Next Up at The Deep Moat Reading Series, Saturday July 18th, 7:00 P.M.

The Deep Moat Reading Series celebrates the release of Chris Tonelli's NO THEATER, the first chapbook available from new local publisher Brave Men Press. We are extremely excited about the release of this book, as it is some of the best poetry written this decade or any other, and hope you will join us for a night that will not soon be forgotten.


Chris Tonelli co-curates The So and So Series and is the author of four chapbooks, most recently For People Who Like Gravity and Other People (Rope-A-Dope Press, forthcoming). He teaches at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, where he lives with his wife Allison.


A poem from NO THEATER from Sixth Finch.
Another poem from NO THEATER in Sixth Finch.
Three poems from NO THEATER in SIR! Magazine.


Jon Woodward was born in Wichita, Kansas and grew up in Wichita and in Denver, Colorado. His two published books are Rain (Wave Books, 2006) and Mister Goodbye Easter Island (Alice James Books, 2003). He lives in Boston and works at the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology.


A review of RAIN in The Believer.
Five Poems from La Petite Zine.
Two Poems in Octopus.


Sampson Starkweather is the author of three chapbooks, The Heart is Green from So Much Waiting forthcoming from Immaculate Disciples Press, City of Moths a Rope-a-Dope Press production, and The Photograph from horse less press. He dwells deep within da Qua.

A review of CITY OF MONTHS in Coldfront magazine
A poem from Typo Magazine
A poem from Sixth Finch

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

The Deep Moat Reading Series

This Saturday, June 13th at 7:00 PM

at the Pierre Menard Gallery

Justin Marks,

Julia Cohen,

&

Heather Green

Justin Marks' first book is A Million in Prizes (New Issues Press). He is also the author of several chapbooks, the most recent beingVoir Dire (Rope-a-Dope Press). New work can be found in Harp & Altar, Sink Review and Tusculum Review. He is the founder and editor of Kitchen Press Chapbooks and lives in New York City with his wife and their twin son and daughter.

Julia Cohen is the author of several chapbooks including The History of a Lake Never Drowns (Dancing Girl Press), Who Could Forget the First Sensational Evening of the Night (H_NG M_N Pres) & When We Broke the Microscope (with Mathias Svalina) (Small Fires Press) . Her poems have been published in Denver Quarterly, Copper Nickel, Bird Dog, Spinning Jenny, RealPoetik, Forklift, Ohio, MiPOesias, and GutCult amongst others. Her first collection Triggermoon, Triggermoon is forthcoming from Black Lawrence Press.

Heather Green’s chapbook, The Match Array, is available from Dancing Girl Press. Her work has appeared in Denver Quarterly, Barrow Street, The Hat, Tarpaulin Sky, and other journals. She lives in Boston, though not for long.

Peter Gizzi & David Larsen reading

Saturday, May 9th, 3pm
Peter Gizzi & David Larsen
Unaffiliated Reading Series
@ Outpost 186
186 1/2 Hampshire Street
Cambridge

Peter Gizzi is the author of The Outernationale, Some Values of Landscape and Weather, Artificial Heart, and Periplum and other poems 1987-1992. His editing projects have included o•blék: a journal of language arts, The House That Jack Built: The Collected Lectures of Jack Spicer and My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer (co-edited with Kevin Killian). He is currently the poetry editor for The Nation. He teaches at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Newly relocated from San Francisco's Bay Area, David Larsen is pursuing a career in postgraduate studies at Yale. He is author of The Thorn (Faux, 2005), and translator of Names of the Lion by Abu Abd Allah ibn Khalawayh (Atticus/Finch, 2009). During the St. Mark's Poetry Project Newsletter's 1999-2000 run he provided cover art, and inner graphic thingies. From 2005-2007 he was co-curator of the New Yipes reading/video series at Oakland's 21 Grand.

Next up at The Deep Moat Reading Series

Friday, May 8th, at 7:00 PM
Ben Mazer, Eric Baus, & Elisa Gabbert
Pierre Menard Gallery
10 Arrow Street, Cambridge MA

Ben Mazer's poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Harvard Review, Verse, Stand, Fulcrum, Salt, Agenda, Poetry Wales, The Warwick Review, Harvard Magazine, Jacket, Thumbscrew, Pequod, Jewish Quarterly (London), and many other periodicals. He is the author of one full length collection of poems, White Cities (Cambridge, MA: Barbara Matteau Editions), to which Robert Lowell's friend Frank Parker contributed a cover and frontispiece illustration, and two chapbooks, The Foundations of Poetry Mathematics (NY: Cannibal Books) and Johanna Poems (NY: Cy Gist Press). He is the editor of Selected Poems of Frederick Goddard Tuckerman (forthcoming from Harvard University Press), Landis Everson's Everything Preserved: Poems 1955-2005 (Graywolf Press; winner of the first Emily Dickinson Award from the Poetry Foundation), and The Complete Poems of John Crowe Ransom (forthcoming). He is a contributing editor to Fulcrum: an annual of poetry and aesthetics, for which he has edited feature anthologies on 'The Berkeley Renaissance' and 'Poetry and Harvard in the 1920s'.

Eric Baus was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana in 1975. Winner of the 2002 Verse Prize, selected by Forrest Gander, his publications include The To Sound (Wave Books), Tuned Droves (Octopus Books), and several chapbooks. He edits Minus House chapbooks and is currently in the PhD program in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Denver

Elisa Gabbert is the poetry editor of Absent. Her recent poems have appeared in Colorado Review, Diagram, Eleven Eleven, Meridian, Pleiades, Typo and Washington Square. A chapbook, Thanks for Sending the Engine, is available from Kitchen Press. She is also the author, with Kathleen Rooney, of Something Really Wonderful (dancing girl press, 2007) and That Tiny Insane Voluptuousness (Otoliths Books, 2008). Their collaborations can be found in Boston Review, Caketrain, jubilat, No Tell Motel and other journals.

Coinsides (i.e. tiny letterpressed broadsides) for all three poets will be created and printed by Brave Men Press in celebration of the occasion.

Noy Holland & Kate Schapira reading

Monday, April 27, 8pm
Noy Holland & Kate Schapira
Small Animal Project Reading Series
Outpost 186
186 1/2 Hampshire Street
Cambridge, MA

Noy Holland is the author of two collections of short fiction, What Begins With Bird (FC2), and The Spectacle of the Body (Knopf), and the recipient of fellowships from the NEA and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Her stories have appeared in The Quarterly, Conjunctions, Black Warrior Review, Ploughshares, Open City, New York Tyrant, Denver Quarterly, NOON, and others. She is a Professor in the MFA program for Writers and Poets at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where she co-directs the Juniper Initiative.

Kate Schapira lives in Providence, where she writes, teaches, and runs the Publicly Complex reading series. In addition to making her own chapbooks, she's the author of four chapbooks published by other people, including The Love of Freak Millways and Tango Wax (Cy Gist Press) and two mini-chaps from Rope-A-Dope Press. She just started working with first graders as a Writer in the Schools.

Corina Copp & Dana Ward reading

Saturday, April 25, 3pm
Corina Copp & Dana Ward
Unaffiliated Reading Series
@ Outpost 186
186 ½ Hampshire St
Cambridge

Corina Copp's recent poems and performance texts have appeared in Aufgabe, Antennae, Poets on Painters, Denver Quarterly, EOAGH, 6x6, and Serie Alfa. She is the author of the chaplet Play Air (Belladonna* 2005) and e-book Carpeted (Faux Press 2004). Her short play, "A Week of Kindness" was produced in the 2007 Tiny Theater Festival at the Ontological-Hysteric Theater; and she has performed in plays at Brooklyn Arts Exchange (BAX) and the NYC International Fringe Festival. She lives in Brooklyn, where she is pursuing graduate studies in playwriting.

Dana Ward lives in Cincinnati where he edits Cy Press. He is the author of books like Goodnight Voice (House Press, 2008) the Drought (Open 24hrs, forthcoming 2009) & others on the way. He works as an advocate for adult literacy. He's made some terrific new friends these last weeks, & for that he's very grateful.

The Deep Moat Reading Series Vol 1

Friday, April 11, 7pm
Heather Christle, Matthew Klane & Claire Donato
The Deep Moat Reading Series
@ Pierre Menard Gallery
12 Arrow Street
Harvard Square

Heather Christle grew up in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire. Her poems have recently appeared in 6X6, Boston Review, No: a journal of the arts and Skein. Octopus Books will publish her first poetry collection, The Difficult Farm, later this year. She lives, studies and teaches in Western Massachusetts.

Matthew Klane is co-editor/founder of Flim Forum Press, publisher of the anthologies Oh One Arrow (2007) and A Sing Economy (2008). His book is B_____ Meditations from Stockport Flats Press (2008). His latest chapbooks include Sons and Followers, Friend Delighting the Eloquent, Sorrow Songs, and The- Associated Press. He currently lives and writes in Albany, NY. http://www.matthewklane.blogspot.com/

Claire Donato is the author of a chapbook, Someone Else's Body (Cannibal Books 2009). Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in journals such as Coconut, Dewclaw, Harp & Altar, Caketrain, Fou, and Cannibal. She is currently an MFA Literary Arts candidate at Brown University in Providence, RI. Her hometown is Pittsburgh, PA.