5/17-Joe Hall, Carrie O. Adams, Jessica Flynn

Dear Poetry Fanatics,

Please join us this Friday night, 5/17, at 7 p.m., for the last reading of The Multifarious Array Spring 2013 season.

We will have readings by 

Jessica Flynn!

Joe Hall!

and 

Carrie O. Adams!

Bios and pics below. Invite your Facebook friends here.

See you there,

Dorothea Lasky

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The Multifarious Array is a semi-monthly reading series featuring the very best poets at the very best place (Pete's Candy Store). Readings start at 7PM.

Pete's Candy Store is located at 709 Lorimer in Williamsburg Brooklyn. Take the G to the Metropolitan stop or the L to the Lorimer stop. (Map: http://www.petescandystore.com/petes_map.html)

Visit us online here: http://www.petescandystore.com/multifarious_array/multifarious_array.html

Also, visit us here: http://multifariousarray.blogspot.com/

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Jessica Flynn's poems have appeared in Sonora Review, Phoebe, and other journals. She manages the undergraduate creative writing program at NYU, where she also received her MFA in poetry. She lives in Brooklyn.

Carrie Olivia Adams lives in Chicago, where she is a book publicist for the University of Chicago Press and the poetry editor for Black Ocean. She is the author of Forty-One Jane Doe’s (book and companion DVD, Ahsahta 2013), Intervening Absence (Ahsahta 2009) and the chapbook “A Useless Window.”

Joe Hall was born in the woods and is devoted to Cheryl. His poems have appeared in Gulf Coast, Lo-Ball, HTMLGiant and elsewhere. Black Ocean Press published his first book, Pigafetta Is My Wife, in 2010. He is currently in the middle of a coast to coast book tour for his second book, The Devotional Poems. Follow it at http://joehalljoehall.wordpress.com/

5/3-Lynn Melnick, Mark Bibbins, Timothy Donnelly

Dear Poetry Enthusiasts,

Please join us this Friday, 5/3, at 7 p.m. for readings by

Lynn Melnick!

Mark Bibbins!

and 

Timothy Donnelly!

Bios and pics below. Invite your Facebook friends here. 

See you there,

Dorothea Lasky and Thom Donovan

____________

The Multifarious Array is a semi-monthly reading series featuring the very best poets at the very best place (Pete's Candy Store). Readings start at 7PM.

Pete's Candy Store is located at 709 Lorimer in Williamsburg Brooklyn. Take the G to the Metropolitan stop or the L to the Lorimer stop. (Map: http://www.petescandystore.com/petes_map.html)

Visit us online here: http://www.petescandystore.com/multifarious_array/multifarious_array.html

Also, visit us here: http://multifariousarray.blogspot.com/

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Lynn Melnick is the author of If I Should Say I Have Hope (YesYes Books, 2012). She lives in Brooklyn.

Mark Bibbins's third book of poems, They Don't Kill You Because They're Hungry, They Kill You Because They're Full, is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press.

Timothy Donnelly is the author of Twenty-seven Props for a Production of Eine Lebenszeit (Grove, 2003) and The Cloud Corporation (Wave, 2010; Picador, 2011), winner of the 2012 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. With John Ashbery and Geoffrey G. O’Brien he is the author ofThree Poets (Minus A Press, 2012). He is the poetry editor of Boston Review, a 2013 Guggenheim Fellow, and an associate professor in the Writing Program at Columbia University. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.

4/26: Melissa Buzzeo, Simone White, Leah Umansky

Hello Poetry Fanatics,

Please join this Friday, 4/26, at 7 p.m. for readings by

Melissa Buzzeo!

Simone White!

and

Leah Umansky!

Bios and pics below. Invite your Facebook friends here. 

See you there,
Dorothea Lasky and Thom Donovan

______________________

The Multifarious Array is a semi-monthly reading series featuring the very best poets at the very best place (Pete's Candy Store). Readings start at 7PM.

Pete's Candy Store is located at 709 Lorimer in Williamsburg Brooklyn. Take the G to the Metropolitan stop or the L to the Lorimer stop. (Map: http://www.petescandystore.com/petes_map.html)

Visit us online here: http://www.petescandystore.com/multifarious_array/multifarious_array.html

Also, visit us here: http://multifariousarray.blogspot.com/

Melissa Buzzeo is the author of For Want and Sound ( Les Figues,

2013), Face (BookThug, 2009), and What Began Us (Leon Works, 2007).

Her poetic work has been greatly charged by a long engagement with

hypnosis, palm reading and a desire for an altered consciousness tied

to the body but radiating outward, which is to say healing. Or

writing.  She graduated from Cornell University and The University of

Iowa's Writing Workshop, and currently teaches both Creative Writing

and Architecture at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. This year she is the

2013 Poet in Residence at Opus Projects Gallery in Chelsea.

(Photo by Pat Cassidy Mollach)

Simone White is the author of Unrest (Ugly Duckling Presse, Dossier

Series), House Envy of All of the World (Factory School, 2010) and the
chapbook Dolly (Q Ave Press, curated by Ross Gay, with the paintings
of Kim Thomas). Her work has also appeared in The Claudius App,
Aufgabe, The Recluse, Callaloo, Ploughshares, Tuesday; An Art Project,
the exhibition catalog for the Studio Museum of Harlem's Flow, and
Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem's First Decade. She
lives in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.

(Photo by Edward Brydon)

Leah Umansky’s first collection of poems, Domestic Uncertainties, is available now from BlazeVOX Books. She is a poet, a collage-artist, a teacher, an anglophile, a music-junkie, and the host/curator of the COUPLET Reading Series. She received her BA in English/Creative Writing from SUNY Binghamton, her MFA in Poetry from Sarah Lawrence College. She  has been a contributing writer for BOMB Magazine’s BOMBLOG, a poetry reviewer for The Rumpus , and a  guest blogger/live twitterer  for The Best American Poetry Blog. Her poems can be found in such journals as: Barrow Street,Catch-up and Cream City Review among others. She is presently at work on her second collection of poems focusing on our technological world, AMC’s Mad Men, and life in the 21st century.

4/12: Christina Davis, Camille Rankine, Jared Stanley

Dear Poetry Lovers Far and Wide,

Tonight we have something special in store for you! We have:

Christina Davis!

Camille Rankine!

AND

Jared Stanley!

Readings start at 7 p.m. at Pete's Candy Store.

Bios and pics below. Invite your Facebook friends here.

See you there,

Dorothea Lasky and Thom Donovan

______________________

The Multifarious Array is a semi-monthly reading series featuring the very best poets at the very best place (Pete's Candy Store). Readings start at 7PM.

Pete's Candy Store is located at 709 Lorimer in Williamsburg Brooklyn. Take the G to the Metropolitan stop or the L to the Lorimer stop. (Map: http://www.petescandystore.com/petes_map.html)

Visit us online here: http://www.petescandystore.com/multifarious_array/multifarious_array.html

Also, visit us here: http://multifariousarray.blogspot.com/

Christina Davis is the author of FORTH A RAVEN (Alice James Books, 2006) and AN ETHIC (Nightboat Books, 2013), selected by Forrest Gander.  Her poems, essays and translations have appeared or are forthcoming in such journals as APR, Boston Review, Jubilat, LIT, Paris Review and Poetry Magazine. She currently serves as curator of the Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard University, and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Camille Rankine is the author of Slow Dance with Trip Wire, selected by Cornelius Eady for the Poetry Society of America’s 2010 New York Chapbook Fellowship. The recipient of a 2010 "Discovery"/Boston Review Poetry Prize, her poetry has appeared in several journals, including The Baffler, Boston Review, Denver Quarterly, Indiana Review, Phantom Limb, and Tin House. She is Assistant Director of the Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Manahattanville College.

Jared Stanley is the author of The Weeds, Book Made of Forest and four chapbooks, including How the Desert Did Me In. He co-edits Mrs. Maybe, and is a member of the collaborative public art team Unmanned Minerals. He is a 2012-2014 Research Fellow at the Center for Art + Environment at the Nevada Museum of Art, and teaches at Sierra Nevada College in Incline Village, NV. Stanley lives in Reno, Nevada.

3/29: Alan Felsenthal, Ariel Goldberg, and Stephen Motika

Simply one of the best reading line-ups of any season: Alan Felsenthal, Ariel Goldberg, and Stephen Motika will be reading for us this Friday.

Invite your friends at Facebook.

See you there!

Thom & Dottie

______________________

The Multifarious Array is a semi-monthly reading series featuring the very best poets at the very best place (Pete's Candy Store). Readings start at 7PM.

Pete's Candy Store is located at 709 Lorimer in Williamsburg Brooklyn. Take the G to the Metropolitan stop or the L to the Lorimer stop. (Map: http://www.petescandystore.com/petes_map.html)

Visit us online here: http://www.petescandystore.com/multifarious_array/multifarious_array.html

Also, visit us here: http://multifariousarray.blogspot.com/

___________________

Alan Felsenthal edits a small press called The Song Cave (www.the-song-cave.com) with Ben Estes. Together they edited A Dark Dreambox of Another Kind: The Poems of Alfred Starr Hamilton. Alan's writing has appeared in Fence, The Iowa Review, and Lana Turner. He lives in Brooklyn.

Ariel Goldberg's recent publications include Picture Cameras (NoNo Press, 2010), The Photographer without a Camera (Trafficker Press, 2011), and The Estrangement Principle, selections of which appear in Aufgabe 11. Goldberg is the recipient of a Franklin Furnace Fund grant to develop The Photographer, a series of performances in 2013.

Stephen Motika's first book, Western Practice, was published by Alice James Books in 2012. He is also the editor of Tiresias: The Collected Poems of Leland Hickman (2009) and the author of the poetry chapbooks Arrival and At Mono (2007) and In the Madrones (2011). Recent work has appeared in The Brooklyn Review, Eleven Eleven, The Boog City Reader 4, and The Poetry Project Newsletter. A 2010-2011 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace Resident, he is the program director at Poets House and publisher of Nightboat Books.

3/15: Jen Benka, Michael Tod Edgerton, Ted Rees

Dear Multifariousers,

This Friday at 7PM, come join us with readings by Jen Benka, Michael Tod Edgerton, and Ted Rees.

Love,

Thom & Dottie

______________________

The Multifarious Array is a semi-monthly reading series featuring the very best poets at the very best place (Pete's Candy Store).

Pete's Candy Store is located at 709 Lorimer in Williamsburg Brooklyn. Take the G to the Metropolitan stop or the L to the Lorimer stop. (Map: http://www.petescandystore.com/petes_map.html)

Visit us online here: http://www.petescandystore.com/multifarious_array/multifarious_array.html

Also, visit us here: http://multifariousarray.blogspot.com/

___________________

Jen Benka is the author of the poetry collections Pinko (Hanging Loose Press) and A Box of Longing With Fifty Drawers (Soft Skull Press); the artist book Preamble, a collaboration with Mark Wagner (Booklyn); and co-author, with Carol Mirakove, of the chapbook 1,138 (Belladonna). Her poems and essays have appeared in publications including Crossing State Lines: An American Renga (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), Eoagh, Failbetter, How(ever), make/shift magazine, and a celebration of the poet Etel Adnan (Post-Apollo Press). She has worked at Poets & Writers, 826 National, and was recently named the Executive Director of the Academy of American Poets, which you can find at Poets.org. Michael Tod Edgerton is the author of Vitreous Hide (Lavender Ink 2013). His poems have appeared as the contest winner of the Boston Review and Five Fingers Review poetry contests, and in Denver Quarterly, Drunken Boat, EOAGH, New American Writing, New Orleans Review and Word For/Word, among other journals. He holds an MFA from the Program in Literary Arts at Brown University and is an associate editor with Tarpaulin Sky. A native of Lexington, KY, Tod currently lives in Atlanta with his partner, Greg, and their antisocial cat, Penelope. Information about ordering Vitreous Hide from the publisher, future reading dates, and about Tod’s ongoing participatory project, “what most vividly (a choral work),” can all be found on his website, MichaelTodEdgerton.blogspot.com. He tweets @TodEdge. Ted Rees has lived in Philadelphia, Philadelphia's suburbs, rural Ohio, San Francisco, and currently resides in Oakland. His work has appeared in TRY!, Ragtag, The Swan's Rag, Big Bell, Perfect Wave, and The Best Gay Erotica 2011. He worked as a music reviewer for XLR8R and MaximumRock'N'Roll. His most recent chapbook, Outlaws Drift in Every Vehicle of Thought, was just released by Trafficker Press.

2/15: Nathan Austin, Emily Liebowitz, Marissa Perel

Dear all,

Come warm the cockles of your heart by the warm Valentine hearth of Nathan Austin, Emily Liebowitz, and Marissa Perel this Friday.

We'll meet you in the back of Pete's, in the submersible. 

And if you like you can also "join" us at Facebook.

Love,

Thom and Dottie

______________________

The Multifarious Array is a semi-monthly reading series featuring the very best poets at the very best place (Pete's Candy Store).

Pete's Candy Store is located at 709 Lorimer in Williamsburg Brooklyn. Take the G to the Metropolitan stop or the L to the Lorimer stop. (Map: http://www.petescandystore.com/petes_map.html)

Visit us online here: http://www.petescandystore.com/multifarious_array/multifarious_array.html

Also, visit us here: http://multifariousarray.blogspot.com/

___________________

Nathan Austin is the author of (glost) and Survey Says. He holds a PhD from the Poetics Program at SUNY Buffalo.

Emily Liebowitz is a poet born in the San Francsico Bay Area. Her work has appeared in various magazines including Lana Turner, LVNG, Shampoo, and The West Wind Review. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop, and currently lives and works in Brooklyn.

Marissa Perel is an artist, writer, editor and independent curator whose work spans performance, video, installation, visual text, poetry and criticism. Her recent project, a New Narrative take on the personification of Barbra Streisand's Yentl, has been performed and exhibited at Movement Research at Judson Memorial Church, Ontological-Hysteric Theater, and Sullivan Galleries. She was co-editor of the on-line dance and performance journal, Critical Correspondence, for which she curated conducted a live interview with Carolee Schneemann at Judson Memorial Church and a tribute to the criticism of Jill Johnston at the New Museum for the 50th Anniversary of Judson Dance Theater. She writes the column “Gimme Shelter: Performance Now” on the Art21 blog, and is a contributor to P-Club and Bad At Sports.