AT THE BOWERY POETRY CLUB

Winter/Spring 2012

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308 BOWERY, JUST NORTH OF HOUSTON

SATURDAYS FROM 4 - 6 PM

$6 admission goes to support the readers

Funding is made possible by the continuing support of the Segue Foundation and the Literature Program of the New York State Council on the Arts.

http://www.bowerypoetry.com/

Curators:

The Segue Reading Series is made possible by the support of The Segue Foundation. For more information, please visit www.seguefoundation.com, bowerypoetry.com/midsection.htm, or call (212) 614-0505. Curators: February-March: Nada Gordon & Corina Copp; April-May:
Chris Alexander & Kirsten Gallagher



FEBRUARY

FEBRUARY 4

LEWIS FREEDMAN & PETER GIZZI

Lewis Freedman lives in Madison where he co-runs the _____-Shaped reading series with Andy Gricevich, with whom he also publishes chapbooks for cannot exist. He is the author of The Third Word, Catfish Po’ Boys, and SUFFERING EXCHANGE WALKS WITH AND.

Peter Gizzi is the author of Threshold Songs, The Outernationale and Some Values of Landscape and Weather. He edited The House That Jack Built: The Collected Lectures of Jack Spicer and co- edited, with Kevin Killian, My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer.

FEBRUARY 11

JON LEON & DOT DEVOTA

Jon Leon is the author of The Malady of the Century (Futurepoem Books, 2012), Elizabeth Zoë Lindsay Drink Fanta (Content, 2011), and The Artists Editions: 2006-2010, which include rare limited editions like Right Now the Music and the Life Rule and Drain You.

The poet Dot Devota is from a family of ranchers and rodeo stars. She is the author of The Eternal Wall (Cannibal Books), Scenes From My Massacre (Urgent Series), and MW: A Midwest Field Guide (Editions 19\). Her poems can also be found in Tarpaulin Sky, Octopus, and Denver Quarterly.

FEBRUARY 18

DAVID BUUCK & ANNE TARDOS

David Buuck lives in Oakland, CA. He is the founder of BARGE, the Bay Area Research Group in Enviro-aesthetics, and co-founder and editor of Tripwire, a journal of poetics. Publications and further info available via davidbuuck.com.

Anne Tardos is a poet, composer, and visual artist. She is the author of several books of poetry, including I Am You and Both Poems, and the multimedia performance work and radio play Among Men. A selection of her readings and performances (many with Jackson Mac Low) can be heard on PennSound and UbuWeb Sound.

FEBRUARY 25

ISH KLEIN & CORRINE FITZPATRICK

Ish Klein is the author of the poetry books Moving Day and Union! (Canarium Press) and the video collection Success Window (Poor Claudia). Her work has screened at festivals and museums around the world; see it here: http://www.youtube.com/user/ishkleinfilms. She and Greg Purcell produce the Noslander podcast: http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-no-slander-podcast/id419725253.

Corrine Fitzpatrick has recently published poetry in Randy Zine, Adventures (edition for the New York Art Book Fair), and VLAK. She is a regular contributor to Artforum’s "Critic Picks" and has a new chapbook forthcoming from Three Sad Tigers Press.



MARCH

MARCH 3

ARIEL GOLDBERG & JAMES HOFF

Ariel Goldberg is an artist and writer. Recent publications include Picture Cameras and The Photographer without a Camera. She is currently working on “The Estrangement Principal,” an essay on the states of queer art, and an epistolary novel, The Photographer.

James Hoff works in a variety of mediums including painting, performance, poetry, and sound. Recent releases include How Wheeling Feels When the Ground Walks Away and Inventory Arousal. He is co- founder and editor of Primary Information, a non-profit devoted to printing artists’ books.

MARCH 10

TRACEY MCTAGUE & JENNIFER TAMAYO

Tracey McTague has officially gone AWOL, and may never return. In her former life, she organized the Zinc Reading Series, and served as the editor and consigliore for Lungfull! Magazine. She is currently investigating the history of NYC through oyster middens.

Jennifer Tamayo is a writer and performer. Her book Red Missed Aches Read Missed Aches Red Mistakes Read Mistakes was selected by Cathy Park Hong as the 2010 winner of Switchback Book’s Gatewood Prize. She serves as the Managing Editor at Futurepoem and lives and works in Harlem.

MARCH 17

K. SILEM MOHAMMAD & RICK WIGGINS

K. Silem Mohammad is the author of Deer Head Nation, A Thousand Devils, Breathalyzer, The Front, and Monsters. In his current project, "The Sonnagrams," Mohammad anagrammatizes Shakespeare’s Sonnets into all-new English sonnets in iambic pentameter.

Detroit native Rick Wiggins is a veteran broadcaster and minor footnote in Motown media history, a member of The Flarf Collective and an accomplished insomniac. His most recent work, What I’m Doing With My Life, is a collection of misappropriations from online dating site profiles.

MARCH 24

RODNEY KOENEKE & JOHN GODFREY

Rodney Koeneke is the author of Musee Mechanique, Rouge State, and a chapbook, Rules for Drinking Forties. Hobbies past and present include flarf, neo-benshi, and Poets Theater. He lives and teaches History to masses of undergraduates in Portland, Oregon.

John Godfrey is the author of a number of collections, most recently Push the Mule, Private Lemonade, City of Corners, and the recent chapbook Singles and Fives. This year Lunar Chandelier will put out Tiny Gold Dress.

MARCH 31

EMILY CRITCHLEY & CARLA HARRYMAN

Emily Critchley’s selected writing, Love / All That / & OK, was published by Penned in the Margins in 2011. She teaches English and Creative Writing at the University of Greenwich, London.

Carla Harryman’s most recent works include a collection of conceptual and experimental essays Adorno’s Noise and, with Lyn Hejinian, the erotic picaresque The Wide Road. "Open Box" is featured in a forthcoming music/text collaboration with Jon Raskin along with several other performances of verbal scores. She lives in Detroit.

 

APRIL

APRIL 7

KIERAN DALY & LANNY JORDAN JACKSON

Kieran Daly is a dramaturgist currently residing in Maine. Recently published work includes PLAYS / FOR THEATER (bas-books, 2011), ANT OF A MISE EN SCENE (Gauss PDF), NUMBER A PLAY (Lulu), and karibaily.tumblr.com.

Lanny Jordan Jackson is an artist, writer, and photo archivist in New York City. He's currently "overseeing" the second installment of Collective Task, a year-long collaborative writing experiment. He also edits and designs a small press, bas-books.

APRIL 14

BRIAN KIM STEFANS & KATIE DEGENTESH

Brian Kim Stefans’s books include What is Said to the Poet Concerning Flowers (Factory School) and Kluge: A Meditation (Roof). His most recent book of poetry is Viva Miscegenation (MakeNow Books). He teaches literature and new media at UCLA and runs the website arras.net.

Katie Degentesh lives in New York City. Her book The Anger Scale was published by Combo Books in Spring 2006. She is a member of the Flarf Collective.

APRIL 14

SIMON MORRIS & CHARLES BERNSTEIN

Simon Morris has been called a literary pervert, philosophically irresponsible and an inspired lunatic. He would like to politely remind the audience that the ears have no lids.

Charles Bernstein is the author of over 40 books, ranging from large-scale collections of poetry and essays to pamphlets, libretti, and collaborations, most recently All the Whiskey in Heaven: Selected Poems (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) and Attack of the Difficult Poems: Essays and Inventions (University of Chicago Press).

APRIL 21

DEREK BEAULIEU & JEN BERVIN

derek beaulieu is the author 10 books, most recently seen of the crime: essays on conceptual writing (Snare 2011). He focusses on concrete and conceptual writing, disjunctive memoir and is the visual poetry editor for UBUWeb.

Jen Bervin’s work brings together text and textile in a practice that encompasses poetry, archival research, artist books, and large-scale art works. Her work is in more than thirty collections including The J. Paul Getty Museum, The Walker Art Center, the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, and the British Library.

APRIL 28

VANESSA PLACE & DIANA HAMILTON

“Vanessa Place” is the new accidental emergence, or, that awkward dream about one’s Mother sitting on the toilet, or, the establishment of the sign. “She” is the new laminated alphabet, the dead author embalmed and killed again —Divya Victor.

Diana Hamilton is the author of Okay, Okay (Truck Books) and Separate Rooms (Harlequin), among others. She has set aside her material concerning emotional expression in order to complete The Descent of Man.

 

MAY

MAY 5

TAO LIN & MATHEW TIMMONS

Tao Lin (b. 1983) is the author of Richard Yates (2010), Shoplifting From American Apparel (2009), and four other books. Vintage will publish his third novel in 2013.

Mathew Timmons’s works include The New Poetics (Les Figues Press 2010), Sound Noise (Little Red Leaves 2010) and CREDIT (Blanc Press 2009). His visual and performance work has been shown at Human Resources Gallery, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Public Fiction, LACE, Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, CCA, ArtSpeak Vancouver, LACMA, and the UCLA Hammer Museum.

MAY 12

STEVEN ZULTANSKI & DANIELLE AUBERT

Steven Zultanski is the author of Pad, Cop Kisser, and Agony. He lives here.

Danielle Aubert is the author of Sixteen Months Worth of Drawings in Microsoft Excel and a founding member of I.T.U. with Lana Cavar. She is a coordinator of the Center for Abandoned Letterhead and the Paper Rehabilitation Project in Detroit.

MAY 19

JENA OSMAN & MÓNICA DE LA TORRE

Jena Osman’s latest book is The Network (Fence Books); her essay-poem Public Figures will be out from Wesleyan at the end of 2012. Lately she’s been researching the origins of corporate personhood as well as the links between phrenology and brain scans.

Mónica de la Torre’s books include two poetry collections published in the US, Talk Shows (Switchback) and Public Domain (Roof), and two others published in Mexico City, Acúfenos (Taller Ditoria) and Sociedad Anónima (UNAM/Bonobos). Her most recent collaborative project is "Taller de Mecanografía."

MAY 26

NO READING