It did not sit well with parents.

Conrad/Nichols/Sherlock i.e. series 6/6

the i.e. reading series welcomes
CA CONRAD - MEL NICHOLS - FRANK SHERLOCK

Saturday, June 6th-
8 pm at

LOF/t
120 W. North Ave.
Baltimore, MD 21201

Linh Dinh in the Times

Poetry Time at Space Space, 5/30, 8 pm

don't forget
ROD SMITH
CORINA COPP
SCOTT ZIEHER
MRIGAA SETHI
+VIDEOS
BY BRANDON DOWNING

This Saturday
May 30
8pm
390 Seneca Ave. Ridgewoood, Queeens
Corner of Seneca & Stanhope
Entrance on Stanhope
3 blox from the DeKalb L
Beer
Poetry
Movies

http://www.poetrytimeatspacespace.blogspot.com

Saturday, May 23rd, 7 PM
The Tangent Reading Series
Jen Coleman, Mel Nichols, & Rod Smith
at Clinton Corner Cafe
21st & SE Clinton Avenue, Portland

O Oregon

Crater Lake, Kaia & the chickens, & Kasey's duck . . .

O uncontrollable!

Ashland Readings

Tuesday, May 19th, 7 PM
West Wind Review 2009 Release Party / An Evening of Flarf
Nada Gordon, K Silem Mohammad, Mel Nichols, Rod Smith, & Gary Sullivan
Bohemia Gallery
552 'A' Street in Ashland (new location!)
$10 (suggested donation)
free for students

Wednesday May 20th, 7 PM
EMERGENT FORMS: A 21st-CENTURY READING SERIES
Mel Nichols & Rod Smith

Panel & Reading For The Collected Jack Spicer

My Vocabulary Did This To Me: Panel & Reading For The Collected Jack Spicer

May 15, 2009
6:30 pm
8:00 pm
Friday

This special event is to honor seminal West Coast poet Jack Spicer (1925-1965). My Vocabulary Did This to Me (edited by Peter Gizzi and Kevin Killian) is a landmark publication of this essential poet’s life work, and includes poems that have become increasingly hard to find.

6:30pm: Panel in the Parish Hall with Dodie Bellamy, Samuel R. Delany, Kevin Killian, Jennifer Moxley & George Stanley. Moderated by Kevin Killian.

8:00pm: Reading in the Sanctuary with Dodie Bellamy, Anselm Berrigan, Julian T. Brolaski, CAConrad, Samuel R. Delany, Peter Gizzi, Kevin Killian, Basil King, Douglas A. Martin, Deborah Remington, Harris Schiff, Rod Smith, George Stanley, Lewis Warsh & Karen Weiser.

The Poetry Project at St Mark's Church, NYC
Co-presented with Poets House.

Nealon & Lerner at Bridge Street 5/10 7 PM

THE EDGE READING SERIES
at BRIDGE STREET BOOKS presents

Sunday, May 10th, at 7 PM

BEN LERNER
&
CHRIS NEALON

Please join us for a reading to celebrate Chis Nealon's new book Plummet! O & this guy Ben Lerner's pretty damn great too!

Chris Nealon is the author of two books of poems: Plummet (just out from Edge Books) and The Joyous Age (Black Square Editions, 2004), as well as Foundlings: Lesbian and Gay Emotion Before Stonewall (Duke UP, 2001). He is currently completing a book of criticism called The Matter of Capital: Poetry and Spectacle in the American Century. He lives in Washington, DC and is Associate Professor in the Department of English at Johns Hopkins University.

Ben Lerner's first book, The Lichtenberg Figures (Copper Canyon, 2004), was a Lannan Literary Selection and was named one of the year's best books of poetry by Library Journal. Angle of Yaw (Copper Canyon, 2006) was a finalist for the National Book Award. A former Fulbright Scholar in Madrid, Lerner co-founded and co-edits No: a journal of the arts. He recently joined the faculty at the University of Pittsburgh.

& if you can't make the reading you can still get your copy of Plummet here: http://www.aerialedge.com/ChrisNealonPlummet.htm

BRIDGE STREET BOOKS
2814 Pennsylvania Ave NW
Washington, DC

ph 202 965 5200

Bridge Street Books is located in Georgetown next to the Four Seasons Hotel, five blocks from the Foggy Bottom Metro Stop it.

UPCOMING READINGS:

Sunday, May 17, 3:00 pm
John Coletti & Buck Downs
@ DC Arts Center

Sunday, June 7, 7:00 pm
Jane Sprague & Diane Ward
@ Bridge Street Books

Tuesday, June 9, 8:00 pm
Buck Downs & Joe Ross
@ Bridge Street Books

Sunday, June 14, 7:00 pm
Bill Berkson
@ Bridge Street Books

Plummet by Chris Nealon! New from Edge.

Plummet
Chris Nealon
ISBN 978-1-890311-29-2
64 pgs, Cover by Liliane Lijn
Design by Justin Sirois
2009

$11.00 direct from Aerial/Edge
(regularly $15)

Bumstead/Fuller i.e. Baltimore, 5/2

the i.e. reading series welcomes

LESLIE BUMSTEAD & HEATHER FULLER

Saturday, May 2nd 8 p.m.
at
LOF/t
120 W. North Ave.
Baltimore, MD 21201
www.loadoffun.net
www.ieseries.wordpress.com

Leslie Bumstead is the author of Cipher/Civilian (Edge Books, 2005). Her most recent work has appeared in New Ohio Reveiw ( /nor) & the anthology Not For Mothers Only (Fence Books, 2007). She lives in Takoma Park, MD.

Heather Fuller’s works include ‘perhaps this is a rescue fantasy’ (Edge Books, 1997), Dovecote (Edge Books, 2002) & Startle Response (O Books, 2005). She is one of five poets featured on the Narrow House Recordings CD titled Women in the Avant Garde. She lives in Fullerton, Baltimore. For more FUN FACTS visit www.startleresponse.com.

Editions Louis Wain is pleased to announce

Editions Louis Wain is pleased to announce the availability of a new chapbook:

Roseland
by Dana Ward
10 pgs, saddle-stapled $4

For a sample from this book, and to purchase it through Paypal, please visit the site: http://editionslouiswain.com/books/

Also available from Editions Louis Wain:
- Necco Face by Michael Carr, Jess Mynes, & Aaron Tieger
- The Collected Typos of Aaron Tieger
*Special Offer* -- get all three publications for $14, see the above link for details.

Catalytic Exteriorization Phenomenon by Mel Nichols, New from Edge Books!

Catalytic Exteriorization Phenomenon
Mel Nichols
ISBN: 978-1-890311-30-8
98 pgs, Cover by the author

Regularly $17.50
$12.00 direct from Aerial/Edge
Free shipping!



Mel Nichols' first full-length collection, Catalytic Exteriorization
Phenomenon, takes its title from an early formulation of Jung's
concept of synchronicity. Imagine an edgy cityish Niedecker-- that
kind of lyric sense, writing from the trash in the street, the storms
among the power lines. Nichols seeks, like much good poetry, to
illustrate and sing the porous, immediate, particular interchange
betwixt inner and outer life. Rob Fitterman writes: "Maybe we had it
all wrong. Maybe it’s all exterior. Maybe certain hierarchies fall
when everything—found and unfound—gets in. Maybe not as things, but as 'as octopus/on the porch/snow/still/now/a comma/a ticket/a timetable.' Or maybe 'We are going to get serious [page break] about project management/we are going to spend a lot of money on project/management software to prove it.' Maybe we are. Maybe Mel Nichols' Catalytic Exteriorization Phenomenon is just that." Nichols is a member of the Flarf Collective. She lives in Washington, DC and teaches Digital Poetics at George Mason University. Her previous chapbooks include Day Poems (Edge), Bicycle Day (Slack Buddha), and The Beginning of Beauty, Part I: hottest new ringtones, mnichol6 (Edge).

Dreyer/Inman @ Bridge Street 4/26, 7 PM

THE EDGE READING SERIES
at BRIDGE STREET BOOKS presents

P. INMAN
&
LYNNE DREYER

SUNDAY, APRIL 26th, 7 PM


BRIDGE STREET BOOKS
2814 Pennsylvania Ave NW
Washington, DC

ph 202 965 5200

Bridge Street Books is located in Georgetown next to the Four Seasons Hotel,
five blocks from the Foggy Bottom Metro Stop it.

UPCOMING READINGS:

Tuesday May 5, 7:30 pm
Corcoran All-Stars
curated by Doug Lang
@ Bridge Street Books

Sunday, May 10, 7:00 pm
Ben Lerner & Chris Nealon
@ Bridge Street Books

Sunday, May 17, 3:00 pm
John Coletti & Buck Downs
@ DC Arts Center

Tuesday, June 9, 8:00pm
Buck Downs & Joe Ross
@ Bridge Street Books

New at Bridge Street in Poetry & Theory

VERSED, Rae Armantrout, Wesleyan, HC 123 pgs, $22.95. "Look -- I'm cooperating! / I can pull myself apart / and still speak"

THE LETTERS OF SAMUEL BECKETT 1929-1940, ed Fehsenfeld & Overbeck, Cambridge, 782 pgs, HC $50. "My dear Tom / The discrepancy between mind and body is terrible."

HEGEMONIC LOVE POTION, Jules Boykoff, Factory School, 104 pgs, $15."Do cops hate puppets?"

THE BOOK OF FRANK, C.A. Conrad, Chax, 150 pgs, $16. "they waited to see what Frank would do"

THE CAVE, Clark Coolidge & Bernadette Mayer, Adventures in Poetry, 70 pgs, $16. "He tells us techniques are disappointed now. Six men in plastic."

BODY LANGUAGE, Mark Cunningham, Tarpaulin Sky, 120 pgs, $14. "Regeneration? It comes and goes."

REASON, FAITH, AND REVOLUTION: REFLECTIONS ON THE GOD DEBATE, Terry Eagleton, Yale, HC 185 pgs, $25. "Knowledge is simply one moment or aspect of our bodily collusion in reality, a moment which modernity falsely abstracts and enshrines."

THE WINTER SUN: NOTES ON A VOCATION, Fanny Howe, Graywolf, 198 pgs, $15.
"My father worked for social justice and was eviscerated."

WE SAW THE LIGHT: CONVERSATIONS BETWEEN THE NEW AMERICAN CINEMA AND POETRY, Daniel Kane, U Iowa, 270 pgs, HC $39.95. Writers and filmmakers discussed include: Anger, Duncan, Creeley, Brakhage, O'Hara, Leslie, Ginsberg, Chaplin, Frank, Warhol, Malanga, Ashbery, Burckhardt, Jarnot, & Reeves.

CENSORY IMPULSE, Erica Kaufman, Factory School, 94 pgs, $15. "time for total reconstruction"

POETRY STATE FOREST, Bernadette Mayer, New Directions, 196 pgs, $17.95. "oops, we're in orono!"

APOCRYPHAL LORCA: TRANSLATION, PARODY, KITSCH, Jonathan Mayhew, U Chicago, HC 222 pgs, $45. An exploration of Lorca's afterlife in U.S. poetic cultures. Includes examinations of the Lorca in/of Hughes, Blackburn, Creeley, Spicer, O'Hara, Duncan, Koch, Rothenberg, and others.

LOVE LESSONS: SELECTED POEMS OF ALDA MERINI, trans Susan Stewart, cloth 130 pgs, $19.95. "There are nights/ that never/ happen."

GIRL SCOUT NATION, Yedda Morrison, Displaced Press, $12.99. "Maybe body?"

HEARTH, Simon Pettet, Talisman House, 178 pgs, $17.95.

NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT: LIFE AND LABOR IN PRECARIOUS TIMES, Andrew Ross, NYU, HC 264 pgs, $27.95.


SOME BESTSELLERS:

THE COLLECTED POEMS OF JACK SPICER, ed Peter Gizzi and Kevin Killian, Wesleyan, HC 465 PGS, $35.
SAGA/CIRCUS, Lyn Hejinian, Omnidawn, 150 pgs, $15.95.
RADICAL VERNACULAR: LORRINE NIEDECKER AND THE POETICS OF PLACE, ed Elizabeth Willis, Iowa, cloth 308 pgs, $39.95.
THE ALPHABET, Ron Silliman, U Alabama, 1062 pgs, $39.95.
COLLAPSIBLE POETICS THEATER, Rodrigo Toscano, Fence, 160 pgs, $19.
THE GOLDEN AGE OF PARAPHERNALIA, Kevin Davies, Edge, 146 pgs, $15.
HUGHSON'S TAVERN, Fred Moten, Leon Works, 88 pgs, $15.95.
ADORNO'S NOISE, Carla Harryman, Essay Press, 182 pgs, $14.95.
PICTURE PALACE, Stephanie Young, 114 pgs, ingrimmus, $15.
BICYCLE DAY, Mel Nichols, Slack Buddha, 32 pgs, $6.
CENSORY IMPULSE, Erica Kaufman, Farfalla, 50 pgs, $10.
50 YEARS OF RECUPERATION OF THE SITUATIONIST INTERNATIONAL, McKenzie Wark, cloth 78 pgs, 30 color illustations, $24.95.
MAXIMUM GAGA, Laura Glenum, Action, 112 pgs, $16.
THE OUTERNATIONALE, Peter Gizzi, Wesleyan, 111 pgs, $13.95.
THE LETTERS OF ALLEN GINSBERG, Allen Ginsberg, ed Bill Morgan,$30.
SICK PLANET, Guy Debord, trans Nicholson-Smith, Seagull, 94 pgs, $16.95.
GRAVE OF LIGHT: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS, Alice Notley, Wesleyan, 366 pgs, $22.95.
NTERVIEW WITH ROBERT CREELEY MAY 1998, interview by Brent Cunningham, Hooke Press, 28 pgs, $10.
NIGHT WRAPS THE SKY: WRITINGS BY AND ABOUT MAYAKOVSKY, ed Michael Almereyda, FSG, cloth 272 pgs, $27.
DEED, Rod Smith, U Iowa, 88 pgs, $16.
GERTRUDE STEIN: SELECTIONS, Gertrude Stein, ed Joan Retallack, U Cal Press, 352 pgs, $19.95.

There are currently two ways to order: 1. E-mail your order to rod@bridgestreetbooks.com or aerialedge@gmail.com with your address & we will bill you with the books. or 2. via credit card-- you may call us at 202 965 5200 or e-mail w/ yr add, order, card #, & expiration date & we will send a receipt with the books. Please remember to include expiration date.

I.e. Series 4/18-- Rae Armantrout, Laura Sims, Valzhyna Mort

April 18- Rae Armantrout, Laura Sims, Valzhyna Mort

The i.e. reading series
is held at

LOF/t
120 W. North Ave.
Baltimore, MD 21201
www.loadoffun.net

Saturdays - 8 p.m.

DCAC in The Washington Post

Written up: Rob Halpern/Ryan Walker reading last month.

Tomorrow:
Sunday, April 19, 3:00 pm
Adam Good & Jon Lee are WE ARE SCIENCE, & Thom Donovan
@ DC Arts Center, 2438 18th Street in Adams Morgan

Armantrout & Nichols 4/17, 8 pm

THE EDGE READING SERIES
at BRIDGE STREET BOOKS

A reading & publication celebration

RAE ARMANTROUT
for Versed from Wesleyan University Press
&
MEL NICHOLS
for Catalytic Exteriorization Phenomenon from Edge Books

Friday, April 17, 8:00pm

Bridge Street Books is located at 2814 Pennsylvania Ave NW-- 5 blocks from Foggy Bottom Metro, next to Four Seasons in Georgetown. Phone 202 965 5200.

UPCOMING READINGS:

Sunday, April 19, 3:00 pm
Adam Good & Jon Lee are WE ARE SCIENCE & Thom Donovan
@ DC Arts Center

Sunday, April 26, 7:00 pm
Lynne Dreyer & P. Inman
@ Bridge Street Books

Sunday, May 10, 7:00 pm
Ben Lerner & Chris Nealon
@ Bridge Street Books

Sunday, May 17, 3:00 pm
John Coletti & Buck Downs
@ DC Arts Center

I like Magic Beans.

Darragh & Kunin Friday 4/10, 8 PM

THE EDGE READING SERIES
at BRIDGE STREET BOOKS

TINA DARRAGH
&
AARON KUNIN

FRIDAY, APRIL 10th, 8 PM

Please join us Friday April 10th @ Bridge Street Books for a reading by Aaron Kunin & Tina Darragh.

Tina Darragh lives in Greenbelt, Md. Her books include on the corner to off the corner, Striking Resemblance, a(gain)2 st the odds, adv. fans - the 1968 series, and Dream Rim Instructions. Her work has been included in numerous anthologies, including the seminal "Language"-oriented anthology, In the American Tree(edited by Ron Silliman).

Aaron Kunin is a poet, critic, and novelist. He is the author of a collection of small poems about shame, Folding Ruler Star (Fence Books); a chapbook, Secret Architecture (Braincase); and a novel, The Mandarin (Fence). He lives in California and is assistant professor of negative anthropology at Pomona College.

BRIDGE STREET BOOKS
2814 Pennsylvania Ave NW
Washington, DC

ph 202 965 5200

Bridge Street Books is located in Georgetown next to the Four Seasons Hotel, five blocks from the Foggy Bottom Metro Stop it.



UPCOMING READINGS:

Friday, April 17, 8:00pm
Rae Armantrout & Mel Nichols
@ Bridge Street Books

Sunday, April 19, 3:00 pm
Adam Good & Jon Lee are WE ARE SCIENCE, & Thom Donovan
@ DC Arts Center

Sunday, April 26, 7:00 pm
Lynne Dreyer & P. Inman
@ Bridge Street Books

Sunday, May 10, 7:00 pm
Ben Lerner & Chris Nealon
@ Bridge Street Books

MELANIE NEILSON & JESSICA GRIM Saturday, April 11th 8 pm

the i.e. reading series welcomes

MELANIE NEILSON & JESSICA GRIM

Saturday, April 11th
8 pm at

LOF/t
120 W. North Ave
Baltimore, MD 21201
www.loadoffun.net

Melanie Neilson is the author of three books of poetry, including: Natural Facts, (Potes and Poets, 1997); and Civil Noir (Roof Books, 1991), and two unpublished collections, Minor to Major (2007), and Magnanimous Horizon (2009).

Jessica Grim’s books include Vexed (online from ubu editions, 2002) which has just been published in print by BlazeVox, Fray (O Books, 1998), Locale (Potes & Poets Press, 1995), and The Inveterate Life (O Books, 1990). Recent work appears in Primary Writing, Exchange Values, and OCHO. She lives with her family in Oberlin, Ohio, where she’s a librarian at the college.

A belated Happy Birthday to Cecil Percival Taylor, born March 15 or March 25, 1929. 80!

Cheryl's Gone @ Big Bear Tonight, 8pm

Rae Armantrout on KCRW

Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided to other Amazon.com readers and reviewers. Your vote will be counted and will appear on the product page within 24 hours.

fyi

The January 26, 2009 Publishers Weekly reviews Orders Is Orders by L. Ron Hubbard in a starred review, that says, "Hubbard's stunning writing ability and creative imagination set him apart as one of the greatest literary figures of the 20th century."

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Upcoming Readings - Raworth! &&

the i.e. series welcomes

TOM RAWORTH
LAUREN BENDER
ROB HALPERN

Saturday, March 7th-
8:00 pm at

LOF/T
120 W. North Ave.
Baltimore, MD 21201
www.loadoffun.net
*

The John Ashbery Poetry Series presents

Rod Smith
and
Ann Lauterbach

Tuesday, March 10
Bard College
Annandale-On-Hudson, NY

Time: 6:00 pm
Location: Olin, Room 102
*

Adam Good
& Jon Lee
present
We Are Science
Saturday, March 14th, 8 pm
Washington Improv Theatre’s annual TOURNAMENT OF THE FIST
The Source
1835 14th St NW
Tckts: $10
*

Experimental Frequencies

Rod Smith (words)
& Obetrol (sounds)

Saturday, March 14, 7:30 pm
Kensington Row Bookshop
3786 Howard Ave
Kensington, MD
*

Sunday, March 15, 3:00 pm
Rob Halpern and Ryan Walker
@ DC Arts Center
*

Sunday, March 22, 7:00 pm
Mark Cunningham, Ann Gorrick, and Maryrose Larkin
@ Bridge Street Books

“Roses are red,
violets are too.
In Soviet Russia,
poem writes YOU!”


Now pure-bred sounds shake all on their own, beaker-speaks for which the only demand in the world
is for words unsown in that world
where field animals
have no language
only evolution
which is a picture
not a history
although it looks like one


dictionary at light’s squeak,
glimpse as skin too instead,
away from things the while
beyond them. chin smidgens.

Steven Zultanski reviews The Golden Age of Paraphernalia at Rain Taxi

MELANIE NEILSON and SARA WINTZ
SEGUE READING SERIES @ BOWERY POETRY CLUB
Saturday, Feb 21, 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
308 BOWERY, just north of Houston
$6 admission goes to support the readers

Melanie Neilson was born in Humboldt, Tennessee, grew up in Southern California, and lives in New York City. She edited Big Allis magazine for many years with Jessica Grim and Deirdre Kovac, and is the author of Civil Noir (Roof) and Natural Facts (Potes & Poets).

Sara Wintz’s writing has appeared in Ecopoetics, Cricket Online Review, Interrobang?!, and on Ceptuetics. She co-directs, with Cristiana Baik, :the press gang:, publisher of Intricate Systems, by Juliana Spahr and One Might, by Karen Volkman. She lives in Brooklyn and works at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center.

Welish & Smith @ Georgetown, 2/19

Please join us at Georgetown University

Thursday, February 19th
a reading and seminar by

ROD SMITH
&
MARJORIE WELISH

Seminar: 5:30PM Room 462 ICC
Reading: 8:00PM Copley Formal Lounge

Marjorie Welish is the author of several books of poetry, including Word Group (2004), Isle of the Signatories (2008) and a limited edition collaboration with James Siena, Oaths? Questions? (Granary Books 2009).

Rod Smith's latest collection, Deed, was published by The University of Iowa Press in the fall of 2007. He is also the author of Music or Honesty, Poèmes de l'araignée (France), In Memory of My Theories, The Good House, The Boy Poems, and Protective Immediacy.

Visit http://lannan.georgetown.edu/ for more information on this and other events in the Lannan series.

UPCOMING READINGS:

DCAC, March 15th, 3 pm
Rob Halpern and Ryan Walker

Bridge Street Books, Sunday, March 22nd, 7 pm
Mark Cunningham, Ann Gorrick, and Maryrose Larkin

Eisenhower, Smith, & Thorson @ DCAC 2/15 3pm

I N Y O U R E A R

@ District of Columbia Arts Center
3:00PM, February 15, 2009

CATHY EISENHOWER
ROD SMITH
&
MAUREEN THORSON

Guest Curator: Doug Lang

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

Happy Thoughts!: The Poetry of Kevin Davies

Happy Thoughts!: The Poetry of Kevin Davies
by Jordan Davis, The Nation

THE GOLDEN AGE OF PARAPHERNALIA by Kevin Davies

NEW!

The Golden Age of Paraphernalia
Kevin Davies

ISBN 13: 978-1-890311-28-5
142 pgs, Cover by Benjamin Friedlander

Regularly $15
$11.00 direct from Aerial/Edge

Click this link to have your copy of this wondrous tome dispatched to the location of your choosing.

Flarf & Folly

Flarf: From Glory Days to Glory Hole
by Gary Sullivan, The Brooklyn Rail

Nada Gordon's Folly
by Mark Wallace, Thinking Again

11/02 J.H. Prynne et Pierre Alferi @ Centre Pompidou

Double Change et les Revues parlées du Centre Pompidou
vous invitent à une lecture de

J.H. Prynne et Pierre Alferi
le mercredi 11 février à 19h30 (précises)
au Centre Pompidou, Petite salle, niveau -1

Entrée libre

J.H. Prynne est, selon Peter Ackroyd, « sans doute le poète le plus impressionnant et le plus doué en Angleterre aujourd’hui, un écrivain qui, à lui seul, a transformé la langue ». Sa poésie, espiègle et austère à la fois, sans êtredirectement politique, accueille le monde contemporain dans toutes ses dimensions et modifie notre regard sur lui en éclairant les choses, par ses glissements de son et de sens, d’une lumière nouvelle. Pas d’entretiens, nul épanchement : sans se cacher, Jeremy Prynne se met peuen avant. Sa venue à Paris est un événement. Il donnera une de ses très rares lectures, où il tentera de faire entendre la « voix du poème », celle du poète étant pour lui un accident biographique sans intérêt. Ses poésies complètes ont été réunies en un volume aux éditions Bloodaxe : Poems (1999, 2e édition 2005). Parmi ses titres récents, Field Notes: ‘The Solitary Reaper’ And Others (Barque Press, 2007) et To Pollen (Barque, 2006)

Pierre Alferi, a publié des poèmes, des essais, des romans, des traductions et réalisé des cinépoèmes et des films parlants. Il a dirigé la Revue de littérature générale avec Olivier Cadiot et la revue Détails avec Suzanne Doppelt, et collaboré à des disques et des performances avec Rodolphe Burger (Kat Onoma). Parmi ses publications récentes, les livres La voie des airs et Des enfants et des monstres (P.O.L) et le Dvd Ca commence à Séoul réalisé avec Jacques Julien (P.O.L / Dernière bande). Pierre Alferi est l’auteur d’une traduction du livre Pearls That Were (« Perles qui furent »), de J.H. Prynne, parue partiellement en 2000 dans la revue Quaderno.

Eisenhower/Nichols/Smith Feb 7 i.e.

The i.e. reading series
Feb. 7- Cathy Eisenhower, Mel Nichols, Rod Smith

L O F Studios
120 W. North Ave.
Baltimore, MD 21201

www.loadoffun.net

Saturdays - 8 p.m.

Picasso & Truth

The Fifty-eighth A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts

Picasso and Truth

Sundays, 2:00 p.m.

The Fifty-eighth A. W. Mellon Lecture
series will be presented by T.J. Clark

March 22: Object
March 29: Room
April 5: Window
April 19: Monster
April 26: Monument
May 3: Mural

". . . be inspired to the point of madness . . ."

Flarf on Studio 360

Franklin Bruno on A Power Stronger Than Itself

Armantrout's Versed

Conrad's The Book of Frank

The best Obama buttons

DISCUSSED: Fifteenth-Century Currency, The Intercontinental Railroad, Geofinancial Space, Earnestly Drinking Cheap Beer, Impossibly Complex Derivatives, The Smell of Volatility and Fear, The Asian Flu, Anticapitalist Bedtime Stories, Predictive Power of Marxism and Socialism, Conjoining Finance Capital to Daily Life, Turtles, etc.

The Return of the Turtle Shelley

Charles Bernstein: Reading at Folio Books, Washington, D.C., 1978, introduction by Doug Lang

Rod Smith: Reading at the University of Buffalo, February 25, 1998

Good Charles B Ear Inn Story over at Pearlblossom

Flarf vs. Conceptual Writing

Sycamore & Fink Dec 2nd 7 pm

Tues 12/2 @ 7 PM

A Reading & Book Party





Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
&
Jennifer Fink


"Sycamore kicks mainstream literature in the teeth."
—San Francisco Bay Guardian

Bridge Street Books
2814 Pennsylvania Ave NW
Washington, DC

202 965 5200

Court Indicts Bush on High Treason Charge

Lacking Control Increases Illusory Pattern Perception

This just in.

Clearing Without Reversal by Cathy Eisenhower, new from Edge Books

NEW FROM EDGE BOOKS


Clearing Without Reversal
Cathy Eisenhower
ISBN: 978-1-890311-27-8
80 pages, Cover by the author
Design by Justin Sirois

$11.00 direct from Aerial/Edge (regularly $15)

We are deceived at every level by our behavior. You are grammar and the city is syntax. This book has the brilliant, vulgar, infinite, intimate, alluring vivacity of the real. If you search these poems for meaning that can be summarized, you will find multiple meanings, all of them capable of confounding any summary by proposing its own opposite, its own doppelganger, its own disguise, its own cohort. Cathy Eisenhower brandishes the whip. The psyche rises as a mist from things that are wet. --Doug Lang

These poems glow in the dark. And are so sharp—("fleet of heart"). And every here word is true—startlingly ordered, uncannily combined, in harsh light—("the time it takes / to wash the fire from your face")—bringing truth back again to beauty—not an easy beauty, but a smart one, hard-won, and permanent. --Cole Swensen

Sullivan on The Sophist

Vitiello's Irresponsibility reviewed at Coldfront by John Harkey

“Establish the minimum and then have just more than it.”

Bicycle Day by Mel Nichols at The Brooklyn Rail

IN MEMORY OF MY THEORIES, SUNDAY NOV 16th, THE LYCEUM, ALEXANDRIA, VA

IN MEMORY OF MY THEORIES

AVANT-GARDE POETRY MUSIC PERFORMANCE

Sunday November 16th 4-9 PM

Organized by &
Featuring Rod Smith
The Washington City Paper's Best Poet of DC

Charles Bernstein
Anselm Berrigan
Croniamantal
Nada Gordon
Tom Raworth
Gary Sullivan
Rodrigo Toscano


Mel Nichols, Chris Nealon, Mark McMorris, Doug Lang, Bonnie Jones
P. Inman, Adam Good, Heather Fuller, Buck Downs, Tina Darragh
Lauren Bender, Michael Ball

The Lyceum
201 S. Washington Street
Alexandria, VA 22314

Hosted by M. Magnus. This event is part of the APAA's Guest Artist series at the Lyceum. Poster designed by Justin Sirois.

Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) -- The Federal Reserve is refusing to identify the recipients of almost $2 trillion of emergency loans from American taxpayers or the troubled assets the central bank is accepting as collateral.

Cockroach sacks dozens of TV reporters in Turkmenistan

Convicted felons are the new black, it would seem.

New Bloof. Warsaw Bikini by Sandra Simonds.

Thanks, everyone

That's Tim Davis, in the orange shirt.

5 poems at LocusPoint

Edited by Sandra Beasley, the DC section also includes five by Maureen Thorson, Ethelbert Miller, and several others.

It Began in Hawaii One Moonlit Night

Video captures machine flipping votes in West Virginia

Can Obama See the Grand Canyon?
By Mike Davis

Why vote for Obama, as opposed to against the Palin-Wurzelbacher ticket?

What's So Heroic About Being Shot Down While Bombing Innocent Civilians?

Or to rephrase the matter slightly: South America.

Hobsbawm on the Financial Crisis

Sunday, October 19, 3:00 pm

Anne Tardos, Stacy Szymaszek, and Doug Lang

@ DC Arts Center
2438 18th Street in Adams Morgan
(south of Columbia Rd. on the west side of the street)

This Sat, Oct. 18th, 4:00, at the Bowery Poetry Club:

Drew Gardner -- poetry, guitar
James Ilgenfritz -- bass

with Ted Pearson

Bowery Poetry Club, NYC
308 BOWERY, just north of Houston

Kareem Estafan reviews Mohammad's Breathalyzer at Sustainable Aircraft.

That’s larger than the GDP of the entire planet, folks.

Consumer credit is the bottom turtle.

Tova Wang interview.

My favorite poem in Issue One is by Tom Jones.

The polls are open.

Googlezon cometh.

Richard Fuld punched in face in Lehman Brothers gym.

the best comment on the "crisis" I've yet heard

"Good morning coalition warship, how do you feel?"

SARAH PALIN IS CREEPY AND DUMBER THAN A BAG OF HAMMERS

We here at Ghostbrain stand by our previous assessment.

& thanks for all the orders for clearing without reversal!

Quote of the day goes to Jean-Luc Godard:
"To be or not to be. That's not really a question."

Cathy Eisenhower & M. Magnus Book Party 10/25

A Better Bailout

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John William Coltrane, Sept 23, 1926 — July 17, 1967

New at Bridge Street

Ordering and discount information at the end of this post.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN #3, ed Mohammad and Boyer, 67 pgs, $5. Luoma, Collum, Hejinian, Apps, Allison, Bellamy, Norodahl, Genusa, Quarles, Koeneke, Bryant, Knox, Davis, Baumann, & McCrary.

GOD'S LIVESTOCK POLICY, Stan Apps, Les Figues Press, 80 pgs, $15. ""The largest mega-church of mom agreeing."

STATE OF THE UNION: 50 POLITICAL POEMS, ed Beckman & Zapruder, Wave Books, 112 pgs, $14. Ashbery, A Berrigan, Caples, Clifton, Coleman, Conrad, P Gizzi, Hillman, Knox, Lederer, Lin, Myles, Ping, Rohrer, &&&.

BILL, Bill Berkson & Colter Jacobsen, Gallery 16 Editions, cloth, unpaginated, $25. "Blood! No doubt about it!"

LANDSCAPES OF DISSENT, Jules Boykoff & Kaia Sand, Palm Press, 128 pgs, $15. "YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN LIBERATED"

GLAD STONE CHILDREN, Edmund Berrigan, Farfalla Press/ McMillan & Parrish, 84 pgs, $16. "This is no ordinary/ a-sexual reproductive/ history of the sponge."

THE YALE ANTHOLOGY OF TWENTIETH-CENTURY FRENCH POETRY, ed May Ann Caws, Yale, 646 pgs, $30. New in paper.

80 BEETLES, Mark Cunningham, Otoliths, 88 pgs, $10. "That his colleagues at the news thought his death was news is indeed an important piece of news."

THE GOLDEN AGE OF PARAPHERNALIA, Kevin Davies, Edge, 146 pgs, $15. "I'm not convinced these candidates exist / let alone deserve Secret Service protection"

SPOOKY AS IT IS W/OUT MEANING TO, Croniamantal (music) Buck Downs (words), CDR, edition of 50 w/ small booklet, $8.

A SICK PLANET, Guy Debord, trans Nicholson-Smith, Seagull, 94 pgs, $16.95. New translations of two texts: "The Decline and Fall of the 'Spectacular' Commodity-Economy," and "The Explosion Point of Ideology in China." The title essay, dating from 1971, is previously unpublished. "When the pitiful masters of a society whose wretched destiny is now discernible . . ."

AREA, Marcella Durand, Belladonna, 90 pgs, $15. "They document it from space."

THE ROUTE, Patrick Durgin & Jen Hofer, Atelos, 198 pgs, $13.50. "I am poor and momentary and resent your guilt"

THE CONSEQUENCE OF INNOVATION; 21ST CENTURY POETICS, ed Craig Dworkin, Roof, 304 pgs, $29.95. Essays by Evans, Bernstein, Rasula, Cole, Biglieri, Ngai, Goldsmith, Stefans, Mohammad, Sullivan, Gottlieb, Sherry, Bergvall, Gilbert, Clune, & Perloff.

PARSE, Craig Dworkin, Atelos, 300 pgs, $13.50. "_Plural Interjection_ semicolon"

THE BIRTH OF BIOPLOITICS, Lectures at the Collège France 1978-1979, Michel Foucault, Palgrave, cloth 346 pgs, $28.95. "In actual fact, the state must be blind to economic processes."

THE LETTERS OF ALLEN GINSBERG, Allen Ginsberg, ed Bill Morgan, Da Capo Press, cloth 470 pgs, $30. "I expect to know this week."

THE OUTERNATIONALE, Peter Gizzi, Wesleyan, 111 pgs, $13.95. New in paper. "Too much spectacle conquers the I."

CITY OF CORNERS, John Godfrey, Wave, 96 pgs, $14. "But it's still only a breast"

3, Ted Greenwald, Cuneiform, 168 pgs, $15. "You're the other / It's personal / You know / You're the other"

CHAOS, TERRITORY, ART: DELEUZE AND THE FRAMING OF THE EARTH, Elizabeth Grosz, Columbia, cloth118 pgs, $22.50. "Framing is how chaos becomes territory."

ABSOLUTELY EDEN, Bobbie Louise Hawkins, United Artists, 90 pgs, $14. "Oh yes, the Romancer means it."

MOTH LIGHT, Mitch Highfill, Abraham Lincoln, 20 pgs, $5. "It was unknown. I love unknowns."

NIGHT SCENES, Lisa Jarnot, Flood, 70 pgs, $13.95. "This is the best way to do things."

WAKE UP: A LIFE OF THE BUDDHA, Jack Kerouac, intro Robert A F Thurman, cloth 146 pgs, $24.95. "But there was no other way; his relationship with the world had to be snapped."

COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL THERAPY, Tao Lin, 104 pgs, Melville House, $14.95. "The hamster lived in Manhattan."

POETRY AS RE-READING: AMERICAN AVANT-GARDE POETRY AND THE POETICS OF COUNTERMETHOD, Ming-Qian Ma, Northwestern, 300 pgs, $32.95. Authors examined include Zukofsky, Oppen, Rakosi, Cage, S Howe, Hejinian, Andrews, and Bernstein.

VERB SAP, Magus Magnus, Narrow House, 72 pgs, $12. "pop-pop-pop"

AETHEL, Donato Mancini, New Star, unpaginated, $21. "Can Poetry Be Matter?"

CHARLES OLSON AT THE HARBOR, Ralph Maud, Talon, 224 pgs, $19.95. "And that's all we get from Clark about this special occasion."

GOODBYE MR SOCIALISM, Antonio Negri in conversation with Raf Valvola Scelsi, Seven Stories, 256 pgs, $15.95. "All of this is extremely dangerous."

RADICAL VERNACULAR: LORINE NIEDECKER AND THE POETICS OF PLACE, ed Elizabeth Willis, Iowa, cloth 310 pgs. $39.95. Dafvidson, Pinard, Sikelianos, Skinner, Penberthy, Robertson, Pritchett, Armantrout, Robinson, Jennison, DuPlessis, Weinberger, Breslin, Waldman, Middleton, & Quartermain.

GRAVE OF LIGHT: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS, Alice Notley, Wesleyan, 366 pgs, $22.95. New in paper. "I think most / Electrical appliances can be repaired via nipple"

/NOR 2 (New Ohio Review), ed Catherine Taylor, 200 pgs, $12. Abel, Beckman, Watten, Nichols, Moriarty, Moxley, Smith, Florian, Foust, Risset, Darling, Bumstead, Cooperman, Halpern, &&&.

ACTIVE BOUNDARIES:SELECTED ESSAYS AND TALKS, Michael Palmer, New Directions, 294 pgs, $19.95. "I'm no longer so sure that this is very different from poetry."

ZONG!, M. Nourbese Philip as told to the author by Setaey Adamu Boateng, Wesleyan, cloth, 212 pgs, $22.95. "the order in destroy"

LA MEDUSA, Vanessa Place, FC2, 488 pgs, $22. "_Cha-ching!_"

HAUNTED HOUSE, Pierre Reverdy, trans John Ashbery, Brooklyn Rail/Black Square, 72 pgs, $15. Reverdy prose from 1928. "From the weight of the sadness that periodically invades our limbs and the world, we can measure all the advantage there would be for us to make public appearances and evolve in an even larger arena. But this is the hard kernal, the resistant part of universal thought--no doubt the tastiest in the Universe."

THE ALPHABET, Ron Silliman, U Alabama, 1062 pgs, $39.95. "Mindshare."

50 YEARS OF RECUPERATION OF THE SITUATIONIST INTERNATIONAL, McKenzie Wark, cloth 78 pgs, 30 color illustations, $24.95. Very Excellent short study focusing not only on Debord but on many often overlooked members of the SI including Constant, Bernstein, Jorn, and Gallizio. "The modern poets led them there."

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FLOWERS OF EVIL, Charles Baudelaire, trans Keith Waldrop, 196 pgs, $16.95.
INTERVIEW WITH ROBERT CREELEY MAY 1998, interview by Brent Cunningham, Hooke Press, 28 pgs, $10.
NIGHT WRAPS THE SKY: WRITINGS BY AND ABOUT MAYAKOVSKY, ed Michael Almereyda, FSG, cloth 272 pgs, $27.
DEED, Rod Smith, U Iowa, 88 pgs, $16.
GERTRUDE STEIN: SELECTIONS, Gertrude Stein, ed Joan Retallack, U Cal Press, 352 pgs, $19.95.
THE BOOK OF MARTYRDOM + ARTIFICE: FIRST JOURNALS AND POEMS 1937-1952, Allen Ginsberg, ed Juanita Lieberman-Plimpton & Bill Morgan, Da Capo, 524 pgs, $17.50.
IT'S GO IN HORIZONTAL: SELECTED POEMS, 1974-2006, Leslie Scalapino, 248 pgs, U CAL, $16.95.
GIRLY MAN, Charles Bernstein, U Chicago, 186 pgs, $15.
BREATHALYZER, K. Silem Mohammad, Edge, 80 pgs, $14.
PPL IN A DEPOT, Gary Sullivan, Roof, 104 pgs, $13.95.
NEW EURPOEAN POETS, ed Miller and Prufer, Graywolf, 402 pgs, $18.
JESS: TO AND FROM THE PRINTED PAGE, Independent Curators Intl, 112 pgs, $29.95.
OURS, Cole Swensen, U Cal, 101 pgs, $16.95. "A garden is a tide."
THING OF BEAUTY: NEW AND SELECTED WORKS, Jackson Mac Low, ed Anne Tardos, U Cal, cloth 460 pgs, $34.95.
THE COLLECTED POEMS OF PHILIP WHALEN, ed Michael Rothenberg, Wesleyan, cloth 872 pgs, $49.95.
THE MISSING OCCASION OF SAYING YES, Benjamin Friedlander, Subpress, 196 pgs, $16.
ABOUT NOW: COLLECTED POEMS, Joanne Kyger, Natl Poetry Foundation, 798 pgs, $34.95.
CONTEMPORARY POETICS, ed Louis Armand, Northwestern, 395 pgs, $29.95.
FELONIES OF ILLUSION, Mark Wallace, Edge, 138 pgs, $15.
NINETEEN LINES: A DRAWING CENTER ANTHOLOGY, ed Lytle Shaw, DrawingCenter/Roof, 336 pgs, $24.95.

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The Collages of John Ashbery

Readings, September

Sept 18 - Cheryl's Gone at Big Bear Cafe, 8 PM
1700 1st St NW Washington DC (at 1st and R)
Croniamantal w/ Rod Smith
Michael Kimball
Danika Stegeman

Sunday, September 21, 3:00 pm at DCAC
2438 18th Street in Adams Morgan
Sam Truitt, Fred Worden & Ken Jacobs

Monday, Sept. 22nd, 12 PM, Fall for the Book at George Mason University
Provident Bank Tent, Outside Johnson Center
Brian Brodeur, Robert Drummond, and Mel Nichols

Thursday, Sept 25, 5:30-6:30 PM, Fall for the Book at George Mason University
The Bistro, Johnson Center
Alec Finlay and Rod Smith

Sunday, September 28, 7:00 pm, Bridge Street Books
2814 Pennsylvania Ave NW, DC
Dina Gatina, Gennady Kanevsky, Ilya Kukulin, and Nikolai Zvyagintsev

SEGUE SERIES FALL SCHEDULE

Give or take 600,000

Mass Media: A Perverted Avant-garde?

John Milton Cage Jr. (September 5, 1912 – August 12, 1992)

Flarf Beat!

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FLARF BEAT!

"Best thought, worst thought"
Vol 1 No 1

Featuring
"A unicorn boner for humanity" by Sharon Mesmer

Your Problems with FLARF

"Mohammad Vs Mesmer"

A review of "Dalek Boner and Steepleflower"

Michael Magee's Latest Apologies

"I Google Myself"

N 49 15.832 - W 123 05.921

Rita Wong | Tyrone Williams | Darren Wershler-Henry | Mark Wallace | Aaron Vidaver | Rodrigo Toscano | Catriona Strang | Brian Kim Stefans | Juliana Spahr | Rod Smith | Colin Smith | Kaia Sand | Lisa Robertson | Judy Radul | Pat O'Riley | Sianne Ngai | Dorothy Trujillo Lusk | Kevin Killian | Reg Johanson | Robert Fitterman | Roger Farr | Laura Elrick | Stacy Doris | Jeff Derksen | Michael Davidson | Steve Collis | Peter Cole | Louis Cabri | Clint Burnham | Jules Boykoff | Dodie Bellamy |

newly commissioned works
readings + talks + panels + performances

the KOOTENAY SCHOOL of WRITING
with VIVO Media Arts Centre

(Editing by Maggie Fox)

the News

Lisa Jarnot will be teaching a class on Bernadette Mayer this Fall.

Gina Myers on Secondary Sound by Justin Sirois

New series in Baltimore -- Los Solos

New Bobbie Louise Hawkins

"The Olympic Games are also, as a matter of record, a fascist spectacle, sustained by global corporatism."

(Harvard Second thoughts)

1. The Rise and Fall of the 'Spectacular' Commodity-Economy
2. The Explosion Point of Ideology in China
3. A Sick Planet

"One man is destined to find out the truth about this inverted world."

Thursday, AUGUST 14TH, 7:30pm
corner of 2nd & Market
Philadelphia