Jan. 2- Book Release Party- i.e. reader from Narrow House-

A celebration & reading for The Narrow House publication of
the i.e. reader-
Saturday, Jan. 2nd, 2010
8 p.m. @ LOF/t
120 W. North Ave., Baltimore

NARROW HOUSE is-
Justin Sirois, Lauren Bender & Jamie Gaughran-Perez

Dec. 5- Les Wade, Megan McShea, M. Magnus

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Les Wade has been producing a series of illuminated chapbooks as part of an ongoing project entitled “moveture.” He has also recently started a new poem sequence called “material studies.”
Les lives in Baltimore.
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Megan McShea’s writing has appeared in Shattered Wig Review and the hot off the press i.e. reader. She’s put out two chapbooks of her writing, Recipes for Greatness and Yarn, and had another, California Song, exhibited at Chela Gallery. She recently spent a residency at Hambidge Center in Georgia compiling an anthology of collaborative writing, which will be coming out some point in the not so distant future. She is currently accepting suggestions for a title.
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M. Magnus’ Verb Sap came out last year from Baltimore’s Narrow House, M. Magnus has been working on two projects branching off from that book’s themes and poetic processes:
The Re-echoes and Imposter!: instances,regrets.
Although he lives and writes in Alexandria, Virginia, M. homes in on Baltimore and the ie reading series as his literary shelter.
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Nov. 7- Marshall Reese, Chris Mason, John Mason & Noah Davies-Mason

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Marshall Reese is a video, media artist and poet, and works in collaboration with a number of other artists. As a member of the team Ligorano/Reese, Nora Ligorano and he have collaborated for almost 20 years on installations, videotapes, artists books and limited editions. Their work examines contemporary trends in society and the media through the manipulation of images and sound from print, television, internet, and radio. As Risarano, the limited edition series “The Pure Products of America” investigates the relation of marketing and politics.
They are currently residents at Eyebeam, an art and technology center in New York City.
They have also exhibited at the Cleveland Museum of Art, MIT MediaLab, Museum of Arts & Design, the Neuberger Museum of Art, Lincoln Center among others. They have received fellowships and funding from the Jerome Foundation, NYFA, NYSCA, the NEA and Art Matters. Marshall Reese is the author of two books of poetry, and has edited several publications and magazines.
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Chris Mason is a poet who has lived in Baltimore
since 1970. He is a member of The Tinklers and
the Old Songs archaic Greek poetry band. His
latest books are “Hiccups” and “Airs of Air”.
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John Mason’s poems have appeared in the chapbook “Fade to Prompt,” from Tuumba Press, the anthology “In the American Tree,” and such magazines as Hills, Famous, Truck, the Little Magazine, tongue to boot, Chain, OOVRAH, Nadine, Luna Tack and nadir. He was born in Minneapolis and now lives in Austerlitz, NY with his partner of 37 years, Susan Davies, and from time to time their three grown children, Bronwyn, Kari and Noah.
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Noah Davies-Mason is his father’s son. He sits down to eat, sleeps with his clothes on and loves to present himself as a certain something. For instance, he attends St. John’s College in Annapolis and toys with the idea of becoming something other than what he is. The world is big, he has thought, and must be up to some good. By presuming in this manner, has he in fact backed himself into a corner? But if the corner is there, all is well, the fear may subside.
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Oct. 23- Catherine Wagner, Ric Royer, Marc Nasdor- Friday, 8pm-

 

 

 

 

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Catherine Wagner was born in Burma and grew up in Baltimore. Her books are My New Job (Fence 2009), Macular Hole (Fence 2004), and Miss America (Fence 2001); recent chapbooks include Articulate How (Big Game/Dusie Kollectiv, 2008), Bornt (Dusie, 2008), and Hole in the Ground (Slack Buddha, 2007). She teaches at Miami University in Ohio where she lives car-free with her six-year-old son Ambrose.

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Ric Royer is a writer of performances and performer of writings. Recently, one of his friends (same age) had something wrong with his kidneys, and another (again, same age) a problem with his heart. Ric is worried that this might be the beginning of the endless falling apart that happens to people and their peers. He is not quite sure he is strong enough to handle it yet, he could certainly use more time to prepare for what some call “The Quickening”.
His recent publications, The Weather Not The Weather (Outside Voices), Time Machine (Slack Buddha) and his recent productions- 50 Greatest Ladies and Gentlemen (Ontological Hysteric Theatre), and Mary Shelley (premiering at The Annex in December), give him something to do in the meantime.

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Marc Nasdor grew up in Baltimore, Maryland, and has lived in New York City since 1980. His most recent book is Sonnetailia, published by Roof Books (2007). He is currently at work on a series of compacted, one-page long-winded poems called “Insurgentes.” Nasdor’s first book-length poem, Treni in Partenza,was published in Temblor 7. His poems have been published in translation in Hungarian, German and Spanish, and have been performed in France, Germany and Hungary. In the 1980s & ’90s he co-directed the international arts organization Committee for International Poetry. An art and audio consultant, he is also an amateur ethnomusicologist who presents global dance music under the alias DJ Poodlecannon.

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Oct. 3- Hoa Nguyen, Cole Swensen, Lee Ann Brown

 

 

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Lee Ann Brown was born in Japan in 1963 and was raised in Charlotte, NC. She earned a B.A. in English and Women’s Studies and an M.F.A. in poetry from Brown University. She is the author of two full-length collections of poetry, The Sleep that Changed Everything (Wesleyan University Press), and Polyverse (Sun & Moon) which received the New American Poetry Series Award, a song cycle, The 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time, as well as numerous chapbooks and journal publications, such as The Asheville Poetry Review, The Boston Review, The Chicago Review, and Jacket. Her poetry is also widely anthologized, included in Line: A Drawing Center Anthology, Best American Poetry 2001, The Best of Fence Magazine, and Vanishing Points: New Modernist Poems.She teaches at St. John’s University in New York City and is editor of Tender Buttons Press, publishing experimental women’s poetry since 1989. With her husband, actor and director, Tony Torn, she recenlty co-founded The French Broad Institute (of Time & the River), a multimedia performance venue in Marshall, NC.

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Cole Swensen is the author of 12 books of poetry, most recently Ours (U. of California, 2008). Earlier books have included a National Poetry Series selection, and winners of the S.F. State Poetry Center Book Award, The Iowa Prize, and the Sun & Moon New American Writing Award. A translator of French poetry, prose, and art criticism, she won the 2004 Pen USA Award in Translation. She is also the founder and editor of La Presse Books, which publishes contemporary French poetry.

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Hoa Nguyen was born near Saigon, raised in the DC area, and studied poetics at New College of California in San Francisco. She currently lives in Austin TX where she teaches creative writing, curates a reading series and, with the poet Dale Smith, edits the small press poetry imprint Skanky Possum. Her latest books include Kiss A Bomb Tattoo (Effing Press) and Hecate Lochia (Hot Whiskey Books).

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Sept. 12- Doug Lang & Tina Darragh

Doug Lang

Joan Retallack, Lynne Dreyer & Tina Darragh

Tina Darragh -
Deep eco pré, Tina Darragh’s collaboration with poet Marcella Durand, will be published this fall as an ebook by Little Red Leaves. Darragh’s essay “Blame Global Warming on Thoreau?” is included in the )((eco (lang)(uage(reader)) forthcoming from Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs. Along with Jane Sprague and Diane Ward, she participated in the belladonna Elders Series #8 (NYC, June 2009). Tina has no desire to maintain her persona as a mild-mannered librarian since Doug Lang included her in his blog on DC poets.

Doug Lang -
Doug Lang was born and raised in Wales, and has published poetry and novels in the UK. He came to DC in 1973, where he ran the Folio Reading Series in the late 1970s, and where he has taught writing at the Corcoran College of Art and Design since 1976. He was one of the poets representing DC at the recent Poetry of the 1970s conference at Orono. A collection of his selected poems, In the Works, is forthcoming from Edge Books.

June 6 – C A Conrad, Mel Nichols, Frank Sherlock

CA ConradMel NicholsFrank Sherlock

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C A Conrad is the son of white trash asphyxiation whose childhood included selling cut flowers along the highway for his mother and helping her shoplift. His books include- Deviant Propulsion (Soft Skull Press, 2006) – (Soma)tic Midge (FAUX Press, 2008) –  The Book of Frank (Chax Press, 2008) & Advanced Elvis Course (Soft Skull Press, 2009).

- visit him online at www.CAConrad.blogspot.com.

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Mel Nichols’ recent book is Catalytic Exteriorization Phenomenon (Edge 2009). Other publications include Bicycle Day (Slack Buddha 2008) and The Beginning of Beauty, Part 1: hottest new ringtones, mnichol6 (Edge 2007). Recent and forthcoming journal publications include New Ohio Review, Van Gogh’s Ear, Abraham Lincoln, The Brooklyn Rail, and Poetry. 
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Frank Sherlock is the author of Over Here (Factory School 2009) and the co-author of Ready-To-Eat Individual (Lavender Ink 2008) with Brett Evans. A collaboration with CAConrad entitled The City Real & Imagined: Philadelphia Poems is forthcoming from Factory School later this year.
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