New Portland Press c_L

The following is from fellow spare room collective member James Yeary who just published spare room member Sam Lohmann's new chapbook. The book as object and the book as poem are wonderful and idiosyncratic. Buy and enjoy!

c_L has released it's second chapbook!

Lines on Canvas or What I Know or Have Seen of His Life
by Sam Lohmann

Lohmann's Lines on Canvas are a collection of lines drawn to the end of breath. From the referential object found by Sam in his exploration of the landscape, this time from the vantage of the idea of the painter. Each line is drawn from a singularity in text to its possible extent in the world, as Sam has culled it from one biographer looking at an other. That other being the painter Cézanne, from the eye and mouth of his friend Joachim Gasquet.

   From the overbearing sky
   He produced atrocious studies
   In the attic a canvas of holes

This chapbook is an excerpt from a full-length work that should appear later in the year. Lines on Canvas is available from the publisher for $8 domestic mail.

Send a check or well-concealed cash to

James Yeary
2947 E. Burnside
Portland, OR 97214

also:

Phoebe Wayne's Lovejoy is still available.

c_L's first publication, Lovejoy's several narrative threads each take a different perspective on the construction, presence and decay of Portland's Lovejoy columns, a series of "outsider" architecture that have been disappeared from the Portland cityscape since the WPA projects of the 1950s that helped bring them into the world.

Both chapbooks feature letterpress printed covers and hand-sewn binding.

Lovejoy is available for $6 domestic mail.

Congratulations to The Switch

The Switch Reading Art & Music Series held a successful fundraiser to have this reading. What a great 

thing for Portland! Congrats!

Hoa Nguyen & Jesse Morse 5/14 @ 6:30 p.m.

The Switch Reading, Art, and Music Series is happy to announce the successful result of our Kickstarter fundraising campaign! Thanks to generous donations from members of the community, the poet Hoa Nguyen of Austin, Texas, will be reading with local poet Jesse Morse on May 14 at 6:30 p.m. 

Nguyen was born in the Mekong Delta, raised in the DC area, and studied poetics in San Francisco. With poet Dale Smith, she edits the journal and book imprint Skanky Possum. She is the author of eight books and chapbooks including Chinaberry (Fact Simile, 2010), Kiss A Bomb Tattoo (Effing, 2009) and Hecate Lochia (Hot Whiskey, 2009). She currently lives in Austin, where she curates a reading series and teaches creative writing.

Jesse Morse lives in Portland, Oregon. His work has recently appeared in Past Simple, Slack Lust and Unheimliche. He'll have two chapbooks out this year: Rotations (C_L Press) andparagraphs for dolphins (Thuggery & Grace). He runs the Smorg reading series. He plays guitar and sings in The Whirlies. He spends a lot of time outside with his dog Hank.

Readings in New York and Northampton in March

I'm reading, with Anne Gorrick, Lynn Behrendt and Jennifer Barrlett in NY and MA in March

Anne Gorrick, Maryrose Larkin, Jennifer Bartlett Cadmium Text Series
Saturday March 12 2011, 2pm
R&F Paints, 84 Ten Broeck Avenue, Kingston, NY.
http://cadmiumtextseries.blogspot.com/

Anne Gorrick, Maryrose Larkin,  Jennifer Bartlett
Friday March 18 2011, 7pm
Mulitfarious Array at Pete's Candy Store, 709 Lorimer Street, Brooklyn, NY.
http://multifariousarray.blogspot.com/
Facebook Event Page

Shearsman Books' 30th Anniversary Reading
Saturday March 19, 2011, 6 pm
Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery, NYC
Facebook Event Page

Maryrose Larkin and Anne Gorrick
Wednesday, March 23, 2011, 7:30pm
Green Street Cafe
64 Green Street, Northhampton, MA

Maryrose Larkin and Anne Gorrick
Thursday, March 24th 2011. 1:00pm
Poets at Pace: Pace University, Pleasantville (Choate House Gallery)
Facebook Event Page

Maryrose Larkin, Lynn Behrendt, Anne Gorrick
Friday, March 25, 2011, 7pm
Yes! Reading Series, Social Justice Center, 33 Central Avenue, Albany, NY.
http://yesreading.wordpress.com

Marrowing

From Airfoil

Maryrose Larkin and Cedar Sigo at Spare Room, February 6th

Spare Room presents

Maryrose Larkin

Cedar Sigo

Sunday, February 6

7:30 pm

Open Space

2815 SE Holgate Blvd.

(503)233-6736

$5 suggested donation 

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.

Cedar Sigo is 32 years old. His books include Goodnight Nurse, Selected Writings, Portraits, Expensive Magic, Slivers, and most recently Stranger In Town. He has blogged for SF MOMA and The Poetry Foundation. He lives in San Francisco.

www.flim.com/spareroom

spareroom@flim.com

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Upcoming Readings

2/12: Memorial reading & celebration for Leslie Scalapino (sponsored by Reed College and Spare Room)

3/13: Canarium Books: Robert Fernandez, Ish Klein, Joshua Edwards & TBA

3/27: Barbara Henning and Will Owen

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from MARROWING

Broken how                                                

and I cant

grey blinked

and mixed into                       

then less than against

her crossing ladder  alone              

the sentence swimming           

until the concrete cracked

joy contained wilder

a self-eyed wave

reading as reading

greater than

spinning or standing

less than cell

spun framed and found

Maryrose Larkin

LONDON, LONDON

Light turned up on the green wall, I was

careful when shaving letting the hairs grow out

till late afternoon. I have done some drinking for sport

nothing that’s crippling. Off nights I enjoy a light

solution cognac before bed. The balance of pressure

must be taken up by the skull, every seat filled

in my (too small) theater. Cloth chosen & hung on nails.

Carriage Entrance. The diamonds as I drew them had great

cross-hatching lines both front & back of the range.

I saw a lone flower & wanted some stray & bloody stripe

mass produced, per request. A simple cut back garden,

split a pot of tea & further my fortune. I could just not

give up all the inanimate, innumerable obsessions. Nor keep on

with the same sorts of poems. Get me my radio

I want to listen to some professional music.

Cedar Sigo

Spare Room Presents: The Maximus Poems

The Maximus Poems

A Marathon Reading

January 14-16, 2011

Joining the celebrations of poet Charles Olson's centennial that have taken place around the country over the past year, Spare Room has organized a three-day/three-location marathon reading of Olson's book-length epic, The Maximus Poems.

Locations, times, and readers are listed below. (Readers are listed in scheduled order, which is subject to change.)

For a compendium of Olson resources, including links to recordings, interviews, essays, and other documents, see the Olson pages at SUNY Buffalo's Electronic Poetry Center and the Poetry Foundation.


Friday, January 14, 4:00 - 9:00 pm
Switchyard Studios    109 E Salmon Street
Jacqueline Motzer, Jesse Morse, Zachary Schomburg, Jennifer Bartlett, Dan Raphael, Laura Feldman, Michael Weaver, David Abel
Saturday, January 15, 2:00 - 7:00 pm
galleryHOMELAND    2505 SE 11th Avenue
Alicia Cohen, Sam Lohmann, David Weinberg, Jaye Harris, Donald Dunbar, John Hall, Susan Rankin, Dan Raphael, Rodney Koeneke, Endi Hartigan

Sunday, January 16, 2:00 - 7:00 pm
YU    800 SE 10th Avenue
Lisa Radon, Linda Austin, Tim DuRoche, Patrick Hartigan, Meredith Blankinship, Joseph Mainz,
Jamalieh Haley, Christopher Luna, Castle, Paul Maziar, Drew Swenhaugen, James Yeary

The Name of this Intersection is Frost

Now from SPD

The Name of this Intersection is Frost

Now Available from Amazon

The Name of this Intersection is Frost

Anne Gorrick's I Formation Book I

My oldest friend and true coeval Anne Gorrick's I Formation (Book I) is out from Shearsman..

Anne, thank you for writing such a beautiful book.

CANCELLED: I'm reading with Sarah Giragosian and Jennifer Karmin in Albany!

I have a family crisis, and am unable to poet at this time....I'm so disappointed, but hope that you'll still go to the Albany reading.

marrowing at Peep/Show

marrowing

is up at Peep/Show

If there are any readers of this blog

they will notice that marrowing

is a radical rewriting of the

blogging bach pieces

marrowing is my next book, I think.

House Reading at Sam's!

	Sunday · 4:00pm - 8:30pm, July 24
	Sam and Michaela's house 4025 SE Taylor St. Portland, OR
	JENNIFER BARTLETT SUSAN LANDERS and MARYROSE LARKIN Sunday, July 25th 4:00 pm There will be snacks and drinks. Jennifer Bartlett is the author of Derivative of the Moving Image (University of New Mexico Press). She lives in Brooklyn. Susan Landers is the author of 248 mgs., a panic picnic and Covers, both from O Books. She was a co-editor of the journal Pom2. Maryrose Larkin is the author of The Book of Ocean (i.e. Press) and The Name of This Intersection Is Frost (forthcoming from Shearsman Books).

Portland Polyvocal Poetry July 18th!

Portland Polyvocal Poetry

Sunday, July 18th
2:00-4:00 pm

Ladd Circle
(SE 16th & Harrison, between Hawthorne & Division)

FREE

Performers, poets, and friends will gather to test the capability of the poem as conversation.

Many of the poems performed on Sunday will be from years past, and by poets no longer with us; others contemporary and presented by their authors. All will be performed by multiple voices, some by speaking or singing chorus, and several will include the opportunity for audience creativity and participation.

Please bring your own refreshments and accommodations for seating (towels or folding chairs).

Compositions by

David Abel
Kathy Acker
Endi Bogue Hartigan
Crg Hill
Bethany Ides
Jackson Mac Low
Jesse Morse
Jacqueline Motzer
Charles Olson
mARK oWEns
Chris Piuma
Leslie Scalapino
Nico Vassilakis
Karl Young


arranged and performed by

David Abel
Alicia Cohen
Tina Frost
Endi Bogue Hartigan
Crg Hill
Lindsay Hill
Bethany Ides
Maryrose Larkin
Devin Lucid
Jesse Morse
Jacqueline Motzer
Morgan A. Ritter
Standard Schaefer
Michael Weaver
David Weinberg
James Yeary
You

I'm reading with Beverly Dahlen on Saturday in Tucson

I'm reading with one of my heros, for one of my heroes...please come

BEVERLY DAHLEN & MARYROSE LARKIN
A POETRY READING presented by Chax Press

at The Drawing Studio
33 S 6th Ave, Tucson (on 6th Ave downtown, between Broadway & Congress)
7pm Saturday, May 22, 2010
FREE ADMISSION ( a donation will be requested )
Selected books available for purchase
Refreshment provided
Question & Answer Session following the reading
Call 520-620-1626 for more information

Chax Press events are funded in part by the Tucson Pima Arts Council and by the Arizona Commission on the Arts, with funding from the State of Arizona and the National Endowment for the Arts. This event is also supported by Poets & Writers, Inc.

BEVERLY DAHLEN was born in Portland in November, 1934, attended public schools there, and after the end of World War II, moved with her family to Eureka, California. In 1956, she resettled in San Francisco. Her first collection of poetry, Out of the Third, was published by Momo's Press in 1974. Two chapbooks, A Letter at Easter (Effie's Press) and The Egyptian Poems (Hipparchia Press) were followed in 1985 by the publication of A Reading 1-7 (Momo's Press). Since then, three more volumes of A Reading have appeared (including A Reading 8-10 from Chax Press), as well as the chapbook A-reading Spicer & Eighteen Sonnets (Chax Press). Her essay "Beauty: Another Reading" recently appeared in Crayon 5. Ms. Dahlen was a cofounder, with Kathleen Fraser and Frances Jaffer, of the influential avant feminist poetics newsletter (HOW)ever ; in December of 2008 her work was honored by Small Press Traffic with their annual Lifetime Achievement Award.

Beverly Dahlen is one of the major reasons I have been a poet, one of the great pleasures I have as a reader, one of the lights that keeps me going as a publisher and human being. Her investigation is into the relation of language and language creation to being human. She is funny, political, deeply psychological. She explores the vast nothingness that exists in the universe, the unending dimensions of time and space. She makes me laugh and cry, she makes me think about what it is to think, what it is to be. She challenges me, and she rewards that challenge immensely. Her readings are an invitation to truly exist, i.e. to be there, listening and thinking, with all that one has to give. That is what she does, and that is what she allows us to do.


MARYROSE LARKIN lives in Portland, Oregon, where she works as a freelance 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) and DARC (FLASH+CARD, 2009). Larkin 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. Her new book, The Name of This Intersection is Frost, is forthcoming from Shearsman Books.

bitter imago

Puncture: red candy apple subcutaneous bitter or amber side faltering ember flawed

Icarus: is a word she can’t remember stirring green to yellow the profound push to red fingertips outlined against the eyelids.

drops dead over and over again
and winds up staring through limbs alive at blue

Imago Bitter: The main character is a self hating continent.


The Main Character: during afternoon so flawed. The afterimage of being alive.

Icarus: To cover the eyes and stutter into the future.

Imago Bitter: The main character is bathed in burnished knowing forward head first down in ruins and numb.
She falters and her hands surround the head

New Ember: sorrow to forward head first. She hears crows thinks Icarus


Imago Bitter: blue ladder back chair, and its reflection in panic and utter panic
Feckless admission in her throat a specter rise and sets

The Main Character writes

Dear new ember,

Heaven to hollow out fall.

So few words at 2:34. I am a real added to an imaginary where the imaginary is not zero. Ember stay warm, during this winter where we move towards and away the afternoon has filtered out roof lines and
tile lights and a life I can’t imagine and can’t recant.

Take Care,

The Main Character

LARKIN, HILL AND COLEMAN AT 3 Friends

I'll be performing DARC a neo-benshi for voice and language master at this reading....please come if you'd like!

Larkin, Hill and Coleman at 3 Friends Coffee House Monday, February 22nd (part of the caffeinated art series)

SE 12th and Ash
Portland, OR
7pm

Maryrose Larkin lives in Portland, where she works as a freelance 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, Forthcoming). 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.

Jen Coleman is a Portland poet transplanted from Minnesota by way of Wisconsin, DC and then New York. She’s the author of the chapbook Propinquity, and her work has appeared in many excellent journals including Chain, Ixnay and Tangent. She has co-edited the former literary journal Pom-Pom and co-hosted the In Your Ear reading series in DC.

Lindsay Hill was born in San Francisco and is a graduate of Bard College. His published books include Avelaval (Oyez, Berkeley), Archaeology (St. Luke’s, Memphis), Kill Series (Arundel Press, Los Angeles) NdjenFerno (Vatic Hum, San Francisco) and Contango (Singing Horse Press, San Diego). Lindsay lives in Portland, OR with his wife, the painter Nita Hill, and their two children, Ian and Helena.

Coolidge's Crystal Text Marathon Reading Saturday

Spare Room presents

The Crystal Text

a marathon reading

Saturday, December 19
12:00 pm - finish (5:00ish)


The Waypost Cafe
3120 N. Williams
503-367-3182

www.thewaypost.com

Free admission

(Audience welcome to come and go)

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The work of heaven or hell: to somehow
become aware of a howling in the motors.
-- (Clark Coolidge, The Crystal Text, 54)

As the solstice approaches, come in out of the wind and join us to listen to Clark Coolidge's compelling booklength poem The Crystal Text, read aloud by a dozen local writers.

Readers will include James Yeary, Jesse Morse, Sam Lohmann, Maryrose Larkin, Rodney Koeneke, Patrick Hartigan, Jen Coleman, Allison Cobb, Joseph Bradshaw, Meredith Blankinship, & David Abel.

"A colorless quartz crystal sits upon the writer's desk, still and irreducible as a death's head in St. Jerome's study or Cezanne's studio. But what would the crystal reveal, if it could speak? How might the issue of its presence be brought into language? The poet of The Crystal Text, by means of a rare stamina of attention and listening vulnerability, seeks to become the medium of the crystal's transmissions."


I began to rise but I could not leave.
Beginning to see, one leaves the world. Taking it
up again and again until the sheets are dark.
An inlet of the sea sharded with sails. The sun
coming up over a blinking multitude, specialty humans
provided for this purpose alone. I am the one who
stays up to see that they do not leave.
Cardboard hinterlands of the drained liquid trace.
Grey distances of chimney and low neighborhood.
Wet snap. (85)


As luck would have it the sun was charring
the fiberglass tufts in the yard even from such a great distance.
A granite shithouse exploded in a cloud of bee odor.
The very earth was tacked to my wall, a ball of
limpid snails. Glass, blown firm, and then the
waterfall in the photograph it reminds me of.
Prose does not care about sharps and flats. It
continues to accumulate in the straightest of language
keys. I put back on my cap, it says. I lost my things
in the race for the car, it says. I am
not interested in the language of my past (my trail),
it says. It says these things and then loses
my interest. Two blanks, curling in the same sun. (87)


Awakened by a bang
or sudden rent of room
a collision of the thinking with
where the thought is not
or negative moon spot
or release of the chimney from
behind the pie tin, night
and left partial, face erased
prepositions for furniture (115)

If anyone is interested in other Spare Room (PDX) events and would like to join our mailing list, please contact me.

Little Red Leaves 4

I have the last of the Late Winter 30 in Little Red Leaves 4 and I'm in great company, including my co-editor Sarah Mangold. Please go read!

D A R C Now Available

Edition of 50, FLASH+CARD Language Master Card Chapbook $15

Not always great things, or even good things, but new things.

Whatever code we hack, be it programming language, poetic language, math or music, curves or colourings, we create the possibility of new things entering the world. Not always great things, or even good things, but new things.


From A HACKER MANIFESTO by MCKENZIE WARK

The name of this intersection is frost

Shearsman Books will be publishing my manuscript containing Inverse and the Late Winter 30 in Spring 2010.

Spare Room Presents Anne Gorrick and Deborah Woodward

June 14, 2009

Anne Gorrick & Deborah Woodard

Sunday, June 14
7:30 pm

Concordia Coffee House
2909 NE Alberta

$5.00 suggested donation


Anne Gorrick's first book, Kyotologic, was published in 2008 by Shearsman Books. Collaborating with artist Cynthia Winika, she produced a limited edition artist's book, "Swans, the ice," she said, with grants through the Women's Studio Workshop in Rosendale, NY, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. She also curates the reading series Cadmium Text, which focuses on innovative writing in and around the Hudson Valley.

Deborah Woodard has published three chapbooks of poetry, The Orphan Conducts the Dovehouse Orchestra (Bear Star Press), The Book of Riddles (Boxcar Press), and Hunter Mnemonics (hemel press). Her first full-length collection, Plato's Bad Horse, was published by Bear Star in 2006. The Dragonfly, her translation (with Giuseppe Leporace) of the poetry of Amelia Rosselli, was just published by Chelsea Editions. She teaches at the Richard Hugo House, a community literary center in Seattle.


In March:
not Celadon or Rain

for the Levins


In the alm mill

vellum advances

rhinestone revise

harm

in the method-cell, a meal
bella, mine

Ravel's methanol remarks

pieces of rice

Ella dressed in rice-lace

marc, ave, vin

marsh to vine

through the name mill
and out its sleeve


Anne Gorrick



from Hunter Mnemonics

1

When I was little, I didn't understand why wax paper rustling in some corner
made me fix upon the town like a glint of water or the muffled barking of a dog.
It was quiet here, a silence blunt and practical that tied its laces. And Al's
was no name but a joke the trapper painted across the cover of the well.
I found tin cans and a pair of antlers that almost brought back the tang of your shot,
the monotony of its tuft of smoke. When we got in the clear, we'd reach the cabin.
I imagined red plaid beckoning us forward, milkweed's limbs akimbo.
But I didn't understand why Jerusalem was just a few miles up the road,
or why the town was weaker than its well. So I drew down a flap of the grey sky.
Behind barred windows hunters rested quietly, made for themselves
a different stillness: the woods could never close over these few. I strained
my likeness from them — peeling wax paper from a corner pocked with leave —
the way I strained to protect Jerusalem as I thought through the town.
When I was little, I didn't understand and stood like the cabin unlaced and cold.
A sheet of wax paper rustled inside the cover of the well. I tied my laces.

Deborah Woodard

Interview and video of Les Figues Blog

Hi---

Laynie Brown interviewed me for the Les Figues Blog here It isn't the most flattering video, ALAS. But it was interesting and fun to do.

Reading at Antigone Books!

OTHER VOICES WOMEN'S READING SERIES

Friday, May 8, 2009, 7 p.m.

Antigone Book store, 411 North 4th Avenue, 792-3715 or lizaporter@aol.com, 891-9707
Featured readers: Maryrose Larkin and Arpine Konyalian Grenier

Open microphone.

Maryrose Larkin lives in Portland, where she works as a freelance researcher. She is the author of Inverse (nine muses books), Whimsy Daybook 2007 (FLASH+CARD), and The Book of Ocean (i.e. press). Maryrose is one of the organizers of Spare Room, and is co-editor, with Sarah Mangold, of FLASH+CARD, a chapbook and ephemera poetry press. She is currently working on a manuscript called Frost Broken Up, and a neo-benshi based on Dreyer's The Passion of Joan of Arc.

 Arpine Konyalian Grenier’s work has been described as a mosaic of narrative that takes
 us out of our provincial concentration on American life to encompass broader social and
geopolitical issues with a decidedly urban and postmodern sensibility. Arpine is a former scientist,
 musician and financial analyst. Her work and translations have appeared in numerous publications
 including several anthologies. Recently, she was guest editor for the poetry journal, Big Bridge, and
in May she’ll be reading from her poetry as well as presenting a paper titled, Heritage Like Money Then:
Exaptation at the Margins (Where the Word Meets Itself) at Sabanci University's Dink Memorial
Conference in Istanbul, Turkey. The recipient of a Pima Arts Council Award, and author of three collections
of poetry, Arpine lives in Tucson, Arizona.

Reading in DC and In New York

Hello Friends, please pass on to anyone who might be interested.

New York--Sunday, March 15, 6:30 PM
Maryrose Larkin/James Belflower/Natalie Knight
@ Zinc Bar, 82 West 3rd Street (btw Thompson & Sullivan)

Washington DC--Sunday, March 22, 7:00 pm
Mark Cunningham, Anne Gorrick, and Maryrose Larkin
@ Bridge Street Books, next to the Four Seasons in Georgetown, at the
end of M street

Hope to see you there.

a poetics?

30 30s

I finally have 30 late winter 30s. I'm sure 10 of them aren't very good, but still 30 30s!

Spare Room 100!

Spare Room's 100th Reading

The Spare Room reading series celebrates seven years of presenting experimental writing in Portland with a marathon hundredth reading

Spare Room organizers past and present (with friends) will read

100 Poems by 100 Poets from the Past 100 Years


Sunday, January 25

starting at 2:00 pm
ending when we finish (6:00? 7:00?)

Free admission

Gallery Homeland
(at the Ford Building)

2505 SE 11th Avenue
www.galleryhomeland.org

www.flim.com/spareroom

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> From Helen Adam to Louis Zukofsky, from Futurism to Personism, from Hiroshima to Blackhawk Island, from a Polish count to a Peruvian communist, from Dada to MoMA, from prisoners of war to secret agents, from mimeographers to bloggers . . . come hear a small but representative slice of the extraordinary range of poetries practiced in the past century!

Readers will include:

David Abel
Meredith Blankinship
Joseph Bradshaw
Alicia Cohen
Gale Czerski
Laura Feldman
Patrick Hartigan
Lindsay Hill
Rodney Koeneke
Maryrose Larkin
Sam Lohmann
Jesse Morse
Mark Owens & crew*
Chris Piuma
Dan Raphael
James Yeary

* sound poetry performers:
Leo & Anna Daedalus
Tony Christy
Linda Austin
Lisa Radon with
Neville, Molly, & Oskar

and more . . .


Reading poems by:

Helen Adam
Charles Amirkhanian
Guillaume Apollinaire
Hugo Ball
Ted Berrigan
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
Robin Blaser
Nicole Brossard
Basil Bunting
Anne Carson
Constantine Cavafy
Joseph Ceravolo
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
Inger Christiansen
Robert Creeley
Beverly Dahlen
Robert Desnos
H.D.
Francois Dufrene
Robert Duncan
Russell Edson
Jennifer Crystal Fang-Chien
Kevin Goodan
Linda Gregg
Bill Griffiths
Barbara Guest
Carla Harryman
Dick Higgins
Ake Hodell
Fanny Howe
Susan Howe
Philip Jenks
Karen Kelley
Aleksei Kruchenyk
Gerrit Lansing
Jackson Mac Low
Bernadette Mayer
Marianne Moore
Christian Morgenstern
Harryette Mullen
Susan Smith Nash
bp nichol
Lorine Niedecker
Alice Notley
Frank O'Hara
George Oppen
Michael Palmer
Bob Perelman
Dennis Phillips
Laura Riding
Joan Retallack
Gerhard Rühm
Diana Saenz
Frank Samperi
Aram Saroyan
Kurt Schwitters
David Shapiro
Charles Sharpe
Ron Silliman
Gustaf Sobin
Jack Spicer
Gertrude Stein
Wallace Stevens
Rhett Stuart
Cole Swenson
John Taggart
Nathaniel Tarn
Alberta Turner
César Vallejo
Lew Welch
Hannah Weiner
Jonathan Williams
William Carlos Williams
C.D. Wright
Araki Yasusada
Louis Zukofsky

and many more!

Quit Job

1. Quit Job
2. Write Poetry
3. ????
4. Profit!

Endi's a really terrific poet! You should come

Endi Bogue Hartigan & Maryrose Larkin

Sunday, January 11
7:30 pm

Concordia Coffee House
2909 NE Alberta

$5.00 suggested donation


Endi Bogue Hartigan will be reading from her first book, One Sun Storm, and from a new manuscript. One Sun Storm was selected for the 2008 Colorado Prize for Poetry by Martha Ronk, and was released in November from the Center for Literary Publishing. Her work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Chicago Review, Free Verse, TinFish, Gulf Coast, Pleiades, and Quarterly West. Endi edited and cofounded, with her husband poet Patrick Hartigan, Spectaculum, a magazine that was devoted to long poems, series, and projects best presented at length. She lives in Portland, with Patrick and their son Jackson.


Maryrose Larkin lives in Portland, where she works as a freelance researcher. She is the author of Inverse (nine muses books), Whimsy Daybook 2007 (FLASH+CARD), and The Book of Ocean (i.e. press). Her work can also be found in FO A RM, Insurance, Bird Dog, Columbia Poetry Review, and Washington Review. Maryrose is one of the organizers of Spare Room, and is coeditor, with Sarah Mangold, of FLASH+CARD, a chapbook and ephemera poetry press.



Chorus of blue [Crater Lake, 2007]

The question of change
is a question of what we can afford to continue.
A series of snapping points or rips.
The lake is a question
of what the mountain can take or not.
The chorus afforded blue but barely.
The chorus of blue sang out of thin voices in oxygen-thin air.
The blue vibrated electrons in water and absorbed
what was not turned back.
We turned our backs on the war.
The chorus of blue tilted our eyes, and filterering, taught us to filter,
but out what?
The chorus of blue held itself up, a mirror of itself, fanatic and fantastic.
Abstract blue--a new coin--took the center
through, through.
We turned our backs on the lake.
A series of snapping points or rips.
The chorus filtered out disturbance, filtered out detail and violence
and observance.
Tilt, shine, tilt. . . .
what did we shed again, and why?
A little girl went back sobbing
who had to leave the clearest sky.

Endi Bogue Hartigan



from Inverse

Roots open rise and run

his face compare to string notation

logic
required and where

but this cannot and without it
box step the sun and box step the moon

Maryrose Larkin

Reading

Since I'm not writing, I'm reading (or re reading)

The Red Gaze--Barbara Guest
Imitation Poems--Patrick Durgin
on melody dispatch--Corrine Fitzpatrick
Daddy Clean Head--Christine Stewart
Kyotologic--Anne Gorrick

I hope to be writing again soon.

New York Next Week

Hello I'm reading two places in New York next week

First

18th Annual Subterranean Poetry Reading

Saturday, October 4, 2008 at 2pm

with: JJ Blickstein, Steve Cotten, Teresa Genovese, Steve Hirsch, Geof Huth, Maryrose Larkin, Susan McKechnie, Wayne Montecalvo, George Quasha, Alana Siegel, Lorna Smedman, Charles Stein, Carl Welden, and R. Dionysius Whiteurs

The Widow Jane Mine
Century House Historical Society
Route 213
Rosendale, NY 12472

A $5 donation is suggested to benefit Century House

For directions, visit the Century House website at: http://centuryhouse.org/


And

A house reading in Manhattan, and you can email me at maryrose_at_gmail.com for details.

Barnes and Noble Reading

Barnes & Noble Reading Series is delighted to present poets Dale Favier, Dan Raphael, and Maryrose Larkin.

When: September 17, 7:00 p.m.

Where:

Barnes & Noble

1317 Lloyd Center // Gift section

Portland, OR 97232

503-249-0800

Hosted by: Tom Mattox

Dale Favier has taught poetry, chopped vegetables, and written software for a living. Currently he works half-time as a massage therapist and half-time as a database administrator for a non-profit. He is a Buddhist, in the Tibetan tradition; he lives with his wife and two nearly grown children in Portland, Oregon. He never wrote much poetry until he began blogging a few years ago, at Mole – http://koshtra.blogspot.com – and fell in with bad companions, with whom he eventually brought out an anthology, Brilliant Coroners. He has an M.Phil. in Medieval English Literature from Yale, and his most recent work has been translations of Old English alliterative verse.

Dan Raphael: All that matters about dan raphael is the poetry, which he performs in places like Wordstock, Bumbershoot, Burning Word, Mountain Writers, Portland Jazz Festival and KBOO. His most recent books are Breath Test and Showing Light a Good Time; he's currently working on his new manuscript City Rain Coincidence. Current poems appear in Stringtown, Otoliths, Knock Journal, Skidrow Penthouse and Refined Savage.

Maryrose Larkin lives in Portland, Oregon, where she works as a freelance researcher. She is the author of Inverse (nine muses books), Whimsy Daybook 2007 FLASH+CARD), and The Book of Ocean (i.e. press). Maryrose is part of Spare Room, a group of people who organize readings and other events in Portland. She is co-editor, with Sarah Mangold, of FLASH+CARD, a chapbook and ephemera poetry press.

Anne Gorrick's Kyotologic

I've been friends with Anne Gorrick for almost 25 years, and I don't think there is anyone who has had more influence on my writing. Her book, Kyotologic, has been published by Shearsman and available through SPD

Judy Roitman's No Face and Catherine Daly's Vauxhall

I'm very much not thinking about blogging, poetry or poetics right now but I wanted to share that my dear friend and compatriot Judy Roitman's No Face is available from SPD. I've seen most of the book in manuscript and it is wonderful.

AND, Catherine Daly's Vauxhall just came out from Shearsman!



Buy these books. I dare you.

Department of Monday

Department of Monday

The New Talkies

Hello--

If anyone is still reading, I'm in the NEW TALKIES neo benshi extravaganza on Saturday. Please come

Insane

As a personal aside, my new job is keeping me very busy, and I hope to return to blogging bach in March.

Meanwhile, read this interesting essay about a recent poetry event in Portland by my friend Chris here

notes on blogging bach

I've started a new job and I'm very tired, so blogging bach will be erratic.

Part of the problem of free writing, or writing through something is that what appears on the blog is fodder for what comes later, but mostly it feels like the work I would write if I were a lazy poet. Or a poet without interests.

I wanted to see what would happen to writing through when it was observed.

Some commitments this year

1. Finish the Late Winter 30s
2. Publish more other people's chapbooks.
3. Blogging Bach (January/February)
4. Neo-Benshi project. I was thinking of using Joan of Arc, but now I'm thinking of using Lain: Serial Experiments. And the language master.

Thanks Jennifer

Saint Elizabeth Street

A million thank yous

Book of Ocean at Amazon

The Book of Ocean is finally available at Amazon here

A really wonderful Book of Ocean Review

From Mark Wallace

I'm really pleased about his attention to the coherence edge. One of my major concerns is how far can you push words, a line, or an idea and have both cohere and teeter into incoherence.

Goings on in Portland

I'm thrilled to see so many readings to go to, especially ones I don't have a hand in organizing. It looks like an exciting October

Spare Room Readings

Michael Kelleher,Katherine Fraser, September 30th

Patrick Durgin, Jen Hofer, Dolores Dorantes, & Jesse Seldess, October 19th

Tangent Occasional Reading Series Curators Jules Boykoff, Rodney Koeneke, Kaia Sand

Jim Dine, Vincent Katz & Diana Michener, October 13th, Clinton Street Cafe

Sarah Anne Cox, Dana Teen Lomax October 20th The Press Club, 2621 SE Clinton Street

Loggernaut Reading Series

Diana Abu-Jaber, Rebecca Brown, and Ehud Havazelet, October 10^th

And Chris Piuma will be reading in Dan Raphael’s I Love Mondays Series October 9

If you know of anything else, let me know, and I'll add!

Reading at Cushing Street Poetry, Tucson

CUSHING STREET POETRY

a reading by

ARPINE GRENIER
&
MARYROSE LARKIN
&
MARK SALERNO


8:00 pm, Thursday, September 6th, 2007

at Cushing Street Bar & Restaurant, on the patio
198 W. Cushing Street
in Tucson, Arizona

just south of Tucson Convention Center
1 block east of Main Street

admission is FREE

The Cushing Street Poetry Series is sponsored by Chax Press, POG, & Cushing Street Bar & Restaurant.

POG & CHAX PRESS events are sponsored in part by grants from the Tucson/Pima Arts Council, the Arizona Commission on the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Please call Chax Press at 520-620-1626, or email chax@theriver. com, for more information. Do not inquire until June 19, please.

****

Arpine Konyalian Grenier holds graduate degrees from the American University of Beirut and the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College, New York. Her work has appeared in How2, Columbia Poetry Review, Sulfur, The Iowa Review, Phoebe, Fence, Verse, Big Bridge and elsewhere, including several anthologies. She has repeatedly been chosen as finalist for the National Poetry Series and the Greg Grummer Award Competitions, has authored two volumes of poetry, and a chapbook is forthcoming from NeOpp Pepper Press.


Maryrose Larkin lives in Portland, Oregon, where she works as a freelance researcher. She is the author of Inverse (nine muses books),
Whimsy Daybook 2007 (FLASH+CARD), and The Book of Ocean (i.e. press). Maryrose is part of Spare Room, a group of people who organize readings and other events in Portland and is co-editor, with Sarah Mangold, of FLASH+CARD, a chapbook and ephemera poetry press. Her blog is at maryroselarkin.blogspot.com


Mark Salerno is the author of Hate (96 Tears Press), Method (The Figures) and So One Could Have (Red Hen Press). Method was a Finalist in the National Poetry Series. From 1993 to 1999, he edited Arshile: A Magazine of the Arts. His work has appeared in numerous magazines, including Chicago Review, Denver Quarterly, Exquisite Corpse, First Intensity and Talisman. He is the recipient of a Fund for Poetry award. His most recent book is Odalisque (SALT 2007), about which Michael Davidson has written,

"Salerno’s tightly wrought poems probe the interstices between seeming and being, between Hollywood and the stars, between 'desire and attendant clamor.' If Ingres had placed his Odalisque on the Sunset Strip, she might be looking at us through these poems. This is a completely original work by a serious, important poet."

Another very nice review

HERE

Reading In Albany, CA

Evelyn Avenue Reading Series

08/26: Craig Perez and Maryrose Larkin

Sunday, beginning at 2pm

632 Evelyn Ave., Albany, CA 94706

Craig Perez is the co-founder of Achiote Press and the author of several chapbooks, essays, reviews and translations.

Maryrose Larkin, from Portland, Oregon, is co-editor of FLASH+CARD, a chapbook press, and one of the organizers of Spare Room, a Portland reading series.


The house is light gray with wisteria covering the front porch. Walk down the driveway on the left side of the house to the backyard gate (which will be on your right). Bring a jacket or sweater, as two large redwood trees in the yard can block the afternoon sun.

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BART directions:
Take the Richmond-Fremont line to the El Cerrito Plaza station (the first station after North Berkeley). Exit and walk south, back towards Berkeley. You can walk back through the El Cerrito Plaza, or you can follow the BART tracks (there's a path under the tracks). Evelyn Ave is parallel to and one block below the train tracks. From the far south end of the shopping center walk two and a half blocks to the 600 block of Evelyn, between Garfield and Portland.

Reviews and New Work

A very good review from Artvoice here
A less good review from Cold Front Mag.

---edited to add--a rebuttal of the Cold Front review by co-roomie Chris Piuma here


New work from the Late Winter 30 project at St. Elizabeth Street--There are 19 Late Winter 30s completed. I'm very happy to have work in the same magazine as my old friend Carolyn Guinzio

First Book Interview

I'm interviewed as part of Kate Greenstreet's first book interview series here

Annandale Dream Gazette

What if the dream is something else as well? Not individual, not a message from God or from the archetypes or from the soul. We hear Freudians speak of the language of dream, but what if dream is language, is language the way language is language: systematic, intentional, focused on saying something. What if dream is above all, exactly as language is, social. This is the aspect of the dream that is seldom considered, dream as arising from the speaking back into a community, a community of native dreamers (so to say).--ROBERT KELLY

Annandale Dream Gazette

Roberta Olson's Some Numerous Dwarf Rippings

FLASH+CARD, 2007
7 X 7.5
Edition of around 80

FLASH+CARD is proud to announce the publication of Robert Olson's new chapbook, Some Numerous Dwarf Rippings

Roberta Olson is the author of the chapbook All These Fair and Flagrant Things, published by etherdome press in Oakland, CA. Her poetry has also appeared in numerous publications including Talisman, Untitled, Facture, Bird Dog and Monkey Puzzle. Her work has been anthologized in Cross Cut Anthology and Steaming Light, a Raven Chronicles supplementary issue. She lives with her husband, poet John Olson, in Seattle.

This book was a delight to publish. Thanks Roberta!

Two Readings Next Week

I'm reading in Seattle and Portland next week


Thursday June 14th,, 7:30

Donna Stonecipher
Maryrose Larkin

Open Books

Sunday June 17th, 7:30

Catherine Daly
Donna Stonecipher
Maryrose Larkin


New American Art Union
922 SE Ankeny
Portland, OR
www.newamericanartunion.com

Free admission
www.flim.com/spareroom

The Book of Ocean

Announcing The Book of Ocean
Officially Available May 1st.

From i.e. Press
Maryrose Larkin
Order with Paypal

KATE GREENSTREET'S IN PARADISE THERE IS NO ART

In Paradise there is no art.
FLASH+CARD, 2007

Images and Words by Kate Greenstreet
12 note cards and envelopes in a kraft box
4.25. X 6
Edition of 100

SOLD OUT

F L A S H + C A R D Revival

Kate Greenstreet, 2007, FLASH+CARD



F L A S H + C A R D has revived as a chapbook/ephemera press, as opposed to its previous incarnation as the world's worst letterpress press. Sarah Mangold of Bird Dog is my c0-editor on this project

2007 Projects Include:

Invocation, by Gale Czerski, available mid-March 2007
A set of 12 note cards by Kate Greenstreet, available mid March 2007

And we plan on doing Sarah's Cupcake Royale chapbook.

All F L A S H + C A R D publications will be available here.

Call for Submissions 31 words NOW WITH A 31 PARTY

I'm charmed by this idea.

Crane's Bill Books seeks writing on any subject and in any style for a very spare anthology. Must be (1) prose, (2) untitled, and (3) exactly thirty-one words. Multiple submissions okay.

THIRTY-ONE will be published in 2007 as a small, inexpensive, desktop artist's book. Payment will be in copies. Feel free to forward this announcement to anyone you think might be interested.

Email submissions to

cranesbill@cybermesa.com
www.torriblezone.com/cp2.html

I like this idea so much that I think we should have a 31 PARTY:

A 31 Party!

WHERE: Tiny's Coffee
2031 NE MLK Blvd Portland Oregon 97212

WHEN: January 31st! writing will start at 7:31 and continue for 31 minutes.

WHAT: Writing on any subject and in any style for a very spare anthology. Must be (1) prose, (2) untitled, and (3) exactly thirty-one words.

IF YOU ARE NOT GEOGRAPHICALLY CAPABLE OF THIS PLEASE CONSIDER JOINING US IN YOUR JANUARY 31st AT YOUR 7:31 PM.

ANYONE WHO IS INTERESTED PLEASE RSVP TO ME AT MARYROSE at GMAIL.COM!

PLEASE PASS FAR AND WIDE!