Michele McDannold
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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.
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.
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
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.
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.
Notes From A Punk Rock Crash Pad
Notes From A Punk Rock Crash Pad
Sunday, Nov 11, 7:00pm at Skinny’s Lounge, 4923 Lankershim, North Hollywood, California.
Stories from Pleasant Gehman, Iris Berry, A. Razor, Sean Wheeler, Joey Altruda, Chris Bailey and special guest Cherry Vanilla. Music with The Legendary Duo.
21+over
$5
Doors open at 6:30, Show is at 7:00
punkrockcrashpad.com
NOTES FROM A PUNK ROCK CRASH PAD is brought to you by Iris Berry and Pleasant Gehman. Diary entries, lurid tales, vignettes, and rants spanning from the mid 1970’s to the early 1990’s. A series of readings with those who are icons, as well as notorious in the genre. Future Shows will take place in Los Angeles and other cities. For more information on booking, or if you would like to be considered as a reader, please go to our website at www.punkrockcrashpad.com or email us at punkrockcrashpad@gmail.com. You can also find us at https://twitter.com/#!/punkcrashpad.
• Has a touring band ever come to stay at your house for, “a weekend,” and remained at your house for at least two months?
• Was your interior design theme primarily Marshall Amps, wall to wall gig flyers, religious tracts, lost pet posters; beer can pyramids?
• Have you ever been so drunk that you had to break into your own house because you lost your front door key for the 19th time, only to find it pinned to your underwear (if you wore any) the next morning?
• Have you ever been 6 months late on the rent?
• Have you ever woke-up to a complete stranger, and not been completely sure whether you both engaged in sex?
• Have you ever had to step over a body, who you HOPE… was just passed out to get through your own front door?
• Have you ever shared an unregistered car with all eleven of your roommates?
• Have you ever had to use a bathroom at a convenience store or rock ‘n’ roll club for three weeks or more, because yours was out of order, during that time?
• Were you ever on a first name basis with the police who came to your place to bust a party?
• Has your house ever been mentioned in Rolling Stone, Spin Magazine or on MTV and VH1?
Whether you have answered yes or no to all or any of these questions, you need to come to, “NOTES FROM A PUNK ROCK CRASH PAD.” An Evening of diary entries, lurid tales, booze & drug clouded memories, vignettes and rants.
Richard Vargas’ “i dream of tongues” Broadside
Richard Vargas was born and raised in L.A./Orange Counties. He studied under Gerald Locklin at CSULB. Graduated with MFA (awarded with distinction) from Creative Writing Program, University of New Mexico, 2010. Major themes are social injustice, working class issues, immigration, and standing up to institutionalized racism… fuck it, the guy writes political poetry. Served on faculty of 10th National Latino Writers’ Conference at the National Hispanic Cultural Center, May 2012. Currently residing in Albuquerque, where he edits/publishes The Más Tequila Review.
Richard will be reading at the Mothpocalypse on November 4th at the Harwood Arts Center in Albuquerque, NM.
“i dream of tongues” printed on red card stock, cut to 3.5 inches wide each.
Bud Smith’s “Love” Broadside
Bud Smith is 30, distracted, sleeps on his right side. He lives in Washington Heights, NYC and has written a collection of short stories called Or Something Like That. His car is on the verge of catching fire, so that’s all he dreams about. Putting the car out before it explodes. He also does heavy construction so if you have something heavy needing construcing, that’d be fine too.
Bud will be reading at the Mothpocalypse on November 4th at the Harwood Arts Center in Albuquerque, NM.
“Love”
Pantifesto’s “An Inappropriate Query” Broadside
Pantifesto’s Porntastic Phunhouse is located in the darkest depths of the Route 66 Basement Studio in Downtown Albuquerque. Pantifesto’s work can be found on such dubious publications as Gutter Eloquence and The Meth Lab.
Pantifesto will be reading at Happy Fuckin’ Endings on November 3rd at The Box Improv & Performance Space on Gold Avenue in downtown Albuquerque.
“An Inappropriate Query” looks great on bright blue 24lb paper
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