[New-Poetry] GO LOCAL: NATIONAL POETRY MONTH x 10!

[amy king]

NATIONAL POETRY MONTH x 10!
 
WHY:  Eating, growing, and celebrating locally tofind the world in a grain of Brooklyn andeternity in an hour or two!
WHEN:  Friday, April 25th @ 7 p.m. –Sharp!
WHERE:  Stain Bar in Williamsburg,Brooklyn
WHO:   BANIAS~~ BERRIGAN ~~ BOZICEVIC ~~ BRYANT ~~ DICKOW ~~  HOY ~~ KOCOT 
~~  SMITH  ~~ STARKWEATHER ~~  WILLIAMSON
 
ARI BANIAS grew up in California,Texas, and Illinois. He now lives in Brooklyn,NY and teaches undergraduate creative writingand literature at Hunter College. His poems areforthcoming in The Cincinnati Review, Literary Imagination, and FIELD, and haverecently appeared in Mid-American Review (as a feature), Arts & Letters,and RealPoetik.
 
EDMUND BERRIGAN is the author of Glad Stone Children(Farfalla Press, 2008) and is co-editor with Anselm Berrigan and Alice Notleyof a forthcoming Selected Poems of Ted Berrigan (University of California).
 
ANA BOZICEVIC moved to NYC from Croatia in 1997. She's the authorof chapbooks Document (Octopus Books, 2007) and Morning News (Kitchen Press,2006). Look for her recent work in Denver Quarterly, Hotel Amerika, absent, TheNew York Quarterly, Bat City Review, MiPOesias, Octopus Magazine and ThePortable Boog Reader 2: An Anthology of NYC Poetry. Ana coedits RealPoetik.
 
TISA BRYANT is the author of Tzimmes (A+Bend Press, 2000),which collages concerns of breast cancer, Barbados genealogy research, aPassover seder and a film by Yvonne Rainer, and her first book, UnexplainedPresence (Leon Works, 2007), is a collection of original, hybrid essays thatremix narratives from Eurocentric film, literature and visual arts and zoom inon the black presences operating within them.  
She currently lives in Brooklyn, NY.  
 
ALEXANDER DICKOW grew up in Moscow,Idaho, traveled to France,got married to a French woman, studies French literature at Rutgers,and writes poems. His work has appeared in both Yankee and Hexagonal journalsincluding MiPO, RealPoetik, Sitaudis, Il Particolare, Hapax, can wehave our ball back? and others. A full-length bilingual collection,_Caramboles_, will be published by the Parisian press Argol Editions in October2008. Alex currently lives in bucolic central New Jersey.
 
DAN HOY lives in Brooklynand is an editor for SOFT TARGETS. His poetry chapbook, Outtakes, was publishedby Lame House Press in 2007.
 
NOELLE KOCOT is the author of 3 books of poems, 4 and TheRaving Fortune, out from Four Way Books in 2001 and 2004, respectively, andPoem for the End of Time, out from Wave Books in 2006, of which the NY TimesBook Review deemed the long title poem, "extraordinary."  She has won awards from The NationalEndowment for the Arts, The Fund For Poetry, The Academy of American Poets andThe American Poetry Review, among others. 
She lives in Brooklyn, where she wasborn and raised, and teaches for a living. 
Her fourth book, Sunny Wednesday, will be published by Wave Books inspring, 2009.
 
JESSICA SMITH is the editor of Outside Voices Press, whichpublishes Foursquare magazine.  She wrotea book called Organic Furniture Cellar. She maintains a blog that incites bothhate mail and proposals.  She recentlymoved to Brooklyn and is looking for a job.
 
SAMPSON STARKWEATHER is a small African village patrolled by
dream-fed lions. They sway in the grasses when you move. His handwriting, which
has been featured in several medical journals, strong-armed him into a life of
asemic writing. He is the author of The Book of Sky, a wordless text published
by anyone.
 
DUSTIN WILLIAMSON is the author of Heavy Panda (Goodbye Better),
Gorilla Dust (Open24Hours Press), and Exhausted Grunts (Cannibal Books). He
publishes Rust Buckle Books and is the current curator of the Zinc Talk Reading
Series.
 
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STAIN BAR
766 Grand
  Street Brooklyn , NY 11211
(L train to Grand Street Stop, walk 1 block west)
718/387-7840
 
 
“The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion,is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselvesinfinite possibilities.”  -- Sydney Smith
 
 
Amy King will host -----> http://amyking.wordpress.com/2008/04/13/national-poetry-month-x-10/
 
 
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