October 30, Friday ~ Cara Benson, Elizabeth Bryant, Carla Drysdale, Brenda Iijima, Magus Magnus & Moez Surani

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

with special guest host Julian Brolaski!

Cara Benson edits Sous Rature. Her first full length book (made) is forthcoming from BookThug in 2010. Her chapbook Quantum Chaos and Poems: A Manifest(o)ation (BookThug) co-won the 2008 bpNichol Prize. Other chaps include He Writes (No Press), UP (Dusie Kollectiv), and Spell/ing ( ) Bound (ellectrique press) with Kai Fierle-Hedrick and Kathrin Schaeppi. Benson edited the interdisciplinary book Prediction forthcoming from Chain. She lives and writes in the analog world of upstate NY. Her online home is necessetics.

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Elizabeth Bryant’s newest book, (nevertheless enjoyment, is forthcoming fall 2009 from Quale Press. Her writing appears in many print and online journals including Wheelhouse Magazine, Coconut, Dusie, Bombay Gin, Key Satch(el), Gerry Mulligan, and Intercapillary Space. She is the editor of CR79 Books, and the ongoing writing experiment Defeffable. She also co-curates the Bard Roving Reading Series.

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Carla Drysdale was born in London, Ontario and was educated at Ryerson university in Toronto as well as Sarah Lawrence College in New York. Her poems have appeared in Canadian and US journals, including the Literary Review of Canada, Canadian Literature, the Fiddlehead, Global City Review, The Same and LIT. She has won several fellowships to the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, where she collaborated with Pulitzer-prize winning composer David Del Tredici, who set her poem, ‘New Year’s Eve’ to music. She recently relocated from NYC to Geneva, Switzerland, where she works as a public radio journalist. Her first book of poems, Little Venus, is being published in October by Toronto’s Tightrope Books.

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Brenda Iijima is the author of Animate, Inanimate Aims (Litmus Books) and Around Sea (O Books). Two books are forthcoming in the near future: revv. you’ll—ution (Displaced Press) and If Not Metamorphic (Ahsahta Press). She is currently researching all the women who were murdered in her hometown of North Adams, Massachusetts as well as writing an encyclopedia of animals used by humans as surrogates. She publishes chapbooks on Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs.

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Magus Magnus‘ Verb Sap came out from Narrow House of Baltimore in autumn of 2008. Pieces from this work also form the basis of an ongoing experimental musical collaboration with flutist Jennifer Lapple, titled “Verb Sap recitative.” Over the past year, M.’s online radio show on blogtalkradio, titled “MMm… Utterance” featured readings from Verb Sap, some earlier work, and from his upcoming book Imposter!: instances, regrets. M. reads regularly around the Baltimore-D.C. area, and his work has appeared in Viviparous Blenny, Shattered Wig Review, the ie Reader, and more; as director of Yockadot Poetics Theatre Project, he enjoys showcasing poets and performers dedicated to exploring the variety of ways text can be induced to leap off the page live. M. lives in Alexandria, Virginia, with his wife Manya Magnus, and their two children, Hero (age 9), and Gryphon (about to turn 4).

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Moez Surani’s poetry and short fiction have been published widely in Canada. He has served as a writer-in-residence for the Toronto Catholic District School Board and curator for the Strong Words Reading Series in Toronto. Among his awards is a 2008 Chalmers Arts Fellowship, which supported an extended research stint to India and East Africa. His debut collection of poems (September, 2009) is titled Reticent Bodies.

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Julian T. Brolaski is the author of the chapbooks Hellish Death Monsters (Spooky Press, 2001), Letters to Hank Williams (True West Press, 2003), The Daily Usonian (Atticus/Finch, 2004) and Madame Bovary’s Diary (Cy Press, 2005), Buck in a Corridor (flynpyntar, 2008) and the blog herm of warsaw. Xir first book gowanus atropolis is forthcoming from Ugly Duckling Presse in 2010. Brolaski lives in Brooklyn where xe writes poetry, serves as a Litmus Press editor, plays country music in The Low & the Lonesome (www.myspace.com/thelowandthelonesome), and curates Mongrel Vaudeville (http://mongrelvaudeville.blogspot.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

November 20, Friday ~ Lily Brown, Dorothea Lasky, DéLana R.A. Dameron, Akilah Oliver, Lytton Smith & Joshua Marie Wilkinson

November 20 @ 7 p.m. – Goodbye Blue Monday – Bushwick, Brooklyn

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Lily Brown is from Massachusetts and currently lives in Chicago and in Athens, where she is a student in the Ph.D. program at UGA.  She holds an M.F.A. from Saint Mary’s College, and her poems have appeared or will appear in Fence, Pleiades, Denver Quarterly, 26, Handsome, and Tarpaulin Sky, among other journals.  She is the author of two chapbooks, The Renaissance Sheet, published by Octopus Books, and Old with You, published by Kitchen Press.  A third chapbook, Museum Armor, is forthcoming from Doublecross Press.

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Dorothea Lasky is the author of AWE (Wave Books, 2007) and Black Life (Wave Books, 2010).  Her chapbooks include Tourmaline (Transmission Press, 2008), The Hatmaker’s Wife (Braincase Press, 2006), Art (H_NGM_N Press, 2006), and Alphabets and Portraits (Anchorite Press, 2005).  She has been educated at Washington University, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and Harvard University. Currently, she studies creativity and education at the University of Pennsylvania.

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DéLana R.A. Dameron holds a B.A. in history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and has a strong interest in the intersections of history and literature. Her first book of poems How God Ends Us won the 2008 South Carolina Poetry Book prize, selected by Elizabeth Alexander. She has received fellowships from the Cave Canem foundation and Soul Mountain and is a member of the Carolina African American Writer’s Collective. Dameron, a native of Columbia, South Carolina, currently resides in New York City. More at www.delanadameron.com.

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Akilah Oliver is the author of A Toast in the House of Friends (Coffee House Press, 2009), The Putterer’s Notebook (Belladonna, 2007), (a)August (Yo-Yo Labs, 2006), and the she said dialogues: flesh memory (Smokeproof/Erudite Fangs, 2009). She is the recipient of the PEN Beyond Margins Award, and her poetry with collaborator Ambrose Bye and Anne Waldman can be heard on the new CD, Matching Half. Oliver has been artist-in-residence at Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center in Los Angeles, was curator for the Poetry Project’s Monday Night Reading Series, co-founder of the avant-garde feminist performance group The Sacred Naked Nature Girls, and is on the faculty of the Summer Writing Program at Naropa University. She currently lives and teaches in Brooklyn.

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Lytton Smith’s debut collection The All-Purpose Magical Tent (Nightboat Books, 2009) was selected by Terrance Hayes for the Nightboat Prize. His chapbook, Monster Theory, was chosen by Kevin Young for a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship and published in 2008. His poems and reviews have appeared in American Letters & Commentary, The Atlantic, Bateau, The Believer, Boston Review, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Ninth Letter, Tin House, Verse, and the anthology All That Mighty Heart: London Poems.

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Joshua Marie Wilkinson has two new books out:  The Book of Whispering in the Projection Booth (Tupelo, 2009), and 12×12: Conversations in 21st Poetry & Poetics (coedited by Christina Mengert; Iowa, 2009). He lives in Andersonville, Chicago and Athens, Georgia.

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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

The Stain is now blue: welcome to our new home, Goodbye Blue Monday!

(c) Nate Dorr

“Stepping inside is a little like wandering out of the desert into the cave of wonders. The main space seems to be a living room, library, and curiosity shop, with records and books spilling and cascading down from shelves around displays of antique cameras and long dead virtual pets. A couple internet-equipped computers and a bar run along one wall…, while the rest of the space is given over to a comfortable assortment of benches, easy chairs, and crowded end-tables. Above the stage at the back, monolithic painted words intone “FLOTSAM JETSAM”…

We’re excited to introduce you to our new space, Goodbye Blue Monday in Bushwick! We’re in love with it and we know you will be too. Find us there in our usual Friday & Saturday night slots and revel in the beer, the “good red” wine, the “really good red” wine, sake-infused lemonade, snacks, art and books, the kickass bands following our readings, friends old and new, and your trusty Stain lineups designed to elasticize your relationship with words and generally blow your treasured minds. What is the color of ink? Blue! What is Stain’s new color? Blue! Come paint Brooklyn blue avec nous.

For more on Goodbye Blue Monday, read the article quoted above, visit the venue’s site, read rave reviews, or jump on the JMZ trains to Myrtle Ave or J to Kosciusko St & walk a few blocks to 1087 Broadway, corner of Dodworth St.

See & hear you there! ~Amy & Ana