KATIE SPEAKS.

KINDNESS OF STRANGERS.

two new chapbooks from Braincase Press

Google Book Search has begun offering pdfs of public domain works, announced here. You've got to choose Full view books on the search, i.e., I don't see that you can browse or anything, just stab.

People in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Vermont are less fat than people in California. I didn't know.

Believe it or not (of course you should believe it) Chris Stroffolino is playing tonight at the Ivy Room. I'm going, even though I just learnt it costs $5.

There's a new article on Berkeley booksellers, for which I was one of the "weird" people interviewed, here. It's more or less accurate, the me bit, although the words attributed to me (you know, in quotes) are not mine but kind of imaginatively recreated.

SPT's just posted its fall schedule and oh my god it includes CAConrad (and Alli Warren).

A couple of nights ago I tubed myself blue watching David Letterman clips from the early 80s, and lecturettes—which cleared up one or two things—by Dr. Zakir Naik.

Which inspired me, obviously, to post a gratuitous pic:

The Present Work

Matvei Yankelevich

Monsters (hurry the hell up)
Aimee Nezhukumatathil (wind-kicked)
908 - 1078 - Brandon Brown (quickspeed)
A Projection of Frankensex (hurry the hell up)
RIGHT NOW THE MUSIC AND THE LIFE RULE (hurry the hell up 2)

ITS BEEN ANOTHER FORTNIGHT IT MUST BE MELANCHOLIAS TREMULOUS DREADLOCKS 3 MUST BE

beta blues

anybody else with a gmail account and a blogger blog having trouble the past few days logging in?

TO BLOG AGAIN.

510

Another great afternoon at SPD, who IN CASE YOU DON'T KNOW ARE NOW ON MYSPACE. I walked with a heavy box three blocks to catch a bus. Caught a bus and rode a bus. Got off a bus and walked around the corner to catch another bus. Got on that bus and sat and drummed my fingers on the box and got off the bus and walked around the corner and into the bookstore.

We're so busy here, I don't have time to type this:

CONCORDANCE / MEI-MEI BERSSENBRUGGE & KIKI SMITH
ALMA, OR THE DEAD WOMAN / ALICE NOTLEY
A PAJAMAIST / MATTHEW ZAPRUDER

CATHERINE MENG &
GEOFFREY G. O’BRIEN

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MUSIC BY MICHAEL ZAPRUDER

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SAT., SEP. 23 · 5-7 PM FREE

LOTS AND LOTS AND LOTS OF NEW REVIEWS AT GALATEA RESURRECTS 3.

510

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GO GET JOSEPH MASSEY'S PROPERTY LINE FROM FEWER & FURTHER PRESS NOW.

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DON'T BREAK YOUR LEG

Downtown Berkeley Jazz Festival presents
Saturday AUG 26, 2:00 pm
at Berkeley Main Public Library
(Kittredge & Shattuck, one block south of Berkeley BART)

SHUFFLE BOIL breakdown
celebrating the release of new double issue 5/6
David Meltzer
Steve Dickison
poetry & other words

"We'll be on stage for circa 20 minutes, among several other poets, so don't break your leg to rush to this one."

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full schedule here

Radar Love - a nite of music & literature to benefit Carole & Mitzi
Thursday, August 24th, 2006
8pm - 11pm


Carole and Mitzi, aka Beth Lisick and Tara Jepsen, are shooting a follow-up to their smash short film, Diving for Pearls. Come help them raise some dough!

Music and literature hosted by Michelle Tea, featuring Joan Jett Blakk, Fear of the Outdoors, Kaui Hart Hemmings, Zoey Kroll, Luna Maia, Michelle Richmond, Shauna Rogan, Sara Seinberg, Chelsea Star, Horehound Stillpoint, with a special appearance by Mitzi and Carole and a special screening of Diving for Pearls.

Admission: $6

You must be 21+ with ID to attend.

tom beckett has interviewed caconrad

alice jones will interview paul hoover

look for carve 7 any second now with ruth lepson, kate greenstreet, michael carr, tyler carter, john coletti, matvei yankelevich, and an interview between stacy szymaszek and erica kaufman, as well as cover art by mark yakich (a hefty 44 pages, it's the longest carve yet, but still only $5!)

F2F@MiPO

adam clay hacked?

i'm already so ready

BIG BRIDGE = 11

ANNA MOSCHOVAKIS
ANNA MOSCHOVAKIS
ANNA MOSCHOVAKIS
ANNA MOSCHOVAKIS
ANNA MOSCHOVAKIS

H_NGM_N

Two new chapbooks:

  #3, #4

(But you've got to click here to pay.)

I went to Moe's tonight. I hung around awhile. Finally I went back upstairs and asked, "Is there a reading tonight?"

if i could i would not hesitate

THE ENLIVENED CASUAL TREE.

we are seeking innovative, tradition-defying work in multiple genres: poetry, microfiction, and essays on topics poetical, cultural and political. work of uncategorized form is also of interest — please query.

  I've only gotten one score, 5 out of 10 points.

  I don't know whether it's supposed to be rated on delightfulness.

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UPDATE: Thanks for voting, but you need to rate it a 10.

Also, I need to get about 1,000 more hits to reach 20,000 by September 30, this blog's first anniversary.

David Abel
Stephen Vincent

Monday
August 28th, 7:30

oh

the big picture
frank portman
douglas rothschild
caconrad
new yipes
really kick-ass poetry for SOQ actually
transmission press

Ploughshares blog.

2349 shattuck avenue

Some new books just in:

Oh, and this guy's dead.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ISLA.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, GINA.

i played in a band with bigger amplifiers

August 15, 1965   

Samizdat's little pill about readings.

Gives me an idea to host five poets, five poems each read round-robin, no poem longer than say 1.5 minutes.

overheard

"Am I trapped in the 80s writings of Barrett Watten? Or am I stoned?"

"Dude, you're stoned."

FROM OCTOPUS PEOPLE:

Dear Friend of Octopus,

We are excited to announce the contents of our upcoming chapbook issue, Octopus #8. As you might already know this issue will consist of eight separately printed & bound chapbooks presented as a single issue. We received over three hundred submissions among which were so many exciting manuscripts. After a blind reading process the editorial board and we chose these eight amazing chapbooks:

Julie Doxsee
The Knife-Grasses

Jen Tynes & Erika Howsare
The Ohio System

Sueyeun Juliette Lee
Perfect Villagers

Eugene Ostashevsky
DJ Spinoza’s Dozen

Joshua Marie Wilkinson
The Book of Truants & Projectorlight

Genya Turovskaya
The Tides

Jonah Winter
The Continuing Misadventures of Andrew, the Headless Talking Bear

Samuel Amadon
Goodnight Lung

Issue #8 will be available for purchase in the fall. You will be able to buy the chapbooks as a full set or individually.

This is the first venture of Octopus Books. Beginning in 2007, Octopus Books will publish two full-length books of poems every year through open April readings, in addition to broadsides and additional chapbooks.

Please check us out at http://www.octopusbooks.net.

Thanks for your interest in and support of Octopus Magazine and Octopus Books.

Sincerely,

Zachary Schomburg & Mathias Svalina
Editors, Octopus Magazine & Octopus Books

Editorial Board: Brandon Shimoda, Hadara Bar-Nadav, and Christopher DeWeese.
Editorial Assistants: Heather Green, Alisa Heinzman, Tim Marcuson, and Ashley Payne.

Party/House Reading for Douglas Rothschild

FRIDAY, August 18th at 8pm
SWOONROCKET HOUSE
2127 Blake St.
Berkeley, CA
415-235-0052
Party @ 8
Reading @ 9

Today, 3 PM: Canessa Park Reading Series, 708 Montgomery Street @ Columbus, S.F. Poets Beverly Dahlen, Susanne Dyckman, Kate Greenstreet, Todd Melicker, & Brian Teare

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Tomorrow, 7:30 PM: Rodney Koeneke & David Hadbawnik @ Bird & Beckett Books & Records, 2788 Diamond St. @ Chenery, S.F.

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   Sunday, Aug. 20 @ 7 PM: New Yipes!

melancholia's tremulous dreadlocks # 2

Lena Dunham · Brian Boutwell · Elizabeth Kate Switaj · Tomaž Šalamun · François Luong · Jessy Randall · Louise Landes Levi · Reb Livingston · Pierre Joris · Kudra Delaney · Donald Illich · Christine Hamm · Mary Kasimor · Glenn Bach · Scott Keeney · Caleb Puckett · Jenna Cardinale

YOUR GAEL TIME-OUT.

APOSTROPHE BOOKS

Mike Douglas celebrates 81st birthday.

Saturday, 7-10 PM: 2006 Bay Area Summer Poetry Marathon at The Lab, 2948 16th Street @ Capp, S.F.

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Sunday, 3 PM: Canessa Park Reading Series, 708 Montgomery Street @ Columbus, S.F. Poets Beverly Dahlen, Susanne Dyckman, Kate Greenstreet, Todd Melicker, & Brian Teare

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Monday, 7:30 PM: Rodney Koeneke & David Hadbawnik @ Bird & Beckett Books & Records, 2788 Diamond St. @ Chenery, S.F.

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   Sunday, Aug. 20 @ 7 PM: New Yipes!

&  

MONDAY, AUG. 14 @ 7:30 PM

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COROLLARY PRESS   /   THE CHUCKWAGON

IF YOU WANT IT.

WAVE BOOKS / The Bedazzler :: Summer 2006

It's up.

Adam Clay
April Stoltz
Becky Peterson
Crystal Curry
Ed Skoog
Fred Schmalz
Hugh Steinberg
Julie Doxsee
Maged Zaher
Nate Pritts

Hey.

   No.