the 34th annual POETRY PROJECT marathon

JANUARY 1ST, 2PM TO 2AM
Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church, NYC

readers include:

Philip Glass, Eric Bogosian, Ernie Brooks, Tony Towle, Open Music Ensemble, Brenda Coultas, John Godfrey, Patti Smith, Jordan Davis, David Henderson, Frank Sherlock, Rich O'Russa, David Mills, Jenny Smith,John Coletti, Joanna Fuhrman, R. Erica Doyle, Dan Machlin, Cat Tyc, Jessica Rogers, Renato Rosaldo, Stefania Iryne Marthakis, Rodrigo Toscano, Yoshiko Chuma, Elinor Nauen, Frances Richard, Phyllis Wat, Ed Friedman, Christina Strong, Stephanie Gray, Evan Kennedy, Lydia Cortes, Kim Rosenfield, Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi, Shanxing Wang, Lauren Russell, Marcella Durand, Marc Nasdor, Brendan Lorber, Alan Davies, Stephen Motika, Bob Rosenthal, Susie Timmons, Eliot Katz, Maggie Dubris, Peter Lucas Erixon, Eve Packer, Chris Stackhouse, David Kirschenbaum, Bill Kushner, Tom Savage, Rob Fitterman, Cliff Fyman, Tara Betts, Jennifer Coleman, Allison Cobb, Jill Magi, Gillian McCain, Emily XYZ, Todd Colby, Elliott Sharp, Paolo Javier, Eileen Myles, John Giorno, Steve Earle, Donna Brook, Bob Hershon, Jen Benka, Carol Mirakove, I Feel Tractor, Lenny Kaye, Anne Tardos, Sharon Mesmer, Greg Fuchs, Douglas Dunn, Wayne Koestenbaum, Renato Gomez, Rebecca Moore, Michael Cirelli, Joe Eliot, Tracey McTague, Jess Fiorini, Murat Nemet-Nejat, Vincent Katz, Merry Fortune, David Vogen, Geoffrey Cruickshank-Hagenbuckle, Jackie Sheeler, Penny Arcade, Michael Lydon, Filip Marinovic, Yuko Otomo, Steve Dalachinsky, Adeena Karasick, Barbara Henning, Tisa Bryant, Bruce Andrews, Sally Silvers, Corrine Fitzpatrick, Arlo Quint, Stacy Szymaszek, CAConrad, Keith Roach, Daniel Higgs, John S. Hall, Maggie Estep, Michael Scharf, Wanda Phipps, Leonard Schwartz, Miles Champion, Citizen Reno, Jaime Manrique, Dael Orlandersmith, Uche Nduka, Laura Jaramillo, Nathaniel Siegel, Jim Behrle, Anselm Berrigan, Dustin Williamson, Macgregor Card, Amelia Jackie, Simone White, Hal Sirowitz, Peter Bushyeager, Guillermo Castro, Simon Pettet, Max Winter, Tonya Foster, Judith Malina, Hanon Reznikov, Ted Greenwald, Patricia Spears Jones, Avram Fefer, Taylor Mead, Lee Ann Brown, Denizé Lauture, Thom Donovan, Franklin Bruno, Drew Gardner, Kyle Schlesinger, Don Yorty, Kimberly Lyons, Katie Degentesh, Tracie Morris, Val Jeanty, Chris Rael, Michael Brownstein, Sparrow/Foamola, Ben Malkin, Erika Recordon, Mónica de la Torre, Emil Bognar-Nasdor, Bob Holman, Janet Hamill, E. Tracy Grinnell, Nada Gordon and Harris Schiff. General Admission $16 / Students & Seniors $12 / Members $10

POEMS NOT PRISONS!

December 28th, 2007
CAConrad (with short open reading to follow)
POEMS NOT PRISONS READING SERIES
curated by Alex of THEY ARE BIRDS
7pm at THE A SPACE
47th and Baltimore Ave.
IN PHILADELPHIA

the CURIOUS OMISSION reading!

CAConrad, Jason Napoli Brooks,
Jim Freed, Justin Hill,
Jared Hohl and Abe Lynch

December 2nd, 2007 from 2 to 5pm
2nd floor of FERGIES'S PUB
1214 Sansom St.
Philadelphia

War & Peace vol. 3: The Future, edited by Leslie Scalapino & Judith Goldman

Peace On A

presents

War & Peace vol. 3 (NYC launch!)

with readings by:

Bruce Andrews
CAConrad
Michael Cross
Thom Donovan
Brenda Iijima
Paolo Javier
Susan Landers
Evelyn Reilly
& Rodrigo Toscano

Tuesday, November 27th 2007 8PM

hosted by Thom Donovan at:

166 Avenue A (btwn 10th and 11th), Apartment #2

about War & Peace vol. 3

War and Peace 3/The Future, edited by Judith Goldman & Leslie Scalapino. Borrowing Tolstoy’s title and basing our manifestation of War and Peace on the conception that everything goes on in war and peace, the editors, Judith Goldman and Leslie Scalapino, have gathered forty poets on the theme of "The Future." The future arises with (at the same time as) history and the present. Included in the forty are Lyn Hejinian, Fanny Howe, Lisa Jarnot, Bruce Andrews, Rodrigo Toscano, Anselm Hollo, Paolo Javier, Laynie Browne, Anne Waldman, Jen Hofer…

BRING YOUR FRIENDS! ACTION AIDS BENEFIT 11/13/07


BENEFIT FOR ACTION AIDS

Action AIDS is an invaluable Philadelphia resource for those living with HIV. They need our help to keep their doors open, and we've created a fantastic night of MUSIC, POETRY and PERFORMANCE for you!

NOVEMBER 13TH, 2007
STARTING AT 8PM
THE BALCONY
(UPSTAIRS AT THE TROCADERO)
1003 ARCH STREET
CHINATOWN, PHILADELPHIA

BRING YOUR FRIENDS! We're asking a sliding scale of $5 to $20, but if you can afford more, PLEASE BE GENEROUS, this is an important night!

HOSTED BY AD Amarosi, CAConrad, and Betsy Andrews

THE EXTRAORDINARY TWO-HEADED DIVA MCs FOR THE NIGHT WILL BE
NEEDLES JONES
&
THE DIVINE MS. JIMMI

PERFORMERS INCLUDE:

THE FEVERFEW

THE ABSINTHE DRINKERS

MY INVISIBLE

GEMINI WOLF

ISH KLEIN

JASON ZUZGA

FRANK SHERLOCK

THEY ARE BIRDS

ASHRAF OSMAN

DOROTHEA LASKY

TARA MURTHA

MARALYN LOIS POLAK

benefit for Alan Czarzasty! 11/11/07

Friends and family,

please join us at the benefit for Alan Czarzasty on Sunday, November 11, 4-8pm, at Fergie's Pub (upstairs), 1214 Sansom St., Philadelphia (more info on Fergie's below). As most of you know, Alan has stage-four melanoma. He underwent two brain surgeries and radiation therapy at Jefferson Hospital, and is currently staying at his parents' house in Riverside, NJ.

The benefit features a silent art auction, music by Zee, and a poetry reading by Frank Sherlock, CAConrad and Janine Hayes. We will be auctioning off photography, prints, paintings, massages, voodoo and other kinds of dolls, and baked goods. Cindy Burstein, a local documentary filmmaker, has agreed to videotape the event.

Suggested donation at the door is $10, but you're welcome to give more or less. There are bars upstairs and downstairs, with lots of Belgian beer and pub fare like fish and chips.

Come celebrate Alan's life, his amazing spirit, and his love for New Orleans with his friends and family -- sign a guestbook, bid on art, drink, get in the second line! All proceeds will go to the Czarzasty Fund. If you're interested in donating a piece for the art auction or some baked goods, please let me know -- we'd like more volunteers, especially the baking kind!:)

Hope to see you there, and thank you,

Tatyana
TatyanaMeshch@yahoo.com
Cell: 504-388-1491

Fergie's Pub
1214 Sansom St.
Philadelphia, PA 19107
215-928-8118
(between Chestnut and Walnut and 12th and 13th streets in Center City Philadelphia; street parking)

To donate directly to the Czarzasty Fund, please contact:

Lucy and Walter Czarzasty
312 Lippincott Ave.
Riverside, NJ 08075
Home: 856-461-1325

UCSD's Department of Literature

Wednesday, October 17th, 2007
4:30pm at the Visual Arts Facility Performance Space

for further details please go to
UCSD's upcoming events page

Eileen Myles, Hal Sirowitz and CAConrad

SEPTEMBER 28TH, 2007
6pm SHARP, event is FREE
ROBIN'S BOOKSTORE
108 S. 13TH ST
PHILADELPHIA
(hosted by Frank Sherlock)


very cool press for this event can be seen HERE and HERE

EILEEN MYLES is probably America's best-known unofficial poet. Her latest book is Sorry, Tree in which she describes "some nature" as well as the transmigration of souls from the east coast to the west. Bust Magazine calls Myles "the rock star of modern poetry" and Holland Cotter in The New York Times describes her as "a cult figure to a generation of post-punk females forming their own literary avant garde." Eileen arrived in New York after college, (U. Mass. (Boston)) gaining the friendship of Allen Ginsberg, working for poet James Schuyler, becoming a habitue of the household of Ted Berrigan and Alice Notley and generally being a notable part of the turbulent punk and art scene that animated Manhattan's East Village, giving her first reading at CBGB's in 1974. A virtuoso performer of her work - she's read and performed at colleges, performance spaces, and bookstores across North America as well as in Europe, Iceland, Ireland and Russia. She's published more than 20 volumes of poetry, fiction, articles, plays and libretti including Hell (an opera with composer Michael Webster, 2004) Skies, (2001), on my way, (2001), Cool for You, (a novel, 2000), School of Fish, (1997), Maxfield Parrish, (1995), Not Me, (1991), and Chelsea Girls, (stories, 1994). In 1995, with Liz Kotz, she edited The New Fuck You/adventures in Lesbian Reading (Semiotext(e). In 1992 she conducted an openly female write-in campaign for President of the United States. In the 80s she was Artistic Director of St. Mark's Poetry Project. In '97 and again in 2007 Eileen toured with Sister Spit, a post-punk female performance troupe. She has been a professor of writing at UCSD since 2002. In 2007 she received The Andy Warhol/Creative Capital art writing fellowship. She contributes to a wide number of publication including Bookforum, the Believer, and lately Cabinet, has written catalogue essays about Sadie Benning, Peggy Awesh and Nicole Eisenman and she blogs weekly on art at http://openfordesign.msn.com/

HAL SIROWITZ is the author of four books of poems, Mother Said, My Therapist Said (Crown), Before During and After (Soft Skull Press), and Father Said, also by Soft Skull Press. He is the recipient of a Frederick Delius Award and The Susan Rose Recording Grant for Contemporary Jewish Music. Mother Said will be released on CD with music composed by Alla Borzova, sung by Paul Sperry. John Flansburgh of the rock group, They Might Be Giants, has recorded him for Hello Records, and the group spoke about him during their Mother's Day interview for NPR's Studio 360. Garrison Keillor has read his work on NPR's Writer's Almanac. Sirowitz has performed on MTV's Spoken Word Unplugged, PBS's Poetry Heaven, and NPR's All Things Considered. Awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and a 2003 New York State Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, Sirowitz is also the best selling translated poet in Norway, where Mother Said has been adapted for the stage and has been made into animated cartoons. Hal is the former Poet Laureate of Queens, New York. He has a poem in Garrison Keillor's anthology, Good Poems, in Poetry in Motion from Coast to Coast (W.W. Norton), in Poetry After 9/11 (Melville House Publishing) and in 110 Stories: Writers Respond to 9/11 (NYU Press). He worked for 25 years as a special education teacher for the New York City public schools. Hal is married to the writer Mary Minter Krotzer.

CAConrad's childhood included selling cut flowers along the highway for his mother and helping her shoplift. He escaped to Philadelphia the first chance he got where he lives and writes today with the PhillySound poets (http://www.phillysound.blogspot.com/). Soft Skull Press published his book Deviant Propulsion in 2006. The Frank Poems is forthcoming in 2008 from CHAX Press. A selection of The Frank Poems was recently translated into German by Berlin poet Holger, and a bilingual chapbook is now available from Carrie Hunter's YPOLITA Press (http://www.thefrankpoems.blogspot.com/). Jack Kimball's FAUX Press will be publishing a new series of poems (Soma)tic Midge in late 2007.

THE ODYESSY Pocket Myths poets do LIVE AT THE WRITERS HOUSE ON WXPN!

Kelly Writers House is doing a LIVE radio show featuring Pocket Myths writers! So come out or tune in, and tell your friends:

Where: Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk (on the U of Penn campus)
When: Monday September 24th, 7pm
Readings by: CAConrad, Julia Bloch, Ryan Eckes, Emily Abendroth, and Justin Audia.
Plus: Music!
Free! Also you can listen to the show on WXPN FM (88.5).

(all LIVE AT THE WRITERS HOUSE shows are archived on PENNSOUND)

Pocket Myths was created by, and is edited by Andrea Lawlor and Bernadine Mellis.

don't miss this reading!

THE 4-J's READING

SUNDAY, September 23rd
6pm SHARP, event is FREE
ROBIN'S BOOKSTORE
108 S. 13th St., Philadelphia
reading hosted by CAConrad


Jill Jones is a poet and writer who lives in Sydney, Australia. Her work has been widely published in Australia as well as in a number of print magazines in New Zealand, Canada, the USA, Britain and India. She is also widely published online. Her latest books are her fifth full length work, Broken/Open (Salt, 2005), which was short-listed for The Age Book of the Year 2005 and the 2006 Kenneth Slessor Poetry Prize, and three chapbooks, Fold Unfold (Vagabond, 2005); Where the Sea Burns (Picaro, 2004); and Struggle and Radiance: Ten Commentaries (Wild Honey Press, 2004). She has collaborated with photographer Annette Willis on a number of projects. She was a co-founder, with Laurin McKinnon, of BlackWattle Press, Australia’s first gay and lesbian press, and with Michael Farrell she is putting together an anthology of Australian lesbian and gay poetry.

Jessica White, a member of PhillySound, lives and writes in Philadelphia. She is a graduate of Temple University and has been published in Eratio and Ocho.

Jaime Anne Earnest was born on a Monday in June in the fair city of Philadelphia, where she still resides with a spoiled British Shorthair cat, Face. She will happily kick your ass at mahjong or Trivial Pursuit any day of the week. And you can totally feel free to call her James at any juncture. Everybody does.

Joey Yearous-Algozin (pronounced you're us all goes in) was born in Madison, Wisconsin in 1980, He now lives in Philadelphia with his partner, Hailey, and is in his first year at Temple's poetry program.

Friday, September 7th, 2007

LIT MAGAZINE #13
NYC LAUNCH

CAROLINE CONWAY
ADAM GOLASKI
CACONRAD
TERESE SVOBODA

ALL THE DETAILS HERE

FOR THE LOVE OF NEEDLES!!!!


SHE SPENT A WEEK IN ICU AFTER BEING BEATEN UP
BUT SHE'S OUR LADY OF DEADLY NIGHTSHADE
AND NOTHING'S GONNA KEEP HER DOWN!

Needles Jones Benefit

A.D. Amorosi presents

Monday Sept 3

The Little Death
with Nicki Jaine and Friends
Kenn Kweder/Jon Train
Chris Sulit
Louis Nelson
Franzschubert acoustic
Kyle Cassidy Armed America exhibit
CAConrad
and others

FREE with $5 suggested donation
9:30 pm
drink specials-a-plenty
The Balcony atop The Trocadero
1003 Arch Streets
in Philadelaphia's Chinatown

DON'T BE AN ASSHOLE!
SUPPORT YOUR DEVIANT SISTERS AND BROTHERS!

LIT 13 launch on 9/7/07

part of LIT 13's NYC launch!

SONGS FROM UNDER THE BED monster musical starring THE ABSINTHE DRINKERS at the 2007 Philadelphia Fringe Festival

this new musical includes songs from poems of many dead poets as well as some of CAConrad's you can see here and here.

for the 6-show appearances for Philadelphia's 2007 Fringe
CLICK HERE!
see you there

2 performances in North Carolina in August: Asheville & Durham

in ASHEVILLE:

Friday, 8/24/07
at 7pm

OUTSPOKEN BOOKS
721 Haywood Rd
Asheville, North Carolina
Lee Ann Brown to introduce
CAConrad reading from DEVIANT PROPULSION
perform pagan chants
EVENT IS FREE!
(books available for sale)

(prior to the reading Lee Ann Brown & CAConrad will read poems on WPVM Radio)

-------------

in DURHAM:

Saturday, 8/25/07
at 7pm

HOUSE PARTY
(this is a BYOB)
811 Wilkerson Avenue
Duhram, North Carolina
(series curators Magdalena Zurawski & Kathryn Pringle)

CAConrad will read
&
Mary Kalayna will be showing the amazing
short (TOO SHORT!) documentary
VENEZUELA: JOURNEY WITH THE REVOLUTION
EVENT IS FREE!
(books and dvds available for sale)

BOOG CITY ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION! FOUR DAYS OF POETRY AND MUSIC, August 2nd to August 5th

David Kirschenbaum's BOOG CITY is celebrating its anniversary in New York City! The schedule of events is too big to post here, and I can't seem to find the whole schedule listed online to link to, but on Saturday, August 4th at CAKESHOP a day of poetry has The PhillySound representing! The details:

CAKESHOP
152 Ludlow St., NY, NY

starting at 11pm is the small-small press fair and mini-musicals

starting at 5pm poets, in order of appearance:
Amy King, Nathaniel Siegel, Christina Strong, Ian Wilder, Frank Sherlock, CAConrad, Greg Fuchs, Kristin Prevallet, Eliot Katz, Rodrigo Toscano and his Collapsible Poetics Theater, followed by music from THE FUGS!

Should be an amazing time!
If you want to know the full schedule of all the events on all of the days, e-mail CAConrad13@aol.com and I will forward you the PDF flyer from David Kirschenbaum

THROW THE AMISH IN JAIL!

For years people have looked at me cross-eyed when I've used the term Nazi-Amish, but if you Love animals as much as I do you would understand. In rural Pennsylvania the Amish are the most malicious people around when it comes to animal cruelty, and they cloak this cruelty with their religion. NO MORE! The puppy mills must be shut down! And the SPCA must make regular visits to inspect the treatment of field horses, chickens, and other animals in Lancaster, PA.

Go to the site PUPPIES ARE BIODEGRADABLE and go to the art show at FUEL and help STOP this madness disguised as quaint, charming bonnets and shoofly pie!

Included in the show is a book Will Esposito put together of poems of animal cruelty which you can see on display at FUEL. Poets include Ryan Eckes, CAConrad, Will Esposito, and others (sorry I don't have the list, as I want to mention everyone's name). But do go to FUEL in July of 2007!

FUEL COLLECTION
249 Arch Street
Philadelphia, PA
(215) 592-8400

THANKS TO WILL ESPOSITO!
THANKS TO FUEL COLLECTION AND EVERYONE ELSE INVOLVED!

6/28/07 RUN THEFT!


Premiering in Philadelphia
Thursday, June 28
@
National Mechanics Bar & Restaurant
3rd Street btw. Market & Chestnut
8:00 p.m.

Film specials to wow the senses
Drink specials to dull them
-------
This film is directed by Philadelphia native Mike Land
Frank Sherlock and CAConrad play extras
(scene shot in Good Dog Bar & Restaurant)
and other scenes were shot in Will Esposito's apartment
SHOULD BE A FUN NIGHT!
DON'T MISS IT!
And there's a rumor that Ish Klein will also be showing a film
the same night, at the same venue! WE LOVE ISH!

6/23/07 at NY's KENNY'S CASTAWAYS

THE ENCLAVE READING SERIES PRESENTS

CAConrad
Iris Smyles
Christen Clifford
Stephen Karl

Saturday
June 23, 2007
3:30 - 6:30 pm
Kenny's Castaways
157 Bleeker St. (at Thompson St.)

GIL OTT Event! DO NOT MISS IT!

June 3rd, 4pm
ROBIN'S BOOKSTORE
108 S. 13th Street, Philadelphia

Tim Peterson is the recipient of the Gil Ott Book Award for SINCE I MOVED IN (Chax Press)

The late Gil Ott touched many lives, and helped change the Philadelphia arts scene for generations to come. We will be gathering to honor Gil's legacy with a reading from the first book award, and to hear readings of Gil's work by his friends, family, and admirers. Readers will include:

Eli Goldblatt, Alicia Askenase, Joshua Schuster, CAConrad, Jenn McCreary, Ron Silliman, Chris McCreary, Linh Dinh, Ryan Eckes, Bob Perelman, Tim Peterson, Frank Sherlock, Kristen Gallagher, Julia Blumenreich

Gil Ott ONLINE LINKS:
for
TRAFFIC
for
THE FORM OF OUR UNCERTAINTY
for
INTERVIEW in BANJO
for
2 audio clips
for
PENNSOUND
for
VIDEO clip
for
WIKIPEDIA (the Wikipedia folks misspelled Gil's middle name, which should be Frederic with no "k," how do we get them to change that?)

THE ODYSSEY: An Epic Night of Film and Readings in Philly

Sunday, May 13, 6:30 pm
The Rotunda, 4012 Walnut St.

Come celebrate the release of Pocket Myths #4, THE ODYSSEY, with a free screening and reading!

Films by Philly makers Courtney Dailey, Michael Hyde, Laska Jimsen, Mary McDermott, Mendal Polish, Irit Reinheimer, Zoe Strauss, and many more!

Performances by Emily Abendroth, Justin Audia, CAConrad, Steve Dolph, Ryan Eckes, Laura Jaramillo, Jen Welch, and surprise guests! Plus snacks!

THE ODYSSEY is a film and book collaboration curated by Bernadine Mellis and Andrea Lawlor, featuring work by mostly queer, trans, and women artists, retelling Homer's ancient epic of the aftermath of war. Almost half of the 75 contributors are from Philly.

Fun facts: The book was designed by Philly book artist Courtney Dailey. Writers Samuel R. Delany, Keith Waldrop, and Brian Evenson all appear in the film. Poet Eileen Myles made her first film for this project, as did Whitney Biennial star photographer Zoe Strauss. Painter Xylor Jane, known for her math art, contributed both a drawing and her first published short story.

Admission: Free! With free donated snacks!
More information: www.pocketmyths.com
Directions: therotunda.org
Please forward to all your Philly friends!

Gil Ott event postponed...

...due to weather, and to illness of two of the readers. But stay tuned for the new date! Our LOVE for Gil Ott cannot be diminished by postponement!

Gil Ott Tribute & the 1st Annual GIL OTT BOOK AWARD

Sunday, April 15th, 3pm
ROBIN'S BOOKSTORE
108 S. 13th St., Philadelphia

Tim Peterson is the recipient of the 1st Annual GIL OTT BOOK AWARD for his book SINCE I MOVED IN (Chax Press, 2007)

We will also be celebrating Gil Ott's work and life as told and read by a few of his many friends and admirers. It's going to be a poetry event to remember! Please join us! Those participating:

Alicia Askenase
Julia Blumenreich
CAConrad
Rachel Blau DuPlessis
Ryan Eckes
Kristen Gallagher
Eli Goldblatt
Chris McCreary
Jenn McCreary
Bob Perelman
Ken Rumble
Joshua Schuster
Frank Sherlock
Ron Silliman

Click HERE for a video of Gil.
Click HERE for Gil's last interview.
Click HERE at WIKIPEDIA, they're looking for help creating Gil's page.

PhillySound @ DICKINSON COLLEGE

Dorothea Lasky
Frank Sherlock
CAConrad

SATURDAY
April 14th, 5pm

DICKINSON COLLEGE'S
Genessee Pomfret Reading Series
at the college's Old West's Memorial Hall
on West Louther Street in Carlisle, PA

THE SEGUE SERIES

Saturday
April 7th, 2007
4pm

Kenward Elmslie & CAConrad
read for the SEGUE SERIES
at the BOWERY POETRY CLUB
300 Bowery, New York City

Hosted by Erica Kaufman & Tim Peterson of EOAGH!

FOR SALE will be a set of 3 "wee chaps" published by the very generous Susana Gardner of DUSIE. These 3 "wee chaps" are by Edmund Berrigan, Frank Sherlock and CAConrad. They're $15 a set, and ALL money from the sales goes to the Frank Sherlock EMERGENCY FUND.

EOAGH Philly launch DON'T MISS

A Journal of the Arts, Issue 3: Queering Language

This online journal can be read
for free by clicking HERE

PHILADELPHIA READING LAUNCH

Saturday, March 24th, 6pm to 8pm
ROBIN'S BOOKSTORE
108 S. 13th St.
Philadelphia

hosted by Tim Peterson & CAConrad

Readers will include:
Dodie Bellamy, Kyle Conner, CAConrad, Jim Cory, Sarah Dowling, Maria Fama, Chris Gullo, hassen, Mytili Jagannathan, Anne Kaier, Candace Kaucher, Erica Kaufman, Kevin Killian, Janet Mason, Cathleen Miller, Ashraf Osman, Tim Peterson, Stephen Potter, Sina Queyras, Nathaniel Siegel, Stacy Szymaszek, Eleanor Wilner, Christina Strong, Jason Zuzga

Dodie Bellamy will read the kari edwards editorial statement
Eleanor Wilner will read the poems by the late Almitra David
Jim Cory will read the poems by the late Karl Tierney
CAConrad will read the poems by the late Alexandra Grilikhes

EOAGH Issue 3 – Queering Language was edited by CAConrad, kari edwards, Paul Foster Johnson, Erica Kaufman, Jack Kimball, Tim Peterson, and Stacy Szymaszek.

This online publication includes the work of over 100 contributors as well as editors' statements on this project.

Issue 3 of EOAGH is dedicated to the memory of
kari edwards (1954-2006)
dear friend, mentor, colleague, crusader.

WE WILL HAVE WINE AND FOOD FOR DONATION
all money goes to the
kari edwards Memorial Poetry Award
at NAROPA
AND WE WILL RAFFLE OFF THE AMAZING
Sina Queyras photograph
BAT BARBIE!

FRANK SHERLOCK EMERGENCY FUND benefit show 3/18 in Philadelphia

March 18th,2007
at FERGIE'S PUB (1214 Sansom St)
4pm to 7pm on the 2nd floor

$20 suggested donation
(BUT PLEASE GIVE WHAT YOU CAN!)
(Everyone paying the $20 donation will receive a raffle ticket, and for each additional $5 will receive an additional raffle ticket. All day long we'll be raffling off books, tarot card readings and other prizes!)

HOSTED BY Jenn McCreary
BANDS, POETS & FILMMAKERS INCLUDE: Goodbye Better, Don Riggs, Christina Strong, Jessica White, Chris McCreary, I Feel Tractor, Dorthea Lasky, Shanna Compton, CAConrad, Ish Klein, Black Landlord

Our good friend Frank Sherlock was rushed to the hospital January 22nd with a sudden and mysterious illness which turned out to be a serious case of meningitis. He needed emergency surgery and also suffered a heart attack and kidney failure as a result of symptoms related to the illness. His friends have come together to help him at this critical time. We are reaching out to other friends and the poetry community on Frank's behalf. Frank's poetry page can be found here: FRANK SHERLOCK

THANKS SO MUCH FOR YOUR SUPPORT, AND PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD,
from the Friends of Frank Sherlock

3/10 in NY

Saturday, March 10th, 3pm

at the
EAR INN
326 Spring Street
(West of Greenwich St.)
click here for full schedule

Daniel Becker
CAConrad
Douglas Martin

hosted by M. Broder

FRANK SHERLOCK FUND RAISER

This Saturday
3:00-4:00 pm
The Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery@ Bleecker
New York, NY
$20 suggested donation
(please give what you can)

Performers include:

Anselm Berrigan
Eddie Berrigan
John Coletti
Cori Copp
Marcella Durand
Greg Fuchs
Brenda Iijima
Mark Lamoureux
Carol Mirakove


THANKS SO MUCH FOR YOUR SUPPORT
AND PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD
from the Friends of Frank Sherlock

fund raiser and...

Stay tuned for fund raiser events in Philadelphia and New York City for the Frank Sherlock EMERGENCY FUND!

The kari edwards memorial event from January 27th is now online at ROCK HEALS, just CLICK HERE!

reading launch for EOAGH A Journal of the Arts, Issue Three: Queering Language

hosted by Tim Peterson & Nathaniel Siegel

Readers include:
Jen Benka, Mark Bibbins, Julian Brolaski, Regie Cabico, David Cameron, Abigal Child, Jen Coleman, Allison Cobb, Marcella Durand, Joe Elliot, Corrine Fitzpatrick, E. Tracy Grinnell, Brenda Iijima, Jeffrey Jullich, Amy King, Bill Kushner, Rachel Levitsky, Ben Malkin, Filip Marinovich, Eileen Myles, Martha Oatis, Akilah Oliver, Austin Publicover, Christina Strong

Saturday February 10th, 2007
8pm-10pm
@ The Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery (@ Bowery & Bleecker)
www.bowerypoetry.com
Admission $5.00 plus 2 drink minimum

EOAGH Issue 3 – Queering Language was edited by CAConrad, kari edwards, Paul Foster Johnson, Erica Kaufman, Jack Kimball, Tim Peterson, and Stacy Szymaszek.

This online publication includes the work of over 100 contributors as well as editors' statements on this project.

The issue is dedicated to the memory of
kari edwards (1954-2006)
dear friend, mentor, colleague, crusader.

REMINDER:::(MICHAEL BALL'S BALTIMORE) i.e. series- memorial reading for kari edwards-

(A MESSAGE FROM MICHAEL BALL)
Hello Everyone-

The i.e. reading series is holding a memorial reading for kari edwards on Jan. 27th-

CAConrad will be our host & 'Master Of Ceremonies'

This event will be held at
DIONYSUS Restaraunt & Lounge
8 E. Preston Street
Baltimore, MD. 21202
410-244-1020

The event begins at 7 pm- There is no time limit-

Any & All are invited to perform, participate , attend . . .
If you want to participate/read please contact me as soon as possible-
This is so important- mbball@verizon.net

Sincerely-
Michael Ball
410-727-1953
www.ieseries.wordpress.com

GROUP READING of Kerouac's ON THE ROAD


THURSDAY, JANUARY 25TH, 2007
4:00 PM - 12:00 AM in the Arts Cafe: Kelly Writers House (3805 Locust Walk, Philadelphia) celebrates the 50th Anniversary of Jack Kerouac's On the Road.

Jack Kerouac's On the Road, a rollicking, stream-of-consciousness novel, burst onto the literary scene in 1957, rocketing Kerouac to fame and inspired a multi-generational obsession with "the road." On the Road, a rapid-fire adventure tale of crossing the country (and back again) solo and with friends, discovering drugs, jazz, and the "bug" of travel, became a benchmark for the Beat Generation.

Kerouac wrote the novel in a three-week marathon burst on 12-reams of paper he taped together and referred to as "the scroll." In celebration of the book, and the spirit of the book, the Writers House will host a marathon reading of our own scroll, featuring local luminary guest readers, accompanied by improvisational jazz musicians, and you! Stop by the house to listen to the novel, enjoy the jazz and jump in on the reading! If you would like to read a section of the scroll, please RSVP to wh@writing.upenn.edu

Sunday, January 7th, 2007 with legendary poet Gerrit Lansing in Cambridge Massachusetts


Gerrit Lansing & CAConrad

SUNDAY, Jan. 7, 2:30 p.m.
2:00 P.M.
OUT OF THE BLUE GALLERY
106 Prospect St.
Cambridge
$5

Series curator John Mercuri Dooley
See his webpage HERE

GERRIT LANSING was born in Albany, New York in 1928. He grew up on farm in northern Ohio and was schooled in Ohio, Massachusetts and New York and now lives in Gloucester, Mass. His poetry publications include Heavenly Tree / Soluble Forest (Talisman, 1995) and A February Sheaf (selected poetry and prose, Pressed Wafer, 2003). He edited SET, a poetry magazine with History and Magic as its axes. His interests include playing classical music on the piano, walking the woods, herbalism, Nath Yoga, qigong, mathesis, astrosophy.