November 2012 archive

The Midwest Underground Poetry Summit

The Midwest Underground Poetry Summit
Monday, February 18th. 7:00pm Eastern
Black Kite Coffee & Pies
2499 Collingwood, Toledo, Ohio 43620

Featuring Brian Fugett and Michele McDannold. Hosted by Michael Grover and Tara Armstrong.

Brian Fugett is a member of the slacker, fast food generation that has been branded with an ‘X’ by that Canadian-born, literary terrorist known as Douglas Coupland. Meanwhile, he sits in his pad all day consuming more oxygen than he’s worth. He’s been doing it for over 35 years now and has become quite effecient at it. Eating and voiding are the only things he really knows how to do. Between meals and trips to the shitter, he covertly milks ‘West Nile Virus’ from the tits of pregnant mosquitoes and uses it to butter the toast of local politicians. He is the editor/publisher of Zygote in my Coffee.

Michele McDannold is corn fed and redneck bred. She has an extensive collection of flannel and rubber chicken heads. A devoted member of the Cult of the Honey Badger, she is also the editor/publisher of Citizens For Decent Literature, a project of The Literary Underground.

Black Kite Poetry #5

Monday, December 17th.
Black Kite Coffee & Pies
2499 Collingwood, Toledo, Ohio 43620

https://www.facebook.com/events/539680359393211/

Featuring Kayla Marie Williams and Matt Sradeja. Hosted by Michael Grover and Tara Armstrong.

Bicycle Review Live

Friday, December 14, 2012
7:05pm in PST
Paradiso club/lounge
2272 Telegraph Ave., Oakland, California 94612

Spoken word by Paul Corman-Roberts, Jay Passer, and A. Razor. Music by the Job. DJ set by the Giver, plus more performers tba! Hosted by J de Salvo. $5 donation, no one turned away for lack of funds.

https://www.facebook.com/events/563543023663300/

Uno Kudo Launch Party/Reading

Come celebrate Uno Kudo’s soon to be launched volume “naked”
Saturday, December 8, 2012
7:30pm in EST
Exley, 1 Jackson Street, Brooklyn, New York 11211

Readings by
Janice Bevilacqua
Megan Elizabeth Corry
Chuck Howe
Raven Kane
Joe Saldibar
Bud Smith
Michele Vazquez
Marvin Waldman
Plus Guest reader -Julie Allen
Emcee-Chuck Howe

After party to follow

Uno Kudo is a literary and arts publication that features significant new words and art from a diverse array of contributors, presented in expressive and luscious layouts. The theme for this volume is “Naked” and includes work from over 50 writers and artists from around the globe.

https://www.facebook.com/events/487498687949373/

The Carol Novack Christmas-Hannukah-Kwanzaa-Solstice-and-Atheists-Who-Love-to-Party Tribute Party

MadHat presents:

The Carol Novack Christmas-Hannukah-Kwanzaa-Solstice-and-Atheists-Who-Love-to-Party Tribute Party
Saturday, December 8, 2012
7:00pm until 12:00am in EST
A Gathering of the Tribes, 285 East 3rd St, 2nd Floor (between Ave C & D), New York, NY.

• Readings by Andrei Codrescu, Cornelius Eady, Bob Holman, CA Conrad, Philip Nikolayev, Katia Kapovich, Howie Good, Lee Ann Brown, Marc Vincenz, Susan Lewis, Larissa Shmailo, Brendan Lorber, Bill Yarrow, Rafael Urweider, Gretchen Primack, Sarah Sarai, Patricia Carragon, Tom Bradley, Yuriy Tarnawsky, Jeff Davis, Susan Scutti, Steve Dalachinky, Ben Mazer, and a heavenly host

• Music of the spheres by Leon Dewan of Dewanatron (The Social Network), Ubudis Duo (Jonathan Golove and Omer Tamez) and the weird stylings of Angry Aardvark

• Launch and ascension of Hugh Fox’s Primate Fox and Carol Novack and Tom Bradley’s Felicia’s Nose

• Art by MadHat’s Artistic Souls

• Angelic Ale and Wine

And much, much more!
Costumes encouraged.
https://www.facebook.com/events/297645290348046/

H.I.P. presents Danny Baker plus open reading

Hollywood Institute of Poetics presents DANNY BAKER plus open reading
Tuesday, December 4 – 9:00 pm
Cobalt Cafe, 22047 Sherman Way (Just west of Topanga Cyn.), Canoga Park, CA
https://www.facebook.com/events/250124218447067/

Danny Baker, a runaway at 14 from the facade of a gilded house in the hills above Los Angeles, has seen life from the gutters to the towers. A high-school dropout, he landed on Wall St. at 20 in a move that only served to add to the dissonance of a rebel mind constantly searching for a youth never experienced. Danny explores his conflict in dichotomous writes of both unflinching, sometimes brutal intensity and honest empathy for the human condition. His first book, FRACTURED, edited by A. Razor as the debut effort of Punk Hostage Press was released in April, 2012. Additionally, Danny was included in a chap, The Musophobist, with three other poets, published by Unadorned Press. His work has been featured in multiple issues of both Paraphilia Magazine and The Edgar Allan Poet Library. Additionally, his efforts can be found in The Examiner, The Nervous Breakdown, The Nexxuss & Deep Tissue 16. He has had several well received readings and will be featured more regularly since moving back from Hawaii. Danny, now 43, is working on several writing projects.

November Madhouse Poetry Night

Madhouse series continues their monthly event at our shop. This evening will bring you local and regional voices performing poetry and music.
Friday, November 30, 2012
7:00pm until 9:00pm in EST
The Ugly Mug Cafe and Roastery
317 W. Cross Avenue, Ypsilanti, Michigan 48197
https://www.facebook.com/events/385375274872251/

Grab a seat early as the night fills up quickly!

Poets:

Craig Combs
Amy Probst
Hope Ann Hawkinson Thomas
Erica Mae Blackmore
Kat Stieh
Anna Stolarski
Andrew Lamont

Want to perform poetry or music?
Contact Leo ltoddjarret@gmail.com

www.uglymugcafeandroastery.com

Strange Cage 9

Strange Cage returns for a very special poetry event rewarding the rebirth of Fair Grounds, Iowa City’s premiere cafe, which now has a liquor license. FULL BAR//WINE//AWESOME BEER//CHEAP BEER//FREE POETRY//OBEY//
Friday, November 30, 2012. 8:00pm
Fair Grounds Coffeehouse, 345 S. Dubuque Street, Iowa City, Iowa 52240
https://www.facebook.com/events/486445751400393/

BE ADVISED:
ROBYN SCHIFF. Mentor, poet, and undefeated-in-smiling City of Literature staple, she is the author of the poetry collections Revolver (2008) and Worth (2002), both published by the University of Iowa Press, Kuhl House Poets series. Her work has been represented in several anthologies, including Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century (Sarabande, 2006), Women Poets on Mentorship: Efforts and Affections (Iowa, 2007), and Transatlantic Verse (Duration, 2005). She was a featured poet at the 2007 Poetry Society of America Festival of New American Poets, and was recognized with an award from the Greenwall Fund by the Academy of American Poets in 2002. Robyn was a 2008 fellow at the Brown Foundation Fellows Residence Program at the Dora Maar House in Menerbes, France, where she began work on her third book, a long poem that takes the myth and metaphor of the vampire as its starting point. She coedits The Canary and Canarium Books and is the Director of Undergraduate Writing at the University of Iowa.

RYAN COLLINS. He is the author of a chapbook, Complicated Weather (Rock Town Press) & an e-chapbook, Handshake Trouble (Gold Wake Press). Some of his recent work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in Spittoon, Leveler, Knock, Ping Pong, H_NGM_N, Jellyfish, Diagram & Handsome. He lives in the Illinois Quad Cities & teaches in the Iowa Quad Cities. He can be reached at ryanrichardcollins@gmail.com.

GRANT SOUDERS. Grant lives in a pig shed where he lives with mice that never pay rent on time. His chainsaw is his closest friend and he’s allergic to tree nuts. Please don’t poison him.

JARED HARVEY IS BORING. http://jaredjosephharvey.tumblr.com/

BRYN LOV will be graduating from the undergraduate creative writing track this spring. she owes the entirety of her poetic verbage to friend and mentor Robyn Schiff. She loves shoes.

KARL McCOMAS-REICHL. One of the editors of Strange Cage whose first poetry chapbook, Everything is Loose, has just been released by Rabbit Catastrophe Press (http://rabbitcatastrophe.blogspot.com/), Karl is a jazz musician and a cotton candy machine of thought currently residing in Kansas City.

ALYSE B. Alyse is an undergraduate creative writing major with a netflix-based social life, and a Roseanne-based sense of humor. She also co-writes Seitanic Verses, a vegan cooking blog. http://twogirlsonefoodblog.blogspot.com/

MICHAEL O’HARA. Michael is in the undergraduate creative writing track for poetry and is putting the finishing touches on his first chapbook, “the histories of wind.” it’s about a little boy with the head of a wading bird, so yes, it’s autobiographical.http://michael-ohara.tumblr.com/

hosted by Russell Jaffe // strangecage.org // strangecage@gmail.com

Main Street Rag Poetry Showcase at Prospero’s

Sunday, November 25, 2012. 6:00pm
Prospero’s Books, 1800 W. 39th Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64111

This month’s Pit will feature special guests Rhiannon Dickerson and Jonathan Barrett.

$3 cover. Open-mic after.

Rhiannon Dickerson is a local mom, poet and professor who teaches at Park University and UMKC. She graduated with her MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in 2008. She has published poetry in a variety of journals including Quarterly West, Horse Less Press, Pleaides, Mid-American Review, and The Laurel Review.

Jonathan Barrett lives in KC with his wife Megan and three sons. He spends most of his days in a cubicle. His poetry has appeared in numerous literary journals including Flyway, The Literary Review, The Minnesota Review, North American Review, Notre Dame Review, Pavement Saw, Phoebe, and Subtropics among others. He is co-edits the small literary journal cant.

Come on out and bring yo poe-try!
https://www.facebook.com/events/359653970794279/

Poetic Gratitude Thanksgiving Reading

On Sunday November 25, the Ancient City Poets will gather for the month at The Gallery Café of St. Augustine, Florida (located at 1974 US1 South in the Staples Plaza) from 3 to 5 p.m. A sign-up sheet will be available 15 minutes before start time for all those who would like to read original poems or something from a favorite poet. The suggested theme is gratitude and giving thanks. The Ancient City Poets present monthly readings that are free and open to poets and poetry lovers of all ages. For more information, go to www.bodor.org or call the Gallery Cafe at (904) 825-9944.

https://www.facebook.com/events/517223104962253/

Black Kite Poetry #4

Monday, November 19th.
Black Kite Coffee & Pies
2499 Collingwood, Toledo, Ohio 43620

https://www.facebook.com/events/253234798133204/

Alicia Young from Cincinnati features plus an open mic. Hosted by Michael Grover and Tara Armstrong.