Boston Poetry Collective

Ish Klein, Gerrit Lansing & Carol Weston

2011-12-07T21:12:00.000-08:00

Saturday, December 10, 3 pm
Unaffiliated Reading Series
Outpost 186
186 ½ Hampshire St.
Inman Sq.
Cambridge

Poet and filmmaker Ish Klein grew up in Long Island and was educated at Columbia University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Klein’s poetry collections include Moving Day (2011) and Union! (2009). She lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.

Gerrit Lansing was born in Albany, New York, in 1928, and grew up in Northern Ohio. Educated at Harvard and Columbia Universities, he has taught at Bard College. He lives in Gloucester, Massachusetts and has a cat named Hector. His most recent volume of poetry is Heavenly Tree, Northern Earth from North Atlantic Books.

Carol Weston's history as a poet is linked to such figures as Jack Powers, John Wieners, Robert Lowell, Allen Ginsberg, and Carl Solomon. She was poetry editor of the Impressions Workshop. She is the author of "What the Poet Expects of Himself," an essay published in the Tufts Review. Married to John Galloway, science teacher at Endicott College, she taught for ten years at the Chesnut Hill School. Her poetry credits include The Farleigh Literary Review, Bomb, Stone Soup Anthology 2003, and the anthology dedicated to John Wieners, The Blind See Only This World. Her chapbook, Spirals, Whorls Sutures, Septa, was published by Stone Soup.

Thursday, 11/17: Amaranth Borsuk, Brigitte Byrd, Kate Durbin

2011-11-14T07:08:00.001-08:00

Amaranth Borsuk, Brigitte Byrd, and Kate Durbin will read at Outpost 186 on Thursday, 11/17. 8 pm, small donation suggested.

Amaranth Borsuk is the author Handiwork (Slope Editions, forthcoming), selected by Paul Hoover for the 2011 Slope Editions Prize, a chapbook, Tonal Saw (The Song Cave, 2010), and, with programmer Brad Bouse, the digital/print hybridBetween Page and Screen (Siglio Press, forthcoming). Abra, her conjoined collaborative book with Kate Durbin, is forthcoming in print and iPad editions from ZG Press. Her poems and book reviews have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Harp & Altar, The Destroyer, Lana Turner: A Journal of Poetry and Opinion, and Gulf Coast. She has a Ph.D. in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Southern California and is currently a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities at MIT. Read work here and here, and an interview here.

Kate Durbin is a Los Angeles-based writer and performance artist. She is author of The Ravenous Audience (Akashic Books, 2009), E! Entertainment(Blanc Press, diamond edition, forthcoming), ABRA (Zg Press, forthcoming w/ Amarant Borsuk), as well as the conceptual fashion magazine The Fashion Issue (Zg Press, forthcoming), and five chapbooks: Fragments Found in a 1937 Aviator’s Boot (Dancing Girl Press, 2009), FASHIONWHORE(Legacy Pictures, 2010), The Polished You, as part of Vanessa Place’s Factory Series (oodpress, 2010), E! Entertainment (Insert Press, forthcoming), and Kept Women(Insert Press, forthcoming). She is founding editor of Gaga Stigmata, which will be published as a book from Zg Press in 2012. Read Kate’s work here and here, and one of Kate’s collaborations with Amaranth here.

A native of France where she was trained as a dancer, Brigitte Byrd is the author of Song of a Living Room (Ahsahta, 2009), The Dazzling Land (Black Zinnias, 2008), and Fence above the Sea (Ahsahta, 2005). She currently lives in Atlanta and is an Associate Professor of English teaching Creative Writing at Clayton State University. She is also an editorial reviewer for Confluence: The Journal of Graduate Liberal Studies. Read work here and here.

Allen Fisher, Ruth Lepson & Chuck Stebelton

2011-10-24T09:51:00.000-07:00

Saturday, October 29, 3 pm
Unaffiliated Reading Series
Outpost 186
186 ½ Hampshire St.
Inman Sq.
Cambridge

Allen Fisher is a poet, painter, publisher and art historian, lives in Hereford, UK. Emeritus Professor of Poetry & Art at Manchester Metropolitan University and Visiting Professor at the University of Northumbria; over 140 single-authored publications of poetry, graphics and art documentation; exhibited in many shows from Fluxus Britannica Tate Britain to Lifting from fear King’s Gallery York. His last eight books were Proposals: poem-image-commentary; Birds; Leans; Confidence in lack, essays; Singularity Stereo, Place; Entanglement; and Gravity.

Ruth Lepson is poet-in-residence at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. In recent years she has been collaborating with musicians and is now a member of Box Lunch, a jazz/poetry group. Her books are I Went Looking for You (blazeVOX.org), Morphology (prose poems and photographs with artist Rusty Crump, also from blazeVOX.org), and Dreaming In Color (Alice James Books). She edited Poetry from Sojourner: A Feminist Anthology (Univ. of Illinois).

Chuck Stebelton's recent chapbooks include A Maximal Object (Mitzvah Press), Flags and Banners (Bronze Skull Press), and Precious (Answer Tag Home Press). He is author of Circulation Flowers (Tougher Disguises, 2005) and he works as Literary Program Director at Woodland Pattern Book Center in Milwaukee.

Cheryl Clark Vermeulen, Emily Pettit, Mark Leidner & Nathaniel Otting

2011-09-13T08:30:00.000-07:00

Saturday, September 24, 3 pm
Unaffiliated Reading Series
Outpost 186
186 ½ Hampshire St.
Inman Sq.
Cambridge

Cheryl Clark Vermeulen is author of the poetry chapbook Dead-Eye Spring (Cy Gist Press). She is a poet, translator, and visual artist whose work often explores the junctures of these artforms. Cheryl Clark Vermeulen is not currently open to receiving Introductions or InMail™

Emily Pettit is the author of two chapbooks, HOW (Octopus Books) and WHAT HAPPENED TO LIMBO (Pilot Books). She is an editor for notnostrums (notnostrums.com) and Factory Hollow Press. Emily Pettit is not currently open to receiving Introductions or InMail™

Mark Leidner is the author of Beauty Was the Case that They Gave Me (Factory Hollow Press) and The Angel in the Dream of Our Hangover (Sator Press). Mark Leidner is most likely to live in Connecticut, Georgia, Maryland, Michigan... He grew up in Georgia and now lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.

Nathaniel Otting is a sub-sub librarian for Minutes Books and The Robert Walser Society of Western Massachusetts. Nathaniel Otting is on Facebook. Join Facebook to connect with Nathaniel Otting and others you may know.

A Boston Poetry Marathon and BBQ, 7/29-7/31

2011-06-22T20:49:00.000-07:00

A Boston Poetry Marathon and BBQ

A Summer Poetry Marathon
featuring 88 local and visiting poets
reading for 8 minutes apiece
Admission is free but the hat will be
be passed

Friday 7/29, 7 PM - 10 PM
Saturday 7/30, 1 PM - 10:30 PM
Sunday 7/31, 1 PM - 5 PM

OUTPOST 186
186 1/2 Hampshire St., Inman Square, Cambridge

Friday 7/29

7:00 John Mulrooney
7:08 Bridget Madden
7:16 Kythe Heller
7:24 Elizabeth Marie Young
7:32 Danielle Georges
7:40 Jennifer Tamayo
7:48 Arto Vaun
break
8:04 Cheryl Clark Vermeulen
8:12 Lori Lubeski
8:20 Jen Hyde
8:28 Ryan Gallagher
8:36 Kevin Gallagher
8:44 Arda Collins
8:52 Geoff Olsen
break
9:08 Thom Donovan
9:16 Dorothea Lasky
9:24 Amanda Nadelberg
9:32 Mike County
9:40 Derek Fenner

Saturday 7/30

12:30 Aaron Kiely
12:38 Mike Young
12:46 Emily Pettit
12:54 Ish Klein
1:02 Greg Purcell
1:10 Joel Sloman
break
1:26 Debrah Morkun
1:34 Carlos Soto Roman
1:42 Chris Rizzo
1:50 Jonathan Skinner
1:58 Whit Griffin
2:06 Frank Montesonti
break
2:22 Richard Deming
2:30 Nancy Kuhl
2:38 Ken Walker
2:46 Patrick Lucy
2:54 Magus Magnus
3:06 Jessica Bozek
break
3:22 Anna Ross
3:30 Cory Ericson
3:38 Tony Mancus
3:46 Jean-Dany Joachim
3:54 Ted Dodson
4:02 Ryan Murphy
break
3:48 Patrick Doud
3:56 Lewis Freedman
4:04 Aaron Tieger
4:12 Suzanne Mercury
4:20 Michael Peters
4:28 Geof Huth
break
4:44 Allen Bramhall
4:56 Michael Schiavo
5:04 Seth Abramson
5:12 Ellen Kennedy
5:20 Henry Gould
break
7:00 Ruth Lepson
7:08 Martha Oatis
7:16 Brett Price
7:24 Jessica Fiorini
7:32 Tracey McTague
7:40 John Coletti
7:48 Dana Ward
break
8:04 Mairead Byrne
8:12 Jess Mynes
8:20 Andrew Hughes
8:28 Arlo Quint
8:36 Meredith Walters
8:44 Corina Copp
8:52 Macgregor Card
break
9:08 Michael Carr
9:16 Christina Strong
9:24 Mitch Highfill
9:32 Jacqueline Waters
9:40 Edmund Berrigan
9:48 Joe Elliot
break
10:10 Filip Marinovich
10:18 Mark Lamoureux
10:26 Douglas Rothschild

Sunday 7/31

12:30 Jim Behrle
12:38 Anna Moschovakis
12:46 Ben McFall
12:54 Donald Wellman
1:02 Michelle Taransky
1:10 Meg Barboza
break
1:26 Amanda Cook
1:34 Ben Mazer
1:42 Fred Marchant
1:50 Gerrit Lansing
1:58 Jim Dunn
2:06 Michael Franco
break
2:22 Colleen Farrell
2:30 Andi Werblin
2:36 James Cook
2:44 Ken Walker
2:52 Susanna Gardner
3:00 Anne Shaw
break
3:16 Roz Zimmerman
3:24 Janaka Stucky
3:32 David Kirschenbaum
3:40 Sean Cole

After Guston: William Corbett & Patrick James Dunagan

2011-05-03T09:15:00.000-07:00

Saturday 7 May, 3pm
William Corbett and Patrick James Dunagan
Unaffiliated Reading Series
Outpost 186
186 Hampshire St
Cambridge

Next up in the Unaffiliated Reading series, we are presenting an event featuring William Corbett & Patrick James Dunagan, who will be discussing & reading pieces inspired by the artist Philip Guston, as well as reading other work of their own.

William Corbett is a poet who lives in Boston’s South End and teaches writing at MIT. He writes frequently on art, directs the small press Pressed Wafer and is on the advisory board of Manhattan’s CUE Art Foundation. Among his books are the memoirs Furthering My Education and Philip Guston’s Late Work: A Memoir. He edited Just the Thing: Selected Letters of James Schuyler and The Letters of James Schuyler to Frank O’Hara. His most recent book of poetry is The Whalen Poem.

Patrick James Dunagan lives in San Francisco. His first book, “There are people who think painters shouldn’t talk”: A GUSTONBOOK (Post-Apollo, 2011), is a workman’s notebook of sorts sketched out in response to years spent contemplating the work and life of Philip Guston.

Monday, 5/2: Carrie Bennett, Jennifer Denrow, Jen Tynes

2011-04-29T08:01:00.000-07:00

Carrie Bennett, Jennifer Denrow, and Jen Tynes will read at Outpost 186 on Monday, 5/2. 8 pm, small donation suggested.

Carrie Bennett is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and author of biography of water (Word Works’ Washington Prize, 2004). She currently lives in Somerville, MA and teaches writing at Boston University. Her poetry has been published in Boston Review, Caketrain, Denver Quarterly, Indiana Review, and Interim, among others. Her chapbook, A Quiet Winter, will be published next Spring (dancing girl press). Read some of her work here and here.

Jennifer Denrow has two chapbooks: A Knee for a Life (Horse Less Press) and From California, On (Brave Men Press). Her first book, California, is available from Four Way Books. Read poems here, here and here.

Jen Tynes lives in Denver and is the founding editor of Horse Less Press. She also edits interviews and reviews for the Denver Quarterly and is the author or co-author of several books and chapbooks, most recently Heron/Girlfriend (Coconut Books) and Autogeography (a collaboration with Michael Sikkema, from Black Warrior Review). Read poems here and here.

Catherine Meng & Joel Sloman poetry reading

2011-04-18T09:53:00.000-07:00

Saturday, April 23, 3 pm
Catherine Meng and Joel Sloman
Unaffiliated Reading Series
Outpost 186
186 Hampshire St
Cambridge

Catherine Meng is the author of the poetry collection Tonight’s the Night (Apostrophe Books) and three chapbooks, 15 Poems in Sets of 5 (Anchorite Press), Dokument (Petrichord Press), and Lost Notebook w/ Letters to Deer (Dusie Kollectiv). She currently resides in Berkeley and works at a restaurant. Along with Lauren Levin and Jared Stanley she co-edits the poetry journal Mrs. Maybe.

Joel Sloman was born in Brooklyn in 1943 and grew up there. In 1966, he became the assistant director of The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church In-the-Bowery, under its then director, Joel Oppenheimer, and edited its journal, The World. He is the author of Virgil’s Machines, Bus Poems, Stops, and Cuban Journal. His most recent publication is a chapbook, Off the Beaten Trakl.

Thursday, 3/24: Nathan Hoks, Sandra Lim & James Shea

2011-03-22T09:52:00.001-07:00

Nathan Hoks, Sandra Lim, and James Shea will read at Outpost 186 on Thursday, 3/24. 8 pm, small donation suggested.

Nathan Hoks’ first book, Reveilles, won Salt Publishing’s Crashaw Prize. He is also the author of the chapbook Birds Mistaken as Wind and the translator of Arctic Poems, a chapbook of Vicente Huidobro’s poetry. He teaches English, rides a bike, keeps a blog, and lives in Somerville, Mass. Some of his poems can be read here, here, and here.

Sandra Lim is the author of a collection of poetry, Loveliest Grotesque, published by Kore Press in 2006. Her poems are also included in the anthology Gurlesque (Saturnalia 2010), and her work has appeared in Boston Review, Denver Quarterly, Columbia Poetry Review, American Letters & Commentary, and other journals. She is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. Read poems here and here.

James Shea is the author of Star in the Eye (Fence Books). His poems have appeared in various journals, including American Letters and Commentary, Boston Review, Colorado Review, jubilat, and Verse. He has taught at the University of Chicago, Columbia College Chicago, DePaul University, and as a poet-in-residence in the Chicago public schools. He is currently an Assistant Professor of English at Nebraska Wesleyan University.

Mary Austin Speaker, Chris Martin and Jim Behrle reading

2011-03-07T22:47:00.000-08:00

Saturday, March 12, 3:00pm
Unaffiliated Reading Series
@ Outpost 186
186 Hampshire St, Cambridge

Mary Austin Speaker is a poet, essayist, book designer and co-curator and founder of Triptych Readings poetry series in New York City. Her work has received awards from Iowa Review, Diner, Seattle Review and the Academy of American Poets. Newish work be found in recent issues of H_NGM_N, The Portable Boog City Reader #5, New Orleans Review and Boston Review. She lives in Brooklyn, where she works as art director for Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.

Chris Martin is the author of Becoming Weather (Coffee House 2011) and American Music (Copper Canyon 2007). A chapbook/guidebook of new poems called How to Write a Mistake-ist Poem is also just out from Brave Men Press. He is an editor at Futurepoem and curates the response blog Futurepost. Boston is where he learned to smoke cigarettes.

Jim Behrle's latest chapbook was SUCCUBUS BLUES (Editions Louis Wain)

Wednesday, 12/15: Claire Hero, Becca Klaver & Julia Story

2010-12-11T14:48:00.001-08:00

Claire Hero, Becca Klaver, and Julia Story will read at Outpost 186 on Wednesday, 12/15. 8 pm, small donation suggested.

Claire Hero is the author of Sing, Mongrel (Noemi Press 2009) and two chapbooks: Cabinet (dancing girl press) and afterpastures, winner of the 2007 Caketrain Chapbook Competition. Her poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Black Warrior Review, Columbia Poetry Review, Handsome, Poemeleon and Sous Rature. She lives in upstate New York and teaches writing at SUNY – New Paltz.

Bex on her birthday with her very own small animal, Contessa. Photo: Becca Fischer.

Becca Klaver is the author of the poetry collection LA Liminal (Kore Press, 2010) and the chapbook Inside a Red Corvette: A 90s Mix Tape (greying ghost, 2009). A founding editor of the feminist poetry press Switchback Books, she is also editing, with Arielle Greenberg, an anthology of poems for teenage girls. Becca holds degrees from the University of Southern California and Columbia College Chicago, and is currently a PhD student in English at Rutgers University. Born and raised in Milwaukee, WI, she now lives in Brooklyn, NY, and blogs at the pomo expo. You can read recent poems online at Super Arrow, InDigest, and Sharkforum.

A native of Indiana, Julia Story is the author of Post Moxie (Sarabande Books), which won the 2009 Kathryn A. Morton Prize in poetry and the Ploughshares Zacharis Prize for a first book of poetry. Her recent work has appeared in The Paris Review, The Indiana Review, and Octopus Magazine. She is currently working on her next collection and lives with a carpenter and a dachshund in Somerville, Massachusetts.

You can find some her recent work here and here. She blogs here.

NOV 20TH - DAMON KRUKOWSKI, ALEX PHILLIPS & JEREMY SIGLER

2010-11-19T07:55:00.000-08:00

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20TH

at 7:00 PM

DAMON KRUKOWSKI, ALEX PHILLIPS
& JEREMY SIGLER

Damon Krukowski writes and teaches poetry as well music criticism. He is the author of a book of prose poems, The Memory Theatre Burned (Turtle Point Press). Along with Naomi Yang he runs Exact Change, a publishing house specializing in Surrealist and other experimental literature and artists' writings, and is one half of the influential avant-folk duo, Damon and Naomi.

Find more info on Damon and Naomi here

See poems by Damon here

Jeremy Sigler received an MFA in sculpture from the University of California, Los Angeles. He has published five books: To and To (Left Hand Books, 1998), Mallet Eyes (Left Hand Books, 2000), Led Almost by My Tie (with Jessica Stockholder, Ruth Lingen Editions, 2007), Math (Ubuweb Editions, 2008), and Crackpot Poet (Black Square Editions/Brooklyn Rail, 2010). Sigler is also the publisher of a 2-page, malleable clay journal called Rational/Irrational currently installed in the bookstore café at MoMA/PS1. While teaching at the Maryland Institute College of Art, Sigler formed the band Ponytail and directed his own stage adaptation of Jerzy Kozinski's "Being There." In 2006, Sigler was a recipient of a Lannan Foundation residency in Marfa, Texas. He is the Associate Editor of Parkett Publishers, teaches in the graduate art departments of Yale University, SUNY Purchase, and The Maryland Institute College of Art, and is the creator of the Theater of Therapeutic Choreography

See poems by Jeremy here

Alex Phillips was born in Concord, Massachusetts, in 1977. He is the
poet in residence at Fort Juniper in Cushman Village, Amherst, and is
an assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts. He is the author of Crash Dome (Factory Hollow Press, 2010)

On Crash Dome: "That from the twenty-six letters of our alphabet this book could be born is a miracle, a heartbreakingly glorious one that demands it be read, and talked about, and marveled over, and, like all true miracles, doesn't give a damn if it isn't."--Mary Ruefle

See a poem by Alex here

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

All readings are held at the Pierre Menard Gallery,

10 Arrow Street, Cambridge MA

http://www.pierremenardgallery.com/

Contact Brian Foley with any questions at brianjamesfoley@gmail.com

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Filip Marinovich & Stacy Szymaszek reading

2010-11-08T08:03:00.000-08:00

Saturday, November 13 at 3pm
Unaffiliated Reading Series
Outpost 186
186 Hampshire St
Cambridge

Filip Marinovich is the author of ZERO READERSHIP (Ugly Duckling Presse 2008) and of the forthcoming AND IF YOU DON'T GO CRAZY I'LL MEET YOU HERE TOMORROW (Ugly Duckling Presse 2011). He is a poet living in New York City.

Stacy Szymaszek was born and raised in Milwaukee, WI. She is the author of, among others, the chapbooks Mutual Aid (gong press, 2004), Some Mariners (Etherdome, 2004), There Were Hostilities (repair, 2005), Pasolini Poems (Cy Press, 2005), Stacy S: Autoportraits (OMG! Press, 2008), Orizaba: A Voyage with Hart Crane (Faux Chaps, 2008), and from Hart Island (Albion Books, 2009). Her first full-length book, Emptied of All Ships, was published in 2005 and her second book Hyperglossia in 2009, both with Litmus Press. Since 2007, she has been Artistic Director Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church.

Sunday, 10/31: Crystal Curry, Lucy Ives, Greg Lawless

2010-10-19T10:47:00.001-07:00

Small Animal Project presents Crystal Curry, Lucy Ives, and Greg Lawless at Outpost 186 on Sunday, 10/31. 3 pm, small donation suggested.

Crystal Curry was born in Greenville, Ill. in 1974. Her work has appeared both off and online in journals such as VERSE, Denver Quarterly, Conduit, Open City, Octopus Magazine and Action, Yes. Curry received her B.A. in journalism and political science from Illinois State University and her M.F.A. in poetry from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was a postgraduate fellow. Curry is the author of Our Chrome Arms of Gymnasium (Slope Editions, forthcoming) and the chapbook Logotherapy Pant (Cosa Nostra Editions, 2008). She currently writes poems in Seattle, where she makes plans and schemes and clafoutis, sometimes telecommutes and (s)mothers two cool boy chicks. Read some of Crystal's work here, here, and here.

Lucy Ives is a writer and graduate student living in New York. She is the author of Anamnesis (Slope Editions, 2009). Read a recent interview here.

Gregory Lawless is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and the author of I Thought I Was New Here (BlazeVOX). His poems, reviews and interviews have appeared in or are forthcoming from 2River View, Artifice, Best of the Net 2007, Cider Press Review, The Cortland Review, Drunken Boat, H_NGM_N, The Hollins Critic, InDigest, La Petite Zine, Sonora Review, Tarpaulin Sky, Thermos, Third Coast, Zoland Poetry and others. He has recently been nominated for a Pushcart and for Best of the Net. You can find some his recent work here, here, and here.

Anelise Chen & Cedar Sigo reading

2010-09-29T10:56:00.000-07:00

Friday, October 8 at 7:00 pm
Unaffiliated Reading Series
Pierre Menard Gallery
10 Arrow St, Cambridge

Anelise Chen is writing a series called "So Many Olympic Exertions." Poetry & fiction from this series has appeared or is forthcoming in Gigantic, Thieves Jargon, and No, Dear. Her articles have appeared in the PEN America blog, The Rumpus, and other places. She is an editor at Hydra Magazine.

Cedar Sigo is 32 years old. His books include Selected Writings, Expensive Magic, Portraits and Music For Torching. This past year he blogged for SFMOMA. He has collaborated with many visual artists including Oscar Tuazon, Colter Jacobsen, Will Yackulic and Frank Haines. His new collection of poetry, Stranger In Town, is number four in the City Lights Spotlight Series. He lives in San Francisco.

Julie Doxsee, Sarah Goldstein, Janaka Stucky & Brian Foley

2010-08-26T10:29:00.001-07:00

Black Ocean & Brave Men Press present

In a State of Glory

This Saturday
at 6pm

Outpost 186

186 1/2 Hampshire St.. (Inman Square)

Cambridge, MA

Two independent presses bring four poets together to read at both ends of Massachusetts in one weekend to celebrate the arrival of Julie Doxsee, who will be traveling all the way from Istanbul to read her new book, “Objects for a Fog Death” (Black Ocean 2010). There will also be wine. Totally free.

...8/28, 6pm, Outpost 186 - 186 1/2 Hampshire St. Cambridge, MA
and also
8/29, 7pm, Grey Matter Books - 47 East St. Hadley, MA (w/ Josh Harmon)

About the authors:

Julie Doxsee lives and writes in Istanbul on the European shores of the Bosphorus, where since 2007 she has been teaching creative writing and literature courses at a private university near the Black Sea. She is the author of Objects for a Fog Death (Black Ocean 2010) and Undersleep (Octopus Books 2008), as well as several chapbooks.

Sarah Goldstein was born in Toronto and lives in western Massachusetts. Her poetry has appeared in various journals, and is forthcoming in Caketrain, Bateau, and Denver Quarterly. Her first book, Fables, will be published by Tarpaulin Sky Press next spring.

Janaka Stucky is practicing the perfection of effort while working on silent relationships with knives, pugilism, and a history of tentacles. He is also the Publisher of Black Ocean and its literary magazine, Handsome, and was recently voted “Boston’s Best Poet” for 2010 in the Boston Phoenix. He likes his whiskey neat and his music dirty.

Brian Foley is the author of The Black Eye. He edits SIR! Magazine, curates The Deep Moat Reading Series and with EB Goodale runs Brave Men Press. He lives in Northampton and attends UMass Amherst program for Poets & Writers.

2010-07-27T16:52:00.001-07:00

A Boston Poet Tea Party

A Boston Poet Tea Party

A Summer Poetry Marathon
featuring 88 local and visiting poets
reading for 8 minutes apiece

Friday 7/30, 7:00 p.m.-10:00 p.m.
Pierre Menard Gallery
10 Arrow St., Harvard Square, Cambridge

Saturday 7/31, 12 noon-10:00 p.m.
Sunday 8/1, 12 noon-5:00 p.m.
OUTPOST 186
186 1/2 Hampshire St., Inman Square, Cambridge

Friday 7/30

7:00 Joe Torra
7:08 Jack Kimball
7:16 Minal Shekhawat
7:24 January O'Neil
7:32 Geoffrey Olsen
7:40 Kari Adelaide
7:48 Elisa Gabbert
break
8:04 Thom Donovan
8:12 Joan Houlihan
8:20 John Cotter
8:28 Dorothea Lasky
8:36 Tanya Larkin
8:44 Jibade-Khalil Huffman
8:52 David Rivard
break
9:08 Greg Fuchs
9:16 Pierre Joris
9:24 Buck Downs
9:32 Eileen Myles
9:40 Martha Oatis
9:48 Lori Lubeski
9:56 Nicole Peyrafitte

Saturday 7/31
12:00 Lauren Russell
12:08 Suzanne Mercury
12:16 Bridget Madden
12:24 Seth Abramson
12:32 Steve Roberts
12:40 Cate Peebles
break
12:56 Nathaniel Siegel
1:04 Nathaniel Otting
1:12 Dana Ward
1:20 Doug Holder
1:28 Mark Lamoureux
1:36 Debrah Morkun
break
1:52 Chris Rizzo
2:00 Ellen Kennedy
2:08 Kate Colby
2:16 Douglas Manson
2:24 Valerie Duff
2:32 Kimberly Ann Southwick
break
2:48 Mike County
2:56 Andrew Hughes
3:04 Amanda Cook
3:12 Lauren Ireland
3:20 Joel Sloman
3:28 James Cook
break
3:44 Filip Marinovich
3:56 Alan Semerdijian
4:04 Urayoan Noel
4:12 Jim Dunn
4:28 Kythe Heller
4:36 Lynn Behrendt
break
4:52 Derek Fenner
5:00 Joe Elliot
5:08 Boni Joi
5:16 Amanda Nadelberg
5:24 Brenda Iijima
5:32 Chad Parenteau

7:00 Jess Mynes
7:08 Elizabeth Willis
7:16 Mitch Highfill
7:24 Peter Gizzi
7:32 Jacqueline Waters
7:40 Fanny Howe
7:48
break
8:04 Chris Martin
8:12 Jon Woodward
8:20 Rebecca Wolff
8:28 Brendan Lorber
8:36 Gillian McCain
8:44 Oni Buchanan
8:52 Geof Huth
break
9:08 Dustin Williamson
9:16 Macgregor Card
9:24 Elizabeth Marie Young
9:32 Kish Song Bear
9:40 Aaron Kiely
9:48 Carlos Soto Roman
9:56 Douglas N. Rothschild

Sunday 8/1

12:08 N. F. Huth
12:16 Jessica Bozek
12:24 Fred Marchant
12:32 Angela Veronica Wong
12:40 Ruth Lepson
break
12:56 John Mulrooney
1:04 David Kirschenbaum
1:12 John Coletti
1:20 Gerrit Lansing
1:28 Aaron Tieger
1:36 Anna Moschovakis
break
1:52 Michael Carr
2:00 Ben Mazer
2:08 Ottessa Moshfegh
2:16 Ana Božičević
2:24 Elizabeth Reddin
2:32 Mairead Byrne
break
2:48 Kate Schapira
2:56 Amy King
3:04 Amy De'Ath
3:12 Janaka Stucky
3:20 Gillian Devereux
3:26 Cheryl Clark Vermeulen
break
3:42 Mike Roberts
3:50 Sarah Heller
3:58 Andi Pinto
4:06 Chris Jackson
4:14 Dena Barisano
4:20 Molly Saccardo
break
4:36 Gilmore Tamny
4:44 Jim Behrle

Organized by Jim Behrle, Michael Carr, David Kirschenbaum, John Mulrooney, and Aaron Tieger

A complete schedule is available at http://www.bostonpoetteaparty.blogspot.com/

For more info contact: bostonpoetryfestival2010@gmail.com

Saturday, July 24th 7:00 PM

2010-07-19T08:40:00.000-07:00

JULIA STORY
NATE PRITTS
&
FRANCESCA CHABRIER

It is time once again for the summer fires to burn
lit by the sparks
of three startling poets

JULIA STORY's first collection of poetry, Post Moxie, was the winner of the 2009 Kathryn A. Morton Prize and was published by Sarabande Books. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in journals such as the Iowa Review, Octopus, Ploughshares, and the Paris Review. She lives in Somerville, MA.

Read some of Julia's poems in Octopus here

Read a glowing review of Post Moxie in Coldfront here

FRANCESCA CHABRIER is the assistant editor of jubilat. Her work appears or is forthcoming in places like notnostrums, Sixth Finch, Invisible Ear, Wolf in a Field, Forklift, Ohio and SIR! Her collaborations with Christopher Cheney can be found in GlitterPony. She lives in a valley on Orchard St.

Read FRANCESCA's poem in Sixth Finch here

NATE PRITTS is the author of three full-length books of poetry - The Wonderfull Yeare (Cooper Dillon Books, 2010), Honorary Astronaut (Ghost Road Press, 2008) & Sensational Spectacular (BlazeVOX, 2007). His poetry & prose have been published widely, both online & in print, in journals such as The Southern Review, Jacket, Gulf Coast, DIAGRAM, Rain Taxi Review of Books, Octopus, & Forklift, Ohio among many others.

Read Nate's poems at the Poetry Foundation here

Read a review of The Wonderful Year in Huffington Post here

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

All readings are held at the Pierre Menard Gallery,

10 Arrow Street, Cambridge MA

http://www.pierremenardgallery.com/

Contact Brian Foley with any questions at brianjamesfoley@gmail.com

Tuesday, 6/15: Brian Foley, Joshua Harmon, Emily Pettit

2010-06-03T06:43:00.001-07:00

Brian Foley, Joshua Harmon, and Emily Pettit will read at Outpost 186 on Tuesday, 6/15. 8 pm, small donation suggested.

Brian Foley is the author of THE BLACK EYE (Brave Men Press, 2010). He has poems forthcoming in Fou, Typo, notnostrums and others. He edits the online magazine SIR!, is poetry editor of Brave Men Press, and runs The Deep Moat Reading Series in Cambridge, MA. He currently attends the MFA Program for Poets and Writers at UMass Amherst.

Read excerpts from Brian’s work here and here.

Joshua Harmon is the author of Scape (poems, 2009) and Quinnehtukqut (a novel, 2007), and the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts. Poems from his current project, Le Spleen de Poughkeepsie, are published or forthcoming in Absent, Agni, Colorado Review, Copper Nickel, Massachusetts Review, Mid-American Review, The Offending Adam, Sentence, Typo, and Volt, as well as in the chapbook The Poughkeepsiad (Greying Ghost Press, August 2010). He no longer lives in Poughkeepsie.

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

Emily Pettit is the author of two chapbooks HOW (Octopus Books) and WHAT HAPPENED TO LIMBO (Pilot Books). She is an editor for notnostrums and Factory Hollow Press.

Read some of Emily’s work here, here, and here.

Dorothea Lasky & Dustin Williamson reading

2010-05-16T19:58:00.000-07:00

Saturday, May 29, 3pm
Dorothea Lasky and Dustin Williamson
Unaffiliated Reading Series
Outpost 186
186 Hampshire St
Cambridge, MA

Dorothea Lasky is the author of Black Life and AWE, both from Wave Books, an educational text, Poetry is Not a Project, (Ugly Duckling Presse), and numerous chapbooks. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Boston Review, Paris Review, and American Poetry Review, among other places. Currently, she lives in New York City and researches creativity and education at the University of Pennsylvania.

Dustin Williamson is the author of Obstructed View (Salacious Banter), Exhausted Grunts (Cannibal), and Gorilla Dust (Open 24 Hours). He publishes Rust Buckle Books, and is the current Monday night coordinator at the Poetry Project in NYC.

Saturday, 5/8: Amina Cain, Jen Karmin, Anne Shaw

2010-05-03T08:49:00.000-07:00

Amina Cain, Jen Karmin, and Anne Shaw will read at Outpost 186 on Saturday, 5/8. 3 pm, small donation suggested.

Amina Cain is the author of I Go To Some Hollow (Les Figues Press, 2009), a collection of stories that revolve quietly around human relationality, landscape, and emptiness, and a chapbook entitled Tramps Everywhere (Blanc Press, forthcoming). She is also a curator (most recently for When Does It or You Begin? Memory as Innovation, a month long festival of writing, performance, and video) and a current Visiting Lecturer at the University of California, San Diego, where she teaches creative writing/fiction. Her work has appeared in publications such as 3rd bed, Action Yes, Denver Quarterly, Dewclaw, La Petite Zine, onedit, Sidebrow, and Wreckage of Reason: Xxperimental Prose by Women Writers, and has been translated into Polish on MINIMALBOOKS. She received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and now lives in Los Angeles.

Read excerpts from Amina’s work here and here.

Jennifer Karmin’s text-sound epic, Aaaaaaaaaaalice, was published by Flim Forum Press in 2010. She curates the Red Rover Series and is co-founder of the public art group Anti Gravity Surprise. Her multidisciplinary projects have been presented at festivals, artist-run spaces, community centers, and on city streets across the U.S., Japan, and Kenya. A proud member of the Dusie Kollektiv, she is the author of the Dusie chapbook Evacuated: Disembodying Katrina. Walking Poem, a collaborative street project, is featured online at How2. At home in Chicago, Jennifer teaches creative writing to immigrants at Truman College and works as a Poet-in-Residence for the public schools.

Read some of Jen’s work here, here, and here.

Anne Shaw is the author of Undertow (Persea Books), winner of the Lexi Rudnitsky Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Black Warrior Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Drunken Boat, Green Mountains Review, and New American Writing. She has also been featured in Poetry Daily and From the Fishouse. Her extended poetry project can be found on Twitter at twitter.com/anneshaw.

Read excerpts from Anne’s work on her website.

Next Deep Moat

2010-04-26T08:42:00.000-07:00

Join Us
Saturday, May 1st at 6:00 PM
at The Pierre Menard Gallery, CambrIdge, MA

for the Deep Moat Reading Series One Year Anniversary
with

SANDY FLORIAN, LARA GLENUM & BEN KOPEL

Sandy Florian is the author of Telescope (Action Books), 32 Pedals & 47 Stops (Tarpaulin Sky), The Tree of No (Action Books), Prelude to Air From Water (Elixir Press), and On Wonderland & Waste (Sidebrow Press). She lives in San Francisco where she is an affiliate artist at Headlands Center for the Arts and works as one of the “other” editors for Tarpaulin Sky Journal. For more information, visit her blog at http://boxingthecompass.blogspot.com

Lara Glenum is a poet, scholar, and translator. She is the author of two books of poetry: The Hounds of No (Action Books, 2005) and Maximum Gaga (Action Books, 2009). Her chapbook, The Hotling Chronicles, is due out from Tarpaulin Sky later this year. With Arielle Greenberg, she is the co-editor of Gurlesque, an anthology of contemporary women’s poetry and visual art (Saturnalia Books, 2010). She has recently been collaborating with sound, visual, and digital media artists on Meat Out of the Eater [hyperlink: http://vimeo.com/7215889], a multimedia installation. She teaches in the MFA program in Creative Writing at LSU.

Ben Kopel, a native of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, currently lives in Northampton, Massachusetts where he edits Laminated Cats Press. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Conduit, Sir!, Forklift: Ohio, H_NG_M_N, Sixth Finch, Diagram, and elsewhere. In his joints he feels life.

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 crime guaranteed if you get there early.

All readings are held at the Pierre Menard Gallery,

10 Arrow Street, Cambridge MA

http://www.pierremenardgallery.com/

Contact Brian Foley with any questions at brianjamesfoley@gmail.com

Philly Extravaganza Event: CAConrad & Frank Sherlock

2010-04-12T14:17:00.000-07:00

Friday, April 16, 7 pm
CAConrad and Frank Sherlock
Unaffiliated Reading Series Presents
Lorem Ipsum Books (note bookstore's new location)
1299 Cambridge Street
Inman Square, Cambridge

CAConrad is the recipient of The Gil Ott Book Award for The Book of Frank (Chax Press, 2009). He is also the author of Advanced Elvis Course (Soft Skull Press, 2009), (Soma)tic Midge (Faux Press, 2008), and Deviant Propulsion (Soft Skull Press, 2006). The son of white trash asphyxiation, his childhood included selling cut flowers along the highway for his mother and helping her shoplift. Visit him online at CAConrad.blogspot.com or with his friends at PhillySound.blogspot.com

Frank Sherlock is the recipient of the 2009 CAC Sexiest Poem Award. He is the author of Over Here (Factory School 2009) and a collaboration with Brett Evans entitled Ready-to-Eat Individual (Lavender Ink 2008). Other publications include Daybook of Perversities & Main Events (Cy Gist Press 2007), Wounds in an Imaginary Nature Show (Night Flag Books 2007) and Spring Diet of Flowers at Night (Mooncalf Press 2006). He is a co-founder of PACE (Poet Activist Community Extension) and a native Philadelphian. You can visit him online at FrankSherlock.blogspot.com or with his friends at PhillySound.blogspot.com

NF Huth & Geof Huth reading

2010-04-05T08:39:00.000-07:00

Saturday, April 10, 3pm
NF Huth & Geoff Huth
Unaffiliated Reading Series
@ Outpost 186
186 Hampshire Street
Cambridge

NF Huth’s writing has appeared in small magazines, and in a chapbook, Once Water (Runaway Spoon Press). Her visual poetry has been exhibited at the City Library of Helsinki, her book of visual poetry, sansound, has been published by dbqp, and her asemic musical notation will appear in The New Post-literate later this year. She also publishes found sound at her audio blog, Click Buzz Chirp, and photographic images that are both pointy and blue at Pointy Blue.

Geof Huth is a poet (textual, visual, aural, and digital) who writes almost daily on visual poetry and related matters at his blog dbqp: visualizing poetics. His most recent books of poetry are Longfellow Memoranda, texistence (with mIEKAL aND), a book / of poems / so small / I cannot / taste them, Gingerbread, and Eyechart Poems, and ntst: the collected pwoermds of geof huth.

John Coletti & Jess Mynes reading at The Field

2010-03-15T08:15:00.000-07:00

John Coletti & Jess Mynes
Saturday, March 27 at 3:00pm
Unaffiliated Reading Series
@ The Field (note special location!)
20 Prospect St, Cambridge

John Coletti is the author of Physical Kind (Yo-Yo-Labs, 2005), Same Enemy Rainbow (fewer & further, 2008), and Mum Halo (Rust Buckle Books, 2010) which is now available here. He recently finished serving as editor of The Poetry Project Newsletter.

Jess Mynes is the author of several published works, including: Birds for Example (CARVE Editions); If and When (Katalanche Press); a collaboration with poet Aaron Tieger, Recently Clouds (Petrichord Books); and most recently, Sky Brightly Picked (Skysill Press). He is the editor of Fewer & Further Press and he co-curates a reading series in Western, MA, All Small Caps.

Celebrate the launch of Artifice Magazine

2010-02-20T21:34:00.000-08:00

Small Animal Project teams up with Artifice Magazine to celebrate the launch of Issue #1 at Outpost 186. Small donation suggested. Readers will include Ori Fienberg, William Walsh, Elisa Gabbert & Jessica Bozek.

Saturday, 2/27/10
Outpost 186
186 1/2 Hampshire Street
Cambridge, MA
3 pm

Ori Fienberg is a Writing Center Coordinator for WriteBoston, an organization working to improve the writing of students in the Boston public high schools. He’s had work published in Diagram, Subtropics, and The Cincinnati Review, to name a few. He has work forthcoming in Pank Online and Artifice.

Elisa Gabbert is the poetry editor of Absent and the author of Thanks for Sending the Engine (Kitchen Press, 2007) and The French Exit (Birds LLC, forthcoming). Her latest chapbook co-written with Kathleen Rooney is Don’t ever stay the same; keep changing (Spooky Girlfriend Press). Recent poems can be found in Colorado Review, The Laurel Review, Puerto del Sol, and Salt Hill.

William Walsh is the author of Questionstruck (Keyhole Press, 2009) and Without Wax (Casperian Books, 2009). His stories and derived texts have appeared in Annalemma, Quick Fiction, LIT, Rosebud, New York Tyrant, Caketrain, Juked, and other journals. A book of short stories called Ampersand, Mass, and a collection of Joycean texts entitled Unknown Arts are forthcoming from Keyhole Press in February 2011.

Jessica Bozek is the author of The Bodyfeel Lexicon (Switchback Books) and several chapbooks. Recent poems appear in Action, Yes, Artifice, Fairy Tale Review, P-QUEUE, and Womb. Jessica runs Small Animal Project.

See smallanimalproject.com for further directions/poems/pictures.

Unaffiliated reading: Andrew Hughes & Kate Schapira

2010-02-09T09:46:00.000-08:00

Andrew Hughes & Kate Schapira
Saturday, February 20 at 3:00pm
Unaffiliated Reading Series
at Outpost 186
186 Hampshire St, Cambridge

Andrew Hughes is the author of Sweethearts of the Great Migration (BookThug, 2008). His first full length collection, Now Lays the Sunshine By, is forthcoming from BookThug. His work has appeared in Forklift, Ohio, Cannibal, Puppyflowers, and others.

Kate Schapira is the author of TOWN (Factory School, Heretical Texts, 2010) and several chapbooks with Flying Guillotine Press, Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, Cy Gist Press, Rope-A-Dope Press and horse less press, as well as her own kitchen-table imprint, In Hand Books. She runs the Publicly Complex reading series in Providence, RI.

Next Deep Moat!

2010-01-26T12:29:00.000-08:00

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

2010-01-18T15:57:00.001-08:00

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

2010-01-04T08:33:00.000-08:00

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

2009-12-06T08:26:00.000-08:00

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

2009-12-01T08:35:00.000-08:00

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

2009-11-23T10:01:00.000-08:00

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

2009-11-18T07:31:00.000-08:00

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.

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.

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.

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

2009-10-13T10:45:00.000-07:00

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

2009-10-09T11:43:00.000-07:00

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

Matthew Derby, Kristen Iskandrian & John Dermot Woods Reading

2009-10-02T09:59:00.000-07:00

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.

This Friday, Sept 25th, at 7:00 PM The Deep Moat Reading Series presents

2009-09-23T16:59:00.000-07:00

Lisa Olstein, Darcie Dennigan and Janaka Stucky

Lisa Olstein is the author of Radio Crackling, Radio Gone (Copper Canyon Press, 2006), which won the Hayden Carruth Award, and of Lost Alphabet (2009). A recipient of a Pushcart Prize, as well as fellowships from both the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the Centrum Foundation, Olstein has been widely published. She presently serves as associate director of the MFA program at the University of Massachusetts and is a cofounder of the Juniper Initiative for Literary Arts & Action.

About her new collection, The Lost Alphabet: "This second collection from Olstein is an impressive sequence of prose poems spoken in a voice of a lepidopterist engaged in isolated research on butterflies and moths near a village whose residents reluctanctly embrace her presence....Most appealing is Olstein's sensitive, quietly pained and earnest tone, which, more than the unusual subject, is the real star of this book. It's as if everything Olstein says gains dire importance."—Publishers Weekly."

Read selections from Lost Alphabet here, here , and here.

Darcie Dennigan is the author of Corinna A-Maying the Apocalypse, winner of Coldfront Magazine's best first collection of poetry in 2008. Her poems and other writing have appeared in 180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day, Atlantic Monthly, The Believer, Black Warrior Review, Gulf Coast, The Nation, and Tin House. She is an infrequent blogger for the Kenyon Review and an associate editor at H_NGM_N, an online journal of poetry, poetics, etc.

Read a glowing reviews of Corinna A-Maying the Apocalypse here & here

Read Poems by Darcie here & here

Janaka Stucky is practicing the perfection of effort while working on silent relationships with knives, hairpins, & a history of tentacles. Other passions include whiskey and pugilism. He is also the Publisher of Black Ocean and its literary magazine, Handsome. Some of his poems have appeared in Cannibal, Denver Quarterly, Fence, Free Verse, No Tell Motel, North American Review, Redivider and VOLT.

Read new poems by Janaka here

As always, limited edition coinsides (tiny broadsides) will be available at the reading and through the Brave Men Press website. Find them online at http://www.bravemenpress.com

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

All readings are held at the Pierre Menard Gallery.

For more information, poems, etc visit – www.thedeepmoatreadingseries.blogspot.com

Kate Greenstreet & Brenda Iijima Reading

2009-09-01T12:05:00.000-07:00

Saturday, September 12, 3 pm
Kate Greenstreet and Brenda Iijima
Unaffiliated Reading Series @ Outpost 186
186 Hampshire St
Cambridge

Kate Greenstreet's second book, The Last 4 Things, is new from Ahsahta Press and includes a DVD containing two short films. Greenstreet's first book, case sensitive, was published by Ahsahta in 2006. She is also the author of three chapbooks, most recently This is why I hurt you (Lame House Press, 2008). Find her poems in current or forthcoming issues of jubilat, VOLT, the Denver Quarterly, Fence, Court Green, and other journals. Visit her online at kickingwind.com.

Brenda Iijima is the author of Animate, Inanimate Aims (Litmus, 2007) and Around Sea (O Books, 2004). Her book If Not Metamorphic was runner up for the Sawtooth Prize and will be published by Ahsahta Press. Chapbooks include Rabbit Lesson, Color and Its Antecedents, Early Linoleum, Spacious, Audible Bio, In a Glass Box, and several other artist's books. She is the editor of Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs. Together with Evelyn Reilly she is editing a collection of essays by poets concerning poetry and ecological ethics titled )((eco (lang)(uage(reader). She is the art editor at Boog City as well as a visual artist. She lives in Brooklyn, New York where she designs and constructs homeopathic gardens.

Next Up at The Deep Moat Reading Series, Wednesday, August 26th, 7pm

2009-08-21T11:23:00.000-07:00

Zachary Schomburg is the author of The Man Suit (Black Ocean 2007) and Scary, No Scary (Black Ocean 2009). He co-edits Octopus Magazine and Octopus Books. He lives in Portland, OR, where he teaches film, literature, and writing at Portland State University and Portland Community College.

View Poems by Zachary Schomburg at Fou, Sxith Finch, Pilot, and Dear Camera.

Reviews of The Man Suit at Barn Owl Review, Coldfront Magazine, and Publishers Weekly.

Emily Kendal Frey lives in Portland, Oregon and teaches at Portland Community College. She is the author of AIRPORT (Blue Hour Press, 2009). Recent work appears or is forthcoming in Handsome, Sink Review, Sixth Finch, jubilat, Microfilme and Word For/Word.

Read Emily's AIRPORT here.

View poems by Emily Kendal Frey at Coconut, Shampoo, & La Petite Zine.

Find collaborative poems by Zachary Schomburg and Emily Frey at Wheelhouse, Diode, SIR!

Mark Leidner grew up in Tifton, a small town in south Georgia. His two chapbooks are The Night of 1,000 Murders (Factory Hollow Press, 2007) and The Empire (Scantily Clad Press, 2009). He lives in Northampton, MA and his blog is located http://trembyle.livejournal.com

View Poems by Mark Leidner at La Petite Zine,Not Nostrums, & SIR!.

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

Truck Darling (Jeni Olin) & Guillermo Parra reading & book release

2009-07-31T10:38:00.000-07:00

Saturday, August 8th, 3pm
Unaffiliated Reading Series
@ Outpost 186
186 1/2 Hampshire Street
Cambridge

Copies of Guillermo Parra's Phantasmal Repeats, new from Petrichord Books, will be available at the reading.

Truck Darling (Jeni Olin) is the author of Blue Collar Holiday, published by Hanging Loose in 2005. Her most recent publication is a chapbook of pharmaceutical sonnets about antidepressants titled THE PILL BOOK from Faux Press, 2008.

Guillermo Parra was born in Cambridge, MA in 1970. He is the author of Caracas Notebook and Phantasmal Repeats. His poems, essays and translations have appeared in Effing, The C.L.R. James Journal, Fascicle and 6x6. He lives in Durham, NC and writes the blog Venepoetics.

Tuesday, 7/21: David Blair, David Rivard, Sam Witt at Outpost 186

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Small Animal Project presents a reading by three poets who promise to be just right for whatever this New England weather decides to throw our way early next week.

Details

Tuesday, 7/21/09
David Blair, David Rivard & Sam Witt
Outpost 186
186 1/2 Hampshire Street
Cambridge, MA
8 pm, free

About the readers

David Blair grew up in Pittsburgh. His first book Ascension Days was chosen by Thomas Lux for the 2006 Del Sol Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared in the anthologies The Best of Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet and Zoland Poetry, Boston Review, Fourth River, Fulcrum, The Greensboro Review, The Harvard Review, The Hat, Ploughshares, and Verse. He’s an associate professor at The New England Institute of Art, and he lives in Somerville, Massachusetts.

David Rivard is the author of four books: Sugartown (Graywolf, 2006), Bewitched Playground (Graywolf, 2000), Wise Poison (Graywolf, 1996), the winner of the James Laughlin Prize from the Academy of American Poets in 1996 and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award, and Torque ( Pitt, 1988), winner of the Starrett Poetry Prize. Among his other awards are fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Massachusetts Arts Foundation and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, as well as the Pushcart Prize and Best American Poetry. He lives in Cambridge with his wife and teenage daughter, and teaches in the MFA program in writing at the University of New Hampshire.

Sam Witt is the author of two poetry collections, Everlasting Quail (UPNE, 2001), winner of the Katherine Nason Bakeless Prize, and Sunflower Brother (Cleveland State University Press, 2006). He has taught at Harvard University, University of Missouri-Kansas City, and at Whitman College. Witt is currently looking for a publisher for his new manuscript, “Occupation: Dreamland,” while freelancing and living in Charlottesville, Virginia.

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

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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

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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

2009-05-04T20:36:00.000-07:00

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

2009-04-29T09:32:00.000-07:00

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

2009-04-22T09:50:00.000-07:00

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

2009-04-20T11:10:00.000-07:00

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

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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.

Jane Unrue & Keith Waldrop reading

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Saturday, March 21, 7pm
Jane Unrue & Keith Waldrop
Pierre Menard Gallery
12 Arrow Street
Harvard Square

Janue Unrue's book The House was published in 2000 by Burning Deck Press; her book Atlassed was published in 2005 by Triple Press. Her novella Dear Mr. Erker appeared in the final issue of 3rd Bed, and her new book Life of a Star is forthcoming from Burning Deck. She teaches in The Writing Program at Harvard.

Keith Waldrop, Brooke Russell Astor Professor of Humanities at Brown University, has published more than a dozen works each of original poetry and translations. His first book, A Windmill Near Calvary, was shortlisted for the 1968 National Book Award. Recent books include Transcendental Studies, The Real Subject: Queries and Conjectures of Jacob Delafon, with Sample Poems, The House Seen from Nowhere, and a translation of The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire.

Fanny Howe & Tom Raworth reading

2009-03-12T11:12:00.001-07:00

Please come to hear these two extraordinary poets give a St. Patrick's Day reading:

Tuesday, March 17, 8pm
Fanny Howe & Tom Raworth
Pierre Menard Gallery
12 Arrow Street
Harvard Square

FANNY HOWE is the author of more than twenty books of poetry and prose, including her most recent poetry collections The Lyrics, The Lives of a Spirit: Glasstown: Where Something Got Broken, and On the Ground; and a volume of essays, The Winter Sun: Notes on a Vocation. She has won a fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation and an award from the Academy of Arts and Letters.

TOM RAWORTH is the author of over 40 books of poetry. His Collected Poems were published in 2003 by Carcanet Press, and his latest collections are Caller and Other Pieces (2007) and Let Baby Fall (2008).

Ted Mathys & Nick Rattner Reading

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The Unaffiliated Reading Series presents:

Saturday February 21, 3pm
Ted Mathys & Nick Rattner
Outpost 186
186 1/2 Hampshire St. (Inman Square)
Cambridge

Ted Mathys is the author of Forge (Coffee House Press, 2005) and The Spoils (Coffee House Press, forthcoming 2009). Originally from Ohio, and formerly of Brooklyn, he now lives in Somerville, MA.

Nick Rattner is a poet alive in the Pioneer Valley in Massachusetts where he will likely soon receive a degree. He is an editor at Ugly Duckling Presse.

Katie Peterson & Mark Lamoureux reading

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The Unaffiliated Reading Series presents:

Saturday January 24, 3pm
Katie Peterson & Mark Lamoureux
Outpost 186
186 1/2 Hampshire St. (Inman Square)
Cambridge

And stay tuned for more readings throughout the winter/spring.

Monk & Halsey @ Plough & Stars

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Geraldine Monk & Alan Halsey
Plough & Stars
Saturday, November 22 - 3pm

Please come this Saturday to hear these wonderful British poets as they make a rare stateside appearance:

Geraldine Monk was born in the county of Lancashire, in the northwest of England in 1952. Since the 1970s her poetry has appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines. Her major volumes of poetry include Interregnum, Creation Books (1995), Noctivagations (2001), and Escafeld Hangings (2005), both published by West House Books. Her Selected Poems was published by Salt Publishing in 2003. A collection of essays on her poetry, The Salt Companion to Geraldine Monk, edited by Scott Thurston, appeared in 2007.

Alan Halsey was born in London in 1949. He ran the Poetry Bookshop in Hay-on-Wye 1979-96. Since 1997 he has lived in Sheffield, continuing to work as a specialist bookseller and editor of West House Books. His own books include The Text of Shelley's Death (Five Seasons, 1995), Marginalien, a collection of poems, prose texts & graphics (Five Seasons 2005) and Not Everything Remotely; Selected Poems 1978-2005 (Salt 2006). His several collaborations include Fit to Print with Karen Mac Cormack (Coach House 1998) and Days of '49 with Gavin Selerie (West House 1999). His text-graphic work Memory Screen was most shown at the Bury Text Festival 2005 and his graphic work includes a collaboration with Steve McCaffery, Paradigm of the Tinctures (Granary 2007).

11/15/08 Bootstrap Book Release Party

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November 15, 2008

Featuring:
Sunnylyn Thibodeaux, Micah Ballard, Derek Fenner
w/ music by Flat 9

PA's Lounge
345 Somerville Avenue
Union Square, Somerville
Doors @ 9:00 pm

Join us in Lowell this weekend...

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for THE MASSACHUSETTS POETRY FESTIVAL (click here for website.)

Here is where Bootstrap will be:

SMALL PRESS FAIR

(curated by Ryan Gallagher and Derek Fenner of Bootstrap Productions)

10 − 5 PM

ALL Arts Gallery

246 Market Street

Meet the editors and publishers of 30 different presses and magazines, purchase their books and journals and “talk shop”. Many of the presses will be offering discounts and deals.

SMALL PRESS PANEL

(curated by Ryan Gallagher and Derek Fenner of Bootstrap Productions)

11 AM − 12 Noon

ALL Arts Gallery

246 Market Street

The Small Press panel will examine the following two areas:

1. Investigating histories and lineages in the small press world.

2. The future of Small Press Publishing in the 21st Century.

Panelists to include: Ed Sanders (Blake Route, and many other past ventures) Geoffrey Young (The Figures), Anna Moschovakis (Ugly Duckling Presse), Rebecca Wolff (Fence Books), Kyle Schlesinger (Cuneiform Press). Moderated by Joseph Torra (Pressed Wafer).

Marjorie Agosín & Ed Sanders

Emceed by Ryan Gallagher

Saturday, October 11

1:30 – 2:30 PM

Lowell High School Freshman Academy

43 French Street (please use John Street side entrance)

Urban Village Arts Series (UVAS): MUSIC & POETRY

featuring Joe Torra, Eileen Myles & music by Frank Morey

Emceed by Derek Fenner and David Robinson

Saturday, October 11

4 − 5:30 PM

Lowell National Historical Park Visitor Center Theater

246 Market Street

Mass Poe Fest Bios and Schedule Web - Upload a Document to Scribd

So and So #30

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Dorothea Lasky * Dara Wier * James Tate

Saturday * October 11th * 8pm * The Distillery * 516 East Second Street * South Boston, MA 02127

Feel free to bring booze and snacks.

Dorothea Lasky was born in St. Louis in 1978. She is the author of the full-length collection of poems, AWE (Wave Books, 2007), as well as the chapbooks Alphabets and Portraits and The Hatmaker’s Wife. She has attended Harvard University and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She currently lives in Philadelphia, where she co-edits the Katalanché Press chapbook series and is pursuing her doctorate in education from the University of Pennsylvania.

Dara Wier is the author of ten collections of poetry, most recently Remnants of Hannah and Reverse Rapture (Wave Books, 2006 and 2005, respectively). She has received awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the NEA and The American Poetry Review. She directs the MFA program for poets and writers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and co-directs the University of Massachusetts' Juniper Initiative for Literary Arts and Action.

James Tate is the author of numerous books of poetry and prose, most recently The Ghost Soldier (Ecco, 2008). His Selected Poems won the Pulitzer Prize and the William Carlos Williams Award in 1991. His other honors include a National Book Award and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He teaches at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Release Reading Videos

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If you missed Geoffrey Olsen, Jess Mynes & Kimberley Lyons at the Pierre Menard Gallery check out the videos below.

Saturday, September 27, 7 pm

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Kimberly Lyons, Jess Mynes & Geoff Olsen

a release reading for their new books from
Katalanche Press & Petrichord Books

Pierre Menard Gallery / 10 Arrow St, Cambridge

Kimberly Lyons is the author of Abracadabra (Granary Books) and Saline (Instance Press) as well as numerous chapbooks. Her most recent publication is Phototherapique from Katalanche Press/Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs. She lives in Brooklyn where she works as a psychiatric social worker.

Jess Mynes is the author of If and When (Katalanche Press), in addition to birds for example (CARVE Editions) and In(ex)teriors (Anchorite Press). Recently Clouds, a collaboration with Aaron Tieger, and Sky Brightly Picked (Skysill Press) are forthcoming. He lives in Wendell, MA with a dog and a cat.

Geoffrey Olsen lives in Greenpoint, Brooklyn and works at the Cooper Union in Manhattan. His chapbook End Notebook was recently published by Petrichord Press of Cambridge, MA. Poems of his are forthcoming in Asterisk and EOAGH.

So and So #29

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Rauan Klassnik * Justin Marks * Lisa Olstein

Saturday * September 20th * 8pm * The Distillery * 516 East Second Street * South Boston, MA 02127

Feel free to bring booze and snacks.

Rauan Klassnik was born a long time ago. Rauan Klassnik is not dead, though he often sure-damned feels like it. Rauan's primary goal in life is to live forever. Perhaps this explains why he has such a bad attitude. Rauan Klassnik does, though, believe in singing. Like Emily Dickinson on the charnel steps. His poems have appeared many places and his first book, Holy Land, released April 1st (no joke) from Black Ocean.

Justin Marks is the author of A Million in Prizes (New Issues Press, forthcoming 2009). His latest chapbook is [Summer insular] (Horse Less Press, 2007). He is the founder and Editor of Kitchen Press Chapbooks and lives in New York City.

Lisa Olstein is the author of RADIO CRACKLING, RADIO GONE, winner of the 2005 Hayden Carruth Award, and LOST ALPHABET, forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press. She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the Centrum Foundation. She is the Associate Director of the MFA Program for Poets and Writers at UMass Amherst.

Sunday September 7, 3:00pm

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Demolicious Poetry/Multimedia Series
Pierre Menard Gallery, 10 Arrow Street (Harvard Square) Cambridge, MA

Thom Donovan lives in New York City, where he curates Peace On A events series, and is a participant in the Nonsite Collective (www.nonsitecollective.org). He also edits Wild Horses of Fire weblog (whof.blogger.com), and coedits ON: a journal of contemporary practice (oncontemporaries.wordpress.com), the first issue of which is forthcoming this fall. His first chapbook since 2005, Our Insalvageable, will be soon with Vigilance Society.

Ophibre is Benjamin Rossignol, a sound artist living in Boston, USA. His pieces tend to reflect upon the given medium/s of sonic delivery and the potential modes of engaging with them. He is interested in drones, ones that are aural and those to be translated or expressed. His label, Oph Sound, is focused on limited run releases of album art.

So and So #28

2008-08-21T08:14:00.000-07:00

Sommmer Browning * Hazel McClure * Aaron Tieger

Saturday * August 23 * 8pm * The Distillery * 516 East Second Street * South Boston, MA 02127

Feel free to bring booze and snacks.

Sommer Browning lives in Brooklyn. Her chapbook, Vale Tudo, is out
with horse less press. She curates the poetry readings at Pete's Candy
Store, is almost a librarian, and draws vulgar comix. Visit her here:
www.asthmachronicles.blogspot.com.

Hazel McClure wrote Nothing Moving, a chapbook from Lame House press. Her work has been published in Mirage #4/ Period(ical), the tiny, Coconut and Can We Have Our Ball Back. She lives and writes in Buffalo.

Aaron Tieger's most recent books are Anxiety Chant (Skysill Press) and The Collected Typos of Aaron Tieger (Editions Louis Wain). Formerly the editor of CARVE Poems, he now publishes Petrichord Books in Cambridge, MA.

Boston Poetry Collective Reading #2: Ugly Duckling Presse

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THIS SATURDAY, 7/19, 7PM

Pierre Menard Gallery
10 Arrow St
Cambridge, MA 02138
p: 617.868.2033
www.pierremenardgallery.com

Kate Colby is the author of Unbecoming Behavior (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2008) and Fruitlands (Litmus Press, 2006), which received a Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America. Recent writing has appeared in Aufgabe, New American Writing and NO: a journal of the arts. She lives in Providence, RI, where she works as a copywriter and editor.

Jeffrey Yang works as an editor at New Directions Publishing. He has recently published translations of Su Shi's EAST SLOPE (Ugly Duckling Presse) and a Tang-Song collection of poetry called RHYTHM 226 (Tioronda Books). His poetry collection AN AQUARIUM will be published by Graywolf Press in Fall 2008.

Matvei Yankelevich edited and translated TODAY I WROTE NOTHING: THE SELECTED WRITINGS OF DANIIL KHARMS (Overlook, 2007). His translation of Vladimir Mayakovsky's poem "A Cloud in Pants" is included in NIGHT WRAPS THE SKY: WRITINGS BY AND ABOUT MAYAKOVSKY (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2008) and he is a co-translator of OBERIU: AN ANTHOLOGY OF RUSSIAN ABSURDISM (Northwestern, 2006). His translations of Russian poetry have appeared in several anthologies and in many periodicals including Circumference, Harpers, New American Writing, and The New Yorker. His own writing has appeared in Boston Review, Damn The Caesars, Fence, Octopus, Open City, and other literary journals. He is the author of a long poem, THE PRESENT WORK (Palm Press, 2006). He teaches Russian Literature at Hunter College, and edits the Eastern European Poets Series at Ugly Duckling Presse.

Friday June 6, 7:30pm

2008-05-28T10:55:00.000-07:00

Demolicious Poetry/Multimedia Series
* NEW LOCATION *
Pierre Menard Gallery, 10 Arrow Street (Harvard Square) Cambridge, MA

Brian Kim Stefans has published several books and chapbooks in the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada, including Kluge: A Meditation and other poems (Roof, 2008), What Is Said to the Poet Concerning Flowers (Factory School, 2007) and Fashionable Noise: On Digital Poetics (Atelos, 2003). His electronic literature works, such as “The Dreamlife of Letters” (Coach House, 2003) and “Kluge: A Meditation” (2006-ongoing) can be viewed at arras.net, Rhizome and Turbulence among other sites. He taught New Media Studies at The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey from 2006-2008, and is starting his position as professor of English/Digital Humanities at the University of California, Los Angeles, in Fall 2008.

Jazz saxophonist Noah Preminger’s music is influenced by genres ranging from classic to contemporary jazz to hard rock to ambient music. He has performed extensively in the Northeast, including Jordan Hall in Boston, Avery Fisher Hall and the Village Vanguard in New York, and Café L'Utopik and L'absynthe in Montreal. He has played with Dave Holland, Roscoe Mitchell, Cecil McBee and many others. In addition to leading the Noah Preminger Sextet, he is a member of the Dana Lauren Quintet, Low Road, the Bridget Kearney Group and the Nick Sanders Quintet. Noah's debut album, Dry Bridge Road, will be released and available on August 1. For more information, please check www.noahpreminger.com.

5.27.08 Bill Berkson & Bill Corbett

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Don't miss this event!

Bill Berkson

Bill Corbett

Tuesday, May 27
7 pm
Pierre Menard Gallery
10 Arrow Street
Harvard Square
Cambridge. MA

5.10.08 Matt Hart / Amanda Nadelberg & Nora Almeida / Kate Jaeger

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The Union Square Poetry Series Spring 2008

P.A.s Lounge 345 Somerville Ave Somerville MA

reading starts at 6:00. come early for a drink at the bar if you want. readings occasionally start on time.

from Forklift Ohio: MATT HART

from Isa the Truck Named Isadore: Amanda Nadelberg

from Bootstrap's favorite magazine They Are Flying Planes:

Nora Almeida & Kate Jaeger

Boston Poetry Collective

Ish Klein, Gerrit Lansing & Carol Weston

Thursday, 11/17: Amaranth Borsuk, Brigitte Byrd, Kate Durbin

Allen Fisher, Ruth Lepson & Chuck Stebelton

Cheryl Clark Vermeulen, Emily Pettit, Mark Leidner & Nathaniel Otting

A Boston Poetry Marathon and BBQ, 7/29-7/31

After Guston: William Corbett & Patrick James Dunagan

Monday, 5/2: Carrie Bennett, Jennifer Denrow, Jen Tynes

Catherine Meng & Joel Sloman poetry reading

Thursday, 3/24: Nathan Hoks, Sandra Lim & James Shea

Mary Austin Speaker, Chris Martin and Jim Behrle reading

Wednesday, 12/15: Claire Hero, Becca Klaver & Julia Story

NOV 20TH - DAMON KRUKOWSKI, ALEX PHILLIPS & JEREMY SIGLER

Filip Marinovich & Stacy Szymaszek reading

Sunday, 10/31: Crystal Curry, Lucy Ives, Greg Lawless

Anelise Chen & Cedar Sigo reading

Julie Doxsee, Sarah Goldstein, Janaka Stucky & Brian Foley

A Boston Poet Tea Party

Saturday, July 24th 7:00 PM

Tuesday, 6/15: Brian Foley, Joshua Harmon, Emily Pettit

Dorothea Lasky & Dustin Williamson reading

Saturday, 5/8: Amina Cain, Jen Karmin, Anne Shaw

Next Deep Moat

Philly Extravaganza Event: CAConrad & Frank Sherlock

NF Huth & Geof Huth reading

John Coletti & Jess Mynes reading at The Field

Celebrate the launch of Artifice Magazine

Unaffiliated reading: Andrew Hughes & Kate Schapira

Next Deep Moat!

Aaron Tieger, Michael Carr & Whit Griffin reading this Friday

Jim Behrle / Joseph Torra reading & release event

Next up at Small Animal Project

TWO UPCOMING READINGS

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

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

BPC Special Event: Bill Berkson & friends

Charles River Literary Fair

Matthew Derby, Kristen Iskandrian & John Dermot Woods Reading

This Friday, Sept 25th, at 7:00 PM The Deep Moat Reading Series presents

Kate Greenstreet & Brenda Iijima Reading

Next Up at The Deep Moat Reading Series, Wednesday, August 26th, 7pm

Truck Darling (Jeni Olin) & Guillermo Parra reading & book release

Tuesday, 7/21: David Blair, David Rivard, Sam Witt at Outpost 186

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

The Deep Moat Reading Series

Peter Gizzi & David Larsen reading

Next up at The Deep Moat Reading Series

Noy Holland & Kate Schapira reading

Corina Copp & Dana Ward reading

The Deep Moat Reading Series Vol 1

Jane Unrue & Keith Waldrop reading

Fanny Howe & Tom Raworth reading

Ted Mathys & Nick Rattner Reading

Katie Peterson & Mark Lamoureux reading

Monk & Halsey @ Plough & Stars

11/15/08 Bootstrap Book Release Party

More release reading videos

Join us in Lowell this weekend...

So and So #30

Release Reading Videos

Saturday, September 27, 7 pm

So and So #29

Sunday September 7, 3:00pm

So and So #28

Boston Poetry Collective Reading #2: Ugly Duckling Presse

Friday June 6, 7:30pm

5.27.08 Bill Berkson & Bill Corbett

5.10.08 Matt Hart / Amanda Nadelberg & Nora Almeida / Kate Jaeger

The Union Square Poetry Series Spring 2008