The Multifarious Array

1/20/2012: Brian Ang, Laura Elrick, and Josef Kaplan

2012-01-17T16:21:00.007-05:00

Dear Multifarious Array,

Please do not miss this amazing grouping of poets this Friday, January 20th, 2012.

Brian Ang all the way from his Oakland cell, and Laura Elrick and Josef Kaplan from their respective cells in Bklyn.

Can't wait to see everyone!

--Thom Donovan

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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).

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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Brian Ang is the author of Pre-Symbolic (Insert Press, forthcoming), Communism (Berkeley Neo-Baroque, 2011) and Paradise Now (Grey Book Press, 2011). Recent poetry and criticism have appeared in Jacket2 and Lana Turner: A Journal of Poetry and Opinion. He edits ARMED CELL in Oakland, California.

Laura Elrick’s recent projects include Blocks Away, a psychogeography of Lower Manhattan, and the video/poem Stalk (“part dystopian urban cartography, part spatial-poetic intervention”). A new book of poems will be published by Kenning Editions later this year. Older works include Fantasies in Permeable Structures (Factory School 2005) and sKincerity (Krupskaya 2003). She lives and works in Brooklyn.

Josef Kaplan lives in Brooklyn and co-edits Tea Party Republicans Press. His first book, Democracy is not for the People, will be published by Truck Books in 2012.

Friday, January 6, 2012

2011-12-21T17:39:00.003-05:00

Noah Eli Gordon, Sommer Browning, Harmony Holiday, and Steven Zultanski

Hello out there,

Please join us for the first Pete's reading of the spring season!

Bios and pics below.

Facebook invite here: http://www.facebook.com/events/206273182790677/

See you there,
Somethea Lasking

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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).

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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Steven Zultanski is the author of Pad (Make Now: 2010), Cop Kisser (BookThug: 2010), and Agony (BookThug: 2012). He co-curates the Segue Reading Series with Josef Kaplan, and is co-editing a book of critical writing on conceptual writing with Vanessa Place and Darren Wershler. He lives here.

Harmony Holiday is that author of Negro League Baseball (Fence: 2011). She was born in Waterloo, Iowa, in 1982. Her father was Northern Soul singer and songwriter Jimmy Holiday; her mother, 30 years his junior, was studying writing at the University of Iowa at the time they met. Upon her father’s passing in 1987 Harmony moved to Los Angeles, where she spent most of her childhood studying dance before attending UC Berkeley. She currently lives in New York City, and is an MFA student at Columbia University and an instructor of dance and writing courses.

Noah Eli Gordon is the author of several books, including The Source (Futurepoem, 2011), and Novel Pictorial Noise (Harper Perennial, 2007). Gordon is the co-publisher of Letter Machine Editions, and an Assistant Professor in the MFA program in Creative Writing at The University of Colorado–Boulder.

Sommer Browning is the author of Either Way I’m Celebrating (Birds, LLC; 2011), a collection of poetry and drawings, and three chapbooks, most recently THE BOWLING (Greying Ghost, 2010) with Brandon Shimoda. Her work appears in EOAGH, The Denver Quarterly, EVENT and The New York Quarterly. In 2008, she founded the hand-bound chapbook publisher, Flying Guillotine Press, with Tony Mancus. She lives in Denver where she co-curates The Bad Shadow Affair, a reading series.

Spring 2012 line-up

2011-12-20T11:18:00.010-05:00

Hello! Here is the Spring line-up for The Multifarious Array in its current form. More dates and readers to be added soon!
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1/6-Noah Eli Gordon, Sommer Browning, Harmony Holiday, and Steven Zultanski
1/20- Josef Kaplan, Brian Ang, Laura Elrick
2/3- Kendra Grant Malone, Matthew Savoca, Brett Price
2/17-Timothy Donnelly, Anselm Berrigan, Camille Roy
3/16- Michael Robins, Adam Clay, Ada Limon
3/23-Anelise Chen, Andrew Levy, Ken Walker
4/6- Michael Robbins, Angelo Nikolopoulos, Carley Moore
4/20- Todd Colby, Kate Schapira, Leigh Stein
5/4-Sam Truitt, Carter Edwards, Frank Sherlock
5/11-Eric Baus, Cynthia Sailers, Stacy Szymaszek
5/18-Shonni Enelow, Sasha Fletcher, Joseph Bradshaw
5/25-No, Dear Magazine Reading
6/1-David Brazil, Sara Larsen, Robert Kocik

12/16/11: Adam Robinson, Douglas A. Martin, and Catherine Wagner

2011-12-14T07:59:00.006-05:00

Hello out there,

Please join us for the final Pete's reading of the fall season! Readers are: Adam Robinson, Douglas A. Martin, and Catherine Wagner!

Bios and pics below.

Facebook invite here: http://www.facebook.com/?ref=hp#!/events/293219464050032/

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).

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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Adam Robinson lives in Baltimore, where he runs Publishing Genius Press and plays guitar in Coach Taylor, a rock band. His first book, Adam Robison and Other Poems was nominated for the Goodreads Poetry Award. He self-published his second book, Say, Poem which he also self-awarded second place in the Stupid River Poetry Prize. He is the editor of Dzanc Books' Best of the Web 2011. Robinson has an MFA from the University of Baltimore and is a contributor to HTMLGiant.

Cathy Wagner's books include Miss America (2000), Macular Hole (2004), and My New Job (2009), all from Fence, and Nervous Device (forthcoming in 2012 from City Lights). Her work will appear in the new editions of the Norton Anthology of Postmodern American Poetry and Out of Everywhere: Innovative Poetry by Women in the UK and North America. She lives in Oxford, Ohio, and teaches at Miami University.

Douglas A. Martin lives in Brooklyn and is currently teaching at Wesleyan University and at Goddard College in the low-residency MFA. His books of poetry and prose include: Your Body Figured (Nightboat Books), recently translated into Portuguese; Once You Go Back (Seven Stories Press); and In the Time of Assignments (Soft Skull Press). Outline of My Lover, his first novel, is presently being translated into Italian for future publication.

This Friday: Ariana Reines, Dana Ward, Stephanie Young

2011-11-30T16:01:00.009-05:00

Oh, hey, it's you.

So, what are you doing on Friday night?

No plans yet? Oh ok. Well, I am going to the best poetry reading ever.

Readers will include: Ariana Reines, Dana Ward, Stephanie Young!

That's the thing about The Multifarious Array. We don't play.

More information is below. Here's the Facebook event page: http://www.facebook.com/events/247697565289331/. Readings start at 7 p.m.

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).

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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Stephanie Young lives and works in Oakland. Her most recent book is A Megaphone: Some Enactments, Some Numbers, and Some Essays about the Continued Usefulness of Crotchless-pants-and-a-machine-gun Feminism, coedited with Juliana Spahr. Her books of poetry are Picture Palace (In Girum Imus Nocte et Consumimur Igni, 2008) and Telling the Future Off (Tougher Disguises, 2005). She edited the anthology Bay Poetics (Faux Press, 2005) and is a founding and managing editor of Deep Oakland.

Dana Ward is the author of This Can't Be Life, just out from Edge Books. Two other books are forthcoming, one from Futurepoem Press, & another from Flowers & Cream, in 2012. He lives in Cincinnati where he curates the Cy Press Poetry @ Thunder Sky reading series.

Ariana Reines has a new book called Mercury just out from FENCE. Her other books include The Cow (Alberta Prize, Fence: 2006) and Coeur de Lion (Mal-O-Mar: 2007; Fence: 2011). Her play TELEPHONE was commissioned and produced by The Foundry Theatre in 2009 with two Obies and spin-off in the Works+Process series at the Guggenheim Museum. Her most recent translation isTIQQUN's Preliminary Notes Toward a Theory of the Young-Girl forthcoming in 2012 from Semiotext(e).

11/18-Brian Whitener, Cynthia Sailers, Bhanu Kapil

2011-11-17T06:44:00.005-05:00

Hello!

Join us tomorrow (Fri, 11/18/11) for a spectacular reading:

Brian Whitener, Cynthia Sailers, Bhanu Kapil!

Facebook page here.

Bios and pics below.

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).

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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Bhanu Kapil lives in Colorado where she teaches writing and thinking at Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, as well as Goddard College’s low-residency MFA. She has written three full-length works of poetry/prose: The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers (Kelsey Street Press), Incubation: a space for monsters (Leon Works), and humanimal [a project for future children] (Kelsey Street Press).

Brian Whitener has worked as a sports photographer, dishwasher, music reviewer, adjunct, and in a prison. His most recent projects include False Intimacy (Trafficker Press), De gente común: Arte, política y rebeldía social (Universidad Autónoma de la Ciudad de México), and Genocide in the Neighborhood (ChainLinks). He edits Displaced Press.

Cynthia Sailers' book Lake Systems is from Tougher Disguises Press (2003), and her chapbook Rose Lungs is from Atticus/Finch. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Aufgabe, 14 Hills, LitVert.com, pompom, Syllogism, The Secret Swan, Barn
(v.) and elsewhere. Cynthia received an M.F.A. in poetry from Mills College where she is the current editor of the journal 580 Split. She lives in Alameda, California.

11/4: David Blair, Anne Boyer, and Ryan Eckes

2011-11-01T09:49:00.012-04:00

Dear Poets,

They say that November is our month. Well, what if that is true?

Everything has gone through flux and back again. Now the vines and the trees are still.

Just like us. Oh no, that's not right--we do like a fine event.

This Friday, we bring to you one of these. Please join me in welcoming:

David Blair, Anne Boyer, and Ryan Eckes!

To the stage at Pete's Candy Store.

Readings start at 7. Bios and pics below. Facebook extends 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).

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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Ryan Eckes was born in 1979 in Philadelphia. He's the author of Old News (Furniture Press 2011) and when i come here (Plan B Press 2007). More of his poetry can be found on his blog, ryaneckes.blogspot.com, and in various magazines. He works as an adjunct English professor at Temple University and other places.

David Blair's first book Ascension Days was chosen by Thomas Lux for the Del Sol Poetry Prize. His poems have recently appeared in The Hat, Ploughshares, Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, and Slate Magazine. He is an associate professor at The New England Institute of Art in Brookline, Massaschusetts.

Anne Boyer is the author of The Romance of Happy Workers, from Coffee House Press (2008), and a forthcoming novel from Bloof Books, JOAN. Her other works include Anne Boyer’s Good Apocalypse (Effing Press 2006), Selected Dreams with a Note on Phrenology (2007), Art is War(Mitzvah Chaps 2008), The 2000s (Free Poetry 2009), and most recently, My Common Heart, available from Spooky Girlfriend Press. She is an Assistant Professor of the Liberal Arts at the Kansas City Art Institute.

10/21: Janaka Stucky, Bianca Stone, Sampson Starkweather

2011-10-19T10:42:00.006-04:00

Hello out there!

It is raining today, but on Friday we expect clear skies.

Clear poetry skies, that is.

This Friday, 10/21, at 7 p.m., three poets will be showing us what is clear and what is cloudy. And also what are the gentle breezes.

From the cabinets of The Multifarious Array Reading Series, we present to you:

Janaka Stucky!

Bianca Stone!

Sampson Starkweather!

Facebook event page here. Bios and pics below.

See you there!

Truly,
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).

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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Sampson Starkweather is the author of Self Help Poems, The Heart is Green from So Much Waiting, City of Moths and The Photograph. He played professional soccer in New Zealand and was an editor of physics and chemistry books, currently he is the Publications Coordinator at the Center for the Humanities at the CUNY Graduate Center. He lives in Brooklyn, and is a founding editor of Birds, LLC, an independent poetry press.

Bianca is the author of the chapbook Someone Else's Wedding Vows from Argos books, and has been published in such magazines as Best American Poetry 2011, Conduit, and American Poetry Review. She is the cofounder and editor of Monk Books. Her next book, Antigonick, a new kind of comic book, and collaboration with Anne Carson, will be out in 2012 from New Directions. She lives in Brooklyn with the poet Ben Pease and their cat Commander Riker.

(Photo by Adrianne Mathiowetz)

Janaka Stucky is the Publisher of Black Ocean, based out of Boston. He is the author of Your Name Is the Only Freedom and his poems have appeared in publications such as Denver Quarterly, Fence, North American Review, and Volt. In 2010, he was voted “Boston’s Best Poet” in The Boston Phoenix. He is practicing the perfection of effort while working on silent relationships with knives, pugilism, and a history of tentacles. His chapbook, The World Will Deny It for You, was recently chosen by Cathy Wagner for the 2011 Aahsahta Chapbook Prize and will be published by Ahsahta Press in 2012.

10/14-Erin Morrill, Jason Koo, Debora Kuan

2011-10-14T01:50:00.006-04:00

Hello,

How are you?
I am ok.

The seasons are changing. It is fall and there is a sinister electricity in the air. It knows the winter is approaching.

Pretty soon it will be Halloween--my favorite holiday.

In honor of Halloween, we have some great poetry this month.

Starting Friday at 7 p.m at Pete's Candy Store., we have Erin Morrill, Jason Koo, Debora Kuan!

Invite your Facebook friends here

In the weeks after, much poetry will follow. I will keep you posted.

Until then, see you this Friday!

Yours, truly,
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).

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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Jason Koo is the author of Man on Extremely Small Island (C&R Press, 2009), winner of the De Novo Poetry Prize and the Asian American Writers’ Workshop Members’ Choice Award for the best Asian American book of 2009. His recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in Octopus, The Missouri Review and The Yale Review. The winner of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Vermont Studio Center, he teaches at Lehman College of the City University of New York, where he directs the graduate program in English. He lives in Brooklyn and can be found online at www.jasonkoopoetry.com

Erin Morrill lives, works, and writes in Oakland, California. She runs a chapbook press, Trafficker Press, with Andrew Kenower. Find them online at www.traffickerpress.com/

DEBORA KUAN holds degrees from Princeton University and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. She has received a Fulbright creative writing scholarship (Taiwan), University of Iowa Graduate Merit Fellowship, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference scholarship, Santa Fe Art Institute writer's residency, and two Pushcart Prize nominations. She has also written about contemporary art for Artforum, Art in America, Modern Painters, Paper Monument, and other publications.

9/30: Madhu Kaza, Adam Fitzgerald, and Stan Mir

2011-09-26T23:18:00.006-04:00

Hello!

We hear that you like poetry. Well then, you are in luck, because that's what we do around here.

On 9/30, at 7 p.m., we have three great poets and writers for you: Stan Mir, Madhu Kaza, and Adam Fitzgerald. Pics and bios below.

Facebook invite HERE.

See you there!
Dorothea Lasky and Thom Donovan
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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).

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)

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Stan Mir is the author of The Lacustrine Suite (Pavement Saw, 2011), Song & Glass (Subito, 2010), Test Patterns,and Flight Patterns (JR Vansant, 2010, 2009). He lives in Philadelphia where he co-organizes the Chapter & Verse reading series and occasionally writes for his blog Best Nightmare You Get! Recently, he co-edited the Lew Welch page for the Electronic Poetry Center.

Adam Fitzgerald edits Maggy and is founding editor for Monk Books. His poems, interviews and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Boston Review, Fortnight Journal, Los Angeles Review of Books, Post Road, Rain Taxi, The Brooklyn Rail and elsewhere. He teaches creative writing at Rutgers University and lives in the East Village.

Madhu Kaza was born in Andhra Pradesh, India and grew up in Detroit, Michigan. She is currently an educator, writer and artist based in New York, where she is at work on her first novel.

9/16: Mary Jo Bang, Sandra Simonds, Alex Dimitrov

2011-09-08T00:28:00.005-04:00

Hello!

The Multifarious Array is back for the season, because well, the season is the reason.

We will start it all off with an absolute smash of a reading--three great poets on what will be a great night!

Next Friday, September 16th at 7 p.m., we will feature: Mary Jo Bang, Alex Dimitrov, and Sandra Simonds. Bios and pics below.

See you there,
Dorothea Lasky & Thom Donovan

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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).

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)

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(Photo by Mark Schäfer)

Mary Jo Bang is the author of six books of poems, including The Bride of E (Graywolf Press 2009), Elegy (Graywolf Press, 2007), winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, The Eye Like a Strange Balloon (2004), The Downstream Extremity of the Isle of the Swans (2001), and Louise In Love (2001). Her first book, Apology for Want (1997), was chosen by Edward Hirsch for the 1996 Bakeless Prize. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and The Best American Poetry and several other literary magazines. She is the recipient of numerous awards including a “Discovery”/The Nation award, a Pushcart Prize, a fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation, and a Hodder Award from Princeton University. Her books Louise In Love and Elegy both received the Poetry Society of America’s Alice Fay di Castagnola Award for a manuscript-in-progress. Bang was the poetry co-editor of the Boston Review from 1995 to 2005. She is a Professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.

Alex Dimitrov’s first book of poems, Begging For It, is forthcoming from Four Way Books. He is the recipient of the 2011 Stanley Kunitz Prize for Younger Poets from The American Poetry Review, and is the founder of Wilde Boys, a queer poetry salon in New York City. His poems have appeared in The Kenyon Review, Yale Review, Tin House, Boston Review, and Best New Poets 2009. He works at the Academy of American Poets and frequently writes for Poets & Writers magazine.

Sandra Simonds grew up in Los Angeles, California. She earned a B.A. in Psychology and Creative Writing at U.C.L.A and an M.F.A. from the University of Montana, where she received a poetry fellowship. In 2010, she earned a PhD in Literature with an emphasis in Creative Writing from Florida State University. She is currently finishing a second full-length collection of poems called Mother was a Tragic Girl which will be published by Cleveland State University Poetry Center in 2012. She is the author of Warsaw Bikini (Bloof Books, 2008), which was a finalist for numerous prizes including the National Poetry Series; she is also the author of several chapbooks including Used White Wife (Grey Book Press, 2009) and The Humble Travelogues of Mr. Ian Worthington, Written from Land & Sea (Cy Gist, 2006). Her poems have been published in many journals such as Poetry, The Believer, the Colorado Review, Fence, the Columbia Poetry Review, Barrow Street, Volt, the New Orleans Review and Lana Turner. Her Creative Nonfiction has been published in Post Road and other literary journals. She currently lives in Tallahassee, Florida and is an Assistant Professor of English at Thomas University in beautiful, rural Southern Georgia. In her free time she likes to run, swim, hike, and fight for various lost causes.

Fall 2011 Line-up

2011-08-18T10:54:00.008-04:00

We at the Multifarious Array hope you have had a really great summer!

We can't wait to see you this fall and winter. Below is next season's line-up.

See you there,
Dorothea Lasky & Thom Donovan
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9/16-Mary Jo Bang, Sandra Simonds, Alex Dimitrov
9/30-Adam Fitzgerald, Stan Mir, Madhu Kaza
10/14-Erin Morrill, Jason Koo, Debora Kuan
10/21-Janaka Stucky, Bianca Stone, Sampson Starkweather
11/4-David Blair, Anne Boyer, Ryan Eckes
11/18-Brian Whitener, Cynthia Sailers, Bhanu Kapil
12/2-Ariana Reines, Dana Ward, Stephanie Young
12/16-Elizabeth Willis, Adam Robinson, Catherine Wagner

June 14: Switchback Books reading

2011-06-11T15:11:00.001-04:00

Switchback Books
*presents*
Cathy Park Hong & Jennifer Tamayo
Reading & Book Launch for Jennifer Tamayo's [Red Missed Aches]
**Books will be for sale!**
6pm : : Pete's Candy Store : : 709 Lorimer St. : : Williamsburg : : Brooklyn

Cathy Park Hong's first book, Translating Mo'um was published in 2002 by Hanging Loose Press. Her second collection, Dance Dance Revolution, was chosen for the Barnard Women Poets Prize and was published in 2007 by W.W. Norton. The recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, Hong is an Assistant Professor at Sarah Lawrence College.

A writer, artist, & performer, Jennifer Tamayo is slowly becoming a human being. Her first book Red Missed Aches, Read Missed Aches, Red Mistakes, Read Mistakes was selected by Cathy Park Hong for the 2010 Gatewood Prize from Switchback Books. JT's art & writing have most recently appeared or are forthcoming in Delirious Hem, Futurepost, The New Delta Review, Contrappostos, and Jacket2. She is the Managing Editor at Futurepoem and teaches art and poetry to students in Harlem.

5/27: Sarah Dowling, Mark Horosky, Cara Benson, and Viraj Kamdar!

2011-05-25T06:50:00.006-04:00

Dear De Luxe Array,

Please join us for our last reading of the season. On 5/27 we will bring you:

SARAH DOWLING
MARK HOROSKY
CARA BENSON and
VIRAJ KAMDAR

Readings start at 7 p.m. sharp.

Facebook event page: here.

Bios and pics below.

See you there,
Dorothea Lasky

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Sarah Dowling is the author of Security Posture, which was published as the winner of the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry in 2009. Her poetry has appeared in P-Queue, EOAGH, How2, West Coast Line, and elsewhere. Sarah is international editor at Jacket2, and is currently completing a Ph.D. in English at UPenn.

Cara Benson is the author of two books of poetry: (made) (BookThug, 2010) and Protean Parade (Black Radish Books, 2012). Her chapbook "Quantum Chaos and Poems: A Manifest(o)ation" won the bpNichol Prize. “The Secret of Milk,” a treatise on the possibilities of lyric advocacy within the tainted world of agribusiness, is just out from eohippus labs. Benson teaches poetry in a NY State Prison.

Mark Horosky is the author of three chapbooks, including Let It Be Nearby (CUE Editions), More Frisk Than Risk (Flying Guillotine Press), and Fabulous Beasts (The Equalizer). He is also the front-man of the conceptual musical group THE OBLIVION HA-HAS. Mark is a special education teacher in Brooklyn, New York where he lives with his wife Miriam and their son Lucas.

Viraj Kamdar is working on his upcomming novel, Confessions of an Aging Hipster. He is a graduate of Washington University and recieved his MA in Literature and Philosophy from NYU. He completed his second masters at Brooklyn College as a New York Teaching Fellow and is both a teacher and literacy coach for the NYCDOE. Viraj is a proud residentl Brooklyn New York and can usually be found playing pool in back at the Leevee

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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).

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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May 13: Michelle Taransky, Meg Barboza, and Sarah Shapiro

2011-05-10T18:04:00.004-04:00

Join us this Friday for another exciting installment of The Multifarious Array!

Readers include:

MICHELLE TARANSKY

MEG BARBOZA

and

SARAH SHAPIRO

Readings start at 7 p.m. sharp.

Facebook event page here.

Bios and pic below.

See you there,
Dorothea Lasky

Michelle Taransky is the author of Barn Burned, Then, selected by Marjorie Welish for the 2008 Omnidawn Poetry Prize. Taransky lives in Philadelphia, works at Kelly Writers House and as Reviews Editor for Jacket2 and teaches writing at University of Pennsylvania and Temple University.

Meg Barboza received her MFA in Poetry from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her poems have appeared in P-Queue, Court Green, Denver Quarterly, 1913, notnostrums, Little Red Leaves, and elsewhere. Her poetry reviews have appeared in Colorado Review. Formerly the manager for the Powell's North Bookstore Reading Series in Chicago, Meg now lives and works in New York City.

Sarah Shapiro studied creative writing undergraduate at both Washington University in St Louis and Hunter College in New York City. Sarah is a speech language pathologist in Manhattan and lives in Brooklyn. She has writing for as long as she can remember and is currently working on her first novel.

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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).

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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4/29: Deborah Landau, Dara Wier, and Mark Bibbins

2011-04-25T00:08:00.005-04:00

Dear Visitors of the Array,

Come join us this Friday, 4/29, for a reading of astronomical proportions. Featuring:

DEBORAH LANDAU

DARA WIER

and

MARK BIBBINS

Readings start at 7 p.m. sharp at (where else?) Pete's Candy Store.

Bios and pics below.

Here is the Facebook event page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=204008356296563

Over and out,
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).

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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Deborah Landau is the author of Orchidelirium (Anhinga Press, 2004) and The Last Usable Hour (Copper Canyon Press, 2011). Her poems have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies, including The Kenyon Review, The Paris Review, Tin House, and The Best American Erotic Poems. She lives in New York City, where she directs the Creative Writing Program at New York University.

Dara Wier is the author of numerous collections of poetry, including most recently, Selected Poems (Wave Books, 2009), encompassing work from 1977 through 2006; Remnants of Hannah (Wave Books, 2006), Reverse Rapture (Verse Press, 2005, 2006 SFSU Poetry Center Book Award) Hat On a Pond (Verse Press, 2002), and Voyages in English (Carnegie Mellon, 2001). She teaches workshops and form and theory seminars and directs the MFA program for poets and writers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and co-directs the University of Massachusetts' Juniper Initiative for Literary Arts and Action.

Mark Bibbins is the author of two books of poems, The Dance of No Hard Feelings (Copper Canyon Press, 2009) and the Lambda Award-winning Sky Lounge. He teaches at The New School, where he was a founding editor of LIT, and at Columbia University. He edits the poetry section of The Awl.

Joshua Beckman, Caroline Knox, and David Shapiro this Friday, April 22!

2011-04-20T12:58:00.008-04:00

Hello,

Come to Pete's Candy Store this Friday, April 22, to see

JOSHUA BECKMAN

CAROLINE KNOX

and

DAVID SHAPIRO

read their poems!

Readings start at 7 p.m. sharp.

Here is the Facebook event page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=185886371458286

Bios and pics below.

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).

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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Caroline Knox's seventh book, Nine Worthies, appeared from Wave Books in September 2010. The entire book takes place in 1756 in Boston and Newport. Caroline has recent or forthcoming work in Boston Review, A Public Space, Denver Quarterly, notnostrums, Octopus, and elsewhere.

Joshua Beckman was born in New Haven, Connecticut. He is the author of seven books, including Take It (Wave Books, 2009), Shake and two collaborations with Matthew Rohrer: Nice Hat. Thanks. and Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty. He is an editor at Wave Books and has translated numerous works of poetry and prose, including 5 Meters of Poems by Carlos Oquendo de Amat and Poker by Tomaz Salamun, which was a finalist for the PEN America Poetry in Translation Award. He is also the recipient of numerous other awards, including a NYFA fellowship and a Pushcart Prize. He lives in Seattle and New York.

David Shapiro is the author of more than 20 books of poetry, literary criticism, and art history. Poetry books include January, Poems from Deal, A Man Holding an Acoustic Panel, The Page-Turner, Lateness, House (Blown Apart), To an Idea, After a Lost Original, and Burning Interior. He is a past recipient of the award for experimental poetry, given every three years by the National Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, has won National Endowment for the Humanities and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, been nominated for a National Book Award, and been the recipient of numerous grants for his work.

April 15, 2011: Andrea Rexilius, Natalie Lyalin, and Eric Baus

2011-04-13T00:34:00.006-04:00

Hello there,

How are you these days? I haven't seen you in about two weeks or more.

Do you feel bad or good luck surrounds you? Sometimes I feel bad luck everywhere, but not when it comes to The Multifarious Array. I feel like the Multifarious Array is lucky. And we have been very lucky all year to bring you some great poets.

This Friday, 4/15, will be no exception. Coming all the way from Denver and Philadelphia, we present:

ANDREA REXILIUS

NATALIE LYALIN

ERIC BAUS

Bios and Pics below. Here is the Facebook event page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=205713812786750

The readings start at 7 sharp at (where else?) Pete's Candy Store.

See you there!
Dorothea Lasky

___________________

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/
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Andrea Rexilius completed her Ph.D. in Literature and Writing at the University of Denver. She is co-editor of Marcel Press. She is the author of TO BE HUMAN IS TO BE A CONVERSATION (Rescue Press, 2011) and HALF OF WHAT THEY CARRIED FLEW AWAY (Letter Machine Editions, 2011).

Natalie Lyalin is the author of Pink and Hot Pink Habitat (Coconut Books 2009) and the chapbook Try A Little Time Travel (Ugly Duckling Presse 2010). She is the co founder and co editor of GlitterPony Magazine and Agnes Fox Press. She lives in Philadelphia and teaches at The University of the Arts.

Eric Baus is the author of The To Sound (Verse Press/Wave Books) and Tuned Droves (Octopus Books) as well as several chapbooks. He is currently a guest commentator on Jacket2, the new incarnation of Jacket magazine. With Andrea Rexilius, he co-edits Marcel Press. He lives in Denver.

April 1st is Not for Fools Reading

2011-03-29T14:22:00.005-04:00

Dear friends,

The Multifarious Array is back. In fact, we were always here. Waiting for you.

We will be celebrating the start of new things this April. To begin, join us on 4/1 for a knockout reading to celebrate the new! Featuring:

ROB HALPERN

JULIA BLOCH

PAUL FOSTER JOHNSON

with special guest host, poet and scholar Thom Donovan

Readings start at 7 p.m. and as always, are at Pete’s Candy Store. Bios and pics below.

Let your friends know you will be there: Facebook event page.

See you there!
Dorothea Lasky
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Rob Halpern is the author of several books of poetry, including Rumored Place (Krupskaya) and Disaster Suites (Palm Press 2009). He’s also the co-author of the book-length poem Snow Sensitive Skin (together with Taylor Brady, Atticus / Finch Books 2007), which is currently being reissued in an expanded edition by Displaced Press. A new book of poems, Music for Porn, is forthcoming (Nightboat Books 2011). His essays appear in a range of journals and anthologies, including Biting the Error: Writers Explore Narrative, Modernist Cultures, ON: Contemporary Practice, and Journal of Narrative Theory. His work on Georges Perec, including translations of Perec’s early essays on aesthetics and politics, can be found in Chicago Review and Review of Contemporary Fiction. A founding member of the Nonsite Collective, he lives in San Francisco and Ypsilanti, where he teaches at Eastern Michigan University.

Julia Bloch lives in Philadelphia, where she cocurates the Emergency reading series, works as coeditor of Jacket2, and is completing a Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania. Recent poetry appears in P-Queue, Aufgabe, and Peacock Online Review; her book Letters to Kelly Clarkson is forthcoming this year from Sidebrow Books.

Paul Foster Johnson’s first collection of poetry, Refrains/Unworkings, was published by Apostrophe Books, and his second, Study in Pavilions and Safe Rooms, will be published by Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs. With E. Tracy Grinnell, he is the author of the g-o-n-g press chapbook Quadriga. His poems have appeared in The Awl, Cannot Exist, GAM, EOAGH, Fence, and Octopus. From 2003 to 2006, he curated the Experiments and Disorders reading series at Dixon Place. He is an editor at Litmus Press and lives in New York.

3/18: Maryrose Larkin, Jennifer Bartlett, and Anne Gorrick

2011-03-15T00:07:00.007-04:00

Hello to you, and you, and also you,

Is it Spring yet?

No, not yet. It isn't really anything.

What is a thing is that it will be such a thing this Friday at The Multifarious Array.

This Friday, at 7 p.m. sharp, we will have Maryrose Larkin, Jennifer Bartlett, and Anne Gorrick at Pete's Candy Store. Bios and pics below.

Facebook event page here.

See you there!
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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).

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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Maryrose Larkin lives in Portland, Ore. where she works as a donor researcher. She is the author of Inverse (nine muses books, 2006), Whimsy Daybook 2007 (FLASH+CARD, 2006), The Book of Ocean (i.e. press, 2007), DARC (FLASH+CARD, 2009) and The Name of this Intersection is Frost (Shearsman Books, 2010). Maryrose is one of the organizers of Spare Room, a Portland-based writing collective, and is co-editor, with Sarah Mangold, of FLASH+CARD, a chapbook and ephemera poetry press. She is currently working on "Twenty Questions for Five Masters" a play for Language Master and voice.

Jennifer Bartlett was a 2005 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow. Her collections include Derivative of the Moving Image (UNM Press 2007), (a) lullaby without any music (Chax 2011), and Anti-Autobiography: A Chapbook Designed by Andrea Baker (Saint Eliizabeth Street/Youth-in-Asia Press 2010).

Anne Gorrick is the author of I-Formation (Book One) (Shearman Books, 2010), the forthcoming I-Formation (Book Two), and Kyotologic (Shearsman Books, 2008). She also collaborated with artist Cynthia Winika to produce a limited edition artists’ book, “Swans, the ice,” she said, funded with grants from the Women’s Studio Workshop in Rosendale, NY and the New York Foundation for the Arts. She curates the reading series Cadmium Text, featuring innovative writing from in and around New York’s Hudson Valley (www.cadmiumtextseries.blogspot.com). She also co-edits the electronic poetry journal Peep/Show with poet Lynn Behrendt (www.peepshowpoetry.blogspot.com). Anne Gorrick lives in West Park, New York.

3/4: C.S. Carrier, Brian Foley, Chris Hosea, Jared White

2011-03-03T08:33:00.010-05:00

Hello!

It is not cold anymore exactly. But it is not Spring. But it is not Winter either. Some things are in limbo.

What is certain is that tomorrow night, The Multifarious Array will present four poets: C.S. Carrier, Brian Foley, Chris Hosea, Jared White. Bios and pics are below.

Let your Facebook friends know you are going here: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=139278199471957

Readings start at 7 p.m. sharp.

The atmosphere goes on all night.

See you there!

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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).

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/

Brian Foley is the author of the chapbooks The Constitution ( Horseless Press, 2011) & The Black Eye (Brave Men Press, 2010). His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Action Yes, Real Poetik, Saltgrass, Columbia Poetry Journal, Poor Claudia,Typo, H_NGM_N & elsewhere. He curates the Jones/jubilat reading series in Amherst, MA, and co-runs Brave Men Press.

C.S. Carrier was born in Dayton, Ohio and grew up in North Carolina. He attended Western Carolina University and earned an MFA from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. He is author of After Dayton (Four Way Books, forthcoming 2008), Lyric (horse less press, 2007) and The 16s (Katalanche Press, 2007). His poems have appeared in 6x6, American Letters and Commentary, Coconut, LIT, Pleiades, Verse, Word For/Word and elsewhere.

Chris Hosea was first fingerprinted in Princeton, NJ in 1982 at the age of eight.

Jared White lives in Brooklyn, where he co-directs the Yardmeter Editions event series and, with Farrah Field, he has recently founded a poetry bookstore, Berl's Brooklyn Poetry Shop. His chapbook Yellowcake was included in the hand-sewn anthology Narwhal from Cannibal Books in 2009. Poems and essays have also recently appeared in Action, Yes, Coconut, Harp & Altar, La Petite Zine, No, Dear, Open Letters Monthly, and We Are So Happy To Know Something. An occasional blog can be found at jaredswhite.blogspot.com.

Anthony McCann and Matthew Rohrer this Friday!

2011-02-15T23:40:00.004-05:00

Hello! Multifarious Array?

Yes, this is the Multifarious Array.

Oh hi, nice to see you here.

And it will be super to see you this Friday night for the NYC book launch of both Anthony McCann's I <3 Your Fate and Matthew Rohrer's Destroyer and Preserver. We will be at Pete's Candy Store (like we always are) and we will start the reading at 7 p.m. sharp.

Bios and pics below.

See you there!
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Matthew Rohrer is the author of Destroyer and Preserver (forthcoming from Wave Books in 2011), A Plate of Chicken (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2009), Rise Up (Wave Books, 2007) and A Green Light (Verse Press, 2004), which was shortlisted for the 2005 Griffin Poetry Prize. He is also the author of Satellite (Verse Press, 2001), and co-author, with Joshua Beckman, of Nice Hat. Thanks. (Verse Press, 2002), and the audio CD Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty. He has appeared on NPR's "All Things Considered" and "The Next Big Thing." His first book, A Hummock in the Malookas was selected for the National Poetry Series by Mary Oliver in 1994. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, and teaches in the undergraduate writing program at NYU.

Anthony McCann was born and raised in the Hudson Valley. He is the author of I ♥ Your Fate (forthcoming from Wave Books in 2011), Moongarden (Wave Books, 2006) and Father of Noise (Fence Books, 2003). In addition to these two collections, he is one of the authors of Gentle Reader! (2007), a book of erasures of the English Romantics, along with Joshua Beckman and Matthew Rohrer. He has taught English as a Second Language in the former Czechoslovakia, South Korea and Nicaragua, as well as in New York City. Currently he lives in Los Angeles, where he works with Machine Project and teaches in the School of Critical Studies at the California Institute of the Arts.
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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).

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/

Christie Ann Reynolds, Ish Klein, and Paige Taggart!

2011-02-09T13:56:00.006-05:00

Live it and love it!

The Multifarious Array is back this Friday, 2/11/11, with Christie Ann Reynolds, Ish Klein, and Paige Taggart. Start time: 7 p.m. razor sharp.

Bios and pics are below.

And here is the Facebook event page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=190793510939244.

Yeah, I'll see you there.
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Christie Ann Reynolds has an MFA in Poetry from The New School. She is the author of Revenge Poems (Supermachine 2010), Girl Boy Girl Boy (The Corresponding Society 2010) and idiot heart (The New School 2008). She is the co-curator of The Stain of Poetry Reading Series in Brooklyn, NY, teaches writing at Hofstra University and new poems or essays are forthcoming in Sink Review, Lit, Maggy, Blaze Vox and others. Christie Ann is also the co-founder of a new non-profit called Borough Writing Workshops.

Paige Taggart’s chapbook DIGITAL MACRAMÉ was recently released by Poor Claudia. On the horizon Polaroid Parade will emerge in chapbook-form from Greying Ghost Press. She lives in Ditmas Park with her love and makes jewelry available at mactaggartjewelry.blogspot.com.

Ish Klein grew up in Long Beach, New York and was educated at Columbia University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her poems have appeared in The Canary, Bridge, Explosive Magazine, Spork, The Hat and elsewhere. As filmmaker, she was the recipient of a 2005 NEA Digital Filmmaker Residency, and her work has screened at festivals and museums around the world. Her latest book, Moving Day is now available from the Canarium Press. Her dvd, Success Window, is available from Poor Claudia of Portland Oregon. She now lives in Amherst, MA with the poetry and fiction writer Greg Purcell.
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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).

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/

Erica Kaufman, Jamie Townsend, Debrah Morkun, and Matt Walker!

2011-02-01T19:13:00.005-05:00

Hey poetry fans!

This Friday night we have an amazing line-up for you. We have Erica Kaufman, Jamie Townsend, Debrah Morkun, and Matt Walker reading their fabulous poems. And someone there might also be wearing leg warmers. And someone else might be wearing green and white stripes.

So, get up off the couch on Friday night and get to Pete's by 7. It will be fun!

Here is the Facebook event page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=150349701686602

Bios and pics to follow
right
now

Debrah Morkun believes in near death experiences & prays to the old gods. She lives in Philadelphia, where she curates the Jubilant Thicket Literary Series & is a founding member of The New Philadelphia Poets. Her book Projection Machine was published in April 2010 by BlazeVox Books. Visit Debrah at www.debrahmorkun.com .

erica kaufman is the author of censory impulse (Factory School 2009) as well as several chapbooks. Poems from her most recent project, INSTANT CLASSIC, can be found in Little Red Leaves and Elective Affinities. Kaufman is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center where she studies Composition and Rhetoric and its possible relationships to contemporary poetics. she lives in Brooklyn and teaches at Baruch College, Parsons the New School for Design, and Bard’s Institute for Writing & Thinking.

J. Townsend has poems and essays published or forthcoming in Bombay Gin, The Cultural Society, Gam, Diagram, Fact-Simile, Wheelhouse, Volt, Elective Affinities, & Jacket. With Nicholas DeBoer, he edits con/crescent press, a chapbook publisher & print magazine focused on discursive essay / creative non-fiction. He writes and performs with the New Philadelphia Poets community, & lives in E. Kensington, Phila.

Matt Walker works in an office in Manhattan and lives in Ridgewood, Queens. He is originally from Indiana.

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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).

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/

Friday, 1/28 at Pete's

2011-01-24T00:27:00.004-05:00

Hello to all of you,

It's been January and it's been real. But now the Multifarious Array is back and we are ready to knock your mittens off with some great poetry readings. Starting this Friday, 1/28, at 7 p.m. (sharp!).

Friday will be a truly special night. It is the NYC book release party for Travis Nichols's new poetry collection, See Me Improving (Copper Canyon Press).

We will be featuring a talent show by extraordinary artists out of their ordinary minds. Local dilettantes--including Steve Zultanski, Lauren Ireland, Jason Daniel Schwartz, Dugward Penelope, Leigh Stein, and more--will sing, dance, and showcase their beginner minds in an amateur revue of improvements.

The night ends with a reading from the new book by the author.

Here is some information about the man of the night: Travis Nichols is the author of two previous books, the prose poetry collection Iowa (Letter Machine Editions), and the novel Off We Go Into the Wild Blue Yonder (Coffee House Press). He is associate editor at the Poetry Foundation, as well as editor of the online magazine Weird Deer. He lives in Chicago.

Here's the Facebook event page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=176330212407625.

And hey, while you are there reading stuff, check out our Spring line-up here: http://multifariousarray.blogspot.com/2011/01/spring-2011-schedule.html. It's gonna be a super Spring!

Well, then again, I'll see you all on Friday at 7 at Pete's!

Can't wait,
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).

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/

Spring 2011 schedule

2011-01-19T12:46:00.008-05:00

Check out what we have in store for you this Spring! Readers start at 7 p.m. sharp on the dates listed.
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1/28-Special night for Travis Nichols’ new book See Me Improving (Copper Canyon Press, 2011). Readers and performers will include: Travis Nichols, Steve Zultanski, Lauren Ireland, Jason Daniel Schwartz, Dugward Penelope, and Leigh Stein.

2/4-Debrah Morkun, Erica Kaufman, Jamie Townsend, and Matt Walker

2/11-Paige Taggart, Christie Ann Reynolds, and Ish Klein

2/18-Book release party for Anthony McCann's I Heart Your Fate and Matthew Rohrer's Destroyer and Preserver, both just out from Wave Books.

3/4-Jared White, Brian Foley, Chris Hosea, and C.S. Carrier

3/18-Maryrose Larkin, Jennifer Bartlett, and Anne Gorrick

3/25-(Special start time 6 p.m.) Lonely Christopher, David Buuck, Astrid Lorange, and Steve Orth

4/1-Rob Halpern, Julia Bloch, and Paul Foster Johnson

4/15-Eric Baus, Andrea Rexilius, and Natalie Lyalin

4/22-Joshua Beckman, Caroline Knox, and David Shapiro

4/29-Deborah Landau, Mark Bibbins, and Dara Wier

5/13-Meg Barboza, Michelle Taransky, and Sarah Shapiro

5/27-Cara Benson, Sarah Dowling, Viraj Kamdar, and Mark Horosky

12/17 Reading: Jennifer Kronovet, Rachel Levitsky, and Lynn Behrendt!

2010-12-10T14:35:00.004-05:00

What's better than walking alone in the cold all night?

Taking your self to Pete's Candy Store next Friday night! It will be warm. And there will be people. And there will be poets reading.

On 12/17, we have three amazing poets: Jennifer Kronovet, Rachel Levitsky, and Lynn Behrendt. Bios and pics below.

See you there at 7 p.m.!

Jennifer Kronovet is the author of the poetry collection Awayward (BOA Editions, 2009), which was selected by Jean Valentine for the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared in the Colorado Review, Fence, Open City, Ploughshares, A Public Space, and elsewhere. She is currently a Writer-in-Residence at Washington University in St. Louis.

Rachel Levitsky’s first full-length volume, Under the Sun was published by Futurepoem books in 2003. She is the author of five chapbooks of poetry, Dearly (a+bend, 1999), Dearly 356, Cartographies of Error (Leroy, 1999), The Adventures of Yaya and Grace (PotesPoets, 1999) and 2(1×1)Portraits (Baksun, 1998). Levitsky writes poetry plays, three of which (one with Camille Roy) have been performed in New York and San Francisco. Her work is published in magazines such as The Recluse, Sentence, Fence, The Brooklyn Rail, Global City, The Hat, Skanky Possum, Lungfull! and the anthologies, Boog City (vol. I & II), Bowery Women, and 19 Lines: A Drawing Center Writing Anthology. Recently her work was translated into Icelandic for the anthology 131.839 Slög Med Bilum by Eiríkur Örn Nordahl and into French for the Paris journal Action poetique. Online poetry and critical essays can be found on such sites as Narrativity, Duration Press, How2, Web Conjunctions, and is forthcoming in DWB, in the 2010 issue of the Dutch language magazine, “The Empire of Women,” which she is also guest-editing with Jan Lauwereyns. She has taught poetry workshops at Woodland Pattern, Naropa University, Poets House, the Poetry Project and the Pratt Institute. She is the founder and co-director of Belladonna*, an event and publication series of feminist avant-garde poetics. In 2008 she was the poet from the United States invited to attend The Tokyo Poetry Festival and throughout 2008-2009 she served as the CPCW Fellow in Poetics & Poetic Practice at the University of Pennsylvania. She currently teaches college courses in two prisons in New York State.

Lynn Behrendt is the author of several chapbooks, most recently Luminous Flux. A full length collection, petals, emblems, will be published in 2010 by Lunar Chandelier Press. She co-edits the Annandale Dream Gazette, an online journal of poets' dreams, as well as Peep/Show Poetry. She lives and works in New York's Mid-Hudson Valley.

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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).

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/

12/3 Reading: Farrah Field, Tanya Larkin, Amy Lemmon

2010-12-01T09:54:00.006-05:00

Join us this Friday, 12/3, at 7 p.m. for three great poets!

Featuring: Farrah Field, Tanya Larkin, and Amy Lemmon. Bios below.

See you there!
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Farrah Field’s first book of poems, Rising, won Four Way Books’ 2007 Levis Prize. Her poems have appeared in many publications including Harp & Altar, We Are So Happy to Know Something, Ploughshares, Lit, and are forthcoming in Fou and Mantis. She co-hosts a reading series called Yardmeter Editions and blogs at adultish.blogspot.com. Her second book of poetry is forthcoming in 2012.

Tanya Larkin teaches Creative Writing and English at the New England
Institute of Art in Brookline, MA. Her poems have most recently
appeared in Satellite Telephone. She is currently at work on a novel.

Amy Lemmon is the author of two poetry collections: Fine Motor (Sow’s Ear Poetry Review Press, 2008) and Saint Nobody (Red Hen Press, 2009). Her work has appeared in Rolling Stone, New Letters, Prairie Schooner, Verse, Court Green, The Journal, Barrow Street, and many other magazines and anthologies. Amy holds a PhD in English/Creative Writing from the University of Cincinnati. She is Associate Professor of English at the Fashion Institute of Technology and lives with her two children in Astoria, Queens.

11/12: Rachel Zolf and Jane Sprague

2010-11-10T06:30:00.006-05:00

Hi!

Would we leave you without? This Friday we have two amazing poets, Rachel Zolf and Jane Sprague, ready to knock it outta the park for the sake of The Multifarious Array.

This Friday, come on down to Pete's Candy Store (709 Lorimer in Brooklyn) at 7 p.m. Bios below.

See you there!
Dorothea Lasky
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Rachel Zolf’s poetic practice explores interrelated materialist questions related to memory, history, knowledge, subjectivity and the conceptual limits of language and meaning. She is particularly interested in how ethics founders on the shoals of the political. Her fourth full-length book, Neighbour Procedure, was released by Coach House Books in 2010. Previous collections include Human Resources (Coach House), which won the 2008 Trillium Book Award for Poetry and was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award, Masque (The Mercury Press), Shoot & Weep (Nomados), from Human Resources (Belladonna books) and Her absence, this wanderer (BuschekBooks). Zolf’s work has been translated into French, Spanish and Portuguese and has appeared in anthologies such as Prismatic Publics: Innovative Canadian Women’s Poetry and Poetics (Coach House) and a forthcoming anthology of conceptual writing from Les Figues Press. She was the founding poetry editor for The Walrus magazine and has worked as a documentary film producer and communications consultant. She has received a Chalmers Arts Fellowship and multiple grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council and the Toronto Arts Council. She lives in Brooklyn.

Jane Sprague is the author of the books The Port of Los Angeles (Chax Press, 2009) and, with Tina Darragh and Diane Ward, The *Belladonna Elders Series 8 (*Belladonna, 2009). She is also author of the chapbooks Apache Roadkill (Dusie / Weekend Press, 2009), Sacking the Henwife (Dusie, 2007), Entropic Liberties (with Jonathan Skinner; Dusie, 2006), fuck your pastoral (Subpoetics, 2005) and The Port of Los Angeles (Subpoetics, 2004) among others. Her poems, essays, reviews and interviews with poets and editors have been published in numerous print and online magazines including Columbia Poetry Review, Rain Taxi, How2, Jacket, XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics, ecopoetics, Dandelion, Tinfish, The Poetry Project Newsletter, Tarpaulin Sky , Kiosk, P-Queue, Hot Whiskey and others. Since 2004 she has edited and published the imprint Palm Press, www.palmpress.org, an independent press committed to making possible works which interrogate the boundaries of contemporary politics, poetry, pedagogy and poetics. She regularly reads from her work, recent readings include The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church (NYC), The Poetry Center at CSUSF (San Francisco), and Colorado State University at Boulder (Boulder, CO), among others. Additionally, she has curated several reading series in the states of New York and California and the conference “Small Press Culture Workers” (Ithaca, NY, 2004). Her current writing and editorial projects include My Appalachia, a poetry and prose work that explores geography, genocide and generational poverty in upstate New York, where she is from, in addition to the collection Imaginary Syllabi which gathers documents by contemporary writers who teach in modes of radical, utopian, fabulist and generative student-centered pedagogies (Palm Press, 2010). She is an associate faculty member of Bard College’s Institute for Writing and Thinking and its Language and Thinking Workshop. She teaches writing at California State University, Long Beach in Long Beach, CA where she lives on an island with her family.

No Dear Issue 6 Launch this Friday (10/29/10)

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Hello one and all,

Come celebrate the launch of Issue 6 of No Dear Magazine this Friday (10/29) at 7PM at Pete's Candy Store!

Hear new work from:

Joseph Calavenna
Anelise Chen
Katie Clemente
Jen Hyde
Curtis Jensen
Lauren Nicole Nixon
Eric Pitra
Andrew Reynolds
Jared White

The issue also includes work by Chris Caldemeyer and Tyler Weston. Editor Emily Brandt and I will introduce the readers.

Come listen, buy the magazine, have a drink and a sandwich, and celebrate this grand old existence!

See you in two days,
Dorothea Lasky

10/15: Emily Pettit, Corina Copp, and Karen Davis

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Hello to everyone out there,

Join us this Friday night at 7 p.m. for a spectacular night of poetry and comedy (both tragic and funny).

This is what we have in store for you: Corina Copp, Emily Pettit, and Karen Davis.
Bios are below.

Do not miss this!

See you on Friday,
Dorothea Lasky

CORINA COPP is a writer living in Brooklyn. Recent work has appeared in Wild Orchids, Supermachine, Brooklyn Rail, Wolf in a Field, ON Contemporary Practice, and Aufgabe. Her play, WALTZ, was produced at the East 13th Street Theater this July. Also author of performance texts Office Killer (NYCCT/Voorhees 2008) and A Week of Kindness (Tiny Theater Festival, Ontological 2007); as well as chapbooks Carpeted (Faux Press 2004), Play Air (Belladonna* 2005) and Sometimes Inspired by Marguerite (Open 24 Hours 2003). A new chapbook is forthcoming from MinutesBOOKS. She currently serves as the current editor of The Poetry Project Newsletter (www.poetryproject.org), and is co-curator and host of The Twenty-Five Cent Opera of San Francisco.

Emily Pettit is the author of two chapbooks HOW (Octopus Books) and WHAT HAPPENED TO LIMBO (Pilot Books). She is an editor for notnostrums (notnostrums.com) and Factory Hollow Press. As well as assistant editor at jubilat. Her first full-length book, GOAT IN THE SNOW is forthcoming from Birds LLC.

Karen Davis is a newcomer to the New York Comedy Scene and couldn't be happier! Or she could, but she'll tell you all about that later. She has appeared at Sugarland, Barbes and in a variety of student films. If you're interested in booking Karen, she can be contacted at: karendavislaughs@gmail.com

Write-up in Coldfront Magazine

2010-10-04T18:23:00.001-04:00

Thank you to Ken L. Walker for writing up such a nice piece about The Multifarious Array.

Thank you!

Here is his write-up.

Marisa Crawford, Buck Downs, Steven Karl: 10/1

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Hi!

Join us this Friday at 7 p.m. to see three great poets doing their thing.

See you there!

Marisa Crawford is the author of The Haunted House from the feminist poetry press Switchback Books. She lives in Brooklyn where she works as a copywriter, is an editor of Small Desk Press, and volunteers as a writing mentor with Girls Write Now. Her writing has recently appeared in Shampoo and Action, Yes, and on the fashion blog Ironing Board Collective.

Buck Downs lives in Washington DC, where he works as a content coach and writer. His books include Marijuana Soft Drink (Edge Books), and his CD Pontiac Fever was released by Narrow House Recordings in 2006.

Steven Karl is the author of State(s) of Flux (Peptic Robot Press, 2009) which is a collaborative chapbook with Joseph Lappie and (Ir)Rational Animals (Flying Guillotine Press, 2010). He has e-chaps forthcoming from Scantily Clad Press and H_ngm_n. In one way or another he is involved with Borough Writing Workshops, Coldfront Magazine, Sink Review, and Stain of Poetry. He lives in Brooklyn, NY and blogs at stevenkarl.blogspot.com

Poetry and Comedy Night this Saturday, 9/25

2010-09-19T17:19:00.014-04:00

Hello!

Please join us this Saturday at 7 p.m. for a Poetry and Comedy night. It is going to be funny!

Poets and comedians will include:

Evan Fleischer
Sommer Browning
Elisa Gabbert
Gabby Dunn
Mark Leidner
Dan Magers

Bios and pics are as follows. Check out our fall line-up here and to your right right here on this here blog.

We'll see you there!
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Evan Fleischer is a writer and a comedian. His work has appeared in McSweeney's and been praised by The Guardian and the head writer of the The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (the first one) as "intelligent, admirable, and very funny" and "very funny and clever." He has a beard.

Sommer Browning writes poems, draws comics and tells jokes. Her first book of poems is coming out in 2011 with Birds, LLC. Visit her at www.asthmachronicles.com.

Elisa Gabbert is the poetry editor of Absent and the author of The French Exit (Birds, LLC) and Thanks for Sending the Engine (Kitchen Press). Recent poems can be found in Denver Quarterly, The Laurel Review, Puerto del Sol, The Rumpus, Salt Hill, and Sentence. She currently lives in Boston, works at a software startup, and blogs at The French Exit.

Gaby Dunn began her comedy career at Emerson College in Boston as a writer and performer in the sketch comedy troupe, Chocolate Cake City. As a stand-up comedian, she has performed at Boston's Comedy Studio, at Comix and the People's Improv Theater in NYC and at the show she co-produces and co-hosts, Mish Mosh. (Every second Thursday of the month, 8 pm, Birch Coffee, be there!) She is also a writer whose work has appeared in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, The Boston Globe, and on Comedy Central's thedailyshow.com and colbertnation.com, all of which she interned for in college. She is currently an entertainment media blogger for AOL TV Squad and Moviefone. She loves the Internet so much, she should just marry it.

Mark Leidner is the author of several chapbooks. Recent poems can be found in Skein and Lamination Colony. He also co-edits DUETS, an international chapbook series. He lives and tweets in western Massachusetts.

Dan Magers graduated from The New School’s MFA program and works on engineering books for a publishing company. He is co-founder and co-editor of Sink Review (sinkreview.org), an online poetry magazine, as well as a chapbook press called Immaculate Disciples Press. He has poems published in Sixth Finch, Eleven Eleven, the tiny, and forthcoming in Forklift, Ohio, among other places. A regular contributor of books reviews at New Pages (newpages.com), he currently lives in Brooklyn, NY.

Fall 2010 Schedule

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Check out our Fall 2010 line-up!

9/17-Book release party for Kendra Grant Malone’s Everything is Quiet and Matthew Savoca's long love poem with descriptive title, both hot off the presses from Scrambler Books. Featuring Kendra Grant Malone, Matthew Savoca, Leigh Stein

Matthew Savoca (born USA 1982) has lived in and around Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Rome, Italy, as well as a lot of other places for short periods of time. long love poem with descriptive title is his first book of poetry. Find more information at matthewsavoca.com.

Leigh Stein is the author of the chapbooks How to Mend a Broken Heart with Vengeance (Dancing Girl Press), Least Inhabited Island II (h-ngm-n Combatives), and Summer in Paris (Mondo Bummer). Other work has appeared in DIAGRAM, Bat City Review, No Tell Motel, Washington Square, and h-ngm-n, among others. She lives in Brooklyn, where she teaches drama to children.

kendra grant malone lives with her cat, delores grant malone. this is her first book of poetry. for more information about her work and her cat, visit kendralovely.blogspot.com.

9/25-Comedy and Poetry night: Evan Fleischer, Sommer Browning, Elisa Gabbert, Gabby Dunn, Mark Leidner, Dan Magers

Evan Fleischer is a writer and a comedian. His work has appeared in McSweeney's and been praised by The Guardian and the head writer of the The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (the first one) as "intelligent, admirable, and very funny" and "very funny and clever." He has a beard.

Sommer Browning writes poems, draws comics and tells jokes. Her first book of poems is coming out in 2011 with Birds, LLC. Visit her at www.asthmachronicles.com.

Elisa Gabbert is the poetry editor of Absent and the author of The French Exit (Birds, LLC) and Thanks for Sending the Engine (Kitchen Press). Recent poems can be found in Denver Quarterly, The Laurel Review, Puerto del Sol, The Rumpus, Salt Hill, and Sentence. She currently lives in Boston, works at a software startup, and blogs at The French Exit.

Gaby Dunn began her comedy career at Emerson College in Boston as a writer and performer in the sketch comedy troupe, Chocolate Cake City. As a stand-up comedian, she has performed at Boston's Comedy Studio, at Comix and the People's Improv Theater in NYC and at the show she co-produces and co-hosts, Mish Mosh. (Every second Thursday of the month, 8 pm, Birch Coffee, be there!) She is also a writer whose work has appeared in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, The Boston Globe, and on Comedy Central's thedailyshow.com and colbertnation.com, all of which she interned for in college. She is currently an entertainment media blogger for AOL TV Squad and Moviefone. She loves the Internet so much, she should just marry it.

Mark Leidner is the author of several chapbooks. Recent poems can be found in Skein and Lamination Colony. He also co-edits DUETS, an international chapbook series. He lives and tweets in western Massachusetts.

Dan Magers graduated from The New School’s MFA program and works on engineering books for a publishing company. He is co-founder and co-editor of Sink Review (sinkreview.org), an online poetry magazine, as well as a chapbook press called Immaculate Disciples Press. He has poems published in Sixth Finch, Eleven Eleven, the tiny, and forthcoming in Forklift, Ohio, among other places. A regular contributor of books reviews at New Pages (newpages.com), he currently lives in Brooklyn, NY.

10/1-Marisa Crawford, Buck Downs, Steven Karl

Marisa Crawford is the author of The Haunted House from the feminist poetry press Switchback Books. She lives in Brooklyn where she works as a copywriter, is an editor of Small Desk Press, and volunteers as a writing mentor with Girls Write Now. Her writing has recently appeared in Shampoo and Action, Yes, and on the fashion blog Ironing Board Collective.

Buck Downs lives in Washington DC, where he works as a content coach and writer. His books include Marijuana Soft Drink (Edge Books), and his CD Pontiac Fever was released by Narrow House Recordings in 2006.

Steven Karl is the author of State(s) of Flux (Peptic Robot Press, 2009) which is a collaborative chapbook with Joseph Lappie and (Ir)Rational Animals (Flying Guillotine Press, 2010). He has e-chaps forthcoming from Scantily Clad Press and H_ngm_n. In one way or another he is involved with Borough Writing Workshops, Coldfront Magazine, Sink Review, and Stain of Poetry. He lives in Brooklyn, NY and blogs at stevenkarl.blogspot.com

10/15-Corina Copp, Emily Pettit, Performances by Jess Barbagallo and company

CORINA COPP is a writer living in Brooklyn. Recent work has appeared in Wild Orchids, Supermachine, Brooklyn Rail, Wolf in a Field, ON Contemporary Practice, and Aufgabe. Her play, WALTZ, was produced at the East 13th Street Theater this July. Also author of performance texts Office Killer (NYCCT/Voorhees 2008) and A Week of Kindness (Tiny Theater Festival, Ontological 2007); as well as chapbooks Carpeted (Faux Press 2004), Play Air (Belladonna* 2005) and Sometimes Inspired by Marguerite (Open 24 Hours 2003). A new chapbook is forthcoming from MinutesBOOKS. She currently serves as the current editor of The Poetry Project Newsletter (www.poetryproject.org), and is co-curator and host of The Twenty-Five Cent Opera of San Francisco.

Emily Pettit is the author of two chapbooks HOW (Octopus Books) and WHAT HAPPENED TO LIMBO (Pilot Books). She is an editor for notnostrums (notnostrums.com) and Factory Hollow Press. As well as assistant editor at jubilat. Her first full-length book, GOAT IN THE SNOW is forthcoming from Birds LLC.

10/29- Reading party for the new issue of the journal No, Dear. Readers will include: Joseph Calavenna, Anelise Chen, Katie Clemente, Jen Hyde, Curtis Jensen, Lauren Nixon, Eric Pitra, Andrew Reynolds, and Jared White.

Joseph Calavenna has a chapbook entitled Milksop Machines and his work has been published in West 10th and Semicolon.

Chris Caldemeyer lives in Park Slope, Brooklyn.

Anelise Chen is writing a series about sports and jocks. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Gigantic, Hot Metal Bridge, The Dirty Pond, Dogzplot, and other places. She is an MFA student at NYU.

Katie Clemente was born in, raised in, and can’t seem to leave Brooklyn, New York. She received her B.S. from New York University and spends too much time watching trashy Vh1 shows.

Jen Hyde is a poet, book artist and the founding editor of Small Anchor Press. Previously her poems have appeared in La Fovea and Unpleasant Event Schedule. She lives in Brooklyn.

Curtis Jensen is an MFA candidate in the Creative Writing Program at Brooklyn College. His work is published in The Bridge and forthcoming in the Sugar House Review, Precipitate and The Equalizer. He is the author of 5 chapbooks, and he curates the Prospect literary series. Previous to Brooklyn, he has lived and worked in Utah, Wyoming, and Ukraine. He maintains a blog at theendofwaste.blogspot.com.

Lauren Nicole Nixon is a teaching artist, choreographer and poet. Nixon received her M.A. in Arts Politics from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Her poetry has been published in What You Do| Eat a Peach, RELEASE and Hail, Muse, Etc. Her choreography has been presented at Dance Theater Workshop’s College Partnership Program and the Triskelion Arts Collaborations in Dance Festival. She resides in Brooklyn.

Eric Pitra is an electronic musician who writes and performs under the name Nature Program. You've never heard of him.

Andrew Reynolds has recently been published in Pembroke Magazine, The Bridge, and The Brooklyn Review. He recently completed his MFA at Brooklyn College, where he now teaches English.

Tyler Weston is a native of the Catskill Mountains of upstate New York, and currently lives in Brooklyn.

Jared White lives in Brooklyn. His chapbook Yellowcake was included in the anthology Narwhal from Cannibal Books in 2009. He’s recently published poems in Action Yes, Coconut, Harp & Altar, Laurel Review, Modern Review, and Horse Less Review. His essays have appeared in Open Letters and Harp & Altar. He co-directs Yardmeter Editions event series in Brooklyn and blogs occasionally at jaredwshite.blogspot.com.

11/12-Jane Sprague, Rachel Zolf

Jane Sprague is the author of the books The Port of Los Angeles (Chax Press, 2009) and, with Tina Darragh and Diane Ward, The *Belladonna Elders Series 8 (*Belladonna, 2009). She is also author of the chapbooks Apache Roadkill (Dusie / Weekend Press, 2009), Sacking the Henwife (Dusie, 2007), Entropic Liberties (with Jonathan Skinner; Dusie, 2006), fuck your pastoral (Subpoetics, 2005) and The Port of Los Angeles (Subpoetics, 2004) among others. Her poems, essays, reviews and interviews with poets and editors have been published in numerous print and online magazines including Columbia Poetry Review, Rain Taxi, How2, Jacket, XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics, ecopoetics, Dandelion, Tinfish, The Poetry Project Newsletter, Tarpaulin Sky , Kiosk, P-Queue, Hot Whiskey and others. Since 2004 she has edited and published the imprint Palm Press, www.palmpress.org, an independent press committed to making possible works which interrogate the boundaries of contemporary politics, poetry, pedagogy and poetics. She regularly reads from her work, recent readings include The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church (NYC), The Poetry Center at CSUSF (San Francisco), and Colorado State University at Boulder (Boulder, CO), among others. Additionally, she has curated several reading series in the states of New York and California and the conference “Small Press Culture Workers” (Ithaca, NY, 2004). Her current writing and editorial projects include My Appalachia, a poetry and prose work that explores geography, genocide and generational poverty in upstate New York, where she is from, in addition to the collection Imaginary Syllabi which gathers documents by contemporary writers who teach in modes of radical, utopian, fabulist and generative student-centered pedagogies (Palm Press, 2010). She is an associate faculty member of Bard College’s Institute for Writing and Thinking and its Language and Thinking Workshop. She teaches writing at California State University, Long Beach in Long Beach, CA where she lives on an island with her family.

Rachel Zolf’s poetic practice explores interrelated materialist questions concerning memory, history, knowledge, subjectivity and the conceptual limits of language and meaning. She is particularly interested in how ethics founders on the shoals of the political. Her fourth full-length book, Neighbour Procedure, was released by Coach House Books in 2010. Previous collections include Human Resources (Coach House), which won the 2008 Trillium Book Award for Poetry and was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award, Masque (The Mercury Press), Shoot & Weep (Nomados), from Human Resources (Belladonna books) and Her absence, this wanderer (BuschekBooks). Zolf’s work has been translated into French, Spanish and Portuguese and has appeared in anthologies such as Prismatic Publics: Innovative Canadian Women’s Poetry and Poetics (Coach House) and a forthcoming anthology of conceptual writing from Les Figues Press. She was the founding poetry editor for The Walrus magazine and has worked as a documentary film producer and communications consultant. She has received a Chalmers Arts Fellowship and multiple grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council and the Toronto Arts Council. She lives in Brooklyn.

12/3-Tanya Larkin, Amy Lemmon, Farrah Field

Farrah Field’s first book of poems, Rising, won Four Way Books’ 2007 Levis Prize. Her poems have appeared in many publications including Harp & Altar, We Are So Happy to Know Something, Ploughshares, Lit, and are forthcoming in Fou and Mantis. She co-hosts a reading series called Yardmeter Editions and blogs at adultish.blogspot.com. Her second book of poetry is forthcoming in 2012.

Tanya Larkin teaches Creative Writing and English at the New England Institute of Art in Brookline, MA. Her poems have most recently appeared in Satellite Telephone. She is currently at work on a novel.

Amy Lemmon is the author of the poetry collections Fine Motor (Sow’s Ear Poetry Press, 2008) and Saint Nobody (Red Hen Press, 2009). Her poems and essays have appeared in Rolling Stone, New Letters, Prairie Schooner, Verse, Barrow Street, Court Green, The Journal, Marginalia, and many other magazines and anthologies. A Pushcart Prize nominee, she has contributed articles to The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poets and Poetry, and the Facts on File Companion to Twentieth-Century British Poetry. She also co-authored the chapbook ABBA: The Poems (Coconut Books, 2010) with Denise Duhamel, and Enjoy Hot or Iced: Poems in Conversation with Denise Duhamel is forthcoming in 2010 from Slapering Hol Press. Amy holds a PhD in English/Creative Writing from the University of Cincinnati and is the recipient of a Walter E. Dakin Fellowship and scholarships from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Vermont Studio Center, West Chester Poetry Conference, and Antioch Writers’ Workshop. Awards include the Elliston Poetry Prize, the Ruth Cable Poetry Prize, and the Ruskin Art Club Poetry Prize. She is Poetry Editor of the online literary magazine Ducts.org. An Associate Professor in the English and Speech Department at New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology, she lives in Astoria, Queens, with her two children.

12/17-Rachel Levitsky, Jennifer Kronovet, Lynn Behrendt

Jennifer Kronovet is the author of the poetry collection Awayward (BOA Editions, 2009), which was selected by Jean Valentine for the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared in the Colorado Review, Fence, Open City, Ploughshares, A Public Space, and elsewhere. She is currently a Writer-in-Residence at Washington University in St. Louis.

Rachel Levitsky’s first full-length volume, Under the Sun was published by Futurepoem books in 2003. She is the author of five chapbooks of poetry, Dearly (a+bend, 1999), Dearly 356, Cartographies of Error (Leroy, 1999), The Adventures of Yaya and Grace (PotesPoets, 1999) and 2(1×1)Portraits (Baksun, 1998). Levitsky writes poetry plays, three of which (one with Camille Roy) have been performed in New York and San Francisco. Her work is published in magazines such as The Recluse, Sentence, Fence, The Brooklyn Rail, Global City, The Hat, Skanky Possum, Lungfull! and the anthologies, Boog City (vol. I & II), Bowery Women, and 19 Lines: A Drawing Center Writing Anthology. Recently her work was translated into Icelandic for the anthology 131.839 Slög Med Bilum by Eiríkur Örn Nordahl and into French for the Paris journal Action poetique. Online poetry and critical essays can be found on such sites as Narrativity, Duration Press, How2, Web Conjunctions, and is forthcoming in DWB, in the 2010 issue of the Dutch language magazine, “The Empire of Women,” which she is also guest-editing with Jan Lauwereyns. She has taught poetry workshops at Woodland Pattern, Naropa University, Poets House, the Poetry Project and the Pratt Institute. She is the founder and co-director of Belladonna*, an event and publication series of feminist avant-garde poetics. In 2008 she was the poet from the United States invited to attend The Tokyo Poetry Festival and throughout 2008-2009 she served as the CPCW Fellow in Poetics & Poetic Practice at the University of Pennsylvania. She currently teaches college courses in two prisons in New York State.

Dual Book Release Party: 9/17/10

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Hello!

As mentioned by the spectacular Sommer Browning back in the summertime, I am the new curator of The Multifarious Array reading series at Pete's Candy Store. My name is Dorothea Lasky. Hello again.

This Friday, September 17th, at 7 p.m., we will be having a dual book release party for Kendra Grant Malone and Matthew Savoca. Both of their books are hot off the presses from Scrambler Books and will be available for purchase at the reading. Readers on Friday night will include: Kendra Grant Malone, Matthew Savoca, and Leigh Stein. Pictures and Bios are below.

Visit our other website for more information on our exciting fall line-up. Or click on the Fall 2010 Schedule link right on the right right over there. Yep, right over there. To your right.

Well, see you on Friday. Until then!
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kendra grant malone lives with her cat, delores grant malone. this is her first book of poetry. for more information about her work and her cat, visit kendralovely.blogspot.com.

Matthew Savoca (born USA 1982) has lived in and around Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Rome, Italy, as well as a lot of other places for short periods of time. long love poem with descriptive title is his first book of poetry. Find more information at matthewsavoca.com.

Leigh Stein is the author of the chapbooks How to Mend a Broken Heart with Vengeance (Dancing Girl Press), Least Inhabited Island II (h-ngm-n Combatives), and Summer in Paris (Mondo Bummer). Other work has appeared in DIAGRAM, Bat City Review, No Tell Motel, Washington Square, and h-ngm-n, among others. She lives in Brooklyn, where she teaches drama to children.

The Multifarious Array is on Summer Vacation

2010-06-18T12:19:00.002-04:00

Friends!

Check back in early September for a complete schedule and a new host! The incredible Dottie Lasky!

Heck to the Yes.

Aaron Tieger, Jeni Olin, Georgia Luna & Dan Hoy

2010-05-27T13:15:00.008-04:00

Friday, May 28th, 7pm

Aaron Tieger is most recently the author of Secret Donut (Pressed Wafer, 2009). His many chapbooks include Recently Clouds (with Jess Mynes), The Collected Typos of Aaron Tieger, Necco Face (with Jess Mynes and Michael Carr), and Anxiety Chant. He is the publisher of Petrichord Books. He lives in Cambridge, MA and here he is in Coconut.

Jeni Olin has a new collection, Hold Tight: The Truck Darling Poems, forthcoming from Hanging Loose Press this year. Her first book, Blue Collar Holiday, with art by Larry Rivers, was published by Hanging Loose in April, 2005. Recent poems have been published in Hanging Loose 95, LIT 17 & The Portable Boog Reader 4. Here she is in Jacket and EOAGH.

Collagist/poet Georgia Luna was a featured reader at the Pax Americana Poet Insurgency with Rene Ricard and Bernadette Mayer. She studied with Emily Moore, Steve Burt, Alex Lemon and Wang Ping and is a prodigal member of Brevitas email poetry collective. Her interests include maps, public transportation systems, and celebrity meltdowns. Sometimes she writes inconsequential things in the third person here.

Dan Hoy lives in Brooklyn and is co-founder of SOFT TARGETS, a magazine of art, literature, and philosophy. His work includes Glory Hole (Mal-O-Mar, published with Jon Leon’s The Hot Tub, 2009), Basic Instinct: Poems (Triple Canopy, 2008), and Outtakes (Lame House Press, 2007). Here he is in Coconut.

Poets & Puppets II: Resurrection

2010-05-19T11:12:00.003-04:00

Friday, May 21st, 7pm

with Leigh Stein, Kathleen Rooney, Sasha Fletcher, Jason Zuzga, Jason Koo, Martin Rock, Noah Eli Gordon & Sommer Browning

Jen Chang, Ed Skoog, Jason Bredle & Jorn Ake

2010-05-12T09:30:00.005-04:00

This Friday, May 14th, 7pm

Jennifer Chang is the author of The History of Anonymity. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in Boston Review, Kenyon Review, New England Review and elsewhere. She has received fellowships to The MacDowell Colony, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, and Yaddo. She's working on her second book of poems and needs help titling it. Here she is in Blackbird and here's another poem.

Ed Skoog’s first collection of poems, Mister Skylight, was published by Copper Canyon Press in 2009. His poems have appeared in Paris Review, Poetry, American Poetry Review, and elsewhere. Here he is in Blackbird and here are some more poems.

Jason Bredle is the author of three books and four chapbooks of poetry, most recently Smiles of the Unstoppable, forthcoming from Magic Helicopter Press, and The Book of Evil, forthcoming from Dream Horse Press. He lives in Chicago. Here are some poems in Octopus and some in Diagram.

Jorn Ake is a poet and photographer. His most recent book, Boys Whistling like Canaries, won the 2008 Blue Lynx Prize for Poetry and was published by EWU Press in 2009. His first collection of poems, Asleep in the Lightning Fields, won the 2001 X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize and was published by Texas Review Press. A chapbook of his work, All About the Blind Spot and Other Poems, is available from Popular Ink, and his second full-length collection, The Circle Line, was published by The Backwaters Press as an editor's choice in 2009. He lives in New York City.

Wade Fletcher, Joe Hall, Nancy Krygowski & Crystal Williams

2010-04-28T09:52:00.006-04:00

Friday, April 30, 7pm

Wade Fletcher hails from the Washington, DC metro area, where he teaches at two of the George universities, Mason and Washington. He also co-curates the monthly reading and performance series, Cheryl’s Gone, and has long been involved in DC’s punk and independent music scenes as a show promoter and organizer. Recent poems have appeared in Versal, Barrelhouse, The Boog Reader, and the Call + Response exhibit at DC’s Hamiltonian Gallery. He’s published two chapbooks, Snitch Culture, with dusie press in 2007, and Conditions Which, (pied-terre, 2010).

Joe Hall is the founder of the Washington, D.C. area reading series Cheryl's Gone. His first book of poems is Pigafetta Is My Wife (Black Ocean Press). The Boog Portable Reader, HTML Giant, Phoebe, Hayden's Ferry Review, Noö, Cimarron Review, and others have been kind enough to publish individual poems. Also, he lives in a trailer park.

Nancy Krygowski’s first book of poems, Velocity, was chosen by Gerald Stern for the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize from the University of Pittsburgh Press. She is co-founder and Assistant Artistic Director of the Gist Street Reading Series and a recipient of a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship, a Pittsburgh Foundation Grant, awards from the Academy of American Poets and the Association of Writers & Writing Programs, plus residencies from Jentel, The Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, and Virginia Center for Creative Arts.

Crystal Williams is the author of three collections of poems. Her third book, Troubled Tongues, was awarded the 2009 Long Madgett Poetry Prize. Her poems appear in The American Poetry Review, 5AM, Court Green, Crab Orchard Review, The Indiana Review, among others. Her work has been supported by the Oregon Arts Commission, Money For Women/The Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, The MacDowell Arts Colony, and The Levine Fund. She holds degrees from NYU and Cornell, and is Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Reed College.

Cate Peebles, Ted Jonathan, Jeremy Schmall & Mariana Ruiz Firmat

2010-04-14T14:04:00.006-04:00

Friday, April 16, 7 pm

Cate Peebles is a recipient of a 2009 artist grant from the Vermont Studio Center. Her poems have appeared in or are forthcoming from: Forklift, Ohio; Lit; No Tell Motel; Tin House; La Petite Zine, and elsewhere. She is the author of Taco Truck to Awesometown (Scantily Clad Press, 2009) and co-edits the online poetry magazine, Fou. She lives in Brooklyn.

Ted Jonathan is a poet and short story writer. Born and raised in the Bronx, he now lives in Manhattan. His work has appeared in numerous literary magazines and was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize. His first collection Spiked Libido was published by Neukeia Press. Bones & Jokes, his most recent full-length collection of poems and short stories, has been published by NYQ Books (2009). Read him here and here.

Jeremy Schmall is the founder and co-editor of THE AGRICULTURE READER, and author of the chapbook, "Open Correspondence from the Senator, Vol. 1: But a Paucity of His Voluminous Writings." His work has appeared in PEN AMERICA, THE LAUREL REVIEW, COLUMBIA POETRY REVIEW, and FORKLIFT OHIO. He lives in New York. Here he is.

Mariana Ruiz Firmat hales from the borough of Brooklyn. She has been living in New York for over 10 years but previously resided in Santa Cruz, CA. She is considerably busy between her work as a union organizer and as a poet/publisher. Mariana is the editor and publisher of 3 Sad Tigers Press. She is the author of, Another Strange Island, published by Open 24 Hours Press. Her work can be found in IXNAY, 6 x 6, The Brooklyn Rail, Clamor Magazine & Make/Shift Magazine.

Amy McNamara, Ekoko Omadeke, Priscilla Becker, Mark Leidner & Ben Mirov

2010-03-23T10:12:00.006-04:00

Friday, March 26th, 7pm

Amy McNamara is a writer and photographer. Her poems have made appearances in Barrow Street, Conduit, jubilat, Linebreak, LIT, The Literary Review, 2River View and are coming out soon in New CollAge and Versal. Amy is married to the artist Doug McNamara and they live in Brooklyn with their two kids.

Ekoko Omadeke is a Virginia native who refuses to get a NY state ID. She currently pursues an MFA from New York University and curates the Southern Writers Reading Series at Happy Ending Lounge. Though her heart belongs to Brooklyn sidewalks and bodega sandwiches, Ekoko lives and writes in Manhattan. Read her.

Priscilla Becker’s first book of poems, Internal West, won The Paris Review book prize, and was published in 2003. Her poems, book reviews & essays have appeared in Fence, Open City, The Paris Review, The New York Sun, Cabinet and Open City. Her essays have also been anthologized by Soft Skull Press, Anchor Books, and Sarabande. She teaches poetry at Pratt Institute, Columbia University, and in her apartment. Her second book, Stories That Listen, is forthcoming from Four Way Books.

Mark Leidner is the author of two chapbooks, The Night of 1,000 Murders (Factory Hollow Press, 2007) and The Empire (Scantily Clad Press, 2009). He lives and tweets in western Massachusetts.

Ben Mirov is the author of the chapbooks I is to Vorticism (New Michigan Press, 2010) and Ghost Machine (forthcoming from Caketrain Press, 2010). He is general editor of pax americana. He is also poetry editor of LIT Magazine. Here he is in Shampoo.

Amish Trivedi, Claire Donato, Melissa Broder & Jason Koo

2010-03-08T10:13:00.005-05:00

Friday, March 12, 7pm

Amish Trivedi lives in Providence, Rhode Island where he's in Brown's MFA program. His chapbook, Museum of Vandals, is available from Cannibal Books.

Claire Donato lives in Brooklyn, NY and is the author of Someone Else's Body (Cannibal Books 2009). Recent poems have been published or are forthcoming in Black Warrior Review, Boston Review, Columbia Poetry Review, and Action, Yes. She will finish her receive her MFA from Brown University in May 2010.

Melissa Broder is the author of When You Say One Thing but Mean Your Mother (Ampersand Books, February 2010). She is the curator of the Polestar Poetry Series, the chief editor of La Petite Zine and the winner of the Jerome Lowell Dejur Award and the Stark Prize for Poetry. Broder received her BA from Tufts University and is currently in the MFA program at CCNY. By day, she works as a literary publicist. Her poems have appeared in many journals, including: Opium, Shampoo, Conte and The Del Sol Review.

Jason Koo is the author of Man on Extremely Small Island, winner of the 2008 De Novo Poetry Prize. The recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Vermont Studio Center, he has published his poetry and prose in numerous journals, including The Yale Review, North American Review and The Missouri Review. He teaches at NYU and Lehman College and serves as Poetry Editor of Low Rent. He lives in Brooklyn.

Todd Colby, Kate Schapira, Urayoan Noel & Brenda Coultas

2010-02-22T13:36:00.004-05:00

Friday, February 26, 7pm

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 his collaborative books and paintings with artist David Lantow can be seen in the Brooklyn Museum of Art and The Museum of Modern Art special collections libraries. Todd serves on the Board of Directors for The Poetry Project, where he has also taught several poetry workshops. Here he is in 3am.

Kate Schapira is the author of TOWN (Factory School, Heretical Texts, 2010) and several chapbooks with Flying Guillotine Press, Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, Cy Gist Press, Rope-A-Dope Press and horse less press, as well as her own kitchen-table imprint, In Hand Books. She runs the Publicly Complex reading series in Providence, RI. She's in Shampoo.

Urayoán Noel is a South-Bronx-based PPP (Puerto Rican poet and performer) who teaches at SUNY-Albany. His most recent poetry book/CD is Boringkén (Callejón, 2008). A contributing editor of Mandorla, he recently co-edited The Portable Boog Reader 4, and is currently completing a book on Nuyorican poetry as well as various analog and digital Latin/o/Ame/Rican translation projects. He's in Long Shot.

Brenda Coultas is the author of The Marvelous Bones of Time (2008) and A Handmade Museum (2003) from Coffee House Press, which won the Norma Farber Award from The Poetry Society of America, and a Greenwall Fund publishing grant from the Academy of American Poets. She has received a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship (NYFA) and a Lower Manhattan Cultural Council residency (LMCC). Coultas recently served as visiting poet at Long Island University in Brooklyn New York. Here she is in Fascicle.

Pete's Spring 2010 Schedule!

2010-02-02T10:20:00.008-05:00

February 26
Todd Colby, Kate Schapira, Urayoan Noel & Brenda Coultas

March 12
Amish Trivedi, Claire Donato, Melissa Broder & Jason Koo

March 26
Amy McNamara, Ekoko Omadeke, Priscilla Becker, Mark Leidner & Ben Mirov

April 16
Cate Peebles, Ted Jonathan, Jeremy Schmall & Mariana Ruiz

April 17
No, Dear Issue Release Party -- Special Saturday 6pm Reading

April 30
Wade Fletcher, Joe Hall, Nancy Krygowski & Crystal Williams

May 14
Jen Chang, Ed Skoog, Jason Bredle & Jorn Ake

May 21
Poets & Puppets II: Resurrection
with Leigh Stein, Kathleen Rooney, Sasha Fletcher, Jason Zuzga, Jason Koo, Martin Rock, Noah Eli Gordon & Sommer Browning

May 28
Aaron Tieger, Jeni Olin, Georgia Luna & Dan Hoy

Jackie Clark Tyrone Williams & Tara Betts Reading

2010-01-12T21:05:00.002-05:00

Jackie Clark, Tyrone Williams & Tara Betts read for the Multifarious Array, Pete's Candy Store, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, December 4, 2009.

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Tyrone Williams, Jackie Clark & Tara Betts

2009-12-04T17:35:00.005-05:00

Friday, December 4th, 7pm

Tyrone Williams teaches literature and theory at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio. He is the author of two books of poetry, c.c.(Krupskaya Books, 2002) and On Spec(Omnidawn Publishing, 2008). He also has several chapbooks out, including AAB (Slack Buddha Press, 2004), Futures, Elections (Dos Madres Press, 2004)and Musique Noir (Overhere Press, 2006). A new book of poems, the Hero Project of the Century, is forthcoming in 2009 from The Backwaters Press. He recently completed a manuscript of poetry commissioned by Atelos Books.

Jackie Clark is currently co-editor-in-chief for LIT magazine. She also curates Poets off Poetry at Coldfront, where poets write about what they've been listening to lately. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming from Coconut, Elimae, and Word For/Word. She lives in Jersey City.

Tara Betts is the author of Arc and Hue. Tara is a Cave Canem fellow, a graduate of the New England College MFA Program. Her work appears in numerous anthologies and journals such as Ninth Letter, Callaloo, Hanging Loose, Gathering Ground, Bum Rush the Page, and both Spoken Word Revolution anthologies. She currently teaches at Rutgers University and leads community-based workshops.

Nate Pritts, Leigh Stein, Karin Randolph & Matthew Rohrer

2009-11-16T09:10:00.002-05:00

Friday, November 20, 7 pm

Nate Pritts is the author of the books Sensational Spectacular and Honorary Astronaut - with a new book, The Wonderfull Yeare, due out in early 2010. The editor & founder of H_NGM_N, Nate teaches poetry for the Downtown Writers Center/YMCA in Syracuse, NY & works as a freelance tech editor & copywriter.

Leigh Stein is the author of the chapbooks How to Mend a Broken Heart with Vengeance (Dancing Girl Press) and Least Inhabited Island II (h-ngm-n Combatives). Other work has appeared in Bat City Review, DIAGRAM, h-ngm-n, No Tell Motel, and Absent, among others. She lives in Brooklyn, where she teaches drama to public schoolchildren.

Karin Randolph is an ex-painter turned writer. She is the author of Either She Was, which was selected by David Shapiro for the 2007 Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize. She was also a finalist in the 2007 National Poetry Series.

Matthew Rohrer is the author of 6 or 8 books of poems, depending on what your definition of "book" is. Most recently Ugly Duckling Presse published his A PLATE OF CHICKEN. With Joshua Beckman he wrote NICE HAT. THANKS and recorded the audio CD ADVENTURES WHILE PREACHING THE GOSPEL OF BEAUTY, and with Joshua Beckman and Anthony McCann he wrote the secret book GENTLE READER! He lives in Brooklyn and teaches in the creative writing program at NYU.

Julian Billups, Thomas Sayers Ellis & Wendy S. Walters

2009-11-04T12:01:00.006-05:00

Friday, November 6, 7 pm

Julian Billups' work has appeared in AGNI Online, Barrow Street, Colorado Review, Salt Hill, and others. He lives and works in New York. Read his poems here.

Thomas Sayers Ellis is the author of The Maverick Room (2005). His poems and photographs have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including American Poetry Review, Callaloo, Best American Poetry (1997 and 2001), Grand Street, The Baffler, Jubilat, Tin House, Poetry, and The Nation. He is also an Assistant Professor of Writing at Sarah Lawrence College and a faculty member of The Lesley University low-residency M.F.A Program. He lives in Brooklyn, NY and spends his summers in Washington, D.C. working on The Go-Go Book: People in the Pocket in Washington, D.C. He recently joined the faculty of Cave Canem, performed at SummerStage in Central Park and at the Smithsonian Instituite’s Folklife Festival on the National Mall. His new book, Skin, Inc., is forthcoming from Graywolf Press in fall 2010. Here is a poem and here, too.

Wendy S. Walters’ is the author of Longer I Wait, More You Love Me (just released!) and a chapbook, Birds of Los Angeles (2005), both published by Palm Press (Long Beach, CA). Walters’ poetry has been recognized with residency fellowships from Breadloaf, MacDowell and Yaddo, and her poems have recently appeared in Callaloo, HOW2, Natural Bridge, Seneca Review and the Yalobusha Review, among several others. Her lyric and personal essays have been published or are forthcoming in Seneca Review, Seattle Review, and Harper’s Magazine.

Frank Sherlock & Jen Hyde Read

2009-10-26T21:20:00.000-04:00

Frank Sherlock & Jen Hyde read for the Multifarious Array at Pete's Candy Store, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, October 9, 2009.

Skip to Frank: 2'40"
Skip to Jen: 22'23"

Sandy Florian & Justin Taylor Read

2009-10-26T20:53:00.001-04:00

Sandy Florian & Justin Taylor read for the Multifarious Array, Pete's Candy Store, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, October 9, 2009.

Skip to Sandy: 1'23"
Skip to Justin: 19'33"

Beth Bachmann, Alex Lemon & Nick Flynn

2009-10-26T20:31:00.002-04:00

Beth Bachmann, Alex Lemon and Nick Flynn read for Beth Bachmann's book release party at the Multifarious Array, Pete's Candy Store, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, October 10, 2009.

Skip to Alex: 1'30"
Skip to Nick: 20'10"
Skip to Beth: 30'23"

Paige Taggart, Sharon Dolin, Esther K. Smith & Patrick Lucy

2009-10-20T14:11:00.012-04:00

Friday, October 23, 7 pm

Paige Taggart is a 2009 NYFA fellow and has an e-chapbook with Scantily Clad Press, Won’t Be a Girl. Her poems have appeared in Alice Blue Review, La Petite Zine, Six Finch, Blazevox, Elimae, Caketrain, Eleven Eleven, Boog City. Here is more of her.

Sharon Dolin’s fourth book, Burn and Dodge won the AWP Donald Hall Prize in Poetry. Her other books include Heart Work. Serious Pink, and Realm of the Possible. She is Writer-in-Residence at Eugene Lang College, The New School. She also teachers at the Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y and directs the Center for Books Arts Annual Letterpress Poetry Chapbook Competition. Here she is in Jacket.

Esther K Smith publishes limited editions and artist books at Purgatory Pie Press in New York City in collaboration with letterpress printer Dikko Faust and other artists and writers. She is the author of HOW TO MAKE BOOKS, MAGIC BOOKS & PAPER TOYS and forthcoming, THE PAPER BRIDE--published by Random House imprint, Potter Craft. Her poems have recently been published in Clwn Wrs, White Rabbit, and Live Mag. She is a proud member of Brevitas, a group that emails short poems on the first and fifteenth of each month. A few days ago, she opened a box in a basement and found a huge cockroach, sketchbooks and her first book of poetry, written when she was in sixth grade.

Patrick Lucy is a member of the New Philadelphia Poets, a group committed to advancing poetry, space & community in Philadelphia. His work has appeared recently in the Corduroy Mtn and Ink Node (featured). His chapbook, WILLIAM, is forthcoming from Con/Crescent Press. Patrick's disembodied press & blog, Catch/Confetti, produces fine poetry ephemera and comment. He lives in Fishtown and runs a web development company called Nimblelight.

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2009-10-08T17:48:00.002-04:00

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Nick Flynn, Alex Lemon & Beth Bachmann

2009-10-08T10:18:00.003-04:00

SATURDAY, October 10, 6pm

Celebrating Beth Bachmann's Book Release!

Nick Flynn’s “Another Bullshit Night in Suck City” (Norton, 2004), won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award, was shortlisted for France’s Prix Femina, and has been translated into thirteen languages. He is also the author of two books of poetry, “Some Ether” (Graywolf, 2000), and “Blind Huber" (Graywolf, 2002), for which he received fellowships from, among other organizations, The Guggenheim Foundation and The Library of Congress. Some of the venues his poems, essays and non-fiction have appeared in include The New Yorker, the Paris Review, National Public Radio’s “This American Life,” and The New York Times Book Review. One semester a year he teaches at the University of Houston.

Alex Lemon is the author of Happy: A Memoir(Scribner), the poetry collections Mosquito (Tin House Books), Hallelujah Blackout (Milkweed Editions), Fancy Beasts (forthcoming, Milkweed Editions), and the chapbook At Last Unfolding Congo (horse less press). His writing has appeared in Esquire, Best American Poetry 2008, AGNI, BOMB, Gulf Coast, jubilat, Kenyon Review, New England Review, Open City, Pleiades and Tin House, among others. He was awarded a 2005 Literature Fellowship in Poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts and a 2006 Minnesota Arts Board Grant. He co-editsLUNA: A Journal of Poetry and Translation with Ray Gonzalez and frequently writes book reviews. He lives in Fort Worth, Texas and teaches at Texas Christian University.

Beth Bachmann's first book, Temper, was selected by Lynn Emanuel as winner of the AWP Award Series 2008 Donald Hall Prize in Poetry and is just out from the Pitt Poetry Series. Her poems appear in American Poetry Review, Black Warrior Review, Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, Southern Review, and Tin House, among other journals, and have been anthologized in Alice Redux: New Stories of Alice, Lewis and Wonderland and Best New Poets 2005 and 2007. She holds graduate degrees from the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars and Concordia University in Montreal and teaches creative writing at Vanderbilt University.

Jen Hyde, Justin Taylor, Sandy Florian & Frank Sherlock

2009-10-08T10:16:00.003-04:00

Friday, October 9, 7pm

Jen Hyde is a poet, book artist, and the founding editor of Small Anchor Press. Her poems can be found in the Agriculture Reader, issue 3 and in LaFovea. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Justin Taylor is the co-editor of The Agriculture Reader, an arts annual. He is the author of one book of poems, More Perfect Depictions of Noise (X-ing Books), and his first book of short stories, Everything Here is the Best Thing Ever, will be out this spring from Harper Perennial.

Sandy Florian is the author of 4 books & 1 chapbook of prose poetry, Telescope (Action), 32 Pedals & 47 Stops (Tarpaulin Sky), The Tree of No (Action), Prelude to Air From Water (Elixir), and On Wonderland & Waste (Sidebrow). Currently, she lives in San Francisco and is an Affiliate Artist at Headlands Center for the Arts.

Frank Sherlock is the author of Over Here (Factory School 2009) and the co-author of Ready-To-Eat Individual (Lavender Ink 2008) with Brett Evans. A collaboration with CAConrad entitled The City Real & Imagined: Philadelphia Poems is forthcoming from Factory School in January 2010.

Jennifer Karmin Reading

2009-09-28T21:49:00.001-04:00

Jennifer Karmin reads for the Multifarious Array, Pete's Candy Store, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, September 25, 2009

Skip to Jennifer: 0'50"

Michael Leong & Estela Lamat Reading

2009-09-28T21:19:00.004-04:00

Michael Leong & Estela Lamat read for the Multifarious Array, Pete's Candy Store, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, September 25, 2009.

Skip to Michael: 1'26"
Skip to Estela: 27'39"

Jillian Weise & Janet Holmes Reading

2009-09-26T18:01:00.003-04:00

Jillian Weise & Janet Holmes read for the Multifarious Array at Pete's Candy Store.

Skip to Jillian: 2'02"
Skip to Janet: 16'20"

Andrew Rippeon & Lisa Forrest Reading

2009-09-26T14:50:00.005-04:00

Andrew Rippeon & Lisa Forrest read for the Multifarious Array.

Skip to Andrew: 1'24"
Skip to Lisa: 11'44"

Jennifer Karmin, Michael Leong & Estela Lamat

2009-09-19T14:16:00.004-04:00

This Friday, September 25th, 7pm

Jennifer Karmin's text-sound epic Aaaaaaaaaaalice will be published by Flim Forum Press in 2009. She curates the Red Rover Series and is a founding member of the public art group Anti Gravity Surprise. Her multidisciplinary projects have been presented at festivals, artist-run spaces, and on city streets across the U.S. and Japan. At home in Chicago, she teaches creative writing to immigrants at Truman College and works as a Poet in Residence for the public schools. New poems are published in the journals Cannot Exist, Otoliths, Plath Profiles, and anthologized in Come Together: Imagine Peace (Bottom Dog Press), Not A Muse (Haven Books), and The City Visible: Chicago Poetry for the New Century (Cracked Slab Books).

Michael Leong’s poetry career began in the sixth grade when he won his first and only poetry prize in Mr. Harrison’s class for a haiku about a snake. Since then, he has received degrees in English and Creative Writing from Dartmouth College, Sarah Lawrence College, and Rutgers University and has published poems and translations in journals such as Action Yes, Bird Dog, Double Room, jubilat, Marginalia, Opium Magazine, Pindeldyboz, and Tin House. He is the author of I, the Worst of All (blazeVOX [books], 2009), a translation of the Chilean poet Estela Lamat, and e.s.p. (Silenced Press, 2009). He currently lives in New York City.

ESTELA LAMAT was born at the age of eight in the backyard of the house. She has conducted meticulous nocturnal studies of sleeplessness, of stellar chances and causalities. Tamer of cats, enologist by nose, left-handed, and epileptic, she has never been in a workshop; she has never entered any contests; nor has she won any literary awards.

Lisa Forrest, Andrew Rippeon, Janet Holmes & Jillian Weise

2009-09-15T14:23:00.003-04:00

Friday, September 18, 7pm

Lisa A. Forrest is a Senior Assistant Librarian for SUNY College at Buffalo (Buffalo, New York) and the founding member of the school’s Rooftop Poetry Club. A 2007 and 2008 Pushcart Prize nominee, Lisa’s creative writing has been featured in ArtVoice, Buffalo News, eco-poetics, foursquare, Lake Affect, Not Just Air, WordWrights, Yellow Edenwald Field, and on WBFO, Buffalo’s local public radio station. She is a 2009 recipient of the National Public Radio News Directors Incorporated (PRINDI) Award for her featured commentary. Lisa’s first collection of poems, To the Eaves (2008), is available from BlazeVox Books.

Andrew Rippeon edits P-Queue (a journal of poetry, poetics, and innovative prose) and QUEUE (a chapbook series adjunct to the journal). He lives in Buffalo, NY, where he is enrolled in the Poetics Program at the University at Buffalo.

Janet Holmes is author of THE MS OF MY KIN (Shearsman, 2009), F2F, HUMANOPHONE, and other books. She teaches in the MFA program at Boise State University, where she is also editor of Ahsahta Press.

Jillian Weise is just back from a Fulbright to Argentina where she worked with Darwin's notebooks and helped translate Bob Dylan's first novel into Spanish. Her books are Translating the Body (All Nations Press 2006), The Amputee's Guide to Sex (Soft Skull Press 2007) and The Colony, a novel forthcoming this spring. Recent poems are featured on PBS's Poetry Everywhere and in the current issues of Tin House and Washington Square. She teaches workshops and seminars at Clemson University.

Fall Schedule Just Announced!

2009-09-04T09:15:00.006-04:00

September 18
Lisa Forrest, Andrew Rippeon, Janet Holmes & Jillian Weise

September 25
Jennifer Karmin, Michael Leong & Estela Lamat

October 9
Jen Hyde, Justin Taylor, Sandy Florian & Frank Sherlock

Saturday, October 10, 6pm
Beth Bachmann Book Release Celebration with Beth Bachmann, Nick Flynn & Alex Lemon

October 23
Paige Taggart, Sharon Dolin, Esther Smith & Patrick Lucy

November 6
Julian Billups, Cate Peebles, Thomas Sayers Ellis & Wendy S. Walters

November 13
No, Dear Issue Release Party

November 20
Nate Pritts, Leigh Stein, Karin Randolph & Matthew Rohrer

December 4
Crystal Williams, Tyrone Williams, Jackie Clark & Tara Betts

All Readings are FREE on Fridays at 7pm -- Unless Noted Otherwise

The Multifarious Array is Coming!

2009-08-13T19:49:00.000-04:00

But watch this for now:

Fall Season Resumes September 18th!

2009-07-21T09:08:00.003-04:00

This summer The Multifarious Array is drinking beer at Sammy's Fishbox on City Island, but imagining it's on the black sandy shores of Honokalani. The Multifarious Array has a very good imagination.

On Friday September 18th, it will return, refreshed and thoroughly drunk, with an incredible line-up of shiny, new poets. Check back then for a full schedule.

Janaka Stucky, Dorothea Lasky & Michelle Taransky

2009-05-26T15:07:00.003-04:00

!!!!SEASON FINALE!!!!

Friday, May 29, 7pm

Janaka Stucky is the founder and managing editor of Black Ocean, and publishes the magazine Handsome. He likes his whiskey neat and his music dirty. Since receiving his BFA from Emerson and an MFA in Poetry from Vermont College in 2003, he remains rooted in Boston--spending his life traveling, writing, and caring for the dead. Some of his poems appear or are forthcoming in: Cannibal, Denver Quarterly, North American Review, Redivider, and VOLT. Here he is in No Tell Motel.

Dorothea Lasky is the author of AWE (Wave Books, 2007) and Black Life (Wave Books, 2010). Her chapbooks include Tourmaline (Transmission Press, 2008), The Hatmaker's Wife (Braincase Press, 2006), Art (H_NGM_N Press, 2006), and Alphabets and Portraits (Anchorite Press, 2005). She has been educated at Washington University, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and Harvard University. Currently, she studies creativity and education at the University of Pennsylvania. Here she is. And here.

Michelle Taransky was born in Camden, NJ. Her first book, "Barn Burned, Then" was selected by Marjorie Welish for the 2008 Omnidawn Poetry Prize and will be published during September 2009. With her father, architect Richard Taransky, she is the author of The Plans Caution (QUEUE 2007). She lives in Philadelphia and works at Kelly Writers House. Poems appear, or are forthcoming in VOLT, New American Writing, HOW2 and Denver Quarterly. Here are some. And here.

Karen Leona Anderson, Yona Harvey, Matvei Yankelevitch & Jenn Morea

2009-05-13T13:28:00.004-04:00

Friday, May 15, 7pm

Karen Leona Anderson is the author of Punish honey, coming out this January from Carolina Wren Press. She has an MFA from the University of Iowa and a PhD from Cornell University, where she wrote a dissertation on poetry and science. She currently lives in Maryland, where she is an assistant professor at St. Mary's College of Maryland. Here's a poem.

Yona Harvey is a swish escaping the net. She rises in the light of blue curtains & sleeps with one ear open. She is a Cave Canem Fellow, maybe she is the water from which she pulls her baby son. Her work has appeared in Poem Memoir Story, Gulf Coast, Callaloo, Ploughshares, and Gathering Round: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem's First Decade. ÊShe should keep better track of her volunteeringÑcarpooling, book sharing, telling the stories of Martin Luther King, Jr. She currently teaches in the Creative Writing Program at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, where she lives with her husband and two children. Next year, she'll probably go swimming in Tokyo. Read her here and here.

Matvei Yankelevich, is the author of a long poem, *The Present Work* (Palm Press, 2006) and the forthcoming book *Boris by the Sea* (Octopus, 2009). His writings and translations have appeared in Boston Review, Damn the Caesars, Fence, Open City, Circumference, Harpers and The New Yorker. His translation of *Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings of Daniil Kharms* (Overlook, 2007) has received praise from the Times Literary Supplement, The New York Times, and elsewhere. He is a co-translator of *OBERIU: An Anthology of Russian Absurdism* (Northwestern University, 2006) and his translation of Vladimir Mayakovsky's poem "Cloud in Pants" is included in *Night Wraps the Sky: Writings by and about Mayakovsky* (Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 2008). He teaches Russian Lit. at Hunter College and edits the Eastern European Poets Series at Ugly Duckling Presse. Here are some of his poems and here.

Jenn Morea is a poet, writer, and educator. She has worked as a teaching artist in the Chicago Public Schools since 1996 and has edited more than twenty-five anthologies of writing by Chicago youth, including dream in yourself (Tia Chucha Press, 1997). Morea teaches with Project AIM at the Center for Arts Partnerships/Columbia College Chicago and with Young Chicago Authors. Her poems may be found in the online journals High Chair, Slope, and Wicked Alice.

Jared White, Carrie Hunter & Matthew Klane

2009-04-30T11:02:00.003-04:00

Friday, May 1, 7pm

Jared White was born in Boston and has lived in Brooklyn for about
eight years, near two big bridges. His poems have appeared in previous
issues of Barrow Street, Cannibal, Coconut, Harp & Altar, and Word
For/Word, among other journals. A chapbook of poems entitled
Yellowcake appears in the chapbook collection, Narwhal, from Cannibal
Books. He maintains an occasional blog, No No Yes No Yes. Here he is, hairy and in MiPOesias and here in Foam.

Carrie Hunter's chapbook Vorticells was published by Cy Gist Press,
and an e-/chapbook Kine(sta)sis was published by Dusie. The Unicorns
will be coming out as a chapbook in the Dusie Chapbook Kollectiv year
3, and she has another chapbook forthcoming through House Press' Arrow
as Aarow series. She has been published online in Turntable & Blue
Light, Dusie, Parcel, and Sous Rature, and in print in Small Town XII,
Try! magazine, and Eleven Eleven. She received her MFA/MA in the now
defunct Poetics program at New College of California, edits ypolita
press, and lives in San Francisco. Here she is in Jacket.

Matthew Klane is co-editor/founder of Flim Forum Press, publisher of
the anthologies Oh One Arrow (2007) and A Sing Economy (2008). His
book is B_____ Meditations from Stockport Flats Press (2008). His
latest chapbooks include Friend Delighting the Eloquent, Sorrow Songs,
and The- Associated Press. Also see: The Meister-Reich Experiments, a
sprawling hypertext. He currently lives
and writes in Albany, NY. Here he is in Word For/Word and in spork.

Jen Currin, Christine Leclerc, Farrah Field & G.E. Patterson

2009-04-23T10:07:00.002-04:00

Friday, April 24, 7 pm

Jen Currin lives in Vancouver, B.C., where she is a teacher (of creative writing) and a student (currently back in school doing a Masters in literature). Jen has published two books of poems, The Sleep of Four Cities and Hagiography, and has one forthcoming in 2010 called The Inquisition Yours.

Christine Leclerc, originally from Montreal, now lives in Vancouver. In 2008 she completed a BFA in Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia. Her work has appeared in Dig, FRONT, FU, Memewar, Pistola, subTerrain, terry, the Worksound gallery, and is forthcoming in Interim. She is the author of Counterfeit, a book of poetry published in fall 2008 by CUE.

Farrah Field's poems have appeared in many publications including Harp & Altar, Typo, Linebreak, The Cortland Review, 42 Opus and many others. Rising, published by Four Way Books, is her first collection of poems.

Poet and translator G.E. Patterson is the author of two book-length collections, Tug (Graywolf Press) and To & From (Ahsahta Press). His writing can be found in many magazines and anthologies, including Blues Poetry, Bum Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam, Poetry 180, Isn't It Romantic, nocturnes (re)view of the arts, and elsewhere.

Jeremy Hoevanaar, Katy Henriksen & Zach Barocas

2009-04-14T18:51:00.002-04:00

Friday, April 17 -- 7 pm

Jeremy is a chubby dancing baby. His poems have been rejected by Jubilat, Fence, Octopus, and Shampoo. He edits Little Socks Press with Anne Lazovik.

Katy Henriksen is the art director for Cannibal Books, which she founded with her husband Matt Henriksen in Brooklyn, where they curated The Burning Chair Readings. She recently returned to her hometown of Fayetteville, Arkansas and works as a cultural journalist and editor. This spring Cannibal Books will have its very own studio and The Burning Chair Readings will resume in the wild auspices of the Ozark Mountains. Her work has appeared in a wide variety of publications including Brooklyn Rail, Oxford American, Paste, Puremusic.com, Tight, and Venus Zine.

Poet & musician Zach Barocas edits The Cultural Society. He lives in Brooklyn.

Steven Karl, Cindy Savett, Carrie Olivia Adams & Joshua Harmon

2009-03-27T11:51:00.003-04:00

Friday, April 3, 7 pm

Steven Karl is the author of two chapbooks, Lovers' Last Go Around (Peptic Robot Press, 2005) and State(s) of Flux, a collaboration with the artist, Joseph Lappie (Peptic Robot Press, 2009). His poems have appeared in Barrow Street, No Tell Motel, Real Poetik, Sawbuck, Zoland Anthology of Poetry, and other fine journals. His essays and reviews have appeared in Teachers & Writers Magazine, Sink Review, Cold Front Magazine, and Galatea. He lives in Manhattan.

Cindy Savett teaches poetry workshops at psychiatric institutions in the Philadelphia area to both acute short-term and residential patients. Her book, Child in the Road, was recently released. She is published in numerous print and on-line journals, including Margie, Heliotrope, LIT, The Marlboro Review, and Free Verse. Cindy is also at work on a memoir on the death of her daughter. Born and raised in the Philadelphia area, she currently lives in Merion, Pennsylvania with her husband and children.

Carrie Olivia Adams lives and works in Chicago, where she also serves as poetry editor for Black Ocean. Her poems and reviews have appeared in such journals as Backwards City Review, Cranky, DIAGRAM, Lilies and Cannonballs Review, and Verse. She is the author of the chapbook, A Useless Window, and her first full-length collection of poems, Intervening Absence, is available from Ahsahta Press. Here she is in Word For/Word.

Joshua Harmon is the author of Quinnehtukqut, a novel, and Scape, a collection of poems. His fiction, poems, and essays have appeared in many journals, including Antioch Review, Denver Quarterly, Iowa Review, and Verse. A graduate of Marlboro College and Cornell University, he has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, and the Dutchess County Arts Council. Here he is in DIAGRAM.

Tony Mancus, Myronn Hardy & Jess Mynes

2009-03-12T15:01:00.007-04:00

Friday, March 20th, 7pm

Tony Mancus currently lives in Queens. He teaches writing at Montclair State University and Hunter College. His poems have appeared or will be appearing in cream city review, H_ngm_n, Forklift, Ohio, Handsome and elsewhere (like space perhaps--feel free to cut that--i like my bios dry like good wine--like riunite lambrusco, which wait...). He is co-founder of Flying Guillotine Press with SB and they make small books. Here he is in 42opus and an interview.

Myronn Hardy is the author of two volumes of poetry, Approaching the Center, which won the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Award, and The Headless Saints both published by New Issues Press. His poems have appeared in Ploughshares, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Indiana Review, FIELD, Versal (Amsterdam), Third Coast, and elsewhere. He lives in New York City.

Jess Mynes is the author of several published works, including: Birds for Example (CARVE Editions), In(ex)teriors (Anchorite Press), and If and When (Katalanche Press). His Sky Brightly Picked (Skysill Press) and Recently Clouds (Petrichord Books), a collaboration with poet Aaron Tieger, are to be published in 2009. He is the editor of Fewer & Further Press and he co-curates a reading series in Western, MA, All Small Caps. He also authors a mind boggling crossover dribble. Here he is in Shampoo.

John Ebersole, Rauan Klassnik, Dan Magers & Sara Michas-Martin

2009-03-03T11:08:00.005-05:00

Friday, March 6, 7pm

John Ebersole teaches at Temple University. His most recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in Western Humanities Review, Octopus Magazine, and Bateau.

Rauan Klassnik was born in South Africa and now lives in Mexico. His first book, Holy Land, was released from Black Ocean in 2008. His chapbook, Ringing, is out with Kitchen Press and a second chapbook, Dreaming, is due out in the summer from Scantily Clad Press. Read him at Action, Yes and Coconut.

Dan Magers has poems published in the tiny and Red China Magazine, and his chapbook Exploitation Poems was published in 2007. He is a co-founder and editor of the online literary magazine Sink Review, and works in publishing. He lives in Brooklyn. Here is a beautiful broadside from Rope-a-Dope.

Sara Michas-Martin is a Former Wallace Stegner fellow and Jones Lecturer at Stanford. She recently joined the BFA low-residency faculty at Goddard College and lives in Brooklyn. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in APR, Bird Dog, Court Green, FIELD, Forklift, Ohio, and elsewhere. Here she is in Poetry Mountain and Diagram.

CA Conrad, Ben Malkin, Jennifer Knox & Kristina Hummel

2009-02-17T11:10:00.006-05:00

***Announcing the first reading of the Spring Season!***

And what a doozie.

Friday, February 20th, 7 pm

CAConrad is the son of white trash asphyxiation whose childhood included selling cut flowers along the highway for his mother and helping her shoplift. He escaped to Philadelphia where he lives and writes with the PhillySound poets. His latest book The Book of Frank (Chax Press, 2009) received The Gil Ott Book Award. He is also the author of Deviant Propulsion (Soft Skull Press, 2006), (Soma)tic Midge (FAUX Press, 2008), and two forthcoming books, advanced ELVIS course (Soft Skull Press, 2009), and a collaboration with poet Frank Sherlock titled THE CITY REAL & IMAGINED: Philadelphia Poems (Factory School Press, 2009). Here's a poem and here and here.

Ben Malkin sings and plays keyboards for the band Gracefully, runs the multi-media label Goodbye Better, has released the poetry chapbook Listen with Robin Mapes, and is the editor & chief of Cock-Now Zine. He has also released albums and a bunch of 7"s and EPs with the band So L'il. His new book, The Birthday Poems, contains the new Gracefully album, Follow That Bliss and is coming out on February 20th, 2009. Poems in Eoagh.

Jennifer L. Knox hails from Lancaster, California, where absolutely anything can be made into a bong. Her books of poems, Drunk by Noon and A Gringo Like Me, are both available from Bloof Books. Her poems have appeared in the anthologies Best American Poetry (1997, 2003 and 2006), Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to Present, and Free Radicals, American Poets Before Their First Books. Poems in Blackbird and Coconut.

Kristina's poems have appeared in American Letters & Commentary, Agni, Colorado Review, Diagram, Fourteen Hills, and elsewhere. She has a chapbook forthcoming from handheld editions. She teaches writing at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Art and Science and at Baruch College.

ANNOUNCING THE SPRING SEASON!

2009-02-17T10:46:00.006-05:00

February 20
CA Conrad, Ben Malkin, Jennifer Knox & Kristina Hummel

March 6
John Ebersole, Rauan Klassnik, Dan Magers & Sara Michas-Martin

March 20
Tony Mancus, Myronn Hardy & Jess Mynes

April 3
Steven Karl, Cindy Savett, Carrie Olivia Adams & Josh Harmon

April 17
Jeremy Hoevanaar, Katy Henriksen & Zach Barocas

April 24
Jen Currin, Christine Leclerc, Farrah Field & G.E. Patterson

May 1
Jared White, Carrie Hunter & Matthew Klane

****Special Reading!**** May 9
No, Dear launches Issue 3!

May 15
Karen Anderson, Yona Harvey, Matvei Yankelevitch & Jenn Morea

May 29
Janaka Stucky, Dottie Lasky & Michelle Taransky

2008-12-10T00:43:00.008-05:00

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Mark Horosky, Eric Baus, Adam Chiles AND Miriam Benatti

2008-12-01T11:27:00.007-05:00

Friday, December 5, 7 pm

****This Evening is the Special East-Coast Exclusive Unveiling of LET IT BE NEARBY, the First Chapbook from Mark Horosky & CUE EDITIONS****

Mark Horosky was born in the 1970's and raised in New Haven, CT. He was educated at Southern CT State University (BA), University of Arizona (MFA), and Pace University (Masters of Science in Teaching). He is a Special Education Instructor in Brooklyn. His writing has appeared recently in Cue and Tight magazines. His new chapbook is out: Let It Be Nearby (with artwork by Amie Robinson; Cue Editions). He lives in Brooklyn with Miriam and Lucas.

Eric Baus is the author of The To Sound (Wave Books) and Tuned Droves (Octopus Books). He edits Minus House chapbooks and writes about poetry audio recordings on the site To The Sound. He lives in Denver. Some poems in Fascicle.

Adam Chiles' first book Evening Land was published this year by Cinnamon Press in the UK. His work has appeared in Best New Poets 2006, Indiana Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, Gulf Coast, Free Verse and others. He currently teaches English and Creative Writing at Northern Virginia Community College. He's in Web Del Sol and here, in Blackbird.

Miriam Benatti lives and works as a licensed massage therapist in New York City. In between changing diapers, rubbing bodies, and cooking cutlets, she's currently working on a chapbook of poems called Open Your Mouth.

Chris Tonelli, Lisa Sewell, Farrah Field & Jean-Paul Pecqueur

2008-11-17T15:16:00.010-05:00

Friday, November 21, 7 pm

Chris Tonelli is the author of three chapbooks, For People Who Like Gravity and Other People (Rope-A-Dope Press, forthcoming), A Mule-Shaped Cloud (with Sarah Bartlett, horse less press, 2008), and WIDE TREE: Short Poems (Kitchen Press, 2006). He teaches at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Lisa Sewell is the author of The Way Out (Alice James Books) and Name Withheld (Four Way Books), and co-editor, with Claudia Rankine, of American Poets in the 21st Century: The New Poetics (Wesleyan UP). She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Pennsylvania Council for the Arts, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. Most recently, her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in American Letters and Commentary, Colorado Review, The Journal and Tampa Review. She lives in Philadelphia and teaches at Villanova University. Read her here and here.

Farrah Field’s poems have appeared in the Mississippi Review, Margie, The Courtland Review, The Massachusetts Review, Typo, Harp & Altar, and Linebreak, among others. Rising, her first book, is forthcoming from Four Way Books. She lives in Brooklyn and is currently working on a novel.

Jean-Paul Pecqueur is from Tacoma, Washington. His first book, The Case Against Happiness, was published by Alice James in 2006. He currently lives in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, the tornado capital of NYC. Read his poems in la fovea and Mirror Northwest. Here's an interview with him by Kate Greenstreet.

No, Dear Issue Release Reading this Friday!

2008-11-13T09:49:00.009-05:00

No, Dear Issue Release Reading, 7pm

No, Dear is a hand-sewn print poetry publication featuring the work of New York City poets. Founded in 2008 by four Brooklyn poets, No, Dear comes out twice a year.

Featuring:

Emily Brandt
Alex Cuff
Elizabeth Daza
Kit Frick
Meghan Guss
Katie Moeller
Kit Soleil
Keisha Warner
Anastasia Webb

Tim Peterson, Adam Tobin, David Carillo & Kate Broad

2008-11-04T09:26:00.007-05:00

This Friday, November 7th, 7 pm

Tim Peterson lives in Brooklyn and writes poetry, all the while seeking out other complexly gendered individuals for companionship and connection, hungry for articulations of reading and being read as voiced experiences hunting you like a bluejay. SINCE I MOVED IN (Gil Ott Award, Chax Press) was published in 2007. Tim edits EOAGH: A Journal of the Arts. Here, two poems, in 2nd Avenue.

Adam Tobin owns and operates Unnameable Books, a new and used bookstore in central Brooklyn. He is author of Ode to Pumpsie Green & Stretch Phillips (horse less press, 2005, here's an excerpt) and editor of The Weekly Weakling (forthcoming), a series of occasional letterpress pamphlets. You may have seen his older work in EOAGH or Fence or other publications, but he hasn't really written much since he opened the bookstore. He promises, however, to read at this reading at least one poem you've never seen before.

David Carillo lives in West Hartford with his wife and dog. He is working on his MFA in Creative Nonfiction at the University of Pittsburgh and teaches English at the University of Connecticut at Waterbury. He has poems forthcoming in nanomajority.com. Here's his Ultimate Frisbee record.

Kate Broad has lived in India and Brazil and currently resides in Brooklyn, where she is a doctoral student in English at the City University of New York Graduate Center. She has poems in Freshwater, The Wellesley Review, and forthcoming in Karamu, and has won several writing awards, including one from the Academy of American Poets. Kate is working on her first full-length manuscript, Hard to Swallow. Here is another poem.

Devin Johnston, Jeff Clark, DJ Dolack & Katie Fowley

2008-10-14T11:13:00.004-04:00

Friday, October 17, 7pm

Devin Johnston is the author of three books of poetry, the most recent of which is Sources (Turtle Point Press, 2008). A book of his essays entitled Creaturely will be published by Turtle Point Press in 2009. He co-directs Flood Editions, an independent publishing house, and teaches at Saint Louis University. Here is a poem and here, too, in Jacket.

Jeff Clark was born in southern California in 1971. He is the author of The Little Door Slides Back and Music and Suicide (both from FSG), as well as 2A, which he co-wrote wtih Geoffrey G. O'Brien. For 12 years he's made his living as a book designer, and currently runs a design studio called Quemadura. He lives in Ypsilanti, Michigan, with his partner, the poet Christine Hume, and their daughter Juna Hume Clark.

DJ Dolack's most recent work can be found in (or is forthcoming from) Octopus Magazine, Handsome, and Diode. He is a contributing editor at Eye For An Iris Press. His chapbook, The Sad Meal, is available through Black Ocean. He currently lives in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Here he is in Diagram.

Katie Fowley received a BA in English from Macalester College in 2007. Her book reviews appear in Rain Taxi: Review of Books. She is a founding editor of Lightful Press, and she lives in Sunnyside, Queens.

Aaron Rivero-Zaritsky, Ravi Shankar & Laura Sims

2008-10-07T10:38:00.002-04:00

This Friday, October 10, 7pm

Aaron Rivero-Zaritzky's translation of Felipe Benitez Reyes' book Probable Lives (winner of the National Book Award and National Critics' award in Spain) was published in 2006 by BOA Editions as part of the Lannan Series. Nobel prize finalist Miguel Mendez, the Kennedy Center, and others have commissioned Rivero-Zaritzky to translate literary work. His co-translations of Jose Saavedra Iguina's albums, Versosreversos and Vercadaver, appear with the CDs. He currently lives in Macon, Georgia with his wife Yosalida, their beautiful daughter Sofia, and the non-gender phenomenon Orquidea Vazquez, recipient of the Barneman Prize for fructose intolerance.

Ravi Shankar teaches at Central Connecticut State University. He is the author of Instrumentality (Cherry Grove Collections), Wanton Textiles (with Reb Livingston) and co-editor of Language for the New Century (Norton), an anthology of contemporary poetry from the Middle East, Asia and beyond. Here he is and here he is.

Laura Sims is a recent re-transplant to New York City. She is the author of two poetry books, Practice, Restraint, recipient of the 2005 Fence Books Alberta Prize and Stranger, forthcoming from Fence Books in 2009. She has also published four poetry chapbooks, including Bank Book (Answer Tag Press) and Paperback Book (3rd Bed). She has written book reviews and essays for Boston Review, Rain Taxi, and The Review of Contemporary Fiction, and has recently published poems in the journals Denver Quarterly, Colorado Review, CAB/NET, and Crayon. Here she is too, and here.

Jennifer Firestone, Kristin Palm, David Blair & Samuel White

2008-09-30T17:31:00.006-04:00

Friday, October 3, 7 pm

Jennifer Firestone is the co-editor of Letters to Poets: Conversations About Poetics, Politics, and Community, forthcoming in October from Saturnalia Books. She is the author of Holiday (Shearsman Books), Waves (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs), and From Flashes and snapshot (both by Sona Books). Her work has appeared in HOW2, LUNGFULL!, Xcp: Streetnotes, Saint Elizabeth Street, Courtland Review and others. She is an Assistant Professor teaching poetry at Eugene Lang College at The New School For Liberal Arts, and lives in Brooklyn with her husband and their infant twins. Here is a poem of hers and here's some work on MiPOesias.

Kristin Palm’s writing has appeared in Boog City, Chain, There, Dusie, the anthology Bay Poetics (Faux Press, 2006), and numerous other places. She writes regularly for Metropolis magazine and its blog, POV. Her book The Straits (two long poems about Detroit, her former hometown) was published this year by the serendipitously named Palm Press. Kristin lives in San Francisco.

David Blair's first book Ascension Days was chosen by Thomas Lux for the 2006 Del Sol Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared in the anthologies Zoland Poetry and The Best of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, as well as in many journals including The Boston Review, Fence, The Harvard Review, and Tuesday, an Art Project. He is currently on the faculty of the New England Institute of Art and he lives in Somerville, Massachusetts, with his wife Sabrina and his daughter Astrid. Here he is in Perihelion.

Sam White is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the author of one book of poems, The Goddess of the Hunt is Not Herself, published by Slope Editions in 2005. He is also the author and illustrator of two graphic novels and the founder and director of Woolly Fair, a summer arts festival located in Providence, Rhode Island. Recently he directed "Rash of Robberies" a stop-motion music video for the band State Radio which was featured last summer in the 1st International Animation Festival in Poznan, Poland. He lives and works in Monohasset Mill, an artist community in Providence, with his wife Gillian Kiley. Here he is in Perihelion.

Cecily Iddings, Brett Price, Cynthia Arrieu-King & Linda Bamber

2008-09-17T10:32:00.006-04:00

September 26th, Friday, 7 pm

Cecily Iddings received an MA from the University of Georgia and an MFA in poetry from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Her poems and reviews have appeared in Harvard Review, jubilat, Meridian, Pleiades, Spinning Jenny, Verse, and Verse Daily, among other places. She is working on the second issue of The Blue Letter with Chris Hosea and is a former managing editor of Slope Editions.

Brett Price is an assistant editor of Forklift, Ohio: A Journal of Poetry, Cooking, and Light Industrial Safety. He is working toward an MFA at Bard College. His writing can be found in such journals as H_NGM_N, Octopus, The Incliner, and Milkmoney. He lives in Brooklyn.

Cynthia Arrieu-King is assistant professor of creative writing at Stockton College in New Jersey. Her work has or will appear in Prairie Schooner, Black Warrior Review, New Orleans Review, Jacket, Diagram, Octopus Magazine, Forklift Ohio, and elsewhere.

Linda Bamber was born in Washington, D.C. and grew up both there and abroad. She teaches literature and creative writing in the Tufts English Department. Her first book of poetry Metropolitan Tang was published this year with Black Sparrow. Her book, Comic Women, Tragic Men: Gender and Genre in Shakespeare, has been widely excerpted and anthologized. Her essay “Reading as a Buddhist,” included in Buddha Mind in Contemporary Art, came out of her participation in a multi-year consortium on Buddhism in the arts. Her poems, stories, essays and reviews have appeared in The Harvard Review, The Kenyon Review, Tikkun, The Missouri Review, and Ploughshares, which awarded her the Ploughshares Prize for her story, “The Time-to-Teach-Jane-Eyre-Again Blues.” She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

First Reading of the Season!!

2008-09-06T12:31:00.006-04:00

Dear World,

This Friday, September 12th at 7 pm, is the first reading of the Pete's Fall 2008 Poetry Season. Come hear Amy King, Leslie Anne Mcilroy with Don Bertschman accompanying on guitar, and Nellie Bridge!

Good wishes,

Sommer

Amy King is the author of I'm the Man Who Loves You and Antidotes for an Alibi, both from Blazevox Books, and most recently, Kiss Me With the Mouth of Your Country (Dusie Press). She is the moderator for the Poetics List and the Women's Poetry Listserv, and teaches English and Creative Writing at Nassau Community College. She is currently editing an anthology, The Urban Poetic, forthcoming from Factory School.

Leslie Anne Mcilroy won the 2001 Word Press Poetry Prize for her full-length collection Rare Space and the 1997 Slipstream Poetry Chapbook Prize for her chapbook Gravel. Her second full-length book, Liquid Like This, was published by Word Press in July 2008. Leslie’s daughter, Silas, is a poetic six. Don Bertschman is a musician and writer who studied with Coleman Barks at the University of Georgia. Leslie and Don live in Pittsburgh, PA where they work as copywriters.

Nellie Bridge grew up in Washington State, and has lived in New York for the last 7 years. Her poems have appeared in Rattapallax, KNOCK, Painted Bride Quarterly, New Delta Review, and other places. She lives in Brooklyn and works at the Authors Guild.

THE FALL SEASON

2008-08-28T17:43:00.007-04:00

September 12
Amy King, Leslie Anne Mcilroy with guitarist Don Bertschman & Nellie Bridge

September 26
Cecily Iddings, Brett Price, Cynthia Arrieu-King & Linda Bamber

October 3
Jennifer Firestone, Kristin Palm, David Blair & Samuel White

October 10
Aaron Rivero-Zaritsky, Ravi Shankar, Laura Sims & Katy Henriksen

October 17
Devin Johnston, Jeff Clark, DJ Dolack & Katie Fowley

November 7
Tim Peterson, Adam Tobin, David Carillo & Kate Broad

November 21
Chris Tonelli, Douglas Hahn & Lisa Sewell

December 5
Adam Chiles, Mark Horosky, Miriam Benatti & Eric Baus

Surprise Reading!

2008-06-03T13:20:00.015-04:00

Don't tell anyone!

Zachary Schomburg!
Genine Lentine!
Emily Kendal Frey!
Genya Turovskaya!

FRIDAY THE THIRTEENTH! of June -- Seven pee em

Zachary Schomburg is the author of The Man Suit (Black Ocean 2007) and has poems from his forthcoming second book, Scary, No Scary in Denver Quarterly, Born, and Fou. His translations of the Russian poet, Andrei Sen-Senkov, are forthcoming in Circumference and Mantis and his poetry collaborations with Emily Kendal Frey are forthcoming in Pilot, Diode, and Sir!. With Mathias Svalina, he co-edits Octopus Magazine and Octopus Books. He is wrapping up his Ph.D at the University of Nebraska.

Genine Lentine’s poems, essays, and interviews have appeared in American Poetry Review, American Speech, Diagram, Gulf Coast, Ninth Letter, O, the Oprah Magazine, and Tricycle. Her collaboration with Stanley Kunitz and photographer Marnie Crawford Samuelson, The Wild Braid: A Poet Reflects on a Century in the Garden was published in 2005 by W.W. Norton. Her manuscript, Mr. Worthington's Beautiful Experiments on Splashes was a finalist for the National Poetry Series. Her project, Listening Booth was recently part of Southern Exposure Gallery's 1st Annual Public Art day. She lives in San Francisco.

Emily Kendal Frey lives in Portland, Oregon. Recent work is forthcoming from New York Quarterly, Spinning Jenny and 42opus. Collaborative work with Sarah Bartlett will appear in Portland Review, Bat City Review and the horse less press anthology New Pony. Poems from Something Should Happen at Night Outside, a collaboration with Zachary Schomburg, will appear in Pilot, Sir!, Diode and Jubilat. Here she is in Diagram and Coconut and Shampoo and RealPoetik.

Genya Turovskaya is the author of Calendar (UDP 2002), and The Tides (Octopus Books 2007). Her poetry and translations of contemporary Russian poets have appeared in Chicago Review, Conjunctions, A Public Space, Octopus, jubilat, and other publications. Her translation of Aleksandr Skidan's Red Shifting was published by Ugly Duckling Presse (2008). She has been the recipient of various awards and fellowships including a MacDowell Colony Fellowship, a Montana Artist Refuge Fellowship, the Witter Bynner Translation Residency at Santa Fe Art Institute, and a Fund for Poetry grant. She holds an MFA from Bard College and lives in Brooklyn, New York where she is the Associate Editor of the Eastern European Poets Series at Ugly Duckling Presse.

Betsy Wheeler, Frank Montesonti, Amy King & Morgan Lucas Schuldt

2008-05-12T13:53:00.007-04:00

Friday, May 16, 7 pm

Betsy Wheeler is the author of the chapbook Start Here. Her poems have recently appeared in Bat City Review, MiPoesias, Pebble Lake Review, Forklift Ohio, Ping Pong, and Absent. Co-editor of Pilot and Pilot Books, she lives in Northampton, Massachusetts where she works for Wondertime magazine. Here she is in Octopus.

Frank Montesonti's first chapbook, A Civic Pageant, won the 2008 Black River Chapbook Competition. His work has appeared in journals such as Black Warrior Review, Poet Lore, Barrow Street, AQR, and Slipstream. He teaches creative writing at National University and lives in San Diego, CA. He is the 300 year old offspring of a dragon and a unicorn. Here he is in spork and 42 Opus and Diagram.

Amy King is the author of the poetry collection, Antidotes for an Alibi, which was a Lambda Book Award finalist, and the chapbook, The People Instruments. Her poems appear in numerous journals such as The Brooklyn Rail, CutBank, LIT, The Mississippi Review, Milk Magazine, MiPoesias, No Tell Motel, and Shampoo Poetry. She teaches Creative Writing and English at Nassau Community College and is an interview correspondent for miPOradio. Here is one from Adirondack Review.

Morgan Lucas Schuldt is the author of Verge and Otherhow, a chapbook. He lives in Tucson where he edits the literary journal CUE. Here he is in Coconut and Diagram and Free Verse.

Keith Newton, Erica Ehrenberg & Robyn Art

2008-05-07T14:29:00.008-04:00

This Friday, May 9th, 7pm

Keith Newton edits the online magazine Harp & Altar. His poems and
essays have recently appeared in Harvard Review, Cannibal, and
Octopus, among other journals. A chapbook of his work is forthcoming this year from Cannibal Books. He lives in Brooklyn.

Erica Ehrenberg is a graduate of Amherst College and the Creative Writing Program (in Poetry) at New York University. Her poems have appeared, or are forthcoming, in Octopus, jubilat, The New Republic, the Center for Book Arts broadside series, and in the anthology Dancing with Joy: 99 Poems (Crown, 2007). She teaches Poetry, Writing, and Irish Literature at Montclair State University. Currently, she is at work on completing her first collection of poetry, and on a graphic novel loosely based on the gangs of 19th century New York.

Robyn Art is a native of Lincoln, Massachusetts, hometown of the band They Might Be Giants. Her recent poems have appeared in Slope, The Hat, and Wicked Alice and her work will be included in the anthologies The Bedside Guide To No Tell Motel: Second Floor and Outside Voices Anthology of Younger American Poets. She is the author of the poetry manuscript, The Stunt Double In Winter, which will be published by Dusie Press this spring. Her text-visual collaboration with the artist Robin Barcus, "Dear American Lovechild, Yours, the Beautiful Undead" will be published by Dancing Girl Press this winter. Read lots of her work here.

Evie Shockley & Brenda Ijima

2008-04-23T10:57:00.004-04:00

Friday, April 25th, 7 pm

Evie Shockley is the author of a half-red sea (2006) and a poetry chapbook, The Gorgon Goddess (2001), both published by Carolina Wren Press. Her work appears or is forthcoming in numerous journals and anthologies, including 1913: a journal of forms, No Tell Motel, PMS:PoemMemoirStory, and others. In 2007, she guest edited "~QUEST~": a special issue of MiPOesias featuring the work of contemporary African American poets and is currently serving as a guest editor of jubilat. Shockley is a Cave Canem graduate fellow. She teaches African American literature and creative writing at Rutgers University. Read her here and here.

Brenda Iijima is the author of Animate, Inanimate Aims (Litmus, 2007) and Around Sea (O Books, 2004). Her book, If Not Metamorphic was runner up for the Sawtooth Prize and will be published by Ahsahta Press. A work called revv.you'll-ution, is forthcoming from Displaced Editions in 2008. She is the editor of Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs. Together with Evelyn Reilly she is editing a collection of essays by poets concerning poetry and ecological ethics titled )((eco (lang)(uage(reader). She lives in Brooklyn, New York where she designs and constructs homeopathic gardens. Here she is in word for/word and in milk.

Chris Hosea, Mark Yakich & Joe Fletcher

2008-04-07T16:03:00.006-04:00

Friday, April 11, 7 pm

Chris Hosea's poems have been published in Swerve, Denver Quarterly, VOLT, Harvard Review, and elsewhere. His manuscript, The Promise of the Baffled, was a semifinalist for the 2007 Walt Whitman Award. He is a graduate of Harvard and the University of Massachusetts Amherst MFA Program. He works at the 92nd Street Y Unterberg Poetry Center and lives in Brooklyn. Here are some of his poems.

Mark Yakich's latest poetry collection, The Importance of Peeling Potatoes in Ukraine, is forthcoming with Penguin in March 2008. Mark lives in New Orleans. His website is here. Read him at La Petite Zine and RealPoetik.

Joe Fletcher's chapbook, Sleigh Ride is available from Factory Hollow Press. His poems have also appeared or are forthcoming in jubilat, Poetry International, Octopus, Kulture Vulture, Hoboeye, and elsewhere. He lives and teaches in North Carolina.

Stephen Motika, Sue Nacey & Peter Spagnuolo

2008-03-24T21:49:00.008-04:00

Friday, March 28th, 7 pm

Stephen Motika's chapbook, Arrival and at Mono, was published by Sona Books in fall 2007. His work has appeared in The National Post of Canada, Another Chicago Magazine, and The Common Review, among other publications. "The Field," a collaborative exhibition with Dianna Frid, was on view at Gallery 400 at the University of Illinois, Chicago, in December 2003. He is the coordinator of public programs, education, and exhibitions at Poets House and publisher of Nightboat Books.

Sue Nacey coordinates the MFA in Creative Writing Program at Hunter College in addition to teaching in the undergraduate English Department. She also holds an MFA from Hunter, where she was a Norma Friedman Fellow, working as a research assistant to Edward Hirsch. Her Master's Thesis, The Frivolous King, was awarded a Newman Award for Outstanding Thesis. Her poetry has appeared in Perspectives: A Journal of Critical & Creative Writing, Conduit and RealPoetik.

Peter Spagnuolo is the author of The Squatter's Midden (2001) and Ten by Fourteen (2005), limited edition/letterpress chapbooks from Booklyn. "Egg and Dart," a longer poem, is due out this spring. He has been a past Poetry Fellow for the state arts councils of California and Pennsylvania, and his poems appear in Threepenny Review and Poetry. Mr. Spagnuolo works a day-job writing for mysterious figures at a criminal defense firm on the Lower East Side. He lives in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, and loves key lime pie more than he can say.

Michael Schiavo, Andy Hughes & Stephanie Cleveland

2008-03-10T17:05:00.007-04:00

Friday, March 14, 7 pm

Michael Schiavo's poetry has appeared in or is forthcoming from The Yale Review, Seneca Review, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, LIT, Painted Bride Quarterly, Fou, 1913: A Journal of Forms, No Tell Motel, Guernica, Forklift, Ohio, and elsewhere. He is a contributing editor to CUE and, along with Whit Griffin and Andrew Hughes, an editor of Tight. He lives in North Bennington, Vermont. Here he is Shampooed and in Konundrum Engine.

Andrew Hughes divides his time between New York and Vermont. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Forklift, Ohio, Octopus, Spell, Cannibal, and others. Read his poems here and in Octopus, with Whit Griffin.

Stephanie Cleveland is a feminist who has spoken nationally and internationally against pornography, prostitution and rape. Her poems have appeared in Colorado Review, Boston Review, Another Chicago Magazine, jubilat and are forthcoming in Conduit and Phoebe. Her essays have appeared in Adonis Mirror and off our backs. Raised in rural Georgia, Stephanie now lives in Manhattan with her cat Lola and works in Brooklyn as a babysitter.

Ada Limón, Melissa Koosmann , Rebecca Gopoian & Lisa Sewell

2008-02-22T15:56:00.005-05:00

Friday, February 29th, 7pm

Ada Limón's first book, lucky wreck, was the winner of the Autumn House Poetry Prize. Her second book, This Big Fake World, was the winner of the Pearl Poetry Prize. She is at work on a third book dealing mainly with rivers, sharks, and how to live in the world. Read her poems in Coconut and Tarpaulin Sky.

Melissa Koosmann is a graduate of the University of Arizona MFA program in poetry. Her poems have appeared in The Indiana Review, Diagram, Coconut, and other journals. Here's one at VerseDaily and in Blackbird.

Rebecca Gopoian’s poems have appeared in EOAGH, elimae, The Denver Quarterly, The Cupboard, Tarpaulin Sky, Margie, and others. Her articles, reviews and collaborative comics have appeared in The New York Times, Interfaithfamily.com and LitVert. She lives in Queens with her husband, cartoonist David Heatley, and their two children, Maya and Samuel. Read her in Avatar Review.

Lisa Sewell is the author of The Way Out (Alice James Books) and Name Withheld (Four Way Books), and co-editor, with Claudia Rankine, of American Poets in the 21st Century: The New Poetics (Wesleyan UP). She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in American Letters and Commentary, Paris Review, Laurel Review, Denver Quarterly and other journals. She lives in Philadelphia and teaches at Villanova University.

Bill Rasmovicz, Jean-Paul Pecqueur & James Hoch

2008-02-12T13:54:00.002-05:00

Friday, February 15, 7 pm

Bill Rasmovicz is a graduate of the Vermont College MFA in Writing Program and Temple University School of Pharmacy. His poems have appeared in Third Coast Hotel Amerika, Nimrod, Mid-American Review, and other publications. He has served as a workshop co-leader and literary excursion leader throughout Italy, Croatia, Slovenia, Germany, England and Wales, and was the recipient of the Alice James Books 2006 Kinereth Gensler Award for his manuscript, The World in Place of Itself. Read some poems from his book here and here.

Jean-Paul Pecqueur is from Tacoma, Washington. His first book, The Case Against Happiness, was published by Alice James in 2006. He currently lives in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, the tornado capital of NYC. Read his poems in spork and Mirror Northwest.

Prior to teaching, James Hoch was a dishwasher, cook, dockworker, social worker and shepherd. His poems have appeared in Slate, Kenyon Review, Ninth Letter, and many others. He is the recipient of fellowships and scholarships from Bread Loaf, Sewanee, and Summer Literary Seminars, and received a 2007 NEA grant. Miscreants will be published by WW Norton in June, 2007. A Parade of Hands won the Gerald Cable Award and was published in March 2003 by Silverfish Review Press. He resides in Mahwah, NJ with his wife and son. More of his poems can be found in Blackbird and The Drunken Boat.

The Spring Season of The Multifarious Array!

2008-01-28T14:51:00.000-05:00

February 15

Bill Rasmovicz, Jean-Paul Pecqueur & James Hoch

February 29

Ada Limon, Melissa Koosmann, Rebecca Gopoian & Lisa Sewell

March 14

Stephanie Cleveland, Michael Schiavo & Andy Hughes

March 28

Stephen Motika, Sue Nacey & Peter Spagnuolo

April 11

Chris Hosea, Thomas Heise, Mark Yakich & Joe Fletcher

April 25

Evie Shockley, Brenda Ijima & Bob Hicok

May 9

Keith Newton, Erica Ehrenberg & Robyn Art

May 16

Betsy Wheeler, Frank Montesonti, Amy King & Morgan Lucas Schuldt

Another Amazing Season Ends!

2007-12-19T11:06:00.000-05:00

Check back in the early new year for spring's exciting line-up!

There will be wizards.

Matt Henriksen, Adam Clay & Oni Buchanan

2007-12-04T10:16:00.000-05:00

Friday, December 7, 7pm

Matthew Henriksen has a chapbook, Is Holy, from horse less press. His poems have appeared in Absent Magazine; Agriculture Reader; Fascicle; Forklift, Ohio: a Journal of Poetry, Cooking, & Light Industrial Safety; H_NGM_N; hose less review; Indiana Review; Lit; MiPoesias; Octopus; Third Coast; Verse Daily (by way of Redivider)& Wildlife Poetry Magazine. He edits the online poetry journal Typo with Adam Clay, curates The Burning Chair Readings, and edits and produces Cannibal with his wife, Katy, in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

Adam Clay is the author of The Wash. He lives in Michigan. New poems appear in A Public Space, Sycamore Review, Quarterly West, and elsewhere. He co-edits Typo Magazine and is a Managing Editor at Third Coast. Here's a poem in Tarpaulin Sky, more in storySOUTH.

Oni Buchanan is the author of Spring, one of the 2007 National Poetry Series winners, to be published by the University of Illinois Press in Fall 2008. Her first poetry book, What Animal, was published in October 2003 by the University of Georgia Press. She is also a concert pianist, has released three solo piano CD’s, and actively performs across the U.S. and abroad. She lives in Boston, maintains a private piano teaching studio, and serves as an online poetry mentor for the Anna Akhmatova Foundation.

Lynn Xu, Josh Edwards & Brian Waniewski

2007-11-26T17:05:00.000-05:00

Friday, November 30, 7pm

Lynn Xu received her MFA from Brown University. She was selected by Fanny Howe to receive the 2007 SLS Fellowship to St. Petersberg, by Anne Carson for the 2006 Greg Grummer Prize, and by Lyn Heijinian for the 2004 Eisner Prize. She was also a finalist for 2007 New California Poetry Series. Her poems have appeared in The Canary, Phoebe, UDP's 6x6, Eoagh, and elsewhere. Her chapbook, JUNE, was published by Corollary Press. She likes water. Likes gold. These are not competing species so she is very happy. Here are some of her sonnets.

Joshua Edwards lives in Oaxaca, Mexico, where he is a Fulbright fellow. He co-edits The Canary and Canarium, a new press. His work has appeared recently in Practice, Vanitas, Northwest Review, and elsewhere. He loves his girlfriend and her name's Lynn Xu. Here are his poems in Coconut.

Brian Waniewski was educated at the College of William and Mary, the Technische Universitaet Berlin and The University of Iowa. He has posed as a garden designer in Africa, a food consultant in Europe, a futurist in New York and an academic in rural Virginia, where he built by hand a timber-frame cabin in the woods. He has written poems for many years and is currently at work on a novel, which chronicles the religious conversion of a young egoist.