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AT THE BOWERY POETRY CLUB
Winter/Spring 2012 http://www.bowerypoetry.com/
ARIEL GOLDBERG & JAMES HOFF Ariel Goldberg is an artist and writer. Recent publications include Picture Cameras and The Photographer without a Camera. She is currently working on “The Estrangement Principal,” an essay on the states of queer art, and an epistolary novel, The Photographer. James Hoff works in a variety of mediums including painting, performance, poetry, and sound. Recent releases include How Wheeling Feels When the Ground Walks Away and Inventory Arousal. He is co- founder and editor of Primary Information, a non-profit devoted to printing artists’ books. MARCH 10 TRACEY MCTAGUE & JENNIFER TAMAYO Tracey McTague has officially gone AWOL, and may never return. In her former life, she organized the Zinc Reading Series, and served as the editor and consigliore for Lungfull! Magazine. She is currently investigating the history of NYC through oyster middens. Jennifer Tamayo is a writer and performer. Her book Red Missed Aches Read Missed Aches Red Mistakes Read Mistakes was selected by Cathy Park Hong as the 2010 winner of Switchback Book’s Gatewood Prize. She serves as the Managing Editor at Futurepoem and lives and works in Harlem. MARCH 17 K. SILEM MOHAMMAD & RICK WIGGINS K. Silem Mohammad is the author of Deer Head Nation, A Thousand Devils, Breathalyzer, The Front, and Monsters. In his current project, "The Sonnagrams," Mohammad anagrammatizes Shakespeare’s Sonnets into all-new English sonnets in iambic pentameter. Detroit native Rick Wiggins is a veteran broadcaster and minor footnote in Motown media history, a member of The Flarf Collective and an accomplished insomniac. His most recent work, What I’m Doing With My Life, is a collection of misappropriations from online dating site profiles. MARCH 24 RODNEY KOENEKE & JOHN GODFREY Rodney Koeneke is the author of Musee Mechanique, Rouge State, and a chapbook, Rules for Drinking Forties. Hobbies past and present include flarf, neo-benshi, and Poets Theater. He lives and teaches History to masses of undergraduates in Portland, Oregon. John Godfrey is the author of a number of collections, most recently Push the Mule, Private Lemonade, City of Corners, and the recent chapbook Singles and Fives. This year Lunar Chandelier will put out Tiny Gold Dress. MARCH 31 LAURA ELRICK & CARLA HARRYMAN Emily Critchley’s selected writing, Love / All That / & OK, was published by Penned in the Margins in 2011. She teaches English and Creative Writing at the University of Greenwich, London. Laura Elrick’s newest book, Propagation, will be published by Kenning Editions later this year. Previous works include an oppositional cartography and performance work called Blocks Away (2010), the video-poem "Stalk" (2008), 5 Audio Pieces for Doubled Voice (2005), and two books of poetry, Fantasies in Permeable Structures (Factory School, 2005) and sKincerity (Krupskaya, 2003).
APRIL APRIL 7 BRIAN KIM STEFANS & KATIE DEGENTESH Brian Kim Stefans’s books include What is Said to the Poet Concerning Flowers (Factory School) and Kluge: A Meditation (Roof). His most recent book of poetry is Viva Miscegenation (MakeNow Books). He teaches literature and new media at UCLA and runs the website arras.net. Katie Degentesh lives in New York City. Her book The Anger Scale was published by Combo Books in Spring 2006. She is a member of the Flarf Collective. APRIL 14 SIMON MORRIS & CHARLES BERNSTEIN Simon Morris has been called a literary pervert, philosophically irresponsible and an inspired lunatic. He would like to politely remind the audience that the ears have no lids. Charles Bernstein is the author of over 40 books, ranging from large-scale collections of poetry and essays to pamphlets, libretti, and collaborations, most recently All the Whiskey in Heaven: Selected Poems (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) and Attack of the Difficult Poems: Essays and Inventions (University of Chicago Press). APRIL 21 DEREK BEAULIEU & JEN BERVIN derek beaulieu is the author 10 books, most recently seen of the crime: essays on conceptual writing (Snare 2011). He focusses on concrete and conceptual writing, disjunctive memoir and is the visual poetry editor for UBUWeb. Jen Bervin’s work brings together text and textile in a practice that encompasses poetry, archival research, artist books, and large-scale art works. Her work is in more than thirty collections including The J. Paul Getty Museum, The Walker Art Center, the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, and the British Library. APRIL 28 VANESSA PLACE & DIANA HAMILTON “Vanessa Place” is the new accidental emergence, or, that awkward dream about one’s Mother sitting on the toilet, or, the establishment of the sign. “She” is the new laminated alphabet, the dead author embalmed and killed again —Divya Victor. Diana Hamilton is the author of Okay, Okay (Truck Books) and Separate Rooms (Harlequin), among others. She has set aside her material concerning emotional expression in order to complete The Descent of Man.
MAY TAO LIN & MATHEW TIMMONS Tao Lin (b. 1983) is the author of Richard Yates (2010), Shoplifting From American Apparel (2009), and four other books. Vintage will publish his third novel in 2013. Mathew Timmons’s works include The New Poetics (Les Figues Press 2010), Sound Noise (Little Red Leaves 2010) and CREDIT (Blanc Press 2009). His visual and performance work has been shown at Human Resources Gallery, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Public Fiction, LACE, Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, CCA, ArtSpeak Vancouver, LACMA, and the UCLA Hammer Museum. MAY 12 STEVEN ZULTANSKI & DANIELLE AUBERT Steven Zultanski is the author of Pad, Cop Kisser, and Agony. He lives here. Danielle Aubert is the author of Sixteen Months Worth of Drawings in Microsoft Excel and a founding member of I.T.U. with Lana Cavar. She is a coordinator of the Center for Abandoned Letterhead and the Paper Rehabilitation Project in Detroit. MAY 19 JENA OSMAN & MÓNICA DE LA TORRE Jena Osman’s latest book is The Network (Fence Books); her essay-poem Public Figures will be out from Wesleyan at the end of 2012. Lately she’s been researching the origins of corporate personhood as well as the links between phrenology and brain scans. Mónica de la Torre’s books include two poetry collections published in the US, Talk Shows (Switchback) and Public Domain (Roof), and two others published in Mexico City, Acúfenos (Taller Ditoria) and Sociedad Anónima (UNAM/Bonobos). Her most recent collaborative project is "Taller de Mecanografía." MAY 26 NO READING
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