Bettering American Poetry – Volume 3
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SNEAK PEAK: BETTERING AMERICAN POETRY – VOLUME 3
Here lives poetry that resembles a sticky dance floor. Poetry that is at once terraformed music and primal shout and wet kiss and sweaty palm. The "American" in Bettering American Poetry is a kind of ghoulish placeholder for whichever more rebellious, more enlivening world comes next.
-Billy-Ray Belcourt
Amy King + Brenda Coultas @ Dominique Lévy Gallery on Saturday, September 17, 2016.
I Said Some Things…
• American Poet feature. Summer 2012, Issue 42. • Lissa Kiernan for The Rooster Moans review. June 30, 2012. • j/j hastain for The Lit Pub review. May 18, 2012. • Michael Flatt for the Center for Literary Publishing review. May 9, 2012. • Lightsey Darst for Bookslut review. May 2012. • Carol Dorf for The Mom Egg review. April 27, 2012. • The Poetry Foundation feature. April 10, 2012. • Alan Gilbert…
108 Beads per Rosary + 108 Poets per REVOLUTIONESQUE
Harriet @ Poetry Foundation remarks, “you’ve got to check out Esque Mag Issue 3 … It’s beautiful.” Announcing Esque (click!) For the third issue of esque, REVOLUTIONESQUE, we asked you to tell us about the revolution. We didn’t define what we mean by that. Whether it lives in your home, in the financial district, or the district…
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Belladonna* loves you and needs you….
Belladonna* Benefit Performance and Auction Tuesday, December 13, 2011, 6:30 pm Location: Hi Art! 227 West 29th Street, 4th Floor (between 7th & 8th) New York, NY 10001 Advanced ticket sales are only $12! At the door, tickets are $20. http://www.belladonnaseries.org/benefit.html The Belladonna* Benefit will showcase a performance by Anne Waldman and Ambrose Bye,…
VIDA’s Count – The Replies!
Articles (click titles) on The Count @ VIDA: 1.) The Lack of Female Bylines in Magazines Is Old News – Katha Pollitt @ Slate 2.) Being Female — Eileen Myles @ The Awl 3.) How To Publish Women Writers: A Letter to Publishers about the VIDA Count — Annie Finch @ Her Circle 4.)…
I Wrote on Reading…
WHO’S LAUGHING NOW? “Reading appears passive because it takes place in a chair, on a bed, at the beach, in the tub, etc. Reading is … –Continued at The Laughing Yeti!
AWP – Denver, Colorado Schedule
Wednesday, April 7, 2010 7:00PM-10:00PM Dusie Pussipo Stonecoast Femiganza Location: at Packing House Center for the Arts, 835 E. 50th Ave. Denver, CO 80216 Cost: FREE! Everybody welcome! Website: http://controlgroupproductions.org/ Featuring: Bronwen Tate, Ann Bogle, Jennifer Karmin, Marthe Reed, Annie Finch, Amy King, Cara Benson, Mackenzie Carignan, Danielle Pafunda, Deborah Poe, Ana Bozicevic, Teresa Carmody,…
HTMLGIANT
The “I Like Amy King A Lot” Interview FIND OUT: * You’re very involved in participating in the poetry community. What motivates you to be involved with so many projects? What do you get from all your projects? * What is your best coping mechanism for the AWP experience? Do you enjoy participating in the…
“Strange Dolls”
“Amy King” Doll So I commissioned a woman artist, Beth Robinson, to make dolls of Ana and me to christen our new home. Robinson’s work has begun to be featured in galleries and written about in art publications. Not sure the photos do them justice — in person, they just rock. If you’re…
The Weenie Roast – Ingredients? Not How Long, But What’s in It…
Please don’t take another long drag on your ciggie and nonchalantly claim that the editors of Publisher’s Weekly didn’t know they were selecting books solely by men for their Top 10 Best Books of 2009. I will hurl dragon fire and burn your little house of cards down. One need only peruse the “brief reviews”…
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Saturday: Upstairs @ Erika’s
Date: Saturday, March 21, 2009 Time: 7:30pm – 10:30pm Location: erika’s loft Street: williamsburg City/Town: South Brooklyn, NY Join me for three great writers: Amy King, Ana Božičević and Jeni Olin– Ana Božičević emigrated to NYC from Croatia in 1997. Her first book, Stars of the Night Commute, will be…
Stay Tuned…
I can’t watch this video, but it’s me about twenty pounds lighter since last year, though I was pretty thin to begin with. It seems my doc is coming close to a different diagnosis than last year’s, so stay tuned for an interesting update, particularly since the diagnosis might apply to your own G.I. /…
“My mind is a sacred cow / bleeding in the ellipsis.”
“I am with you” –Whitman w/butterfly “My mind is a sacred cow / bleeding in the ellipsis.” — Tomaz Salamun In the ellipsis between now and then … COMING UP – Amy’s Readings Cadmium Text Series 17 January 2009 | The Gallery at R&F Paint | Hudson Valley, NY Babylon Green Party 4 February 2009…
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Amy King: Two New Readings
Somebody just told me that I made the front page of PennSound today! So here I am, in all of my verbal-stumbling glory, complete with a rare pic they found (at least, an older one) – thanks, PennSound! Please enjoy responsibly: Amy King @ PennSound Today, we’re happy to announce the addition of two new…
Yurts, Pelicans, and Sarah Palin
Find out more with Ariana Reines, Sept. 26th @ Stain Bar [PLEASE NOTE: Ariana was not aware that we were taping, & we were all feeling festive & anxious about the imminent presidential debate.] Please visit our new reading series site to view videos of Ariana Reines reading dreams & Coeur de Lion and answering…
Charles Bernstein’s Performance at the Technicians of the Sacred Celebrations
On 14 September Jerome Rothenberg hosted at the Bowery Poetry Club a celebration for the 40th anniversary of Technicians of the Sacred, a seminal work which brought a global range of oral & tribal poetries into focus & launched ethnopoetics as a new approach to poetry & performance. Pierre Joris made a video of Charles…
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Tomorrow? Friday Night!!!
I’ll be here: Friday, September 26, 2008 @ 7:00 p.m. September 26th @ 7 p.m. – Stain Bar – Williamsburg, Brooklyn ** Alan Bajandas, Arpine Konyalian Grenier, Kristi Maxwell, Ariana Reines, Larissa Shmailo, & Erin Virgil ** ~~~~~ Now take in a little Sam Shephard reading Cesar Vallejo ~~~~~ Much On The Cliffs: The Philosophies of…
To Please This Friday
You might come to Pete’s. Why? Because we like you! This Friday! September 12th! At 7pm! with Amy King, Leslie Anne Mcilroy with guitarist Don Bertschman & Nellie Bridge! Our Fate is in Their Hands! Amy King is the author of I’m the Man Who Loves You and Antidotes for an Alibi, both from Blazevox…
The Academy Gets Video
John Ashbery & His Life Summer Movies: Ashbery, Glück, Hecht, Ryan, and Merwin Watch five short video clips newly added to Poets.org: John Ashbery discusses the impact of living abroad on his work; Louise Glück declares that being a poet is the most miraculous profession and hunts for the perfect German word; Anthony Hecht repeats…
Ari’s Got a New Pair of Shoes
He’s also got a new reading series in Brooklyn. Coming up: September 17: Colic + Gardinier + Liu Bring your queer ears forth to hear September’s Uncalled-For poets: DANICA COLIC SUZANNE GARDINIER & TIMOTHY LIU Wednesday September 17 / 7 pm /free DANICA COLIC lives in Brooklyn and teaches writing at Hunter College, where she…
PoemTalk: A Podcast Series
**LISTEN TO THE SHOW Our PoemTalkers – this time Gregory Djanikian, Tom Devaney and Jessica Lowenthal – gathered to talk about a late poem by John Ashbery, “Crossroads in the Past,” from his book Your Name Here (2000). Amid the usual Ashberyean ontological bounty here’s a poem that disentangles the crossed lines of narrative middles…
Check It — The Stain of Poetry
The Stain of Poetry: A Reading Series is all ready to rumble! By that I mean our reading schedule for the rest of the year has been finalized. Let’s take a peek at July’s line-up but without the pictures that you get to see at The Stain of Poetry blog: July 25th @ 7 p.m.…
¡POETRY!
I have just updated the GOODREADS ¡POETRY! Group with some new folders that include: INTRODUCTIONS ~~~ MY BOOK / POEM IS PUBLISHED! ~~~ ADVICE – QUESTION FOR YA! ~~~ I APPRECIATE POETRY CRITIQUE ~~~ YOU’VE GOTTA READ THIS POEM! ~~~ CALLS FOR WORK – SUBMIT! ~~~ POETRY WRITING SUGGESTIONS ~~~ PLEASE HELP ~~~ RECOMMENDED BOOKS…
Backyard Livin’
It’s nearly 90 degrees here in North Massapequa today, but we’ve got shade trees and a breeze coming in off the ocean … and lots of poets descending tomorrow for a big Barbecue! It’s time to crack out the wine and beer and fight for your hammock, as Famous Amis does above in his Jersey…
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