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St Mark's Poetry Project events for January 2005
The calendar of events from the Poetry Project was announced in December 2004. Events include the following...
1 January: The 31st Annual New Year’s Day Marathon Reading
The Marathon reading is bigger than ever this year, so why not join in the (serious) fun and spend the first day of the New Year with over 140 of the most necessary writers, artists, and musicians within spitting distance of the East Village. This auspicious annual affair boasts over 140 poets and performers including Charles Bernstein, Eric Bogosian, John Giorno, Taylor Mead, Sharon Mesmer, Eileen Myles, Dael Orlandersmith, Marc Ribot, Jackie Sheeler, Patti Smith, Edwin Torres, Nick Zedd, and many more. If you could only see one single reading this year, this would be the one. Few others can match the range of artists and artistry heard in this single program. Tickets at the door are $16 or $10 for Poetry Project members. 2:00 PM to 1:00 AM
3 January: Open Reading
Sign-up begins at 7:45 PM. Reading commences at 8:00 PM.
5 January: Luis H. Francia & Carol Szamatowicz
Luis H. Francia is the author of Eye of the Fish: A Personal Archipelago, winner of the 2002 PEN Center Open Book and the 2002 Asian American Writers Workshop literary awards. Carol Szamatowicz is the author of Cats & Dogs, Zoop, and Reticular Pop-Ups. 8:00 PM
10 January: Deborah Meadows & David Perry
Deborah Meadows’ books include Representing Absence and Itinerant Men. David Perry is the author of a book of poems, Range Finder, and two chapbooks, Knowledge Follows and New Years. 8:00 PM
12 January: Sherry Brennan & Robert Fitterman
Sherry Brennan’s On poems and their antecedents is just out from Subpress. Her earlier chapbooks include Taken, again today and The Resemblances. Robert Fitterman is the author of eight books of poetry, including three installments of his ongoing poem, Metropolis. 8:00 PM
19 January: Poets Memorial for Steve Lacy
Readers and performers to include Irene Aebi, Juini Booth, William Corbett, Robert Creeley, Douglas Dunn, Suzan Frecon, John Giorno, Pierre Joris, Daniel Kepfer, James Koller, Ruth Lepson, Nicole Peyrafitte, Tom Raworth, and Roswell Rudd, among others. Although Paris was Lacy’s home for 33 years, he returned to the United States in 2002 to begin his first teaching job at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. He was prominently featured in the concerts celebrating the centennial of NEC’s Jordan Hall in October 2003, kicking off the festivities in a Best of Jazz performance that featured other Conservatory jazz greats like Ran Blake, George Russell, Bob Brookmeyer, and alumnus Cecil Taylor. Ran Blake writes: "with the exception of Sidney Bechet and John Coltrane, no other musician has brought such a personal sound to the soprano saxophone and few other musicians have tapped into the unexplored repertoire of Thelonious Monk." Lacy died of liver cancer in June 2004, aged 69. 8:00 PM
24 January: Barbara Cole & Noah Eli Gordon
Barbara Cole’s chapbooks include little wives and postcards. Noah Eli Gordon is the author of The Frequencies and The Area of Sound Called the Subtone. 8:00 PM
26 January: Joshua Beckman & Steven Dalachinsky
Joshua Beckman is the author of four books of poetry: Things Are Happening, Something I Expected To Be Different, Nice Hat. Thanks. (with Matthew Rohrer), and, most recently, Your Time Has Come. Steven Dalachinsky’s most recent books include Trial and Error in Paris and Trust Fund Babies. 8:00 PM
28 January: Lenny Kaye’s "You Call It Madness: The Sensuous Song of the Croon"
Writer and musician Lenny Kaye’s You Call It Madness (just out from Villard/Random House) illuminates a critical juncture in American popular culture—a time when singers crossed gender and racial lines, and the mores of the twentieth century began to shed their inhibitions. Tonight Kaye will read and perform songs from his impressionistic study of the romantic singers of the 1930s, complete with tuxedo shirt and vibrato’ed guitar. Lou Reed writes: "Lenny Kaye is uniquely qualified to write on the art of the croon. He is a musician, an archivist and historian of various musical troves, a journalist, and a DJ. He knows more about the music biz and musicians than almost anyone I know. He ranks with the magnificent Hal Willner and Bill Bentley in his knowledge of fact, not fancy, as regards both peers and forefathers of the pop/blues culture of the American Dream." A living legend, both as a writer and as a musician/producer, Lenny Kaye wrote widely in the 1960s for Fusion, Rolling Stone, Crawdaddy, and other publications. He is co-author with David Dalton of Rock 100, and he partnered the late Waylon Jennings on the latter’s autobiography. He compiled the seminal Nuggets anthology of garage punk and has long been the guitarist in Patti Smith’s band, whose pioneering combination of rock song-form and free-form noise—on such albums as Horses and Radio Ethiopia -— has been an influence on countless bands since, from REM, Sonic Youth and Soul Asylum to Idlewild and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. 10:30 PM
31 January: Talk Series - Thalia Field, "Blunt Edge of Chaos: A Poetics of Emergent Forms"
A talk exploring the ways in which artistic/creative work models other living forms in process, leading to a range of artistic "display" which is only partly phenotypical with regard to literary "genre." Thalia Field is the author of Point and Line and Incarnate: Story Material as well as the performance novel, Clown Shrapnel, forthcoming from Coffee House Press. 8:00 PM
All St. Mark's Poetry Project events are at 8:00 PM unless otherwise noted. Admission is $8, $7 for students and seniors, and $5 for Poetry Project members. Schedule subject to change. The Poetry Project is wheelchair accessible with advance notice. Please call 212-674-0910 or click to the Poetry Project website for details. Now in its 39th season, the Poetry Project offers a Wednesday night reading series, a Monday night reading/performance series, a Friday late-night series, four weekly writing workshops, a quarterly newsletter, and extensive audio and document archives.
Tribeca Arts Festival 2005:
call for poetry & performers
The 2005 Tribeca Arts Festival 2005 encourages all artists to express themselves as they present a special feature on poetry and spoken word. Qualifying artists will be recorded live, in performance for an original spoken word anthology.
Artists can be any age, may write and perform on any subject, and may perform their work in any duration and style. Submissions will be accepted on paper or on audio/video tape. No writing or musical experience is needed. This is an open call. Artists may come from anywhere, but must be able to travel to New York City on their own for their performances.
Poetry/spoken word special showcases are on six Sundays in January and February 2005: 23 & 30 January; 6, 13, 20 &l 27 February. At the Black Box Theater, 440 Studios, 440 Lafayette (between Astor Place and 4th Street) in Noho/East Village. For more info, click to or send e-mail.
Small Press Center to host new Algonquin "round table"
In December, The Small Press Center of New York City announced that it is sponsoring the First Annual New York Round Table Writers' Conference. Held in conjunction with the landmark Algonquin Hotel, the event will take place Thursday through Saturday, 21-23 April, 2005. The Algonquin was the site of the famous Round Table, a regular literary gathering that included writers Robert Benchley, Dorothy Parker, Edna Ferber, Robert Sherwood, George S. Kaufman, and Heywood Broun.
The Small Press Center was established in 1984 to help independent publishers reach a wider audience for their books, and to provide information and draw public awareness to the offering of these presses. The Center encourages excellence and free expression in publishing through workshops, lectures, book fairs, exhibits, and its Reference Center on Writing and Publishing.
Focusing on the business and career of writing, the Conference features programs on book production, marketing, public relations, self-publishing, grants and fellowships, writing for performance, and more. In addition, there will be behind-the-scenes tours of a publishing house and bookstore to educate attendees about the commercial book trade. Editors, publishers and literary agents will be on hand to discuss publishing opportunities. A gala dinner featuring a celebrated keynote speaker to be announced takes place on Saturday, April 23.
Registration for the conference begins on February 1, 2005. The cost of the conference for New York-area residents is $895. The cost for out-of-town attendees is $1495 and includes accommodations at the historic Algonquin Hotel. Most conference events will take place at the Small Press Center and Algonquin Hotel, which are located in the heart of Midtown Manhattan on West 44th St. between 5th and 6th Avenues. Registration materials are available online at smallpress.org or by mail from the Small Press Center, 20 W. 44th St., New York, NY 10036. Call 212-764-7021 or visit smallpress.org for more information. The Small Press Center is an educational program of the 501(c)(3) non-profit institution The General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen.
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