5/15/09 JACK SPICER CELEBRATION!

MY VOCABULARY DID THIS TO ME: PANEL & READING FOR THE COLLECTED JACK SPICER

FRIDAY, MAY 15TH, 6:30PM & 8PM
ST. MARK'S POETRY PROJECT
131 E. 10th St., NYC

This special event is to honor seminal West Coast poet Jack Spicer (1925-1965). My Vocabulary Did This to Me (edited by Peter Gizzi and Kevin Killian) is a landmark publication of this essential poet’s life work, and includes poems that have become increasingly hard to find.

6:30pm: Panel in the Parish Hall with Dodie Bellamy, Samuel R. Delany, Kevin Killian & Jennifer Moxley. Moderated by Kevin Killian.

8:00pm: Reading in the Sanctuary with Dodie Bellamy, Anselm Berrigan, Julian T. Brolaski, CAConrad, Samuel R. Delany, Peter Gizzi, Kevin Killian, Basil King, Douglas A. Martin, Deborah Remington, Harris Schiff, Rod Smith, George Stanley, Lewis Warsh & Karen Weiser.

Co-presented with Poets House.

5/14/09 CD RELEASE PARTY!

I'M VERY EXCITED
TO BE PERFORMING
WITH THE MARVELOUS
DAVID GROLLMAN (ON DRUMS)
and VALERIE KUEHNE (ON CELLO)

THIS IS A CD RELEASE PARTY FOR THEIR VERY LIMITED HAND PAINTED CDS

PLEASE JOIN US
THURSDAY, MAY 14TH
6pm to 8pm

Envoy Gallery
131 Chrystie St., NYC
(below Delancey)
(phone is 212.226.4555)

4 OF CUPS SPICER READING!



5/12/09
at 7pm
JACK SPICER
for URCHIN SERIES
all details at
THIS LINK!

4/26/09 SAXBYS COFFEE


SAXBYS COFFEE
DOYLESTOWN, PA
22 N. MAIN ST.

April 26th at 7pm
A POETRY READING WITH

RYAN ECKES
FRANK SHERLOCK
CACONRAD

GRACEFULLY @ Zebulon 4/21/09


NOTE FROM GOODBYE BETTER BRAINCHILD BEN MALKIN:

Dear Friends,
Tuesday, April 21st, Goodbye Better is putting on a very special FREE show @ Zebulon in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and we’d be honored if you’d join us for what will no doubt be a classic of the period, a drunken jamboree, and a thrilla in Zebulon-illa.

This little party/show is also to celebrate the release of the first Gracefully cd, out on Goodbye Better that very night. 500 copy limited edition new ten song full-length self-titled cd from Ben, Lee, Padden, Veronika, Khaya, & Victor.

Performing April 21st will be GB extended family:

CAConrad
I Feel Tractor (in full on 4-piece band mode)
Gracefully
Yesterdays News (all 5 original Lumipad members reformed)
as well as DJ Merc (de Ifwhen) throwing down original psychedelic jungle excursions b/w sets (perfect club music for those who see the world in swirls).
For full artist descriptions please scroll down.
Zebulon is located at 258 Wythe Ave. (b/w North 3rd and Metropolitan) in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, 11211.

This show is FREE.

Directions: Take the L to Bedford Ave. Wythe is two blocks over from Bedford. Walk down three or four blocks. Zebulon is b/w N. 3rd and Metropolitan on Wythe, #258.
http://www.zebuloncafeconcert.com/

Thank you, Much love,

Goodbye Better
http://goodbyebetter.com

Artist Bios:
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 (http://PhillySound.blogspot.com). He is the author of Deviant Propulsion (Soft Skull Press, 2006), (Soma)tic Midge (FAUX Press, 2008), The Book of Frank (Chax Press, 2008)(winner of THE GIL OTT BOOK AWARD), 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 http://CAConrad.blogspot.com

I Feel Tractor - If you threw Woody Guthrie's guitar, a Royal Trux ep, a few pages of a Paul Celan book, and a few socio-political traumas into a boiling cauldren, you might just end up with Once I had an Earthquake, the first full-length collection of I Feel Tractor's space folk musings. http://www.myspace.com/ifeeltractor

Gracefully - An ambient rock band from NYC, Gracefully is the phoenix rising out of the ashes of the Brooklyn band So L'il. http://www.myspace.com/solil

Below is the track listing for their new self-titled full-length cd. Side one brings the rock, Side two the ambience.

The Underground Sundae
Spank Me Slowly
Inside Trois - featuring Honeychild Coleman
Bang Bang
Christopher
The Ex-Prisoner
Fell On Us
Dear Whipping Boy,
Sinking
Follow That Bliss

Yesterday's News - all five original members of Lumipad have gotten back together to form Yesterday's News, something like sailing in the dark and dreaming about nothing in particular, like Nyquil on redbull. Lumipad was one of the best and most original bands this city has ever seen, and it is beyond a pleasure to have them back together this night.

http://www.myspace.com/lumipad

http://www.myspace.com/driftinginthecinema

DJ Merc (de Ifwhen) - From an article I wrote about them in Cock-Now and Perfect Sound Forever "Ifwhen, the very name itself implying what's coming next, seeks to shatter that ordinariness, shatter what makes you feel comfortable. Headfuck you, to put it bluntly. This is not a bad thing. In fact, it's as fresh as fresh can be because it makes you see the world through new eyes."

Tonight Merc will be presenting his new solo psychedelic jungle excursions b/w sets, perfect club music for those who see the world in swirls.

http://www.myspace.com/ifwhen