I think that for the time being, I will be flitting around here: http://citysleep.tumblr.com/
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Reading tomorrow at MIXER.
MIXER presents: The Competition
(A reading by the hosts of our favorite rival series)
Amanda Stern, Nicole Steinberg, Evan Glasson, with music by Spectacular Bird
Wednesday, February 20, 7:00 PM
FREE!
Cakeshop
152 Ludlow St. bet. Rivington and Stanton
F, V to 2nd Ave., F, J, M, to Delancey
http://www.myspace.com/mixernyc
Hosted by Melissa Febos and Rebecca Keith
From the ladies at MIXER:
We are proud to present Mixer's first theme night (aside from our impromptu theme of "Man Month" last July): The Competition, on Wed. Feb. 20. We've invited two of our favorite hostesses, curators, founders, and writers (yes, two people who are both all of these things) to dazzle you and us with their wit and skill. These ladies are Amanda Stern and Nicole Steinberg. They will be joined by a fantastic New School MFA poet (and one of our coworkers), Evan Glasson. The L Magazine made it sound like we've invited these folks to read so we can heckle them, but we, like our readers, are a classy pair, and would do no such thing (plus, we'd be terrified of the retaliation). We've invited these writers for the same reason we invite anyone to read -- because they're talented (and easy on the eyes to boot). We may be classy, but perhaps we're also a little shallow and like to surround ourselves with good looking people, like our audience. As always, Mixer is free and during happy hour, which makes the lighting even more flattering than usual. Oh, and music by Spectacular Bird, featuring one of last month's readers, Quentin Rowan. See you there!
Evan Glasson is from Providence, RI. He TAs in the Writing and Democracy Program at the New School, where he is pursuing an MFA. His work has appeared most recently in Poetry East.
Nicole Steinberg is the co-editor of LIT and Web Director of BOMB magazine. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Gulf Coast, No Tell Motel, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, RealPoetik, Barrelhouse, MiPOesias, Pebble Lake Review, The Agriculture Reader and elsewhere. She’s the founder, curator and host of EARSHOT, a Brooklyn-based reading series dedicated to the work and presence of emerging writers in the New York City area (http://earshotnyc.com). She lives in Queens, New York.
Amanda Stern is the author of the novel, The Long Haul. She founded, curates and hosts the popular Happy Ending Music and Reading Series. She is at work on her second novel, "The Guthrie Test".
Spectacular Bird consists of former members of Ted Leo and The Pharmacists, Joan of Arc, The Eaves, and The Young Destroyers. Their music draws inspiration from 1960's and 1970's pop music and typically incorporates a combination of musical devices such as strong melodies, crisp vocal harmonies, econosmical arrangements, and prominent guitar riffs. Their first 45" single "Emma Lane/Where Did the Sunshine Go?" will be released shortly by the Ernest Jenning Record Company.
(A reading by the hosts of our favorite rival series)
Amanda Stern, Nicole Steinberg, Evan Glasson, with music by Spectacular Bird
Wednesday, February 20, 7:00 PM
FREE!
Cakeshop
152 Ludlow St. bet. Rivington and Stanton
F, V to 2nd Ave., F, J, M, to Delancey
http://www.myspace.com/mixernyc
Hosted by Melissa Febos and Rebecca Keith
From the ladies at MIXER:
We are proud to present Mixer's first theme night (aside from our impromptu theme of "Man Month" last July): The Competition, on Wed. Feb. 20. We've invited two of our favorite hostesses, curators, founders, and writers (yes, two people who are both all of these things) to dazzle you and us with their wit and skill. These ladies are Amanda Stern and Nicole Steinberg. They will be joined by a fantastic New School MFA poet (and one of our coworkers), Evan Glasson. The L Magazine made it sound like we've invited these folks to read so we can heckle them, but we, like our readers, are a classy pair, and would do no such thing (plus, we'd be terrified of the retaliation). We've invited these writers for the same reason we invite anyone to read -- because they're talented (and easy on the eyes to boot). We may be classy, but perhaps we're also a little shallow and like to surround ourselves with good looking people, like our audience. As always, Mixer is free and during happy hour, which makes the lighting even more flattering than usual. Oh, and music by Spectacular Bird, featuring one of last month's readers, Quentin Rowan. See you there!
Evan Glasson is from Providence, RI. He TAs in the Writing and Democracy Program at the New School, where he is pursuing an MFA. His work has appeared most recently in Poetry East.
Nicole Steinberg is the co-editor of LIT and Web Director of BOMB magazine. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Gulf Coast, No Tell Motel, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, RealPoetik, Barrelhouse, MiPOesias, Pebble Lake Review, The Agriculture Reader and elsewhere. She’s the founder, curator and host of EARSHOT, a Brooklyn-based reading series dedicated to the work and presence of emerging writers in the New York City area (http://earshotnyc.com). She lives in Queens, New York.
Amanda Stern is the author of the novel, The Long Haul. She founded, curates and hosts the popular Happy Ending Music and Reading Series. She is at work on her second novel, "The Guthrie Test".
Spectacular Bird consists of former members of Ted Leo and The Pharmacists, Joan of Arc, The Eaves, and The Young Destroyers. Their music draws inspiration from 1960's and 1970's pop music and typically incorporates a combination of musical devices such as strong melodies, crisp vocal harmonies, econosmical arrangements, and prominent guitar riffs. Their first 45" single "Emma Lane/Where Did the Sunshine Go?" will be released shortly by the Ernest Jenning Record Company.
Monday, February 04, 2008
AWP, New Poems, Etc.
Once again, someone has implored me to update my blog more often, namely my friend Gregory Crosby, who I ran into a few times at AWP this weekend. One thing AWP is good for: reminding me of the sheer number of people I know. How did it happen? I have no idea.
Speaking of AWP, here's my haul from the three days of bookfair fun.
Books:
The Tragedy of Waste by Anna Moschovakis, Belladonna Chapbook #102
National Anthem by Kevin Prufer, Four Way Books
Never Before: Poems About First Experiences, ed. by Laure-Anne Bosselaar, Four Way Books
Talk Poetry by Mairéad Byrne, Miami University Press
The Splinter Factory by Jeffrey McDaniel, Manic D Press
The Four Questions of Melancholy: New and Selected Poems by Tomaz Salamun, White Pine Press
Octopus Books Eight Chapbook Pack (The Knife-Grasses by Julie Doxsee; The Ohio System by Jen Tynes & Erika Howsare; Perfect Villages by Sueyeun Juliette Lee; DJ Spinoza’s Dozen by Eugene Ostashevsky; The Book of Truants and Projectorlight by Joshua Marie Wilkinson; The Tides by Genya Turovskaya; The Continuing Misadventures of Andrew, the Headless Talking Bear by Jonah Winter; Goodnight Lung by Samuel Amadon)
Journals:
Another Chicago Magazine, No. 47
Barrelhouse, No. 5
Burnside Review, Vol. 3, No, 2
Copper Nickel, Nos. 8 & 9
Court Green, No. 5, 2008
Hobart, No. 7, 2007
HOW, No. 1, Fall/Winter 2007
The Saint Ann’s Review, Vol. 7, No. 2, Winter 2008
Not to mention various CDs, catalogs, contest flyers, etc. How I managed to drag all that home, I'll never know.
***
Hey, here's something fun: in mid-January, I was the featured poet at No Tell Motel, an online poetry journal I admire and adore. Please check out my five poems, all listed in the archive (under Nicole Steinberg).
And speaking of No Tell, they held a poetry pageant at AWP with Bloof Books and Coconut Books. I took some photos; here's a sampling.
Speaking of AWP, here's my haul from the three days of bookfair fun.
Books:
The Tragedy of Waste by Anna Moschovakis, Belladonna Chapbook #102
National Anthem by Kevin Prufer, Four Way Books
Never Before: Poems About First Experiences, ed. by Laure-Anne Bosselaar, Four Way Books
Talk Poetry by Mairéad Byrne, Miami University Press
The Splinter Factory by Jeffrey McDaniel, Manic D Press
The Four Questions of Melancholy: New and Selected Poems by Tomaz Salamun, White Pine Press
Octopus Books Eight Chapbook Pack (The Knife-Grasses by Julie Doxsee; The Ohio System by Jen Tynes & Erika Howsare; Perfect Villages by Sueyeun Juliette Lee; DJ Spinoza’s Dozen by Eugene Ostashevsky; The Book of Truants and Projectorlight by Joshua Marie Wilkinson; The Tides by Genya Turovskaya; The Continuing Misadventures of Andrew, the Headless Talking Bear by Jonah Winter; Goodnight Lung by Samuel Amadon)
Journals:
Another Chicago Magazine, No. 47
Barrelhouse, No. 5
Burnside Review, Vol. 3, No, 2
Copper Nickel, Nos. 8 & 9
Court Green, No. 5, 2008
Hobart, No. 7, 2007
HOW, No. 1, Fall/Winter 2007
The Saint Ann’s Review, Vol. 7, No. 2, Winter 2008
Not to mention various CDs, catalogs, contest flyers, etc. How I managed to drag all that home, I'll never know.
***
Hey, here's something fun: in mid-January, I was the featured poet at No Tell Motel, an online poetry journal I admire and adore. Please check out my five poems, all listed in the archive (under Nicole Steinberg).
And speaking of No Tell, they held a poetry pageant at AWP with Bloof Books and Coconut Books. I took some photos; here's a sampling.
Thursday, October 11, 2007
Some braggery, while I have a moment.
I have a poem called "On This Day in History" in the Autumn 2007 issue of The One Three Eight, edited by Gregory Crosby and Danny Rivera, two gentlemen if ever there were.
You can also listen to a mp3 of meeee reading my poem "Drown" in the Audio Project section of the Pebble Lake Review website. "Drown" appears in PLR's Summer 2007 issue.
And my chapbook Shouldering the Tombs was a finalist in this year's Burnside Review Chapbook Contest.
Yes, for now, this is one of those blogs. I'll have something of substance to say soon. Maybe.
I have a poem called "On This Day in History" in the Autumn 2007 issue of The One Three Eight, edited by Gregory Crosby and Danny Rivera, two gentlemen if ever there were.
You can also listen to a mp3 of meeee reading my poem "Drown" in the Audio Project section of the Pebble Lake Review website. "Drown" appears in PLR's Summer 2007 issue.
And my chapbook Shouldering the Tombs was a finalist in this year's Burnside Review Chapbook Contest.
Yes, for now, this is one of those blogs. I'll have something of substance to say soon. Maybe.
Monday, August 27, 2007
I redesigned the Earshot website, so that's fun. First Fall event: Friday, September 14th.
Friday, August 17, 2007
Liam Rector, Poet and Educator, dies at 57.
I took my first graduate seminar with Liam. My friends and I would often laugh about how much he obviously enjoyed gossiping about the literary world, sometimes more so than getting through his own curriculum. He was an entertaining man, a friendly and kind man, inviting his students into his home, quick to offer us words of encouragement. It's saddening news for the poetry community.
I took my first graduate seminar with Liam. My friends and I would often laugh about how much he obviously enjoyed gossiping about the literary world, sometimes more so than getting through his own curriculum. He was an entertaining man, a friendly and kind man, inviting his students into his home, quick to offer us words of encouragement. It's saddening news for the poetry community.
Sunday, August 05, 2007
It's hot.
It must be August. My poor room fan can officially do no more to cool me. Level 3 is no longer helpful. I need a level 42.
August 11th is my birthday, and also the date of the Other Rooms Press launch/reading, which I'll be participating in, between bouts of 25 year old badassery. 4-6 PM, $7 cover gets you a free chapbook. You should check it out. And hey, my *NSYNC poem is going to be in Barrelhouse. Finally, it will no longer be the poem that only does well when read aloud.
Another cool thing about August this year is that it's been great for concerts. I saw 1990s twice this week, and also caught the free CSS/Shout Out Out Out Out show last night. (A good lesson to be learned: Brazilian girls = hot; Canadian men = hot.) This upcoming week includes the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Cribs, and legends Daft Punk. We have seats for Daft Punk, but it's okay because I've got a busy weekend after that.
And one more good thing: the release of Superbad.
I can't fucking wait.
August 11th is my birthday, and also the date of the Other Rooms Press launch/reading, which I'll be participating in, between bouts of 25 year old badassery. 4-6 PM, $7 cover gets you a free chapbook. You should check it out. And hey, my *NSYNC poem is going to be in Barrelhouse. Finally, it will no longer be the poem that only does well when read aloud.
Another cool thing about August this year is that it's been great for concerts. I saw 1990s twice this week, and also caught the free CSS/Shout Out Out Out Out show last night. (A good lesson to be learned: Brazilian girls = hot; Canadian men = hot.) This upcoming week includes the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Cribs, and legends Daft Punk. We have seats for Daft Punk, but it's okay because I've got a busy weekend after that.
And one more good thing: the release of Superbad.
I can't fucking wait.
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