I'm so happy to announce that Sam Lohnmann's book is available from the very interesting
Congratulations Sam!
Wednesday, August 10
Sunday, August 7
Poetry on the Piazza: Spare Room
Poetry on the Piazza: Spare Room
Monday, August 8
7:00 pm
Director Park
SW Park between Yamhill and Taylor
Free
Current Spare Room reading series curators James Yeary, Jen Coleman, Sam Lohmann, Maryrose Larkin, Endi Hartigan, and David Abel will read in this installment of the "Poetry on the Piazza" summer series, cosponsored by the Multnomah Arts Center and Director Park.
For more information, visit directorpark.org or call 503-823-8087.
Friday, August 5
15 minute poems away, away
I've radically rewrote the 15 minute poems for my new manuscript The Identification of Ghosts so I'm taking them down.
For those new to the blog, the 15 minute poem project went on during late March and April 2011. I wrote a poem in 15 minutes a day, every day and posted them here. I've gone on to use them as source text. (self as self source text as source text), and written a book length poem where these early drafts were the springboard.
I'm also taking down the blogging bach pieces for the same reason, and they morphed into Marrowing.
For those new to the blog, the 15 minute poem project went on during late March and April 2011. I wrote a poem in 15 minutes a day, every day and posted them here. I've gone on to use them as source text. (self as self source text as source text), and written a book length poem where these early drafts were the springboard.
I'm also taking down the blogging bach pieces for the same reason, and they morphed into Marrowing.
Friday, July 22
I'll Drown My Book coming out August 23rd
I'm grateful to be a part of this wonderful Les Figues project---
The press is running a Kickstarter campaign here There is a terrific video on the Kickstarter page
The press is running a Kickstarter campaign here There is a terrific video on the Kickstarter page
Monday, June 27
Reviewers?
I'm looking for reviewers for The Name of This Intersection is Frost and Marrowing. If you are interested please let me know, and I'll send you out a copy.
Saturday, June 18
6/25: Jennifer Bartlett, margareta waterman and Maryrose Larkiin at Market Day Poetry Series
Jennifer Bartlett, Maryrose Larkin and margareta waterman
June 25th, 2011, Noon, at
St. Johns Booksellers Market Day Poetry Series
8622 N Lombard.
Portland, Ore.
Series curated by Dan Raphael, and hosted by Maryrose Larkin
Jennifer Bartlett was a 2005 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow. Her collections include Derivative of the Moving Image (UNM Press 2007), Anti-Autobiography: A Chapbook Designed by Andrea Baker (Saint Elizabeth Street/Youth-in-Asia Press 2010) and (a) lullaby without any music (Chax 2011).
June 25th, 2011, Noon, at
St. Johns Booksellers Market Day Poetry Series
8622 N Lombard.
Portland, Ore.
Series curated by Dan Raphael, and hosted by Maryrose Larkin
Jennifer Bartlett was a 2005 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow. Her collections include Derivative of the Moving Image (UNM Press 2007), Anti-Autobiography: A Chapbook Designed by Andrea Baker (Saint Elizabeth Street/Youth-in-Asia Press 2010) and (a) lullaby without any music (Chax 2011).
margareta waterman dabbles in all the arts, and mixes them up when she can; her best love, always, is words, and the multiple ways they dance. from this naturally followed creating and producing live theatre, books, recordings, archives and so on, for herself and colleagues. now semi-retired in the oregon woods, she maintains a small presence in portland and seattle.
Maryrose Larkin is the author of several books, the most recent of which is Marrowing (Airfoil, 2011). She 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.
From a retranslation of The Chronicles of the Guayaki Indians
and if this parasitic existence
should go on for too long of a time
he will be left at the foot of a tree
before a fire
there he must wait patiently
for death
the waiting may or may not be long
but an old man is not a strong man
and the process will move quickly
he has turned nature upside down
in his attempt to draw the moon
closer to the sea
he must suffer for his wanderings
it is this suffering that he has created
he is forced to pay for this reversal
4/29/11 No: 1 Interpet 9m 17s
This section is missing citations
an axe fell from the sky
decoding dreamer
assigning cures
from the day’s residue
schools of thought
discuss the process of meaning
ascribe the dream
to part of the human
and part of the animal
Maryrose Larkin
i am not a poet because i write poems
i am a poet because
everything
is grist for the mill
that grinds me into illumination
until only words are left
whether i like it or not
Margareta Waterman
Tuesday, June 14
TRUITT+LARKIN+WOLACH IN VANCOUVER BC TONIGHT!
The Kootenay School of Writing Presents
Sam TRUITT + Maryrose LARKIN + David WOLACH
8pm
Tuesday June 14, 2011
People's Coop Books
1391 Commercial Drive
Vancouver
Vancouver
*****
SAM TRUITT is the author of Vertical Elegies 6: Street Mete, Vertical Elegies: Three Works, Vertical Elegies 5: The Section, The Song of Rasputin, Anamorphosis Eisenhower, and Blazon. Truitt was born in Washington, DC, and raised there and in Tokyo, Japan, and holds degrees from Kenyon College, Brown University and the University at Albany. He currently teaches in the Language and Thinking Workshop at Bard College and is Managing Director of Station Hill Press in the Hudson Valley, where he lives. For more on Truitt, including his AV works, go to www.samtruitt.org
*
1 from Verticle Elegies 5: The Section
my first discovery of nature was through television
on the roughly cemented brick wall out back a block of sunlight
the world began to take its form in and will
task the mind
a scherzo of branches flung crisscrossing into the sky
that is not a human but a mirror
all our lives we have sacrificed to the golden calf
braced with coffee and semen like the heroes of old
where the dirt's been rubbed away
being a ploughperson of thought at the cutting
explosions the wind littered with candy wrappers
the night soft and clear, no wind blows quiet
the cracks which although beautiful are hang-ups
but it would have been so different if only we had wrecked
a few miles downriver
***
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), The Name of this Intersection is Frost (Shearsman Books, 2010), and Marrowing (Airfoil, 2011)
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. She is currently working on "Twenty Questions for Five Masters" a play for Language Master and voice.
*
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
***
DAVID WOLACH is editor of Wheelhouse Magazine & Press and an active participant in Nonsite Collective. Wolach's first full-length collection, Occultations, has just been published by Black Radish Books. Other books include the multi-media transliteration plus chapbook, Prefab Eulogies Volume 1: Nothings Houses (BlazeVox [books], 2010), the full-length Hospitalogy (chapbook of the same title forth. from Scantily Clad Press, 2011), and book alter(ed) (Ungovernable Press, 2009). A former union organizer and performing artist, Wolach's work often begins as site-specific and interactive performance and ends up as shaped, written language. Recent work appears in or is forthcoming from Jacket, Augfabe, P-Queue, Try Magazine, No Tell Motel, and Little Red Leaves. Wolach is professor of text arts, poetics, and aesthetics at The Evergreen State College, co-curating the PRESS Text Arts & Radical Politics Series there, and is visiting professor in Bard College's Workshop In Language & Thinking. Wolach is currently touring with the experimental music-sound text ensemble Performance Research Group, performing Kenneth Gaburo's opus Maledetto, as well as original works.
*
Postoral Poetics of Holiday Inn Express from Hospitalogy
on the lamp that is hanged
dear
cathexis glaze,
eulard was an asshole-
no who am i shouts hang
at your pool's edge we can
joke
about the deep end.
i ordered chicken
wings to flap after midnight,
had to devour a devour-
ing mode, mastication is not
speaking
like you,
in the morning a newspaper
went unread
i must be
from a small town.
among our easily
vacuumed hallway carpets
how they smell
of hair closeup and without
obligation,
i am sure of one thing:
absent destination
beyond icemachine
and those flat
un-answered
paper flowers,
hot spreads
of daily atrocity
in 300 words or less,
our language is a future
misunderstanding
***
Tuesday, June 7
Seattle Reading This Saturday at Hedreen Gallery 5:30
[Poetry w/ Sam Truitt (NYC) and Maryrose Larkin (PDX)]
Saturday, June 11 · 5:30pm - 6:30pm
The Hedreen Gallery
At Seattle University
901 12th Avenue
Seattle, WA 98122
Seattle, WA 98122
A reading organized by David Wolach, originally slated for Pilot Books (r.i.p.)
Sam Truitt was born in Washington, DC, and raised there and in Tokyo, Japan. He is the author of the forthcoming Vertical Elegies 6: Street Mete (Station Hill, 2011) and the previously published Vertical Elegies: Three Works (UDP, 2008), Vertical Elegies 5: The Section (Georgia, 2003) and Anamorphosis Eisenhower (Lost Roads, 1998), among other books. An excerpt of Raton Rex (from Three Works) was selected by Robert Creeley for 2002 Best American Poetry (Scribner), and his work has also been anthologized in A Best of Fence: The First Nine Years (Fence Books, 2009) American Poetry: The Next Generation (Carnegie Mellon, 2000). His writing is in a semi-permanent installation at the Paramount Hotel's Whiskey Bar, designed by Philippe Starck, off Times Square in New York City.
For more Truitt, see ubu.com or samtruitt.org
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), The Name of this Intersection is Frost (Shearsman Books, 2010), and Marrowing (Airfoil, 2011). Maryrose is also 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.
Monday, May 23
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.
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.
Monday, May 9
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.
Thursday, March 3
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
Sunday, February 13
Sunday, January 23
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.
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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
Monday, January 3
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
Monday, October 11
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
Sunday, September 5
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.
Monday, August 16
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.
Saturday, July 31
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.
Thursday, July 22
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). | |
Sunday, July 11
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
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