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Bernard Welt
Colby Caldwell
BLK w/BEAR (JS Adams + Doug Polin)

Big Bear Cafe
1700 First St NW
Washington DC

Thursday, May 29 8 pm

Breathalyzer in Publishers Weekly

Breathalyzer
K. Silem Mohammad. Edge (SPD, dist.), $15 paper (80p) ISBN 978-1-890311-23-0

Mohammad's methods place him (with Katie Degentesh, Gary Sullivan and others) in the recent school of poets called Flarfists, who derive their work from Internet searches and treasure outlandish “bad” or tasteless lines. After three books and countless provocative posts on his popular blog, lime-tree.blogspot.com, Mohammad may no longer count as an enfant terrible, but his poetry retains its destructive force. Sometimes baffling, often offensive, on occasion ingenious, Mohammad highlights cheesy, clunky or trashy locutions in a frontal attack on our notions of poetic craft, culture and taste. His works can morph into perverse self-portraits: “some people think I'm a gluttonous porcine/ furry man-killing goldmine made of sweet gold.” Some titles mock icons of culture as in the parodies of Frank O'Hara with which the volume concludes. Others pile on such celebrities as Celine Dion or try hard to violate taboos (“Mom forced me to drink her shimmering oriole juice”). Sometimes Mohammad attacks both sense and grammar: “subtext beef guilt philanthropy blanket/ titanium seagull prong.” The outlandish vagaries of Mohammad's new work will stoke the fires of those who have found thrills and controversy in Flarf so far. (May)

Breathalyzer

by K. Silem Mohammad

80 pgs, cover design by Anne Boyer

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Sunday, May 18, 3:00 pm
Shanna Compton, Wade Fletcher, and Kevin Thurston
@ DC Arts Center

2438 18th Street in Adams Morgan
(south of Columbia Rd. on the west side of the street)
All readings are on third Sundays at 3 PM, Admission $3, FREE for DCAC members

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Blaster Al Ackerman, Jessica Smith, Morgan Schuldt
Saturday May 17 8 pm
CARRIAGE HOUSE
2225 Hargrove Street
Baltimore, MD. 21218

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Game & Match

THE ST. MARK'S BOOKSHOP READING SERIES

Thursday, May 15th
Brandon Downing (Dark Brandon), Michael Scharf (For Kid Rock/Total Freedom) and Amy Boaz (A Richer Dust )

Thursday, May 29th
National Book Award nominee Lydia Davis, (Varieties of Disturbance ) Lewis Warsh (Inseparable) and Ange Mlinko (Starred Wire)

@ Solas Bar
232 E. 9th Street
(between 3rd and 2nd Aves)
7:30PM sharp

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Saturday, May 3rd 8 pm

CARRIAGE HOUSE
2225 Hargrove Street
Baltimore, MD 21218