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How does Obama get to 270? By restoring the transcendental dignity of the problem of stupidity. Whatever happens, I'm proud of Big Brown. The Zidane of the triple crown.

RYAN WALKER

FRANK SHERLOCK

ADAM GOOD

Saturday - June 7th -
8 pm

CARRIAGE HOUSE
2225 Hargrove Street
Baltimore, MD 21218

410-727-1953

www.ieseries.wordpress.com

thank ya mask man

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

Big Bear Cafe
1700 First St NW
Washington DC

Thursday, May 29 8 pm

Breathalyzer in Publishers Weekly

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

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

Breathalyzer

by K. Silem Mohammad

80 pgs, cover design by Anne Boyer

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dcac

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

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

i.e.

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

duende

Game & Match

THE ST. MARK'S BOOKSHOP READING SERIES

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

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

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

Fotos from the Holistic Expo

B U C K D O W N S

M A U R E E N T H O R S O N

R U P E R T W O N D O L O W S K I

i. e. reading series

Saturday, May 3rd 8 pm

CARRIAGE HOUSE
2225 Hargrove Street
Baltimore, MD 21218

Exhausted Grunts

News

The City Paper selected me as Best Poet. There I am right between Best Karaoke and Best Jukebox. AL Nielsen blogs it here.

et aussi

Rod Smith & Rodney Koeneke
April 27, 2008 06:00PM
Zinc Bar
90 West Houston

FLARF IS LIFE 4/24-26/08

2008 Holistic Expo & Peace Conference

THURSDAY, APR 24, 8:00 P.M., DIXON PLACE, 258 BOWERY, $8
Film, neo-benshi, and theater by:

Brandon Downing: Two new short films
Rob Fitterman: Film: Bisquick / Bismarck
Nada Gordon: Neo-benshi: "Uzumaki"
Mitch Highfill: Play: "The Secret History of the '60s"
Rodney Koeneke: Neo-benshi: "Mary Poppins"
Michael Magee: Play: "William Logan: A Sedentary Life"
K. Silem Mohammad & Gary Sullivan: Play: "Chain: A Dialog"
Kim Rosenfield: Neo-benshi: "Meglio Stasera / The Libido Theory"

FRIDAY, APR 25, 7:00 P.M., 300 Bowery, buzz "Sherry/Thomas," FREE
Publication party for new books and DVDs by:

Brandon Downing: Dark Brandon (DVD)
Mitch Highfill: Moth Light
Sharon Mesmer: Virgin Formica
K. Silem Mohammad: Breathalyzer
Mel Nichols: Bicycle Day
Rod Smith: Deed
Gary Sullivan: PPL in a Depot

SATURDAY, APR 26, 6:00 P.M., BOWERY POETRY CLUB, 308 BOWERY, $8
A Segue reading to benefit Bowery Arts and Sciences, featuring:

Shanna Compton
Katie Degentesh
Benjamin Friedlander
Drew Gardner
Nada Gordon
Mitch Highfill
Rodney Koeneke
Michael Magee
Sharon Mesmer
K. Silem Mohammad
Mel Nichols
Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl
James Sherry
Rod Smith
Christina Strong

With music by the Drew Gardner Orchestra and The Saw Lady. Hosted by Brandon Downing and Gary Sullivan.

This benefit reading will help keep Segue readings at an affordable $6.