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.