31 August 2006

KATIE SPEAKS.


KINDNESS OF STRANGERS.
Earliest Music Manuscripts by Johann Sebastian Bach Discovered

two new chapbooks from Braincase Press

IOWA Travis Nichols Braincase PressSecret Architecture Aaron Kunin Braincase Press

30 August 2006

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.

Today The Sky is Blue and White with Bright Blue Spots and a Small Pale Moon and I Will Destroy Our Relationship Today by Tao Lin

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.

29 August 2006

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:

Thomas Frank Emmanuelle Béart

28 August 2006

Antonio's Pizza Amherst

The Present Work

Matvei Yankelevich
Matvei Yankelevich The Present Work Palm Press

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)

26 August 2006

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

interview with Scott Pierce/Effing Press & Tony Tost

noam chomsky failed states
noam chomsky failed states

beta blues

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

25 August 2006

Gregorio Prestopino
Gregorio Prestopino

TO BLOG AGAIN.

24 August 2006

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

Small Press Distribution MySpace

Rite Spote Café CATHERINE MENG GEOFFREY G. O’BRIEN MICHAEL ZAPRUDER
CATHERINE MENG &
GEOFFREY G. O’BRIEN
MUSIC BY MICHAEL ZAPRUDER
SAT., SEP. 23 · 5-7 PM FREE

PALM PRESS

23 August 2006

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

510

Selected Amazon Reviews Kevin Killian Brent Cunningham Hooke Press OBERIU: An Anthology of Russian Absurdism Eugene Ostashevsky Alexander Vvedensky Daniil Kharms Nikolai Zabolotsky Nikolai Oleinikov Leonid Lipavsky Yakov Druskin Northwestern University Press


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

DON'T BREAK YOUR LEG

David MetlzerSteve Dickison
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."
full schedule here

22 August 2006

fear of the outdoorsRadar 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

21 August 2006

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

MATVEI YANKELEVICH  McNally Robinson Books NYC, this Wednesday, August 23rd, 7pm Vacation House Summer Poetry Series
JORDAN DAVIS  McNally Robinson Books NYC, this Wednesday, August 23rd, 7pm Vacation House Summer Poetry Series

20 August 2006

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 so love eyeball hatred
  I've only gotten one score, 5 out of 10 points.

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

19 August 2006

Yuri Hospodar Erika Staiti Sarah Enid New YipesDavid Abel
Stephen Vincent

Monday
August 28th, 7:30


18 August 2006

King Dork Frank Portman Dr. Frank Pegasus Books Berkeley

17 August 2006

Adam's Booksoh

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

16 August 2006

Ploughshares blog.

2349 shattuck avenue

Some new books just in:
ENTHUSIASMS: ODES & OTIUM Jean Day Adventures in PoetryDeathStar/Rico-chet Judith GoldmanReptile House Lisa Jarnot Bookthug
Incubation: A Space for Monsters Bhanu Kapil Leon WorksI Have Not Been Able To Get Through To Everyone Anna Moschovakis Turtle Point PressThe Men: A Lyric Book Lisa Robertson
Under That Silky Roof Elizabeth Robinson Burning Deck PressThe Letters of James Schuyler to Frank O'Hara Edited by William Corbett Turtle Point PressOrganic Furniture Cellar Jessica Smith Outside Voices

Bruno Kirby
Oh, and this guy's dead.

Labels:

15 August 2006

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ISLA.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, GINA.

Labels:

i played in a band with bigger amplifiers

August 15, 1965   

14 August 2006

SF Spleen David Hadbawnik Skanky Possum Rodney Koeneke Bird & Beckett

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."

OCTOPUS #08 Chapbook SeriesFROM 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
Douglas Rothschild2127 Blake St.
Berkeley
, CA
415-235-0052
Party @ 8
Reading @ 9

13 August 2006

Today, 3 PM: Canessa Park Reading Series, 708 Montgomery Street @ Columbus, S.F. Poets Beverly Dahlen, Susanne Dyckman, Kate Greenstreet, Todd Melicker, & Brian Teare
Tomorrow, 7:30 PM: Rodney Koeneke & David Hadbawnik @ Bird & Beckett Books & Records, 2788 Diamond St. @ Chenery, S.F.
   Sunday, Aug. 20 @ 7 PM: New Yipes!

12 August 2006

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

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

11 August 2006

Mike DouglasMike Douglas celebrates 81st birthday.

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Saturday, 7-10 PM: 2006 Bay Area Summer Poetry Marathon at The Lab, 2948 16th Street @ Capp, S.F.
Sunday, 3 PM: Canessa Park Reading Series, 708 Montgomery Street @ Columbus, S.F. Poets Beverly Dahlen, Susanne Dyckman, Kate Greenstreet, Todd Melicker, & Brian Teare
Monday, 7:30 PM: Rodney Koeneke & David Hadbawnik @ Bird & Beckett Books & Records, 2788 Diamond St. @ Chenery, S.F.
   Sunday, Aug. 20 @ 7 PM: New Yipes!

10 August 2006

do you love me?

Rodney Koeneke &David Hadbawnik

MONDAY, AUG. 14 @ 7:30 PM

Bird & Beckett

 generic names for soft drinks map  meet an inmate 
 cuddle party FAQ  penguins in texas highway crash 

09 August 2006

COROLLARY PRESS   /   THE CHUCKWAGON

08 August 2006

Wave Books Poetry Bus Tour 2006

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.

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frank portman dr. frank king dork pegasus downtown



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YOU'RE ON NOTICE!
Why begrudge me a little fun. And must you chew gum.
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