Andrew Joron and Andrew Zawacki at Concordia Coffee House, 2/8/09

Sunday, February 8th

at 7:30pm

Spare Room presents

a poetry reading by

Andrew Joron

&

Andrew Zawacki

Concordia Coffee House

2909 NE Alberta Street

$5 suggested donation 

Laynie Browne and Jared Hayes at Concordia Coffee House, 2/1/09

Sunday, February 1st

at 7:30pm

Spare Room presents

a poetry reading by

Laynie Browne 

& 

Jared Hayes

Concordia Coffee House

2909 NE Alberta Street

$5 suggested donation

Spare Room Turns 100!

The Spare Room reading series celebrates seven years of presenting experimental writing in Portland with a marathon hundredth reading

Spare Room organizers past and present (with friends) will read

100 Poems by 100 Poets from the Past 100 Years

Sunday, January 25

starting at 2:00 pm 

ending when we finish (6:00? 7:00?)

Free admission

Gallery Homeland 

(at the Ford Building)

2505 SE 11th Avenue

www.galleryhomeland.org

www.flim.com/spareroom

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 From Helen Adam to Louis Zukofsky, from Futurism to Personism, from Hiroshima to Blackhawk Island, from a Polish count to a Peruvian communist, from Dada to MoMA, from prisoners of war to secret agents, from mimeographers to bloggers . . . come hear a small but representative slice of the extraordinary range of poetries practiced in the past century!

Readers will include:

David Abel • Meredith Blankinship • Joseph Bradshaw • Alicia Cohen • Gale Czerski • Laura Feldman • Patrick Hartigan • Lindsay Hill • Rodney Koeneke • Maryrose Larkin • Sam Lohmann • Jesse Morse • Mark Owens • Chris Piuma • Dan Raphael • James Yeary • Leo & Anna Daedalus • Tony Christy • Linda Austin • Lisa Radon • Neville, Molly, & Oskar • and more . . .

Reading poems by:

Helen Adam • Charles Amirkhanian • Guillaume Apollinaire • Hugo Ball • Ted Berrigan • Mei-mei Berssenbrugge • Robin Blaser • Nicole Brossard • Basil Bunting • Anne Carson • Constantine Cavafy • Joseph Ceravolo • Theresa Hak Kyung Cha • Inger Christiansen • Robert Creeley • Beverly Dahlen • Robert Desnos • H.D. • Francois Dufrene • Robert Duncan • Russell Edson • Jennifer Crystal Fang-Chien • Kevin Goodan • Linda Gregg • Bill Griffiths • Barbara Guest • Carla Harryman • Dick Higgins • Ake Hodell • Fanny Howe • Susan Howe • Philip Jenks • Karen Kelley • Aleksei Kruchenyk • Gerrit Lansing • Jackson Mac Low • Bernadette Mayer • Marianne Moore • Christian Morgenstern • Harryette Mullen • Susan Smith Nash • bp nichol • Lorine Niedecker • Alice Notley • Frank O'Hara • George Oppen • Michael Palmer • Bob Perelman • Dennis Phillips • Laura Riding • Joan Retallack • Gerhard Rühm • Diana Saenz • Frank Samperi • Aram Saroyan • Kurt Schwitters • David Shapiro • Charles Sharpe • Ron Silliman • Gustaf Sobin • Jack Spicer • Gertrude Stein • Wallace Stevens • Rhett Stuart • Cole Swenson • John Taggart • Nathaniel Tarn • Alberta Turner • César Vallejo • Lew Welch • Hannah Weiner • Jonathan Williams • William Carlos Williams • C.D. Wright • Araki Yasusada • Louis Zukofsky • and many more

"Peaches and Bats 3" launch in Portland, 1/30/09

"The Firm and Airie" presents
a reading to celebrate the publication of

Peaches and Bats 3

FEATURING
David Abel
Joseph Bradshaw
Sam Lohmann
Kaia Sand

with MUSIC by

Ian Ackerman (violin)
Warren Lee (harmonium)
Gabriel Will (viola)

Friday, January 30th
7pm
at the Waypost
3120 N Williams Ave
hosted by Smorg
FREE