10/31/08

POETRY FUND RAISER FOR PHILABUNDANCE, COME JOIN US HALLOWEEN NIGHT!

at Robin's Bookstore, October 31st, 9pm (yes, 9pm)

$10 cover includes candy, and proceeds for PHILABUNDANCE which is an organization which collects food from area restaurants, grocers, bakeries, etc., to feed the homeless.

POETS INCLUDE: Hal Sirowitz, Bob Holman, CAConrad, Adam Meora, Rick Szybowski

DETAILS WITH BIOS HERE

Produced by Adam Meora, hosted by Debrah Morkun and Adam Meora

COSTUME DANCE PARTY TO FOLLOW

10/27/08

MONDAY, OCTOBER 27TH
KGB BAR 85 East 4th St., NYC
7:30pm, admission free

Rick Barot and CAConrad

10/25/08

Saturday, October 25
at 8 pm

at Unnameable Books
456 Bergen St.
(btwn. 5th Ave. & Flatbush Ave.)
Brooklyn, NY

Please join us for a reading by Laura Jaramillo and CAConrad in celebration of Laura's chapbook The Reactionary Poems, just published by olywa press. Chapbooks will be available for purchase at a discount.

10/24/08

FAUX CHAPS PARTY
Friday, Oct. 24
6:30-8:30pm

at Jimmy's No. 43
43 E. 7th St. (b. 2nd & 3rd Ave.) NY

Short readings by:

CAConrad - (SOMA)TIC MIDGE
Alan Davies - ODES
Brenda Iijima - SUBSISTENCE EQUIPMENT
Jack Kimball - PATHOLOGIES
Jeni Olin - THE PILL BOOK
Stacy Szymaszek - ORIZABA

Faux Chaps "Painting small. Since 2008"

Jimmy's is a informal pub In the heart of the East Village serving handcrafted beer on draught with local & organic food.

RON SILLIMAN, MAGDALENA ZURAWSKI, PAM BROWN

DO NOT MISS THIS READING!

Hosted by CAConrad

ROBIN'S BOOKSTORE
108 S. 13th St., Philadelphia

Sunday, October 19th, 4pm


Ron Silliman's long awaited collection THE ALPHABET will be available for sale and for signing. He is the author or editor of twenty-six books of poetry or criticism, among them The Age of Huts (compleat), Tjanting, ABC, Demo to Ink, Paradise, ®, What, Woundwood, and the memoir Under Albany. He edited the landmark poetry anthology In the American Tree, and he has received a Pew Fellowship in the Arts, two Fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts, and three arts commission grants from the state arts councils of California and Pennsylvania. His widely read Silliman's Blog, a daily journal devoted to contemporary poetry and poetics, has become a major force in online literary criticism. His blog is HERE.

Magdalena Zurawski was born in Newark, NJ in 1972 to Polish immigrants. Her work has been published in American Poet: The Journal of the Academy of American Poets, The Poetry Project Newsletter, Rattapallax, Talisman, and other magazines. She lives in North Carolina where she is working on her PhD at Duke University. The Bruise is her first novel and won the Ronald Sukenik Innovative Fiction Prize. Her blog is HERE.

Pam Brown lives in Australia and is co-editor of JACKET Magazine. She has published many books and chapbooks including Text thing (Little Esther Books, 2002) and Dear Deliria (Salt Publishing, 2003) which was awarded the New South Wales Premier’s Prize for Poetry in 2004. She collaborated with Seattle-based Egyptian poet Maged Zaher on a collection of poems called farout library software (Tinfish Press, 2007). Her most recent book, True Thoughts, was published by Sal Publishing in September 2008. Her next collection, Authentic Local, is forthcoming from Papertiger Media in 2009. She is the associate editor of Jacket magazine. She keeps a blog you can see HERE.