Critical Cities on Petroleum Hat

Petroleum Hat is a collection of odd fragments that takes on the glittering surfaces of mediated culture in a combination of chance-generated spontenaeity and constructedness, resulting in a poetics which tries to take on contemporary media culture on its own terms rather than from the position of “poetry” that expresses “sincere emotions”.

All about Flarf.

Podcast at poetryfoundation.org featuring interviews & readings.

Laura Moriarty on Deed at A Tonalist

i.e. reading series

CHRIS MASON DAVID BEAUDOUIN BERNARD WELT

Saturday, December 1st - 8 pm

CARRIAGE HOUSE
2225 Hargrove Street
Baltimore, MD 21218

Deed

Now available from U Iowa Press.

To order from Bridge Street Books email rod@bridgestreetbooks.com w/ your address and cc#. Or, if you prefer, we'll bill you. It's $16 postpaid.

Also just out, in the same series, Complex Sleep, by Tony Tost.

Bar Rouge 11/26 8 PM

Monday, November 26th, 8:00 p.m.

Laurel Snyder, Hugh Behm-Steinberg,
Rod Smith, and Mel Nichols

Bar Rouge
1315 16th Street NW Washington, DC

Smith/Davies @ DCAC, 11/18

I N Y O U R E A R R E A D I N G S E R I E S
@ District of Columbia Arts Center
3:00PM, Sunday, November 18, 2007

KEVIN DAVIES
&
ROD SMITH

Admission is $3.00.

District of Columbia Arts Center is located at 2438 18th Street NW in Adams Morgan, Washington, DC, between the Dupont Circle and Woodley Park metro stations. For directions, see the DCAC web site at http://www.dcartscenter.org/plan_location.htm

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Swensen/Phillips @ Georgetown, Thurs 11/15

Lannan Literary Series
Thursday, November 15th.

CARL PHILLIPS
&
COLE SWENSEN

Georgetown University, 37th & O Streets NW
Seminar: ICC Bldg Room 462, 5:30PM
Reading: Copley Formal Lounge, 8:00PM

Amanda Hess at The City Paper on Deed

“There’s no comment on that one,” says Smith. “It doesn’t seem to need one.”

New Bloof

Drunk by Noon by Jennifer L. Knox +
For Girls (& Others) by Shanna Compton
for $25 plus shipping

Comp. is back in print!

Click to paypal it for $11. That's $4 bucks off the retail, postpaid.

& remember:

"The unconscious is structured like a Shriners convention."