Next Deep Moat!

SATURDAY, JANUARY 30th at 5PM

JULIE CARR, ELIZABETH MARIE YOUNG,
& JESSICA BOZEK

(please note the early start time)

at The Pierre Menard Gallery, Cambridge, MA

JULIE CARR is the author of four books of poetry: Mead: An Epithalanion, Equivocal, 100 Notes on Violence (winner of the Sawtooth Poetry Prize), and Sarah-of Fragments and Lines, forthcoming from Coffee House Press. She is the co-publisher, with Tim Roberts, of Counterpath Press, teaches at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and lives in Denver.

Read a poem by Julie here

ELIZABETH MARIE YOUNG teaches Classics and Comparative Literature at Wellesley College. She was a finalist for the 2007 National Poetry Series award and her first book of poems, Aim Straight at the Fountain and Press Vaporize, won the Motherwell prize from Fence books. A chapbook of dissolute sonnets is also available from Omahrahu Press.

Read a poem by Elizabeth here



JESSICA BOZEK is the author of The Bodyfeel Lexicon (Switchback Books) and several chapbooks, including the recent Other People's Emergencies (Hive/Dusie). Recent poems appear in Action, Yes, Artifice, Fairy Tale Review, P-QUEUE, and Womb. Jessica runs Small Animal Project (smallanimalproject.com), a reading series and web-text experiment based in Cambridge, MA.

Read a poem by Jessica here




As always, limited edition coinsides (tiny broadsides) will be available at the reading and through the Brave Men Press website.

All readings are free and open to the public. Wine and chapstick guaranteed if you get there early.

All readings are held at the Pierre Menard Gallery,

10 Arrow Street, Cambridge MA

Aaron Tieger, Michael Carr & Whit Griffin reading this Friday

Not to be missed. Be there, people!

Friday, January 22, 7pm
Aaron Tieger, Michael Carr and Whit Griffin
The New Reading Series
Pierre Menard Gallery
10 Arrow St
Cambridge

Aaron Tieger is the author of Secret Donut (Pressed Wafer, 2009), his first full-length book. His many chapbooks include Recently Clouds (with Jess Mynes), The Collected Typos of Aaron Tieger, Necco Face (with Jess Mynes and Michael Carr), and Anxiety Chant. He is currently a curator of the Unaffiliated Reading Series and runs Petrichord Books. He lives in Cambridge, MA.

Michael Carr is the author of the Out Another, Softer White and Platinum Blonde. A collaborative chapbook with Micah Ballard, Poems from the New Winter Palace, is forthcoming from House Press.

Whit Griffin studied poetry at Bennington College and Brooklyn College, respectively. He was an intern for and assistant to Jonathan Williams’ Jargon Society. Since 2000 he has been mentored by Theodore Enslin. Along with Andrew Hughes, he co-founded Tight. His poems have been featured in First Intensity, They Are Flying Planes and Forklift, Ohio among other journals. Wanhope, a chapbook-clutch of poems, was published by Longhouse in August of 2008

Jim Behrle / Joseph Torra reading & release event

Tuesday, January 12, 7:00pm
Jim Behrle & Joseph Torra
The New Reading Series
Pierre Menard Gallery
10 Arrow St
Cambridge

Please come to the Pierre Menard Gallery for readings by Jim Behrle and Joseph Torra, and to celebrate the release of Jim's chapbook, Succubus Blues, new from Editions Louis Wain.

Next up at Small Animal Project

Monday, 12/14/09
Jack Christian, Cheryl Clark Vermeulen, Zach Savich
Outpost 186
186 1/2 Hampshire Street
Cambridge, MA
8 pm


Jack Christian is the author of the chapbook Let’s Collaborate from Magic Helicopter Press. His poems are upcoming in Drunken Boat, Sixth Finch, and Thermos, and his work has appeared recently in Cimarron Review, notnostrums, Phoebe, and Diagram. He is from Richmond, Virginia, and lives now in Northampton, Massachusetts.

Cheryl Clark Vermuelen’s poems and translations can be found in the journals DIAGRAM, Third Coast, admit2, Can we have our ball back?, Carve [poems], Dispatx, and eXchanges, as well as the anthology Connecting Lines: New Poetry from Mexico. Her chapbook Dead-Eye Spring is published by Cy Gist Press. Hailing from Illinois, she now lives in Boston and teaches writing at the New England Conservatory and the Cambridge Center for Adult Education.

Zach Savich’s first book, Full Catastrophe Living, won the Iowa Poetry Prize. He has had recent poems in Boston Review, Denver Quarterly,Kenyon Review, and the anthology Best New Poets 2008.

TWO UPCOMING READINGS

This Thursday & Saturday we've got some great poets coming to town, as well as one spectacular local favorite. Please come to these readings:

Mairead Byrne, Julia Cohen, Joseph Massey
Thursday, December 3 at 7:00pm
THE NEW SERIES
at Pierre Menard Gallery
10 Arrow St, Cambridge

and

Douglas Rothschild & Carol Weston
Saturday, December 5 at 3:00pm
Unaffiliated Reading Series
at Outpost 186
186 Hampshire St, Cambridge

Nov 28th, 2009, 5PM - Dan Boehl, Mike Young, & Dara Cerv

The Deep Moat Reading Series!

Saturday, November 28th at 5:00 PM SHARP!

(please note the early start time)

at The Pierre Menard Gallery, Cambridge, MA

DAN BOEHL
MIKE YOUNG
&
DARA CERV

Dan Boehl lives in Austin. He writes poems, novels, art reviews, and is a founding editor of the publishing company, Birds, LLC.


Read a poem by Dan at Ink Node - http://www.inknode.com/piece/139-dan-boehl-self-improvement

Read 3 poems by Dan at Ekleksographia - http://ekleksographia.ahadadabooks.com/issuetwo/authors/dan_boehl.html



Mike Young is the author of We Are All Good If They Try Hard Enough (Publishing Genius 2010) and the chapbook MC Oroville's Answering Machine (Transmission Press 2009). He co-edits NOÖ Journal and Magic Helicopter Press. Visit him online at http://mike.noojournal.com.



Read a poem by Mike at Night Train - http://www.nighttrainmagazine.com/contents/young_8_1.php

Read a poem by Mike at No Tell Motel - http://notellmotel.org/poem_single.php?id=1697_0_1_0



Dara Cerv is a Boston-area poet. In her spare time she
practices piano, plays with her animals, and rides her bicycle. She
can be, at times, incredibly enthusiastic about many things. Work has
recently appeared in Sixth Finch and Raleigh Quarterly online.

Read a poem by Dara at Sixth Finch - http://sixthfinch.com/cerv1.html


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As always, limited edition coinsides (tiny broadsides) will be available at the reading and through the Brave Men Press website.

All readings are free and open to the public. Wine and bullfights guaranteed if you get there early.

Sunday, November 22: Lily Brown, Andrew McDonald & Joshua Marie Wilkinson

Fill up on poetry before the pie gets you. Lily Brown, Andrew McDonald, and Joshua Marie Wilkinson will read at Outpost 186 on Sunday, 11/22. 3 pm, small donation suggested.

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Lily Brown was born and raised in Massachusetts, and currently lives in Chicago and in Athens, Georgia, where she is a Ph.D. student at the University of Georgia. Her first book, Rust or Go Missing, is forthcoming in 2010 from Cleveland State University Poetry Center, and her poems have appeared in Fence, Pleiades, Denver Quarterly, and Tarpaulin Sky, among other journals. Her chapbook, Old with You, is available from Kitchen Press.

Read excerpts from Lily’s work here, here, and here.

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Andrew McDonald is an undergraduate Creative Writing student at Lesley University. He lives in Allston, MA and has never been published.

Read some of Andrew’s work here.

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Joshua Marie Wilkinson hails from Seattle. He is the author of four books of poetry, most recently The Book of Whispering in the Projection Booth (Tupelo, 2009). Two new projects are due out in 2010: Selenography (Sidebrow), a book-length collaboration with the Polaroids of Califone’s Tim Rutili and Poets on Teaching, an anthology featuring short essays by 101 poets (Iowa). He lives in Chicago and Athens, Georgia.

Read excerpts from Joshua’s work here and here.