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The Filipino American Center of the San Francisco Public Library in association with Philippine American Writers and Artists, Inc. presents:

Philippine American Writers and Artists, Inc. Literary Reading with

Randall Mann, Kristin Naca, and Debbie Yee

Saturday July 11, 2009
2:00 -4:30 pm
Latino Hispanic Community Meeting Room B



Randall Mann is the author of two collections of poetry, BREAKFAST WITH THOM GUNN (University of Chicago 2009) and COMPLAINT IN THE GARDEN (Zoo/Orchises 2004), winner of the 2003 Kenyon Review Prize; and co-author of the textbook WRITING POEMS, Seventh Edition (Pearson Longman 2007). He works as an editor and lives in San Francisco.

Kristin Naca's poems have been published in Indiana Review, Prairie Schooner and Octopus Magazine. She recently graduated with a PhD from University of Nebraska, and MFA from Pitt. Her book Bird Eating Bird was selected by Yusef Komunyakaa, for the mtvU National Poetry Series Prize. It will appear with Harper Perennial in September.

Debbie Yee is a trusts and estates attorney and Kundiman fellow. Debbie's poems have appeared or are forthcoming in 32 Poems, OCHO, Fence and The Best American Poetry 2009. Debbie blogs irregularly at www.debbieyee.com.

All programs at the library are free.

San Francisco Public Library
100 Larkin Street (@ Grove)
sfpl.org

Please visit www.actionyes.org for a new issue of Action, Yes.

"Dances of Vice, Horror and Ecstasy": A special section devoted to the
poetry and art of the scandalous cabarets performed by Anita Berber
and Sebastian Droste in Weimar Germany.

Abstract comics! (Including a preview of Andrei Molotiu's upcoming anthology from Fantagraphics Books.)

"Always/Only/A/Plenum": Tim Wood's essay on Robert Greiner and
Grenier's response.

Translation of writers Agrafiotis, Dragincescu, Froger, Lamat,
Rubinstein, Sacré.

Per Bäckström's essay " "Crush the Aassholetters Between the Teeth":
Språkgrotesk in Henri Michaux and Gunnar Ekelöf."

"Dead Can Dance," Geoffrey Cruickshank-Hagenbuckle's ruminations on Decadence.

As well as poetry, visual poetry, collages and prose from Downing,
Lundwall, Yankelevich, Schapira and others.

 

this is the Italian Poetry reading and conversation at Chicago's Th!nkArt Salon, broadcast on Chicago Public Radio

http://www.chicagopublicradio.org/Content.aspx?audioID=34790

(Press "pop-out" and then the "play" button)

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Friday, May 29, 7:30pm

Bilingual reading and discussion/salon featuring Maria Attanasio, Giovanna Frene, Marco Giovenale & Milli Graffi

Moderators: Jennifer Scappettone, Francesco Levato (Poetry Center) & Chris Glomski (UIC)

1530 N. Paulina, Suite F.

Chicago, IL

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!! Thanks to Litmus Press !!

 

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Le mois de mai est téléchargeable :

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PARTICIPANTS // PARTICIPANTS

Takahiro Morotomi / Lynne Tillman / Jane Wodening / Patrick Rimond / Giulio Marzaioli / Gérard Haller / Alessandro De Francesco / Fabrice Pichat / Carol Müller / Sarah Venturi / Anonyme / Marc Johnson / Sophie Coiffier / Emmanuel Adely / Miguel-Angel Molina / Franck Fontaine / Fréderic Dumond / Wilfrid Rouff / Stefano Buda / Samuel Paugam / David Burty / Hélène Majera /

The Canadian Association of Hispanists celebrates its XLV Congress between the 23 and May 26 in Carleton University, Ottawa dedicated to the Spanish literature and latin-American since the Baroque one to our days, that include the poetics and the contemporary hispanic diaspora, the forms of expression of the Spanish culture, the Spanish female voices and latin-Americans of the 20th century and XXI, the linguistic hispanic one in the 20th century, the Spaniard 2,0 and the literary approach to the philosophy and vice-turns.
In this encounter without borders the Creative Registration of the Canadian Hispanists dedicates this edition to Jorge Etcheverry, Chilean poet situated in C anadá, with a Virtual and Mural Exposition with a series of complementary activities that include the launch of academic books, the literary translation, poetic recitals dedicated to Ernesto Cardenal in which the present poets that have participated in the event will be able to read their poems and the public Assistant to elect among them exposed to read it in name of the poet that send it.
In this edition of the Congressparticipate 66 poets and artists of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Cuba, Chile, Equator, United States, France, Guatemala, Honduras, England, Israel, Japan, Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico, El Salvador, Swiss, Uruguay, Venezuela and Spain.
The exposition can be visited in the virtual gallery of ACH and the Creative Registration that has prepared José Antonio Jiménez Micó, Associate Professor, Spanish and Latin American Studies, Concordia U._;_Adjunct Professor, The U. of Calgary with a special page to each participating author from the A to the Z, in the following link:

http://fis.ucalgary.ca/ACH/Registro/Galerias/2009_Homenaje/index.html

and particularly you can see my page in the link:

http://fis.ucalgary.ca/ACH/Registro/Galerias/2009_Homenaje/Solar.html


and one videoclip in:

http://literaturacuantica.blogspot.com/

http://www.youtube.com/user/ivettesolar

On the day before of the book fair of Madrid and because of the celebration of the International Day of the Museums of ICOM (International Council of Museums), today 18 of May, can be visited the virtual exposition of Books & Readings of the National Library of Spain in Facebook which participate more than 60 exhibitors and artists, between of them my photographic artwork on Quantum Quevedo.

This photographic series forms part of the Quantum Collection of the Digital Museum of the Library of the Century of Gold conceived in the framework of the new media of screen in interaction with the art of the complexity, the authopoiesis and the digital environments.

The virtual exposition can be visited in the following link:

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=1802825&id=35622383401#/photo.php?pid=1802768&id=35622383401

The 3 golden portraits of Francisco of Quevedo Villegas inaugurate the Digital Museum of Spanish Authors conceived to continue its developmentby in the digital networks.

More in:

http.//myriamsolar.blogspot.com

Workshop by Small Press Traffic

July 6-9, 2009
6:00pm - 9:00pm

California College of the Arts
1111 8th Street
San Francisco, CA

email: smallpresstraffic [at] gmail [dot] com

This four-day workshop will begin by examining and rehearsing various techniques central to Conceptualist poetics, broadly considered so as to encompass appropriation, transcription, and other versions of what Kenneth Goldsmith has called “uncreative writing,” as well as the deliberately awkward and expressively debased gestures associated with Flarf. We will then look at these techniques in relation to older and more traditional notions of craft: can there be coherent criteria for craft-based evaluation of texts written using blankly conceptual or intentionally “bad” methods? Do any of the familiar aesthetic categories still apply, and if so, how?

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$125 fee ($100 for students and SPT members)

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K. Silem Mohammad is the author of three books of poetry: Breathalyzer (Edge Books, 2008), A Thousand Devils (Combo Books, 2004), and Deer Head Nation (Tougher Disguises, 2003). His work has been featured in numerous journals and anthologies, including The Best American Poetry 2004, Bay Poetics, and A Best of Fence, as well as the forthcoming Flarf: An Anthology of Flarf, which he is co-editing with Sharon Mesmer, Nada Gordon, and Gary Sullivan. With Anne Boyer, he edits the poetry magazine "Abraham Lincoln". He is Associate Professor of English and Writing at Southern Oregon University in Ashland.

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PARTICIPANTS // PARTICIPANTS

Thierry Mouillé / Joël Baqué / Julien Nédélec / Katia Feltrin / Gilgian Gelzer / Sachiho Kondo / Vanessa Dziuba / Jon Cotner and Andy Fitch / Anonyme / documentation céline duval / Ulice Deborne / Elisabeth Jacquet / Aldo Caredda / Dennis Tedlock / Patrick Barron / Edouard Baribeaud / Gherardo Bortolotti / Hyun-ji Lee / Catherine Rechard / Pierre Escot / Jean-Philippe Bretin /

http://despaysages.fr/runbook.html

San Francisco poet Al Robles passed away last week. He was loved by many, for his Zen vibe, his talk story, poetry, and his community and political activism. The author of Rappin With Ten Thousand Carabaos in the Dark (UCLA Asian American Studies Center Press, 1996), he documented the lives and voices of the Manongs, the West Coast Filipino laborers of the early 1900's who experienced institutional racial violence in their youth, and whom America had subsequently forgotten, in his poems.

Robles was a community activist, popularly associated with the movements against the evictions of the elderly Manongs from the International Hotel in 1977. It was there, in the shadow of North Beach's Beat Literature scene and the encroaching financial district that the Asian American arts organization, Kearny Street Workshop, with which Robles was involved, was born just five years previous to the evictions. Robles dedicated his life and work to serving San Francisco's low income elderly communities.

As a poet, he influenced younger generations of poets and activists, reminding us youngbloods that art and activism are not and should never be exclusive categories.

In the words of his nephew, author Tony Robles, "The influence of my Uncle Al on Pilipino-American poetry is akin to Chuck Berry's influence on Rock & Roll, it is far reaching and ever growing, from established writers to the hip hop generation; his words have touched their hearts and inspired them to get involved in serving our community."

To find out more about Al Robles, here are some links:

Poor Magazine, Manilatown is in the Heart.
Manilatown Heritage Foundation.
Rappin With Ten Thousand Carabaos in the Dark.

Jazz of My Youth

I remember jazz of my youth
In the streets of Fillmore
Crossing over
To cousin Jimbo’s Bop City
Where the green between
His dark ebony fingers
Flapped in the cool Post street wind
Take the "A" train & slide all the way down
Listening to sounds close to the ground
Fillmore street bound
Jazz comin’ ’round
Conga tight skins crack
Snapping
All day & all morn’
All night session
How high the moon
Laying down in the back room
Horns blowing to stars fell on alabama
As the night fog squeezed in
Wailing sounds echoed in the air
The streets sparkled like stars
All the things you are

Jazz of my youth
Cruising over to Soulsville
Stepping over cords
Guitar strings cutting loose on Tenderly

Jazz of my youth
Jack's on Sutter
Jackson’s Nook
Step back & be cool
Head to the back room
Thick smoke curling round
A brown pilipino man
Blowin’ it’s almost like falling in love
Hunched over a piano
A gray sharkskin overcoat
Dark shades
Brown fingers runnin’ up & down
The ivory keys
Dark black hair gleams
With three flowers
Charlie Abing
The jazz man from Stockton
Blowing sax & piano
What a rare mood I’m in
It’s almost like falling in love

Jazz of my youth
Runnin’ the Mo'
The cool streets
Talkin’ deep & sweet
I remember you...
You’re the one that
Made my dreams
Come true

--Al Robles, from Rappin With Ten Thousand Carabaos in the Dark (hear podcast here).

Issue #2 of the literary tabloid OR is available now.

Contributors: Amy Allara, Luigi Ballerini, Guy Bennett, Bob Biderman, Julien Blaine, Brother Anthony, Josette Bryson, Tom Cabbell, Beppe Cavatorta, Robert Crosson, Alessandro De Francesco, Antonio Delfini, Mohammed Dib, Ray DiPalma, Mark DuCharme, Ryan Farley, Gary Gach, Marco Giovenale, Courtney Gregg, Trevor J. Houser, Andrea Inglese, Young-moo Kim, Laureline Kohler, Ko Un, Carol Lettieri, Giulio Marzaioli, Douglas Messerli, Renata Morresi, Ryan Murphy, Yan Perreau, Dennis Phillips, Lidia Riviello, Gianluca Rizzo, Martha Ronk, Kim Sambati, Ari Samsky, Giovanna Sandri, Domenic Siracusa. Gregorio Scalise, Standard Schaefer, Iris Smyles, Laura Solomon, Nathaniel Tarn, Giorgio Tavernari, Frederic Tuten, Paul Vangelisti, Emilio Villa, Noura Wedell, William Xerra, Michele Zaffarano.

Reed Altemus : "Digital collages / Xerographs / Software Noise"

The Front Room Gallery
378 Cottage Rd.
South Portland, Maine

May 8, 2009

5:00pm - 8:00pm

:::New Release:::New Release:::New Release:::New Release::: FROM DAME QUICKLY

Poetry & graphic stills by Jennifer Scappettone Paperback, 112 pages ISBN: 978-1-933959-06-1 $15.00 Cover art by Rosemarie Fiore

Available now through Small Press Distribution

The work in this wondrous first major book by Jennifer Scappettone has a phenomenal -- an excitatory -- presence, the presence of action, not thing. This book is a matrix of polytemporal energy, a linguistic carnival, ribald and resounding -- "a most implicit maze."...

-- Lyn Hejinian

LISTEN to Jennifer Scappettone now on PennSound!

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and don't miss these

:::UPCOMING EVENTS:::

Wednesday, April 29th, 6:30-8:30pm

Panel Discussion with Marshall Price (Curator of Contemporary Art, National Academy Museum of Art), Jennifer Scappettone (Poet and Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Chicago) and Rosemarie Fiore (Artist) discuss Fiore's artistic process


Thursday, May 7th, 6:30-8:30pm

"Dame Quickly, Unframed" reading and performance/projection of graphic stills from Jennifer Scappettone's new book! (cover art by Rosemarie Fiore)

Both of these events are organized and hosted by Priska C. Juschka Fine Art Gallery . Please RSVP to gallery@priskajuschkafineart.com or 212-244-4320.

Priska C. Juschka Fine Art Gallery

547 W. 27th St. 2nd Floor

New York, NY 10001

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:::Embargoed Voices:::
Poesia Ultima / Italian Poetry Now

FESTIVAL OF ITALIAN CONTEMPORARY POETRY & POETICS

May 26 - May 29
New York & Chicago, IL

View all details here


In conjunction with Aufgabe #7 we welcome Maria Attanasio, Giovanna Frene, Marco Giovenale & Milli Graffi to New York and Chicago for a series of readings and discussions with translator & guest editor Jennifer Scappettone and translator Carla Billitteri.

Events curated by Jennifer Scappettone and co-sponsored by Litmus Press with the Italian Cultural Institute of New York, Poets House, St. Mark's Poetry Project, UChicago Arts Council, University of Chicago Creative Writing and Romance Languages and Literatures, Northwestern University Department of French and Italian, Chicago Poetry Center, Th!nkArt Gallery, and with promotional support from Columbia University, NYU, and the Art Institute of Chicago.

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:::AND MORE:::

Saturday, May 30th, 4pm
Stacy Szymaszek & Patrick Durgin
Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery
NYC

Segue Series
(curated by Tim Peterson & Kristin Gallagher)


Friday, June 19th, 8pm
BOOK RELEASE PARTY!
Celebrate our two newest releases
-- and the beginning of summer --
with authors Jennifer Scappettone and Stacy Szymaszek

Short readings, snacks and wine will be provided!

From Dame Quickly, by Jennifer Scappettone
Hyperglossia, by Stacy Szymaszek

NYC, details TBA

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FORTHCOMING JUNE 2009

Hyperglossia

Stacy Szymaszek

Aufgabe #8

featuring Russian poetry in translation, guest edited by Matvei Yankelevich

and there's more here

__________________________________ Litmus Press is supported by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency and by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. We are a proud member of the Council of Literary Magazines & Presses and rely on ongoing support and contributions from our members, subscribers and individual donors.

www.zintzen.org/salon-litteraire/ 1 mit einem ruck springt die rübe an: los geht´s! jeder sack kann das übrigens. einen über die rübe: gehört das zusammen? schneide die ringe, zickzack und zahl, übe! beuge es. zieht eine linie zum gegenüber, sieht sie. ein satz über die brüstung, ohne grund, was der fall voraussetzt. ein stück noch, dann fass das ende, ausschlag den boden ihm, auf die maserung achte. neuen verbindungen zähne wachsen. wie weit, als ob netze diese zentner hielten, kämme die gletscher fletschten, damit ausfranst im freien der aussicht reifen, drehen im fall, dass die fahrt endlich anfängt. gleich den höhen von oben, stechen messer die skalen, schwellen dem krähen erweiterte gefässe, gestutzte flügel, statt sturz in den absprung: zieh leine endlich, kürzeste linie im fall, dass es aufprallt, grundlos fassende verfaltet im schirm. 1 (Translation: Matthias Goldmann)

a jolt to the noggin: let’s go! besides, any jerk can do that. a bonk on the noggin: does that go together? cut these rings, zigzag and number, practice! flex it. drawing a line to an opposite, she sees. a leap over the window breast, on no grounds, taken for granted in this case of descent. a last stretch left, then hold on to the end, kick out his flooring but mind the grain. growing the teeth of new connections. so far, as if nets were holding these hundredweights, glaciers were bearing their combs, adding fringes to the outdoors, letting vistas mature, falling and turning, finally out on a ride. like heights from above, knifes stuck into scales, puffing out to crow, vascular widening, clipped wings, taking off instead of plunging: get out of here, across the shortest line, in this case, towards an impact, hold on for no reason, folded into an umbrella.

The Special of El País.com celebrates today 23 rd April the Festival of the Book09 with the publishing of a biographical sketch of the last Prize Cervantes Juan Marsé, references of books, favorite authors and more than hundred microtales of hypershort literature.

These last in a section that brings to light the ingenuity of works and authors of the hypershort literature, of ficcion and not fiction, in 200 characters.

The Special one you can read it in:

http://www.elpais.com/especial/dia-del-libro/microrrelatos/

The image that illustrates this note belongs to my microtale published in this edition Sonoquantum Walk that with a brushstroke of the screen media you can see and to listen in:

http://literaturacuantica.blogspot.com/

CinnamonTeal Press has recently published a square-shaped thin book of bilingual collaborative poetry, where each page of the book is designed like a chessboard. Two stubs of bilingual text (English and Bangla) are placed in or over certain squares following an undercover stratagem.

chaurtangik/SQUARES is a book length collaborative poem by Pat Clifford and Aryanil Mukherjee. The book is inspired by Satyajit Ray's seminal film Shatranj Ki Khiladi (The Chess Players). The work deals with the mechanics of chess and politics in both a thematic and formal way. At times the language is opaque and confrontational. In other places there is a resigned melancholy.

Often what started as longer poems were chopped or condensed. In the end, each installment was placed into the boxes of a chess grid. The poem's use of languages is more complex than it would appear. Translation was part of the collaborative process itself, not something done after the fact. In a typical section, Clifford would start out writing in English to which Mukherjee would respond in Bengali, who would then translate Clifford's English lines into Bengali and his own Bengali into English. Critical focus would be placed immediately on the modifications and then prompt the next section. In the end, a linguistically reflected text was produced— a poem that can be read in multiple ways.

chaturangik/SQUARES
Pat Clifford and Aryanil Mukherjee
A bilingual booklength collaborative poem
Illustration by Mithu Sen
Published by Cinnamon Teal
45p/Paperback/6.25" x 6.25"
ISBN - 978-81-907296-6-6
Distributed by Kaurab

To know more about this book visit -

http://www.kaurab.com/aryanil/chaturangik-english.html

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PARTICIPANTS // PARTICIPANTS

Christophe Marchand-Kiss / José Maria Gonzalez / Antonio Gallego / Daniel Pacheco / Yûichi Yokoyama / Sebastian Dicenaire / Roberto Martinez / Françoise Quardon / Fabienne Courtade / Liliane Giraudon / Mathieu Brosseau / Edgar Endress / Catherine Weinzaepflen / Claire Chevrier / Dominique Quélen / Onaka Yudanaka / Anonyme / Éric Watier / Colette Tron / Esther Salmona / Dietrich Heißenbüttel / Isabelle Pelissier / Jean-Gabriel Massardier / Éric Houser / Esther Sherrow / Gabrielle Manglou / Mathieu Renard / Bertrand Limbour / Charlie Cerisier / Francis Léonési / Massimo Pellegrini / Christiane Veschambre / Juliette Agnel /

http://despaysages.fr/runbook.html

Poetas Revelación 2008

Durante el año 2008 Plebella, revista de Poesía Actual llevó a cabo la convocatoria de poesía Poeta Revelación 2008 para poetas nacidos a partir del 1ro de enero de 1978. Los resultados fueron publicados en Plebella #15 (Diciembre 2008) y aquí presentamos en forma completa las series ganadoras y el texto Revelaciones de Romina Freschi. El jurado de la Convocatoria 2008 estuvo compuesto por Gabriela Bejerman, Emiliano Bustos y Romina Freschi.

www.plebella.com.ar

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Gianni Burattoni / Colette Raynaud / Hervé Vachez / Anne Kawala / Ulrike Draesner / Léonard Rachita / Jonathan Skinner / Anonyme / Pierre Faure / Xavier Martel / Philippe Calandre / Cécile Gaudin / Christophe Mauberret / Takeshi Ota / Marco Giovenale / Juliana Gomez / Sarah Kéryna / Michaël Batalla /

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runbook est un livre d'artiste en devenir via le réseau des boîtes mails d'artistes ou d'écrivains.

runbook is an art book in progress via a network of artists and writers.

DE QUOI ÇA PARLE ? // WHAT'S IT ABOUT ?

runbook parle du paysage, visible ou invisible.

runbook is about landscapes, visible or invisible.

QUELLE EN EST LA FINALITÉ ? // WHAT'S THE OBJECTIVE ?

La finalité de runbook est de créer un livre aléatoire qui circule et s'amplifie pendant une année en fonction des amitiés et afinités de chacun.
Chaque mois de l'année 2009 figurera un des 12 chapitres du livre. L'expérience s'arrêtera à la fin janvier 2010. La totalité de runbook sera téléchargeable par chapitre gratuitement sur le site.

The objective is to create an aleatory circulating book which evolves, grows, and circulates through a network of friendships and connexions.
Each month of 2009 will be one of twelve chapters, whith the project reaching completion at the end of January 2010. The whole runbook will be available for free, chapter by chapter on the website.