Publication Fair in Portland, 12/20/09

[poster by omfgco]

I'm very excited to be participating in this event for small and smaller publishers in Portland. I'll have a table with issues of Peaches and Bats (including brand new number 5!), plus some items from the Airfoil chapbook series, and possibly some issues of David Abel's Envelope series of free broadsheets. 

Here's the info: 

Please come to the Publication Fair this Sunday, 11am-6pm at The Cleaners at the Ace Hotel (SW Stark between 10th + 11th).  See the best in books, magazines, and printed matter from your favorite PDX printers, publishers, and publication vendors. Enjoy popcorn balls and hot cider. Take part in free public info sessions about the ins & outs of future publication. Buy great books!  

Among the participants:

Ace Hotel / Ampersand / Container Corps / Cooley Gallery / Dill Pickle Club / EM-SPACE / fourteen30 Contemporary / Hawthorne Books / IPRC / Mark Searcy / Marriage Publishing House / Publication Studio / Octopus Books / Official Manufacturing Co. / Ooligan Press / Peaches + Bats / PICA / Pinball Publishing / Reading Frenzy / Red 76 / Stand Up Comedy

For more information visit: http://www.publicationstudio.biz/events/

marathon reading of THE CRYSTAL TEXT, 12/19/09

[poster by Sam Lohmann and James Yeary]

Saturday, December 19

from noon till quits (around 5?)

Spare Room presents

a marathon reading of Clark Coolidge's book-length poem

The Crystal Text

at The Waypost

3120 N. Williams Ave.

free--come or go at will

The readers will be: David Abel, Meredith Blankinship, Joseph Bradshaw, Jen Burris, Allison Cobb, Jen Coleman, Endi Hartigan, Patrick Hartigan, Rodney Koeneke, Maryrose Larkin, Sam Lohmann, Jesse Morse, Mark Owens, and James Yeary.

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Is this the only way I can now speak, arms

on a board to a dumb stone? The silence

of written words is perhaps correct for this

connection. An off-note to think of oneself

shouting against wall of crystal. Better to breathe

on it, dampening and misting its striations. Best

to be writing (whatever?) here in this book

in its presence. The window glass is but a 

gross imitation of the crystal, as speech is of poetry.

As a closed book is the strength of a hand

brought to a perfection. Poetry is the closed voice?

--The Crystal Text

Curry and Vassilakis, 11/29/09

Sunday, November 29, at 7:30 pm
Spare Room presents a poetry reading by

Crystal Curry
&
Nico Vassilakis

Concordia Coffee House
2909 NE Alberta Street, Portland
$5 suggested donation

Peaches and Bats Reading in New York Today

I will be happy to see you.

Boog City presents

d.a. levy lives: celebrating the renegade press

 

Peaches and Bats

(Portland, Ore.)

 

Tues., Oct. 27, 6:00 p.m. sharp, free

 

ACA Galleries

529 W. 20th St., 5th Flr.

NYC

 

Event will be hosted by 

Peaches and Bats editor Sam Lohmann

Featuring readings from

Marcella Durand

Lohmann

Eléna Rivera

David Shapiro

and music from

Ann Adachi and friends

There will be wine, cheese, and crackers, too.

Curated and with an introduction by Boog City editor David Kirschenbaum

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**Peaches and Bats

Peaches and Bats is a digest-sized magazine of poetry (plus occasional interviews, fiction, drawings, and cross-genre work), edited and assembled by Sam Lohmann in Portland, Ore. Originally an annual publication, and now appearing twice a year, Peaches and Bats assembles surprising combinations of innovative writing from a variety of traditions and communities, stitching them by hand between letterpressed covers. The current (fourth) issue features work by Tom Blood, Laynie Browne, Marcella Durand, Lohmann, Jesse Morse, Mickey O’Connor, Eléna Rivera, Andrei Sen-Senkov (translated by Zachary Schomburg), David Shapiro, and Phoebe Wayne. 

*Performer Bios*

**Ann Adachi**

http://www.rasbliutto.net/concerts/eidolon.html

Ann Adachi was born in New York City in 1983. She began classical piano studies in Nasu, Japan, and continued lessons after moving to Olympia, Wash. She studied composition at Brevard College in North Carolina and Berklee College of Music in Boston. Adachi's acoustic and electronic compositions are sometimes combined with performance and video work. She wrote for, and performed in, the acoustic ensemble Eidolon, which recently finished its residency at Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Swing Space program. Recordings of the ensemble are available at the above url.

**Marcella Durand**

http://translationworkshop.blogspot.com/

Marcella Durand is the author of, most recently, AREA (Belladonna Books) and Traffic and Weather (Futurepoem books). The poems in this issue are part of an ongoing collaboration with the visual artist Karoline Schleh. Her blog about translation can be seen at the above url.

**Sam Lohmann**

Sam Lohmann edits Peaches and Bats. His chapbook Onlooking is forthcoming from Airfoil. 

**Eléna Rivera**

http://elenarivera.net/

Eléna Rivera’s recent publications include Mistakes, Accidents and the Want of Liberty (Barque Press) and the online chapbook, In Respect of Distance (Beard of Bees). Her translation of Isabelle Baladine Howald’s book-length poem Secret of Breath is out from Burning Deck Press.

**David Shapiro**

http://jacketmagazine.com/37/iv-shapiro-d-ivb-kent.shtml

David Shapiro has published many books of poetry and art criticism, including New and Selected Poems (1965-2006) from Overlook Press. An extended interview by Kent Johnson is online at the above url.

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Directions:

C/E to 23rd St., 1/9 to 18th St.

Venue is bet. 10th and 11th avenues

 

Next event:

Tues. Nov. 24 

Brave Men Press (Northampton, Mass.)

http://www.bravemenpress.com/

--

David A. Kirschenbaum, editor and publisher

Boog City

330 W.28th St., Suite 6H

NY, NY 10001-4754

For event and publication information:

http://welcometoboogcity.com/

T: (212) 842-BOOG (2664)

Soon

"Science is a shack in the lava flow of ideas.

. . .

"I like the idea of quiet catastrophes taking place"

--Robert Smithson, 1970 interview

Autrey and O'Leary, 10/25/09

Sunday, October 25, at 7:30 pm
Spare Room presents a poetry reading by

Michael Autrey
and
Peter O'Leary

Concordia Coffee House
2909 NE Alberta St., Portland
$5 suggested donation

John Latta, on his lovely blog, Isola di Rifiuti, has taken very kind notice of Peaches and Bats, here and here. Thanks, John!

He quotes from issue 2's interview with Robert Kelly; the full interview is online here.

"Misdirected postcards have a poetic quality because they lack a return address."

--Aaron Peck,

The Bewilderments of Bernard Willis (2009)

P&B reading in NYC, October 27th!!!!!!!!!!

Boog City presents

d.a. levy lives: celebrating the renegade press

 

Peaches and Bats

(Portland, Ore.)

 

Tues., Oct. 27, 6:00 p.m. sharp, free

 

ACA Galleries

529 W. 20th St., 5th Flr.

NYC

 

Event will be hosted by 

Peaches and Bats editor Sam Lohmann

Featuring readings from

Marcella Durand

Lohmann

Eléna Rivera

David Shapiro

and music from

Ann Adachi and friends

There will be wine, cheese, and crackers, too.

Curated and with an introduction by Boog City editor David Kirschenbaum

------

**Peaches and Bats

Peaches and Bats is a digest-sized magazine of poetry (plus occasional interviews, fiction, drawings, and cross-genre work), edited and assembled by Sam Lohmann in Portland, Ore. Originally an annual publication, and now appearing twice a year, Peaches and Bats assembles surprising combinations of innovative writing from a variety of traditions and communities, stitching them by hand between letterpressed covers. The current (fourth) issue features work by Tom Blood, Laynie Browne, Marcella Durand, Lohmann, Jesse Morse, Mickey O’Connor, Eléna Rivera, Andrei Sen-Senkov (translated by Zachary Schomburg), David Shapiro, and Phoebe Wayne. 

*Performer Bios*

**Ann Adachi**

http://www.rasbliutto.net/concerts/eidolon.html

Ann Adachi was born in New York City in 1983. She began classical piano studies in Nasu, Japan, and continued lessons after moving to Olympia, Wash. She studied composition at Brevard College in North Carolina and Berklee College of Music in Boston. Adachi's acoustic and electronic compositions are sometimes combined with performance and video work. She wrote for, and performed in, the acoustic ensemble Eidolon, which recently finished its residency at Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Swing Space program. Recordings of the ensemble are available at the above url.

**Marcella Durand**

http://translationworkshop.blogspot.com/

Marcella Durand is the author of, most recently, AREA (Belladonna Books) and Traffic and Weather (Futurepoem books). The poems in this issue are part of an ongoing collaboration with the visual artist Karoline Schleh. Her blog about translation can be seen at the above url.

**Sam Lohmann**

Sam Lohmann edits Peaches and Bats. His chapbook Onlooking is forthcoming from Airfoil. 

**Eléna Rivera**

http://elenarivera.net/

Eléna Rivera’s recent publications include Mistakes, Accidents and the Want of Liberty (Barque Press) and the online chapbook, In Respect of Distance (Beard of Bees). Her translation of Isabelle Baladine Howald’s book-length poem Secret of Breath is out from Burning Deck Press.

**David Shapiro**

http://jacketmagazine.com/37/iv-shapiro-d-ivb-kent.shtml

David Shapiro has published many books of poetry and art criticism, including New and Selected Poems (1965-2006) from Overlook Press. An extended interview by Kent Johnson is online at the above url.

----

Directions:

C/E to 23rd St., 1/9 to 18th St.

Venue is bet. 10th and 11th avenues

 

Next event:

Tues. Nov. 24 

Brave Men Press (Northampton, Mass.)

http://www.bravemenpress.com/

--

David A. Kirschenbaum, editor and publisher

Boog City

330 W.28th St., Suite 6H

NY, NY 10001-4754

For event and publication information:

http://welcometoboogcity.com/

T: (212) 842-BOOG (2664)

Joel Felix and Phoebe Wayne, 9/20/09

Sunday, September 20 at 7 pm
Spare Room presents a poetry reading by

Joel Felix
&
Phoebe Wayne

Concordia Coffee House
2909 NE Alberta Street, Portland
$5 suggested donation

"Even if you cannot look, others will look for you. Art brings itself to a halt, but that halt has a way of unravelling itself. All the reflections expired into the thickets of Yaxchilan. One must remember that writing on art replaces presence by absence by substituting the abstraction of language for the real thing. There was a friction between the mirrors and the tree, now there is a friction between language and memory. A memory of reflections becomes an absence of absences."

--Robert Smithson, 

"Incidents of Mirror-Travel in theYúcutan" (1968)

"Passaic center loomed like a dull adjective. Each 'store' in it was an adjective unto the next, a chain of adjectives disguised as stores."

--Robert Smithson, "Monuments of Passaic, NJ"

"If this is outer space, any closet will do."

--Bochner and Smithson, "In the Domain of the Great Bear" (1966)

Peaches and Bats launch reading, 8/27

Reading Frenzy and "The Firm and Aerie"
invite you to a publication party for
Peaches and Bats 4

with readings by
Sam Lohmann
Jesse Morse
Phoebe Wayne

Thursday, August 27
at 7 pm
Reading Frenzy
921 SW Oak Street, Portland
free

Baus and Foust, 8/16/09

Sunday, August 16

at 7:30 pm

Spare Room presents a poetry reading by

Eric Baus

&

Graham Foust

Concordia Coffee House

2909 NE Alberta St.

$5 suggested donation

On Hold

by Elaine Equi

Sucking on the pacifier of my iced tall latte.           

                                   

*

White butterflies: flying lint.

 

*

My tattoo reads: Whatever you think I’m doing, I’m not doing it.

 

*

Sticky self lugged around.

Poison monopoly mouse and trap.

 

*

Okay, let’s meet at Duane Reade, but this time use my name.

 

*

After years and years, it’s finally dawned on us.

Art is not an object, but a way of looking at an object.

 

*

That’s a real Chucky painting.

 

*

Only 39, 38, 37 more steps to the Holy Grail of Ice Cream.

 

*

dog days

kerosene breeze

 

cartoonish faces

heckled by light

 

*

My hair doesn’t do stringy. Frizzy, yes; stringy, no.

 

*

tamales! tamales!

orchids! orchids!

 

torchids      ormales

 

*

 

Are you feeling super imposed on?

 

*

Three heads are better than two.

 

*

Autumn Mutability

Drip-dry Rain

Net of Dust

 

*

We’ve had this lack of conversation before.

 

*

Please be patient. Prayers are being answered in the order in which

they were received.

(from Peaches and Bats 3)