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May 26, 2008

Late May and Early June Events

Friday, May 30, 2008 at 7:30 pm, Pegasus Books, 2349 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, will host an anti-war poetry reading to celebrate the publication of the VOLT War Issue with poets Dennis Philips, Donna de la Perriere, Leslie Scalapino, Maxine Chernoff, Norma Cole, Standard Schaefer, Marjorie Stein, Denise Newman, Rusty Morrison, Robyn Ewing, Kathleen Fraser, Brian Teare, David Koehn, Joseph Lease, Paul Hoover, Paula Koneazny, and Molly Albracht. For more info, visit http://www.pegasusbookstore.com/ 

May 30 and 31st at CCA’s SF and Oakland campuses. Small Press Traffic’s Aggression conference on contemporary poetics & political antagonism. While a triumphalist rhetoric of community and collectivity has frequently accompanied the narratives of alternative literary scenes and practices, the purpose of this conference is to instead explore the myriad ways in which consensus and community become challenged and/or untenable, and to produce fresh opportunities for rethinking poetic theory and practice. See http://sptaggression.blogspot.com/ for details.  

Friday, June 6:  Lyn Hejinian and Leslie Scalapino. The de Young Poetry Series Info: 415-750-7634 or rbaldocchi@famsf.org. Tickets: 866-512-6326 or http://www.museumtix.com

 

May 10, 2008

Eléna Rivera and Thomas Fink, May 12 2008

@

The Poetry Project,   St. Mark’s Church (corner of 2nd Ave & 10th St in Manhattan) 

Rivera’s translation of Isabelle Baladine Howald’s book-length poem Secrets of the Breath is forthcoming from Burning Deck Press.

Fink’s fifth book of poetry, Clarity and Other Poems, was published by Marsh Hawk Press in March, 2008.

May 6, 2008

National Poetry Month Spills into May with Upcoming KSP Previews

Throughout April, Poets.org sent out a poem a day to email subscribers. Selections were pooled from new spring books. There was such a profusion of great work that the feature has been extended for a few days in May.\

Today brought us  a poem from AERODROME ORION by Susan Gevirtz . You can also get a peek at Bhanu Kapil’s Humanimal. Both are fortchcoming from KSP.

Viist Poets.org to see all archived poem-a-day offerings and other projects to honor National Poetry Month.

May 4, 2008

Leslie Scalapino and Denise Newman at City Lights

Leslie Scalapino & Denise Newman
Thursday, May 8, 2008, 7 pm

celebrating the release of It’s Go In Horizontal: Selected Poems, 1974-2006 published by University of California Press

and

Wild Goods published by Apogee Press

City Lights Bookstore: 261 Columbus Avenue at Broadway (415) 362-4921 www.citylights.com