'Let Freedom Ring'

'Let Freedom Ring'
Art and Democracy in the King Years, 1954 – 1968

A Literary Symposium and Festival
Georgetown University
April 15, 16, & 17, 2008

Poetry & fiction readings, lectures, & round-table discussions

Amiri Baraka • Jayne Cortez • Michael Eric Dyson
Lawrence Guyot • Vincent Harding • Haki Madhubuti
E. Ethelbert Miller • Sonia Sanchez • Valerie Smith • Eleanor Traylor
& other artists, scholars, and activists . . .

Inman/Orange 4-12

Saturday, April 12, 8:00 pm
P. Inman and Tom Orange
@ Pyramid Atlantic
8230 Georgia Avenue
Silver Spring, Maryland

2008 Holistic Expo & Peace Conference

New @ Bridge Street

Stein, Scalapino, Creeley, Moriarty, Nichols, Mesmer, &&&

Cole Swensen & Thalia Field

i.e. reading series

Saturday, April 5, 8 p.m.

CARRIAGE HOUSE
2225 Hargrove Street
Baltimore, MD 21218

Wow

Look at that schedule for the Church!

Breathalyzer in Time Out New York

"Early in Breathalyzer (Edge, $15), the new book by Flarfist K. Silem Mohammad, we meet vomiting swans, and the volume ends with a guy who'threw up on the sun.'"

Contemporary Russian Poetry @ Bridge St 4/6

We're gonna have a gang o' fun.

Sunday, April 6, 7:00 pm
Evgeny Bunimovich, Elena Fanailova, & Yuli Gugolev
@ Bridge Street Books

Evgeny Bunimovich was born in 1954 in Moscow. He is the author of seven books of poetry, including Yestestvenniy otbor [Natural Selection] (Moscow: MIKPRO, 2001), which won the Moscow Prize in Literature and Art, and, most recently, Yezhednevnik [Daily Journal] (Moscow: OGI, 2006). He is a recipient of the Order of Academic Palms (France) and President of the Moscow International Festival of Poets. As a columnist for Novaya Gazyeta, he won the Best Individual Style in Journalism Prize and the Union of Journalists of Russia Prize. He teaches mathematics, and has authored several textbooks, He is Chairman of the Moscow City Duma Education Department.

Elena Fanailova was born in 1962 in the Voronezhskaya region. She is the author of Puteshestvie [Travels] (St. Petersburg: Severo-Zapad — Mitin zhurnal, 1994), S osobym tsinizmom [With Particular Cynicism] (Moscow: NLO, 2000), Transilvaniya bespokoit [Transylvania is Worrisome] (Moscow: OGI, 2002), and Russkaya versiya [Russian Version] (Moscow: Zapasniy Vykhod, 2005). An English translation of her work is forthcoming from Ugly Duckling Presse. She is the winner of the Andrei Bely Prize (1999) and the Moskovskiy schyot Grand Prize 2003). She works as a journalist for the Moscow bureau of Radio Svoboda.

Yuli Gugolev was born in 1964 in Moscow. He is a translator and the author of two books of poetry: Polnoe. Sobranie sochineniy [Complete Works] (Moscow: OGI, 2000) and Komandirovochnye predpisaniya [Official Instructions] (Moscow: Novoe izdatel'stvo, 2006), which won the Moskovskiy schyot Grand Prize. He works in the regional division of the International Commission of the Red Cross in the Russian Federation.

Location:

Bridge Street Books is located 5 blocks from Foggy Bottom Metro, next to Four Seasons in Georgetown at the end of M street open Monday - Saturday: 10:30am - 9pm Sunday: 12pm - 8pm (202) 965-5200

Electric Possible 4/6

I'm quite pleased to be included in this-- Buck did it a few years ago & wow it was good. Come on out!

El Possible Fifth Anniversary Show
Sunday, April 6
Experimental Voiceworks with Jenny Graf, BLK w/BEAR & Croniamantal

Croniamantal--The resurrection of El Possible's first lab project:: electro-acoustic free improvisors joined with one avant-garde poet. For this incarnation: Jeff Bagato--cheesy keyboard; Amber Dunleavy--theremin; Layne Garrett--guitar, found stuff; Pat Gillis--modular synth; Paolo Vallodolid--cello; Rod Smith--bard.

Jenny Graf--Baltimore based musician (and art professor!) Jenny Graf Sheppard creates vivid, compelling soundworlds using intuitive/primitive homebrewed electronic (including stuff made by Pete Blasser), guitar, and voice. Jenny is one-half the famed noise duos Harrius (with Chiara Giovando, LP on Ehse records) and Metallux (with MV Carbon, recordings on Hanson, Load, and 5RC/Kill Rock Stars). This is a rare solo set, not to be missed!

BLK w/BEAR--Towering drone science from DC's Jim Adams, formed from Voice-o-Graph records and other sound sources. Voice-O-Graph was a "photo booth" type recording station where people could record anything they wanted and get a record out of the machine. Jim will be joined by a cellist and bassist.

$5--all money goes to the artists!
8:00 pm, Sunday, April 6, 2008
Phillips Hall, 801 22nd St, NW
Rm B 120 (in the basement)
(22nd and H Streets/GW Metro)

This morning I have dropped a burden
that was on me for years.

not cool

Picked this up from Ron's blog. Have been pleased by the Amazon "support" for sellers of used etc but this kind of bull is worth noting in terms of where you put your money. Book buyers are pretty sophisticated-- it would be in Amazon's interest to drop this ploy.

New Mark Wallace from Edge Books!

LAUNCH!

Sunday, March 30th, 7 pm
Christina Strong & Mark Wallace
Bridge Street Books
2814 Pennsylvania Ave NW
Washington, DC



Felonies of Illusion
Mark Wallace
ISBN 978-1-890311-26-7

138 pgs, Cover by K. Lorraine Graham
2008

regularly $15
$11.00 direct from Aerial/Edge

Click here to paypal.

Hope

Upcoming Bridge Street Readings

Tuesday, March 25th, 7:30 pm
Noah Eli Gordon & Joshua Marie Wilkinson

Sunday, March 30th, 7 pm
Christina Strong & Mark Wallace

Sunday, April 6th, 7 pm
Contemporary Russian Poetry
from Dalkey Archive Press
Evgeny Bunimovich, Elena Fanailova, & Yuli Gugolev

Plans

Thursday, March 20th, 7pm
Rust Belt Books
202 Allen Street
Buffalo, NY
w/ Jaye Bartell, Jennifer Karmin, Kevin Thurston,
Tawrin Baker, Eric Gelsinger, Jessica Smith,
Deborah Poe, & Barrett Gordon

Friday, March 21, 7 p.m.
An Evening of Flarf,
w/ Nada Gordon, Mel Nichols, Rod Smith, Gary Sullivan
Big Orbit Gallery, 30d Essex St., Buffalo, NY

Saturday, March 22nd
Buffalo Small Press Book Fair
Karpeles Library Museum
453 Porter Avenue
Buffalo, NY
12-6pm

Feast on Mesmer

" . . . to put it baldly: many writers verbally subvert corporate mentalities, but this poetry is outright sabotage."

Happy Anniversary

"George W. Bush is a recidivist war criminal and chronic violator of so many laws that the Center for Constitutional Rights has clustered them into five major impeachable 'High Crimes and Misdemeanors' (under Article II, section .4)

"Scores of leaders of the bar, including Michael Greco, former president of the American Bar Association, and legal scholars and former Congressional lawmakers have decried his laceration of the rule of law and his frequent declarations that signify that he believes he is above the law.
Many retired high military officers, diplomats and security officials have openly opposed his costly militaristic disasters.

"Only Cong. Dennis Kucinich (Dem. Ohio) has publicly called for his impeachment.

"No other member of Congress has moved toward his impeachment. To the contrary, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Dem. Calif.), Rep. Steny Hoyer (Dem. MD) and House Judiciary Committee Chairman, John Conyers (dem. Mich.) publicly took “impeachment off the table” in 2006.

"When Senator Russ Feingold (Dem. Wisc.) introduced a Resolution to merely censure George W. Bush for his clear, repeated violations of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act—a felony—his fellow Democrats looked the other way and ignored him."

--Guess who

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like they say.

March 15, 2008, 8 PM

Cathy Eisenhower & Bruce Andrews

The i.e. reading series
CARRIAGE HOUSE
2225 Hargrove Street
Baltimore, MD. 21218

410-727-1953

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Sunday, March 16, 3:00 pm

Bruce Andrews & Erica Kaufman

@ DC Arts Center
2438 18th St NW
Washington, DC

Ashbery wins The Creeley

RUTHLESS GRIP POETRY SERIES
@ Pyramid Atlantic Art Center
Saturday, March 8, 2008, 8:00PM

SHARON MESMER
& RIC ROYER

i.e.

March 1, 2008- Justin Sirois, Gina Myers, Ken Rumble @ "8 PM"

CARRIAGE HOUSE
2225 Hargrove Street
Baltimore, MD. 21218

410-727-1953

Jullich (Thine Instead Thank) and Smith (Deed) share their verse.

2/27 8 PM Jeffrey Jullich & Rod Smith

St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery
131 E 10th St at Second Ave East Village

Having a Great Time, Wish You Were Here . . .

This foolish
linguistic impediment’s
perennial out-reach
stirs something’s everything (or not)
& is not a fold, more of a squirrel
or finch, more of a
Presto--
once in caught sight
then briars, once
there are those then this
impedimentary inhibition
unlocked, unlow, a filing
away of the correctly exhibitionistic
bread

SOON Productions Presents a Poetry Reading
Featuring Mel Nichols and Rod Smith

Ithaca, NY, 2/23/08: Writers Mel Nichols and Rod Smith will be reading from their work at No Radio Records, 312 E. Seneca St. in downtown Ithaca on Saturday, February 23 at 7:00 PM. The reading is free and open to the public.

DCPOETRY!

BRIDGE STREET BOOKS
FRIDAY FEBRUARY 8TH, 8 PM

JULES BOYKOFF, a publication celebration for his new AK Press book,
BEYOND BULLETS: THE SUPPRESSION OF DISSENT IN THE UNITED STATES

Bridge Street is located in Georgetown next to the Four Seasons Hotel. Five blocks from the Foggy Bottom Metro, blue 7 orange lines. Call 202 965 5200 for more information. Please fwd this announcement to interested parites.

*****

RUTHLESS GRIP POETRY SERIES
@ Pyramid Atlantic Art Center
Saturday, February 9th, 2008, 8:00PM

SEMEZDIN MEHMEDINOVIC
& KAIA SAND

Pyramid Atlantic Art Center is located at 8230 Georgia Avenue in Silver Spring, MD, three blocks from the Metro red line.

Directions: http://www.pyramidatlanticartcenter.org/about/contact.htm

*****

UPCOMING EVENTS:

Sunday, February 17, 3:00 p.m.
Lauren Bender, Jamie Gaughan-Perez, and Adam Good
@ DC Arts Center

Tuesday, February 19
Laura Moriarity & Elizabeth Robinson
Georgetown University
Seminar: 5:30PM 462 ICC, Reading: 8:00PM Copley FL

Quote Comet Dust Seems More Asteroidy Unquote

"Remember the good old days when we understood our solar system?"

I’m happy but boy is there a lot of commotion.

Flash

Our beloved friend Flash passed away January 6th in Virginia. He had been ill for several months but remained loving and present. I've never met another dog who went to so many poetry readings. He will be missed by many.

the i.e. reading series welcomes-

MEL NICHOLS
GRAHAM FOUST
CHRISTOPHER NEALON

Saturday- January 19th - 8 pm

CARRIAGE HOUSE
2225 Hargrove Street
Baltimore, MD 21218

410-727-1953

Upcoming Bridge Street Readings

Sunday 2/3, 7 PM Lisa Jarnot & Eileen Myles

Tues. 3/25, 7:30 PM Noah Eli Gordon & Joshua Marie Wilkinson

Sunday 3/30, 7 PM Christina Strong & Mark Wallace

2814 Pennsylvania Ave, Washington DC

Rod Smith Spring Readings

Sat. 2/2 w/ Lisa Jarnot, i.e. reading series, Baltimore

Thurs. 2/14 w/ Mel Nichols, U. Maine, Orono

Sat. 2/23 w/ Mel Nichols, Ithaca, NY

Wed. 2/27 w/ Jeffrey Jullich, St Mark's Church, NYC

Fri. 3/21 w/ Anne Boyer, Nada Gordon, Mel Nichols, & Gary Sullivan, Rust Belt Books, Buffalo

Thurs-Sat. 4/24-26 Flarfest NYC

Sun. 4/27 w/ Rodney Koeneke, Zinc Bar, NYC

Friedlander @ Pyramid 1/12/08

RUTHLESS GRIP POETRY SERIES
@ Pyramid Atlantic Art Center
Saturday, January 12, 2008, 8:00PM

BENJAMIN FRIEDLANDER

a reading & celebration for

The Missing Occasion of Saying Yes
& Selected Poems 1945-2005 by Robert Creeley

SUCCESS! pdf

David Baratier, Jeffery Beam, John M. Bennett, John Berndt, Dan Breen, David-Baptiste Chirot, Mark Dickinson, David Baratier, Jeffery Beam, John M. Bennett, John Berndt, Dan Breen, David-Baptiste Chirot, Mark Dickinson, Adam Good, Diana Bellessi translated by Cathy Eisenhower, Raymond Farr, Jamie Gaughran-Perez, Amira Hanafi, Jeff Harrison, Amy King, Richard Kostelanetz, M. Magnus, Megan McShea (with John Eaton), a.e.m., Tom Orange, Ross Priddle, Ric Royer, Cole Swensen, Chris Toll, justin sirois, Irving Weiss

Noah Eli Gordon reviews Deed at Rain Taxi

Raworth Christmas Card

Breathalyzer!

Breathalyzer

by K. Silem Mohammad

80 pgs, cover design by Anne Boyer

Click here to order via Paypal.

Regularly $15.00

$11.00 direct from Aerial/Edge


Just out from Edge, K. Silem Mohammad's latest, Breathalyzer-- a stylish, stylized, poetic steroid of a book poised to pulverize your boredom and perilize the aesthetic tendencies of the overly under-aestheticized. It's fun too!

Two rather different reviews of Deed

Joshua Clover in The Nation

Ohio reviews Deed

New @ Bridge Street

Downs/Rothschild @ DCAC

Sunday, December 16, 3:00 pm
Buck Downs & Doug Rothschild
@ DC Arts Center

2438 18th Street in Adams Morgan
(south of Columbia Rd. on the west side of the street)
Admission $3, FREE for DCAC members

Shattered Wig!

ON

Friday, December 7th, 9:30 PM

IT'S

Shattered Wig Night
at The 14Karat Cabaret

WITH

Blaster Al Ackerman
Mel Nichols
Rod Smith
& John Dierker's Quartet Offensive

218 West Saratoga St.
Downtown Baltimore
Maryland 21201
410-962-8565
Doors open at 9:00 p.m.
Showtime: 9:30 p.m.
$6 at door

Sirois/Pringle Ruthless Grip 12/8, 8 PM

Saturday, December 8, 8:00 pm

Kathryn Pringle & Justin sirois

@ Pyramid Atlantic
8230 Georgia Avenue
Silver Spring, Maryland

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."

Andrew Hill-Mal Waldron Duo à Montréal 1988

Jothan Callins - Winds of Change

C A C O N R A D
A M Y K I N G
B R U C E C O V E Y

Saturday, November 3rd at 8 p.m. -

i.e. reading series

CARRIGE HOUSE
2225 Hargrove Street
Baltimore MD
410-727-1953

Rumsfeld Flees France, Fearing Arrest

from Alternet:

Former U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld fled France today fearing arrest over charges of "ordering and authorizing" torture of detainees at both the American-run Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and the U.S. military's detainment facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, unconfirmed reports coming from Paris suggest.

A googlenews search turns up only 20 stories, very few U.S., no major media:
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=&ie=UTF-8&ncl=1122708036

Poetry Daily feature on Deed

The day before was Terry Winch. & a few days before that, Alice Notley. Huh.

Will Alexander

As you may have heard, poet Will Alexander is quite ill with cancer and is undergoing chemotherapy. He's spent his life largely off the poetry grid, taking on odd jobs, and has no financial support or, needless to say, health insurance.

The San Francisco organization Poets in Need is coordinating efforts to raise money for him (and other writers in trouble). You can make a (tax-deductible) contribution to them and send it to:

Poets in Need
PO Box 5411
Berkeley CA 94705

For those around New York, there will be a benefit reading for Will at the Bowery Poetry Club, Thursday November 1, 6-8 pm.

PO E T R Y R E AD I N G

R OB E R T F ITT E R M AN

and

M E L NI CH O LS


Bowery Poery Club 308 Bowery NYC

This Saturday, October 27 4 PM

$5

Giuliani Says U.S. Will Be Prepared for Space-Alien Attack

This is not from The Onion.

New York Times on In the Pines

To write vital poems, Notley has said, “it’s necessary to maintain a state of disobedience against ... everything.” To read such poems requires a similar discipline.

Inman & Champion 10/20, & Graham 10/21

P. INMAN & MILES CHAMPION

Saturday, October 20th, 8 pm

i.e. reading series

CARRIAGE HOUSE
2225 Hargrove Street
Baltimore, MD

&

Sunday, October 21, 3:00 pm

MILES CHAMPION, P. INMAN, & LORRAINE GRAHAM
@ DC Arts Center
2438 18th Street NW
Washington, DC

Celebrating John Ashbery

Folger Shakespeare Library
201 E. Capitol St. SE

November 5th, 2007 7:30PM

Celebrating John Ashbery

John Ashbery's work bends and breaks contemporary structure in search of the reality that exists behind truth, the realities that inform the nature of all things. Folger Poetry celebrates Ashbery's long history in poetry with readings of his work by poets Ann Lauterbach, Ron Padgett, James Tate, and Dara Weir, ending with a reading by Ashbery himself. Co-sponsored with The Poetry Society of America.

Readings include a moderated conversation, light-fare reception, and book sale and signing. Call 202.544.7077 for more information. Tickets are $12.00.

If it is a rose, it will come into bloom sooner or later.
--Goethe

Counterpath Online

2 new guppys of mine there.

Armantrout, Doyle, & Miller 9/23 7 PM

RAE ARMANTROUT
BEN DOYLE
& SANDRA MILLER

7:00 PM, Sunday, September 23rd, 2007

Bridge Street Books
2814 Pennsylvania Ave.
(202) 965-5200

Located in Georgetown next to the Four Seasons Hotel, 5 blocks from
the Foggy Bottom Metro station (blue & orange lines).

Student Tasered for Asking Questions

Doug Lang on Tina Darragh

Nicolas Manning on Nada Gordon

Susan Howe WBAI shows at Penn Sound

the coils go off

The Perfect American

His overheated distilleries moved absentee shins, penetrated infrasonic creameries of fire during divinity's effete, Battle-planed plenitude and excremental, orotund fixating; an alcohol-island of Seagram casement, condensed and burgeoning, unholiness-Fried kidskin.

exactly the shittiest thing that culture can foist on itself

it's a decent few minutes watching a cute animated rat hop about

I AM A BEAUTIFUL MONSTER soon

Dragomoschenko on Creeley

good one!

i.e. reading series 9/1

One of several collaborations with Alexandra Smith, circa 1995.

Rain could dampen lawns

Ron & Flash @ Bridge Street

How has your first book changed your life?

This woman was in love with him.

. . . a rationalized, expansionist, centralized, spectacular and clamorous production faces an entirely different kind of production, called "consumption," that is characterized by its ruses, its poaching, its secrecy . . .

kick yourself

I don’t

The fuzz on

some other

hard
to be
Tarzan

you humiliated

snuffs up

the grease
I love

English Makes You Fat

According to researchers at the Mayo Clinic, speaking English as a second language makes you fat.

Bilingualism was once considered a leading cause of mental retardation. American psychologists in the early twentieth century argued that filling up a child’s brain with a useless immigrant language like Italian or Yiddish meant less room for actual knowledge. They also found a strong correlation between speaking two languages and criminal behavior. Their solution was simple: switch to English, leave the language of crime and ignorance behind, become 100% American, and don’t look back.

speaking of Washington

Here comes George, In Control

also, Doug Lang's DCPoetry Blog