Abel and Lohmann at Stonehenge Studios, 9/11

The Studio Series: Poetry Reading and Open Mic

featuring


David Abel & Sam Lohmann


Sunday, September 11
7:00 pm

(open mic at 8:00)


Stonehenge Studios

3508 SW Corbett Avenue


Free and open to the public, the Studio Series is held monthly on second Sundays.

The Ross Island Café/Grocery is now open for light fare before readings.

For additional information please contact organizer and host leahstenson@comcast.net.

First in the neighborhood and then online
Comic Book Bondage Cover of the Day

Record snowpack and the first hot Saturday

No denuciation continues a raffia

They don't believe in times of day

water running over stones

As a dark blue moiré patch

Under the evening star, undelivered mail

Blue sponge by giltish scrubber
wrenches and shovels and coils of wire and Chinese brooms in dizzy informality
-- Sam Lohmann & David Abel

Stand on this picnic bench and look north

The sweet folks at Publication Studio Portland (a.k.a. Jank Editions) have published my book of poems, Stand on this picnic bench and look north. It comes in any number of file-folder colors, and is available as a print-on-demand book or e-book from their website, or at their store at 717 SW Ankeny St. You can also read it online using their "free reading commons."

They say:

Portland poet and editor of Peaches and Bats, Sam Lohmann, gives us a new book, Stand On This Picnic Bench and Look North. This collection of Lohmann's poetry delves into the language of landscapes – urban, rural, and domestic – that is unavoidably entangled in memory. "Americans think all landscape is narrative," and Lohmann indulges this cultural inclination with surprising effects and implications.

Thanks, Publication Studio!

Peaches and Bats #8

Peaches and Bats #8

features poetry by

Jeff Alessandrelli

Norma Cole

Ray DeJesús

Nathan Hauke

Lauren Levin

Paul G. Maziar

Jesse Morse

Chris Nealon

Kate Schapira

Jen Tynes

Michael Weaver

Deborah Woodard

plus

an interview with Norma Cole

and

drawings by Paul G. Maziar

64-page handsewn zine with letterpressed cover

$5

(includes shipping in North America)

order via Paypal here:

my new chapbook from c_L

James Yeary's doomalicious and protean c_L press created this beautiful chapbook of a poem of mine called Lines on Canvas or What I Know or Have Seen of His Life. I'm so happy this exists.

You can read James's sweet blurb and instructions for ordering here at the Calendar of Catabolic Guilt.

(Also, this poem is part of a collection of landscape poems called Stand on this picnic bench and look north, forthcoming from Publication Studio. I guess I like long titles.)

Peaches and Bats #8 launch reading, 7/13/11

Reading Frenzy and "The Firm and Aerie"
present a launch party for

PEACHES
AND
BATS
8

with readings by
Paul G. Maziar
Jesse Morse
&
Michael Weaver

Wednesday, July 13
7:30 p.m.

Reading Frenzy
921 SW Oak St., Portland

free

new Airfoil chapbook!

bell-lloc, a book of eight eight-eight-syllable-line-stanza'd poems about Mallorca, the moon, and medieval macaronicism by the wonderful Chris Piuma, is available here.

Koeneke & Queequeg, 7/10/11

Sunday, July 10

at 7:30 pm

Spare Room presents a reading by

Rodney Koeneke

&

Queequeg (Daniel Comiskey & Ryan Tranum)

Open Space Cafe

2815 SE Holgate Boulevard, Portland

$5 suggested donation