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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.