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.

BPC Special Event: Bill Berkson & friends

Friday, October 16, 7 pm
Bill Berkson
with Ed Barrett, William Corbett, Michael Gizzi and Joseph Torra
Pierre Menard Gallery
10 Arrow Street
Cambridge, MA

Bill Berkson is a poet, critic, teacher, and occasional editor, publisher, and curator. Berkson has published many books and pamphlets of poetry, as well as volumes of criticism and selected lectures. His most recent collection is Portrait and Dream: New and Selected Poems, published this year by Coffee House Press. From 1971 to 1978 he edited and published a series of books and magazines under the imprint Big Sky, and he currently is corresponding editor for Art in America. He now lives in San Francisco and New York.

Charles River Literary Fair

Visit with the BPC this Monday the 12th (Columbus Day):

Matthew Derby, Kristen Iskandrian & John Dermot Woods Reading

Sunday, 10/11/09
Matthew Derby, Kristen Iskandrian, John Dermot Woods
Outpost 186
186 1/2 Hampshire Street
Cambridge, MA
3 pm

Matthew Derby is the author of Super Flat Times: Stories. His writing has appeared in McSweeney's, Conjunctions, Guernica, Fence, and The Believer, where he served as an editor from 2004-2007.

Kristen Iskandrian's work has been published in Gulf Coast, American Letters & Commentary, Memorious, Denver Quarterly, La Petite Zine, Action Yes, and other journals. She received her PhD in English from University of Georgia, where currently she is an instructor of composition and creative writing. With her husband, daughter, and cantankerous cat, she lives outside of Athens in a funny little house.

John Dermot Woods lives with his family in Brooklyn, NY. He is the author of The Complete Collection of people, places & things (BlazeVOX). His comic chapbook, The Remains, is forthcoming from Doublecross Press. He edits the arts quarterly Action,Yes and organizes the online reading series Apostrophe Cast.