ Ihsan Bracy, Brenda Iijima, Dan Machlin, Prageeta Sharma, and Lila Zemborain
& music by Vintage DJ
7:30 to 10:30 @ the Good World Bar & Grill,
3 Orchard St., between Canal & Division, NYC
December 3, 2007: Brooklyn, NY
Benefit for the Community Word Project
Readings by Matthea Harvey, Zachary Sussman, and Bridget Talone
@ The Flying Saucer
494 Atlantic Ave (between 3rd and Nevins)
December 3, 2007: New York, NY
The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel – Second Floor
Book Launch Reading & Release Party
7-9 PM @ KGB Bar
85 East 4th Street
Featuring: Hugh Behm-Steinberg, Ana Bozicevic-Bowling, Bruce Covey, Jill Alexander Essbaum, Kate Greenstreet, Shafer Hall, editor Reb Livingston, Justin Marks, Gina Meyers, Carly Sachs, Allyson Salaza, Evie Shockley, and Nicole Steinberg
November 20, 2007: New York, NY
Jenny Boully w/Patsy Vigderman
McNally Robinson Booksellers
52 Prince St.
(between Lafayette and Mulberry)
November 15, 2007: Geneva, NY
Jenny Boully
Hobart & William Smith Colleges
Seneca Review reading, in memory of Deborah Tall
November 8, 2007: Iowa City, IA
Max Winter
7 pm @ Prairie Lights Books
15 S. Dubuque Street
November 1, 2007: IA
Jenny Boully
1:45-3:15 pm
NonFictioNOW Conference
Univeristy of Iowa
October 20, 2007: Ann Arbor, MI
Noah Eli Gordon, Joshua Marie Wilkinson, and Selah Saterstrom
7 pm @ Shaman Drum Bookshop
October 15, 2007: New York, NY
Reading for the third issue of The Tiny
featuring Nick Piombino, Anthony Hawley, Kristi Maxwell, Andrea Baker
and Will Edmiston
10pm @ The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church
131 E. 10th Street
October 14, 2007: Chicago, IL
Noah Eli Gordon, Joshua Marie Wilkinson
7 pm @ Myopic Bookstore in Wicker Park
1564 N. Milwaukee Avenue,2nd Floor
October 13, 2007: Cincinnati, OH
Noah Eli Gordon, Joshua Marie Wilkinson, Joyelle McSweeney & Johannes Goransson
8 pm @ Publico
October 12, 2007: Oxford, OH
Noah Eli Gordon, Joshua Marie Wilkinson, Joyelle McSweeney & Johannes Goransson
8 pm @ Miami University
October 11, 2007: Buffalo, NY
Noah Eli Gordon, Joshua Marie Wilkinson
Just Buffalo Series
7 pm @ Rust Belt Books
Ooctober 10, 2007, 2007: Chicago, IL
Danielle Dutton & Deb Olin Unferth
7:30pm @ The Danny's Reading Series
1951 W Dikens (in Bucktown)
October 10, 2007: Oberlin, OH
Noah Eli Gordon, Joshua Marie Wilkinson
4 pm @ Oberlin College
October 10, 2007: Cleveland, OH
Noah Eli Gordon, Joshua Marie Wilkinson
7:30 pm @ Cleveland Poetry Center
Cleveland University
October 9, 2007: South Bend, IN
Noah Eli Gordon, Joshua Marie Wilkinson
8 pm @ Notre Dame Campus
Hospitality Room, Reckers, South Dining Hall
October 8, 2007: Kalamazoo, MI
Noah Eli Gordon, Joshua Marie Wilkinson
8 pm @ Western Michigan Univ.
Sprau Tower 10th Floor
October 8, 2007: New York, NY
John Yau, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, & Tan Lin
Poets Out Loud
7 pm @ the 12th Floor Lounge
Fordham University - Lincoln Center
113 W. 60th Street (corner of Columbus Ave.)
October 7, 2007: Muncie, IN
Noah Eli Gordon, Joshua Marie Wilkinson
7:30 pm @ the MT Cup
October 5, 2007: Ft. Wayne, IN
Noah Eli Gordon, Joshua Marie Wilkinson, Joyelle McSweeney & Johannes Goransson
7:30 pm @ the Co-op
1612 Sherman Street
September 19, 2007: Brookline, MA
Chris Abani, Felicia Luna Lemus, &
Joe Meno
7pm @ Brookline Booksmith
279 Harvard Street
Brookline, MA
September 18, 2007: Brookline, MA
Rebecca Brown and Ed Schwarzschild
7pm @ Brookline Booksmith
279 Harvard Street
Brookline, MA
SEPTEMBER 8, 2007: LINCOLN, NE
Joyelle McSweeney, Johannes Goransson, John Gallaher
Clean Part Reading Series
7pm @ The Sheldon Memorial Gallery
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
MAY 25, 2007: BROOKLYN, NY
Kaya Oakes
MiPo Reading Series
Stain Bar
766 Grand Steet
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
http://www.stainbar.com
MAY 18, 2007: DENVER, CO
J'Lyn Chapman, Julie Doxsee, & Christina Mengert
Denver University Graduate Reading Series
Sturn Hall 151
University of Denver
MAY 16, 2007: SOUTH HADLEY, MA
Dan Chelotti, Elizabeth
Hughey, & Andrew Michael Roberts
7PM @ Odyssey BookShop
Village Commons
9 College St.
MAY 15, 2007: NEW YORK, NY
EXPERIMENTS & DISORDERS SERIES
Jan Clausen and Anthony Tognazzini
7:30 p.m. @ Dixon Place
258 Bowery, second floor
www.dixonplace.org
MAY 1, 2007: BROOKLYN, NY
Jan Clausen
7:30 p.m. @ The Perch Café
365 5th Ave., Park Slope, Brooklyn (between 5th and 6th Streets).
F/R Trains to 4th Ave. and 9th St.
www.theperchcafe.com
APRIL 27-29, 2007: YONKERS, NY
SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE POETRY FESTIVAL
featuring Matthea Harvey,
Rebecca Wolff, Srikanth Reddy,
Catherine Barnett,
Victor Hernandez Cruz,
Cornelius Eady,
Thomas Sayers Ellis,
Kimiko Hahn,
Cathy Park Hong,
Susan Howe,
Yusef Komunyakaa,
Philip Levine,
Jeffrey McDaniel,
Paul Muldoon,
Sonia Sanchez,
Vijay Seshadri,
Richard Siken,
and Larissa Szporluk.
Heimbold Auditorium & Slonim House
Kimball Avenue near Glen Washington Road
Sarah Lawrence College
www.slc.edu/poetry-festival
914-395-2412
APRIL 27, 2007: CORAL GABLES, FL
Max Winter
8PM @ Books & Books
265 Aragon Ave
305-442-4408
http://booksandbooks.com
APRIL 27, 2007: SAN FRANCISCO, CA
MEMORIAL READING
FOR KARI EDWARDS
A celebration of the life and work of kari edwards
(1954-2006)
7:30 PM @ The
San Francisco Campus of the California
College of the Arts
1111 Eighth Street
APRIL 14, 2007: LINCOLN, NE
THE CLEAN PART READING SERIES
featuring Laura Sims, Hadara Bar-Nadav, & Michael Dumanis
7 PM @ The Sheldon Memorial Gallery
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
APRIL 12, 2007: BOULDER, CO
Danielle Dutton & Phil Lamarche
7:30 PM @ Boulder Book Store
1107 Pearl Street
Tel: 303-447-2074
APRIL 4, 2007: CINCINNATI, OH
Poetry in the Garden Series
featuring Matt Hart & Lesley Jenike
7:00 @ The Cincinnati Public Library
Vine Street between Eighth and Court
APRIL 2, 2007: DENVER, CO
Danielle Dutton and Stephanie Young
8:00 pm @ Turnhalle of the Tivoli Student Union
UC Denver
Auraria Campus
MARCH 28, 2007: CHICAGO, IL
Bookslut.com Reading Series
featuring
Danielle Dutton, Jay Hopler, and Sarah Thyre
7:00pm @ The Hopleaf
5148 N. Clark St. (a few doors south of Foster)
MARCH 24, 2007: NEW YORK, NY
Danielle Dutton and Robyn Art
Book Release / Party for Attempts at a Life
2 PM @ The Four-Faced Liar
165 West 4th Street (between 6th & 7th Ave)
Christopher Street (1, 9) and West 4th St. subway (F, V, A, C, E, F, V, B, D)
(212) 366 0608
MARCH 23, 2007: MYSTIC, CT
Ada Limon
7PM @ The Mystic Arts Center
9 Water Street
MARCH 22, 2007: NEW YORK, NY
Reading for Joyful Noise: An Anthology of American Spiritual Poetry
Featuring
Kazim Ali, Danielle Dutton, Timothy Donnelly, Richard Greenfield, Karla
Kelsey, Frances Richard, et al!
7:00 pm @ Housing Works Used Bookstore
126 Crosby
FEBRUARY 24, 2007: NEW YORK, NY
Tarpaulin Sky celebrates OBERIU: An Anthology of Russian Absurdism: a
bilingual translation reading along with new Russian and émigré
writing.
Featuring poets and translators Eugene Ostashevsky,
Genya Turovskaya,
Ilya Bernstein, and
Eireene Nealand
1:30
@ The Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery
FEBRUARY 21, 2007: NEW YORK, NY
Max Winter
Book Release Party for The Pictures
Teachers & Writers Collaborative
520 Eighth Ave., Ste. 2020
212-691-6590
FEBRUARY 17, 2007: NEW YORK, NY
Jenny Boully, Jordan Davis, Douglas A. Martin, & Max Winter
2 PM @ The Four-Faced Liar
165 West 4th Street (between 6th & 7th Ave)
Christopher Street (1, 9) and West 4th St. subway (F, V, A, C, E, F, V, B, D)
(212) 366 0608
FEBRUARY 16, 2007: AMHERST, MA
Andrew Michael Roberts & Seth Parker
8 PM @ Amherst Books
8 Main Street
FEBRUARY 12, 2007: NEW YORK, NY
Matt Hart & Tomaz Salamun
7:30 PM @ The KGB Bar
85 East 4th Street (just off 2nd Ave)
FEBRUARY 10, 2007: LINCOLN, NE
Sandy Florian,
Julie Doxsee, &
Summer Browning
7 PM @ The Sheldon Memorial Gallery
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
FEBRUARY 8, 2007: FORT COLLINS, CO
Sandy Florian &
Julie Doxsee
7pm @ Hatton Gallery
Colorado State University
FEBRUARY 6, 2007: OAKLAND, CA
Kaya Oakes
Launch Party & Reading for Telegraph
Diesel Books
5433 College Avenue
Oakland
FEBRUARY 3, 2007: SAN DIEGO, CA
PARTHENON WEST REVIEW & POETRY INTERNATIONAL
Chad Sweeney and the editors and contributors
of Parthenon West Review and Poetry International
6PM @ Claire de Lune
2906 University
Avenue
FEBRUARY 2, 2007: SAN DIEGO, CA
PARTHENON WEST REVIEW & POETRY INTERNATIONAL
Chad Sweeney and the editors and contributors
of Parthenon West Review and Poetry International
7PM @ Scripps Cottage
San Diego State University (old campus)
JANUARY 26, 2007: NEW YORK, NY
Norman Lock, Terese Svoboda, & Deb Olin Unferth
7-9 PM @ The KGB Bar
85 East 4th Street (just off 2nd Ave)
JANUARY 25th, 2007: NEW YORK, NY
Ada Limon
New York Book release party and reading of This
Big Fake World
6-9 PM @ Bar 13
35 E. 13th Street
http://www.bar13.com
JANUARY 19, 2007: BERKELEY, CA
CALIFORNIA POETRY FLASH SERIES
w/ Chad Sweeney & Roxane Beth Johnson
7:30 PM @ Black Oak Books
1491 Shattuck Avenue
JANUARY 14, 2007: BERKELEY, CA
PEGASUS BOOKS READING SERIES
w/ Sandy Florian
& Arielle Greenberg
7:30 PM @ Pegasus Books
2349 Shattuck Avenue
JANUARY 9, 2007: SEATTLE, WA
CRANKY ISSUE #8 RELEASE
featuring Norman Lock, Sabrina
Orah Mark, & local contributors
7-9 PM @ The Richard Hugo House
1634 11th Ave
DECEMBER 28th, 2006: SONOMA, CA
Ada Limon
Book release party and reading of This
Big Fake World
7PM @ Readers' Books
127 E. Napa Street
DECEMBER 22, 2006: CHICAGO, IL
DISCRETE SERIES
featuring James Wagner & Brian Whitener
Hosted by Kerri
Sonnenberg
8 PM @ Elastic
2830 N. Milwaukee Ave (above the Friendship Chinese Restaurant)
http://www.elasticrevolution.com
DECEMBER 16, 2006: NEW YORK, NY
Book Launch for Don’t Ever Get Famous: Essays on New York Writing After the New York School
Join book editor Daniel Kane for micro readings from Bob Perelman, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Lytle Shaw, Marcella Durand, Brenda Coultas, Gary Lenhart, Lewis Warsh, and more.
6 PM @ The Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery, New York, NY 10012
( Foot of First Street, between Houston & Bleecker, across the street from what used to be CBGBs.
Take F train to Second Ave, or 6 train to Bleecker.)
212.614.0505
DECEMBER 14, 2006: AMSTERDAM, HOLLAND
OPEN STANZA READING SERIES
featuring Sandy Florian
7pm @ Nachttheater Sugar Factory
Lijnbaansgracht 238
DECEMBER 11, 2006: PARIS, FRANCE
Sandy Florian &
Michelle Noteboom
Berkeley_Books
8, rue Casimir Delavigne
M° Odéon
DECEMBER 10, 2006: NEW YORK, NY
THIRD ANNUAL SINGLE MALT POETRY SLAM
featuring Eugene Ostashevsky, Anna Moschovakis, Gary Sullivan, Paolo Javier, Kim Rosenfield.
5PM @ The Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery at Houston.
$20 includes 6 single malts! ($15.00 in advance at virtuous.com)
This fourth annual event features 6 poets, reading descriptions of six single malts, as the audience samples the whiskeys. The audience votes on the poets and single malts. Door prizes include the Highlands Tweeds Coastal Single Malt Sport Jacket by Orvis and a one-night stay at the four-star Equinox Hotel in Vermont
NOVEMBER 13, 2006: NEW YORK CITY
PALM PRESS AT THE POETRY PROJECT
Featuring readings by
Dana Teen Lomax
Christian Peet
Jane Sprague
Wendy Walters
Matvei Yankelevich
8PM - Poetry Project - St. Mark's Church - 131 E. 10th St. - NYC
OCTOBER 24, 2006: NEW YORK CITY
NEW SCHOOL FACULTY READING SERIES
Featuring Jenny Boully
6:30 pm @ The New School
66 W. 12th Street, Room 510
New York, NY
OCTOBER 22, 2006: NEW YORK CITY
ZINC TALK/READING SERIES
Jenny Boully & Travis Nichols
7PM @ the
Zinc Bar
90 West Houston (between Laguardia & Thompson), Greenwich Village, NYC
SEPTEMBER 29, 2006: BROOKLYN, NEW YORK
MIPO READING SERIES
Jenny Boully reads with Aaron Belz &
Brian Howe
7PM @ the
Stain Bar
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
TARPAULIN SKY / FREQUENCY SERIES
SPRING 2006 READINGS in NYC
2PM Saturdays @ The Four-Faced Liar
165 West 4th Street
(between 6th & 7th Ave), NY, NY
http://frequencyseries.blogspot.com
www.thefour-facedliar.com
MAY 13, 2006
ELECTA ARENAL & BEATRIX GATES
(bilingual reading of their translations of JESÚS AGUADO)
JENNY BOULLY
SANDY FLORIAN
Co-translators Electa Arenal and Beatrix Gates were awarded the 2003 Witter Bynner Translation Residency at the Sante Fe Art Institute to collaborate on selected works of contemporary Spanish poet Jesús Aguado; they produced a translation of the book-length poem, what you say about me. An earlier co-translation from Aguado's Like the Oar That Cuts the Current: Poems of Vikram Babu appeared in Sam Hamill’s Poets Against the War. Jesús Aguado, b. 1961, Spain, is the author of Los amores imposibles [Impossible Loves] (Hiperión Prize, 1990, Madrid); Libro de Homenajes [Book of Homage] (Hiperión Press, Madrid, 1993), El fugitivo [The Fugitive] (Pre-Textos, Valencia, 1998); Los poemas de Vikram Babu (Hiperión, 2000); Lo que dices de mí [What You Say About Me] (Pre-Textos, 2002); Heridas [Wounds] (Renacimiento, Seville, 2004); and La astucia del vacío. Cuadernos de Benarés 1986-2004 [The Cunning of the Void: Benares Notebooks 1987-2004] (Ediciones Narila, Málaga, 2005); among other books.
Jenny Boully
is the author of [one love affair]*, (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2006), and The Body (Slope Editions, 2002). Her work has been anthologized in The Best American Poetry 2002, Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to the Present, and The Next American Essay and has appeared in Boston Review, Seneca Review, and Conjunctions. Her Book of Beginnings and Endings is forthcoming from Sarabande. Born in Thailand and reared in Texas, she has studied at Hollins University and the University of Notre Dame and is pursuing a Ph.D. at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She divides her time between Brooklyn and a small town in Texas.
Sandy Florian was born in NY and raised in Latin America. She earned her MFA from Brown University’s Creative Writing Program and is a current candidate for a PhD in English and Creative Writing at the University of Denver. Her first book, Telescope, is forthcoming in the fall with Action Books. Her work appears in many journals, including Indiana Review (Latino Edition), Bombay Gin, La Petite Zine, Shampoo Poetry, 14 Hills, elimae, New Orleans Review, eratio, Gargoyle, 42 Opus, Word For/Word, Segue, Versal, and The Encyclopedia Project. She keeps a rudimentary blog at http://boxingthecompass.blogspot.com
MAY 10, 2006
BOOK RELEASE PARTY / READING
Jenny Boully's [ one love affair ]*
from Tarpaulin Sky Press
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6:30--to 8:30
(reading begins at 7pm and is followed by a book-signing)
NOTE DIFFERENT LOCATION:
Faculty Lounge,
Hunter College
8th floor, West building
68th Street & Lexington Ave
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APRIL 29, 2006
ELÉNA RIVERA
SELAH SATERSTROM
JONATHAN SKINNER
JANE SPRAGUE
JAMES WAGNER
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Eléna Rivera is the author of Suggestions at Every Turn (Seeing Eye Books, 2005), Unknowne Land (Kelsey St. Press, 2000), Wale; or, the Corse (Leave Books, 1995), and a recent pamphlet entitled Disturbances in the Ocean of Air (Phylum Press, 2006). Recent work appears in Five Fingers Review, The Poker and the Poetry Salzburg Review.
Selah Saterstom's work appears in Harness, 3rd Bed, and the Seattle Research Institute’s Experimental Theology. Her novel, The Pink Institution (Coffee
House Press 2004), was included in the top ten books of 2004 by The New Orleans Gambit, Venus Magazine, and was nominated for The Believer Book Award. She has received a MacDowell Colony Fellowship and holds an M.A. in Literature and Theology from The University of Glasgow and an M.F.A. from Goddard College.
Jonathan Skinner was born in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 1967, and has lived in Mexico, England, Italy, France and, most recently, New York State. His book, Political Cactus Poems, was published by Palm Press in 2005. He edits the review ecopoetics in Buffalo, NY, where he curated the Steel Bar reading series and where he continues to misidentify birds along the Niagra River. He teaches at the State University of New York and in the Buffalo public schools.
Jane Sprague's poems have been published in many print and online magazines including How2, Kiosk, Columbia Poetry Review, Barrow Street, Tinfish, ecopoetics, kultureflash, Bird Dog, and others. Her chapbooks include monster: a bestiary, break / fast, The Port of Los Angeles and Fuck Your Pastoral. The recipient of numerous grants and awards (NYSCA, NYFA, among others), she has worked as a teaching artist in the public schools of New York, an NYFA Artist in the School Community at Cornell University and Tompkins Cortland Community College, and for Bank Street College at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for Women, a maximum-security prison for women in New York. Sprague began and curated the West End Reading Series in Ithaca, NY before relocating to Long Beach, California, where she currently lives with her family. She publishes Palm Press: PalmPress.org.
James Wagner is the author of the false sun recordings (3rd bed, 2003) and Trilce (Calamari Press, 2006). His poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and reviews have appeared or will appear in The American Poetry Review, Antennae, BlazeVOX, Boston Review, Denver Quarterly, Fence, 5_Trope, jubilat, McSweeney's, Mississippi Review, 6x6, and many other places. He lives in Chico, California. |
APRIL 8, 2006
MICHAEL COSTELLO
ADA LIMÓN
DANIEL NESTER
ANDREW MICHAEL ROBERTS
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Michael Costello lives in Saratoga Springs, where he works as a copywriter for Palio Communications. He has been published in CROWD, eye-rhyme, DelSol Review, swankwriting, MiPo, Columbia Poetry Review, La Petite Zine, Unpleasant Event Schedule, and Best American Poetry 2004.
Ada Limon is originally from Sonoma, California. She received her MFA in Creative Writing-Poetry from New York University. She has received fellowships from the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, New York Foundation for the Arts, and won the Chicago Literary Award for Poetry. Her work appears in numerous magazines, including the
The Iowa Review, Slate, Watchword, Poetry Daily, LIT, Painted Bride Quarterly, and others. She co-curates Pete’s Big Salmon in Brooklyn and her first book lucky wreck will be published by Autumn House Press in February of 2006.
Daniel Nester is the author of God Save My Queen and God Save My Queen II, both collections on his obsession with the rock band Queen, as well as The History of My World Tonight (BlazeVOX, 2006). He edits the online journal Unpleasant Event Schedule and is Assistant Web Editor for Sestinas for McSweeney’s. He teaches writing at The College of Saint Rose in Albany, NY. Find him online at danielnester.com.
Andrew Roberts is earning his MFA in poetry at
the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His work appears in The Seattle
Review, The Iowa Review, Pool, Quick Fiction, Double Room, Sentence
and Cue, among others. In a prior life he was poetry editor for
The Portland Review, and he dearly misses scanning the Pacific
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MARCH 18, 2006
KARI EDWARDS
JULIE KIZERSHOT
EUGENE OSTASHEVSKY
kari edwards' fourth book, obedience, was published in January 2006 by Factory School. Poet, artist and gender activist, winner of New Langton Art's Bay Area Award in literature (2002), author of iduna, O Books (2003), a day in the life of p., subpress collective (2002), a diary of lies - Belladonna #27 by Belladonna Books (2002), and post/(pink) Scarlet Press (2000), edwards' work can also be found in Scribner's The Best American Poetry 2004 (fall, 2004), Experimental Theology, Public Text 0.2., Seattle Research Institute (2003), Blood and Tears: Poems for Matthew Shepard, Painted Leaf Press (2000), Aufgabe, Mirage/Period(ical), Van Gogh's Ear, Call, Fulcrum: an annual of poetry and aesthetics, Pom2, Shearsman, and The International Journal of Sexuality and Gender Studies.
Julie Kizershot
lives in New York City. She has done graduate study at Naropa University, the University of Colorado, and most recently New York University. She's been published in Shampoo, Bird Dog, Paterson Literary Review, 13th Moon, and other places on line and in print. For many years she coordinated Naropa's Summer Writing Program. She has taught at the University of Colorado, Naropa, and most recently with drama classes at a Lower East Side high school.
Eugene Ostashevsky's books of poetry include Iterature and Infinite Recursor
or the Bride of DJ Spinoza, both available through Ugly Duckling Presse. His
work has also appeared in Best American Poetry, Jubilat, Boston Review,
and Fence. A recipient of a poetry fellowship from NYFA, he
also translates Russian absurdist literature of the 1930s. |
FALL 2005
TARPAULIN SKY
in conjunction with
TYPO MAGAZINE
& BURNING CHAIR READINGS
The Fall Café
307 Smith Street
Brooklyn
www.typomag.com/burningchair
NOVEMBER 5, 2005
JULIE CARR
CHERYL PALLANT
MAX WINTER
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Julie Carr's book is Mead: An Epithalamion (Georgia, 2004). Poems from her new manuscript, Equivocal, appear or are forthcoming in Verse, Five Fingers Review, Bayou, Xantippe, Iowa Review, and Columbia Poetry Review.
Cheryl Pallant's books include Into Stillness and Uncommon Grammar Cloth, both published by Station Hill Press (NY), and the chapbook, Spontaneities, from Belladonna Press (NY). Her poetry and fiction have appeared in numerous print and online journals such as How2, Moria, lyric, and Confrontation. She is also a dancer and the co-editor of the dance magazine Contact Quarterly. She teaches classes in creative writing, dance, and a blend of the two at the University of Richmond.
Max Winter, winner of the Fifth Annual Boston
Review Poetry Contest, has poems appearing recently in Ploughshares, The Paris Review, Colorado Review, Volt, The Yale Review, The Canary, Denver Quarterly, First Intensity, GutCult, TYPO, and New Young American Poets (Southern Illinois, 2000). He has published reviews in The Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, Newsday, and BOMB. He is a Poetry Editor of Fence.
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22 OCTOBER, 2005
Barbara DeCesare
Elena Georgiou
Joan Larkin
Ada Limon
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Barbara
DeCesare has a permit to carry a concealed
weapon and is the Poet Laureate of 8th biggest rock n’ roll radio
show in the nation at WIYY 97.9, Baltimore. Her poems have found homes
in Poetry, The Evansville Review, Gargoyle, River Styx, Alaska Quarterly
Review, and many other journals. Her book of poems jigsaweyesore
(Anti-Man Press 1999) was called “what thunder looks like in writing”
by The Baltimore Sun. Please visit her website
for audio samples and, if you can find the hidden link, a dirty photo.
Elena Georgiou lives in Brooklyn and teaches poetry and creative writing at Hunter College in New York and Goddard College in Vermont. She is the author of Mercy Mercy Me (University of Wisconsin Press, 2003) and co-edited, with Michael Lassell, the anthology The World in Us (St. Martin's Press, 2001) She is the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts poetry fellowship, Astraea Emerging Writers Award, and Lambda Literary Award. Recent work appears in Bloom, Cream City Review, Gargoyle, Lumina, Spoon River Review and elsewhere.
Joan Larkin's poetry collections include Housework, A Long Sound, Sor
Juana's Love Poems (co-translated with Jaime Manrique), and
Cold River. Twice winner of the Lambda Literary award
for poetry, she co-founded the independent press Out & Out Books
and co-edited
the ground-breaking anthologies Amazon Poetry and
Lesbian Poetry (with Ellly Bulkin) and Gay and Lesbian Poetry
in Our Time (with Carl Morse) in the 70's and 80's. Her anthology
of coming-out stories, A Woman Like That, was nominated
for Publishing Triangle and Lambda awards for nonfiction in 2000. Her awards include fellowships in poetry and playwriting from the
NEA, NYFA, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council.
Ada Limón is originally from Sonoma, California. She received her MFA in Creative Writing-Poetry from New York University. She has received fellowships from the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, New York Foundation for the Arts, and won the Chicago Literary Award for Poetry. Her work appears in numerous magazines, including the Iowa Review, Slate, Watchword, Poetry Daily, LIT, Painted Bride Quarterly, and others. She co-curates Pete’s Big Salmon in Brooklyn and her first book lucky wreck is forthcoming by Autumn House Press in February of 2006.
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8 OCTOBER, 2005
Jenny Boully
Jan Clausen
& Sasha Watson
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Jenny Boully is the author of The Body (Slope Editions). Her work has been anthologized in The Best American Poetry, Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to Present, and The Next American Essay. She has recently finished a new manuscript, The Book of Beginnings and Endings. She is a Ph.D. student in English at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
Jan Clausen's writing has spanned numerous genres. In the 1980’s, she focused heavily on fiction, publishing a story collection and two novels with the Crossing Press (U.S.) and The Women’s Press Ltd. (U.K.). Her memoir Apples and Oranges: My Journey through Sexual Identity was issued by Houghton Mifflin in 1999. Since then she has become a “born again poet,” publishing widely in periodicals and receiving a New York Foundation for the Arts Poetry Fellowship in 2003. Other awards include a National Endowment for the Arts Fiction Fellowship. Her poetry and fiction have appeared in Another Chicago Magazine, Calyx, Feminist Studies, Fence, For a Living: The Poetry of Work, Gay and Lesbian Poetry in Our Time, Hanging Loose, Ikon, The Kenyon Review, Luna, Margie, North American Review, Ploughshares, XConnect and The Village Voice. Her essays, book reviews, and literary journalism may be found in Ms., The Nation, Poets and Writers, and The Women’s Review of Books, among others.
Sasha Watson is a writer, translator, and teacher based in New York. Her poetry, translations, and reviews have appeared in Bird Dog, Common Knowledge, Triquarterly, Bookslut, Nerve, and the Poetry Project Newsletter. She is currently working on a Ph.D. in French literature at NYU.
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1 OCTOBER, 2005
Amy King, Dan
Machlin,
and Paul McCormick
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Amy King is the author of the poetry collection, Antidotes for an Alibi (BlazeVox Books), a Lambda Book Award finalist, and the chapbook, The People Instruments (Pavement Saw Press Chapbook Award 2002). Her poems appear in such publications as The Brooklyn Rail, Milk Magazine, The Mississippi Review, No Tell Motel, Riding the Meridian, and Shampoo. She teaches English at Nassau Community College and spends much of her time between Brooklyn and Baltimore. Please visit www.amyking.org for more.
Dan Machlin is the author of 6X7 poems (Ugly
Duckling Presse 2005), This Side Facing You (Heart Hammer), and In Rem (@ Press). His work has recently appeared in Fence, The Brooklyn Rail, Cy Press, Antennae, Crayon and The Portable Boog Reader. He has also collaborated on a full length Audio-CD with cellist/singer Serena Jost (Immanent Audio) and contributed companion text to several visual art exhibitions in New York City and Germany. He is the founder and editor of Futurepoem Books and a current curator at The Segue reading series at The Bowery Poetry Club in New York City.
Paul
McCormick’s recent work appears or is forthcoming
in the Denver Quarterly, Conjunctions, Iowa Review, Verse, Fence, Conduit, Barrow Street,
Word for/Word, and DIAGRAM.
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24 SEPTEMBER, 2005
Dan Chelotti and Mary A. Koncel
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Dan Chelotti is currently pursuing his MFA at UMASS-Amherst. He has worked as an Assistant Managing Editor at Verse Press for the past three years. He lives in Easthampton, MA.
Mary A.
Koncel is the author of You Can
Tell the Horse Anything (Tupelo Press, 2004) and the chapbook
Closer to Day (Quale Press, 1999). Her work has appeared
in a variety of journals and anthologies, including The Massachusetts
Review, Denver Quarterly, The Journal, The Prose Poem: An International
Journal, and No Boundaries: Prose Poems by 24 American Poets.
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10 SEPTEMBER, 2005
Robyn Art
Jen Benka
Michael Gottlieb
Heidi Lynn Staples
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Robyn Art was born in Boston. Her recent poems have appeared in Slope, The
Hat, Conduit, Slipstream, The New Delta Review, Rhino, and can we have our ball back? She's the author of the poetry manuscript, The Stunt Double In Winter, which was selected as a Finalist for the 2004 Kore Press First Book Award. Her chapbook, Degrees of Being There, was released by Boneworld Press in May 2003. A second chapbook, No Longer A Blonde, is forthcoming from Boneworld Press in 2005. Currently she lives in Brooklyn.
Jen Benka's collection of one poem for each of the 52 words in the Preamble to the US Constitution, A Box of Longing With Fifty Drawers, will be published by Soft Skull Press in 2005. Jen is the managing director of Poets & Writers and lives in New York City.
Michael Gottlieb is the author of more than a dozen titles, including Lost and Found (Segue, 2004). His other recent books include Gorgeous Plunge (also from Segue) Careering Obloquy (Other Publications/Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs), and More Than All (Tongue To Boot), a collaboration with Ted Greenwald.
Heidi Lynn Staples is the author of Guess Can Gallop, which was selected by Brenda Hillman for the 2002 New Issues Poetry Prize. Heidi's manuscript, Dog Girl, runner-up for the Sawtooth Poetry Prize, will be published by Ahsahta
Press. Her poems have appeared or will soon appear in Denver Quarterly, How2, La Petite Zine, LIT, 3rd Bed, Slope, Unpleasant Event Schedule and elsewhere. She teaches poetry at the University College, Syracuse University.
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