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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.
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/
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.
The Mothpocalypse. brought to you by The Literary Underground
The mothpocalypse is a gathering of multi-lingual vagabonds, writers and poets- communing like it’s early spring in the middle of fall and making noise while eating pages of history, mythology, science and noise- and spitting out cobwebs of poetry, prose and patented propaganda. The gathering of the wings will take place @ The Harwood Arts Center on 7th & Mountain in Downtown Albuquerque- Nov. 4th, 2012 5-7pm.
Black Kite Poetry #3
Monday, October 15th. 8-10pm Eastern
Black Kite Coffee & Pies
2499 Collingwood, Toledo, Ohio 43620
https://www.facebook.com/events/100986483393220/
Amy Probst from Detroit, and Mark Jordan from Lucas feature, plus a short open mic. Hosted by Michael Grover, co-sponsored by www.redfez.net. (Note this reading will start an hour later due to Poetry Speaks at the library.)
Strange Cage 8
STRANGE CAGE 8 – OCTOBER 1. 8:00PM
The Englert Theatre, 221 E Washington St, Iowa City, Iowa 52240
A little over a year ago, Strange Cage was created to showcase the fountain of poetry blood from the vein split that is Iowa City. On October 1, we present our biggest, brightest, beefiest, bloodlustiest, boldest, best reading yet.
From the historic Englert Theatre downtown, Strange Cage brings to you a FREE evening of dangerous and beautiful poetry from:
-JOYELLE McSWEENEY. The legendary and influential Joyelle McSweeney needs no introduction. What. So. Ever. But here’s one anyway: She is the author of Nylund, the Sarcographer (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2007), as well as Flet, The Red Bird, and The Commandrine and Other Poems, and Percussion Grenade, all published by Fence Books. With her husband Johannes Göransson, she publishes Action Books and Action, Yes, a press and web-quarterly dedicated to international writing and hybrid forms and showcasing the absolute best in contemporary writing and emerging writers. Usually teaching at the University of Notre Dame, she’s currently a visiting professor at the University of Iowa Writer’s Workshop. A frequent Montevidayo blogger, Joyelle’s Necropastoral ear to the ground has made her a critically important poet of today and tomorrow. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joyelle_McSweeney
-TJ DEMA. Tjawangwa Dema, also credited as TJ Dema, is a Botswana based performance poet, writer, columnist and voice over artist. She’s currently living in Iowa City as part of the International Writing Program and has performed at events around the country and at local top reading spots like Prairie Lights and at Anthology here in town. A former radio presenter, independent event emcee, model, catwalk instructor, entrepreneur, she runs an arts and performance management boutique that works with artists, ad agencies and funders to craft new ways of approaching the business of art. She is chaiperson of The Writers Association of Botswana (WABO) for which she was Publicity Secretary (2005/07) as well as being a founding member (alumni) of the acclaimed Exoduslivepoetry! collective (ELP), who have coordinated Botswana’s sole annual poetry festival between 2004 and 2009. She has performed in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Denmark, France, and India, and we’re honored to have her right in Iowa City at the Englert. http://www.facebook.com/pages/TJ-DEMA-POETRYSPOKEN-WORD/256405985772
-LESLEY WHEELER. One of the three founders of Strange Cage, Lesley graduated the Writer’s Workshop in May of this year and took to the road, where she and her husband Karl McComas Reichl camped, wrote, and adventured. This will be her Iowa City homecoming by way of her new home in Kansas City, MO by way of everywhere, American Highway, USA. strangecage.org
-DANIELA OLSZWESKA. The author of four collections of poetry– cloudfang : : cakedirt (Horse Less Press, 2012), Citizen J (Artifice Books, forthcoming), True Confessions of An Escapee From The Capra Facility For Wayward Girls (Spittoon, forthcoming), and (with Carol Guess) How To Feel Confident With Your Special Talents (Black Lawrence Press, forthcoming)–Daniela teaches at Oakton Community College and received her MFA from the University of Alabama. She sits on Switchback Books’ Board of Directors and serves as Associate Poetry Editor of H_NGM_N and Another Chicago Magazine. Daniela was born in Wroclaw, Poland and she but she self-identifies as a Chicagoan.
-SKYLAR ALEXANDER. Skylar Alexander is the public relations coordinator of “earthwords undergraduate literary review” and the former assistant director of the Young Emerging Writers internship program at the Midwest Writing Center in Davenport. She has been published in “Ink”, “earthwords”, and “The Atlas”. She studies English, Linguistics, and Entrepreneurial Management at the University of Iowa.
-BRIONY GYLGAYTON. Briony is working on her MFA in Poetry at the Iowa Writers Workshop. Her chapbook, LOUDER WALLS, a collection of poetry about psychological disorders according to the DSM-IV, was awarded the Elliot Gilbert Memorial Prize, and selections from the manuscript won the California-wide Ina Coolbrith Memorial Poetry Prize and the Pamela Maus Contest for Creative Writing. Her current poetry explores the
connections between American folktales and survival-horror video games. www.BrionyGylgayton.com
-FATIMA ESPIRITU. Fatima is a 2nd year student in the Poetry program at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her style can be
described as Nerdcore meets Your Best Friend’s Awkward Voice Messages. She writes mostly about a rabbit named Baedo, the Internet, and the relationship between metaphors & embodiment. Current favorite craft tools = templates, internal rhyme, and yelling about socialization. F’s publishing & published history are less thrilling than this extended video of an exquisite dog’s exquisite joy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgrZ5Dtsi-E
-LILLIAN BROWNING.
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Black Kite Poetry #2
Black Kite Poetry- every third monday of the month at 7:00pm. Hosted by Michael Grover and co-sponsored by Red Fez Publications at the Black Kite Coffee and Pies, 2499 Collingwood, Toledo, Ohio 43620. Features and Open Mic.
Monday, September 17, 2012. 7-9pm EDT. Cherie Bullock, and Shannon Ranee McKeehen feature plus an open mic. If you came to the first one you know why you should come back. If not, just come.
Bitchez Brew Review
Saturday, September 15th – 7:00 PM
TELEGRAPH CAFE, OAKLAND
2318 Telegraph
Oakland, CA 94612
Featuring:
Gypsie Punx
Alexis Luna
Kwan Booth
Aurora Killpoet
Razor
Ethel Rohan
Aurora Killpoet is co-owner/editor of the killpoet press. (frequently silent but deadly as shit). She is a daytime executive mind reader, and nightime amature physicist. and costumed. always costumed.
Razor was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1963 and brought to California by the age of 1. He has lived in many cities around the world since then, including Oakland on occasion. He has been homeless, in prison or on the run from the law for most of his life. He has been writing about his perspective on the human condition that whole time and up until today.
Gypsie Punx has been known to talk entirely too much in her sleep and drool over her cats. Her first book length collection of poems, Trills From A Numbed Tongue of Duhhhh, has just been published by Ebullience Press.
Kwan Booth is an Oakland based creative writer, journalist and instigator behind various word and technology based things including Oaklandlocal.com and Sit Next to a Black Person Month. He has poetry featured in the upcoming anthology Chorus, edited by Saul Williams, drinks lots of coffee and lives at boothism.org.
Alexis Luna is a Bay Area native, born in Richmond, CA. Her first collection, Word Withdrawal, is due out on Dia de los Muertos; published by Beatitude Press- a reputable relic from the 1970’s. Her book is being printed by 1984 Printing and will be distributed by the independent Small Press Distribution.
Ethel Rohan is the author of Goodnight Nobody (forthcoming 2013), Hard to Say, and Cut Through the Bone. Her work has or will appear in World Literature Today, Tin House Online, The Rumpus, and The Los Angeles Review, among many others. Raised in Ireland, she lives in San Francisco where she writes and funs as often as she can. Visit her at ethelrohan.com.
Open Heart Poetry Featuring Paul Corman-Roberts
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10TH. 7-10PM
Open Heart Poetry
www.openheartpoetry.com
OHP is a weekly gathering to celebrate poetry and spoken word. Enjoy select teas and organic, vegan, gluten-free cuisine in an antique ambiance. Bring an open heart and mind, and some words to share. There are no restrictions on content or style, but please keep it to under five minutes, and keep the volume to a suitable level for the neighbors upstairs.
This week’s feature: Paul Corman-Roberts is co-founder of the Beast Crawl festival and writes the monthly online column “Dispatches from Atlantis.” He is the author of “Neocom(muter)” and the forthcoming flash fiction collection “Sometimes You Invent New Words For Old Losses” both from Tainted Coffee Press.
Open Heart Poetry
Every Monday from 7-10pm
7:00-7:30pm Open Mic
7:30-8:00pm Featured Poet(s)
8pm-10pm Open Mic
Hosted by J de Salvo
Founded by oshan anand
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$5 minimum for tea or food
at Om Shan Tea, an urban tea oasis
233 14th St, at Natoma St, San Francisco, CA
between Mission & South Van Ness
3 blocks from 16th/Mission BART
www.omshantea.com
The Madhouse Poetry Series
FRIDAY, AUGUST 31st, 7:00pm Eastern
The Ugly Mug Cafe and Roastery
317 W. Cross Avenue, Ypsilanti, Michigan
Featuring Anna Stolarski, Michael Grover, Leo Jarret, Kayla Marie Williams, Zach Ashley, Mike Hetzler. Michele McDannold, Craig Firsdon and Connor Morell
Open Heart Poetry featuring A. Razor
AUGUST 27, 2012
Open Heart Poetry
www.openheartpoetry.com
OHP is a weekly gathering to celebrate poetry and spoken word. Enjoy select teas and organic, vegan, gluten-free cuisine in an antique ambiance. Bring an open heart and mind, and some words to share. There are no restrictions on content or style, but please keep it to under five minutes, and keep the volume to a suitable level for the neighbors upstairs.
This week’s feature: A. Razor
A. Razor was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., but was brought to California at the age of 1. He was raised with a strong desire to read and write, but but an even greater desire to survive his circumstances, which has aided his experience and longevity so far. He began writing and publishing around 1980 in various underground zines and publications, first in the Los Angeles area, then expanding outward after he was discovered by Drew Blood Press, Ltd. in 1984. He had published 11 titles on that now defunct press by 1995.
He became a member of the Hollywood Institute of Poetics in 2009. He has participated in the Poets in Prison panel at Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, and the 2011 ALOUD reading series at the Downtown Los Angeles Public Library. He works with the homeless, addicts, alcoholics, and ex-convicts, and is a mental health consumer and housing rights activist these days, in an attempt to use his own experiences to help others. In 2012 he joined with Iris Berry to begin Punk Hostage Press, who have published his most recent collection, “Better Than a Gun in a Knife Fight”.
His writing has always explored the world that he has sought to be a part of and to rebel against at the same paradoxical moment. He has traveled extensively, seeking and enduring everything from homelessness and imprisonment to serenity and peace.
Open Heart Poetry
Every Monday from 7-10pm
6:30pm Open Mic Signup
7:00-7:30pm Open Mic
7:30-8:00pm Featured Poet(s)
8pm-10pm Open Mic
Hosted by J de Salvo
Founded by oshan anand
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$5 minimum for tea or food
at Om Shan Tea, an urban tea oasis
233 14th St, at Natoma St, San Francisco, CA
between Mission & South Van Ness
3 blocks from 16th/Mission BART
www.omshantea.com
Beast Crawl
Beast Crawl is the East Bay Literary Pub Crawl being held on Saturday, July 7th from 5-11pm. This year will be hosted by a variety of Bay Area curators who have chosen to feature many fabulous writers in venues located in the 19th St. BART vicinity between 25th St. and 15th St.
Performance times are 5:00, 6:30 and 8:00. Readings to begin simultaneously at those times in all the different venues. There will also be an afterparty at 9:30.
For more information visit their tumblr page here.
Toxic Abatement
Toxic Abatement: Spoken Words, Contaminated World… Full Of Crow’s Fashion For Collapse will host the first Toxic Abatement Poetry and Music Event on July 5, 2012 at Viracocha, San Francisco, California.
The event will feature local and visiting poets, and the 3x Bad Band.
Thursday, July 5, 2012 from 7:30-10:00 p.m. at Viracocha, 998 Valencia, San Francisco, California. Contact Lynn Alexander or Paul Corman-Roberts for more information. Please check back in a few weeks as we will be posting the featured readers and more details. Hope to see you there. We will also have event cards available soon, send an address if interested in helping us promote.
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