Friday, November 20, 2009

Michael Gizzi at Bridge Street 11/22 7 PM



THE EDGE READING SERIES
at BRIDGE STREET BOOKS presents

SUNDAY
NOVEMBER 22nd
7:00 PM

MICHAEL GIZZI


Michael Gizzi's latest book is New Depths of Deadpan, from Burning Deck Press. He received his BA and MFA from Brown University where he studied with Keith Waldrop. He is also the author of My Terza Rima, No Both, Interferon, Cured in the Going Bebop, Continental Harmony, and many others. Gizzi has edited Lingo magazine as well as Hard Press and, with Craig Watson, Qua Books. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island.

"Cross James Joyce and Jack Nicholson in a high energy construct machine and you have Michael Gizzi's poems." --Lisa Jarnot

"Razor sharp but also rich and generously compelling, Michael Gizzi's poetry lambastes as it celebrates." --John Ashbery

Unfortunately, Anselm Berrigan will not be reading due to illness.

Michael Gizzi at PennSound: http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Gizzi-M.php

BRIDGE STREET BOOKS
2814 Pennsylvania Ave NW
Washington, DC 20007
ph 202 965 5200

Located in Georgetown, next to the Four Seasons Hotel, five blocks from the Foggy Bottom Metro, blue & orange lines.

UPCOMING READINGS:

Sunday, November 22nd, 3 PM
Kate Greenstreet & Karen Anderson
@ DC Arts Center

Saturday, December 5th, 8 PM
M. Magnus, Les Wade, Megan McShea
LOF/t, 120 W North Ave, Baltimore, MD.
http://ieseries.wordpress.com/

Tuesday, December 8th, 7:30 PM
Jennifer Scappettone & Ryan Walker
@ Bridge Street

Sunday, December 13th, 3 PM
Edge Books Twentieth Anniversary Reading
@ DC Arts Center

Monday, December 14th, 7:30 PM
K. Silem Mohammad, Lacey Hunter, Ken Jacobs
@ Bridge Street

Thursday, November 19, 2009

The Ladies of Flarf 11/22 6:30 PM Zinc Bar


Shanna Compton

Katie Degentesh

Nada Gordon

Sharon Mesmer

Mel Nichols

Elisabeth Workman


THIS SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22

6:30pm
Zinc Bar
82 West 3rd Street (btw Thompson & Sullivan)
NYC

$5 donation

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Keith Waldrop Natl Book Award!



Pictured here w/ Rosmarie Waldrop reading in the i.e. series, Baltimore, April 1, 2006. Photo by Michael Ball.

Monday, November 16, 2009

TED BERRIGAN by BILL BERKSON & GEORGE SCHNEEMAN



Cuneiform Press is pleased to announce the publication of Ted Berrigan, a collaboration between Bill Berkson and George Schneeman. Ted Berrigan is an homage to the poet and painter's mutual friend produced as a unique book in real-time at George's studio on St. Marks Place on March 5, 2006. The book is comprised of eight spreads where image and text fuse, bleed off the page and cross the gutter, as well as an afterword by Berkson and a note from the publisher. Handsewn, the dimensions are true to the original. Edition limited to 500 copies.

$20 plus $3.50 shipping in the United States, $10 overseas.
Make checks out to Kyle Schlesinger and post to:

Kyle Schlesinger
Cuneiform Press
UHV / Arts and Sciences
3007 N. Ben Wilson
Victoria, TX 77901-5731

Or direct PayPal to kyleschlesinger [at] gmail [dot] com

Thursday, November 12, 2009

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

3 poems, "The Orin Gates Variations" in the new Critical Quarterly.

It's a special issue on the late work of Godard. Poems from Pura López-Colomé trans Forrest Gander, and Ange Mlinko also included.

Sunday, November 08, 2009

Press Release


"Whether it's her take on issues like unemployment topping 10.2% or her views on flarf poetry, everyone will always wait for the Miley Moment before continuing further discussion."

Saturday, November 07, 2009