THE READING AT CHRYSTIE STREET: WHAT'S UP, NEPOTISM?

WE HAVE CONNECTIONS & WE ARE GOING TO EXPLOIT THEM

Join us on Thursday, October 28 at 7 PM for A Very Special Chrystie Street co-hosted by Molly Dorozenski & Leigh Stein. Featuring Alex Phillips*, Lauren Ireland's former employer, and Lauren Ireland, Alex Phillips' former employee. Also featuring backslapping, boardroom cackling, dirty deals, & poetry. Yeah, it's a week late. That's because we do whatever we want.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28
7 PM Sharp (ha ha, I know)
The Four-Faced Liar
165 W. 4th St., at 6th Ave.

Alex Phillips was born in Concord, Massachusetts in 1977. He is the poet in residence at Fort Juniper in Cushman Village, Amherst, and is an assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts.

Lauren Ireland usually hosts this reading series & is always an editor at Lungfull! Magazine. She grew up in southern Maryland & coastal Virginia & currently lives in Brooklyn. Find her work at oui-ja-yes.blogspot.com.

*Alex Phillips is an amazing poet & adorable person. He actually made it on merit, which means that American poetry might be okay after all.

VIVE LA RÉSISTANCE! LA POÉSIE DE LA RÉSISTANCE!

Lily Ladewig & Leigh Stein are two founding members of a group I have just now created, The Poetry Resistance. According to Wikipedia, The Poetry Resistance is a defiant front, united against boring bullshit & bad poems. Lily Ladewig & Leigh Stein write poems both gorgeously disobedient & hilariously dangerous, in addition to providing first-hand intelligence information and maintaining escape networks that help those who have become trapped by obligation at never-ending readings.

& so, mon peu d'orge sucres, join the movement on Thursday, September 16, at 7 PM, when Lily “Le Lapin Audacieux Jacques” Ladewig & Leigh “La Licorne Courageux” Stein lead a thrilling revolt against apathy & goodfornothings, terrible verse & snoozy old literary regimes.

You will know us by our rallying cry:



Je ne regrette rien! Vous ne regrettez rien! Nous ne regrettons rien!

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16
7 M SHARP (ha ha, I know)
THE FOUR-FACED LIAR
165 West 4th Street, at 6th Avenue

Lily Ladewig ne regrette rien. Où est la bibliotheque? Où est mon chapeau?

Lily Ladewig defies gravity. She is not opposed to eating rabbits on Christmas but she is morally opposed to earthquakes, pantyhose, and changing lanes without signaling.

Leigh Stein est une gitane. Elle aime les licornes. Où est la future? Elle sait. La future est ici.

Leigh Stein is in personal defiance towards ne'er do wells, bands about ducks, mushrooms, men who ask if she does yoga and then have no follow up question, liars, and aging, which she counteracts by wearing too much blush.

THE READING AT CHRYSTIE STREET TAKES BACK SEXTILIS

Remember ancient Rome? Honestly, me neither, but I do know that before that little shit Augustus came along, this eighth month (the sixth, in the original Roman calendar) was awesomely named SEXTILIS. Awesome because it’s at once a sex joke & a handy way to remember where it fell on the calendar. That said, The Reading at Chrystie Street intends to put the SEX back in SEXTILIS with two fantastic poets. Who, FYI, have nothing to do with the poor taste of this paragraph. They are actually two extremely classy guys.

Next Thursday, take back Sextilis with Luke " Celerius quam asparagi cocuntur" Bloomfield and Daniel “Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres” Coudriet.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 19

7 M SHARP (ha ha, I know)

THE FOUR-FACED LIAR

165 West 4th Street, at 6th Avenue.

LUKE BLOOMFIELD LIVES JUST OUTSIDE OF HIS HOME REGION OF NEW ENGLAND. HE EDITS THE JOURNAL notnostrums AND HAS POEMS IN GOOGLEABLE PLACES. THIS IS HIS DEBUT 2010 NEW YORK READING.

Daniel Coudriet lives with his wife and son in Richmond, Virginia, and in Carcarañá, Argentina. He is the author of Say Sand (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2010) and Parade (Blue Hour Press, forthcoming in late 2010). His poems have made recent appearances in Verse, Denver Quarterly, Ploughshares, Boston Review, Octopus, American Letters & Commentary, and elsewhere. His translations of the Argentinean poets Lila Zemborain, Oliverio Girondo, and Reynaldo Sietecase have appeared or are forthcoming in American Poetry Review, Massachusetts Review, and the anthology Burning City: Poems of Metropolitan Modernity, among others.

CH CH CH

CHANGES

The Reading at Chrystie Street is experiencing some growing pains, but that's good news for you.

We are now accepting submissions for readings--and, even better, we now feature FICTION.

To submit your work for consideration, please send five to seven poems, plus a bio, plus a nice little note to:

thereading@gmail.com

Additionally, we love suggestions. Do you know a wonderful poet or fiction writer? Let us know.

Your pal,

Lauren

WHAT'S UP INTERNET?

THE READING AT CHRYSTIE STREET: POETRY IS DEAD*

JK!!!

Next Thursday, July 15, two Übermensches justify the existence of poetry & the human race. Ryan Eckes & Brandon Holmquest read their really very convincing poems. Come hear their incredible poetry & make the two-hour bus ride from Philadelphia worth their collective while.

Ryan Eckes was born in Northeast Philadelphia in 1979 and now he writes poems and teaches writing at Temple University and other places. You can find some of his writing on his blog, Old News (ryaneckes.blogspot.com) and in his chapbook when i come here (Plan B Press, 2007).

Brandon Holmquest: “I write poems. Chicago and New York are two places I've lived. Philadelphia is where I live now.”

THURSDAY, JULY 15

7 M SHARP (ha ha, I know)

THE FOUR-FACED LIAR

165 West 4th Street, at 6th Avenue

“All beings so far have created something beyond themselves; and do you want to be the ebb of this great flood and even go back to the beasts rather than overcome man? What is the ape to man? A laughingstock or a painful embarrassment. And man shall be just that for the overman: a laughingstock or a painful embarrassment…”

*Molly Dorozenski assures me this isn’t so. Additionally we would like to thank her for her art direction.

OMG SO MUCH BLOGGING

I'm pretty proud of us.

You should be, too. This marks the third in three entries all written within a month or so of each other. If you are reading this, you are probably thinking: why don't these entires have much content?

Here is some content for you:

Next week, on Thursday, June 17, Rob MacDonald & Stan Mir read at The Four-Faced Liar. Of course both of these dudes are excellent at poetry, which should thank them every day for being poets, but they are also generous & wise contributors to the poetry community. Rob runs the heart-thumpingly gorgeous Sixth Finch, which you should read immediately. Stan, with Ryan Eckes, is the curator of the fantastic & inclusive & enviably well-attended (yes, that's pointed. Come to more readings, you guys!) Philadelphia series, Chapter & Verse.

More blogging soon. I know you are paying rapt attention.

APRIL SHOWERS...

...BRING MEG BARBOZA & BEN KOPEL

Next Thursday, New York City will bloom with the
intoxicating scents & colors of Meg Barboza & Ben Kopel

THURSDAY, MAY 20
7 M SHARP (ha ha, I know)
THE FOUR-FACED LIAR
165 West 4th Street, at 6th Avenue.

Meg Barboza's poems have appeared in P-Queue, Parcel, Court Green, 1913, Denver Quarterly and on Weird Deer. Her reviews have appeared in Colorado Review. She earned her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She works for the New York City Department of Education.

Ben Kopel, a native of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, currently lives in Northampton, Massachusetts where he edits Laminated Cats Press. A graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop, he is currently continuing his education at UMass Amherst. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Conduit, Sir!, Forklift: Ohio, H_NG_M_N, Sixth Finch, Diagram, and elsewhere. Sorry ma, he forgot to take out the trash.

Please tell all your friends.

ALSO: CHECK IT OUT WE ARE BLOGGING SO HARD

Oh hey what's up.

You thought we were too lazy to maintain this blog, didn't you?

You were right.



& but we're back! Even though no one reads us, we're back. & we have a glorious summer line up, starting with May--even though that's not technically summer & it's cold & windy outside. But we promise that you'll bask in the warmth of MEG BARBOZA & BEN KOPEL if you show up at our NEW (as of a year ago, ha) location at 7 PM on Thursday, May 20:

The Four-Faced Liar
165 West 4th Street
New York, NY 10014-3807

& we have so much planned as we slope toward the end of our second year.

I, Lauren, just want to thank you, Steve, for reading this blog. I know it's hard to be an audience of one & I really appreciate your repetitive eye movement.