September 24, Friday ~ Deborah Ager, Eric Amling, Laura Hinton, Janet Holmes, Filip Marinovich & Debrah Morkun!

7 PM on September 24 @ Goodbye Blue Monday – Bushwick, Brooklyn

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Deborah Ager‘s first book, Midnight Voices, was published in 2009.
Her poems appear in Best New Poets 2006, The Bloomsbury Review, New England Review, The Georgia Review, Quarterly West and New South. She’s received fellowships from the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and she received a Walter E. Dakin Fellowship to the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. She is founding editor of 32 Poems Magazine. Many poems first appearing in 32 Poems have been honored in the Best American Poetry and Best New Poets anthologies and on Verse Daily and Poetry Daily.

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Eric Amling is the author of several chapbooks including TWIN VAPOR (Human Hair & Co.), SPLIT LEVEL IGLOO (Human Hair & Co.), and the most recent NINE LIVE TWO-HEADED ANIMALS (Greying Ghost Press). His illustrations and books can be found at www.humanhairandco.org

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Laura Hinton is the author of a poetry book, Sisyphus My Love (To Record a Dream in a Bathtub) (BlazeVox), and a critical book, The Perverse Gaze of Sympathy: Sadomasochistic Sentiments from Clarissa to Rescue 911 (SUNY Press). She is also the co-editor of We Who Love to Be Astonished: Experimental Women’s Writing and Performance Poetics (University of Alabama Press). She has edited three special sections for the online journal How2, including the current feature, “Reading Carla Harryman.” She is now at work (co-editor) of a special issue in Postmodern Culture on poet’s theater, as well as a book on women’s hybrid poetry and the arts. She is a Professor of English at the City College of New York. In New York City she edits a chapbook series, Mermaid Tenement Press, and comments on feminism and the hybrid arts at her blog site “Chant de la Sirene” (www.chantdelasirene.com).

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Janet Holmes is author of five books of poetry, most recently The ms of my kin (Shearsman) and F2F (U of Notre Dame Pr). She is also director and editor of Ahsahta Press, a 35-year-old all-poetry press based at Boise State University, and professor of English there in the MFA Program in Creative Writing.

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Filip Marinovich is the author of ZERO READERSHIP (Ugly Duckling Presse 2008) and of the forthcoming AND IF YOU DON’T GO CRAZY I’LL MEET YOU HERE TOMORROW (Ugly Duckling Presse 2011). He is a poet living in New York City.

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Debrah Morkun lives in Philadelphia, where she is the founding member of The New Philadelphia Poets, a group committed to expanding the spaces for poetry in Philadelphia. Her first full-length book, Projection Machine, was released by BlazeVox Books April 2010. View some of her work at www.debrahmorkun.com.

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Our Fall Calendar!

September 24
Deborah Ager, Eric Amling, Laura Hinton, Janet Holmes, Filip Marinovich, Debrah Morkun

October 29
Cristiana Baik, Thomas Devaney, Carla Drysdale, Ruth Lepson, Rick Reid, Michael Schiavo

November 19
Douglas Allen, Macgregor Card, Kathy Fagan, Richard Jeffrey Newman, Chris Salerno, Rob Schlegel

August 27, Friday ~ Julie Doxsee, Curtis Jensen, Jennifer Karmin, Eric Lindley, Ben Mirov and Peter Spagnuolo!

7 PM on August 27 @ Goodbye Blue Monday – Bushwick, Brooklyn

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Julie Doxsee holds a PhD from the University of Denver and is the author of Objects for a Fog Death (Black Ocean 2010) and Undersleep (Octopus Books 2008).  She teaches creative writing, literature, and academic writing at Koc University in Istanbul, Turkey, where she lives on the European side of the Bosphorus.

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Curtis Jensen works and studies in Brooklyn, but he’d rather be somewhere else. He maintains a blog at theendofwaste.blogspot.com

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Jennifer Karmin’s text-sound epic, Aaaaaaaaaaalice, was published by Flim Forum Press in 2010. She curates the Red Rover Series and is co-founder of the public art group Anti Gravity Surprise.  Her multidisciplinary projects have been presented at festivals, artist-run spaces, community centers, and on city streets across the U.S., Japan, and Kenya. A proud member of the Dusie Kollektiv, she is the author of the Dusie chapbook Evacuated: Disembodying Katrina. Walking Poem, a collaborative street project, is featured online at How2. At home in Chicago, Jennifer teaches creative writing to immigrants at Truman College and works as a Poet-in-Residence for the public schools.

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Eric Lindley is a bi-coastal artist/researcher/teacher, living with a foot in New York and a foot in Los Angeles. His work, ranging from critical/creative cross-genre writing, to biofeedback installation, to fluxus-style event scores, puppet-musicals, digital photography, experimentally-based research in cognitive linguistics, and electro-folk music, has appeared in/at: Eoagh, Antennae, Joyland, The Santa Monica Museum of Art, the CUNY graduate galleries, Telic Gallery, the Veleslavasay Panorama, Machine Project, REDCAT, the Knitting Factory, the Juliard School of Music, Pianos, the Smell, The Royal College of Music (UK), STEIM (Netherlands), and many other places that his body has occupied at one point or another. He has recently finished a book-length set of narrative, semi-fictional prose-poems, as well as two full-length albums of electronic folk music—the second as “Careful,” to be released March, 2010. Please consider submitting to his lovingly co-edited, online-and-soon-to-be-print literary journal, [out of nothing].

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Ben Mirov is the author of I IS TO VORTICISM (New Michigan Press, 2010) and GHOST MACHINE (Cakerain, 2010). He is poetry editor of LIT Magazine and general editor of pax americana. He lives in Brooklyn.

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Peter Spagnuolo is the author of the letterpress chapbooks A Squatter’s Midden and Ten by Fourteen, as well as Egg and Dart (2010). He lives in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, where his vices have wrestled his virtues to a draw.

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July 30, Friday ~ Amy De’Ath, Octavio R. Gonzalez, Gordon Massman, Tracy O Connor, Joanna Ruocco, Kate Schapira & Dustin Williamson!

7 PM on July 30 @ Goodbye Blue Monday – Bushwick, Brooklyn

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Amy De’Ath studied American Literature with Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia and at Temple University in Philadelphia. Her poems have appeared in Onedit, QUID and others. Crater Press recently published her broadside, Andromeda, The World Works for Me. She has two short books forthcoming in 2010. Her first collection will be published by Salt, and a chapbook will be coming out from Oystercatcher later in the year. Her poetry blog can be found at www.amydeath.wordpress.com. “Amy De’Ath is the new fire for mortals. She peoples space. She plays tricks with the gods and with her readers. This is personal, and it’s hot shit.” — Marcus Slease

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Octavio Gonzalez is a Dominican-American poet from Santo Domingo and Brooklyn, N.Y.  He teaches literature and composition at Rutgers University, where he is a doctoral student in English. Some of his work appears online and in print, in Puerto del Sol, OCHO, MiPoesias, and other journals. His first chapbook, The Book of Ours, has just been published by Momotombo Press.

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Attempting with the scientist’s objectivity, Gordon Massman has numbered over twenty-one hundred slices of his psyche in order to discover his most basic urges, motives, fears, addictions, and desires. He aspires to be the literary human genome project, and in doing so, unearth as fearlessly as possible aspects not only of his own, but those of the universal male psychology. Tarpaulin Sky Press recently published his collection, The Essential Numbers. This summer Spork Press will release a chapbook of this work.

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Traci O Connor’s first collection of fiction, Recipes For Endangered Species, was recently released by Tarpaulin Sky Press, and she has published fictions and poems in various journals and magazines, including Mid-American Review, Gargoyle, DIAGRAM, LIT Magazine, The Pinch, H_NGM_N, Fourteen Hills, Margie, Green Mountains Review, Sidebrow, Barrowstreet, CV2 and Poet Lore. Traci’s currently at work on a collection of flash-memoirs about her Mormon childhood called Shell-Shaped Pieces of Bone and a second collection of short stories. She teaches writing and literature at Guilford College in Greensboro, North Carolina where she lives with her spouse—the writer, Jackson Connor—their four children, one labradoodle, and a ‘cat.’

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Joanna Ruocco lives in Denver, Colorado. She is the author of a novel, The Mothering Coven, published by Ellipsis Press, and a short story collection, Man’s Companions, published by Tarpaulin Sky. She co-edits Birkensnake, a fiction journal, with Brian Conn.

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Kate Schapira is the author of TOWN (Factory School, Heretical Texts, 2010) and several chapbooks from Flying Guillotine Press, Cy Gist Press, horse less press, Rope-A-Dope Press and Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs. She runs the Publicly Complex reading series in Providence, RI.

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Dustin Williamson is the author of Obstructed View (Salacious Banter), Exhausted Grunts (Cannibal), and Gorilla Dust (Open 24 Hours). He publishes Rust Buckle Books, and is the current Monday night coordinator at the Poetry Project in NYC.

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Goodbye Blue Monday

1087 Broadway
(corner of Dodworth St)
Brooklyn, NY 11221-3013 (718) 453-6343

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or J train to Kosciusko St

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Hosted by Amy King and Ana Božičević

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Listeners will receive one-of-a-kind hand-painted, hand-made & signed copies of Syllabic Verse by Bill Knott. First to come, first to receive one of these rare books!

Popsickle Literary Festival, July 24 & 25 – and an announcement

Dear Stain-goers,

Before we tell you all about the next poetry extravaganza from Stain, we have an exciting announcement for you. As of 2011, Stain of Poetry will be directed by three brilliant new curators: the poets Steven Karl, Erika Moya, and Christie Ann Reynolds. The Stain of Poetry founder Amy King & her co-director Ana Božičević — ie, we — will bow out to focus on our new books and on editing the soon-to-launch e-journal ESQUE.

Our incoming trio of curators will introduce themselves to you at POPSICKLE: A Festival of Literary Arts on July 24 & 25, where they will host the Stain portion of the readings, as well as at regularly scheduled Stain readings throughout the summer and fall. Don’t worry, we (Amy and Ana) will be around till the close of year, so there will be plenty of opportunity to raise glasses of sake lemonade together. We are so excited to welcome Steven, Erika & Christie Ann to Stain of Poetry!

The next Stain reading will be part of POPSICKLE: A Festival of Literary Arts:

POPSICKLE 2010 unites Brooklyn’s literary curators for a two-day festival of readings, performances and screenings. The festival will take place on July 24th and 25th, from 3-8 PM on Saturday July 24th & 1-5 PM on Sunday July 25th.

POPSICKLE will take place at Bushwick’s beloved MARKET HOTEL at 1142 Myrtle Ave, Brooklyn.

Readers for the Festival include:

Ben Fama, Brett Price & Dani Leventhal, Carter Edwards, Dan Magers, Eddie Hopely, Emily Pettit, Evan Burton, Gina Abelkop, James Copeland, Joshua Mehigan, Lauren, Russell, Leigh Stein, Marc Nasdor, Michael Barron, Natalie Lyalin, Nicole Trigg, Paige Taggart, Timothy Donnelly and more.

Curated by the series organizers of the following: Body Actualized Control, The Bushwick Reading Series, CROWD, POETRY Time at SPACE SPACE, STAIN, and SUPERMACHINE.

Show up on July 24th and 25 for Bushwick’s first monster literary festival, and visit http://popsicklefestival.blogspot.com/ for updates.

June 25, Friday ~ James Belflower, Claire Hero, Shelly Taylor, Matthew Thorburn, Kim Gek Lin Short & Wendy Wisner

June 25 @ Goodbye Blue Monday – Bushwick, Brooklyn

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James Belflower is the author of Commuter (Instance Press) and And Also a Fountain, (NeOpepper Press) a collaborative echap with Anne Heide and J. Michael Martinez. Commuter was recently voted the 2009 “Best Book Length Long Poem/Sequence” by ColdFront magazine. He curates PotLatchpoetry.org, a website dedicated to the gifting and exchange of poetry resources. He received a BA in music composition from Arizona State University before attending the University of Colorado, Boulder, for his M.A. in Creative Writing. Belflower currently resides in New York and is pursuing a PhD in poetics at SUNY Albany.

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Claire Hero is the author of Sing, Mongrel (Noemi Press 2009) and two chapbooks: afterpastures, winner of the 2007 Caketrain Chapbook Competition, and Cabinet (dancing girl press).  She lives in upstate New York.

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Shelly Taylor is the author of two poetry chapbooks, Peaches the Yes-Girl (Portable Press of Yo-Yo Labs, 2008) & Land Wide to Get a Hold Lost In (Dancing Girl Press, 2009). Black-Eyed Heifer(Tarpaulin Sky Press, May 2010) is her first full collection. Born in southern Georgia, she currently resides in Tucson, Arizona.

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Matthew Thorburn is the author of a book of poems, Subject to Change, and a chapbook, the long poem Disappears in the Rain. He is the recipient of a 2008 Witter Bynner Fellowship from the Library of Congress. Currently, he’s working on two new book projects: Every Possible Blue, a collection of poems about artists and their work, and Snow in Early Spring, a series of poems set in China, Iceland and Japan. He lives in The Bronx and works as a marketing manager for an international law firm.

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Kim Gek Lin Short is the author of The Bugging Watch & Other Exhibits and the forthcoming China Cowboy, both from Tarpaulin Sky Press. Her chapbooks include The Residents (dancing girl press) and Run (Rope-a-Dope). She lives in Philadelphia with her family.

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Wendy Wisner‘s first book of poems, Epicenter, was published by CW Books in 2004. Her poems have appeared in The Spoon River Review, Rhino, Natural Bridge, The Bellevue Literary Review, online at Verse Daily, and elsewhere. Wendy previously taught writing and literature at Hunter College, and is now an at-home mom to her two-year-old son. Visit Wendy on the web at http://www.wendywisner.com.

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Goodbye Blue Monday

1087 Broadway
(corner of Dodworth St)
Brooklyn, NY 11221-3013 (718) 453-6343

J M Z trains to Myrtle Ave
or J train to Kosciusko St

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Hosted by Amy King and Ana Božičević

our summer calendar!

Dog days of summer? Why who says so. With a trio of stellar readings lined up for you, Stain is all about the summer in the city!

June 25
James Belflower, Claire Hero, Shelly Taylor, Matthew Thorburn, Kim Gek Lin Short, Wendy Wisner

July 30
Amy De’Ath, Octavio R. Gonzalez, Gordon Massman, Tracy O Connor, Joanna Ruocco, Kate Schapira, Dustin Williamson

August 27
Julie Doxsee, Curtis Jensen, Jennifer Karmin, Eric Lindley, Ben Mirov, Peter Spagnuolo

Stay tuned for details.

A & A

May 21, Friday ~ Melissa Buzzeo, Hugh Behm-Steinberg, Todd Colby, Christie Ann Reynolds, Jared Stanley & Rachel Zolf!

May 21 @ 7 p.m. Goodbye Blue Monday – Bushwick, Brooklyn

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Melissa Buzzeo teaches at St. John’s University, and has taught at Brown, Pratt, and The University of Iowa. She is the author of two perfect bound books (What Began Us, 2007 and Face, 2009), and three chapbooks. In addition, her work has been translated into both French and Catalan. From NY originally, she holds degrees from both Cornell University and The University of Iowa’s Writing Workshop.

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Hugh Behm-Steinberg is the author of Shy Green Fields (No Tell Books) and Sorcery (Dusie Chapbook Kollektiv). His poems can be found in such places as Crowd, VeRT, Volt, Spork, Cue, Slope, Aught, Fence, Swerve, Dirt, Ditch, Zeek and Sweet, as well as some other places with more than one syllable such as New American Writing and foam:e. He teaches in the graduate writing program at California College of the Arts, where he edits the journal Eleven Eleven.

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Todd Colby is the author of Tremble & Shine and Riot in the Charm Factory: New and Selected Work, both from Soft Skull Press, and the editor of Heights of the Marvelous: A New York Anthology (St. Martins Press). He has appeared in numerous poetry anthologies, including Short Fuse: A World Anthology of Poetry, The Portable Boog Reader, Word Up: Spoken Word Poetry in Print, Verses That Hurt, Revival: Spoken Word from Lollapalooza, and Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Café. Colby has performed his poetry on PBS, MTV, and Canada’s Much Music Network. He has produced many collaborative books and paintings with the artist David Lantow and was the lyricist and vocalist for the now-legendary New York band Drunken Boat.

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Christie Ann Reynolds‘ manuscript, idiot heart was the 2009 winner of The New School Chapbook Competition. She has an MFA in Poetry, a BA in English and an MsEd in Secondary Education. Christie Ann is a member of The Poetry Brothel and her work can be found or is forthcoming in BlazeVox, My Name is Mud, Robot Melon, Sub-Lit, Critiphoria, and others. A short collection is forthcoming from Supermachine this summer.

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Jared Stanley is the author of Book Made of Forest (Salt 2009) and the chapbooks I Something Scott Inguito You, The Outer Bay, and In Fortune. With Lauren Levin and Catherine Meng, he edits Mrs. Maybe. He grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and currently lives in the San Joaquin Valley of California.

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Rachel Zolf‘s fourth full-length book, Neighbour Procedure, was recently released by Coach House Books. Previous collections include Human Resources (Coach House), which won the 2008 Trillium Book Award for Poetry and was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award, Masque (The Mercury Press), Shoot & Weep (Nomados), from Human Resources (Belladonna books) and Her absence, this wanderer (BuschekBooks). Zolf’s work has appeared in journals throughout North America and in anthologies such as Prismatic Publics: Innovative Canadian Women’s Poetry and Poetics (Coach House) and a forthcoming anthology of conceptual writing from Les Figues Press. She was the founding poetry editor for The Walrus magazine and has edited several books of poetry. Zolf lives in New York.

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Goodbye Blue Monday

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(corner of Dodworth St)
Brooklyn, NY 11221-3013 (718) 453-6343

J M Z trains to Myrtle Ave
or J train to Kosciusko St

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Hosted by Amy King and Ana Božičević

April 30, Friday ~ Sandy Florian, Lara Glenum, Lesley Jenike, Saeed Jones, Metta Sama & Tom Sleigh!

April 30 @ 7 p.m. Goodbye Blue Monday – Bushwick, Brooklyn

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Sandy Florian is the author of Telescope (Action Books), 32 Pedals & 47 Stops (Tarpaulin Sky), The Tree of No (Action Books), Prelude to Air From Water (Elixir Press), and On Wonderland & Waste (Sidebrow Press). She lives in San Francisco where she is an affiliate artist at Headlands Center for the Arts and works as one of the “other” editors for Tarpaulin Sky Journal. For more information, visit her blog at http://boxingthecompass.blogspot.com

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Lara Glenum is a poet, scholar, and translator. She is the author of two books of poetry: The Hounds of No (Action Books, 2005) and Maximum Gaga (Action Books, 2009). Her chapbook, The Hotling Chronicles, is due out from Tarpaulin Sky later this year. With Arielle Greenberg, she is the co-editor of Gurlesque, an anthology of contemporary women’s poetry and visual art (Saturnalia Books, 2010). She has recently been collaborating with sound, visual, and digital media artists on Meat Out of the Eater [hyperlink: http://vimeo.com/7215889], a multimedia installation. She teaches in the MFA program in Creative Writing at LSU.

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Lesley Jenike is the author of Ghost of Fashion (CustomWords, 2009). She is a native of Cincinnati, OH and received her doctorate from the University of Cincinnati in 2008. Her poems have appeared in POOL, Court Green, Brooklyn Review, Gulf Coast, Sou’Wester, Verse, Alaska Quarterly Review, Forklift, Ohio, Washington Square, Crab Orchard Review, and others. She’s currently Assistant Professor of English at Columbus College of Art and Design.

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Saeed Jones is currently completing his MFA in Creative Writing at Rutgers University – Newark. He’s a graduate of Western Kentucky University where he won the Jim Wayne Miller Award for Poetry. While at Western, he was the poetry editor for Rise Over Run Magazine. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in publications like StorySouth, Barnwood Magazine, Splinter Generation, The Adirondack Review, Mary, and Ganymede. He blogs regularly at saeedjones.wordpress.com

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Metta Sama says: I am a poet, professor, activist, painter, collage artist, fiction and essay writer. My poetry, currently, looks at instabilities in writings by persons subjected to various forms of oppression. I am interested in the joy of making and creating art and stories and images that will, eventually, disintegrate, return to the source it came from. I question what it means to make thoughts, ideas, & feelings stable, to devote oneself to immortality. My work has appeared in Proud Flesh Journal, The Drunken Boat, Blackbird, Paterson Literary Review, Yellow Medicine Review, Crab Orchard, and other journals, & I am the author of one published collection of poems.

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Tom Sleigh’s most recent book of poetry, Space Walk (Houghton Mifflin, 2007), won the 2008 Kingsley Tufts Award. His book of essays, Interview with a Ghost, was published by Graywolf Press in 2006. He has also published After One, Waking, The Chain, The Dreamhouse, Far Side of the Earth, Bula Matari/Smasher of Rocks, and a translation of Euripides’ Herakles. He has won the Shelley Prize from the PSA, and grants from the Lila Wallace Fund, American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Guggenheim and NEA. His new book, Army Cats, is forthcoming in spring, 2011, from Graywolf Press. He teaches in the MFA Program at Hunter College.

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Goodbye Blue Monday

1087 Broadway
(corner of Dodworth St)
Brooklyn, NY 11221-3013 (718) 453-6343

J M Z trains to Myrtle Ave
or J train to Kosciusko St

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Hosted by Amy King and Ana Božičević

March 26, Friday ~ Jessica Bozek, Melissa Broder, Jackie Clark, Cate Marvin, Brett Eugene Ralph & Stephanie Whited!

March 26 @ 7 p.m. Goodbye Blue Monday – Bushwick, Brooklyn

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Jessica Bozek is the author of The Bodyfeel Lexicon (Switchback Books) and several chapbooks. Recent poems appear in Action, Yes, Artifice, Fairy Tale Review, P-QUEUE, and Womb. Jessica runs Small Animal Project (smallanimalproject.com), a reading series and web-text experiment based in Cambridge, MA.

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Melissa Broder is the author of WHEN YOU SAY ONE THING BUT MEAN YOUR MOTHER (Ampersand Books, February 2010). She is the curator of the Polestar Poetry Series and the Chief Editor of La Petite Zine. Broder received her BA from Tufts University and is currently in the MFA program at CCNY. She is the winner of the Jerome Lowell Dejur Award and the Stark Prize for Poetry. By day, she works as a literary publicist. Her poems have appeared in many journals, including: Opium, Shampoo, Conte and The Del Sol Review.

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Jackie Clark is currently co-editor-in-chief for LIT magazine. She also curates Poets off Poetry at coldfrontmag.com, where poets write about music. Her chapbook Office Work is forthcoming from Greying Ghost Press. She lives in Jersey City.

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Cate Marvin‘s first book, World’s Tallest Disaster, was chosen by Robert Pinksy for the 2000 Kathryn A. Morton Prize and published by Sarabande Books in 2001. In 2002, she received the Kate Tufts Discovery Prize. Her poems have appeared in The New England Review, Poetry, The Kenyon Review, Fence, The Paris Review, The Cincinnati Review, Slate, Verse, Boston Review, and Ninth Letter. She is co-editor with poet Michael Dumanis of the anthology Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century (Sarabande Books, 2006). Her second book of poems, Fragment of the Head of a Queen, was published by Sarabande in August 2007. A recent Whiting Award recipient and 2007 NYFA Gregory Millard Fellow, she teaches poetry writing in Lesley University’s Low-Residency M.F.A. Program and is an associate professor in creative writing at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York.

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Brett Eugene Ralph spent the better part of his youth in Louisville, Kentucky, playing football and singing in punk rock bands. His work has appeared in journals such as Conduit, Mudfish, Willow Springs, and The American Poetry Review; it has been anthologized in The McSweeney’s Book of Poets Picking Poets and The Stiffest of the Corpse: An Exquisite Corpse Reader. His first full-length collection, Black Sabbatical, was published by Sarabande Books in 2009. Brett has taught at the University of Massachusetts, Missouri State University, and the Central Institute of Buddhist Studies in the Himalayas of northern India. Currently, he lives in Empire, Kentucky, and teaches at Hopkinsville Community College. His country rock ensemble, Brett Eugene Ralph’s Kentucky Chrome Revue, can be heard in seedy dives throughout the South.

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A New Yorker since 2001, Stephanie Whited received her BA in Psychology in 2005 from NYU which has greatly influenced her poetry. She trades her time and attention for writing, mentoring, advocating alternative health, and acting. You can find a few of her poems in the second issue of Spine Road. This is her first reading.

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Goodbye Blue Monday
1087 Broadway
(corner of Dodworth St)
Brooklyn, NY 11221-3013
(718) 453-6343

J M Z trains to Myrtle Ave
or J train to Kosciusko St

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Hosted by Amy King and Ana Božičević