ZINC-TRS-03-04

ZINC BAR TALK/READING SERIES
2003-2004 season coming right up!

90 West Houston Street NYC

all readings begin at 6:59PM
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the schedule is still in flux
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9/28/2003	Jo Ann Wasserman will read new work Jo Ann Wasserman is the author of two chapbooks of poetry: what counts as proof (Sugarbooks) and we build mountains (a + bend press) and a full-length book, forthcoming from Futurepoem, entitled The Escape. Her work has appeared in journals including: "The World", "the east village", "can we have our ball back?" and "Grand Street." She was the managing editor of "How2", on online journal of innovative writing by women from 1998-2000 and worked at the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church in several different capacities from 1992-1997. She lives in New York City where she works for Granary Books.
9/28/2003	Tony Towle will read new work Tony Towle has been associated with the New York School of Poetry for 40 years. His most recent book is the just-published Nine Immaterial Nocturnes, by Barretta books, a few copies of which are available here. Tony's previous two publications were The History of the Invitation: New & Selected Poems 1963-2000 (Hanging Loose) and Memoir 1960-1963, from Faux Press.
10/5/2003	Bill Kushner will read new work Bill Kushner received a 1999 Poetry Fellowship from The New York Foundation for the Arts as well as The Dylan Thomas Prize for Poetry given by The new School for Scial Research. A student of many great teachers, among them Kenneth Koch, Lewis Warsh, Alice Notley, Ted Berrigan, Bernadette Mayer. He's the author of six poetry collections the latest of which is "In the hairy Arms of Whitman."
10/5/2003	Amy Holman "I'm intrigued by the possibility of giving a talk, though I want to read, too. Let me take a few days to mull it over. " Amy Holman is a poet, fiction writer, and literary consultant. She teaches writers how to find their niche in the marketplace and find success in publishing. She has poetry forthcoming in NYC Big City Lit, American Letters & Commentary, Unpleasant Event Schedule, The Manhattan Review and Rattapallax, and fiction published in Night Train Magazine and SHADE. She is a contributor to Making the Perfect Pitch (The Writer Books, 2004), The Practical Writer (Penguin, 2004), Mercy of Tides: Poems for a Beach House (Salt Marsh Potter Press, 2003), And We the Creatures ( Dream Horse Press, 2003), and The Best American Poetry 1999 (Scribner, 1999). She lives in Brooklyn with her gregarious golden retriever, Harley.
10/12/2003	Karen Weiser will read work you have never heard before Karen Weiser will have work appearing in Van Gogh's Ear, 6x6, and Pom2.
10/12/2003	Tracey McTague will read new work Tracey McTague's writing can be found in Lit, Lungfull, canwehaveourballback & several other places. She's coauthor of Book of the New Now. She's currently at work on The People, a series of poems & visual art constructed through covert investigations & guerrilla research into the spirit & life of Fitzroy Amerson -- an elusive collector of cultural artifacts. Amerson was born in 1910 in Alabama & was last seen in 2002 in East Timor.
10/19/2003	Bob Hershon will read new work Bob Hershon is the author, most recently of The German Lunatic, Hanging Loose Press, 2000. He's the Editor of Hanging Loose & Executive Director of the The Print Center.
10/19/2003	Charles North will read new work 8 books of poems, most recently NEW AND SELECTED POEMS(Sun & Moon) and THE NEARNESS OF THE WAY YOU LOOK TONIGHT (Adventures in Poetry; a finalist for the inaugural Phi Beta Kappa poetry prize); also a book of essays on poets, critics & painters (NO OTHER WAY, Hanging Loose).
10/26/2003	I Feel Tractor will sing
10/26/2003	Eddie Berrigan will deliver the big talk only he could Eddie Berrigan is not to be missed
11/2/2003	John Tranter will deliver a talk on Ern Malley and/or will read new work John Tranter spent his youth on a farm on the South-east coast of Australia, attended country schools, and took his BA in 1970 after attending university sporadically. He has worked mainly in publishing, teaching and radio production, and has travelled widely, making reading tours of the United States, Britain and Europe. He has lived at various times in Melbourne, Singapore, Brisbane, London, Florida and San Francisco, and now lives in Sydney where he is a company director. He has received several senior fellowships and other grants from the Literature Board of the Australia Council, and a visiting residency at Cambridge University, England, in 2001 and 2002. Twenty collections of his verse have been published, including The Floor of Heaven, a book-length sequence of four verse narratives (HarperCollins 1992 and Arc, UK, 2001), Late Night Radio (Polygon, Edinburgh, 1998), Different Hands, a collection of seven experimental prose pieces (Folio/Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1998), Heart Print (Salt Publishing, UK, 2000), Studio Moon and Trio (both Salt Publications, UK, 2003). His work appears in the Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry. In 1992 he edited (with Philip Mead) the Penguin Book of Modern Australian Poetry, a 470-page anthology which has become the standard text in its field, published in Britain and the USA as the Bloodaxe Book of Modern Australian Poetry. He is the editor of the free Internet magazine Jacket, at http://jacketmagazine.com/
11/2/2003	Chris Martin Chris Martin is compulsively early. ÊHe is also 1/26 of the Angry Dog Midget Editions published by Noel Black in their hometown of Colorado Springs. ÊHis chapbook is called VERMONTANA and features art by Larry Heller. ÊOther recent work can/will be found in Magazine Cypress, Forklift, Pom2, Lit, Xconnect, and Puppy Flowers, the online journal of art, music, and poetry that he co-edits. ÊHe lives in Brooklyn with his sister on an avenue between two other avenues, go figure. Chris Martin will speak smallishly on online publishing. Then he will read new poems from a series called LETTERS. Then he will read poems relating to the theme of the day of the dead, which it will coincidentally be. Then he will rap about rap. Then he rap about death. Then he will rap about reincarnation and the benefit of machines as companions.
11/9/2003	Nada Gordon has several ideas of what's going to happen Sardonic troubador Nada Gordon's latest book, V. IMP (Faux Press 2003), has been described as "mood-riddled hijinx and impudent lyric protest" and "nonsense galore, as in a bathhouse." With Gary Sullivan, she is the author of Swoon (Granary Books 2001), a nonfiction e-pistolary multiform novel. She published two other books in 2001: Are Not Our Lowing Heifers Sleeker than Night Swollen Mushrooms? (Spuyten Duyvil),in which, according to Publishers Weekly, "our heroine cracks jokes about Victorian constructions of femininity ... tells bald-faced lies ...and continually distracts herself and whoever might try to cut her down to size"; and Foriegnn Bodie (Detour), a collection of poems written during her eleven years in Tokyo. Ongoing obsessions include song 'n' dance, odalisques, ornament, and all forms of life. Her more-or-less daily musings on life and poetics can be found at http://ululate.blogspot.com.
11/9/2003	Marianne Shaneen Marianne Shaneen has an outdated bio that the organizer of this series lifted from another site. She is a fiction writer, filmmaker, conjurer of the archaic yet-to-be, and sentimental insurrectionary who lives in Brooklyn. An as-yet-untitled chapbook is forthcoming from Detour.
11/16/2003	Corina Copp will read new work Corina Copp can usually be found in or outside the St. Mark's Poetry Project, where she is the Program Assistant. She is the author of Sometimes Inspired by Marguerite (Open 24 Hours Press), and plays "The FACCOR Sessions" and "The Night Room." Her work can be found or is forthcoming in Pom2, Pindeldyboz and can we have our ball back.
11/16/2003	Jennifer Robinson "I'm not sure I want to talk for 20-30 min; but I'd like to talk for, say, 10, & read for 15, if that sounds ok." Jen Robinson's poetry has appeared in one book (FOR CONIFER FANATICS, Soft Skull Press), numerous journals (most recently WILD MATTERS and SNARE), several millenialist pamphlets, and the tv show DAWSON'S CREEK. She has also authored an essay, ìNormal Abnormal,î which appeared in the collection SPLIT: STORIES FROM A GENERATION RAISED ON DIVORCE (McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Books, 2002), and is currently at work on a new prose project on horseshoe crabs as well as a poetry ms. She lives in New York Cityís borough of Queens, home to the cityís tallest tree and legendary communities of rock doves.
11/23/2003	Party to celebrate the release of the latest Pom2
NO READING / THANKSGIVING
12/7/2003	Andrei Codrescu will deliver a talk on Psychotic Architecture "One of our most prodigiously talented and magical writers." - Bruce Shlain, New York Times Book Review. Born in Sibiu, Romania on December 20, 1946; emigrated to the United States in 1966; became U.S. citizen in 1981; poet, novelist, essayist, screenwriter; columnist on National Public Radio; editor of Exquisite Corpse, a literary journal on line at www.corpse.org; MacCurdy Distinguished Professor of English at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.
12/7/2003	Todd Colby will do "The Pig Talk" Todd Colby is the author of Riot in the Charm Factory: New and Selected Works (Soft Skull, 2000)
12/14/2003	at the Bowery Poetry Club 8:00pm Benefit for Todd Colby & the 29 Families of the Monitor Street Fire
NO READING/ HOLIDAYS
1/11/2004	Anna Mockler will readIíll read from Burning Salt or from her new book, Rat Hunt Boy Anna Mockler is the author of Burning Salt, a collection of short fiction. Work of hers has appeared in Crab Creek Review, Exquisite Corpse, Farm Pulp, Oxygen, Point No Point, Raven Chronicles, StringTown, and Synapse, and in Dogs Cats Crows (Black Heron Press, 2001). Born in New York, she has lived all over the country, performing a writer's traditional jobs: factory worker, office temp, waitress, printer, cabdriver, and restoration ecologist. In 1992, she moved to the Pacific Northwest, where she wrote the stories in this book. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, improvising bassist Reuben Radding.
1/11/2004	Tara Wray Tara Wray was born in Manhattan, Kansas. She is the associate editor of the Land-Grant College Review. Her stories have appeared in Fiction, the Sycamore Review, 3rd Bed, and the Land-Grant College Review, with work forthcoming in Gulf Coast and Snow Monkey. She is the author of a chapbook, Mini Tremble Fits, and if you ask for one she would gladly give you two.
1/18/2004	Chris McCreary Chris McCreary is author of The Effacements (Singing Horse) & co-editor of ixnay press (www.durationpress.com/ixnay). His reviews and interviews have recently appeared or are forthcoming in the Poetry Project Newsletter, Rain Taxi, Review of Contemporary Fiction, & XConnect.
1/18/2004	Mark Wallace will do a hybrid talk/reading Mark Wallace is the author of a number of books of poetry. New and forthcoming books include HAZE, a multi-genre work from Edge Books, a book of poems from Green Integer, TEMPORARY WORKERS RIDES A SUBWAY, and a novel from Avec Books, DEAD CARNIVAL. Along with Steven Marks he edited TELLING IT SLANT: AVANT GARDE POETICS OF THE 1990s, a collection of essays by various authors on contemporary poetics. He teaches creative writing at George Washington University in Washington, DC.
1/25/2004	Cynthia Nelson will deliver a presentation involving words & medium-loud electric guitar "i was thinking of doing a presentation on the intersection of poetry and music, or the lack thereof, in myself, i guess, present some songs and some jams in addition to some poems, talk about the different communities of each/good human solitude."
1/25/2004	Jacqueline Waters will read poems
2/1/2003	Cedar Sigo Born 2-2-78 Cedar Sigo studied writing and poetics at The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied poets. He moved to San Francisco in 1999. He edits OLD GOLD Magazine and OLD GOLD books. A new book, SELECTED WRITINGS, was published in June 2003 by ugly duckling presse.
2/1/2004	Tonya Foster Tonya Foster is co-editor of "The Third Mind: Creative Writing through Visual Art" published by Teachers & Writers Collaborative
2/8/2004	Eleni Sikelianos Eleni Sikelianos was raised in California. She received an M.F.A. in Writing & Poetics from the Naropa Institute. She is the author of Earliest Worlds (Coffee House Press, 2001), The Book of Tendons (1997), and To Speak While Dreaming (1993). She is also the author of a number of chapbooks, including From Blue Guide (1999), The Lover's Numbers, and Poetics of the X (1995). She Êhas received numerous honors and awards including a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Fulbright Fellowship, and two Gertrude Stein Awards for Innovative American Writing.
2/8/2004	David Cameron David Cameron blah blah blah. Will deliver the brief lecture, "How to achieve great success with magazines that are, at first, reluctant to publish your work." Or not. Will read something, unless my month free >trial of memory-enhancing pills works wonders. Author of numerous unpublishable books that go 1401 miles per hour, including Fowler's of Modern English Usage, Lost Petticoats and more recently, Several Girlies I'll Never Mention Again. He is the former middleweight champion of the world, the Duke of Park Slope (living in exile) and suffering from Seasonal Affective Disorder, under the influences of which he wrote this bio. He is survived by an extraordinary coat collection and his waif, Bippy.
2/15/2004	Brenda Iijima will hopefully present a talk based on an essay: COLOR AND ITS ANTECEDENTS. Its manifestation is due any time now — as a chapbook forthcoming from Yen Agat Books in Bangkok. Certainly she'll also read a set from AROUND SEA, a 2004 title published by O Books. Other involvements, including a comact disc of Friedrich Höderlin's poems read in German by Erika Uchman and in English (using Richard Sieburth's traslations) by Iijima, will be released shortly by Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs.
2/15/2004	Prageeta Sharma / Dale Sherrard Dale Sherrard is visual artist, performer, and is currently working primarily in experimental audio composition. He has exhibited and performed in New York and Europe for over 20 years, recently focused on a series of sound and video installations, and he once shot a man in Phoenix just to watch him die. His first CD entitled HOMELITE GRAVELY: SORRY ABOUT THE RAGE is slated for release in spring 2004.   Prageeta Sharma is a poet & novelist.
2/22/2004	Buck Downs "I'd most likely shoot for doing some loose, sentimental education-type thing, mixing my poems with other people's & commenting on the conjunctions & what they mean to me." Born in Ellisville, MS, Buck grew up in south Florida and later attended the Univ. of Dallas and Louisiana State Univ., from which he received an M.A. in 1988. Since 1988, he has lived in Washington DC and worked for Columbia Books, where he has held the position of Senior Editor since 1998. His first book of poems, marijuana softdrink., was published by Edge Books in 2000. Poems have recently appeared in Anomaly and FLASH+CARD. Since 1993, Buck has primarily distributed his poetry through a series of self-published poetry postcards and other ephemera objects, currently available monthly through free subscription.
2/22/2004	Tom Devaney will give a talk on Edgar Allen Poe
2/29/2004	LUNGFULL! MAGAZINE GALA RELEASE EVENT
3/7/2004	Kevin Varrone "As for talking/reading, I will probably jut read--unless I start to bomb, at which point I might do magic tricks." Kevin Varrone moved to Baltimore three years ago to learn the quasi-barbaric art of eating the Maryland State Crustaceon, the Blue Crab. Before moving to Baltimore he authored part 1 of g-point almanac, which was published as a chapbook by ixnay press in 2000. He also co-published BeautifulSwimmer Press with Pattie McCarthy. He's since toiled over a rowhouse renovation, completed part 2 of g-point alamanc (hopefully), and learned to speak Bawlmerese.
3/7/2004	Andrea Baker "I'd like to think over the offer to combine a reading with some sort of a talk but I'll get back to you in a couple days." Andrea Baker is a poetry editor at 3rd Bed. Her work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Fence, Denver Quarterly, Drunken Boat, Lit, Volt, and Vert. She lives in Brooklyn, NY with her husband and son.
3/14/2004	Brenda Coultas
3/14/2004	Kim Lyons will give a talk
3/21/2004	Mark Salerno "I was thinking of calling my talk: "Ten Things I [Still] Don't Know About Poetry." In the event that I figure something out, this may be subject to change. You say 20-30 minutes for a reading/talk. Pal, it takes a guy like me 20 minutes just to get his chin warmed up. But I understand the necessity for this, and that you are a heartless, P.T. Barnum-type of impresario, who could care less about the subtleties of art and stage craft, etc. I know, I know. It's a cold, cruel world, etc."
3/21/2004	Macgregor Card Macgregor Card edits The Germ
3/28/2004	Jim Behrle "I don't know what I'll do yet--talk/reading. It'll be brand new whatever I do." Jim Behrle edits 70 Foot Rotating Dildo. His latest chapbook is FROM THE PURPLE NOTEBOOK OF THE LAKE.
3/28/2004	Jen Benka "A talk/reading would be fine-- especially assuming I'd probably read the preamble piece. Plenty of stuff to talk about there. If something else occurs to me I'll let you know." Jen Benka's The Preamble, a collection of one poem for each word in the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution, was published as an artist book in 2003 by BOOKLYN. Jen has received grants from the Poetry/Film Workshop, Xeric Foundation, Intermedia Arts, the Wisconsin Arts Board, and an Eisner Award nomination for her serial graphic novel, Manya. Jen co-organizes NYC's annual marathon reading of Emily Dickinson's complete poems (www.emilyreading.com) and is the managing director of Poets & Writers.
4/4/2004	Charles Bernstein I will do a talk, and let's call it "How Empty Is My Bread Pudding"
4/4/2004	Allision Cobb Allison Cobb is author The LIttle Box Book (Situation), The J Poems (BabySelf), Polar Bear and Desert Fox (BabySelf) and One-foot A History Play (BabySelf). Her full-length collection Born Two is forthcoming this from Chax Press.
NO READING/ EASTER
4/18/2004	Brandon Downing Brandon Downing is author of The Shirt Weapon
4/18/2003	Rod Smith "I will definitely read and probably talk"
4/25/2003	Anselm Berrigan will give a talk about Ted Berrigan
4/25/2004	Jordan Davis will give a talk about Kenneth Koch
5/2/2004	Edwin Torres
5/2/2004	SPECIAL MYSTERY GUEST
5/9/2004	Douglass Rothschild will create a total experience Douglass Rothschild lives is the great northern reaches.
5/9/2004	Jane Sprague Jane Sprague publishes Palm Press and curates the West End Reading Series in Ithaca, NY. Her poems and reviews are published in Rain Taxi, Jacket, Boog City, How2, Columbia Poetry Review, Barrow Street, Xcp: Cross Cultural Poetics, ecopoetics, VeRT, Can We Have Our Ball Back?, Shampoo and other magazines.
5/16/2003	Micah Ballard will come all the way from San Fransisco to appear before you Micah Ballard is 28 yrs old & is from Louisiana. Besides having poems appear in a variety of publications, most recent books include: Chandeliers (Blue Press), Absinthian Journal (Old Gold), & Negative Capability in the Verse of John Wieners (Auguste Press). New work this Spring includes In the Kindness of Night (Blue Press) Bettina Coffin (Red Ant Press), & Scenes from the Saragossa Manuscript (Snag Press). While nights are spent with friends, during the day he directs the Humanities/Poetics Programs at New College of California.
5/16/2003	Jen Coleman will give this talk: "Lao Tsu, Teletubbies, The book of Q and other instructions for life" Jen Coleman is an editor for Pom2
5/23/2003	Tom Orange will leave his duties in Washington DC for this reading
5/23/2004	Danel Nester will offer a poem-talk entitled "The Policeman's Beard is Still Half-Constructed." Daniel Nester is the author of God Save My Queen (Soft Skull Press 2003), a book on his obsession with and love for the greatest rock band of all time, Queen. His work has appeared in Verse, Open City, Nerve, Mississippi Review, Slope, LIT, and Best American Poetry 2003 (which drew a draw with Charles North in some dude's blog poem-by-poem match-up of the 2002 and 2003 Best American Editions). He edits the online journal Unpleasant Event Schedule (http://www.unpleasanteventschedule.com). He also curates and hosts the reading series Karaoke + Poetry = Fun.
5/23/2003	Arielle Guy will read new work Arielle just moved to the big city from the foggy city about a year ago and is still trying to figure out the subway system to areas more remote than 86th Street. She is a poet and fiction writer whose work has appeared in Zyzzyva, Prosodia, and Cyanosis, and The San Francisco Bay Guardian as a winner of The SFBG Poetry Contest. She was selected to study with John Ashbery at the Key West Writers' Workshop, and graduated from the New College of California Poetics program. Her chapbooks include various collaborations with photographers, sculptors, and seamstresses, and a graphic novel forthcoming entitled "Maia Sierra's Blood Journals." P.S. She is still in search of the best New York burrito.

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