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Mar 13, 2010 5:15am

TODAY! Katie Degentesh & Stacy DorisSegue Series, Bowery Poetry Club308 Bowery, 4:00-6:00 p.m.$6 goes to readersKatie Degentesh is the author of The Anger Scale. She lives in New York City.Stacy Doris' books include Cheerleader's Guide to the World: Council Book, Knot, Conference, Paramour and Kildare. She also writes books in...

Mar 5, 2010 7:12am

MACGREGOR CARD & KAREN WEISER at Segue/BPC Saturday March 6Bowery Poetry Club308 Bowery4:00-6:00 p.m.Six dollars goes to readersMacgregor Card’s first full-length collection of poetry, Duties of An English Foreign Secretary, is just out from Fence Modern Poets Series.Karen Weiser’s first full-length collection of poetry, To Light Out, is just out...

Mar 5, 2010 7:01am

TOP THINGS PPL IN INDIAN VIDEO STORESHAVE SAID TO ME, CA. 2002-2008Click to view larger....

Mar 4, 2010 4:48am

農夫!!!!!!!!!!!...

Mar 2, 2010 6:09am

THE FLYColor me stoked. Finally found something on the Web about The Fly, a great band from Beijing, whose eponymous CD I found in a dollar rack on 8th Avenue in Brooklyn (aka Brooklyn Chinatown). Two videos from what appears to be a Japanese documentary about underground rock in Beijing:...

Feb 24, 2010 4:43am

THE AUTRÉWhat do David Larsen, Najwa Karam, Raj Kapoor, Stacy Doris, Gu Cheng, Natacha Atlas, Screamin Jay Hawkins, Sakura Maku, Rodney Koeneke, Misora Hibari, Tom Hart, Suehiro Maruo, Asala Nasri, Los Bros. Hernandez, Manmohan Desai, Adeena Karasick, Yinka Shonibare, Chitra Ganesh, Madison Clell, Dambudzo Marechera, Ernst Herbeck, and Puffy have...

Feb 17, 2010 4:24am

JENI OLIN & STEVEN ZULTANSKI Segue Series @ BPC308 Bowery just above Houston4:00 p.m. Saturday, February 20 Six bucks goes to readersJeni Olin has a new collection, Hold Tight: The Truck Darling Poems, forthcoming from HL this fall. Her first book, Blue Collar Holiday, with art by Larry Rivers, was...

Feb 12, 2010 7:34am

BERRIGAN & SNYDER | SEGUE | SAT FEB 134-6pm, 308 bowerysix dollars"Hey Daddy, wanna kiss the Boopie?" was just asked of Anselm Berrigan, whose most recent book is Free Cell, published last year by City Lights. Excerpts from a newer piece called "Primitive State" can be read at necessetics.com/anselm.html.Rick Snyder's...

Feb 5, 2010 5:31am

DIANA HAMILTON & DIVYA VICTORSEGUE SERIES @ BOWERY POETRY CLUBSaturday, February 6, 4:00pm - 6:00pm308 Bowery 1 block above HoustonSix bucks, goes to the readersDiana Hamilton's poetry has appeared in mid)rib, Nap, Foursquare 3.1 and The Boog Reader 3 and is forthcoming in The Physical Poets Vol 3. She maintains...

Dec 24, 2009 2:56pm

MERRY CHRISTMAS!...

Dec 23, 2009 5:20am

"... SAYS YES"The new running gag at our house is "... says yes," sung to the tune of "Jimmy Carter Says Yes":For instance, this morning, reading the Paul Sharits issue of Film Culture (No. 65-66, 1978), Nada blurted out "This is so fetishistic!" and started reading a passage aloud, wherein...

Dec 16, 2009 5:12am

MY FAVORITE FILMS OF THE DECADE (2000-09)inspired by Michael KelleherAction: Prachya Pinkaew’s “Ong Bak.” This movie not only restored my faith in contemporary action/martial arts flicks, but in motor vehicle chase scenes--a faith I never even had! See the tuk-tuk chase here, but turn the sound down: some yahoo overlayed...

Nov 22, 2009 5:58am

TONIGHTKIMBERLY LYONS & THE ZINC BAR PRESENTTHE WOMEN OF FLARF!Shanna ComptonKatie DegenteshNada GordonSharon MesmerMel NicholsElisabeth Workman6:30pm, Zinc Bar82 West 3rd Street (btwn Thompson & Sullivan), NYC$5 donation...

Oct 26, 2009 6:29am

THREE TITLE PAGES FROM ELSEWHERE 4Part 1Part 2Part 3...

Oct 20, 2009 7:06am

NOAH AND PAUL ZUKOFSKY’S ARKafter this.Voice of GodNoahPaul Zukofsky[Clouds break as light streams down.]GOD: Noah I know you man your good in my book man keep your head up these people are whack!NOAH: Wat up Bucket????GOD: [Thunder, lightning, rain.] Thats whats up!!!!!!!NOAH: Come to me with that shit![Paul Zukofsky walks...

Oct 15, 2009 7:18am

LIVING IN ADVANCE: A TRIBUTE TO DAVID BROMIGEFriday, October 16, 7:00pmPoets House10 River TerraceNew York, NY 10282(212) 431-7920info@poetshouse.orgwith Charles Bernstein, Corina Copp, Rachel Levitsky, Daniel Nohejl, Bob Perelman, Nick Piombino, Ron Silliman, Gary Sullivan, Geoffrey Young & OthersThis evening celebrates the life and work of poet David Bromige (1933–2009), who...

Oct 13, 2009 7:32am

NEO-BENSHI: DARBY O'GILL AND THE LITTLE PEOPLE Do ya'll like ethnic stereotypes? Dumb jokes about the NYC poetry world? Then you'll be wantin' to bar the door and watch this wee neo-benshi I done at Dixon Place earlier this year. Brandon Downing, who curated the event, has posted videos of...

Oct 10, 2009 7:16am

I USED TO BELIEVE(Written for the ISSUE Project Room reading last night, thinking of Suzanne Fiol.)I used to believe that towels were sleeping ghosts.I used to think gravel was the same as gravity. Like the rocks in our driveway held us to the earth.I thought that Germany must be a...

Oct 8, 2009 7:13am

ISSUE PROJECT ROOM READING THIS FRIDAYISSUE Project Room's founder, Suzanne FiolI've been meaning to write about this upcoming reading at ISSUE Project Room, and was about to do that Tuesday, when news reached me about the passing of IPR's founder and artistic director, Suzanne Fiol.I wasn't sure whether the reading,...

Oct 7, 2009 6:29am

SOUR TIMES | ONLY LOVED AT NIGHT...

Oct 1, 2009 5:36am

نجوى كرم1989 performance of a mawal (when Najwa was 22 or 23)"Sehrani" live"Wrood Edar""Ma Basmahlak"The walaw mawal"Rouh Rouhi"...

Sep 28, 2009 6:46am

CHARLES BERNSTEIN INTERVIEWS GEORGE KUCHARSpeaking of heroes, here's one of my favorite poet heroes interviewing one of my favorite film heroes. It's like a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup, but funnier.More sound files from Kuchar on PennSound, here....

Sep 27, 2009 1:54pm

NADA REPORTS ON BELLADONNA'S ADFEMPO CONFERENCEPart one here.Part two here.I wish I could have seen Steve Zultanski's Jewel talk. What's up with Eileen Myles hating on people in public? I thought she was above that. Sad to see good poets fall into the "language poetry bad, group formation bad" rap....

Sep 25, 2009 5:14am

I HAVE TO WORK SO WILL MISS THISThis morning, Nada will be participating in a panel on conceptual writings and feminist poetics with Vanessa Place, Sina Queyras, Kim Rosenfield, and Christine Wertheim.It's part of Belladonna's "Advancing Feminist Poetics & Activism" program, which runs all day today at CUNY, and which...

Sep 21, 2009 8:08am

MY TOP FIVE POETRY PET PEEVESAs poetry season blortches forth once again into all our lives like a stopped up toilet after flushing, a few things to consider.1. Poems beginning "Dear," that are not actually letters or emails sent to another person. I know poetry is "artifice," but come on....