Tag: poetry reading

My Other Voice

Not *my* voice per se — Nic Sebastian brilliantly reads “A Hole in My Name,” complete with accent from elsewhere (can anyone detect the origin??). Nic’s voice transforms the poem into a legitimate experience! Hear the poem by clicking *here*!  Thanks, Nic! ~~~~~~~ Here is Nic’s “About” — Dear Poet X – I am writing…

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BARD ROVING READING SERIES

AMY KING & CARA BENSON Friday, January 29th @ 6 pm Bard Hall* at Bard College Annandale-on-Hudson NY *Bard Hall is located near the corner of North Ravine Road and Annandale Road. It is a small, grey, church-like structure–set back from Annandale Road–and should not be confused with the stone chapel located to its left.…

Frank Ghery's Fisher Center at Bard College

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Two this Saturday, October 3rd

The New York Public Library: Grand Central Branch — 135 East 46th Street NY, NY October 3rd @ 2 PM– Shanna Compton, Nada Gordon and Amy King Shanna Compton is the author of For Girls (& Others) (Bloof Books, 2008), Down Spooky (Winnow, 2005), GAMERS (Soft Skull, 2004), and several chapbooks. Her poems and essays have…

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Poetry Events / Calendars

Poetry Events and Calendars in your Town or City [Please post addt’l venues in comments to be added!] ~~~ AL Alabama — http://www.writersforum.org/ ~~~ CA California / West Coast — http://www.poetryflash.org/ Bay Area, California — Spoken Word Listings Glendale, California — http://www.poeticresearch.com/ Los Angeles, California – http://mommymommyreadingseries.blogspot.com/ Venice, California — http://www.beyondbaroque.org/ Northern California — http://www.coloredhorse.com…

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Fri, April 3rd and Sun, April 5th!

Fri. April 3rd, Coffeehouse: Got the blues? Friday, April 3, 2009 at 8pm come to PeaceSmiths’ Topical, A-Typical Folk Music, Poetry and Whatever Coffeehouse. Got the blues? Come organize. It makes you feel better. We have a table full of info on local music, politics, petitions and community concerns. Come bring some literature and promote…

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Take An Assortment

“I just take an assortment of words, though not exactly at random, and I fuse them. It’s like embroidery. […] They are very intricate, my poems, a weaving of patterns of ins and outs and contradictions, one thing playing off another. I guess there’s a narrator somewhere, holding it all together, but I don’t feel…

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You Are Here

Tomorrow — Friday night — I’ll be at this venue with some very cool people. And then on Saturday evening, I’ll be at this venue with some other very cool & mostly-Swedish-with-a-little-bit-of-Russian thrown in people. Will you be there?  I mean, here?

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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…

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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…

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