The Poetry Project
Program Calendar
Hillary Juster & Gregory Laynor
| April 16, 2010 | ||
| 10:00 pm |
Friday
Hillary Juster has black hair and soon a BA in interdisciplinary studies from NYU as well. She won 1st place in a poetry competition in 8th grade, won the Lamont Younger Poet’s Prize at 15, but hasn’t won much since. As a compliment to reading poetry, she likes to engage members of audience with sculpture, lighting, photography, and touching. In her spare time, she edits the old college lit mag, The Minetta Review, or is about to do something pretty impressive. Check out her work in the forthcoming The Physical Poets Home Library.
Gregory Laynor has been teaching & studying at Temple University in Philadelphia. His reading of Gertrude Stein’s The Making of Americans appears on UbuWeb. He does a blog at academicpoetry.com. He is co-editing for Chax Press the collected writings of the Philadelphia poet Gil Ott.
Poet’s Potluck VI
| June 4, 2010 | ||
| 10:00 pm |
Friday
Come say goodbye to Ed & Nicole and make mark of the end of their co-Friday Night Series run before the Poetry Project’s annual summer-time pause. Bring your best gal, or a casual gentleman or two, your ma’s macaroni salad, and a choice tipple, like grandma’s punch or grandpa’s whiskey, to wash it all down. There will be poems read, songs sung and early summertime romantic merriment for all. See you there, of course.
Reading for the Recluse 6
| June 2, 2010 | ||
| 8:00 pm |
Wednesday
Please join us to celebrate the publication of issue 6 of The Recluse, the Poetry Project’s annual literary magazine. Readers will be announced later the Spring, please check poetryproject.org for details!
Robert Fitterman & Matvei Yankelevich
| May 26, 2010 | ||
| 8:00 pm |
Wednesday
Robert Fitterman is the author of 12 books, including war, the musical and Notes On Conceptualisms (with Vanessa Place) and rob the plagiarist. His latest book, Sprawl:Metropolis 30A is the fourth book, and likely the last, of his Metropolis series. He teaches writing and poetry at New York University and in the Bard College, Milton Avery School of Graduate Studies.
Matvei Yankelevich’s first book Boris by the Sea is just out from Octopus Books. He’s also published several chapbooks including The Present Work (Palm Press). His translations of Daniil Kharms were collected in Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings of Daniil Kharms (Ardis/Overlook) and received praise from the TLS, The Guardian, The New York Times, and elsewhere. He recently edited a portfolio of Contemporary Russian Poetry and Poetics for the magazine Aufgabe (No. 8, Fall 2009). In NYC, he teaches at Hunter College and Columbia University School of the Arts. He lives in Brooklyn where he edits and designs books for Ugly Duckling Presse.
Andrew Hughes & Michelle Taransky
| May 24, 2010 | ||
| 8:00 pm |
Monday
Andrew Hughes is the author of Sweethearts of the Great Migration (BookThug, 2008). His first full length collection, Now Lays the Sunshine By, is forthcoming from BookThug. His work has appeared in Forklift, Ohio, Cannibal, Puppyflowers, and others.
Michelle Taransky lives in Philadelphia, where she works at Kelly Writers House and teaches poetry at Temple University. Taransky’s first book, Barn Burned, Then, was selected by Marjorie Welish for the 2008 Omnidawn Poetry Prize.
Talk Series: Rachel Zolf – The Tolerance Project: A Collaborative MFA
| May 17, 2010 | ||
| 8:00 pm |
Monday
Rachel Zolf is working with 84 writers and artists on what could be the first collaborative MFA ever. Reactions to this conceptual writing project have ranged from lauding it as a long overdue Institutional Critique to deriding it as an arrogant violation of the MFA workshop’s privacy and sanctity. Zolf will talk about the origins of the project and its
challenges, describe how the collaborative poems emerge each week, and reveal some of the traces of poetic DNA collected in The Tolerance Project Archive.
Rachel Zolf’s fourth full-length book of poetry, Neighbour Procedure, was recently released by Coach House Books. The Tolerance Project lives at thetoleranceproject.blogspot.com.
Spring Workshop Reading
| May 14, 2010 | ||
| 8:00 pm |
Friday
Please join us for a reading by students of the Spring workshops, led by Anselm Berrigan, Daniel Machlin and Sharon Mesmer.
Ray DiPalma & Michael Lally
| May 12, 2010 | ||
| 8:00 pm |
Wednesday
Ray DiPalma’s recent books include The Ancient Use of Stone (Seismicity Editions, 2009), Pensieri (Echo Park Press, 2009), Further Apocrypha (Pie in the Sky Press, 2009), L’Usage ancien de la pierre (Éditions Grèges, 2007), Quatre Poèmes (Éditions Comp’Act, 2006) (both books translated into French by Vincent Dussol), and Caper, Volume I. (ML & NLF, 2006). Among his earlier collections are Numbers and Tempers, Le Tombeau de Reverdy, Provocations, Hôtel des Ruines, Gnossiennes, and Letters. He lives in New York City and teaches at the School of Visual Arts.
Michael Lally has published 27 books, including: March 18, 2003 (Libellum and Charta Presses, with illustrations by Alex Katz); It’s Not Nostalgia (winner of an American Book Award) and It Takes One To Know One ( both from Black Sparrow Press); Cant Be Wrong (Coffee House Press), winner of the 1997 Oakland Pen Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature; Hollywood Magic (Little Caesar); Attitude (Hanging Loose); and the 1970s “underground bestseller” Rocky Dies Yellow (Blue Wind Press). Lally has worked at a variety of jobs, from college teacher to limousine driver, reviewing books for The Washington Post and The Village Voice, to screenwriting (e.g. narration for Drugstore Cowboy, co-wrote Fogbound, the Thessalaski International Film Festival award winner for 2003) and TV and film acting (e.g., played an artist on NYPD Blue, a psycho detective on JAG, a crusty cavalry captain on Deadwood, a detective in Basic Instinct, Sykes in White Fang, the voice of “Sparks” in Cool World, et al.) Since 2006, he has hosted a blog called Lally’s Alley that has become a popular forum for his eclectic interests—poetry, music, politics, art, movies, books.
Ish Klein & Farid Matuk
| May 10, 2010 | ||
| 8:00 pm |
Monday
Ish Klein’s book, Union! came out April 2009 through the Canarium Press. Her poems have been published in The Canary, Gare du Nord, The Hat magazine, X-connect, Bridge, Spork and are online. She also makes movies and lives in Philadelphia.
Farid Matuk is the author of Is it the King? (Effing, 2006). His poems have appeared most recently in The Boston Review, Barrelhouse, Matchbook, and Big Bridge and are forthcoming in Typesetter. Matuk’s translations from Spanish have appeared in Bombay Gin, Translation Review, and Kadar Koli. His essays and reviews have appeared in Cross-Cultural Poetics and Sentence: a Journal of Prose Poetics, among others. His work is also included in the anthology Between Heaven and Texas (University of Texas Press) and will appear in the forthcoming anthology What’s Your Exit? (Word Riot Press). His collection, This Isa Nice Neighborhood, will be released by Letter Machine Editions in the fall of 2010. Matuk lives in Dallas with the poet Susan Briante where together with the nonprofit WordSpace they host readings for traveling authors.
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