Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts

Friday, August 3, 2012

Event: GENERAL IDEA 6: Etter, Fletcher, Hess, and Spallholz

Saturday, March 31st, 7pm
at
Brickbat Books:

GENERAL IDEA 6:
Etter, Fletcher, Hess, and Spallholz Read!



A retired shipbuilder, Mickey Hess is Associate Professor of English at Rider University, where he teaches arc welding, mig welding, and creative nonfiction. In the early months of 2012, he has released two books: The Nostalgia Echo (a novel) and The Novelist & the Rapper (stories). He is hard at work on a biography of the rap star Ol' Dirty Bastard.



Sarah Rose Etter's chapbook, Tongue Party, was selected as the winner of the 2010 Caketrain Chapbook Contest by Deb Olin Unferth. Her work has appeared in The Black Warrior Review, Salt Hill Journal, The Collagist and more. She lives in Philadelphia where she co-curates the Tire Fire Reading series.



Julianna Spallholz's short (and very short) fiction has appeared in Caketrain, Denver Quarterly, Sleepingfish, Tarpaulin Sky, and elsewhere. Julianna has performed and collaborated her work with musicians, visual artists, a DJ, and a chef. For the moment, she lives in upstate New York. Her book, The State of Kansas, is available from GenPop Books. Please visit her website at http://www.juliannaspallholz



Sasha Fletcher is the author of the novella WHEN ALL OUR DAYS ARE NUMBERED MARCHING BANDS WILL FILL THE STREETS AND WE WILL NOT HEAR THEM BECAUSE WE WILL BE UPSTAIRS IN THE CLOUDS [ml press 2010] and the poetry chapbooks I AIN'T ASKED ANY PARDON FOR ANYTHING I DONE [the greying ghost 2011] and I CANNOT PRETEND TO BE A GHOST TODAY [paper pusher 2012]. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.
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Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Featured: Three Pamphlets


Asger Jorn, Open Creation And Its Enemies
Pamphlet

"Three texts from one of the founders of the Lettrists and the Situationist International, all translated from Internationale Situationniste. Open Creation establishes how Jorn used developments in mathematics to underscore the situationist project. Also included are his "Manifesto" and his critique of Isidore Isou—"Originality And Magnitude."






Thomas De Quincy, The Peasant Of Portugal
Pamphlet

"A curious Gothic revenge tale in which the events narrated gradually unwind to be revealed as problems of text and writing: plot as a means of generating a text. Empty and unnerving."




Among the Cannibal Christians
Pamphlet

"Did the early Christians take the command "eat of my body," a bit too literally? And just what did "the Body and Blood of Christ" really consist of? A fascinating study into the use of hallucinogens and ritual cannibalism amongst the early Christians..."




These books, and thousands of others, can be purchased from:

Brickbat Books
709 South Fourth Street
Philadelphia, PA 19147

215 592 1207

Open:
Tuesday: thru Saturday, 11am to 7pm
Sunday: 11am to 6pm
Closed Monday

Thursday, February 9, 2012

EVENT: ixnay press Reading



Saturday, February 11th at 7 pm
at
Brickbat Books

ixnay press authors
Jamie Townsend & Laura Spagnoli



Announcing a reading to celebrate the publication of two chapbooks from ixnay press: Jamie Townsend’s THE DOME & Laura Spagnoli’s My Dazzledent Days. Your hosts will be ixnay co-editors Chris McCreary & Jenn McCreary.





Jamie Townsend is the co-founder of con/crescent, a chapbook publisher & annual magazine focused on discursive essay & creative non-fiction. In addition to THE DOME, he is author of the chapbooks STRAP/HALO (Portable Press @ Yo-Yo Labs; 2011) and Matryoshka (LRL Textile Editions; 2011). His poetry and critical work has appeared in various places, most recently in Wheelhouse, Volt, Jacket2, The Poetry Project Newsletter, Eccolinguistics & TRY.






Laura Spagnoli’s poems have appeared in various publications, including Jupiter 88, ONandOnScreen, and The Apiary, and her story “A Cut Above” was published in the collection Philadelphia Noir. She lives in Philadelphia and teaches French at Temple University.





Founded in 1998, ixnay press is a Philadelphia-based publisher of new and experimental writing. Publishing projects have included ixnay, a twice-yearly journal, and the ixnay reader, a periodic mini-anthology of sorts, as well as a chapbook series and poppycock, an occasional newsletter. Check out ixnay’s complete archives at www.ixnaypress.com or email ixnaypress@gmail.com for additional information.

Saturday, January 28, 2012

Featured: Selected New Poetry


The Collected Poems Of Kenneth Koch
Hardcover




The Collected Poems Of Muriel Rukeyser
Hardcover




Jack Spicer, My Vocabulary Did This To Me
Hardcover




Selected Poems Of Paul Celan
Paperback




Gertrude Stein, Stanzas In Meditation
Paperback




Susan Howe, The Midnight
Paperback




Alice Notley, Grave Of Light: New And Selected Poems, 1970-2005
Hardcover





Vasko Popa, Complete Poems
Paperback





These books, and thousands of others, can be purchased from:

Brickbat Books
709 South Fourth Street
Philadelphia, PA 19147

215 592 1207

Open:
Tuesday: thru Saturday, 11am to 7pm
Sunday: 11am to 6pm
Closed Monday