GBV Classic Line-Up Reunites!

New Statesman on the new Raworth

Way

Flarf in the Wall Street Journal
&
"Flark" in The New Yorker

to be tricked out that night
with gauds
from imaginations which have

no peasant traditions to give them
character

THE EDGE READING SERIES
at BRIDGE STREET BOOKS presents

Sunday, May 23rd, 7:00 PM

MARK WALLACE
& BRIAN FITZPATRICK

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

****

the i.e. series welcomes

GEOFFREY YOUNG & MARK WALLACE

Saturday, May 22nd 6 p.m.

DIONYSUS
8 E. Preston Street
Baltimore, MD
410-244-1020

It Was Hot And I Touched It. ANTHOLOGY 909 N Dodge. Iowa City
LAMP LIT BACKYARD KEG * Grub @7.30, Reading @8.30

Painting: Ben Estes, Words: Allen G

Reproduced by permission of the estate of the specific Amanda Nadelberg one

Sunday, April 18, 3:00 pm
Dorothea Lasky, Chris Tonelli & Joe Hall
@ DC Arts Center

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

***

the i.e. series welcomes

JUSTIN SIROIS
DOROTHEA LASKY
CA CONRAD

Saturday, April 24th
6 p.m.

DIONYSUS
8 E. Preston Street
Baltimore, MD
410-244-1020

participants

Stan Apps • Oana Avasilichioaei • Mike Basinski • Holly Bass
 • John M. Bennett • Black Took Collective • Sean Bonney • 
Tammy Brown • Mairéad Byrne •  cris cheek • Daniel Citro
 • A.M.J. Crawford • Jordan Dalton • Maria Damon  • 
Ian Davidson •  Ryan Downey • Lara Glenum • Alan Golding
 •  K. Lorraine Graham • Duriel Harris • Carla Harryman • 
Jeff Hilson • Jen Hofer  • Josef Horaçek  • William R. Howe
 •  Jade Hudson • Christine Hume •  Peter Jaeger • Mark Jeffery • Bonnie Jones • Pierre Joris • Adeena Karasick  • KBD sonic collective • Brian Kincaid • A. J. Patrick Liszkiewicz •  José Luna • 
Dawn Lundy-Martin •  Mel Nichols •  Hoa Nguyen • Chris Mann
 • Monica Mody  • K. Silem Mohammad • Laura Moriarty • 
Judd Morrissey •  Erin Mouré • Jason Nelson  • Mel Nichols
 • Tom Orange • Jessica Ponto  • Luke Roberts  • Jaime Robles •
Ric Royer • Linda Russo • Lisa Samuels •  Standard Schaefer
 • Jonathan Skinner •  Danny Snelson • Todd Seabrook  • 
Jessica Smith • Rod Smith  • Kate Sopko • Rodrigo Toscano
 • Lawrence Upton • Catherine Wagner • Mark Wallace  • 
Dana Ward • Barrett Watten • Brian Whitener  • Steve Willey
 • Tyrone Williams • Ronaldo Wilson

POST_MOOT CONVOCATION 2010

The Truth and Life of Myth:
A Robert Duncan Symposium April 22-24, 2010 Chicago

Artist Talk: Ryan Trecartin April 14 & April 15 Sibling Topics (Section A) and P.opular S.ky (Section Ish)

New Jane Gregory from Song Cave

Jacket 39: features on Silliman, Perelman, &&&

the i.e. reading series welcomes

CHRIS NEALON
& KATE WYER

Saturday, April 10th-
6 p.m. at

DIONYSUS
8 E. Preston Street
Baltimore, MD
410-244-1020

POETRY TIME AT SPACE SPACE

THIS THIS THIS
SATURDAY SATURDAY SATURDAY
DANA WARD
ALLI WARREN
BRANDON BROWN
+videos by BRANDON DOWNING
8pm-ish* @SPACEPSPACE
390 SENECA AVE. NYC
CORNER OF SENECA & STANHOPE
3 BLOX FROM DEKALB "L"
Beer
&
Raffle
ALSO ALSO ALSO!!!
*visit the CROWD reading series before hand (just a stone's throw away) and then come to Poetry Time for even more poetry
and more poetry and more poetry
poetrytimeatspacespace@blogspot.com

87 Years Of Salacious Banter!

Help us kick off our month-long celebration of all things Salacious Banter-y, and the 2010 reading season, and like, Spring with:

Rod Smith
Mel Nichols

Saturday, March 27
7pm
Green Gallery East
1500 Farwell Ave
Milwaukee WI 53202


Rod Smith is the author of Deed, Music or Honesty, In Memory of My Theories, and more. Here is a link to his page at Electronic Poetry Center. http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/smithr/smith-bio.html.

Mel Nichols is the author of Catalytic Exteriorization Phenomenon, and Bicycle Day. Here is a link to a work that appeared in the Flarf and Conceptual Writing issue of Poetry. http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=237048

And in the offing:

Dustin Williamson, John Coletti, Jess Mynes -- April 8
Matvei Yankelevich, Lewis Freedman, Zack Pieper -- April 24
BOTH OF THESE ARE TAKING PLACE AT THE OLD SAFFRAN MANSE AT 900 S. 5TH ST. AT 7PM
Brandon Downing & Macgregor Card--May 14th TBA

The Way You Feel About Horses Is the Way I Feel About You
An Anthology

Amy Butcher
Dobby Gibson
Jeff Nagy
Mel Nichols
Taryn Schwilling
Rod Smith
India Sophia Stewart
Michael Thomas Taren

Friday. March 26th 2010. 9:00 pm. Bluebird Diner. 330 East Market St. Iowa City, IA.

Double Change vous invite à une lecture bilingue de

Joshua Clover et Florence Pazzottu

mardi 23 mars 2010 à 19h au Point Ephémère
200 Quai de Valmy – 75010 Paris
Métro Jaurès ou Louis Blanc
Entrée libre

the i.e. reading series welcomes-

LAUREN BENDER
ADAM GOOD
STEPHANIE BARBER

Saturday, March 27th
6 p.m. at

DIONYSUS
8 E. Preston Street
Baltimore, MD
410-244-1020

i.e. reading series

CATHY EISENHOWER
KENNETH JACOBS
ELIZABETH ARNOLD

Saturday, March 20th-
6:00 pm at

DIONYSUS
8 E. Preston Street
Baltimore, MD
410-244-1020

*

I N Y O U R E A R

@ District of Columbia Arts Center
3:00PM, March 21, 2010

FARRAH FIELD
CHRIS NEALON
SHAFER HALL

2438 18th Street NW in Adams
Morgan, Washington, DC

Beyond Baroque & PRB Readings CANCELED

OUR LA TRIP HAS BEEN CANCELED, we won't be reading at Beyond Baroque on Saturday or the PRB on Sunday. Our apologies. We hope to come another time. Mark Wallace and Lorraine Graham will be reading:

Saturday, March 13, 2010 at 7:30 PM

K. LORRAINE GRAHAM and MARK WALLACE

BEYOND BAROQUE
681 North Venice Boulevard, Venice, CA‎

With + Stand 4: The Lisa Robertson Issue

Marie Buck reads Frank O'Hara's "Poem"

Collective Task release party 3/11 NYC

Come celebrate the release of the "Collective Task" book
260+ pages of full color images and writing

Free Admission, Open Bar, Book buying encouraged

@ RAYOGRAM
March 11, This Thursday / 7 PM +
79 Leonard Street (basement)
in Tribeca between Church & Broadway, NYC
Take 1 train to Franklin or 6 train to Canal.

What is COLLECTIVE TASK? (www.magnetberg.de/collective)
In 2006, Rob Fitterman invited several artists and poets to start a collective project where we would each receive a task to complete on the 1st day of each month. No other purpose or guidelines were preset. 12 of us agreed and saw the project through to completion. We are: Tim Davis, Monica de la Torre, Stacy Doris, Robert Fitterman, Sabine Herrmann, Klaus Killisch, Carol Mirakove, Yedda Morrison, Kim Rosenfield, Lisa Sanditz, Rod Smith and Juliana Spahr. In 2009, we invited Dirk Rowntree to design the book carte blanche and Patrick Lovelace agreed to publish it in all its glory. Finally, we’re done. Please come help us celebrate and check out the book.

Beyond Baroque & PRB Readings

Saturday, March 13, 2010 at 7:30 PM

K. LORRAINE GRAHAM, MEL NICHOLS,
ROD SMITH, and MARK WALLACE

BEYOND BAROQUE
681 North Venice Boulevard, Venice, CA‎

&

Sunday, March 14, 2010 at 4:00pm

ROD SMITH & MEL NICHOLS

THE POETIC RESEARCH BUREAU
3706 San Fernando Blvd
Glendale, CA 91206

What Kind of Genius Is Brandon Downing?

2 readings, Iowa City and Lawrence

Paul Harding and Rod Smith

Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2010
8:00 PM
Dey House
Frank Conroy Reading Room
507 N. Clinton St.
Iowa City, IA 52242


Mel Nichols and Rod Smith

An Actual Kansas Reading Series
Friday, Feb. 26
7:00 PM
ar WONDER FAIR
on Mass Street
under the Casbah
Lawrence, KS

Preorder Adam Robison and Other Poems by Adam Robinson today!

Six Poems About Pringles

http://presidentschoice.blogspot.com/

photo by Kaplan Harris

Agnès Varda: Short Films
National Gallery, East Wing
February 13 at 3:30PM

A tale of two Vancouvers by Jules Boykoff

GURLESQUE: THE NEW GRRLY, GROTESQUE, BURLESQUE POETICS

WILDFIRE: A VERSE ESSAY ON OBSCURITY AND ILLUMINATION

the i.e. reading series welcomes

JAMIE GAUGHRAN-PEREZ
ROBIN GUNKEL
CHRIS TOLL
KATE WYER

Saturday, Feb. 13th-

Doors open at 5:30 pm
Reading at 6:00 pm sharp-

at
DIONYSUS
8 E. Preston Street
Baltimore, MD
410-244-1020

INTERACTIVE SNOW INFORMATION

Charles Bernstein
a reading for Emma
on Sunday, Feb. 14
at 2pm
at the Renaissance Society
University of Chicago
(free and open to the public)


Emma Bee Bernstein (1985-2008):
Masquerade, A Retrospective

(photographs and a slide show)

DOVA Temporary Gallery
University of Chicago
5228 South Harper Avenue
February 5 through February 27, 2010.
Co-curated by Kat Griefen and Laura Letinsky.
There will be a reception for the show on Friday, February 12th, from 5 to 8pm.

Gallery Hours: Weds.-Sat., 12pm-5pm. Tel: 773-324-2089.
A catalog is available for the show with essays by Kate Bussard and Matthew Jesse Jackson.

Jim Carroll Memorial Reading

Jim Carroll Memorial Reading
Wednesday February 10, 2010, at 8pm
St. Mark's Church, 2nd Ave & 10th Street, NYC.

Poet, autobiographer and musician Jim Carroll (1949-2009) was a consistent and brilliant presence around the Poetry Project since he first read here in 1968. We will never forget his kindness, his generosity or his humor. Please join us as some of his closest friends pay tribute to him. With Bill Berkson, Todd Colby, Anselm Berrigan, Richard Hell, Lenny Kaye, Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo, Patti Smith, Anne Waldman and others TBA. FREE

February 11, 2010 - 5:00pm

Prairie Lights
15 South Dubuque St.
Iowa City

D.A. Powell & David Trinidad

D.A. Powell and David Trinidad will read from their collaboration, By Myself: An Autobiography. Composed of individual sentences drawn from three hundred separate memoirs penned by everyone from Lana Turner to Harpo Marx, this book unfolds as the story of a singular, plural, famously anonymous character. Frequently hilarious, as familiar as it is strange, Powell and Trinidad, both widely published poets, offer a new take on hybridity, commonality and the written life.

New Factory School Heretical Texts

Volume 5 (2010)

Kate Schapira
TOWN

Allison Cobb
Green-Wood

Sueyeun Juliette Lee
Underground National

Simone White
House Envy of All the World

C A Conrad & Frank Sherlock
The City Real & Imagined

Open Letter re: Lisa Robertson

Open Letter is seeking submissions for a special issue dedicated to the work of Lisa Robertson. One of Canada’s most innovative and challenging writers, Robertson’s work reveals a persistent interest in the relationships among epistemology, civic space, gender, language and the visual. Her poetic engagements with thinkers ranging from Virgil and Lucretius to William Wordsworth and Emily Montague, as well as her work in and against forms such as the epic, the pastoral, the essay and the manifesto reflect her ongoing interest in literary and philosophical history and the pleasures and politics of form. This issue invites writers and critics to engage with any aspect of Robertson’s work. Possible topics might include (but are certainly not limited to) Robertson’s work and: Space, architecture, and/or geographies, Feminist poetics, Kootenay School of Writing, Genre (poetry, prose, essay, manifesto), Form, Classical texts, Philosophy, The archive, Visual art, The epic, The pastoral, Language poetry.

Please send your submissions by email to Heather Milne h.milne@uwinnipeg.ca by June 1, 2010

UPCOMING at the Kootenay School of Writing

February 22 - Gregory Betts - reading
February 25 - Sina Queyras, Lydia Kwa, Emily Fedoruk - reading
February 28 - Michael Barnholden - talk - tentative date
March 5 and 6 - Jeff Derksen - reading and seminar
March 19 and 20 - Rachel Zolf - reading and seminar
March 26 - Camille Martin and Ray Hsu - reading
April 3 - launch party for the new issue of W - tentative date
May 7 and 8 - Chris Nealon - reading and panel discussion

for details visit : http://www.kswnet.org/

Kaplan Harris on MLA Offsite at Lemon Hound

THE MILL, let's say WEDNESDAY
1/26, 10 PM - extremely sharp

Adam Roberts, the poet
and
Kyle McCarthy, the proser

The Mill Restaurant
120 E. Burlington Street,
Iowa City, IA.

An interview with Katy Lederer

The Honey War

the great psychic arc,
the syllabus.

the south fork

New Reznikoff '75, Ashbery '51, and Duncan Poemtalk at PennSound

John Ashbery @ Georgetown 2/2

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2ND

The Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice presents

a reading and seminar by

JOHN ASHBERY

@ Georgetown University
Seminar, 5:30 p.m. in ICC 462
Reading at 8:00 p.m. Copley Formal Lounge

Lisa Robertson at Johns Hopkins Thurs 2/11

POETRY at HOPKINS ENGLISH

Spring 2010

Thursday, February 11, 2010

Lisa Robertson

Clipper Room, 2nd Floor Shriver Hall, JHU campus

4:30pm

Lisa Robertson is the author of five books of poetry, including The Weather, Debbie: An Epic, and most recently, The Men, along with numerous reviews of poetry, art, and architecture, which have been published widely. Rousseau's Boat, one of her twelve chapbooks, was recently awarded the BP Nichol Chapbook Award. Originally from Canada, Robertson was a member of The Kootenay School of Writing and Artspeak Gallery.

Directions to the locations on the Homewood campus of JHU can be found here:

http://www.jhu.edu/tour/map.html

For further in formation, contact Chris Nealon: nealon jhu dot edu

Otto

(14 February 1989 – 14 January 2010)

David Franks

(1948-2010)

Mason & Yankelevich @ DCAC Sunday 1/17 3 pm

I N Y O U R E A R

@ District of Columbia Arts Center
3:00PM, January 17, 2010
CHRIS MASON

&

MATVEI YANKELEVICH

Please join the In Your Ear Reading Series for a reading by Chris Mason and Matvei Yankelevich at 3PM on Sunday, January 17.

Chris Mason is a member of The Tinklers and Old Songs (a folk group who translate archaic Greek poems and put them to music). In the 70's, he was part of the performance group, CoAccident, and Doug Lang's Folio Books poetry workshop. His books include Poems of a Doggy (pod books, 1977), Click Poems (shabby editions, 1982), Hiccups (Carriage House, 2008), The Elements (by The Tinklers, Shattered Wig, 2009).

Matvei Yankelevich's first book *Boris by the Sea* is just out from Octopus Books. He's also published several chapbooks including *The Present Work* (Palm Press). His writing has appeared in Boston Review, Damn the Caesars, Fence, Open City, Tantalum, Typo, Zen Monster, and other little magazines. His translations from Russian have cropped up in Calque, Circumference, Harpers, New American Writing, Poetry, and The New Yorker and in some anthologies including *OBERIU: An Anthology of Russian Absurdism* (Northwestern) and *Night Wraps the Sky: Writings by and about Mayakovsky* (FSG). His translations of Daniil Kharms were collected in *Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings of Daniil Kharms* (Ardis/Overlook) and received praise from the TLS, The Guardian, The New York Times, and elsewhere. He recently edited a portfolio of Contemporary Russian Poetry and Poetics for the magazine Aufgabe (No. 8, Fall 2009). In NYC, he teaches at Hunter College and Columbia University School of the Arts. He lives in Brooklyn where he edits and designs books for Ugly Duckling Presse.

Admission is $5.00.

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

THE EDGE READING SERIES
at BRIDGE STREET BOOKS presents

Tuesday, January 5th, 7:30 PM

WILLIAM R. HOWE

L.A. HOWE

&

MICHAEL BASINSKI

Michael Basinski is the Curator of the Poetry Collection of the University at Buffalo. He has published a batch of books of poetry including All My Eggs are Broken (BlazVox, 2007), Of
Venus 93 (Little Scratch Pad, 2007) and Welcome to the Alphabet (Red Fox,2007). His poems, visual opems,
sound works, essays, reviews and such have appeared in magazines from Poetry and the Village Voice to
fhole and the Wormwood Review. He regularly performs with his ensemble, BuffFluxus, wherever
art administrators will allow. Don't miss him, he's 59, and his bags are packed.

L.A. Howe is a writer, artist, and editor who lives and works in Cincinnati.
She is the author of the chapbook, ENTROPIC EASTER (Little Scratchpad Books),
which is now out of print.  She is a co-founder of Slack Buddha Press,
co-editing Slack Buddha’s La Perruque series of chapbooks, which publishes the
work of contemporary practitioners from the U.S. and the U.K., including poetry,
prose, performance texts, and verbo-visual works.  Also a bookbinder, Howe
crafts artist’s and writer’s journals to sell at bookfairs and online.

William R. Howe is a poet, book artist, publisher, editor, performance artist,
and visual artist. He is a visiting assistant professor at Miami University of
Ohio, in Oxford, Ohio. His work has appeared in Plantarchy, Mirage
#4/Period(ical), FerrumWheel, The Gig, and others. His most recent book is
translanations one from BlazeVox [books] (2009). He runs the Putituporbroadside
series, and he and his wife, L.A. Howe, edit Slack Buddha Press. His second
full-length collection Kid Stippler & the Sty-elf is forthcoming  (SlackBuddha)
Spring/Winter (10). His third collection Sixes & Eights will appear with white
print inc ( ‘10).

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.

A celebration & reading for The Narrow House

publication of the i.e. reader-

Saturday, Jan. 2nd, 2010
8 p.m. @ LOF/t
120 W. North Ave., Baltimore

NARROW HOUSE is-
Justin Sirois, Lauren Bender & Jamie Gaughran-Perez

Iran update (12/28)

It’s been several months since my last Iran update, but since I thankfully have some brief time off during the holidays, and more importantly, Iran has been in the headlines again (for non-nuclear issue matters), I wanted to offer some brief updates and thoughts for anyone curious. As before, feel free to forward this along but please delete my name and email if you do so.

Background: A lot of the articles and reports I’ve seen on what has happened in Iran during the last two days have focused almost exclusively on the past two days (Ashura and Tasua), but there is some important background information to take into account. First off, close to three weeks ago was the 16^th of Azar (or Student Day) in Iran. This was one of the public holidays that the regime normally uses to hold pro-government rallies and shore up regime support (the holiday marks the death of 3 students by the Shah’s security forces back in 1953). Like similar ones since the election the opposition used this against the regime and basically tried to co-opt their demonstrations into their own. The actual turnout at these demonstrations was again smaller than the post-election ones, and even smaller than some in the opposition had hoped and planned for, but the protests and actions of that day showed what in my opinion was a turn to the radical on the part of protestors. Their chants against the government, specifically Khamenei, crossed red lines that had not previously been crossed, and there seemed to be a palpable anger or impatience from some of the things I’d read and seen. Granted those who attended these were mostly students, who generally are more radical than other opposition members, but these people had been at previous rallies and didn’t cross these red lines beforehand.

Second, the death of Grand Ayatollah Montazeri set the stage further for the past two days. As you might have read Montazeri was once Khomeini’s hand-picked successor to be Supreme Leader until he publicly disagreed with the founder of the Islamic Republic, was passed over for Khamenei, fell from grace with the regime and lived under virtual house arrest for his last years. He was one of the strongest and most public critics of the regime’s actions after the elections, and on top of that, has more religious credentials than all but a handful of other ayatollahs throughout the Middle East (including Khamenei). I don’t think it’s correct to say he was the spiritual leader of the opposition, since large portions of the youth who now make up the opposition are not particularly observant Muslims, but he was still a huge figure for reformists.

The regime’s reaction to his death was, perhaps unsurprisingly, callous and short-sighted. Public statements from official news agencies and people like Khamenei offered grudging condolences, and people were prevented from attending his funeral. Security forces even attacked people during his funeral parade and mourning ceremony. Aside from the anger that this heavy-handedness produced in some people, the 7^th day after Montazeri’s death—an important day (along with the 40^th) in Shia Islam—fell on Ashura.

I won’t go into huge details about Ashura and Tasua, but the main point is that Ashura marks the height of the 10-day period of mourning during the month of Moharram when the 3^rd Shia Imam, Hussein, was killed in a battle where he and his forces was severely overmatched against the illegitimate Yazid. He and his followers were brutally executed and martyred, and on Ashura every year (Tasua is the day before this) there are passion plays, parades, and other gatherings where people mourn the death of Hussein, a martyr who died at the hands of an illegitimate ruler. Obviously these parallels to present day Iran were not lost on the opposition.

What happened? On Ashura tens of thousands of protestors came out into the streets and once again turned a public holiday (this time a religious one) into their own. There were protests all throughout Iran, including Tehran, Shiraz, Isfahan, Najafbad (Montazeri’s hometown), Arak, and Mashhad, among others I’m sure we’ll learn about over time. It was the largest showing for the opposition since the regime began its brutal crackdown a week after the election, and clearly showed that the opposition was down but not out. Again the regime deployed paramilitaries and thugs that used brutal force on the protestors—killing at least 8 according to the Iranian National Security Council (the real count is likely higher)—and arresting over 300 (according to the Tehran police). A nephew of Musavi’s was killed, and there were some more high-profile arrests, including Ebrahim Yazdi (who was arrested after the election and then released), the son of former reformist minister and presidential candidate (from 2005) Mostafa Moin, the head of a reformist clerical group, and two top Musavi aides.

Two important takeaways from what happened on Ashura. The first is that some members of the security forces refused to obey orders to shoot upon crowds in Tehran. There is one picture that is going around of a policeman wearing a green headband given to him by demonstrators who basically defected and joined the crowds. There’s no way to psychoanalyze people like this who refuse to attack the protestors, but my personal opinion is that aside from the sheer brutality of this, firing upon people—in the Islamic Republic—on the most important religious day of the year was too much. Of course not every policeman and security force refused to carry out these orders, and the number of dead on the day of Ashura is larger than any other day since the June election. But it is telling that there are defections like these.

Second, and most importantly, is that the protests were far more radical than before.
It is not just the chants and signs that were more radical, but the actions of the protestors themselves. They scuffled and fought back against basijis in a way they had not done before. Police vans and motorcycles were taken over and set on fire, members of the basij were bloodied and beaten by protestors themselves as they fought back and took their batons and shields from them, and a police depot was even taken over by demonstrators. The protestors pushed back against security forces in a way that had no done before, and amazingly, in numerous cases they won.

What now? Predicting what will happen in Iran is dangerously uncertain, but from what has gone on in the past week I think Iran has reached another turning point. On the opposition side, it showed it was still alive and would not bow down to repression. After smaller showings at previous holidays-turned-demonstrations—which I think was partly due to the opposition needing to regroup after massive arrests—the opposition came out in full force. It is increasingly becoming more radical and opting for tactics of civil disobedience. As has been the case before and is becoming increasingly clear (which if you’ve read my recent article you know!) is that this is going on without the major leaders. Musavi and Karrubi were nowhere to be seen. Khatami gave a speech on Tasua that was interrupted by basijis and was later seen driving through Tehran on Ashura, but aside from that no presence on the streets. The protests are grassroots-driven and as such, will be all the more difficult to stomp out.

On the regime side, its reaction to Montazeri’s death and tactics on Ashura and Tasua really show, in case there was any doubt, that they hold few things (if any) sacred in the Islamic Republic. They have ramped up their own repressive tactics—firing into crowds, beating protestors, dragging them out of hospitals, etc—and have no intention of backing down or compromising in the least. Even if it means making a few martyrs on the day of Imam Hussein’s own martyrdom, the regime thinks this is better than showing weakness and caving in to the opposition in any way.

One commentator I read said that this could be the beginning of the ‘Iranian intifada’. I hope this does not turn out to be the case, but from the events of the last two days it looks like both sides are becoming more radical, digging in their heels and gearing up for the long haul.

MLA On-Site Off-Site Poetry Reading MLA and MLA Off-Site Poetry Reading Reading MLA MLA

Tuesday, December 29, 5:15 pm
"Coming in from the Cold: Celebrating Twenty Years of the MLA Off-Site Poetry Reading"
Philadelphia Marriott
Liberty Ballroom Salon A
open to the public!

Presiding: Aldon Lynn Nielsen, Penn State Univ., University Park

Speakers: Charles Bernstein, Univ. of Pennsylvania; Tisa Bryant, California Inst. of the Arts; Patrick F. Durgin, School of the Art Inst. of Chicago; Peter Gizzi, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst; Laura Moriarty, Small Press Distribution; Bob Perelman, Univ. of Pennsylvania; Rod Smith, Bridge Street Books; Rodrigo Toscano, Labor Inst.; Tyrone Williams, Xavier Univ., OH; Elizabeth Willis, Wesleyan Univ.; Timothy Pan Yu, Univ. of Toronto

Since the 1989 MLA convention, organizers in host cities have brought together ever larger groups of experimental and innovative poets for an evening marathon of poetry performance. These readings bring local poets into contact with poets from other cities and promote exchange among poets, scholars, and poet-scholars. This event will offer short readings by poets, including several who read at the first event twenty years ago and several newer poets.

Tuesday, December 29, 7pmThe Rotunda
4014 Walnut Street, Philadelphia
Click here for directions

Please join us to hear a bevy of local and visiting poets for 2009's MLA Off-Site Poetry Reading. Performances start at 7pm and will go until approximately 10pm.

The reading is free, ADA accessible, and open to the public.

(To reach the Rotunda from the Marriott Hotel, take the Market-Frankford subway line to 40th and Market or the #21 SEPTA bus to 40th and Walnut.)

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Cat Chew at
I hear he is banned from every Casino in the state.
cum-fuddyduddy-cum-phooph, my opinions may be suspect
عيني عينك جديد in the منتديات عيني عينك.
Phooph... Done :-)

Travis Nichols in Huffpost, on Nada, Anselm, etc.

The Drunk Sonnets

Kranen

EDGE BOOKS TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION @ DCAC Sunday, 12/13, 3 PM

EDGE BOOKS TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION

@ District of Columbia Arts Center
3:00PM, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2009



featuring readings by Leslie Bumstead, Tina Darragh, Jean Donnelly, Buck Downs, Cathy Eisenhower,
Heather Fuller, Dan Gutstein, P Inman, Doug Lang, K. Silem Mohammad, Chris Nealon, Mel Nichols, Phyllis Rosenzweig, & Rod Smith

Edge Books, publishing over 40 titles across the spectrum of avant-garde writing in English, has established an international reputation for publishing the finest in innovative writing, including award-winning works by Kevin Davies and Joan Retallack. Many of our titles have been reviewed in such publications as The Village Voice, The New York Times, and Publishers Weekly. Come celebrate with us!

For more information on Edge visit http://aerialedge.com/

Admission is $5.00.

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

UPCOMING READINGS:

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

Thursday, Dec 17th, 8pm
Sally Keith, Karen Anderson, Casey Smith, & Maureen Andary
Big Bear Cafe, 1st & R NW
www.cherylsgone.com

Saturday, December 19th, 8 PM
A celebration & reading for The Narrow House
publication of the i.e. reader
Dionysus Restaurant & Lounge
8 E. Preston Street
Baltimore

JENNIFER SCAPPETTONE & RYAN WALKER at Bridge Street 12/8 7:30 PM

THE EDGE READING SERIES
at BRIDGE STREET BOOKS presents

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8th, 7:30 PM

JENNIFER SCAPPETTONE
&
RYAN WALKER

Jennifer Scappettone, a poet, translator, and purveyor of visual stills and
prose, is the author of From Dame Quickly (Litmus Press, 2009), and of several
chapbooks. Exit 43—an archaeology of Superfund sites interrupted by an opera of
pop-ups—is in progress for Atelos Press.  Excerpts of that manuscript appear in
Belladonna Elders Series #5:  Poetry, Landscape, Apocalypse, featuring pop-ups
and prose by Scappettone, a lyric sequence by Etel Adnan, and an essay by Lyn
Hejinian (Belladonna, 2009); pop-up scores are now being adapted for performance
at Dance Theater Workshop and the Center for Performance Research in
collaboration with choreographer Kathy Westwater as PARK. She is an assistant
professor at the University of Chicago.

This summer Ryan Walker published a collection of poems, You Will Own It
Permanently.  More recently he has been rehabbing a house in DC's Trinidad
neighborhood.  He has nine closets and one skeleton.

Ryan Walker's blog, Bathybius: http://www.bathybius.com/
Jennifer Scappettone at PennSound: http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Scappettone.html

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, December 13th, 3 PM
Edge Books Twentieth Anniversary Reading
Leslie Bumstead, Tina Darragh, Jean Donnelly, Buck Downs, Cathy Eisenhower,
Heather Fuller, Dan Gutstein, P Inman, Doug Lang, K. Silem Mohammad,
Chris Nealon, Mel Nichols, Phyllis Rosenzweig, & Rod Smith
@ DC Arts Center

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

the i.e. reading series welcomes

LES WADE
MEGAN McSHEA
M. MAGNUS

Saturday, December 5th

8 p.m. at

LOF/t

120 W. North Ave.

Baltimore, MD

www.loadoffun.net

Notes on John Cage, Eric Satie's Vexations and Andy Warhol's Sleep
by Gary Comenas/Warholstars.org (London 2009)

Also See:

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

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

Keith Waldrop Natl Book Award!

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

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

over rules on hoods

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.

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."

Kenneth Goldsmith sign language

Goldsmith @ Bridge Street 11/2, 7:30 PM

THE EDGE READING SERIES
at BRIDGE STREET BOOKS presents

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2nd, 7:30 PM

KENNETH GOLDSMITH

Kenneth Goldsmith's writing has been called "some of the most exhaustive and beautiful collage work yet produced in poetry" by Publishers Weekly. Goldsmith is the author of ten books of poetry, founding editor of the online archive UbuWeb (ubu.com), and the editor of I'll Be Your Mirror: The Selected Andy Warhol Interviews, which was the basis for an opera, "Trans-Warhol," that premiered in Geneva in March of 2007. An hour-long documentary on his work, "sucking on words: Kenneth Goldsmith" premiered at the British Library in 2007. Kenneth Goldsmith is the host of a weekly radio show on New York City's WFMU. He teaches writing at The University of Pennsylvania, where he is a senior editor of PennSound, an online poetry archive. He has been awarded the The Anschutz Distinguished Fellow Professorship in American Studies at Princeton University for 2009-10 and received the Qwartz Electronic Music Award in Paris in 2009. A book of critical essays, "Uncreative Writing," is forthcoming from Columbia University Press.

More about Goldsmith can be found at:

http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/goldsmith/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Goldsmith

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.

PLUS:

The Corcoran's Visiting Artist Series presents
KENNETH GOLDSMITH
Monday, November 2nd, 1:30 PM
Armand Hammer Auditorium, Corcoran Gallery of Art and College of Art + Design
500 17th St NW, Washington, DC

UPCOMING EVENTS:

Saturday, November 7th, 8 PM
Marshall Reese with Chris Mason, John Mason & Noah Davies-Mason
LOF/t, 120 W North Ave, Baltimore, MD.
http://ieseries.wordpress.com/

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

Sunday, November 22nd, 7 PM
Anselm Berrigan & Michael Gizzi
@ Bridge Street Books

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

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

[The animals come onstage and begin to party.]

Elisa Gabbert on Chris Nealon's Plummet

Anne Boyer on K. Lorraine Graham's Terminal Humming

Eisenhower, Jones, & Jones @ DCAC Sunday 10/18 3 PM

I N Y O U R E A R
@ District of Columbia Arts Center
3:00PM, October 18, 2009

CATHY EISENHOWER
JAMEY JONES
&
BONNIE JONES

Cathy Eisenhower lives and works as a librarian in Washington, DC, and is the author of Language of the Dog-heads (Phylum 2001), clearing without reversal (Edge 2008), and would with and (Roof 2009). She is co-translating the selected poems of Argentine poet Diana Bellessi and has co-curated the In Your Ear Reading Series for the past several years.

Jamey Jones is from Pensacola, Fl., where he has long been an active proponent of all things poetry. He currently lives in Brooklyn, NY, where he’s pursuing his MFA in Creative Writing at Long Island University. His most recent chapbooks are If You See An Ocelot, Please Remove This Letter, (brown boke press, 2007), the notebook troubled
the sleep door, (brown boke press, 2008), Blue Rain Morning, (Fell Swoop, 2009), and Twelve Windows (brown boke press, 2009). His poems have appeared in Red Herring, Mesachabe, Yawp, Fell Swoop: The All Bohemian Review, The Mundane Egg, The Emerald Coast Review, and Big Bridge, New Orleans Anthology: Sturm und Drang, as well as various other journals.

Bonnie Jones works with sound, text and performance. Born in 1977 in South Korea she was raised by dairy farmers in New Jersey, and currently resides in Baltimore, MD. In sound performances Bonnie plays the circuit boards of digital delay pedals. Her primary sound collaborators are Joe Foster in Korea (as the duet “English”) and Andy
Hayleck. She is also a member of the Performance Thanatology Research Society, an interdisciplinary performance group dedicated to the advancement of a higher histrionics brought on by imminent finalities. Bonnie has performed at the Kim Dae Hwan Museum, the Ontological-Hysteric Theater, STEIM, the ErstQuake Festival, and the
14 Karat Cabaret. She is currently an MFA candidate at the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College. www.bonniejones.wordpress.com.

Admission is $5.00.

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

UPCOMING:

10/22 8 pm
Kareem Estefan, Danielle Evennou, TBA
@ Big Bear
http://cherylsgone.com/

10/23, 8pm
Cathy Wagner, Ric Royer & Marc Nasdor
LOF/t, 120 W North Ave, Baltimore, MD.
http://ieseries.wordpress.com/

11/2, 7:30 pm
Kenneth Goldsmith
Bridge Street Books

11/22, 7 pm
Anselm Berrigan & Michael Gizzi
Bridge Street Books

National Book Award Finalists Announced

Poetry

Rae Armantrout, Versed (Wesleyan University Press)
Ann Lauterbach, Or to Begin Again (Viking Penguin)
Carl Phillips, Speak Low (Farrar Straus and Giroux)
Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon, Open Interval (University of Pittsburgh Press)
Keith Waldrop, Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy (University of California Press)

Evan Parker/Ned Rothenberg Tour

09.24.09 - Amherst, MA - Bezanson Recital Hall (U of Massachusetts)
09.25.09 - Washington, DC - Sonic Circuits Festival
09.26.09 - Oberlin, OH - Fairchild Chapel (Oberlin College)
09.27.09 - Chicago, IL - Claudia Cassidy Theater (Chicago Cultural Center)
09.28.09 - Detroit, MI - 2739 Edwin
09.29.09 - Buffalo, NY - Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center
09.30.09 - Montreal, QC - La Sala Rossa
10.01.09-10.16.09 - New York, NY - The Stone *

* Evan Parker in various determined combinations

Lyn Hejinian on The Berkeley Alliance

Juliana Spahr wins 20009 Hardison Prize

Nada Gordon goes to Washington

READINGS

9/23, 8 PM
Rae Armantrout and Ron Silliman
Student Union Building II, Rooms 5, 6, 7
George Mason University, Fairfax, VA

9/26, 8 PM
Cathy Eisenhower, Reb Livingston, Chris Nealon, and Mel Nichols
Miller's Tavern, 3988 University Drive, Fairfax, VA

9/28, 8 pm
Mel Nichols & Michael Nicoloff
Poetry Project at St Mark's Church, NYC

9/29 Georgetown University
Mark McMorris
Seminar, 5:30 p.m. in ICC 462
Reading at 8:00 p.m. Copley Formal Lounge

10/2, Doors 8pm, Show 8:30pm sharp, $6
LAUREN BENDER (Balto) Video & Performance
TRISHA BAGA (NYC) Video & Performance
LOF/t, 120 W North Ave, Baltimore, MD.
baltimoreperformance.com/lossolos

10/3, 8 pm
Hoa Nguyen, Cole Swensen, Lee Ann Brown
LOF/t, 120 W North Ave, Baltimore, MD.
http://ieseries.wordpress.com/

10/4, 7 PM
Eileen Myles & Hoa Nguyen
Bridge Street Books, DC

10/9, 7:30 pm
O.B. Hardison, Jr. Poetry Prize: Juliana Spahr
Folger Elizabethan Theatre, tckts $12
201 E Capitol St SE, DC

10/22 8 pm
Kareem Estefan, Danielle Evennou, TBA…
@ Big Bear
http://cherylsgone.com/

10/23, 8pm
Cathy Wagner, Ric Royer & Marc Nasdor
LOF/t, 120 W North Ave, Baltimore, MD.
http://ieseries.wordpress.com/

11/2, 7:30 pm
Kenneth Goldsmith
Bridge Street Books

11/7, 8 pm
Marshall Reese with Chris Mason,
John Mason & Noah Davies-Mason
LOF/t, 120 W North Ave, Baltimore, MD.
http://ieseries.wordpress.com/

11/22, 7 pm
Anselm Berrigan & Michael Gizzi
Bridge Street Books

12/5, 8pm
Les Wade, Megan McShea, M. Magnus
LOF/t, 120 W North Ave, Baltimore, MD.
http://ieseries.wordpress.com/

12/13, 3 pm
Edge Books 20th Anniversary Reading
DCAC

Editorial review: "It often recalls the Salvador Dali painting that looks like a murky portrait of the artist's wife from close up, but from a few yards away reveals the clear image of Abraham Lincoln."

Blind Boy Fuller house, on the left

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We are here on Earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don't know. --W H Auden

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