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.

THE READING AT CHRYSTIE STREET TURNS ONE

& THROWS DOWN

As promised, we've been working on an anniversary gala. A fete. A party.  

Whatever. & as usual, we're a little on the last-minute side. But don't let 

that dissuade you from believing that on October 1, at 7 PM at Home Sweet 

Home, The Reading at Chrystie Street will be hosting the sweetest reading/party 

ever (or this week, whatever).

So if you're reading this, not only are you one of only three possible readers, 

you're also invited. If you're a past reader, please get in touch with us--we 

want you! We're planning a night of music (we have a great DJ) & flash 

readings (we know some great poets). Of course there will be drinks, fun, 

& other bullshit.  

So come! You know you want to.

THE READING AT CHRYSTIE STREET ENTERS THE DOG DAYS

THE READING AT CHRYSTIE STREET

keeps it on a short leash

Jim Behrle & Shafer Hall

Wednesday, August 26. 7 PM sharp.

Home Sweet Home

131 Chrystie Street

 

Jim lives in Brooklyn. His poems have appeared most recently in Strandzig.

 

Shafer Hall's first collection of poetry is available from No Tell Press. His poems can be found in the current issue of Open Letters Monthly and in many other journals. Occasional diversions can be found at shaferhall.com.

 

SPECIAL BONUS ANNOUNCEMENT

Watch this space for info regarding our GIANT SPECTACULAR ANNIVERSARY BLOW-OUT.  If you have been a Chrystie Street reader, get in touch...we want you for a special project.

THE READING AT CHRYSTIE STREET EATS CROW

BLAME IT ON SUMMER TORPOR.

It happened. We finally made a mistake. I know you thought it couldn't happen--believe me, we're surprised, too. But it's true: WE WERE WRONG.

Come out to Home Sweet Home, at 131 Chrystie Street, on Wednesday night to hear the marvelous JODIANN STEVENSON and the lovely GABRIELLA TORRES read. You'll have to wait for Christie Ann. We promise you'll be glad you did.

JodiAnn Stevenson & Gabriella Torres show us the error of our ways.
Wednesday, July 29. 7 PM sharp. Seriously, 7 PM sharp.
Home Sweet Home
131 Chrystie Street


JodiAnn Stevenson makes her home in Bay City, Michigan where she is an Assistant Professor of writing and poetry at Delta College. She founded Binge Press, to showcase women’s work, in 2004 and 27 rue de fleures, an online journal of women’s poetries in 2005. Her first collection of poetry, The Procedure, was published in the fall of 2006 by March Street Press. Her second collection of poetry, “We, the Emperors” was a finalist in the Gertrude Press Chapbook Award in 2008. An excerpt of her “Kamikaze Death Poetry” is forthcoming in the “faux histories” issue of SPECS. Her recent blog project, Ms. Fish, the relentless, can be found at: http://msfishtherelentless.blogspot.com. Some of her visual poetry resides at www.bowlofmilk.com.


Gabriella Torres currently teaches writing at Baruch College in Manhattan. She is the author of Sister (Lame House Press 2005) and co-editor of the tiny along with Gina Myers. Her poetry has appeared in Sink Review, Cannibal and Past Simple.

THE READING AT CHRYSTIE STREET STAYS UP ALL NIGHT

THE READING AT CHRYSTIE STREET

loves flashlight tag & statues.

Christie Ann Reynolds & Gabriella Torres read us into August.

Wednesday, July 29. 7 PM sharp.  Seriously, 7 PM sharp.

Home Sweet Home

131 Chrystie Street

Christie Ann Reynolds is a native New Yorker and a graduate of The New School MFA in Poetry program. She holds a B.A. in English from Hofstra University and a NYS Teaching Certificate from Queens College. Her poems are published or are forthcoming in Critiphoria, Sub-Lit, EOAGH, Robot Melon, My Name is Mud and Blaze Vox. She is the 2003 recipient of an Academy of American Poetry undergraduate award. Christie Ann is also the 2009 winner of The New School Chapbook Contest, chosen by Brenda Shaughnessy. Her first full-length manuscript will be published by Black Maze Books in the summer of 2010. She lives on the undetermined border of Queens and Brooklyn.

 

Gabriella Torres currently teaches writing at Baruch College in Manhattan. She is the author of Sister (Lame House Press 2005) and co-editor of the tiny along with Gina Myers. Her poetry has appeared in Sink Review, Cannibal and Past Simple.

THE READING AT CHRYSTIE STREET FAILED CHEMISTRY

See you in summer school.

http://thereadingseries.blogspot.com/

 

Nathan Austin & Dan Magers read their poems.

Wednesday, June 24. 7 PM sharp.  Or thereabouts.

Home Sweet Home

131 Chrystie Street

Nathan Austin's publications include Tie an O (Burning Press, 1998), (glost) (Handwritten Books, 2002) and Survey Says! (Black Maze Books, 2009).  Poems have appeared, or are forthcoming, in Kiosk, Combo, Phoebe, Aufgabe, Tight, Diagram, and Little Red Leaves.

Dan Magers graduated from The New School's MFA program in 2005, and is co-editor of Sink Review (sinkreview.org), an online poetry magazine.  He's had poems published in the tiny and Red China Magazine, Dick Pig Review, and Thirteen Myna Birds. He works at the publishing company John Wiley &Sons and lives in Brooklyn, NY.

THE READING AT CHRYSTIE STREET WISHES YOU WERE HERE

The weather is beautiful.

http://thereadingseries.blogspot.com/

Brendan Lorber & Tracey McTague read their winged poems.

Wednesday, May 27. 7 PM sharp. Seriously, 7 PM sharp.

Home Sweet Home

131 Chrystie Street

Rakish adventurer Brendan Lorber spends his days and nights flying small 1970’s-era airplanes, rebuilding a ramshackle Revolutionary War-era Brooklyn farmhouse, and allowing his newborn daughter Aurora to redefine the very nature of time and endurance. He is not the real father of several other poet-babies born this past year despite the striking array of traits they appear to have inherited from him, traits like immaturity, impatience, mild colic and tiny bladders. During his recent stint as Editor of the Poetry Project Newsletter Lorber did his best to destroy the Newsletter, the Poetry Project, all poetry forever, and you. He ran the Zinc Talk Reading Series for ten freewheeeling years. He continues to edit LUNGFULL! Magazine, the horribly-named journal that prints people’s rough drafts in addition to the final versions so you can see the process from beginning to end. Are you still reading this bio? Why? It’s not exactly Anna Karenina now is it? Lorber is the author of several chapbooks, among them The Address Book, Dash, Your Secret and Corvid Aurora. His work has appeared in countless journals and anthologies in several languages around the world. He has lectured and taught workshops on writing and participatory economics throughout the country but always returns to his Brooklyn home slung between an old power plant and a much older 500-acre necropolis.

Tracey McTague lives at the geographic apex of Brooklyn on Battle Hill where she curates a reading series of the same name. She is a writer and visual artist whose work includes a number of chapbooks. She is also cocreator of Book of the New Now with Brendan Lorber. A longer book , about urban dog mind, will be published next year by Overlook Press. Tracey is currently at work on a project called SUPER NATURAL. She vandalizes private property on a regular basis.

THE READING AT CHRYSTIE STREET GETS IT TOGETHER

This time we mean it.

Farrah Field & Jared White read their marvelous poems.

Wednesday, April 29. 7 PM sharp.  Seriously, 7 PM sharp.

Home Sweet Home

131 Chrystie Street

 Farrah Field's poems have appeared in many publications including the Mississippi Review, Margie, The Massachusetts Review, Typo, Harp & Altar, 42Opus, La Petite Zine, Pebble Lake Review, Another Chicago Magazine, Fulcrum, and forthcoming in Ekleksographia. Rising is her first book of poetry and won Four Way Books’ 2007 Levis Prize. She lives in Brooklyn and blogs at adultish.blogspot.com.

 Jared White grew up in Massachusetts and lives in Brooklyn. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in journals like Barrow Street, Cannibal, Coconut, Fulcrum, Horse Less Review,The Modern Review, Sorry 4 Snake, Verse, and Word For / Word. He has published essays in Harp & Altar, Poets Off Poetry at Coldfront, and Open Letters, and a chapbook entitled Yellowcake was included in the recent hand-sewn anthology Narwhal from Cannibal Books. From time to time, he blogs at jaredswhite.blogspot.com and plays the piano.

Please see the two previous entries for a little more about Farrah & Jared.  & if you'd like to see photos from last month's reading with CA Conrad & Ian Dreiblatt, drop us a line here.  We miss you.

Jared White: yes please

& now some Jared White to increase your desire to hear him read with the aforementioned & very delightful Farrah Field:

First, his densely interesting blog.

Second, some essays mentioned by the ever-kindly Steven Karl in his blog. 

Third, the suggestion--nay, the demand--that you attend his reading at Chrystie Street a week from today, on April 29, to hear him perform fabulous feats of language & sound, to hear him jump through hoops of syntax & come out unscathed on the other side, twirling his moustaches.

Be there!

Farrah Field: total delight

Farrah Field & Jared White are our next readers, appearing at Home Sweet Home at 7 pm on April 29.  So, to get you as excited as we are: a little FF for your reading pleasure.

Farrah's blog can be found at adultish.blogspot.com.  

Her glorious first book, Rising, is now available for purchase. Take a look at the gorgeous cover art and read an excerpt.  Also, buy it: it's a weird & wonderful book, full of the dense murk of sadness & the bright metallic tang of river water.  Also, Farrah is very funny.  It's a wonderful surprise--don't miss out on it. 

 

Can't wait?

Get your fix.

Take a look at CA Conrad's many blogs, do some somatic exercises, read from the Book of Frank, buy some of CA's wonderful work--then go read Ian's music blog & beg him for some updates, buy a beautiful poetry & art book, or read through a great translation.  

See you Wednesday at 7 PM at Home Sweet Home.  Don't be square.

THE READING AT CHRYSTIE ST. RIDES AGAIN

saddle up:

CA CONRAD &
IAN DREIBLATT

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25
HOME SWEET HOME
131 CHRYSTIE ST.
7 PM SHARP

git along!



















CAConrad is the son of white trash asphyxiation whose childhood included selling cut flowers along the highway for his mother and helping her shoplift. He escaped to Philadelphia where he lives and writes with the PhillySound poets www.PhillySound.blogspot.com. His latest book The Book of Frank (Chax Press, 2009) received The Gil Ott Book Award. He is also the author of Deviant Propulsion (Soft Skull Press, 2006), (Soma)tic Midge (FAUX Press, 2008), and two forthcoming books, advanced ELVIS course (Soft Skull Press, 2009), and a collaboration with poet Frank Sherlock titled THE CITY REAL & IMAGINED: Philadelphia Poems (Factory School Press, 2009). He invites you to visit him online at www.CAConrad.blogspot.com

Ian Dreiblatt is a poet, translator, & musician. he is the author, with Kerry Downey, of hoc me fefecit / image, a collaborative book of art & poetry, and has published translations of Mandelstam &, most recently, Tolstoy's The Death Of Ivan Ilich. the poet Robert Kelly has said, "listening to Ian's poems, because he has that magic intuition that all poetry is language poetry... you can feel a tremendous upwelling of words in other languages, other englishes within the english." he writes a sonnet every day & lives with Lauren near the c & g trains.

Noelle Kocot & Dottie Lasky: The Reckoning

Were they not as charming as promised? Were the drinks not cheap & abundant? Did you not have a fantastic time? Don't say we never did anything for you.

Of course Noelle & Dottie both gave gorgeous & riveting readings. We were unbelievably lucky to have them read for us, and the combination was rare & wonderful. Here is some proof of how much flipping fun we all had:

Noelle & Dottie















read their















glorious poems!















Old friends were reunited!















New friendships were forged!















Record numbers















of tongues















were exposed!















We ate babies!