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

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