[ Sunday, January 1, 2012; 3:00 pm; ] There are three things to consider when the New Year’s Day Poetry Marathon sweeps you into its gracefully uncouth embrace — what it is, what it was, and who you will be when it’s over. An untamed gathering of the heart’s secret, wild nobility — over 140 poets together revealing not just that a better [...]
[ Wednesday, February 23, 2011; 8:00 pm; ] Come celebrate the release of Bernadette Mayer’s STUDYING HUNGER JOURNALS (Station Hill Press). In part, the journals explore psyche and were undertaken, in cahoots with a psychiatrist via two running journals, so that while she kept writing in one he could read the other. She wrote in colored pens, intending to “color-code emotions”—to see if [...]
[ Wednesday, February 2, 2011; 8:00 pm; ] Wednesday
Thomas Devaney is the author of two poetry collections A Series of Small Boxes (Fish Drum) and The American Pragmatist Fell in Love (Banshee Press), and a nonfiction book, Letters to Ernesto Neto (Germ Folios). Recent poems have been published in The Brooklyn Rail, Jacket, and The Awl. His essay “That Obscure Object [...]
[ Wednesday, January 6, 2010; 8:00 pm; ] Wednesday
Todd Colby has published four books of poetry: Ripsnort (1994), Cush (1995), Riot in the Charm Factory: New and Selected Writings (2000), and Tremble & Shine (2004), all published by Soft Skull Press. Todd has performed his poetry on PBS and MTV, and has produced books and paintings with the artist David Lantow, which can [...]
