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Written by Katie St Jean
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Monday, 18 December 2006 |
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From Jarret Keene, via the Tucson Weekly, comes a great piece for the holidays:
The holidays are all about friends and family—which means there's very little quiet time. Instead, there's clamor in the kitchen, TV sports blasting in the living room and hopefully a closet crammed with enough so-so gifts to be "re-gifted" by this time next year.
Let's face it, though: What everyone really craves during the holiday is a little bit of (to borrow from '80s metal band Queensryche) silent lucidity. And what better way to enjoy quiet time than with a cool book?
Sure, there are plenty of great new corporate-published novels out there worth buying—from The Godfather's Revenge to Cormac McCarthy's The Road. But after a week of eating ham and turkey leftovers, giant hardback books are a real pain to lug from the bathroom to the bedroom and back again. |
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Written by The Administrator
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Sunday, 17 December 2006 |
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 We would like to wish all of our readers and website visitors a safe and very happy holidays! For those of you who share in the cold northern climate, Ahadada's got something to warm you up courtesy of Bruna Mori from the land of sand, sunshine and swimming: an online chapbook featuring the aforementioned poet's latest!
Thus, we are pleased to present Tergiversation by Bruna Mori. Tergiversation is the twelfth release in the Ahadada Books Online Chapbook series.
Bruna Mori is the author of Dérive (Meritage Press), a book of cityscape poems with sumi-ink paintings by Matthew Kinney, and the chapbooks Tergiversation (Ahadada Books) and The Approximations (2nd Avenue Poetry), homophonic and sensorial translations of the poetry of Alejandra Pizarnik.
 Her writing has been published in journals Fence, Trepan (California Institute of the Arts), and ZYZZYVA, among others, and presented at venues such as Beyond Baroque, City Lights, and The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church.
She writes essays—most recently for a Semiotext[e] anthology on Isamu Noguchi's designs for Poston (the internment camp where he was incarcerated). Her articles on artists and writers, such as John Zorn, le thi diem thuy, and Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, appear in disinfo, Random House Bold Type, and other magazines and anthologies. |
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Written by Laurence Steven
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Friday, 15 December 2006 |
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Trevor Laalo + Rob O'Flanagan + Tony Armstrong = Bump, an evening of high energy performance poetry at Books & Beans, Durham St. Sudbury, Wednesday, December 20 starting at 7pm. Described as 'electrospokenshout,' the performance will feature new work by all three Sudbury-based poets, performed to O'Flanagan's electronic music compositions. Admission is free and seating is limited. |
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Written by Jamie Gaughran-Perez
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Thursday, 14 December 2006 |
 Back in March 2006 kari edwards read over here in Baltimore at the i.e. reading series. Fortunately enough (in hindsight), Justin Sirois recorded the reading.
Over the past week he was able to dig up the source files and compress them down to MP3s—which we have up on Rock Heals this week with other brief remembrances and a short tribute poem from Michael Ball. Check them out here.
The audio is 23 minutes of kari reading from her last book, "obedience," so it's no short download (10.x MB!), but since there are so few recordings of her available, we thought it was best to get it out there for everyone. Download it and enjoy, today and tomorrow and the next day and the next, etc.
They'll be there after this week, you'll just have to look in the archives to find 'em. |
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Written by Jessica Smith
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Tuesday, 12 December 2006 |
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Jingle bell rhymes will be challenged this Tuesday when locals gather to read poems at Poetry Santa Cruz' now-regular "Favorite Poem Project.
The event begins at 7:30 p.m. at the New Davenport Cash Store, Highway 1, Davenport. A donation of $3 is requested.
To get a poetic mood started, below is a piece of a poem sent in by Santa Cruz resident Wallace Wood who wanted us to know about formerly local poet Lorna Dee Cervantes and her book "Drive: The First Quartet; new poems, 1980-2005" Wings Press, $24.95. |
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Written by Linda Sendecki
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Monday, 11 December 2006 |
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Nick Mamatas's quirky new book, "Under My Roof" - about a telepathic 12-year-old who helps his father declare their home its own nation after planting a nuclear device on their front lawn - takes place in Port Jameson.
If that sounds like Port Jefferson, it's meant to, says Mamatas, who was born and raised in Port Jefferson Station. Early on, he says, the family lived in Brooklyn before settling into the home his father, a longshoreman, started building. "First we lived in the basement, then he built the first and second floors. For my 17th birthday, I got electricity in my room," he says. |
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Written by Linda Sendecki
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Thursday, 30 November 2006 |
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Of the more than 25 exhibitions on view across the state this fall, highlighting the legacy and ongoing vitality and variety of printmaking in Maine, the show at College of the Atlantic’s Ethel H. Blum Gallery is among the most diverse. In a single room are hung a quartet of silkscreen prints by master realist Richard Estes, five monotypes by painter Susan Lerner, 13 black-and-white woodcut prints by children’s book illustrator Ashley Bryan and an extensive sampling of the fine letterpress work of the late August Heckscher (1913-1997). |
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Written by Linda Sendecki
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Wednesday, 29 November 2006 |
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Small Press Distribution invites you to their Holiday Open House and Book Sale. Saturday, December 2, 2006, 12 noon-4pm. They are offering 20–50% OFF ALL BOOKS! Readings at 2pm with Music by David Buuck at 12:30 and 3pm.
Featured Readers include Lisa Robertson, Stephen Ratcliffe, Marvin K. White, and Barbara Jane Reyes. |
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Written by Katie St Jean
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Tuesday, 28 November 2006 |
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 Sekou Sundiata, distinguished poet, musician and spoken word performance artist, will lead a poetry circle with local poets from The Austin Project. The purpose of this communal experience of reading poetry aloud is to create a critical conversation about America and citizenship. This event is free and open to the public.
Sekou Sundiata is a nationally acclaimed poet and poetry activist from New York. He is recognized as one of the most important figures in the spoken word and Black Arts movement. His work owes its heritage to the African oral tradition, jazz music and poetry of the Harlem Renaissance. |
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Written by Katie St Jean
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Monday, 27 November 2006 |
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Subtext continues its monthly series of experimental writing with readings by Lidia Yuknavitch & James Tierney at Richard Hugo House on Wednesday, December 6, 2006. Donations for admission will be taken at the door on the evening of the performance. The reading starts at 7:30pm.
Lidia Yuknavitch (Portland) is the author of three collections of short fictions-- Real to Reel (FC2, 2002), Her Other Mouths, and Liberty's Excess (FC2, 2000)-- and a book of criticism, Allegories of Violence (Routledge, 2000). She has been the co-editor of Northwest Edge: Deviant Fictions and the editor of two girls review. She teaches fiction writing and literature in Oregon. |
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