Conn and Ruocco: 4 December 2010, Providence, RI

Brian Conn and Joanna Ruocco
Ada Books
717 Westminster Street

Anderson, Robinson, and Ruocco: 20 November 2010, Denver, CO

The Dikeou Collection
featuring
Erik Anderson, Elizabeth Robinson, and Joanna Ruocco
7pm @ The Colorado Building
1615 California Street (at 16th Street)
Suite 515

Derby & Zornoza: 13 November 2010, Providence, RI

Andrew Zornoza and Matthew Derby
6pm @ Ada Books
717 Westminster Street

Taylor & Berrigan: November 6, 2010, Tucscon, AZ

Anselm Berrigan and Shelly Taylor
POG
8pm @ St Andrews Episcopal Church
545 S. 5th Ave

Raoul, Roberts, Ronda, and Ruocco: 6 November 2010, Denver, CO

The Bad Shadow Affair presents
an evening of readings
with Thibault Raoul, Tim Roberts, Margaret Ronda, and Joanna Ruocco.

7:30pm
 @ Lost Lake Lounge
3602 E. Colfax Ave


Short, Morkun, & Townsend: November 6, 2010, Baltimore, MD

Readings by Debrah Morkun, Kim Gek Lin Short, Jamie Townsend.
Hosted by Michael Ball.

I.E. Reading Series
6pm @ Dionysus Lounge
8 East Preston St.

Božičević & King: October 18, 2010, New York, NY

Ana Božičević and Amy King will be honored at The Feminist Press at the City University of New York's "40 Feminists Under 40" Gala for their work in promoting & publishing poetry. Congratulations Ana and Amy!

Roosevelt Hotel, Manhattan
45 East 45th Street
6pm

http://www.feministpress.org/support-us/gala

Božičević: October 15, 2010, Atlanta, GA

Ana Božičević will be reading at Emory University.
More details to follow soon.

Božičević: October 15, 2010, Atlanta, GA

Ana Božičević will be the keynote speaker at the Atlanta Queer Literary Festival

Auburn Avenue Research Library
7:30 pm

Connor: October 14, 2010, Greensboro, NC

Traci O. Connor reads from Recipes for Endangered Species
7:00 PM @ The Faculty Center
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
1400 Spring Garden Street

Haug & Toder: October 10, 2010, Turners Falls, MA

Slope Series
Featuring James Haug and Emily Toder
5pm @ Rendezvous
78 3rd Street

Puckett, White, Ventura, Wolkin, & Sheth: October 9, 2010, San Francisco, CA

Michelle Puckett, Arisa White, Ana Maria Ventura, Lindsey Wolkin, and Ami Sheth read at the BANG OUT showcase at LitCrawl, part of San Francisco's Literary Festival, LitQuake. This year’s LitCrawl marks BANG OUT Reading Series’ two-year anniversary.

BANG OUT San Francisco Volume XI: Greatest Hits
Phase I (6 – 7 pm)
Double Dutch Lounge
3192 16th St.
San Francisco, CA

Short & Morkun: October 4, 2010, Boulder, CO

Readings by Debrah Morkun and Kim Gek Lin Short.
Hosted by Tom Peters.

Laughing Goat Reading Series
8PM @ Beat Bookshop
1709 Pearl St.

Short, Beer, Carter, & Morkun: October 2, 2010, Denver, CO

Readings by Nicole Beer, Roxanne Carter, Debrah Morkun, Kim Gek Lin Short.
Hosted by Sommer Browning and Julia Cohen.

The Bad Shadow Affair
7:30pm @ Lost Lake Lounge
3602 E. Colfax Ave.

Short, Puckett, Dyckman, & Morkun: September 30, 2010, San Francisco, CA

Readings by Susanne Dyckman, Debrah Morkun, Michelle Puckett, and Kim Gek Lin Short.

7:30 PM @ Books & Bookshelves
99 Sanchez St.

Goldstein, Hero, and Poe: September 18, 2010, Kingston, NY

Sarah Goldstein, Claire Hero, and Deborah Poe

The Cadmium Text Series
2pm @ The Gallery at R&F Handmade Paints
84 Ten Broeck Avenue

A $5 donation is suggested.
For directions please visit R&F’s website.

Connor: September 2, 2010, Greensboro, NC

Traci O. Connor will read from and sign copies of Recipes for Endangered Species

7:30 PM @ Hege Libray
Guilford College

Short, Fitzpatrick, & Scott: August 19, 2010, Washington DC

Readings by Brian Fitzpatrick, Rion Amilcar Scott, Kim Gek Lin Short.

August 19 2010 8:00 PM
Cheryl's Gone
Big Bear Cafe
1700 1st Street, NW
Washington DC

Short & Kennedy: August 8, 2010, Philadelphia, PA

Readings by Kim Gek Lin Short and C. Kennedy

August 8 2010 7:00 PM
Jubilant Thicket
Molly's Bookstore
1010 S. 9th St. Phila, PA (Italian Market)

Short, Behm-Steinberg, & Livingston: July 31, 2010, Philadelphia, PA

Readings by Hugh Behm-Steinberg & Reb Livingston & Kim Gek Lin Short.

Chapter & Verse Reading Series
Chapterhouse Cafe and Gallery
620 S. 9th St (between South & Bainbridge in Bella Vista)
Phila, PA
8:00 PM

Connor, De'ath, Gonzalez, Massman, Ruocco, Schapira, Williamson: July 30, 2010, Brooklyn, NY

Stain of Poetry features TSky Press authors Traci O. Connor, Gordon Massman, and Joanna Ruocco as well as Amy De'ath, Octavio R. Gonzalez, Kate Schapira, and Dustin Williamson.

7 PM @ Goodbye Blue Monday
1087 Broadway (@ Dodworth St.)
Bushwick, Brooklyn
J M Z trains to Myrtle Ave or J to Kosciusko Street

Connor, Gay, & Mayo: July 28, 2010, Brooklyn, NY

LIT Magazine Summer Issue Launch Party

Featuring Traci O. Connor, Rafael Pérez Gay, and Eduardo Jiménez Mayo

Join LIT Magazine & powerHouse Arena for an evening of literary refreshment, complete with a fine selection of readings from the LIT ISSUE 18 contributors. Sponsored by The New School's Graduate Writing Program, PEN International, and The National Arts Club's PAGE Reading Series.

6:30pm - 8:30pm @ The powerHouse Arena
37 Main Street, DUMBO
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Božičević, Levine, Massman, Short & Zornoza: July 17, 2010, Philadelphia, PA

NPP Presents
Tarpaulin Sky & Spork Press

Readings by Ana Bozicevic, Jake Levine, Gordon Massman, Kim Gek Lin Short, and Andrew Zornoza.

6:00 PM @ Fergie's Pub
1214 Sansom (in Center City)

Short, Lucy, Higdon, & Roman: July 16, 2010, Philadelphia, PA

NPP Presents
Philadelphia Poets

Readings by Patrick Lucy, Hailey Higdon, Kim Gek Lin Short, and Carlos Soto Roman.

7:00 PM @ Germ Books
2005 Frankford Avenue (Fishtown)

Taylor, Grinnell, & Iijima: June 27, 2010, Brooklyn, NY

EOAGH Reading Series, featuring: E. Tracy Grinnell, Brenda Iijima, and Shelly Taylor

Sunday, June 27, 2PM
at Unnameable Books
600 Vanderbilt Ave, Brooklyn, NY

Short, Taylor, Hero, Wisner, Thorburn, & Belflower: June 25, 2010, Brooklyn, NY

Stain of Poetry

Readings by James Belflower, Claire Hero, Kim Gek Lin Short, Shelly Taylor, Matthew Thorburn, and Wendy Wisner.

7 PM @ Goodbye Blue Monday
1087 Broadway (@ Dodworth St.)
Bushwick, Brooklyn
J M Z trains to Myrtle Ave or J to Kosciusko Street

Božičević, Hoy, Myles, & Van der Vliet Oloomi: June 19, 2010, Brooklyn, NY

Launch Party for the Harp & Altar Anthology

With readings by:
Ana Božičević
Dan Hoy
Eileen Myles
Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi

With artwork by Lorene Taurerewa
and special musical guest: Miracles

Saturday June 19th, 2010
6:30 - 9:00PM
267 Douglass Street
Brooklyn, NY 11217
Part of the Yardmeter Editions Reading Series

Short & Morkun: June 13, 2010, Chicago, IL

Readings by Debrah Morkun & Kim Gek Lin Short

7 PM @ Myopic Books
1564 N. Milwaukee Ave

Göransson & McSweeney: June 12, 2010, Kalamazoo, MI

Johannes Göransson and Joyelle McSweeney
7:00pm @ Kalamazoo Book Arts Center
326 W. Kalamazoo Avenue, Suite 103A, Park Trades Center

Works by the poets will be available during the event for sale and signing. Broadsides from other Kalamazoo Book Arts Center "Poets in Print" events and other book arts creations are also available for sale.

This event is free and refreshments are served. Doors open at 6:30.

Short, Russell, & Winkler: June 11, 2010, Philadelphia, PA

Poetry at Mostly Books

Readings by Jacob Russell & Benjamin Winkler & Kim Gek Lin Short.

9:00 PM @ Mostly Books
529 Bainbridge
(between 6th & Passyunk in Bella Vista)

Božičević: June 11, 2010, Brooklyn, NY

Earshot Reading Series
Ana Božičević
7:30 PM
$5 + one free drink
Rose Live Music
345 Grand Street (b/w Havemeyer & Marcy)
Brooklyn, NY 11211
(718) 599-0069
http://www.earshotnyc.com

Buzzeo, Behm-Steinberg, Colby, Reynolds, Stanley, & Zolf: May 21, 2010, Brooklyn, NY

Stain of Poetry with Melissa Buzzeo, Hugh Behm-Steinberg, Todd Colby, Christie Ann Reynolds, Jared Stanley & Rachel Zolf!

Friday, May 21 @ 7 p.m.
At Goodbye Blue Monday
1087 Broadway
(corner of Dodworth St)
Brooklyn, NY 11221-3013
(718) 453-6343

J M Z trains to Myrtle Ave
or J train to Kosciusko St

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Hosted by Amy King and Ana Božičević

www.stainofpoetry.com

Short & Currin: May 14, 2010, Philadelphia, PA

Moles Not Molar
Readings by Jen Currin & Kim Gek Lin Short
Wooden Shoe Books
704 South Street (at South and 7th St)
Philadelphia, PA
7:30 PM

Božičević: May 13, 2010, Cincinnati, OH

Ana Božičević reading at Bon Mot/ley Series

7pm @ Clifton Cultural Arts Center
3711 Clifton Avenue
Cincinnati, OH 45220
(513) 497-2860

Schomburg & Frazee: May 13, 2010, Athens, GA

Tarpaulin Sky journal and press presents a poetry reading featuring Octopus co-editor and TSky contributor Zachary Schomburg, who will also screen some of his poem-films, and UGA PhD candidate Andy Frazee.

6:00 pm
Flicker Theater and Bar
263 West Washington St.
downtown Athens, GA

Zachary Schomburg is the author of The Man Suit (Black Ocean 2007) and Scary, No Scary (Black Ocean 2009). His chapbooks include The Pond (Greying Ghost Press 2009) and Abraham Lincoln’s Death Scene (Horse Less Press http://www.horselesspress.com 2007). His chapbook collaborations with Emily Kendal Frey include Ok, Goodnight (Futuretense Books 2010) and Team Sad (Cinematheque Press 2009). His DVD of poem-films, Little Blind Thing, was released by Poor Claudia in 2010. He lives and teaches in Portland, Oregon, and blogs at The Lovely Arc (http://lovelyarc.blogspot.com).

Andy Frazee is a PhD student in Creative Writing and Literature at the University of Georgia. His chapbook That the World Should Never Again Be Destroyed By Flood was recently published by New American Press, and his creative work appears in 1913, Eoagh, BlazeVOX, Eleven Eleven, Cannot Exist, Bath House, and elsewhere.

Free and open to the public.

NYC Annual Chapbook Festival: May 3-4, 2010, New York, NY

CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue
New York
1pm-7pm both days
Proshansky Auditorium Lobby, C Level
For more information, please visit:
centerforthehumanitiesgc.org/festival

The Annual Chapbook Festival celebrates the rich history of the chapbook as a work of art as well as the essential place of the contemporary chapbook as a vehicle for alternative poetry projects and for emerging authors and editors. Now in its second year, the festival features a two-day bookfair with chapbook publishers from around the country, workshops on creating, producing and distributing chapbooks, marathon poetry readings, and a closing-night PSA Chapbook Fellowship reading. For more information, please visit centerforthehumanitiesgc.org

Co-sponsored by The Office of Academic Affairs, The Center for the Humanities, The Graduate Center and MFA Programs in Creative Writing of the City University of New York, The Center for Book Arts, Poets House, Poetry Society of America, and Poets & Writers.

Florian and Glenum: May 2, 2010, Providence, RI

Sandy Florian and Laura Glenum read at the Cousins Reading Series.

6:30pm @ Abe's Bar
302 Wickenden St.
Providence, RI

Florian, Glenum, Jenike, Jones, Sama, & Sleigh: April 30, Brooklyn NY

Tarpaulin Sky Press authors Sandy Florian and Lara Glenum join Lesley Jenike, Saeed Jones, Metta Sama & Tom Sleigh

Stain of Poetry
Hosted by Ana Božičević and Amy King
7 p.m @ Goodbye Blue Monday
1087 Broadway
Bushwick, Brooklyn

Georgiou, Massman, Peet, Short: April 23-25, 2010, Manchester, VT

3rd Annual Manchester and the Mountains Poets and Writers Weekend

Featuring readings, panels, and workshops with Elena Georgiou, Gordon Massman, Christian Peet, and Kim Gek Lin Short, among other fab writers.

Along with musical guests Red Heart the Ticker

Sponsored by Greater Manchester Arts Council

Massman: April 19, 2010, NYC, NY

Gordon Massman
at The New York Quarterly Reading Series
The Cornelia Street Cafe
29 Cornelia St.
Greenwich Village
212.989.9319
$7 cover gets you a free drink.
www.corneliastreetcafe.com
www.nyquarterly.org

AWP: Florian, Glenum, Goransson, Massman, Taylor, April 10, 2010, Denver, CO

Watch yourself unfold and close-out the AWP week with five presses that walk the path of dispossession. Fourteen readers; 120 minutes; singular enlightenment...

Action Books, Apostrophe Books, Black Ocean, Slope Editions, and Tarpaulin Sky Press

Present

Jessica Baran, Crystal Curry, Julie Doxsee, Sandy Florian, Lara Glenum, Johannes Goransson, Joe Hall, Lucy Ives, Paul Foster Johnson, Gordon Massman, Zachary Schomburg, Abraham Smith, Shelly Taylor, and Amy Wright.

7-10 PM
Plus Gallery
2501 Larimer Street

AWP: Božičević, April 9, 2010, Denver, CO

WILLA Goes Live: A Benefit Evening of
Burlesque, Literature and Roller Derby

http://willaweb.tumblr.com/post/437524268/live

9:00 – 12 midnight
Cover: $10
Location: The Denver Press Club
1330 Glenarm Place

http://www.denverpressclub.org

AWP: Short, Taylor, Muench, de la Torre, Rooney, Myers & more, April 9, 2010, Denver, CO

Hosted by Switchback Books, with readings by Tarpaulin Sky Press authors Kim Gek Lin Short and Shelly Taylor, as well as Simone Muench, Monica de la Torre, Kathleen Rooney, Gina Myers, Davis Schneiderman, Marisa Crawford, Andrew Farkas, David Welch, Tim Jones-Yelvington, and more.

$3 beer specials and 17 beers on tap.

7:30pm-12:00am @ Delaney's Bar/Celtic Tavern
1801 Blake St.

Directions: http://tinyurl.com/yg7xcy6
The bar's web site: http://www.celtictavern.com/modules/wfchannel/

AWP: Božičević, Loden, Greenstreet, Belz, King, Greenberg, Livingston, Holmes, and others, April 9, 2010, Denver, CO

AWP Offsite Reading: Meadowlark Poetry Marathon

Tarpaulin Sky Press author Ana Božičević joins Rachel Loden, Kate Greenstreet, Aaron Belz, Amy King, Arielle Greenberg, Daniel Borzutsky, Amy Guth, Susan Schultz, Peter Davis, Chad Parmenter, Katie Degentesh, Geoffrey Gatza, Janet Holmes, Tony Trigilio, Julie Dill, Tony Robinson, Ben and Sandra Doller, Steven D. Schroeder, Reb Livingston, and others.

Poetry readings followed by disco dance party!

7:00PM-9:00PM
2701 Larimer St., Denver 80205
Free

Website: http://www.meadowlarkbar.com

AWP: Connor, Florian, Howard, Hunt, Saterstrom & more, April 9, 2008, Denver, CO

Astrophil Press AWP Reading and After Party

Tarpaulin Sky Press peeps Traci O Connor, Sandy Florian, Joanna Howard, Laird Hunt, and Selah Saterstrom join superstars Keith Abbott, David Gruber, and Brett Eugene Ralph

7:00 PM@Hi-Dive
7 South Broadway
Free
Music: To Be Announced

Sponsored by TSky Editor Duncan B. Barlow's Astrophil Press, and TSky authors Johannes Göransson's and Joyelle McSweeney's Action Books

AWP: DiBello, Massman, Zornoza & more, April 8, 2009, Denver, CO

AWP Offsite Reading

Dazzle Restaurant and Lounge
930 Lincoln Street
Free Event- No Passes Required
10:30 p.m.- 1 a.m.

TSky Press authors Gordon Massman and Andrew Zornoza join TSky Staffer Megan DiBello, along with other great readers for Fact-Simile, Monkey Puzzle Press, Fast Forward, Bombay Gin, and Zero Ducats.

More details TBA.

AWP: Short, Cohen, Gabbert, Greenstreet, Foley, Magers, Marks, Salerno, Starkweather, Stucky, Ogden, and Tonelli, April 8, 2010, Denver, CO

AWP Offsite Reading:
"HISTORIC FALCON"
6:30PM-9:00PM @ Mercury Cafe
2199 California Street
(walking distance from the conference)
Free and open to the public

Poets include Tarpaulin Sky Press authors Kim Gek Lin Short and Shelly Taylor, TSky contributors Justin Marks and Sam Starkweather, as well as Linnea Ogden, Julia Cohen, Brian Foley, Elisa Gabbert, Kate Greenstreet, Dan Magers, Christopher Salerno, Janaka Stucky, and Chris Tonelli.

Hosted by Birds, LLC, Brave Men Press, Harp & Altar, Immaculate Disciples Press, Mississippi Review Poetry Series, and New Issues Press.

AWP: Božičević, King, Glenum, and others, April 7, 2010, Denver, CO

AWP Offsite Reading:
Dusie Pussipo Stonecoast Femiganza

Tarpaulin Sky Press authors Ana Božičević and Lara Glenum, along with Tarpaulin Sky Journal contributors Amy King, Cara Benson, and Cheryl Pallant, join Bronwen Tate, Ann Bogle, Jennifer Karmin, Marthe Reed, Annie Finch, Mackenzie Carignan, Danielle Pafunda, Deborah Poe, Teresa Carmody, Kate Durbin, Megan Volpert, Sarah Rosenthal, Krystal Languell, K. Lorraine Graham, Carmen Gimenez Smith, Robin Reagler, Shanna Compton, Deb Marquart, Elizabeth Searle, and Mel Nichols.

7:00PM-10:00PM @ Packing House Center for the Arts
835 E. 50th Ave.

Cost: FREE! Everybody welcome!
Website: http://controlgroupproductions.org/

AWP: Short, Florian, Carter, Denrow, Vogel, and Others, April 7, 2010, Denver, CO

AWP Offsite Reading featuring: Kim Gek Lin Short, Sandy Florian, Roxanne Carter, Jennifer Denrow, and Danielle Vogel, and writers from Fact-Simile.

Translations Gallery
1743 Wazee Street
Denver, CO
5:30-7:30 PM


Hosted by Tarpaulin Sky Press, Fact-Simile, and Sidebrow Books.

Boully & Zambreno: April 3, 2010, Chicago, IL

Red Rover Series
{readings that play with reading}

Experiment #35: Fairy Tales
Featuring Jenny Boully & Kate Zambreno
Curated by Laura Goldstein and Jennifer Karmin.

7pm / doors lock 7:30
at Outer Space Studio
1474 N. Milwaukee
Chicago, Illinois
suggested donation $4

Schedule for events: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/redroverseries

Božičević: March 27, 2010, NYC, NY

2nd Annual New York Rainbow Book Fair

The event will be held at The Center for Gay and Lesbian Studies(CLAGS)
at CUNY, City University of New York
365 Fifth Avenue, on the concourse level of the B. Altman Building
at 34th Street in Manhattan
11am-5:30pm

http://rainbowbookfair.org/

Gartung, Georgiou, Geenstreet, & Peet: March 20, 2010: Albany, NY

TSky Press Editors Elena Georgiou and Christian Peet, reading with Carl Gartung and Kate Greenstreet
Yes! Reading Series
Hosted by Colie Collen
7:30PM @ the Social Justice Center
33 Central Ave. Albany, NY
Yes! Series is sponsored by Jawbone & GSO

Apps, Buuck, Dworkin, Ifland, Mohammed, Nealand, Place, Queyras, Spahr: March 12-13, 2010, UCSC, CA

Conference: Reimagining the Poet-Critic: Practice, Pedagogy, Poetics



Featuring TSky peeps Eireene Nealand and Juliana Spahr, along with Stan Apps, David Buuck, Craig Dworkin, Alta Ifland, K. Silem Mohammed, Vanessa Place, Sina Queyras, and Brian Kim Stefans, among others, this conference invites participation in a series of dialogues about the role of the poet-scholar, and consists of six panels with three papers and invited respondents; a pedagogy colloquium; and poetry readings. Click here for complete conference details.

Conference Schedule

Daytime Panels: Humanities 210, UCSC

Friday, March 12

9-9:30am:Welcome address by conference organizers

9:30-11am:
Panel 1: Historicizing the Poet as Intellectual: Respondent David Lau
Evan Kindley, Juliana Leslie, Jacqueline Weeks

11am-12pm:Lunch and Informal Poetry Reading

12-1:30pm:
Panel 2: Poetics and Reading Methodologies: Respondent Juliana Spahr
Amanda Lim, Alta Ifland, Surya Parekh

2-3:30pm:
Poetry in the Classroom: Pedagogy Colloquium: Moderated by Kasey Mohammed. Confirmed Panelists: Micah Perks, Karen Yamashita, David Buuck

4-5:30pm:
Panel 3: Poetic Epistemologies and Alternative Forms of Scholarship: Respondent Sina Queyras
Stan Apps, Zachary Caple

7:30-9pm:
Evening Poetry Readings: Felix Culpa Gallery, Downtown Santa Cruz
Place, Dworkin, Wilson, Mohammad

Saturday, March 13

Please bring a lunch to campus as food vendors are closed or have limited hours. (See blog for suggestions.)

10:30am-12pm:
Panel 4: Writing and Thinking Between Genres: Respondent Vanessa Place
Lily Robert Foley, Emily Carr and Erin Wunker, Adrian Acu

12-1pm: Lunch and Informal Poetry Reading

1-2:30pm:
Panel 5: Poetic Conceptualisms and Poetic Productions: Respondent Craig Dworkin
Brian Kim Stefans, Keegan Finberg, David Buuck

3-4:30pm:
Panel 6: Poetry and Pedagogy: Respondent: Rob Wilson
Rebekah Edwards, Walter Lew, Eireene Nealand

6:30-8pm:
Evening Poetry Reading: Felix Culpa Gallery, Downtown Santa Cruz
Lau, Spahr, Queyras

Sponsored by the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment, The Center for Cultural Studies, with co-sponsorship by Cowell College, Literature Department, and Kresge College at UCSC. Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research, UCSC.

Christle, Hart, Pritts, and Donato: March 7, 2010, Providence, RI

Heather Christle, Claire Donato, Matt Hart, and Nate Pritts read at the Cousins Reading Series.

6:30pm @ Abe's Bar
302 Wickenden St.
Providence, RI

Božičević: March 5, 2010, Long Island, NY

Ana Božičević reading at Peacesmiths Coffeehouse
First United Methodist Church in Amityville
25 Broadway Ave
Long Island, NY
8pm
$7 cover
http://peacesmiths.wordpress.com

Benson & Pritchett: March 5, 2010, Albany, NY

Cara Benson and Patrick Pritchett
Yes! Reading Series
Hosted by Colie Collen
7:30pm @ Dove Coat Gallery
306 Hudson St.

Puckett, Cohen, Day, Fagerhaugh, Gardner, Gomez, Jensen, Langlois, McKeehen, Peck, Rainey & Roehl: March 3, 2010, Oakland, CA


Contingency: Reading Between the Genres



A night of readings that incorporates both critical and creative work.



Featuring: Michelle Puckett, Raphael Cohen, Meg Day, Noel Fagerhaugh, Leigh Gardner, Shelley Gomez, Marjorie Jensen, Jessica Langlois, Shannon McKeehen, Monica Peck, Heather Rainey, Emily Roehl AND a selection of artist books



March 3, 2010, 5:30-7:00 pm

Mills College Art Museum

Contact Emily Roehl: eroehl@mills.edu

Admission is free.



This cross-genre reading event takes a look at the idea of "place." Each reader will present a short text in conversation and conjunction with the text of another reader. Together, we will chart new courses and stake new claims to the places that define and elude us.

Zornoza: February 21, 2010, NYC, NY

Andrew Zornoza & Risa Miller
KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street
New York City, NY
February 21, 2010
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
http://kgbbar.com/

The KGB Bar Sunday Night Fiction showcases the finest in contemporary fiction from new and emerging writers.

Suzanne Dottino/fiction curator, suzanne@kgbbar.com

Božičević, Howe, King: February 20, 2010, Raleigh, NC

So and So Reading Series
Ana Bozicevic, Brian Howe, & Amy King
8pm @ Morning Times Cafe
10 E. Hargett St.
Raleigh, NC, 27601
919.836.1204
soandsopoetry@gmail.com

Card, Downing, Ives: February 18th, 2010, New York, NY

LAUNCH PARTY + READING

Macgregor Card: Duties of an English Foreign Secretary (Fence Books)
Brandon Downing: Lake Antiquity (Fence Books)
Lucy Ives: Anamnesis (Slope Editions)

6:30-8:30pm @ P.P.O.W. Gallery
511 West 25th NYC

Drinks & Music; New Discounted Books for Sale; Gallery Night

Cook, Dorholt, and Thompson: February 5, 2010, Albany, NY

YES, READING!
Aidan Thompson, Thomas Cook & Tyler Flynn Dorholt
7:30 pm @ the Social Justice Center
33 Central Ave

Hosted by Colie Collen, James Belflower, Anna Eyre, and Natalie Knight.

Aidan Thompson is the author of two books of poetry, Particle and Probability (Potes & Poets Press, 2002) and a chapbook, So Earnest to Have a Green Point (Palimpsest Press, 2006). Her recent work has appeared in Tarpaulin Sky, P.F.S. Post, Sous Rature, and Bay Poetics, the Faux Bay Book.

Tyler Flynn DorhoIt’s manuscript, Have the Hands Back, was a 2009 finalist at Black Ocean Press. Recent poems, films, and reviews of his appear or are forthcoming in Action Yes, American Letters & Commentary, Denver Quarterly, H_NGM_N, Zoland Poetry, and others. Visit him at dorholtt.wordpress.com. He lives and paints in Manhattan.

Thomas Cook’s poems have recently appeared in New Orleans Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Action Yes, Columbia Poetry Review, Lamination Colony, and Quarterly West among others. His most recent chapbook is Anemic Cinema (horse less press).

Thomas Cook and Tyler Flynn Dorholt are co-editors and publishers of the journal Tammy. Work from Monster: a Glottochronology, a collaborative manuscript, appears or is forthcoming in Alice Blue, Spinning Jenny, horse less review and Qarrtsiluni.

Božičević & Conrad: February 4, 2010, Pomona, NJ

Ana Božičević with CA Conrad

8PM@Stockton College
Alton Auditorium
Pomona NJ

Puckett, Gevirtz, Fraser, Phillips, Going, Reid, Moriarty, Robinson, Frank, Saidenberg, Cole, & Others: January 28, 2010, San Francisco, CA

Kelsey Street Press 35th Anniversary Reading

Michelle Puckett, Susan Gevirtz, Kathleen Fraser, Francis Phillips, Dale Going, Laurie Reid, Laura Moriarty, Elizabeth Robinson, Thaisa Frank, Jocelyn Saidenberg, Norma Cole, Nellie Wong, Rena Rosenwasser, Hazel White, Pat Dienstfrey, Tiff Dressen, Ramsay Breslin, Amber DiPietra, Val Witte & Lauren Levin read.

Come celebrate 35 years of innovative writing by women with snacks and bargain KSP books!

7:30 @ Books and Bookshelves
99 Sanchez Street
San Francisco, CA
Free and open to the public

http://www.kelseyst.com/news/

Puckett, Gevirtz, Gomez & Jones: January 26, 2010, Oakland, CA

Works in Progress Reading Series

Michelle Puckett, Susan Gevirtz, Shelly Gomez, and Nathan Jones
5:15 in the Bender Room, Mills College
5000 MacArthur Blvd
Oakland, CA
Free and open to the public
Light refreshments provided
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/event.php?eid=259860614086&ref=ts

Chapman, Doxsee, & Ramke: January 22, 2010, Denver, CO

Octopus Books Presents:
J'Lyn Chapman, Julie Doxsee & Bin Ramke
Poetry Reading at The Dikeou Collection
6:30 PM
1615 California Street (at 16th Street), Suite 515

Please join us for this reading to celebrate Bin Ramke's newest book & Julie Doxsee's return to Denver.

J'Lyn Chapman holds a PhD from the University of Denver, where she studied text and image in the work of W.G. Sebald. She is the Graduate Academic Advisor and a lecturer at Naropa. As a writer, J'Lyn is working on a series of lyrical essays about sorrow and memory as well as a critical essay on images and text. Her work can be found in Sleepingfish, Fence, Thuggery & Grace and Conjunctions. Her chapbook, Bear Stories, was published by Calamari Press.

Julie Doxsee holds a PhD in English and Creative Writing from the University of Denver. Recent publications include Undersleep from Octopus Books 2008 and Objects for a Fog Death forthcoming in 2010 from Black Ocean. She currently lives in Istanbul on the European shores of the Bosphorus, in a village once known as a summer retreat for Ottomans on holiday. She teaches creative writing, academic writing, and literature courses at Koc University, a private university near the Black Sea.

Bin Ramke's most recent book is Theory of Mind: New and Selected Poems from Omnidawn. He edits the Denver Quarterly and is on the English Department faculty at the University of Denver, and also at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

For more information contact Mathias Svalina: mathias[DOT]svalina[AT]gmail[DOT]com
Octopus Books: www.octopusbooks.net
Octopus Magazine: www.octopusmagazine.com

Ruocco & Rossell: January 21, 2010, San Francisco, CA

Joanna Ruocco & Broc Rossell

7 pm@ Adobe Book and the Back Room Gallery
3166 16th St.
San Francisco, CA, 94175
(415) 864-3936

Brown & Trivedi: January 20, 2010, Athens, GA

Lily Brown & Amish Trivedi
Reading at the University of Georgia
Hosted by Michael Tod Edgerton
7pm @ Park Library
261 Park Hall
Sanford Dr. at Baldwin
Free and open to the public.
Contact: mtedgerton@tarpaulinsky.com

Lily Brown's first book, Rust or Go Missing, is forthcoming from Cleveland State University Poetry Center. Her poems have appeared in Fence, Pleiades, and Denver Quarterly, among other journals. Her chapbook, Old with You, is available from Kitchen Press.

Amish Trivedi is available for children's parties and your dog's wedding. Poems of his have appeared in the Backwards City Review, La Petite Zine, and his chapbooks are available from Beard of Bees and Cannibal Press, which has just released his newest collection, Museum of Vandals. An MFA candidate at Brown University, he lives in Providence, RI.

Zornoza, Arsenault, & Gaylord: January 19, 2010, Wilton, CT

Andrew Zornoza, Emily Arsenault, & Joshua Gaylord
First Book Authors: Panel Discussion
Moderated by Megan Smith-Harris
7pm @ Wilton Library
137 Old Ridgefield Road

Wilton, CT 06897-3000
Free and open to the public.
Registration recommended.
Contact: (203) 762-3950


Three new authors with recently published first books talk and read from their works and discuss their writing process and publication experiences. The three authors are: Emily Arsenault, whose book The Broken Teaglass was accepted for publication while she was working at the Wilton Library; Andrew Zornoza, with Where I Stay and Joshua Gaylord, Hummingbirds . Talk moderated by local documentary filmmaker and writer Megan Smith-Harris.

Strand & St. John: January 15, 2010, Chicago, IL

Julie Strand & Cindy St. John
Reading at Quimby's
Presented by Dancing Girl Press
7pm
1854 W. North
Chicago, IL
773.342.0910

Chapbook publisher Dancing Girl Press presents readings by poets Cindy St. John (People Who Are in Love Will Read This Book Differently) and Julie Strand (The Mae West Defense).

Peet: January 5, 2010, Goddard College, Plainfield, VT

Visiting Alum Series: Christian Peet
Reading followed by Q & A & signing
7pm @ the Haybarn
123 Pitkin Road

Christian Peet is the author of Big American Trip (Shearsman Books, 2009) and two chapbook-installments of his ongoing project The Nines, "Pluto: Never Forget," forthcoming from Interbirth Books, and "The Nines (Book 1)," from Palm Press. His work is included in the anthology, A Best Of Fence: The First Nine Years, and appears in journals such as Action Yes, Denver Quarterly, Drunken Boat, Octopus Magazine, and SleepingFish, among others.