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

The Fiji Petrel

American Hybrid @ Bridge Street 9/13, 7 pm

THE EDGE READING SERIES
at BRIDGE STREET BOOKS presents

Sunday, September 13th, 7 pm

AMERICAN HYBRID: A NORTON ANTHOLOGY
OF NEW POETRY

JOHN TAGGART
COLE SWENSEN
ROD SMITH
&
MARK MCMORRIS

Mark McMorris is the author of Cafe at Light, The Blaze of Poui, The Black Reeds, and Moth-Wings. His book Entrepot will be available from Coffee House Press in February 2010. He teaches at Georgetown University.

Rod Smith is the author of Deed, Music or Honesty, The Good House, Protective Immediacy, and others. He edits the journal Aerial, publishes Edge Books, and manages Bridge Street Books in Washington, DC.

Cole Swensen teaches poetry in the Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa. Her books include Ours, Goest, Such Rich Hour, Oh, Try, and Noon. She translates poetry from French and lives part-time in Paris.

John Taggart is the author of There are Birds, Crosses: Poems 1992-1998, Standing Wave, Pastorelles, When the Saints, Loop, and several others. His Songs of Degrees: Essays on Contemporary Poetry and Poetics was published by The University of Alabama Press in 1994. He lives in south central Pennsylvania.

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 September 20th, 3 pm
Rob Fitterman & Nada Gordon
In Your Ear @ DCAC

Sunday October 4th, 7 pm
Eileen Myles & Hoa Nguyen
@ Bridge Street Books

Darragh/Lang i.e. 9/12, 8 pm

TINA DARRAGH & DOUG LANG

Saturday, September 12th, 8 p.m.
at LOF/t
120 W. North Ave.
Baltimore, MD 21201

www.ieseries.wordpress.com

www.loadoffun.net

e-mail- mbball59@gmail.com

Deep eco pré, Tina Darragh’s collaboration with poet Marcella Durand, will be published this fall as an ebook by Little Red Leaves. Darragh’s essay “Blame Global Warming on Thoreau?” is included in the )((eco (lang)(uage(reader)) forthcoming from Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs. Along with Jane Sprague and Diane Ward, she participated in the belladonna Elders Series #8 (NYC, June 2009). Tina has no desire to maintain her persona as a mild-mannered librarian since Doug Lang included her in his blog on DC poets.

Doug Lang was born and raised in Wales, and has published poetry and novels in the UK. He came to DC in 1973, where he ran the Folio Reading Series in the late 1970s, and where he has taught writing at the Corcoran College of Art and Design since 1976. He was one of the poets representing DC at the recent Poetry of the 1970s conference at Orono. A collection of his selected poems, In the Works, is forthcoming from Edge Books.

LOS SOLOS SERIES, Baltimore

The 2nd Season of the LOS SOLOS SERIES.

Friday, 9/4/09, Doors 8pm, Show 8:30pm sharp, $6

STEPHANIE BARBER (Balto) Premiere of in the jungle
MELISA PUTZ (Philly) Dance performance

NEW LOCATION:
LOF/t, 120 W North Ave, Baltimore, MD.

FULL SCHEDULE:
10/2 - LAUREN BENDER / TRISHA BAGA
11/6 - MERRILL FEITELL / MARIA CHAVEZ
12/4 - CHILD BRIDE / C. RYDER COOLEY
2/5 - AYAKO KATAOKA / ASIMINA CHREMOS
3/5 - JENNY GRAF / SAMITA SINHA

d.a.levy film trailer