Halloween Poet Parade hosted by Bloof Books!

Sunday, October 30
6:00pm - 9:00pm
West Village, NYC

A parade of poets through the West Village, on the eve of All Hallows' Eve.

Costumed performances by...

Hanna Andrews
Shanna Compton
Marisa Crawford
Nada Gordon
Jennifer Michael Hecht (new addition!)
Becca Klaver
Jennifer L. Knox
Mark Lamoureux
Sharon Mesmer
K. Silem Mohammad
Danielle Pafunda
Jennifer Tamayo

Map with route and reading points will be available at a later date, but we will likely be hitting Washington Square Park, Jefferson Market & Library, and other public spots in the West Village. (March with us, or meet us along the way.)

Start/End stop:

THE FOUR-FACED LIAR
http://www.thefour-facedliar.com/
165 West 4th Street,
(Between 6th and 7th Avenues)
New York, NY 10014
Phone: (212) 206 8959

OPEN MIKE portion after parade finale. (Sign up at the event. Costumes encouraged!) 


[RSVP on Facebook]

Review of LA Liminal at The Rumpus

Thanks, Lauren Eggert-Crowe, for calling the me of LA Liminal "a woman who failed Manifest Destiny."

True true true.

Here's the review.

Krystal Languell's Call the Catastrophists

is now available from BlazeVox, hurrah!

The first thing I love about these poems is that they are breathless because they are urgent:

A process occurs when you give up your language and start calling things by new names but there’s not a term for how new phrases infiltrate your reflex it starts with the gutturals and when you try to give it up try to back out the primal language dialects but you will understand shouts of surprise from the last place to wipe clean.

The second thing I love is that they are unflinching, which also makes them really funny -- humor of the delightfully-dark variety:

when I hear the word culture I reach for my checkbook

There's lots more to love.

My review of Gina Myers' A MODEL YEAR

is now up in the October issue of Open Letters Monthly. Here's an excerpt:

A devoted elegist throughout A Model Year, Myers knows that the simple act of placing a real object in a poem becomes an elegiac act, one that evokes that thing upon each reading while marking its disappearance in the real world. In the elegists of the micro (Williams, Berrigan) and macro (Kafka, Rilke), Myers finds solace and poetic company. Their words, too, become the stuff of this world. 

Read the rest here, and buy A Model Year from Coconut Books!