Better Than Church: Reading @ Iota This Sunday

Just found out about this.  Thanks to Ethan for the invite and for Miles Moore for running the host series.  You should come. Danika told me she was going to bite the head off a snake and Ethan is going to be clothed in flowers.

 

Us

This Sunday, November 8th
@ 6pm
@ IOTA Club & Cafe, in Arlington, VA
:

Poetry Reading
by

Joe Hall, Danika Stegeman, Brian Brodeur and Ethan Louis Edwards

:

Joe Hall:  Mr. Hall’s work has appeared in Hayden’s Ferry Review, Versal, Cimarron Review, Handsome, and Phoebe.  His first book, Pigafetta Is My Wife, is due out from Black Ocean Press in 2010.  He also co-organizes the reading series “Cheryl’s Gone,” based in Washington, DC.

Danika Stegeman:  Ms. Stegeman’s work has appeared in the Denver Quarterly, and is forthcoming in NOÖ Journal.  She served as the poetry editor of Phoebe from 2008 to 2009.   Currently, she is a co-founder and board member of Articles Press and an editor of the poetry biannual Rooms Outlast Us.

Brian Brodeur: Mr. Brodeur is the author of Other Latitudes (2008), winner of the University of Akron Press’s 2007 Akron Poetry Prize, and So the Night Cannot Go on without Us (2007), which won the Fall 2006 White Eagle Coffee Store Press Poetry Chapbook Award. New poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Many Mountains Moving, Margie, River Styx, and online at The Missouri Review. Brian maintains the blog How a Poem Happens (http://howapoemhappens.blogspot.com/), an online anthology of interviews with contemporary American poets.

Ethan Louis Edwards:  Mr. Edwards served as the editor of Phoebe from 2008-2009.  He is a co-founder and board member of Articles Press, as well as an editor of the poetry biannual Rooms Outlast Us.

Stucky, Goransson, Pheobus: Art Happening Where I’m Not But Maybe Not Where You Aren’t

So, my friend Alyssa has another opening. A solo one. You should see it. Because I can’t. Well, maybe I will. Who wants to go to New York?
To Have, HoldSolo exhibition at Tracy Williams, Ltd., New York November 6 – December 23, 2009	OPENING NOVEMBER 6

& here’s some of the Black Ocean Crew reading–

November 6 // 7:30 PM
Janaka Stucky, Johannes Goransson
Kimberly King Parsons, Kit Kalnay, Helen Rubinstein

At Earshot Reading Series
EARSHOT is held at Rose Live Music, located in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

Rose Live Music
345 Grand Street (b/w Havemeyer & Marcy)
Brooklyn, NY 11211
(718) 599-0069

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Ah, New York…

OCTOBER CHERYL’S GONE: GREEN, ESTEFAN, & EVENNOU

You really should–

October 22, 8pm

poetry from
Kareem Estefan
& Danielle Evennou

and fiction by
David Green

Big Bear Cafe
1st and R NW
Washington DC
(free)

Kareem Estefan is a writer and radio producer. He hosted the radio show Ceptuetics, a WNYU program investigating the poetics of conceptually innovative writers. His own writing shows up in Google searches, on blogs, and soon, in poetry journals called “President’s Choice” and “The Physical Poets.” He has begun a new blog. It’s called disco (not disconnect).

Danielle Evennou has served as board president of the DC women’s spokenword organization, mothertongue (now entering its 11th year!) coordinating/hosting regular spokenword events and projects.  She also serves as a co-host for Sparkle:  a queer-driven reading series for all, at Busboys & Poets. Danielle was a featured reader at Queering Sound 2009, Capital Pride 2009, and Poetic Situations, as well as at Sparkle. Her poems have been published in Blue Collar Review and Objet d’Art and an essay on U.S. Poet Laureate Kay Ryan is forthcoming in the Fall 2009 edition of Beltway Poetry Quarterly.

David Green lives in Arlington, Virginia and works at the National Foreign Language Center at the University of Maryland. He is in the third year of his MFA at UMD and is the co-founder and editor of Sakura Review. His work was a finalist in Arts & Letters‘ 2007 fiction competition.

More  here: www.cherylsgone.com