Friday, December 11, 2009
yo you like dickens and scholars on horror?
hey some wonderful guy has a wonderful post on his horror blog regarding a christmas carol, the supernatural, his on the way daughter we all can't wait to meet and fatherhood on a blog he co-writes with another film scholar up today. click here and scroll down: here
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
big things to come
i would like to link some things
the institute for public knowledge has a database which podcasts lectures, events, symposiums which i guess is the same thing as lectures, kinda and etc. this link will take you there. even if you're not into secularism or religion, this is still neat kinda? here
"This weekend will be the year (!) anniversary of the Bushwick Reading Series, and to celebrate, we have four singular readers:
Franklin Bruno, author, musician, multihyphenate (Elvis Costello's Armed Forces, 33 1/3)
Farrah Field, poet (Rising, 4-Way Books)
Joanna Penn Cooper, poet (chapbook Mesmer forthcoming from Dancing Girl Press)
Jason Helm, fiction writer
The reading takes place, as always, from 3 to 5PM at Bushwick Library on 340 Bushwick Avenue, just a couple short blocks away from the Montrose Avenue L-stop. Here is a map both helpful and detailed. If you are still unsure, please don't hesitate to ask. You will know the library by its foreboding brick visage; head on downstairs, the librarians will be able to direct you, or you can catch me by the shirtsleeve as I will no doubt be flitting around arranging and greeting.
I'm not gonna lie; I'm super excited. I hope you are, too. Together we can drink a Drank Extreme Relaxation Beverage to "slow our roll" so that we don't die from hyper-anticipation. Another way to cope is to view the book recommendations, which are starting to go up on the BRS blog. The first is from Joanna Penn Cooper, and it's already up on the Bushwick Reading Series blog, here: here"
the cookbook i'm in, which will donate all proceeds to the Greater Boston Food Bank is having a release party this week. my band Mind Yeti, which i will be playing in via telephone hooked up to a microphone because i am not in Boston, will be playing. i play various objects, such as the kazoo and an 80s version of electronic battleship hooked up to an echo mic. there are real musicians in this band. they just let me hang with them sometimes. please buy a book for your fam for christmas here: here
the institute for public knowledge has a database which podcasts lectures, events, symposiums which i guess is the same thing as lectures, kinda and etc. this link will take you there. even if you're not into secularism or religion, this is still neat kinda? here
"This weekend will be the year (!) anniversary of the Bushwick Reading Series, and to celebrate, we have four singular readers:
Franklin Bruno, author, musician, multihyphenate (Elvis Costello's Armed Forces, 33 1/3)
Farrah Field, poet (Rising, 4-Way Books)
Joanna Penn Cooper, poet (chapbook Mesmer forthcoming from Dancing Girl Press)
Jason Helm, fiction writer
The reading takes place, as always, from 3 to 5PM at Bushwick Library on 340 Bushwick Avenue, just a couple short blocks away from the Montrose Avenue L-stop. Here is a map both helpful and detailed. If you are still unsure, please don't hesitate to ask. You will know the library by its foreboding brick visage; head on downstairs, the librarians will be able to direct you, or you can catch me by the shirtsleeve as I will no doubt be flitting around arranging and greeting.
I'm not gonna lie; I'm super excited. I hope you are, too. Together we can drink a Drank Extreme Relaxation Beverage to "slow our roll" so that we don't die from hyper-anticipation. Another way to cope is to view the book recommendations, which are starting to go up on the BRS blog. The first is from Joanna Penn Cooper, and it's already up on the Bushwick Reading Series blog, here: here"
the cookbook i'm in, which will donate all proceeds to the Greater Boston Food Bank is having a release party this week. my band Mind Yeti, which i will be playing in via telephone hooked up to a microphone because i am not in Boston, will be playing. i play various objects, such as the kazoo and an 80s version of electronic battleship hooked up to an echo mic. there are real musicians in this band. they just let me hang with them sometimes. please buy a book for your fam for christmas here: here
Monday, December 7, 2009
thanks american short fiction blog for
linking our Rofihe interview
here
saw barry graham and greg gerke read in brooklyn last night. please check the blog roll of the left and read the work they both write and publish and edit if you aren't also an avid fan already. it was a magical time and i got to hang out with some lovely incredibly amazing writers who came to listen to the reading and hang afterward. some might even call them "big wigs" and i was nervous and it gave me shifty eyes. its terrible, i really have to work on that. it is rather silly. if anybody wants to get together and stare at the ground and not say anything i'm good at that though.
if you're in ny go see ashbery for free tonight and give kaveh a hug or a tight handshake. he is sort of like standing on some kind of warm area which is being warmed by the sun:
Join us for our final fall event with: John Ashbery, whose latest book, Planisphere, we are celebrating; Jeff Clark, author of Music and Suicide and The Little Door Slides Back, and Stuart Krimko, whose new book, The Sweetness Of Herbert, we are also celebrating.
MONDAY, Dec 7, 2009 7:00 PM
Triptych Readings
(pairing established and emerging writers)
JOHN ASHBERY
JEFF CLARK
STUART KRIMKO
11th Street Bar
510 East 11th Street (between Avenues A & B)
Closest subway stop is the L at 1st Ave.
other close stops include L at 3rd Ave and Union Square (N, R, W, Q, 4, 5, 6).
Admission is FREE.
Visit our website for additional information and upcoming readings: www.triptychreading.com
here
saw barry graham and greg gerke read in brooklyn last night. please check the blog roll of the left and read the work they both write and publish and edit if you aren't also an avid fan already. it was a magical time and i got to hang out with some lovely incredibly amazing writers who came to listen to the reading and hang afterward. some might even call them "big wigs" and i was nervous and it gave me shifty eyes. its terrible, i really have to work on that. it is rather silly. if anybody wants to get together and stare at the ground and not say anything i'm good at that though.
if you're in ny go see ashbery for free tonight and give kaveh a hug or a tight handshake. he is sort of like standing on some kind of warm area which is being warmed by the sun:
Join us for our final fall event with: John Ashbery, whose latest book, Planisphere, we are celebrating; Jeff Clark, author of Music and Suicide and The Little Door Slides Back, and Stuart Krimko, whose new book, The Sweetness Of Herbert, we are also celebrating.
MONDAY, Dec 7, 2009 7:00 PM
Triptych Readings
(pairing established and emerging writers)
JOHN ASHBERY
JEFF CLARK
STUART KRIMKO
11th Street Bar
510 East 11th Street (between Avenues A & B)
Closest subway stop is the L at 1st Ave.
other close stops include L at 3rd Ave and Union Square (N, R, W, Q, 4, 5, 6).
Admission is FREE.
Visit our website for additional information and upcoming readings: www.triptychreading.com
Saturday, December 5, 2009
i got this pen and i learned how to make it talk
hey go to claudia's new reading series:
New Reading Series: From Here to the Corner
A new reading series, From Here to the Corner, will launch on Tuesday, December 8, 7:00pm at 25CPW, an artist-run storefront gallery at 25 Central Park West on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. This series will gather poets and witnesses for incessant conversation, a nonlinear movement forward into the past, and storytelling to break the nerves.
The reading will feature three poets, Ari Banias, Joy Ladin, and Grey Vild, whose writings explore ancestry, gender binaries, finding love in Brooklyn, and Cosmo Girl magazine, among other things. It will be followed by an after party to celebrate the release of Joy Ladin’s latest book Transmigration.
Joy Ladin is the author of three books of poetry from Sheep Meadow Press: the just-published Transmigration, The Book of Anna (as J. Ladin) and Alternatives to History (as Jay Ladin). Her poems and essays have been widely published, and have recently appeared in or are forthcoming in American Poetry Review, Prairie Schooner, Parnassus, to which she is a regular contributor, and other publications. She holds the David and Ruth Gottesman Chair in English at Stern College of Yeshiva University, and has also taught at Sarah Lawrence College, Princeton University, Tel Aviv University, Reed College and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
Ari Banias has poems in recent or upcoming issues of Aufgabe, Love Among the Ruins, EOAGH, The Cincinnati Review, Field, The Portable Boog Reader, and elsewhere. He co-hosts the queer series Uncalled-for Readings at Unnameable Books in Brooklyn.
Grey Vild is part of the writing group behind From Here to the Corner. Most of his writing life has been spent searching for the ancestor. He is currently most obsessed with James Baldwin, family, cat gut, shame, and Michael Jackson.
25CPW is a storefront that has been vacant for the past two years. Early this fall a group of ten artists moved into the 3,000 square foot space viewing it as an opportunity to share their ideas and work with a broad audience. The space is called 25CPW. Its members seek to create a common platform for artists, curators, writers, educators, and the general public to engage with contemporary art. 25CPW will maintain a calendar of diverse events featuring lectures, discussions, film screenings, poetry readings, performances, workshops and exhibitions.
New Reading Series: From Here to the Corner
A new reading series, From Here to the Corner, will launch on Tuesday, December 8, 7:00pm at 25CPW, an artist-run storefront gallery at 25 Central Park West on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. This series will gather poets and witnesses for incessant conversation, a nonlinear movement forward into the past, and storytelling to break the nerves.
The reading will feature three poets, Ari Banias, Joy Ladin, and Grey Vild, whose writings explore ancestry, gender binaries, finding love in Brooklyn, and Cosmo Girl magazine, among other things. It will be followed by an after party to celebrate the release of Joy Ladin’s latest book Transmigration.
Joy Ladin is the author of three books of poetry from Sheep Meadow Press: the just-published Transmigration, The Book of Anna (as J. Ladin) and Alternatives to History (as Jay Ladin). Her poems and essays have been widely published, and have recently appeared in or are forthcoming in American Poetry Review, Prairie Schooner, Parnassus, to which she is a regular contributor, and other publications. She holds the David and Ruth Gottesman Chair in English at Stern College of Yeshiva University, and has also taught at Sarah Lawrence College, Princeton University, Tel Aviv University, Reed College and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
Ari Banias has poems in recent or upcoming issues of Aufgabe, Love Among the Ruins, EOAGH, The Cincinnati Review, Field, The Portable Boog Reader, and elsewhere. He co-hosts the queer series Uncalled-for Readings at Unnameable Books in Brooklyn.
Grey Vild is part of the writing group behind From Here to the Corner. Most of his writing life has been spent searching for the ancestor. He is currently most obsessed with James Baldwin, family, cat gut, shame, and Michael Jackson.
25CPW is a storefront that has been vacant for the past two years. Early this fall a group of ten artists moved into the 3,000 square foot space viewing it as an opportunity to share their ideas and work with a broad audience. The space is called 25CPW. Its members seek to create a common platform for artists, curators, writers, educators, and the general public to engage with contemporary art. 25CPW will maintain a calendar of diverse events featuring lectures, discussions, film screenings, poetry readings, performances, workshops and exhibitions.
Friday, December 4, 2009
please vote for words without borders on facebook
facebook is running a myriad of contests and one is "vote for your favorite non-profit organization" we are late in entering but please, please vote for us. if you are on facebook you know about this.
today i would like to share my friends blog with you. it is beautiful and i think its fun to see local brooklyn up close. the blog is a project my friend ryan and his friend rena are doing to keep in touch. every single day, they each post one picture of something from their day. click here for the blog, it is simple, touching, and beautiful: here
this week's check-in is up: here
did you notice that we re-ran (with permission) tc boyle's first ever published story this week? have at gander at the old fictionaut.com would you
today i would like to share my friends blog with you. it is beautiful and i think its fun to see local brooklyn up close. the blog is a project my friend ryan and his friend rena are doing to keep in touch. every single day, they each post one picture of something from their day. click here for the blog, it is simple, touching, and beautiful: here
this week's check-in is up: here
did you notice that we re-ran (with permission) tc boyle's first ever published story this week? have at gander at the old fictionaut.com would you
Thursday, December 3, 2009
okay lets see here
are you on abcnorio's mailing list?
up the punx
you can join via the links below:
abcnorio_announces-owner@lists.abcnorio.org
ABC No Rio
156 Rivington Street
New York, NY 10002
(212) 254-3697
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more things to do, non-literary:
paper magazines holiday party invite:
stylecaster's invite:
women in music invite:
We're throwing our annual holiday party, and you're invited!Tuesday, December 8, 2009 at Arlo and Esme (42 E 1st. St. near 1st Ave)Members Only Reception - 7-8pmGeneral Admittance - 8-11pm(Party is 21+ and you must have a valid ID to enter)Complimentary drinks from X-Rated Fusion Infused Vodka and signature WIM inspired drinks! (till it runs out)Gift bags for first 100 members at the Members-Only Reception (reception only open to members and their guests.)Bags sponsored by Iron Fist Clothing, Raw Revolution, X-Rated Fusion, Keep-A-Breast, and many more!DJs will be spinning all night!Please RSVP below before December 7, and we'll see you there!*this invitation is non-transferable*
tell them you're from the internet i'm posting these because i think elitism sucks and everyone should party.
more on the way
up the punx
you can join via the links below:
abcnorio_announces-owner@lists.abcnorio.org
ABC No Rio
156 Rivington Street
New York, NY 10002
(212) 254-3697
ABC No Rio: http://www.abcnorio.org
InterActivist Network: http://www.interactivist.net
InterActivist INFO EXCHANGE: http://info.interactivist.net
SUPPORT ABC No Rio: http://www.abcnorio.org/support/support.html
abcnorio_announces mailing list
abcnorio_announces@lists.abcnorio.org
http://lists.abcnorio.org/mailman/listinfo/abcnorio_announces
more things to do, non-literary:
paper magazines holiday party invite:
stylecaster's invite:
women in music invite:
We're throwing our annual holiday party, and you're invited!Tuesday, December 8, 2009 at Arlo and Esme (42 E 1st. St. near 1st Ave)Members Only Reception - 7-8pmGeneral Admittance - 8-11pm(Party is 21+ and you must have a valid ID to enter)Complimentary drinks from X-Rated Fusion Infused Vodka and signature WIM inspired drinks! (till it runs out)Gift bags for first 100 members at the Members-Only Reception (reception only open to members and their guests.)Bags sponsored by Iron Fist Clothing, Raw Revolution, X-Rated Fusion, Keep-A-Breast, and many more!DJs will be spinning all night!Please RSVP below before December 7, and we'll see you there!*this invitation is non-transferable*
tell them you're from the internet i'm posting these because i think elitism sucks and everyone should party.
more on the way
Brain Foley's up at inknode
pleease read him. and if you ever get a change to see him in person please buy him a beer.
"Old MoviesInnocent as a fresh laid egg.
When broke open
No one had any blood.
A fear of passion
Reaching inroads
Like a fly that enters
A room intimately
Then trapped by
A poison sheet of paper
Or left upon a ledge
Of a window kept closed
Where it too will shed no blood."
more later today i have like four hundred things you could so with your friday night
"Old MoviesInnocent as a fresh laid egg.
When broke open
No one had any blood.
A fear of passion
Reaching inroads
Like a fly that enters
A room intimately
Then trapped by
A poison sheet of paper
Or left upon a ledge
Of a window kept closed
Where it too will shed no blood."
more later today i have like four hundred things you could so with your friday night
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