3/29/09 with Buuck and Kaufman

Night Flag presents
David Buuck, Erica Kaufman, and CAConrad

Sunday March 29 @ 7:30pm
L'Etage (above Beau Monde)
624 S. 6th Street PHILLY
HOSTED BY
FRANK SHERLOCK


David Buuck lives in Oakland, California. He is the author of THE SHUNT, coming this spring from Palm Press, and _Buried Treasure Island_ (BARGE/YBCA 2008). He is contributing editor at *Artweek* & teaches at the San Francisco Art Institute and Bard College. More info at davidbuuck.com/barge and buuckbarge.wordpress.com.

Erica Kaufman is the author of Censory Impulse (Factory School 2009) and co-curates Belladonna

CAConrad is the son of white trash asphyxiation whose childhood included selling cut flowers along the highway for his mother and helping her shoplift. He escaped to Philadelphia where he lives and writes with the PhillySound poets. His latest book The Book of Frank (Chax Press, 2009) received The Gil Ott Book Award. He is also the author of Deviant Propulsion (Soft Skull Press, 2006), (Soma)tic Midge (FAUX Press, 2008), and two forthcoming books, advanced ELVIS course (Soft Skull Press, 2009), and a collaboration with poet Frank Sherlock titled The City Real & Imagined: Philadelphia Poems (Factory School Press, 2009).

3/28/09 Arcadia University's LIGHT OF UNITY FESTIVAL

THIS POETRY FESTIVAL OUTSIDE OF PHILADELPHIA HAS A MYSPACE PAGE COMPLETE WITH POETRY VIDEOS, PHOTOS, BIOS, AND ALL THE OTHER DETAILS YOU NEED TO KNOW. SEE IT BY CLICKING HERE! IT'S GOING TO BE A FANTASTIC EXPERIENCE, SEE YOU THERE!

3/25/09 CHRYSTIE ST. SERIES

CACONRAD & IAN DREIBLATT

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25
HOME SWEET HOME
131 CHRYSTIE ST., NYC
7 PM SHARP
HOSTED BY LAUREN IRELAND


CAConrad is the son of white trash asphyxiation whose childhood included selling cut flowers along the highway for his mother and helping her shoplift. He escaped to Philadelphia where he lives and writes with the PhillySound poets PhillySound.blogspot.com. His latest book The Book of Frank (Chax Press, 2009) received The Gil Ott Book Award. He is also the author of Deviant Propulsion (Soft Skull Press, 2006), (Soma)tic Midge (FAUX Press, 2008), and two forthcoming books, advanced ELVIS course (Soft Skull Press, 2009), and a collaboration with poet Frank Sherlock titled THE CITY REAL & IMAGINED: Philadelphia Poems (Factory School Press, 2009). He invites you to visit him online at CAConrad.blogspot.com

Ian Dreiblatt is a poet, translator, & musician. he is the author, with Kerry Downey, of hoc me fefecit / image, a collaborative book of art & poetry, and has published translations of Mandelstam &, most recently, Tolstoy's The Death Of Ivan Ilich. the poet Robert Kelly has said, "listening to Ian's poems, because he has that magic intuition that all poetry is language poetry... you can feel a tremendous upwelling of words in other languages, other englishes within the english." he writes a sonnet every day & lives with Lauren near the c & g trains.