[New-Poetry] Fri. Oct 24th -- Sat., Oct. 25th!! Ducks & Carolinians ...

Sat Oct 11 15:09:56 EDT 2008

STAIN OF POETRY
presents

Fri., Oct. 24th @ 7 p.m. - Stain Bar - Williamsburg, Brooklyn

** Browning, Cohen, Herron,
Howe, Rumble, and Svalina **

&

SPECIAL EVENT: UDP Swedish Authors
and Translators

Sat., Oct. 25th @ 6 p.m. - Stain Bar - Williamsburg, Brooklyn

** Johannes Göransson,
Fredrik Nyberg, and Jennifer Hayashida**

stain

766 grand street

brooklyn, ny 11211

(L train to Grand Street,

1 block west)

718/387-7840

open daily @ 5 p.m.

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October 24th
@ 7 p.m.

Sommer Browning has
a chapbook out with horse less press called Vale

Tudo and another on the rise with Cue Editions. Forklift, Ohio, New

York Quarterly, Open Letters Monthly, Free Verse and other journals

have published her poems. She lives and loves in Brooklyn.

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Julia Cohen has three chapbooks
available. “The History of a Lake Never Drowns” from Dancing Girl Press and
“Chugwater” (with Mathias Svalina) from Transmission Press are forthcoming this
year. Her poems have been published in Denver Quarterly, Copper Nickel, Bird
Dog, Spinning Jenny, RealPoetik, Forklift, Ohio, MiPOesia, and GutCult amongst
others. Her blog: www.onthemessiersideofneat.blogspot.com.

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Patrick Herron (http://patrickherron.com) is a poet, musician, artist and
information scientist living in Chapel Hill.
His doll Lester is the author of the book _Be Somebody_ (http://effingpress.com/lester.htm)
published in April 2008 by Effing Press (a 2003 review from Ron Silliman here: http://tinyurl.com/3e8es). Patrick is the author of several other books of poetry
including _The American Godwar Complex_ (2004, BlazeVox, download in full for
free at http://tinyurl.com/22fsn5).

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Brian Howe is a freelance arts
journalist and poet living in Durham,
 NC. His poems and sound art have
appeared in Fascicle, Octopus, Apocryphal Text, Listenlight, Effing Magazine,
Soft Targets, Cannibal, MiPO, Word for/ Word, and elsewhere. Howe is the author
of two chapbooks, Guitar Smash (3rdness Press; 2006) and Foreign
Letter (Beard of Bees; forthcoming in 2008). He is the creator of the
electro-poetic project Glossolalia (http://glossolalia-blacksail.blogspot.com/) and a
member of the Lucifer Poetics Group.

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Ken Rumble is the author of Key Bridge
(Carolina Wren Press, 2007) and President Letters (Scantily Clad Press,
forthcoming.) His poems and reviews have appeared in Cutbank, Typo, Coconut,
the tiny, Minor American, Talisman, and others. He lives in Greensboro, North Carolina.

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Mathias
Svalina is the co-editor of Octopus Magazine &
Books. He is the author of the chapbooks Why I Am White (Kitchen Press),
Creation Myths (New Michigan Press), The Viral Lease (forthcoming from Small
Anchor Press) &, written in collaboration with Julia Cohen, When We Broke
the Microscope (Small Fires Press). His first book, Destruction Myth, is
forthcoming from Cleveland State University Press in 09.

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Johannes
Göransson is the co-editor of the press Action Books and the online
journal Action, Yes. He is the translator of Remainland: Selected Poems of Aase
Berg and Ideals Clearance by Henry Parland, as well as the upcoming With Deer
by Aase Berg and Collobert Orbital by Johan Jonsson. His own books include: A
New Quarantine Will Take My Place, Pilot and Dear Ra.

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Fredrik Nyberg is a Swedish poet born
in 1968, currently living in Göteborg,
 Sweden. In
2007, Ugly Duckling Presse published a translation of his début collection, A
Different Practice (En annorlunda praktik), originally published by
Norstedts Förlag in 1998. Subsequent books include Blomsterur -
förklaringar och dikter (Clockwork of Flowers - Explanations and Poems,
2000), Åren (The Years, 2002), and Det blir inte rättvist
bara för att båda blundar (It won’t be fair just because both shut
their eyes, 2006).  Translations of
his poetry have appeared in The Chicago Review, The Literary Review, Calque,
Circumference, and Action, Yes. A new collection - Nio, nine, nein, neuf
- is forthcoming from Norstedts in the fall of 2008.

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Poet and translator Jennifer Hayashida
was born in Oakland, CA,
and grew up in the suburbs of Stockholm and San Francisco. She is the
recipient of a 2008-2009 LMCC Workspace Residency, a 2007 PEN Translation Fund
Grant, a Witter Bynner Poetry Translator Residency at the Santa Fe Art
Institute, and has been a Fellow at the MacDowell Colony. She is the translator
of Fredrik Nyberg’s A Different Practice (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2007)
and Eva Sjödin’s Inner China (Litmus Press, 2005). Her poems and
translations have appeared in The Chicago Review, Calque, Circumference, The
Literary Review, Insurance, The Asian Pacific American Journal, and Action,
Yes; text-based work has been included in group exhibitions at The Vera List
Center for Art and Politics and Artists Space. She received her MFA in writing
from Bard College in 2003. She currently lives in
Brooklyn, and is Director of the Asian American Studies Program at Hunter College.
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stain

766 grand street

brooklyn, ny 11211

(L train to Grand Street,

1 block west)

718/387-7840

open daily @ 5 p.m.

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Hosted by Amy
King and Ana
Bozicevic

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Recent work

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