Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Metrorhythm's first reading!!!

Hey everyone,

 Metro Rhythm's first reading will take place on:

November  12th, at 8:30pm

at Blue Angel Wines  in Williamsburg, Brooklyn

638 Grand St
(between Leonard St & Manhattan Ave)
Brooklyn, NY 11211


It is just a couple blocks from both the Graham and the Lorimer stop off the L.



At the event reading will be:


The Super Famous:  Timothy Donnelly



From the new school,The Almost Famous:  Alina Gregorian
From Columbia University, the slightly famous for all the right reasons: Julie Kantor
Also repping Columbia University, the always charming and often pretty:  Kip Adams 
From NYU, our newest facebook friend:  Thais Miller




Please come for the wine, stay for the poetry...and further for the after party, which will take place either above the wine shop, or two doors down from it...


And a special thank you to all who are interested in partaking, whether reading, or drinking, or drinking and reading, or drinking, reading and nodding your head in the back, because at the end of the day our ultimate goal is poetry listening awareness.   If you are interested in reading at future events, please email either john or I at Kml2157@columbia.edu or jpj2113@columbia.edu with some sample stuff, that you think is your groovyest, and would make for promoting some great poetry listening awareness...(we do accept prose, but please send in short stories no longer than 7 pages double spaced, short humiliating non-fiction pieces are encouraged) their is no age requirement or MFA vs Non- MFA preference.  


Hope to see all  of you there.

Best Wishes,

Keegan 

Metro Rhythm Reading Series

Friends,

We are excited to announce that Blue Angel Wines in Williamsburg has agreed to let us host a poetry reading this November. We are hoping this will be the inaugural reading of the Metro Rhythm Reading Series. We are currently in the process of selecting readers for this event. We've just about got this one figured out, but if you'd like to read in the future, please contact myself (John James) at john.james2113@gmail.com and Keegan Lester (kml2157@columbia.edu). Send us 3-5 poems or about 10 double-spaced pages of prose (We generally focus on poetry, but we like to keep our minds open to the entire literary community). There is no particular style or school that we currently subscribe to, we simply look for good - no, no, THE BEST - material out there.

The first reading will be held (*This is still tentative, so don't hold me to it!*) on the second Tuesday in November at Blue Angel Wines, Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

That's all for now. I'll update this old blog as the info comes to me.

John



Blue Angel Wines
638 Grand Street
Brooklyn, NY 11211

Saturday, October 24, 2009

"Subterranean Homesick Blues" Project Reading 10.30.09

Around 30 poets have been asked to write a new poem responding to a line from Dylan's famous song. The event is hosted by Scottish poet Roddy Lumsden, who runs such multi-poet events in London.

The event starts bang on 7pm - readings in three sections with breaks - come early for drinks and gossip. FREE event.

Can those involved please invite anyone who may wish to come!

Starring...

Justin Taylor / Mark Bibbins / Ari Messer / Roddy Lumsden / Monica Youn / Dai George / Amy Lemmon / Jason Schneiderman / Timothy Donnelly / Brett Fletcher Lauer / Kathleen Ossip / Cheryl Burke / Douglas A. Martin / Melissa Broder / James Byrne / Jennifer L Knox / Sharon Mesmer / David Yezzi / Katy Lederer / Joshua Mehigan / Jeffrey McDaniel / Jeremy Schmall / Deborah Landau / Farrah Field / Josh Bell / Thaddeus Rutkowski / George Green / Anwyn Crawford / Adam Fitzgerald / Sasha Fletcher / Justin Boening / Ethan Hon


7:00
Ding Dong Lounge
929 Columbus Ave (at 105th)



Wednesday, October 21, 2009

This Week's Events (A Reminder)

Since we've posted so much this week, I thought I just post a recap of this week's events just so that no one has to go searching through all the postings to find it.


Tonight, 10.21.09

Lawrence Weschler Lecture @ Columbia University

7:00 pm
501 Dodge Hall
Broadway & 116th St.

Friday, 10.23.09

NYU Emerging Writers Series
W/ Mark Doty as special guest
7:00 pm
KGB Bar
85 E. 4th St.

Earshot!
@ Roselive Music
7:30 pm
Williamsburg, Brooklyn

Pete's Candy Store Reading
Also in Williamsburg, Brooklyn



See below for websites and details!!!

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Sycamore Review

One of my favorite magazines for some time now, the Sycamore Review is a national literary magazine published biannually by the graduate students and faculty of Purdue University, West LaFayette, IN.  Each issue features several pieces of short fiction, some really cool and eclectic graphic artwork, and generally around 10-15 poems (some longer, some shorter). They publish both established writers (such as Sherman Alexie, for example) and unestablished ones, and have in the last few years been known to publish first works by a number of promising young poets.  The magazine also houses the Wabash Poetry Prize, which consists of $1,000  and is awarded twice a year - once for fiction and once for poetry.  This year's poetry judge is Mark Doty (who by the way is reading at KGB Bar this Friday).  The work, in my humble opinion, is always high quality, and is available for free on their website, though I would certainly encourage people to subscribe!

Monday, October 19, 2009

Pete's Candy Store

 Here is a convenient reading series for those not looking to leave Brooklyn on a Friday night At Pete's Candy Shop in Williamsburg

Some of the upcoming dates are:

October 23 – Paige Taggart, Sharon Dolin, Esther Smith & Patrick Lucy
November 6 – Julian Billups, Cate Peebles, Thomas Sayers Ellis & Wendy S. Walters
November 13—No, Dear Issue Release Party    
November 20 – Nate Pritts, Leigh Stein, Karin Randolph & Matthew Rohrer    
December 4 – Crystal Williams, Tyrone Williams, Jackie Clark & Tara Betts





PETE'S CANDY STORE carries on its long affair with poetry in this new Friday evening series, PETE'S BIG POETRY SERIES .

Poetry lovers can enjoy their choice of famous cocktails and toasted ciabatta sandwiches while listening to some of today's most exciting poets read on Pete's gorgeous stage.

ABOUT THE CURATOR:
Sommer Browning writes poems, draws comix and catalogs books in New York City. She has a chapbook of poems, Vale Tudo, with horse less press. Her poems can be found in Forklift, Ohio, word for/word, The New York Quarterly and elsewhere. Visit her online at Asthma Chronicles.




 http://www.petescandystore.com/bigpoetry/index.html

Lawrence Weschler Lecture 10.21.09

Lawrence Weschler
"Paradoxes of Form and Freedom in Longform Narrative Nonfiction"

Wednesday, October 21st at 7 p.m.
Dodge Hall, Room 501
Columbia University

Lawrence Weschler was for over twenty years, until his recent retirement, a staff writer at The New Yorker, where his work shuttled between political tragedies and cultural comedies. He is a two-time winner of the George Polk Award and was a recipient of the Lannan Literary Award (1998)

Free and open to the public

Sponsored by the Graduate Writing Program at
Columbia University's School of the Arts

Friday, October 16, 2009

NYU Emerging Writers Reading Series 10.23.09


MARK DOTY, SPECIAL GUEST

FRIDAY, OCT. 23
7:00 PM

The Emerging Writers Reading Series showcases the students of the NYU graduate Creative Writing Program, and features established writers as special guests.

Earshot Reading 10.23.09

EARSHOT!

Friday, October 23rd @ 7:30 PM
@ Rose Live Music
Hosted by Nicole Steinberg
$5 + one free drink

Featuring:

Tara Betts (*Arc and Hue*)
Sarah Dohrmann
Mandy Malloy (Hunter College)
Brook Wilensky-Lanford (Columbia University)
Alina J. Gregorian (The New School)

Rose Live Music is located at 345 Grand Street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, between Havemeyer and Marcy. Visit their website for directions:
http://roselivemusic.com.

EARSHOT is a bi-monthly reading series, dedicated to featuring new and emerging literary talent in the NYC area. Visit
http://www.earshotnyc.com for more information or e-mail Nicole Steinberg at earshotnyc@gmail.com.

Follow the EARSHOT twitter feed at
http://twitter.com/earshotnyc

Columbia Writing Lecture Series 10.21.09

WRITING | Creative Writing Lecture Series

Lawrence Weschler: Paradoxes of Form and Freedom in Longform Narrative Nonfiction

Wednesday, October 21, 7 pm

Dodge Hall, Room 501: 2960 Broadway at 116th Street


Lawrence Weschler was for over twenty years, until his recent retirement, a staff writer at The New Yorker, where his work shuttled between political tragedies and cultural comedies. He is a two-time winner of the George Polk Award and was a recipient of the Lannan Literary Award (1998).

Friday, October 9, 2009

Columbia Gallery Reading 10.15.09

This month's Gallery Reading at Columbia University will be held at 8:00 p.m. on Thursday, October 15th in 501 Dodge Hall (on Columbia's campus).

Alex Cunningham (Nonfiction)
Blackmarket Boo (Fiction)
Gina Dorcely (Poetry)
Jay Goldmark (Nonfiction)
Michael Place (Fiction)
Sharif El Gammal-Ortiz (Poetry)

(But not necessarily in that order!)


The event is FREE and snacks/drinks will be provided.

***This is a really great (and fun) event to go to!***

Campus Map

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

TONIGHT 10.6.09



Book Presentation: The Oxford Book of Latin American Poetry
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
7:00 p.m.
AS/COA
680 Park Avenue
New York, NY

Vicuña, a poet, artist, and editor presents this milestone anthology, co-edited with Ernesto Livon-Grosman, which covers more than 500 years’ production of Latin American poetry. Compiling work by more than 120 poets, the book includes texts by indigenous, Colonial, modernist and feminist poets, as well as 1960s liberation poetry, and experimental and oral expression. A host of translators will read poems by María Mercedes Carranza, Gerardo Deniz, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Juan Luis Martínez, Cecilia Meireles, César Vallejo, and others.

This event is organized in conjunction with “Painted Ideas” at Cecilia de Torres Gallery. www.ceciliadetorres.com

http://as.americas-society.org/calevent.php?id=621

Friday, October 2, 2009

Joseph O'Neill/Rabih Alameddine 10.5.09

Join us this Monday, October 5th for a reading by Joseph O'Neill and Rabih Alameddine.

8:00-10:00 p.m.
Unterberg Poetry Center at the 92nd St. Y
1395 Lexington Ave.
New York, NY

"Listen," writes the Lebanese novelist Rabih Alameddine at the beginning of The Hakawati. "Allow me to be your god. Let me take you on a journey beyond imagining. Let me tell you a story." The Hakawati ("storyteller") is "an absolute beauty," wrote Junot Díaz. "One of the finest novels I’ve read in years."

Joseph O'Neill's Netherland won this year's PEN/Faulkner Award. The New York Times Book Review called it "the wittiest, angriest, most exacting and most desolate work of fiction we've yet had about life in New York and London after the World Trade Center fell." James Wood called it "remarkable . . . a postcolonial re-writing of The Great Gatsby." And in a Times interview last spring, President Obama said he'd grown tired of briefing books and taken to reading Netherland at night. It's "fascinating," President Obama said. "A wonderful book."

Those 35 and younger can get into these events for only $10!

To purchase tickets, call our Box Office at 212.415.5500 or visit our website: www.92y.org/poetry

Thursday, October 1, 2009

Tonight 10.1.09

Nonfiction Dialogues Presents

Ian Frazier

Conducted by Columbia MFA Professor Lis Harris

Thursday, October 1st, 8 pm Dodge Hall, Room 413

Ian Frazier, a writer of humor, essays, and longer works of nonfiction became a staff writer at The New Yorker magazine in 1973, a year after graduation from college. In 1982 he moved to Montana to research his book Great Plains (1989), which became a national bestseller. After that he wrote Family (1995), a book about his ancestors in the Midwest and elsewhere, and On the Rez (2000), about the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. His collections of humor pieces are Dating Your Mom, Coyote v. Acme, and Lamentations of the Father. His other books include Gone to New York and The Fish’s Eye. Currently he is working on a book about Siberia, excerpts from which recently appeared in The New Yorker.


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Columbia Faculty Selects

Thursday October 1st
7:00-9:00pm
KGB bar
85 East 4th St. NYC 10003

The first Thursday of each month the Columbia MFA program hosts a reading series with writers selected by the faculty. These fresh talents have finished their coursework and are finished with or near to finished with their first books, but do not yet have a book contract and/or an agent. In recent years, many of these featured writers have achieved critical and commercial success.

This Week:

Ruchika Tomar grew up in California. She is currently working on a short story, or a bunch of short stories, or a novel, or a novella, or an epic. She likes surprises.

Josh Bettinger’s poems have been published in or are forthcoming from Oxford Poetry and Western Humanities Review. He is currently completing a chapbook written while in Southeast Asia entitled “A Dynamic Range of Various Designs for Quiet.”

Matia Burnett mostly likes to write about stray dogs, orphans, and haunted houses. She is currently completing her first novel, The Builders, which--despite taking place in the 19th century--she assures you is NOT historical fiction. She works at Publishers Weekly.