Manhattan/Brooklyn/Queens people… I’m reading with some lovely poets (Sue Landers, Kyle Schlesinger, Elizabeth Treadwell Jackson, Jennifer Moxley & Mark Weiss) at publishing maven Karen Randall‘s launch this Saturday evening for the second batch of Least Weasel Chapbooks.
Who doesn’t want a Least Weasel?
Come over, come over, won’t you?
Thanks to the efforts & magic of poet & publishing maven Susana Gardner, the fifth & final Dusie Kollektiv chapbook project is now available online for free download here.
Featuring new work by dozens of lovelies, including: William Allegrezza, Juliet Cook, Arielle Guy, Jen Hofer, Mark Lamoureux, & Kaia Sand, (& a collaborative pas de deux between me & Kirsten Kaschock). Go. Read.
Cleave:, a new poem from a series called Enantiodrome, was the September feature on Open Letters Monthly.
The lovely Greg Bem just posted audio files of the recent Women Who Write reading at Wineo bar, featuring Mecca Jamilah Sullivan, Kim Gek Lin Short, & me.
You can listen or download files here. You can also find audio recordings of other Philadelphia poetry readings & performances on his site, Recorded Verse of Philadelphia.
Thank you, Greg!
This weekend, Joe Milford hosted eight Phillysound Poets on his internet radio program, The Joe Milford Poetry Show.
CA Conrad
Ryan Eckes
Ish Klein
Pattie McCarthy
Chris McCreary
Jenn McCreary
Frank Sherlock
Kevin Varrone
Listen here.
X. So They Winked And Were Glad as the Day Grew Late
Gone beyond becoming, we filled
the house with phantoms & called
up monsters from the deep.
Buried the dagger, illuminated
the windows. Choked
the blinded alley with most
exquisite filigreed leaf
& vine. Making sense
of another dark night, I’m learning
to unwait.
IX. A Part of This World, and a World of Its Own
It was time as a color, or my
life, in miniature.
It was sunrise & my feet got wet
in the dew. It was all the moon
did, it was my hair, full
of secrets.
A pocketful of frogs, the girl who
gave birth to rabbits, the happiest
crocodile, & party hats for all.
Celebrate the release of new books by Chris McCreary & Christian TeBordo!
Chris McCreary‘s book of poems, Undone : A Fakebook, is new from Furniture Press. According to Garrett Caples, “McCreary brings a tender swagger to his line, from popsong semiotics to lyric sequence to the mysterious ‘The Black Book’ mirroring the urban poet’s soul.”
Christian TeBordo‘s book of short fiction, The Awful Possibilities, is just out from Featherproof Books. George Saunders says, “Christian TeBordo shows that it is possible to be, simultaneously, a wise old soul and a crazed young terror.”
Saturday, June 5, 2010
7:00pm – 9:00pm
B2 Cafe
1500 E. Passyunk Avenue, Philadelphia, PA
There will be readings by both authors, & there will be free snacks & wine &/or beer. A good time shall be had.
VIII. From Toys and Treats to Cages and Towers
I thought he said home
is other people. A gilt-edged
childhood, a currency
of tulips, a charm
of goldfinch, & so many
ravens— a conspiracy,
a constable, an unkindness
of. Too clever by half, we
invent it, & then
put it into practice.
VII. She Made a Place to Sleep Inside My Ear
The walls of the house have become
the world all around & everything
an excuse to do
nothing & she is fading
from the margins & we become
inconceivable to eachother.
Despite common appearance, our words
have roots in different sources. Exercises
in mis-reading. The way moths fly
like they’re broken.
