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Crabwise to the Hounds

Jeramy Dodds Coach House Books

SARAH READS EVERYTHING

I don't. Once or twice a week I read the Guardian's Michael Tomasky and Dlisted, maybe Jezebel, if I'm lucky.

Do you really think Sarah's been listening to Joe Biden since 1972?

Does she seem like she'd have been that kind of second-grader?

(I started the second grade in 1972 and can scarcely remember any of it, just Vietnam on TV, Nixon, and my proud commonwealth voting for McGovern.)

REALISMS OF THE EVERYDAY: A CLASS

Poets Laura Moriarty and Brent Cunningham will be teaching a weekly evening class for writers and poetry readers starting October 8th. Together they taught a popular "Martian Poetics" class in the Spring. The new class, "Realisms of the Everyday," will take place Wednesday evenings at Small Press Distribution in northwest Berkeley. New students especially welcome!

For questions, contact brent@spdbooks.org. Information and sign-up for the class can be found here:

http://www.hookepress.com/everyday/

REALISMS OF THE EVERYDAY: A CLASS

CLASS DESCRIPTION: A great deal of poetic invention has found its way forward by revaluing or returning to the "real": the ordinary, the everyday, the mundane, the colloquial, the immediate, the tangible. In this class we will explore the problems and potentials of the real from the perspective of working writers. We will take a look at actuality and everydayness as aesthetic tactics, aesthetic forms, and aesthetic inspirations. We will notice our existence in what we think of as everyday life and note how others have solved the problem of both occupying and representing this "life." We will focus especially on the difficult problem of defining the "real": is it what we continuously think, what we immediately perceive, what we actually do, what lasts, what would exist without us, or something else? Is it all of these things? Is it some specific (secret, discoverable?) combination? And, practically speaking, what does it mean to one's writing to value certain ideas of reality over others? We will often write during class. We will do exercises that use "what is" as their generative engine. In place of in-class workshopping, each student will receive a 30-minute individual consultation with one of the instructors outside of class hours. For interested students there are additional opportunities for one-on-one meetings outside of class at (cheap) hourly rates. There will be opportunities to browse the thousands of small press titles at SPD. And there will be a 30% discount on all SPD books for all students of this class! Throughout, we will attempt to complicate our presumptions about what really is, while also recognizing the undeniable power and vitality of is-ness.

LAURA MORIARTY's A Semblance: Selected & New Poetry 1975-2007 is just out from Omnidawn Publishing. Other recent books are Ultravioleta, a novel, from Atelos and Self-Destruction, a book of poetry, from Post-Apollo Press. She has taught at Mills College and Naropa University among other places & is currently Deputy Director of Small Press Distribution. She received a Poetry Center Book Award in 1984 for Persia. She has also been awarded a Gerbode Foundation grant, a residency at the Foundation Royaumont in France, a New Langton Arts Award in Literature and a grant from the Fund for Poetry.

BRENT CUNNINGHAM is a writer, publisher and visual artist currently living in Oakland with his fiancee and new daughter. His first book of poetry, Bird & Forest, was published by Ugly Duckling Presse in 2005. After receiving his MA in English from SUNY Buffalo in 1998, he began working for Small Press Distribution (SPD) in Berkeley, the nation's only not-for-profit distributor of literary books. He currently holds the position of Operations director. A board member of Small Press Traffic since 2001, he was a founding curator of SPT's "Poets Theater Jamboree," an annual ritual of amateur experimental theater. In 2005 he and Neil Alger founded Hooke Press, a chapbook press dedicated to publishing short runs of poetry, criticism, theory, writing and ephemera. Hooke has published four titles so far, with two more on the way.

dinner and a movie

In the Roosevelt Room after the session, the Treasury secretary, Henry M. Paulson Jr., literally bent down on one knee as he pleaded with Nancy Pelosi, the House Speaker, not to “blow it up” by withdrawing her party’s support for the package over what Ms. Pelosi derided as a Republican betrayal.

“I didn’t know you were Catholic,” Ms. Pelosi said, a wry reference to Mr. Paulson’s kneeling, according to someone who observed the exchange. She went on: “It’s not me blowing this up, it’s the Republicans.”

Mr. Paulson sighed. “I know. I know.”

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TEA DRINKING

2008 James Laughlin Award

RUSTY MORRISON!

The Great Schlep

STATE OF THE UNION
PEGASUS BOOKS DOWNTOWN
2349 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley, CA
tuesday
oct. 7
7:30pm
GARRETT CAPLES
MEG HAMILL
BRENDA HILLMAN
JOSEPH LEASE
MICHAEL PALMER
BARBARA JANE REYES
JOE WENDEROTH

09 OCTOPUS BOOKS

The Difficult Farm by Heather Christle
Boris by the Sea by Matvei Yankelevich

OPEN SOURCE Slavoj Žižek talks to Christopher Lydon LISTEN HERE

At 8:30 this morning, Senator Obama called Senator McCain to ask him if he would join in issuing a joint statement outlining their shared principles and conditions for the Treasury proposal and urging Congress and the White House to act in a bipartisan manner to pass such a proposal. At 2:30 this afternoon, Senator McCain returned Senator Obama’s call and agreed to join him in issuing such a statement. The two campaigns are currently working together on the details.

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I need a fix cos I'm going down.

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VIA DECLINED:

PEOPLE ON BEDS AND SEXY PEOPLE

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30 Cortneys

like a blind dog in a meat house

I'm across the street from Summer Shack and Bukowski Tavern.

I'll be in Cherry Hill, NJ.

If I weren't and I were you and got to wear your clothes and meet your friends

THIS SUNDAY KAREN WEISER & DANA WARD @ 21 GRAND

UNFAIR ATTACK ON McCAIN'S VERBIAGE

Talking of "the fundamentals of our economy" etc., Sarah says the Dems make an "unfair attack" on her man's "verbiage."

Says Merriam-Webster, like warbling.

I'll be in Boston.

If I weren't and I were you and got to wear your clothes and meet your friends

TOMORROW NIGHT RIGOBERTO GONZÁLEZ & BHANU KHAPIL @ THE POETRY CENTER

I'll be in Boston.

If I weren't and I were you and got to wear your clothes and meet your friends

THIS FRIDAY D.S. MARRIOTT & ANSELM BERRIGAN @ SPT

SPD BEST-SELLERS JUL/AUG 08

1. You Are a Little Bit Happier Than I Am by Tao Lin (Action Books)


2. Lyric Postmoderisms: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetries edited by Reginald Shepherd (Counterpath Press)


3. Complete Minimal Poems by Aram Saroyan (Ugly Duckling Presse)


4. The Balloonists by Eula Biss (Hanging Loose Presse)


5. The Transformation by Juliana Spahr (Atelos)


6. Whim Man Mammom by Abraham Smith (Action Books)


7. I, Afterlife: Essay in Mourning Time by Kristin Prevallet (Essay Press)


8. Ballad of Jamie Allan by Tom Pickard (Flood Editions)


9. Night Scenes by Lisa Jarnot (Flood Editions)


10. Ajax by Sophocles, translated by John Tipton (Flood Editions)


11. The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You by Frank Stanford (Lost Roads Publishers)


12. The Man Suit by Zachary Schomburg (Black Ocean)


13. Dementia Blog by Susan M. Schultz (Singing Horse Press)


14. Vaudeville by Allyssa Wolf (Otis Books/Seismicity Editions)


15. Crystallography by Christian Bök (Coach House Books)


16. Newcomer Can't Swim by Renee Gladman (Kelsey Street Press)


17. Telescope by Sandy Florian (Action Books)


18. Dear Ra (A Story in Flinches) by Johannes Göransson (Starcherone Books)


19. Jubilee by Roxane Beth Johnson (Anhinga Press)


20. The Evolution of a Sigh by R. Zamora Linmark (Hanging Loose Press)


21. Incubation: A Space for Monsters by Bhanu Kapil (Leon Works)


22. A Communion of Saints by Meg Withers (Tinfish Press)


23. Mahcic by Tomas Riley (Calaca Press)


24. Oulipo Compendium (Revised Edition) edited by Harry Matthews & Alastair Brotchie (Make Now Press)


25. Radi Os by Ronald Johnson (Flood Editions)


26. Eunoia by Christian Bök (Coach House Books)


27. Necessary Stranger by Graham Foust (Flood Editions)


28. Brief Under Water by Cyrus Console (Burning Deck Press)


29. Ronald Johnson: Life and Works by Ronald Johnson (National Poetry Foundation)


30. Unraveling the Bed by Mia Leonin (Anhinga Press)

Anonymous Postcard

DIAGRAM :: 8.4

CONTRIBUTORS OF FICTION, NONFICTION, POETRY, AND UNCLASSIFIABLE TEXT:

[Monica Berlin]
[Mary Buchinger]
[Nolan Chessman]
[Donald Dunbar]
[Lauren Eggert-Crowe]
[Geof Huth]
[Michael Jauchen]
[Eric Kocher]
[Stephen Charles Lester]
[A. J. Patrick Liszkiewicz]
[Carlo Matos]
[Carol McCarthy]
[Philip Metres]
[Brian Oliu]
[Lia Purpura]
[Doug Ramspeck]
[Kathryn Regina]
[Benjamin Solomon]
[Fyodor Svarovsky tr. Peter Golub]
[Cheryl Clark Vermeulen]
[Christian Ward]
[Joshua Ware]
[Kerri Webster]

AND SOME SCHEMATICS FOR THE KIDS:

[Apparatus for Facilitating the Birth of a Child by Centrifugal Force]
[Axe—Illustrative Example of Communication]
[A Blending Diagram for a Rosé and a White Wine]
[The Grief Map]
[Methods of Cutting Veneers]
[Reflectance Spectra of Canned Tuna]

What does 'hell-bent on destroying our nation' mean exactly? Like 'I am hell-bent on jumping to the moon'?

Hey, don't panic.

Michael Tomasky on today's date.

tom pickard 6:30 thursday @ holloway

w/ HILLARY GRAVENDYK

TOM PICKARD TONIGHT @ MOE'S

CHRISTIAN BÖK & K. SILEM MOHAMMAD

THE DE YOUNG POETRY SERIES

SAN FRANCISCO 5 SEP 08