Lisa Jarnot & Ron Silliman

Saturday, April 4
4:00 to 6:00 PM

At the Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery
just North of Houston
New York City

(F train to 2nd Ave, 6 to Bleecker )

Segue Reading Series

 

A video of my reading
last Tuesday
at Kelly Writers House
University of Pennsylvania

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Rachel Blau DuPlessis’
introduction to The Alphabet
is now also on video!

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One week from Tuesday
February 17
6:30 PM

A celebration of The Alphabet

Kelly Writers House
3805 Locust Walk
Philadelphia

Today,
I wish I were
in Portland, Oregon

So there will be not one, but two, major offsite readings in conjunction with this year’s MLA in San Francisco .

The first, Sunday night, December 28 at 7:00 PM, in the Forum at the Yerba Buena Center, 701 Mission (and thus directly across the street from SF MoMA in one direction & the Moscone Convention Center in another), is sponsored by SPD & the Poetry Foundation, and includes numerous out-of-town celebs, including several (Dale Smith, Carla Harryman, Michael Davidson, Barrett Watten & Timothy Yu) with important links to the Bay Area.

The second, Tuesday night, December 30 at 7:00 PM, at the Hotel Utah at 500 Fourth Street (at Bryant just east of the freeway overpass) is sponsored by Small Press Traffic & includes more than 30 local poets. It’s a terrific opportunity for MLA nomads to check out what’s new & hot in one of the great writing cities of the U.S.

And do not forget the New Year’s Day Marathon Thursday, January 1, 2009 at 2:00 pm at St. Marks Church in New York City, 131 E. 10^th Street. The 35^th annual marathon in the series that is the Mother of All Marathon reading events.

Which gives you plenty of time to get – even walk – to Milwaukee for Woodland Pattern’s 15th annual marathon January 31st. The address there is 720 E. Locust. Those Midwesterners are early risers & this marathon starts at 10:00 am & runs until 1:00 in the morning.

Hopefully people will be taking photos – and audio recordings – of all these events. If such should go up on the web, I’ll link to them here.

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Today, Sunday
December 21, 7:00 PM

Joel Lewis & Thom Donovan

 

Zinc Bar
82 W. Third Street

Between Thompson and Sullivan¹

New York, New York

 

Thom Donovan has heroically agreed to step in & pinch hit for me.
 It’s an inspired choice – two poets with deep investigations of place.

 

¹ If you have not been to the Zinc in awhile, please note that this is a new location.

 

Next Sunday
December 21, 7:00 PM

Joel Lewis & Ron Silliman

 

Zinc Bar
82 W. Third Street

Between Thompson and Sullivan¹

New York, New York

 

¹ If you have not been to the Zinc in awhile, please note that this is a new location.

photo by Erica Jane Kaufman

Beverly Dahlen Fest

Saturday, December 13

3:00 PM

Timken Lecture Hall
California College of the Arts
1111 8th Street
San Francisco

including,
in addition to Bev,
  Stephen Vincent
  Lauren Shufran
  Charles Alexander
  Jocelyn Saidenberg
  Bruce Boone
  Elizabeth Robinson
  Rob Halpern
  Kathleen Fraser
Ron Silliman¹

A native of Portland, Oregon, Beverly Dahlen has lived in San Francisco for many years. Her first book, Out of the Third, was published by Momo's Press in 1974. Two chapbooks, A Letter at Easter (Effie's Press, 1976) and The Egyptian Poems (Hipparchia Press, 1983) were followed by the publication of the first volume of A Reading in 1985 (A Reading 1977, Momo's Press). Since then, three more volumes of A Reading have appeared. Chax Press published A Reading 8 – 10 (1992); Potes and Poets Press: A Reading 11 – 17 (1989); Instance Press: A Reading 18 – 20 (2006). Chax Press also published the chapbook A-reading Spicer & Eighteen Sonnets in 2004. Ms. Dahlen has also published work in numerous periodicals and anthologies. A forthcoming issue of Crayon will publish poetry and her essay on beauty.

 

¹ By word only, alas.

Friday, November 7, 3-5 pm

Ron Silliman

Yale Working Group
in Contemporary Poetics

Room 116 Whitney Humanities Center
Yale University, New Haven CT

Open to the public

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SUNDAY

October 19th, 4pm

Pam Brown
Magdalena Zurawski
Ron Silliman

Hosted by CAConrad

ROBIN'S BOOKSTORE
108 S. 13th St., Philadelphia
215-735-9600

 

ONE WEEK FROM SUNDAY

Pam Brown
Magdalena Zurawski
Ron Silliman

DO NOT MISS THIS READING!

Hosted by CAConrad

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

Sunday, October 19th, 4pm

 

  

 

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 Salt Publishing in September 2008. Her next collection, Authentic Local, is forthcoming from Papertiger Media in 2009. She keeps a blog you can see 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.

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 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. He is a member of the Grand Piano collective.

This note shamelessly stolen
(and somewhat adapted)
 from CAConradEvents blog

Tomorrow in the Motor City!

The Grand Piano comes to Detroit!

My turn on Joe Milford’s internet radio show – all 90 minutes of it – can be streamed or downloaded from the website today. Just click on the logo in the note below. The reading / chat was fun to do and I’ve gotten very positive emails about it from three different continents over the past 18 hours. I read from the PDF of my original manuscript of The Alphabet. Which is to say that I was staring into a screen, talking on the phone. It’s an interesting way to do an event.

Saturday, August 16

5:00 PM Eastern

Joe Milford Hosts Ron Silliman
on the Jane Crown Show

Call-in Number (646) 200-0176

 

Photo © Star Black 2008

This Sunday
May 18 on
THE MOE GREEN POETRY HOUR
11 AM Pacific time, 2 PM Eastern
Join Rafael F. J. Alvarado
as he listens to the poetry of

KAZIM ALI
 
FANNY HOWE

Jonathan weINERT

To listen to any of the shows click below
 Listen live or later
Feel free to download archived shows
 http://www.blogtalkradio.com/onword/
 Call in number (718) 508-9717

A Celebration of
George Oppen’s 100^th Birthday
100 minutes of talk & poetry

Hosted by Rachel Blau DuPlessis & Thomas Devaney
& featuring
Stephen Cope, George Economou, Al Filreis,
Michael Heller, Ann Lauterbach, Tom Mandel,
Bob Perelman, & Ron Silliman

Monday, April 7

6:00 PM, Arts Café, Kelly Writers House
3805 Locust Walk
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia

George Oppen and his wife, Mary, sailed and hitchhiked from the West Coast to New York City in the 1920s. There, Oppen became a central member of the Objectivist Group of poets that flourished in the 1930s. George and Mary Oppen moved increasingly to the left during the Depression, becoming social activists and joining the Communist party in 1935. During this period Oppen's poems appeared in small journals such as Active Anthology, Poetry, and Hound and Horn, but he soon gave up writing for more than two decades. Oppen revived his poetic career when he returned to the United States in 1958. In 1962, New Directions published Oppen's second book of poetry, The Materials, which was followed by This in Which (1965). In 1969, Of Being Numerous (1968) was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. Oppen's Collected Poems (1975) includes all of his poetry from Discrete Series (1934) through his last work, Myth of the Blaze (1975). In the late 1960s, Oppen moved to San Francisco, where he lived until his death in 1984.

Poet and critic Stephen Cope is editor of George Oppen: Selected Prose Daybooks, and Papers (U. of California Press, 2008), and a founding editor of Essay Press. He has taught at universities in California, Iowa, and Ohio, and is on the faculty of Bard College's Language and Thinking program.

Thomas Devaney is the author A Series of Small Boxes (Fish Drum, 2007). He teaches in the Critical Writing Program at the University of Pennsylvania, and is editing a feature section "Oppen at 100" for Jacket 38 (October 2008).

Rachel Blau DuPlessis has both written on George Oppen's work and edited his Selected Letters (Duke U.P., 1990). DuPlessis has published numerous books of poetry and literary criticism; her most recent critical book is Blue Studios: Poetry and its Cultural Work. She teaches in the English Department of Temple University.

George Economou's latest book is Acts of Love, Ancient Greek Poetry from Aphrodite's Garden (Modern Library/Random House). Books of Cavafy translations and the poems & fragments of Ananios Kleitor are forthcoming.

Al Filreis is Kelly Professor, Director of the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing, Faculty Director of the Kelly Writers House and author of four books, most recently Counter-revolution of the Word: The Conservative Attack on Modern Poetry, 1945-60.

Michael Heller is a poet, essayist and critic. Forthcoming in 2008 are Eschaton, a new book of poems, Speaking the Estranged, a collection of his essays on George Oppen, and Marble Snows: Two Novellas.

Ann Lauterbach's most recent books are Hum and The Night Sky: Writings on the Poetics of Experience. She is Schwab Professor of Languages and Literature at Bard College, where she also co-directs Writing in the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts.

Tom Mandel grew up in Chicago and was educated in its jazz and blues clubs and at the University of Chicago. He is the author of more than a dozen books including To the Cognoscenti (2007) and is one of the authors of The Grand Piano, an ongoing experiment in collective autobiography.

Bob Perelman has published numerous books of poetry, most recently Iflife. He teaches at the University of Pennsylvania.

Ron Silliman's most recent book is The Age of Huts (compleat) and several volumes of the collectively written Grand Piano project. In 2008, the University of Alabama Press will publish The Alphabet.

 This Monday
 February 11 
7:00 PM  Pacific / 10:00 PM Eastern
on
 The Moe Green Poetry Hour
Listen live or later
  Call in number (718) 508-9717

Join Moe Green (aka Rafael F. J. Alvarado) and
his cohost Stacey Mangiaracina
as they listen to the poetry of

Brenda Hillman
Jean Valentine
Rachel Zucker

Small Press Distribution
is blogging
the AWP Bookfair
this weekend in New York