Chin Music

Marilyn Nelson, Ross Gay, & James Best

2011-05-22T19:04:00.002-04:00

Chin Music
The Poetry Reading Series at Pacific Standard Bar
Featuring Marilyn Nelson, Ross Gay, & James Best

Thursday, 2 June 2011 @ 7:00 PM

Pacific Standard Bar
82 Fourth Avenue
Brooklyn, NY (between St. Marks and Bergen Streets)

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Please join us for our upcoming Chin Music season finale featuring three fine poets: Marilyn Nelson, Ross Gay, & James Best. Series curated by Bryan Patrick Miller.

Located on Fourth Avenue in downtown Brooklyn, near the Atlantic/Pacific subway hub, Pacific Standard is a literary bar serving up eighteen microbrews on tap and cask (including both West Coast and local breweries), fine wines and liquors, and tasty snacks like chips and salsa, and meat and cheese plates.

FEATURED POETS

Poet Marilyn Nelson is the author or translator of fourteen books and five chapbooks. Her book The Homeplace won the 1992 Annisfield-Wolf Award and was a finalist for the 1991 National Book Award. The Fields Of Praise: New And Selected Poems won the 1998 Poets' Prize and was a finalist for the 1997 National Book Award, the PEN Winship Award, and the Lenore Marshall Prize. Carver: A Life In Poems won the 2001 Boston Globe/Hornbook Award and the Flora Stieglitz Straus Award, was a finalist for the 2001 National Book Award, a Newbery Honor Book, and a Coretta Scott King Honor Book. Fortune’s Bones was a Coretta Scott King Honor Book and won the Lion and the Unicorn Award for Excellence in North American Poetry. Her young adult book, A Wreath For Emmett Till, won the 2005 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award and was a 2006 Coretta Scott King Honor Book, a 2006 Michael L. Printz Honor Book, and a 2006 Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award Honor Book. Nelson is a professor emerita of English at the University of Connecticut; was (2004-2010) founder/director and host of Soul Mountain Retreat, a small non-profit writers' colony; and held the office of Poet Laureate of the State of Connecticut from 2001-2006.

Ross Gay’s books of poems include Against Which (CavanKerry Press, 2006) and Bringing the Shovel Down (University of Pittsburgh Press, January 2011). His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, MARGIE, Ploughshares and many other magazines. He has also, with the artist Kimberly Thomas, collaborated on several artists’ books: The Cold Loop, BRN2HNT and The Bullet. He is an editor with the chapbook press Q Avenue, whose recently published books include Chromosomory by Layli Long Soldier, Amigos by Matthew Dickman, Ad Hoc by Chris Mattingly, and Dolly by Kimberly Thomas and Simone White. Ross Gay is also on the board of directors of the Bloomington Community Orchard.

James Best lives in Brooklyn, NY, with his wife, Valerie, and their terminally ill bonsai, Moonlight Graham. Besides poetry, he writes for television and humor websites. He has poems published or forthcoming in RATTLE, Cold Mountain Review, South Carolina Review, decomP Magazine, Limestone and the anthology, Fire in the Pasture, due out this summer. Also this summer you can see a poem of his on a girl's t-shirt at American Eagle. He knows this calculated maneuver into mainstream fashion will bring him the large audience of tweens every poet craves.

Meena Alexander, Adrianne Kalfopoulou, & Nicole Sealey

2011-05-06T10:06:00.001-04:00

Chin Music
The Poetry Reading Series at Pacific Standard Bar
Featuring Meena Alexander, Adrianne Kalfopoulou, & Nicole Sealey

Thursday, 19 May 2011 @ 7:00 PM

Pacific Standard Bar
82 Fourth Avenue
Brooklyn, NY (between St. Marks and Bergen Streets)

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Please join us for our upcoming Chin Music reading featuring three fine poets: Meena Alexander, Adrianne Kalfopoulou, & Nicole Sealey. Series curated by Bryan Patrick Miller.

Located on Fourth Avenue in downtown Brooklyn, near the Atlantic/Pacific subway hub, Pacific Standard is a literary bar serving up eighteen microbrews on tap and cask (including both West Coast and local breweries), fine wines and liquors, and tasty snacks like chips and salsa, and meat and cheese plates.

FEATURED POETS

Meena Alexander is considered one of the foremost Indian poets of her generation. She has published six volumes of poetry including Illiterate Heart, which won the PEN Open Book Award, Raw Silk and Quickly Changing River. She is the editor of Indian Love Poems. Her memoir Fault Lines was picked as one of Publishers Weekly’s Best Books of the year. Poetics of Dislocation appeared in the Poets on Poetry Series, University of Michigan Press. Her prose includes two novels, Nampally Road and Manhattan Music. Her awards include those from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, Fulbright Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation and Arts Council of England. She is Distinguished Professor of English at the City University of New York, teaching in the MFA program at Hunter College and the Ph.D. program at the Graduate Center.

Adrianne Kalfopoulou is the author of two collections of poetry, Wild Greens (2002), a Red Hen first book award finalist, and Passion Maps (2009). She has had chapbooks and essays published in a variety of venues including Hotel Amerika, WLT (World Literature Today), Prairie Schooner, and Room magazine where she won the 2009 creative non-fiction prize for "April the Cruelest". She is on the faculty of Hellenic American University in Athens, Greece, and is on the adjunct faculty in the Creative Writing Program at NYU. She is currently involved in research that connects Sylvia Plath's poetry to Ralph Waldo Emerson's philosophy.

Nicole Sealey, born in St. Thomas, U.S.V.I. and raised in Central Florida, is a Cave Canem graduate fellow and Hedgebrook alumna. A finalist for the 2011 Third Coast Poetry Prize, her poems have appeared in or are forthcoming to Callaloo, Harvard Review, The Los Angeles Review and Third Coast, among others.

James Richardson, Will Hubbard, & Sally Wen Mao

2011-04-25T17:16:00.004-04:00

Chin Music
The Poetry Reading Series at Pacific Standard Bar
Featuring James Richardson, Will Hubbard, & Sally Wen Mao

Thursday, 5 May 2011 @ 7:00 PM

Pacific Standard Bar
82 Fourth Avenue
Brooklyn, NY (between St. Marks and Bergen Streets)

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Please join us for our upcoming Chin Music reading featuring three fine poets: James Richardson, Will Hubbard, & Sally Wen Mao. Series curated by Bryan Patrick Miller.

Located on Fourth Avenue in downtown Brooklyn, near the Atlantic/Pacific subway hub, Pacific Standard is a literary bar serving up eighteen microbrews on tap and cask (including both West Coast and local breweries), fine wines and liquors, and tasty snacks like chips and salsa, and meat and cheese plates.

FEATURED POETS

James Richardson is the recipient of the 2011 Jackson Poetry Prize. His most recent books are By the Numbers: Poems and Aphorisms (Copper Canyon, 2010), which was a finalist for the National Book Award, Interglacial: New and Selected Poems and Aphorisms, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten-Second Essays. His work appears in The New Yorker, Slate, Paris Review, Yale Review, Great American Prose Poems, Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists, The Pushcart Prize anthology and several recent volumes of The Best American Poetry. He is Professor of English and Creative Writing at Princeton University.

Will Hubbard grew up in North Carolina and currently lives and works in Brooklyn. His first book, Cursivism, will be released in May 2011 by Ugly Duckling Presse.

Sally Wen Mao is an 826 Valencia Young Author's Scholar and a Kundiman fellow. Her work can be found published or forthcoming in Fourteen Hills, Gulf Coast, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Sycamore Review, and West Branch, among others. Born in Wuhan, China, she has lived in Boston, the Bay Area, Pittsburgh, Amsterdam, and most recently Ithaca, where she is an MFA candidate at Cornell University.

Edward Hirsch, Matthew Zapruder, & Piotr Florczyk

2011-04-12T20:57:00.003-04:00

Chin Music
The Poetry Reading Series at Pacific Standard Bar
Featuring Edward Hirsch, Matthew Zapruder, & Piotr Florczyk

Thursday, 21 April 2011 @ 7:00 PM

Pacific Standard Bar
82 Fourth Avenue
Brooklyn, NY (between St. Marks and Bergen Streets)

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Please join us for a special Chin Music celebration to launch the second title from Calypso Editions, Building the Barricade and Other Poems of Anna Swir, with a reading featuring three fine poets: Edward Hirsch, Matthew Zapruder, & Piotr Florczyk. Series curated by Bryan Patrick Miller.

Calypso Editions is an artist-run, cooperative press dedicated to publishing quality literary books of poetry and fiction with a global perspective. Our only criteria is excellence.

Located on Fourth Avenue in downtown Brooklyn, near the Atlantic/Pacific subway hub, Pacific Standard is a literary bar serving up eighteen microbrews on tap and cask (including both West Coast and local breweries), fine wines and liquors, and tasty snacks like chips and salsa, and meat and cheese plates.

FEATURED POETS

Edward Hirsch, a MacArthur Fellow, has recently published The Living Fire: New and Selected Poems, which brings together thirty-five years of poetry from seven previous collections, including For the Sleepwalkers (1981), Wild Gratitude (1986), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, The Night Parade (1989), Earthly Measures (1994), On Love (1998), Lay Back the Darkness (2003), and Special Orders (2008). He has also written four prose books, including How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry (1999), a national bestseller, and Poet’s Choice (2006). He edits the series “The Writer’s World” (Trinity University Press). He has edited Theodore Roethke’s Selected Poems (2005) and co-edited The Making of a Sonnet: A Norton Anthology (2008). He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Literature. He taught in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Houston for seventeen years and now serves as president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

Matthew Zapruder is the author of three collections of poetry, most recently Come On All You Ghosts (Copper Canyon). Currently he works as an editor for Wave Books, and teaches as a member of the core faculty of UCR-Palm Desert's Low Residency MFA in Creative Writing. He lives in San Francisco.

Piotr Florczyk is an American poet and a translator from his native Polish. With Been and Gone (Marick Press, 2009), he introduced the English-speaking audience to Julian Kornhauser (1946-), one of the foremost Polish poets of the Generation of '68. He is also the translator of a collection of poems by Anna Swir (1909-84), Building the Barricade and Other Poems (Calypso Editions, 2011). He is the recipient of the 2007 Anna Akhmatova Fellowship for Younger Translators, holds an MFA from San Diego State University, and has taught at the University of Delaware. Florczyk's work has appeared in Slate, Boston Review, America Magazine, Pleiades, Notre Dame Review, The Southern Review, West Branch, World Literature Today, and a variety of other journals.

Suzanne Gardinier, Antony Rowland, & Jeremy Voigt

2011-03-29T20:07:00.006-04:00

Chin Music
The Poetry Reading Series at Pacific Standard Bar
Featuring Suzanne Gardinier, Antony Rowland, & Jeremy Voigt

Thursday, 7 April 2011 @ 7:00 PM

Pacific Standard Bar
82 Fourth Avenue
Brooklyn, NY (between St. Marks and Bergen Streets)

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Please join us for our upcoming Chin Music reading featuring three fine poets: Suzanne Gardinier, Antony Rowland, & Jeremy Voigt. Series curated by Bryan Patrick Miller.

Located on Fourth Avenue in downtown Brooklyn, near the Atlantic/Pacific subway hub, Pacific Standard is a literary bar serving up eighteen microbrews on tap and cask (including both West Coast and local breweries), fine wines and liquors, and tasty snacks like chips and salsa, and meat and cheese plates.

FEATURED POETS

SG is the author of five books, most recently Iridium & Selected Poems. She teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and lives in Manhattan.

Antony Rowland published his first collection of poetry, The Land of Green Ginger, with Salt Press (UK) in 2008. Since then his work has been included in the Bloodaxe anthology Identity Parade: New British And Irish Poets (2010), and he was invited to record for the national Poetry Archive in 2009 (www.poetryarchive.org.) His writing has also appeared in a Carcanet anthology (New Poetries III (2003)), as well as journals such as PN Review, Critical Quarterly and the Cincinnati Review.

Jeremy Voigt's work has appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal, Willow Springs, Washington Square, REED Magazine, Talking River Review, Poet Lore, and RHINO. His chapbook Neither Rising nor Falling was published by Finishing Line Press in fall 2009. He has been featured on Garrison Keillor's Writer's Almanac, and teaches regularly at the Port Townsend Writer's Conference, Whatcom Community College, and Burlington-Edison High School.

Mark Doty, Nicky Beer, & Metta Sáma

2011-03-08T18:16:00.003-05:00

Chin Music
The Poetry Reading Series at Pacific Standard Bar
Featuring Mark Doty, Nicky Beer, & Metta Sáma

Thursday, 17 March 2011 @ 7:00 PM

Pacific Standard Bar
82 Fourth Avenue
Brooklyn, NY (between St. Marks and Bergen Streets)

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Please join us for our upcoming Chin Music reading featuring three fine poets: Mark Doty, Nicky Beer, & Metta Sáma. Series curated by Bryan Patrick Miller.

Located on Fourth Avenue in downtown Brooklyn, near the Atlantic/Pacific subway hub, Pacific Standard is a literary bar serving up eighteen microbrews on tap and cask (including both West Coast and local breweries), fine wines and liquors, and tasty snacks like chips and salsa, and meat and cheese plates.

FEATURED POETS

Mark Doty's Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems, won the National Book Award for Poetry in 2008. His eight books of poems include School of the Arts, Source, and My Alexandria. He has also published four volumes of nonfiction prose: Still Life with Oysters and Lemon, Heaven's Coast, Firebird and Dog Years, which was a New York Times bestseller in 2007. Doty’s poems have appeared in many magazines including The Atlantic Monthly, The London Review of Books, Ploughshares, Poetry, and The New Yorker. Widely anthologized, his poems appear in The Norton Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry and many other collections. Doty's work has been honored by the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, a Whiting Writers Award, two Lambda Literary Awards, and the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction. He is the only American poet to have received the T.S. Eliot Prize in the U.K., and has received fellowships from the Guggenheim, Ingram Merrill and Lila Wallace/Readers Digest Foundations, and from the National Endowment for the Arts. Doty lives in New York City and on the east end of Long Island.

Nicky Beer is the author of The Diminishing House (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2010). She has received a Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, a Tuition Scholarship from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, a Discovery/The Nation award, and a Campbell Corner Poetry Prize. She teaches creative writing at the University of Colorado Denver, where she co-edits the journal Copper Nickel. Learn more at www.nickybeer.com.

Metta Sáma is a fiction editor, book reviewer, poet, fiction writer, educator, administrator, & amateur painter and photographer. Her poems and reviews can be found or are upcoming in Crab Orchard Review, Blackbird, Vinyl, The Drunken Boat, Drunken Boat, her circle, among others. Her first poetry collection, South of Here (New Issues 2005), was published under her given name, Lydia Melvin.

Joshua Beckman, Eric Gamalinda, & Sara Femenella

2011-02-17T21:07:00.007-05:00

Chin Music
The Poetry Reading Series at Pacific Standard Bar
Featuring Joshua Beckman, Eric Gamalinda, & Sara Femenella

Thursday, 3 March 2011 @ 7:00 PM

Pacific Standard Bar
82 Fourth Avenue
Brooklyn, NY (between St. Marks and Bergen Streets)

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Please join us for our upcoming Chin Music reading featuring three fine poets: Joshua Beckman, Eric Gamalinda, and Sara Femenella. Series curated by Bryan Patrick Miller.

Located on Fourth Avenue in downtown Brooklyn, near the Atlantic/Pacific subway hub, Pacific Standard is a literary bar serving up eighteen microbrews on tap and cask (including both West Coast and local breweries), fine wines and liquors, and tasty snacks like chips and salsa, and meat and cheese plates.

FEATURED POETS

Joshua Beckman was born in New Haven, Connecticut. He is the author of seven books, including Take It (Wave Books, 2009), Shake and two collaborations with Matthew Rohrer: Nice Hat. Thanks. and Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty. He is an editor at Wave Books and has translated numerous works of poetry and prose, including 5 Meters of Poems by Carlos Oquendo de Amat and Poker by Tomaz Salamun, which was a finalist for the PEN America Poetry in Translation Award. He is also the recipient of numerous other awards, including a NYFA fellowship and a Pushcart Prize. He lives in Seattle and New York.

Eric Gamalinda has published two books of poetry in the U.S., one of which, Zero Gravity, won the Alice James Books New York/New England Prize and the Asian American Literary Award. He was born and raised in the Philippines, where he published numerous books of fiction and a collection of poetry and was awarded the Philippine Centennial Literary Prize for a novel. In 2009, he was shortlisted for the 2009 Man Asian Literary Prize. A book of short stories, People Are Strange, will be published by Black Lawrence Press in fall 2011. He is also a playwright and experimental filmmaker; his three-act play, Resurrection, was staged off-Broadway in New York in 2010, and he has received the Cultural Center of the Philippines Independent Film and Video Awards. He was publications director of the Asian American Writers Workshop until 1997, Distinguished Visiting Writer at the University of Hawaii in Manoa in 1999, and Visiting Scholar at New York University’s Asia Pacific American Studies Program in 2002-03. He currently works for the New York Philharmonic and teaches at Columbia University’s Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race.

Sara Femenella's work had been published or is forthcoming in The Denver Quarterly, Pleiades, Dossier, The Normal School and The Saint Ann's Review. She received her MFA from Columbia University and works at Poets & Writers Magazine.

Tolstoy Centennial with Polina Barskova, Ilya Kaminsky, and Boris Dralyuk

2011-01-30T17:48:00.002-05:00

Chin Music

The Poetry Reading Series at Pacific Standard Bar
Featuring Polina Barskova, Ilya Kaminsky, and Boris Dralyuk

Thursday, 10 February 2010 @ 7:00 PM

Pacific Standard Bar
82 Fourth Avenue
Brooklyn, NY (between St. Marks and Bergen Streets)

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Please join us for a special Chin Music Tolstoy Centennial celebration featuring bilingual readings of poetry and a staged reading in Russian from Tolstoy’s How Much Land Does A Man Need, the inaugural title from Calypso Editions. Featuring Polina Barskova, Ilya Kaminsky, and Boris Dralyuk. Series curated by Bryan Patrick Miller. Special thanks to Melville House.

Calypso Editions is a an artist-run, cooperative press dedicated to publishing quality literary books of poetry and fiction with a global perspective. Our only criteria is excellence.

Located on Fourth Avenue in downtown Brooklyn, near the Atlantic/Pacific subway hub, Pacific Standard is a literary bar serving up eighteen microbrews on tap and cask (including both West Coast and local breweries), fine wines and liquors, and tasty snacks like chips and salsa, and meat and cheese plates.

FEATURED POETS

Polina Barskova, born in 1976, is widely regarded as the most important Russian poet of her generation. Her first book of poems was published when she was still a teenager. After receiving a degree in Russian Literature and Classics from St. Petersburg University, she came to the US where she earned a Ph.D. in Russian Literature from UC Berkeley. Author of seven books of poetry, The Zoo in Winter: Selected Poems is her first collection in English. Barskova teaches at Hampshire College.

Ilya Kaminsky was born in Odessa, former Soviet Union, in 1977, and arrived in the United States in 1993 when his family was granted asylum by the American government. Ilya is the author of Dancing In Odessa (Tupelo Press, 2004), which won the Whiting Writer's Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Metcalf Award, the Dorset Prize, and was named Best Poetry Book of the Year 2004 by ForeWord Magazine. In 2009, poems from his new manuscript, Deaf Republic, were awarded Poetry's Levinson Prize. Harper Collins published his anthology of 20th century poetry in translation, Ecco Anthology of International Poetry, in 2010. Kaminsky is the Director of the Harriet Monroe Poetry Institute and lives in San Diego, California, with his beautiful wife, Katie Farris.

Boris Dralyuk is completing his PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures at UCLA. His poems, translations, essays, and reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in a variety of literary and academic journals, including Poetry International, Zeek, Slavic and East European Journal, and Russian History. He and David Stromberg have recently translated and edited Polina Barskova’s The Zoo in Winter: Selected Poems (Melville House, 2011).

Benefit with Breyten Breytenbach, David Hinton, & Emna Zghal

2010-12-03T14:39:00.006-05:00

Chin Music
The Poetry Reading Series at Pacific Standard Bar
Featuring Breyten Breytenbach, David Hinton, & Emna Zghal

Thursday, 9 December 2010 @ 7:00 PM

Pacific Standard Bar
82 Fourth Avenue
Brooklyn, NY (between St. Marks and Bergen Streets)

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Please join us for a very special Chin Music benefit reading for the Pirogue Collective featuring three fine poets: Breyten Breytenbach, David Hinton, and Emna Zghal. Series curated by Bryan Patrick Miller. Special thanks to Archipelago Books.

Pirogue Collective is a not-for-profit organization supporting artists living and working in Africa through the Imagine Africa publications and the Taalifkat Tudunya Writing Workshops, hosted by the Gorée Institute in Gorée, Senegal.

Sierra Celebration will be $1 off, with half the sales of that beer going toward the cost for one African artist to attend the Taalifkat Tudunya Workshop in January 2011. Donations encouraged.

Breyten Breytenbach is a poet, painter, novelist, memoirist, essayist, and activist. Born in South Africa, he immigrated to Paris in the late '60s and became deeply involved in teh anti-Apartheid movement. Breytenbach's works include All One Horse, Mouroir, Notes from the Middle World, A Season in Paradise, The True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist, Dog Heart, The Memory of Birds in Times of Revolution, Lady One, and Voice Over: A Nomadic Conversation with Mahmoud Darwish. His many honors include the Alan Paton Award, the Hertzog Prize, the Max Jacob Prize, and the Mahmoud Darwish Award. Breytenbach is the Executive Director of the Gorée Institute in Senegal.

David Hinton's many translations of classical Chinese poetry have earned wide acclaim for creating compelling contemporary poems that convey the actual texture and density of the originals. He edited and translated Classical Chinese Poetry: An Anthology and translated The Mountain Poems of Meng Hao-jan. He is also the first translator in over a century to translate the four seminal masterworks of Chinese philosophy: Tao Te Ching, Chuang Tzu, Analects, Mencius. He has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, numerous fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and both of the major awards given for poetry translation in the United States: the Landon Translation Award, from the Academy of American Poets, and the PEN Translation Award. He is currently a fellow at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers in New York City. He lives in Vermont.

Emna Zghal is a Tunisian-born U.S. based visual artist. Besides her work in painting and printmaking, Zghal works with text using poetry and prose in various languages. Her paintings and artist's books are represented in public collections like the New York Public Library, Yale University, and The Museum for African Art in New York. Zghal has received fellowships and done projects with the Women's Studio Workshop, the Newark Art Museum, the MacDowell Colony, the Weir Farm Trust, and the Cité Internationale Des Arts in Paris. In 2008 she was awarded a Creative Capital grant for a public art project, Dark Turquoise, in collaboration with Michael Rakowitz.

Ben Lerner, Timothy Donnelly, & Ken Chen

2010-11-22T22:19:00.010-05:00

Chin Music
The Poetry Reading Series at Pacific Standard Bar
Featuring Ben Lerner, Timothy Donnelly, and Ken Chen

Thursday, 2 December 2010 @ 7:00 PM

Pacific Standard Bar
82 Fourth Avenue
Brooklyn, NY (between St. Marks and Bergen Streets)

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Please join us for our upcoming Chin Music reading featuring three fine poets: Ben Lerner, Timothy Donnelly, and Ken Chen. Series curated by Bryan Patrick Miller.

Located on Fourth Avenue in downtown Brooklyn, near the Atlantic/Pacific subway hub, Pacific Standard is a literary bar serving up eighteen microbrews on tap and cask (including both West Coast and local breweries), fine wines and liquors, and tasty snacks like chips and salsa, and meat and cheese plates.

FEATURED POETS

Ben Lerner's most recent book of poetry is Mean Free Path, published by Copper Canyon Press. His first novel, Leaving the Atocha Station, is forthcoming from Coffee House Press. He teaches at Brooklyn College.

Timothy Donnelly is the author of Twenty-seven Props for a Production of Eine Lebenszeit (Grove 2003) and The Cloud Corporation (Wave 2010). His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in A Public Space, Harper’s, Iowa Review, jubilat, The Nation, The New Republic, The Paris Review, Washington Square Review and elsewhere. He is poetry editor at Boston Review and teaches in the Writing Program at Columbia University’s School of the Arts.

Ken Chen's debut poetry collection, Juvenilia, won the 2009 Yale Series of Younger Poets Award. His work has been published or recognized in Best American Essays 2006, Best American Essays 2007, and the Boston Review of Books. He is the executive director of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop and lives in Brooklyn, NY.

Marina Temkina, M.A. Vizsolyi, & Ben Fama

2010-11-12T00:53:00.003-05:00

Chin Music
The Poetry Reading Series at Pacific Standard Bar
Featuring Marina Temkina, M.A. Vizsolyi, & Ben Fama

Thursday, November 18 2010 @ 7:00 PM

Pacific Standard Bar
82 Fourth Avenue
Brooklyn, NY (between St. Marks and Bergen Streets)

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Please join us for our upcoming Chin Music reading featuring three fine poets: Marina Temkina, M.A. Vizsolyi, and Ben Fama. Series curated by Bryan Patrick Miller.

Located on Fourth Avenue in downtown Brooklyn, near the Atlantic/Pacific subway hub, Pacific Standard is a literary bar serving up eighteen microbrews on tap and cask (including both West Coast and local breweries), fine wines and liquors, and tasty snacks like chips and salsa, and meat and cheese plates.

FEATURED POETS

Marina Temkina was born in Leningrad in 1948 and emigrated to New York City in 1978. She has published four books of poetry in Russian: Chasti chast’ (A Part of A Part), V obratnom napravlenii (In Reverse), Kalancha (Watchtower), and Canto Immigranto. In collaboration with Michel Gerard, she has published two artist's books in France: Observatoire Geomnesique and MoMA Duomo: Twelve Objects from Melencholia and the Broken Obelisk. Marina is also the artist/author behind several multimedia poetry installations. She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts grant and a Charles H. Revson Fellowship on the Future of New York at Columbia University. Her work has been included in several international anthologies and poetry magazines. She writes on gender, Russian-Jewish identity and immigration with a sense of history lived through and expressed as an intimate experience.

M.A. Vizsolyi grew up in Pennsylvania. His first book of poems, The Lamp with Wings, was selected by Ilya Kaminsky for the National Poetry Series, and is forthcoming in the fall of 2011. His poems have appeared in many journals including Poetry International, 6x6, Slice Magazine, and BOMB. He teaches ice hockey and ice skating lessons in Central Park, and lives in Brooklyn.

Ben Fama is the author of the chapbook Aquarius Rising (Ugly Duckling Presse) and co-author of the chapbook Girl Boy Girl Boy (The Corresponding Society). He is the founding editor of Supermachine Poetry Journal. His work has been featured in GlitterPony, Notnostrums, Poor Claudia, and on the Best American Poetry Blog, among others.

Sonia Sanchez, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, & Sassy Ross

2010-11-02T18:40:00.005-04:00

Chin Music
The Poetry Reading Series at Pacific Standard Bar
Featuring Sonia Sanchez, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, & Sassy Ross

Thursday, November 11 2010 @ 7:00 PM

Pacific Standard Bar
82 Fourth Avenue
Brooklyn, NY (between St. Marks and Bergen Streets)

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Please join us for our upcoming Chin Music reading featuring three fine poets: Sonia Sanchez, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, and Sassy Ross. Series curated by Bryan Patrick Miller.

Located on Fourth Avenue in downtown Brooklyn, near the Atlantic/Pacific subway hub, Pacific Standard is a literary bar serving up eighteen microbrews on tap and cask (including both West Coast and local breweries), fine wines and liquors, and tasty snacks like chips and salsa, and meat and cheese plates.

FEATURED POETS

Poet. Mother. Professor. National and International lecturer on Black Culture and Literature, Women’s Liberation, Peace and Racial Justice. Sponsor of Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. Board Member of MADRE. Sonia Sanchez is the author of over 16 books including Homecoming, We a BaddDDD People, Love Poems, I’ve Been a Woman, A Sound Investment and Other Stories, Homegirls and Handgrenades, Under a Soprano Sky, Wounded in the House of a Friend (Beacon Press, 1995), Does Your House Have Lions? (Beacon Press, 1997), Like the Singing Coming off the Drums (Beacon Press, 1998), Shake Loose My Skin (Beacon Press, 1999), and most recently, Morning Haiku (Beacon Press, 2010). In addition to being a contributing editor to Black Scholar and The Journal of African Studies, she has edited an anthology, We Be Word Sorcerers: 25 Stories by Black Americans. She is a winner of the American Book Award, the Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Humanities, the Langston Hughes Poetry Award, the Robert Frost Medal, the Harper Lee Award, and the Robert Creeley Award. The Sonia Sanchez Literary Review is the first African American Journal that discusses the work of Sonia Sanchez and the Black Arts Movement.

Aimee Nezhukumatathil is the author of three books of poetry, MIRACLE FRUIT and AT THE DRIVE-IN VOLCANO and the forthcoming LUCKY FISH (all from Tupelo Press). Awards for her writing include a poetry fellowship from the NEA and the Pushcart Prize. New work appears in American Poetry Review, Prairie Schooner, and Orion. She is associate professor of English at SUNY-Fredonia.

Sassy Ross writes poems. She lives, for the most part, in Brooklyn.

Rachel Rose, Jericho Brown, & Hossannah Asuncion

2010-10-24T15:31:00.005-04:00

Chin Music
The Poetry Reading Series at Pacific Standard Bar
Featuring Rachel Rose, Jericho Brown, Hossannah Asuncion

Thursday, 28 October 2010 @ 7:00 PM

Pacific Standard Bar
82 Fourth Avenue
Brooklyn, NY (between St. Marks and Bergen Streets)

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Please join us for our upcoming Chin Music reading featuring three fine poets: Rachel Rose, Jericho Brown, & Hossannah Asuncion. Series curated by Bryan Patrick Miller.

Located on Fourth Avenue in downtown Brooklyn, near the Atlantic/Pacific subway hub, Pacific Standard is a literary bar serving up eighteen microbrews on tap and cask (including both West Coast and local breweries), fine wines and liquors, and tasty snacks like chips and salsa, and meat and cheese plates.

FEATURED POETS

Rachel Rose (http://www.rachelrose.ca) is a writer whose work has appeared in various journals in Canada, the U.S., New Zealand and Japan, including Poetry, The Malahat Review, and The Best American Poetry, as well as in several anthologies, including Uncharted Lines: Poems from the Journal of the American Medical Association and Between Interruptions: 30 Women Tell the Truth About Motherhood. Her first book, Giving My Body to Science, (McGill/Queen’s University Press) was a finalist for The Gerald Lampert Award, The Pat Lowther Award, and the Grand Prix du Livre de Montreal, and won the Quebec Writers’ Federation A.M. Klein Award. Her second book, Notes on Arrival and Departure, was published by McClelland & Stewart (Random House Canada). She is the poetry and lyric prose mentor at SFU’s The Writer’s Studio and the founder of the “Cross-Border Pollination” reading series.

Jericho Brown worked as the speechwriter for the Mayor of New Orleans before receiving his PhD in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Houston. He also holds an MFA from the University of New Orleans and a BA from Dillard University. The recipient of the Whiting Writers Award, the Bunting Fellowship from the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University, and two travel fellowships to the Krakow Poetry Seminar in Poland, Brown teaches creative writing as an Assistant Professor of English at the University of San Diego. His poems have appeared in The Iowa Review, jubilat, New England Review, Oxford American, and several other journals and anthologies. His first book, PLEASE (New Issues), won the 2009 American Book Award.

Hossannah Asuncion grew up near the 710 and 105 in L.A. She currently lives near an F/G in Brooklyn. She is Kundiman fellow and received a 2010 PSA Chapbook National Fellowship. She tumbles at notarie.tumblr.com.

Kathleen Graber, Colin Cheney, and Anthony Carelli

2010-10-14T22:07:00.004-04:00

Chin Music
The Poetry Reading Series at Pacific Standard Bar
Featuring Kathleen Graber, Colin Cheney, and Anthony Carelli

Thursday, 21 October 2010 @ 7:00 PM

Pacific Standard Bar
82 Fourth Avenue
Brooklyn, NY (between St. Marks and Bergen Streets)

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Please join us for our upcoming Chin Music reading featuring three fine poets: Kathleen Graber, Colin Cheney, and Anthony Carelli. Series curated by Bryan Patrick Miller.

Located on Fourth Avenue in downtown Brooklyn, near the Atlantic/Pacific subway hub, Pacific Standard is a literary bar serving up eighteen microbrews on tap and cask (including both West Coast and local breweries), fine wines and liquors, and tasty snacks like chips and salsa, and meat and cheese plates.

FEATURED POETS

Kathleen Graber's second collection, The Eternal City, is a finalist for the 2010 National Book Award. She is an assistant professor of English in the Creative Writing Program at Virginia Commonwealth University. She has recently been a Hodder Fellow in Poetry at Princeton University and an Amy Lowell Travelling Scholar. She is the recipient of fellowships from The New Jersey State Council on the Arts and The Rona Jaffe Foundation. Her poems have appeared recently in AGNI, The Kenyon Review, and The New Yorker.

Colin Cheney’s debut collection of poems, Here Be Monsters (University of Georgia, 2010), was selected for the National Poetry Series. His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Poetry, Ploughshares, Kenyon Review, Notre Dame Review, Crazyhorse, and Gulf Coast. In 2006, he received a Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, and his poem, “Lord God Bird,” received a 2010 Pushcart Prize. He lives in Bangkok, Thailand.

Anthony Carelli was born and raised in Poynette, Wisconsin—a no-stoplight village that smells periodically of sauerkraut. He attended University of Wisconsin-Madison and New York University. Currently Anthony works at a savory pie shop in Brooklyn, NY. He has had poems published in a few magazines including Columbia, AGNI, and The New Yorker. His first book, Carnations, will be published by Princeton University Press in spring of 2011.

Tryfon Tolides, Leslie C. Chang, and Eric Weinstein

2010-09-26T13:45:00.007-04:00

Chin Music

The Poetry Reading Series at Pacific Standard Bar
Featuring Tryfon Tolides, Leslie C. Chang, and Eric Weinstein

Thursday, 30 September 2010 @ 7:00 PM

Pacific Standard Bar
82 Fourth Avenue
Brooklyn, NY (between St. Marks and Bergen Streets)

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Please join us for our upcoming Chin Music reading featuring three fine poets: Tryfon Tolides, Leslie C. Chang, and Eric Weinstein. Series curated by Bryan Patrick Miller.

Located on Fourth Avenue in downtown Brooklyn, near the Atlantic/Pacific subway hub, Pacific Standard is a literary bar serving up eighteen microbrews on tap and cask (including both West Coast and local breweries), fine wines and liquors, and tasty snacks like chips and salsa, and meat and cheese plates.

FEATURED POETS

Tryfon Tolides was born in Korifi Voiou, Greece. His first book, An Almost Pure Empty Walking, was a 2005 National Poetry Series Selection and published by Penguin in 2006. In 2009, he received a Lannan Foundation Residency in Marfa, Texas.

Leslie C. Chang is the author of the poetry collection, Things That No Longer Delight Me, selected by Cornelius Eady for the 2008-2009 Poets Out Loud Prize and published by Fordham University Press in 2010. She has received awards and scholarships from the Academy of American Poets, the Millay Colony for the Arts, and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. Her work has appeared in Agni, The American Poetry Review, The Iowa Review, Literary Imagination, and other publications. She lives in New York City with her husband and daughter.

Eric Weinstein is the winner of the 2010 New Michigan Press/DIAGRAM chapbook contest for his collection, Vivisection. His poetry has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Best New Poets 2009, Cincinnati Review, Colorado Review, and Third Coast. He is an MFA candidate at New York University.

Phillis Levin, Oliver de la Paz, and John Murillo

2010-09-02T07:02:00.004-04:00

Chin Music

The Poetry Reading Series at Pacific Standard Bar
Featuring Phillis Levin, Oliver de la Paz, and John Murillo

Thursday, 16 September 2010 @ 7:00 PM

Pacific Standard Bar
82 Fourth Avenue
Brooklyn, NY (between St. Marks and Bergen Streets)

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Please join us for our upcoming Chin Music reading featuring three fine poets: Phillis Levin, Oliver de la Paz, and John Murillo. Series curated by Bryan Patrick Miller.

Located on Fourth Avenue in downtown Brooklyn, near the Atlantic/Pacific subway hub, Pacific Standard is a literary bar serving up eighteen microbrews on tap and cask (including both West Coast and local breweries), fine wines and liquors, and tasty snacks like chips and salsa, and meat and cheese plates.

FEATURED POETS

Phillis Levin is the author of four volumes of poetry, Temples and Fields, The Afterimage, Mercury, and May Day. She is the editor of The Penguin Book of the Sonnet. Her many honors include the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award, a Fulbright Scholar Award to Slovenia, the Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. She is a professor of English and the poet-in-residence at Hofstra University and lives in New York.

Oliver de la Paz is the author of three collections of poetry, Names Above Houses, Furious Lullaby (SIU Press 2001, 2007), and the forthcoming Requiem for the Orchard (U. of Akron Press 2010), winner of the Akron Prize for poetry chosen by Martìn Espada. He co-chairs the advisory board of Kundiman, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of Asian American Poetry. A recipient of a NYFA Fellowship Award and a GAP Grant from Artist Trust, his work has appeared in journals like Virginia Quarterly Review, North American Review, Tin House, Chattahoochee Review, and in anthologies such as Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation. He teaches at Western Washington University.

John Murillo is the author of the poetry collection, Up Jump the Boogie. A graduate of New York University's MFA program in creative writing, he has received fellowships from Cave Canem, the New York Times, the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts. His work has appeared in such publications as Callaloo, Court Green, Ninth Letter, and Ploughshares, and is forthcoming in Angles of Ascent: a Norton Anthology of African-American Poetry. Currently, he is visiting assistant professor of creative writing at Cornell University.

Joshua Bell, Maya Pindyck, and Elaine Bleakney

2010-05-24T07:40:00.000-04:00

Chin Music
The Poetry Reading Series at Pacific Standard Bar
Featuring Joshua Bell, Maya Pindyck, and Elaine Bleakney

Thursday, 3 June 2010 @ 7:00 PM

Pacific Standard Bar
82 Fourth Avenue
Brooklyn, NY (between St. Marks and Bergen Streets)

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Please join us for our season finale of Chin Music featuring three fine poets: Joshua Bell, Maya Pindyck, and Elaine Bleakney. Series curated by Colin Cheney.

Located on Fourth Avenue in downtown Brooklyn, near the Atlantic/Pacific subway hub, Pacific Standard is a literary bar serving up eighteen microbrews on tap and cask (including both West Coast and local breweries), fine wines and liquors, and tasty snacks like chips and salsa, and meat and cheese plates.

FEATURED POETS

Joshua Bell’s first book is NO PLANETS STRIKE, Zoo Press/University of Nebraska Press, 2005. He received his M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he was a Teaching-Writing Fellow and Paul Engle Postgraduate Fellow. He was the Diane Middlebrook Fellow at the University of Wisconsin's Creative Writing Institute, 2003-04, and in the Summer of 2006 was a Walter Dakin Fellow at the Sewanee Writer's Conference. His poems have appeared in such magazines as 9th Letter, Boston Review, Hotel Amerika, Indiana Review, Triquarterly, Verse, and Volt. His poems have been reprinted in such recent anthologies as Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century (Sarabande) and Imaginary Poets: 22 Master Poets Create 22 Master Poets (Tupelo Press).

Maya Pindyck is the author of FRIEND AMONG STONES (New Rivers Press, 2009), which received the Many Voices Project Award. Her chapbook, LOCKET, MASTER, was selected by Paul Muldoon for a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship in 2006. Her poems have also appeared in Poets & Artists,Tusculum Review, Sycamore Review, Mississippi Review, Bellingham Review, and elsewhere. A former New York City Teaching Fellow, Maya teaches high school English at Frederick Douglass Academy VII.

Elaine Bleakney's poems have been published in Action Yes, American Letters & Commentary, American Poetry Review, Bat City Review, Spinning Jenny, Verse Daily, and other journals. She is the recipient of the Gerard Creative Writing Endowment Award from the University of California, Irvine and a Schaeffer Fellowship from the International Institute of Modern Letters. Elaine is the art editor for At Length, an online magazine "open to possibilities shorter forms preclude."

L.S. Asekoff, Aaron Baker, and Mara Jebsen

2010-05-13T14:59:00.003-04:00

Chin Music
The Poetry Reading Series at Pacific Standard Bar
Featuring L.S. Asekoff, Aaron Baker, and Mara Jebsen

Thursday, 20 May 2010 @ 7:00 PM

Pacific Standard Bar
82 Fourth Avenue
Brooklyn, NY (between St. Marks and Bergen Streets)

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Please join us for our upcoming Chin Music reading featuring three fine poets: L.S. Asekoff, Aaron Baker, and Mara Jebsen. Series curated by Colin Cheney.

Located on Fourth Avenue in downtown Brooklyn, near the Atlantic/Pacific subway hub, Pacific Standard is a literary bar serving up eighteen microbrews on tap and cask (including both West Coast and local breweries), fine wines and liquors, and tasty snacks like chips and salsa, and meat and cheese plates.

FEATURED POETS

L. S. Asekoff's most recent collection of poetry is THE GATE OF HORN, published by Triquarterly Books in 2010. Former director of the Brooklyn College MFA Program in Poetry, he has published two previous poetry collections: DREAM OF A WORK (Orchises Press, 1994) and NORTH STAR (Orchises Press, 1997). His poems have appeared in the New Yorker, the American Poetry Review, Poetry, TriQuarterly, Ninth Letter, and other magazines.

Aaron Baker is the author of MISSION WORK, the winner of the 2007 Katharine Bakeless Nason Prize for poetry, selected by Stanley Plumly, and the 2009 Glasgow/Shenandoah Prize for emerging writers. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow in Creative Writing at Stanford University, he lives in Charlottesville, Virginia, and teaches at Lynchburg College.

Mara Michael Jebsen is a poet and performer from Philadelphia and Lome, Togo. The daughter of an American storyteller/folklorist and step-daughter of a Togolese professor of African folklore and French literature, Mara came of age as part of a bi-cultural family in Togo during a period of political unrest. She holds an MFA in poetry from New York University, where she teaches essay writing. Mara has read, performed and sung her poems all around the country and internationally. She's been published in jubilat and Hanging Loose and is a 2009 New York Foundation for the Arts fellow.

Major Jackson, Valzhyna Mort, & Ishion Hutchinson

2010-04-23T16:43:00.003-04:00

Chin Music
The Poetry Reading Series at Pacific Standard Bar
Featuring Major Jackson, Valzhyna Mort, and Ishion Hutchinson

Thursday, 6 May 2010 @ 7:00 PM

Pacific Standard Bar
82 Fourth Avenue
Brooklyn, NY (between St. Marks and Bergen Streets)

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Please join us for our upcoming Chin Music reading featuring three fine poets: Major Jackson, Valzhyna Mort, and Ishion Hutchinson.

Other poets to be featured this season include L.S. Asekoff, Aaron Baker, Joshua Bell, Elaine Bleakney. Series curated by Colin Cheney.

Located on Fourth Avenue in downtown Brooklyn, near the Atlantic/Pacific subway hub, Pacific Standard is a literary bar serving up eighteen microbrews on tap and cask (including both West Coast and local breweries), fine wines and liquors, and tasty snacks like chips and salsa, and meat and cheese plates.

FEATURED POETS

Major Jackson is the author of three collections of poetry: HOLDING COMPANY (2010, Norton); HOOPS (2006, Norton); and LEAVING SATURN (2002, University of Georgia Press), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He is a recipient of a Pushcart Prize, a Whiting Writers' Award and has been honored by the Pew Fellowship in the Arts and the Witter Bynner Foundation in conjunction with the Library of Congress. This spring, he is the Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence at Baruch College. He lives in Burlington, Vermont, where he is the Richard Dennis Green and Gold Professor at University of Vermont. He serves as the Poetry Editor of the Harvard Review.

Valzhyna Mort made her American debut with a poetry collection FACTORY OF TEARS (Copper Canyon Press, 2008). Mort received the Lannan Literary Fellowship for 2010-2011.

Ishion Hutchinson's first book, FAR DISTRICT, will be released by Peepal Tree Press in North America in June. He was born in Port Antonio, Jamaica. His work has appeared in such publications as Callaloo Journal, The LA Review, Poetry International, The Wolf Magazine, and Southern Humanities Review.

David Baker, Cynthia Cruz, & Page Hill Starzinger

2010-04-17T17:15:00.002-04:00

Chin Music
The Poetry Reading Series at Pacific Standard Bar
Featuring David Baker, Cynthia Cruz, and Page Hill Starzinger

Thursday, 22 April 2010 @ 7:00 PM

Pacific Standard Bar
82 Fourth Avenue
Brooklyn, NY
(between St. Marks and Bergen Streets)

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Please join us for our upcoming Chin Music reading featuring three fine poets: David Baker, Cynthia Cruz, and Page Hill Starzinger

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Other poets to be featured this season include L.S. Asekoff, Aaron Baker, Joshua Bell, Elaine Bleakney, Ishion Hutchinson, Major Jackson, and Valzhyna Mort. On April 29th, Pacific Standard will also host the double book launch of Colin Cheney's HERE BE MONSTERS and Kimiko Hahn's TOXIC FLORA.

Located on Fourth Avenue in downtown Brooklyn, near the Atlantic/Pacific subway hub, Pacific Standard is a literary bar serving up eighteen microbrews on tap and cask (including both West Coast and local breweries), fine wines and liquors, and tasty snacks like chips and salsa, and meat and cheese plates.

FEATURED POETS

David Baker's most recent collection of poetry is NEVER-ENDING BIRDS (W.W. Norton, 2009). The author of several volumes of poetry and criticism, including MIDWEST ECLOGUE, David Baker is the Thomas B. Fordham Chair of Creative Writing at Denison University and the poetry editor of The Kenyon Review. He lives in Granville, Ohio.

Cynthia Cruz is the author of RUIN, which was published in 2006 by Alice James Books. Her poems have been published in the New Yorker, Paris Review, Boston Review, The American Poetry Review, and others. Her second collection is forthcoming from Four Way Books. She currently teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and is the Visiting Writer at the Rutgers-Newark MFA Program in Creative Writing. In the fall of 2010 she will be the Hodder Fellow in poetry.

Page Hill Starzinger's chapbook UN-SHELTER was selected by Mary Jo Bang as winner of the Noemi Contest in 2009. For 30 years she's worked in New York as Copy Director at Vogue and Estee Lauder and is currently Creative Director for Copy at Aveda. She is coauthor of A Bouquet from the Met (Abrams) and photo editor of Town & Country 150th Anniversary 1846-1996 (Abrams). Her poems have appeared recently in Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Fence, Kenyon Review, TriQuarterly, Literary Imagination, Volt, and elsewhere. She lives in downtown Manhattan.

Matthew Rohrer, Geoffrey Nutter, and Graeme Bezanson

2010-03-27T19:42:00.004-04:00

Chin Music
The Poetry Reading Series at Pacific Standard Bar
Featuring Matthew Rohrer, Geoffrey Nutter, and Graeme Bezanson

Thursday, 1 April 2010 @ 7:00 PM

Pacific Standard Bar
82 Fourth Avenue
Brooklyn, NY
(between St. Marks and Bergen Streets)

http://chinmusicpoetry.blogspot.com

Please join us for our upcoming Chin Music reading featuring three fine poets: Matthew Rohrer, Geoffrey Nutter, and Graeme Bezanson.

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Other poets to be featured this season include L.S. Asekoff, Aaron Baker, David Baker, Joshua Bell, Elaine Bleakney, Ishion Hutchinson, Major Jackson, Valzhyna Mort, and Page Starzinger. Series curated by Colin Cheney.

Located on Fourth Avenue in downtown Brooklyn, near the Atlantic/Pacific subway hub, Pacific Standard is a literary bar serving up eighteen microbrews on tap and cask (including both West Coast and local breweries), fine wines and liquors, and tasty snacks like chips and salsa, and meat and cheese plates.

FEATURED POETS

Matthew Rohrer is the author of A PLATE OF CHICKEN (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2009), RISE UP (Wave Books, 2007) and A GREEN LIGHT (Verse Press, 2004), which was shortlisted for the 2005 Griffin Poetry Prize. He is also the author of SATELLITE (Verse Press, 2001), and co-author, with Joshua Beckman, of NICE HAT. THANKS. (Verse Press, 2002), and the audio CD ADVENTURES WHILE PREACHING THE GOSPEL OF BEAUTY. He has appeared on NPR's "All Things Considered" and "The Next Big Thing." His first book, A HUMMOCK IN THE MALOOKAS was selected for the National Poetry Series by Mary Oliver in 1994. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, and teaches in the Creative Writing Program at NYU.

Geoffrey Nutter's most recent collection of poetry is CHRISTOPHER SUNSET, published this year by Wave Books. He is the author of two previous books of poems, WATER'S LEAVES & OTHER POEMS and SUMMER EVENING. His poems have appeared in journals and anthologies such as Carnet de Route, Verse, Denver Quarterly, Chicago Review, Fence, Xantippe, Best American Poetry 1997, and Iowa Anthology of New American Poetry. He is the recipient of an Academy of American Poets prize.

Graeme Bezanson is a founding editor of coldfrontmag.com, an online journal of essays and poetry reviews. His poems have recently appeared in, or are forthcoming from, Washington Square, The Laurel Review, EOAGH, and The Agriculture Reader. He lives and works in Manhattan.

Henri Cole, Elizabeth Arnold & Alison Moncrief

2010-03-08T15:05:00.003-05:00

Chin Music
The Poetry Reading Series at Pacific Standard Bar
Featuring Henri Cole, Elizabeth Arnold, and Alison Moncrief

Thursday, 25 March 2010 @ 7:00 PM

Pacific Standard Bar
82 Fourth Avenue
Brooklyn, NY
(between St. Marks and Bergen Streets)

http://chinmusicpoetry.blogspot.com

Please join us in two weeks for our upcoming Chin Music reading featuring three fine poets: Henri Cole, Elizabeth Arnold, and Alison Moncrief.

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Other poets to be featured this season include L.S. Asekoff, Aaron Baker, David Baker, Joshua Bell, Elaine Bleakney, Ishion Hutchinson, Major Jackson, Valzhyna Mort, Geoffrey Nutter, Matthew Rohrer, and Page Starzinger. Series curated by Colin Cheney.

Located on Fourth Avenue in downtown Brooklyn, near the Atlantic/Pacific subway hub, Pacific Standard is a literary bar serving up eighteen microbrews on tap and cask (including both West Coast and local breweries), fine wines and liquors, and tasty snacks like chips and salsa, and meat and cheese plates.

FEATURED POETS

Henri Cole's most recent collection of poetry, Pierce the Skin, was published this year by Farrar Straus and Giroux. The recipient of many awards, he is the author six other collections of poetry, including Blackbird and Wolf (FSG, 2007), and Middle Earth (FSG, 2003) which was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. Born in Fukuoka, Japan, and raised in Virginia, he currently lives in Boston and teaches at Ohio State University in Columbus.

Elizabeth Arnold's new volume of poetry, Effacement, was released by Flood Editions in 2010. She was recently awarded the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Fellowship. She has published two previous books of poems, The Reef (University of Chicago Press, 1999) and Civilization (Flood Editions, 2006). She teaches in the MFA program at the University of Maryland.

Alison D. Moncrief lives and writes in Burlington, Vermont. Her poems have appeared in The Denver Quarterly and The Paris Review.

John Burnside, Ada Limón, and Lindsay Turner

2010-02-16T07:45:00.004-05:00

Chin Music
The Poetry Reading Series at Pacific Standard Bar
Featuring John Burnside, Ada Limón, and Lindsay Turner

Thursday, 4 March 2010 @ 7:00 PM

Pacific Standard Bar
82 Fourth Avenue
Brooklyn, NY
(between St. Marks and Bergen Streets)

http://chinmusicpoetry.blogspot.com

Please join us in two weeks for our upcoming Chin Music reading featuring three fine poets: John Burnside, Ada Limón, and Lindsay Turner

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Other poets to be featured this season include Elizabeth Arnold, L.S. Asekoff, Aaron Baker, David Baker, Joshua Bell, Elaine Bleakney, John Burnside, Henri Cole, Ishion Hutchinson, Major Jackson, Alison Moncrief, Geoffrey Nutter, Matthew Rohrer, and Page Starzinger. Please remember to also join us for our reading on Thursday, February 18th with Joseph Legaspi, Aaron Balkan, and Steven Karl. Series curated by Colin Cheney.

Located on Fourth Avenue in downtown Brooklyn, near the Atlantic/Pacific subway hub, Pacific Standard is a literary bar serving up eighteen microbrews on tap and cask (including both West Coast and local breweries), fine wines and liquors, and tasty snacks like chips and salsa, and meat and cheese plates.

FEATURED POETS

John Burnside's most recent collection of poems, THE HUNT IN THE FOREST, was published in 2009 by Cape. Author of twelve collections of poetry and seven works of fiction, his first collection of poetry, THE HOOP, was published in 1988 and won a Scottish Arts Council Book Award. Other poetry collections include COMMON KNOWLEDGE (1991), FEAST DAYS (1992), winner of the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, and THE ASYLUM DANCE (2000), winner of the Whitbread Poetry Award and shortlisted for both the Forward Poetry Prize (Best Poetry Collection of the Year) and the T. S. Eliot Prize. THE LIGHT TRAP (2001) was also shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. Born in Dunfermline, Scotland, he now lives in Fife.

Ada Limón is the author of two award-winning books of poetry, LUCKY WRECK and THIS BIG FAKE WORLD. Her poems have appeared in the New Yorker, Diode, Iowa Review, and others. Her third book, SHARKS IN THE RIVER, is forthcoming from Milkweed Editions.

Originally from northeast Tennessee, Lindsay Turner holds degrees in English from Harvard College, and in film studies from the Université Paris III Sorbonne – Nouvelle, where she also taught. Her poems and criticism have appeared or are forthcoming in Meridian, VERSE online, The Boston Review, Drunken Boat, and elsewhere. She is currently an MFA candidate at New York University, and she lives in Brooklyn.

Joseph Legaspi, Steven Karl & Aaron Balkan

2010-02-05T15:11:00.004-05:00

Chin Music
The Poetry Reading Series at Pacific Standard Bar
Featuring Joseph Legaspi, Steven Karl, and Aaron Balkan

Pacific Standard Bar
82 Fourth Avenue
Brooklyn, NY
(between St. Marks and Bergen Streets)

http://chinmusicpoetry.blogspot.com

Please join us for our next Chin Music reading with three terrific poets: Joseph Legaspi, Steven Karl, and Aaron Balkan. Other poets to be featured this season include Elizabeth Arnold, David Baker, Elaine Bleakney, Aaron Baker, John Burnside, Henri Cole, Ishion Hutchinson, Major Jackson, Alison Moncrief, Geoffrey Nutter, Matthew Rohrer, and Page Starzinger. Series curated by Colin Cheney.

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Located on Fourth Avenue in downtown Brooklyn, near the Atlantic/Pacific subway hub, Pacific Standard is a literary bar serving up eighteen microbrews on tap and cask (including both West Coast and local breweries), fine wines and liquors, and tasty snacks like chips and salsa, and meat and cheese plates.

Joseph O. Legaspi is the author of IMAGO (CavanKerry Press), winner of a Global Filipino Literary Award. He lives in New York City and works at Columbia University. A graduate of New York University’s Creative Writing Program, his poems appeared and/or are forthcoming in American Life in Poetry, World Literature Today, PEN International, North American Review, Callaloo, Bloomsbury Review, Poets & Writers, Gulf Coast, Gay & Lesbian Review, and the anthologies LANGUAGE FOR A NEW CENTURY (W.W. Norton) and TILTING THE CONTINENT (New Rivers Press). A recipient of a poetry fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts, he co-founded Kundiman (www.kundiman.org), a non-profit organization serving Asian American poets. Visit him at www.josepholegaspi.com.

Steven Karl received his MFA from The New School and is the author of a collaborative chapbook, STATE(S) OF FLUX, with the artist, Joseph Lappie (Peptic Robot Press, 2009) and forthcoming chapbooks, (IR)RATIONAL ANIMALS (Flying Guillotine Press) and SATURDAY(S) (Scantily Clad Press). He frequently writes reviews for Cold Front Magazine, Galatea Resurrects, and Sink Review. He lives in New York City.

Aaron Balkan is the author of Ben Beatrice, who is the author of VERBATIM: AN INVESTIGATION, or, as it is known by its Christian title, 377 JOKES ABOUT 9/11: A NOVEL. Both gentlemen are employees of Tacos Avant Garde.

Jean Hartig, Maya Funaro & Noel Sikorski

2010-02-01T14:13:00.007-05:00

Chin Music
Featuring Jean Hartig, Maya Funaro, and Noel Sikorski

Thursday, 11 February 2010 @ 7:00 PM

Pacific Standard Bar
82 Fourth Avenue
Brooklyn, NY
(between St. Marks and Bergen Streets)

http://chinmusicpoetry.blogspot.com

Please join us for our 2010 Winter/Spring season opener with three fine poets: Jean Hartig, Maya Funaro, and Noel Sikorski. Other poets to be featured this season include Elizabeth Arnold, David Baker, Elaine Bleakney, Aaron Baker, Aaron Balkan, John Burnside, Henri Cole, Ishion Hutchinson, Major Jackson, Steven Karl, Alison Moncrief, Geoffrey Nutter, Matthew Rohrer, and Page Starzinger. Series curated by Colin Cheney.

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Located on Fourth Avenue in downtown Brooklyn, near the Atlantic/Pacific subway hub, Pacific Standard is a literary bar serving up eighteen microbrews on tap and cask (including both West Coast and local breweries), fine wines and liquors, and tasty snacks like chips and salsa, and meat and cheese plates.

FEATURED WRITERS

Jean Hartig's chapbook AVE, MATERIA was published last year by the Poetry Society of America as winner of the New York City Chapbook Fellowship competition judged by Fanny Howe. Jean's work has also appeared in Storyscape, Pax Americana, and Sink Review. She had her MFA experience at Sarah Lawrence and is an editor at Poets & Writers Magazine.

Maya Funaro's chapbook SETTING IN MOTION was released in 2009 by Fox Point Press. She completed her MFA in poetry at Hunter College in May of 2008. Her poems have appeared in Ekleksographia and Ology. She holds a B.A. in Visual Art from Brown University and has studied printmaking, bookbinding and letterpress printing in Providence, Bologna and New York. Born and raised in South Jersey, she currently makes her home in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.

Noel Sikorski has published poems in the American Poet, Painted Bride Quarterly, and The Bellevue Literary Review. She teaches in the Expository Writing Program at New York
University and lives in Brooklyn, NY.

Alison Hawthorne Deming, Joel Whitney & Ian Douglas

2009-12-07T21:43:00.003-05:00

Chin Music: The Poetry Reading Series @ Pacific Standard Bar
Featuring Alison Hawthorne Deming, Joel Whitney and Ian Douglas

Thursday, December 17th 2009 @ 7:00 PM

Pacific Standard Bar
82 Fourth Avenue
Brooklyn, NY
(between St. Marks and Bergen Streets)

http://chinmusicpoetry.blogspot.com

Please join us for our next evening of Chin Music @ Pacific Standard. On December 17th, we are thrilled to feature three fine poets: Alison Hawthorne Deming, Joel Whitney, and Ian Douglas.

Located on Fourth Avenue in downtown Brooklyn, near the Atlantic/Pacific subway hub, Pacific Standard is a literary bar serving up eighteen microbrews on tap and cask (including both West Coast and local breweries), fine wines and liquors, and tasty snacks like chips and salsa, and meat and cheese plates.

FEATURED WRITERS

Alison Hawthorne Deming's most recent collection of poetry, ROPE, was published this autumn by Penguin Books. She is the author of three previous collections: SCIENCE AND OTHER POEMS (1994, winner of the Walt Whitman Award), THE MONARCHS: A POEM SEQUENCE (1997), and GENIUS LOCI (2005). She has also published several books of non-fiction, and her poems and essays have been widely published and anthologized, including in THE NORTON BOOK OF NATURE WRITING and THE BEST AMERICAN SCIENCE AND NATURE WRITING. She is currently professor in creative writing at the University of Arizona and lives in Tucson.

Joel Whitney's writing and commentary have appeared in The New Republic, The Village Voice, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Paris Review, The Nation, The Huffington Post, Agni, New York magazine—and on NPR. He's an "insider" on Tina Brown's Daily Beast where he comments on art and politics. Internationally his work has appeared in several languages, including in France's Courrier; his January interview with David Frum appeared in Esquire Russia. Joel has done more than 30 interview for the magazine, including Nobel Prize winners, members of Congress, heads of state, Oscar-nominated filmmakers, and Grammy-nominated singers, from a dozen countries. For his poetry, he was awarded a "Discovery"/The Nation Prize by the 92nd Street Y and The Nation. He lives in Brooklyn.

Ian Douglas is a writer, photographer and designer living in Brooklyn, New York. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, the Literary Review, and other publications. You'll find his photographs in Time Out New York, Mouvement, and dance publications throughout the city. Occasionally you'll catch him (or one of his poems) yearning for the landscapes of his childhood and the West.

Introduction: Aracelis Girmay

2009-12-03T10:49:00.000-05:00

A field of mines exploding. Jacaranda, I call you jacaranda, to be seen more clearly. And was it sky, in fact, but you're a river now, and bird. Feathered, featherless & defiant, godded, Aracelis Girmay's poems come busted piano, come time, come free. My enemies are not hungry, she writes, you, funeral of sails, I admit you. My heart, its bird, belongs to the field now. Pine blade, a fleck of viscous pomegranate. The land will hum, its sturdy, and its faithful was stole away, & rid of all into the cold, cold ocean. Prodding alien in the ducky afternoon, summer of wasps, of tortillas. Santa Ana of cross-guards, tomato pickers was stole away, ripe conjugationer of water and sun. When I say field, I say your thousand, thousand names: morning, heart, father. Santa Ana of mothers, radiators, trains--again all that green when I say field. Aquariums of grains & clocks & schoolchildren, Aracelis Girmay's poems make a place for you while the radio calls out. Or it is not Kornei, and it is not Sudan, & her, if we meet again, I swear to outlast slaughter. The flag of Palestine in Palestine, pine blade, a fleck of the word most sadness. The land will hum. Aracelis Girmay

Introduction: Aaron Fagan

2009-11-19T10:47:00.000-05:00

Like Love Canal, near Niagara Falls, genetically we have a clean slate. A cell connection? I am in my life, and in the library, Aaron Fagan's poem tell, when the satellites fell out of the sky, a blazing guitar solo no one will hear. Reciting lines from the Paradiso, life should feel ridiculously full of hope again. I scream but the machine is loud, like a whispering pollen giving hay-fever to my imagination. Note to self: saltwater amplified the pain as the boss's model-hot daughter sauntered by. I was dead a thousand parts ago in a universe with too much space, glow and stench of sex here, a kind of beacon, like Batman's. Lathe, punch-press and broach I inhaled a gorgeous looseness, then the last of my madness. I want to show you something disgusting: in a room built by other animals, my notions of a depeopled earth eventually dull. We put a living together on machines, in a lead Mark V diving suit, and exhaustion. The human part prayed and left. Use the brain of a deer to soften the hide of a deer they say. "Guess what?! Guess what?!" Aaron Fagan's poem's ask, questioning the theory of light, the wild permutations. The naked trees, the gymnopediste, coughed up its genetic code in tune to me: naked, in Italian, and hidden in the poisons we picked. Shaving barnacles off my hands with a rusted-out straight razor, the beauty is, if beauty is the word, the instrument used to measure pain. Aaron Fagan.

Mónica de la Torre, Aracelis Girmay & Boni Joi

2009-11-16T21:52:00.003-05:00

Chin Music: The Poetry Reading Series @ Pacific Standard Bar
Featuring Mónica de la Torre, Aracelis Girmay, and Boni Joi

Thursday, December 3rd 2009 @ 7:00 PM

Pacific Standard Bar
82 Fourth Avenue
Brooklyn, NY
(between St. Marks and Bergen Streets)

http://chinmusicpoetry.blogspot.com

Please join us for our next evening of Chin Music @ Pacific Standard. On December 3rd, we are thrilled to feature three wonderful poets: Mónica de la Torre, Aracelis Girmay, and Boni Joi.

Located on Fourth Avenue in downtown Brooklyn, near the Atlantic/Pacific subway hub, Pacific Standard is a literary bar serving up eighteen microbrews on tap and cask (including both West Coast and local breweries), fine wines and liquors, and tasty snacks like chips and salsa, and meat and cheese plates.

FEATURED WRITERS

Mónica de la Torre is the author of TALK SHOWS (Switchback Books, 2007) and PUBLIC DOMAIN (Roof Books, 2008). The book she co-authored with artist Terence Gower, APPENDICES, ILLUSTRATIONS & NOTES, is available on Ubu.com. She is co-editor of the multilingual anthology REVERSIBLE MONUMENTS: CONTEMPORARY MEXICAN POETRY(Copper Canyon Press), and edited and translated the volume POEMS BY GERARDO DENIZ, published by Lost Roads. Born and raised in Mexico City, she moved to New York in 1993. She is a 2009 NYFA fellow in poetry and senior editor of BOMB Magazine.

Aracelis Girmay is the author of TEETH, published in 2007 by Curbstone Press. The inheritor of Eritrean, Puerto Rican, and African American traditions, she writes poetry, essays, and fiction. Girmay holds a B.A. from Connecticut College and an M.F.A. in poetry from New York University. Her children's art book, CHANGING, CHANGING, was published by George Braziller in 2005. A former Watson fellow and Cave Canem fellow, she has published extensively in journals and literary magazines. Girmay leads community writing workshops in the Bronx & Brooklyn, & is on the faculty of Drew University's low-residency MFA Program.

Boni Joi received a M.F.A. in poetry from Columbia University, and has been nominated twice for a Pushcart Prize. Her poems have appeared in Arabella, Long Shot, Big Hammer, Mind Gorilla, The Brooklyn Rail and many other journals. She is part of Off the Park Press (www.offtheparkpress.com), a new poetry press that last year released the anthology NEW SMOKE: POETRY INSPIRED BY NEO RAUCH, and will publish VIVA LA DIFFERENCE, a collection of poems describing the painting of the same title by Peter Saul, in Spring 2010. Joi has read her poetry at numerous venues in New York City and elsewhere over the past 18 years

Aaron Fagan, Stuart Greenhouse & James Byrne

2009-11-10T09:23:00.002-05:00

Chin Music: The Poetry Reading Series @ Pacific Standard Bar
Featuring Aaron Fagan, Stuart Greenhouse, and James Byrne

Thursday, November 19th 2009 @ 7:00 PM

Pacific Standard Bar
82 Fourth Avenue
Brooklyn, NY
(between St. Marks and Bergen Streets)

http://chinmusicpoetry.blogspot.com

Please join us for our next evening of Chin Music @ Pacific Standard. On November 19th, we are thrilled to feature three fine poets: Aaron Fagan, Stuart Greenhouse, and James Byrne. Other writers to be featured in Chin Music this season include Monica de la Torre, Alison Hawthorne Deming, Ian Douglas, and Aracelis Girmay.

Located on Fourth Avenue in downtown Brooklyn, near the Atlantic/Pacific subway hub, Pacific Standard is a literary bar serving up eighteen microbrews on tap and cask (including both West Coast and local breweries), fine wines and liquors, and tasty snacks like chips and salsa, and meat and cheese plates.

FEATURED WRITERS

Aaron Fagan is the author of GARAGE, a debut collection of poems published by Salt in 2007. The critic Harold Bloom said: “Fagan’s first book is vivid and aesthetically disturbing work. His promise is considerable because his originality should prove to be decisive.” And Idra Novey said in a review in The Believer that "Fagan both considers the 'laws' of poetry and breaks them, a mix that has made for an excellent first book." Recent work has appeared, or is due to appear in, The American Poetry Review, Tuesday: An Art Project, and The Yale Review. He lives in the Bronx.

Stuart Greenhouse’s poems have appeared in journals such as Antioch Review, Chelsea, Fence, Paris Review, and Ploughshares. His chapbook, WHAT REMAINS, was chosen for a National Chapbook Fellowship and was published by the Poetry Society of America in December of 2005. A second chapbook, ALL ARCHITECTURE, was published in June of 2007 by End and Shelf Press.

James Byrne's second collection of poems, BLOOD/SUGAR, will be published in winter 2009 by Arc Publications. He is Editor of The Wolf, a poetry magazine he co-founded in 2002. In 2009 his NEW AND SELECTED POEMS: THE VANISHING HOUSE was published by Treci Trg (in a bilingual edition) in Belgrade. He is the co-editor of VOICE RECOGNITION: 21 POETS FOR THE 21ST CENTURY, published by Bloodaxe, and is co-editing PARIS AND OTHER POEMS by Hope Mirrlees (Fyfield Books 2011). Born in Buckinghamshire in 1977, he divides his time between New York City and London.

Introduction: Roddy Lumsden

2009-10-24T10:43:00.000-04:00

Sulphur, globster, stinkhorn, horse & brie: on our first night together, I held off wolves. Since you ask, lass, if you're to join me in a little sinning, we have missed the thaw by days. Lindworm, Tatzelwurm and yeti, Roddy Lumsden's poems stroke your bible head, make your madness better. In this ugly pieta, he writes, I splashed on Gio, creased my 615s & the celtic serpent tattoo twists all over the pale force of her body. It's difficult with both of us seeing people, bracing to pull hot wax strips from your calves. You who thrived where the horse trod until, sleepless without you, I whispered this. These beer tins, deer scat, thrawn branks, and her well-thumbed copy of The Joy of Sex. While their mother is out on rooftops, mapping the stars, they must, since we must, have the sound of rain, of the silent film of me. Faint heart, fair maid, and all that jazz. Scallions scowled in a jelly pan. The long cosh of a thaw? An advancing swarm? I'd mope but I could live with that, the malt musk of Laphroaig about her mouth. These dog-watch dalliances, these matinees, Roddy Lumsden's poems record rain at night, biscuits crushed in paper pokes at Xmas, cryptozoologies. Or else I imagine Judas, a keek of Rauschenberg's stuffed goat, Mid 1990s, Scotland, dead of winter. When my ex-wife found magnetic north in my sock drawer, you poured a pale sky down. Because even minker's bairns have angelwings. Roddy Lumsden.

Roddy Lumsden, Jynne Dilling Martin, and Farnoosh Fathi

2009-10-23T17:09:00.000-04:00

Chin Music: The Poetry Reading Series @ Pacific Standard Bar
Featuring Roddy Lumsden, Jynne Dilling Martin, and Farnoosh Fathi

Thursday, October 29th, 2009 @ 7:00 PM

Pacific Standard Bar
82 Fourth Avenue
Brooklyn, NY
(between St. Marks and Bergen Streets)

http://chinmusicpoetry.blogspot.com

Please join us for our next evening of Chin Music @ Pacific Standard. On October 29th, we are thrilled to feature three excellent poets: Roddy Lumsden, Jynne Dilling Martin, and Farnoosh Fathi. Other writers to be featured in Chin Music this season include Monica de la Torre, Alison Hawthorne Deming, Ian Douglas, Aaron Fagan, Aracelis Girmay, and Stuart Greenhouse.

Located on Fourth Avenue in downtown Brooklyn, near the Atlantic/Pacific subway hub, Pacific Standard is a literary bar serving up eighteen microbrews on tap and cask (including both West Coast and local breweries), fine wines and liquors, and tasty snacks like chips and salsa, and meat and cheese plates.

FEATURED WRITERS

Roddy Lumsden’s poetry collections include YEAH, YEAH, YEAH (Bloodaxe, 1997), RODDY LUMSDEN IS DEAD (Wrecking Ball Press, 2001), MISCHIEF NIGHT: NEW & SELECTED POEMS (Bloodaxe, 2004), and THIRD WISH WASTED (Bloodaxe, 2009). Lumsden has worked as a freelance writer, editor, teacher, and writer of puzzles and quizzes for newspapers. He also composed a poem, “Bloom,” on the set of “Flowers for Kate”—a photo shoot of the model Kate Moss for V magazine. He was born in St. Andrews, Scotland, and lives in London.

Jynne Dilling Martin's poetry has appeared in Kenyon Review, New England Review, TriQuarterly, Indiana Review, New Orleans Review, Southern Review and elsewhere. In March, she was one of four winners of the 92nd Street Y "Discovery" Poetry Contest, which since 1951 has recognized the achievements of poets who have not yet published a first book. She lives in Brooklyn.

Farnoosh Fathi recently received a Fulbright Fellowship to travel to Brazil and write poems. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Denver Quarterly, Fence and Boston Review. She currently lives in New York City.

Introduction: Steve Gehrke

2009-10-22T10:52:00.000-04:00

In the marrowless dialects, trying to find a crescendo of moth wings, I imagined my wife, botanical and numbed. My body a box of piano strings, of bird, no center, no storm eye, of his soft tissues through the trees, I've been trying to make a song from the body's gaps. Like poison in a snake's gum, Steve Gehrke's poems ink and conceal, occupy only the backyard syntax, sing to feel the violence. As I inhale him, he writes, from the noose of elegy, she was both alive and dead in me. At the dirty clenched Pacific, whatever self was left was lost in the acoustics of the frontal lobe: past/future him. St. Paul said, because of sin, the soul scars and cholesterols, undying cell-by-cell. He wrote his executioners to entice the wild beasts, the language like the body no false god of formula. The soil had made the fucking branches the body's lock, the priest's hands, corseted, amnesiac. These God-sphinxed walking texts, God-less, corpsed with the creatures whorled into the stone. Having entered the mind, Steve Gehrke's poems quicken the soil of us, the harbor frozen, electricity and feathers, that vertigo, that swift. Like a lamp of a fragile ark on which our chromosomes suck a vision through, Eugene O'Neill, St. Ignatius dive back into himself. Bowered world, words that try to father, can’t you feel the music burning? Steve Gehrke.

Philip Levine, Steve Gehrke, and Jason Koo

2009-10-20T08:14:00.002-04:00

Chin Music: The Poetry Reading Series @ Pacific Standard Bar
Featuring Philip Levine, Steve Gehrke, and Jason Koo

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009 @ 7:00 PM

Pacific Standard Bar
82 Fourth Avenue
Brooklyn, NY
(between St. Marks and Bergen Streets)

Please join us for our next evening of Chin Music @ Pacific Standard. On October 22nd, we are thrilled to feature three excellent poets: Philip Levine, Steve Gehrke, and Jason Koo. Other writers to be featured in Chin Music this season include Monica de la Torre, Alison Hawthorne Deming, Ian Douglas, Aaron Fagan, Aracelis Girmay, Stuart Greenhouse, Roddy Lumsden, Jynne Dilling Martin, and Akilah Oliver.

Located on Fourth Avenue in downtown Brooklyn, near the Atlantic/Pacific subway hub, Pacific Standard is a literary bar serving up eighteen microbrews on tap and cask (including both West Coast and local breweries), fine wines and liquors, and tasty snacks like chips and salsa, and meat and cheese plates.

FEATURED WRITERS

Philip Levine's new collection of poetry is NEWS OF THE WORLD, published this autumn by Knopf. He is the author of sixteen collections of poems and two books of essays. He has received many awards for his poetry, including the National Book Award in 1980 for ASHES and again in 1991 for WHAT WORK IS, and the Pulitzer Prize in 1995 for THE SIMPLE TRUTH. Mr. Levine divides his time between Brooklyn, New York, and Fresno, California.

Steve Gehrke has published three books of poems, most recently MICHELANGELO'S SEIZURE, which was selected for the National Poetry Series. His poetry has earned him a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Pushcart Prize and has been published in numerous journals. He holds degrees from Minnesota State University, University of Texas at Austin, and the University of Missouri. He has previously taught creative writing and literature courses at the University of Missouri and Seton Hall University. He is currently Assistant Professor in the English Department at Gettysburg College.

Jason Koo is the author of MAN ON EXTREMELY SMALL ISLAND, winner of the 2008 De Novo Poetry Prize. The recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Vermont Studio Center, he has published his poetry and prose in numerous journals, including The Yale Review, North American Review and The Missouri Review. He earned his B.A. in English from Yale, his M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of Houston and his Ph.D. in English and creative writing from the University of Missouri-Columbia. He currently lives in New York, where he teaches at NYU and Lehman College and serves as Poetry Editor of Low Rent.

Introduction: MC Hyland

2009-10-01T10:54:00.000-04:00

Down in the junkyard there is a god, submarine & therefore. If therefore, then breathe in the house haunted be bees--you are particle, naked in the camera's stuttering eye. MC Hyland's silent films & new architectures are a motion she makes occur, are the way light closes with the hands. Write me when you get to Texas, she asks, living funny in rented rooms, leave a map in every room. The moon can be taken apart, built as in tires & clay, a house of distraction. A refrigerator coos to potted basil on the sill, murderous soil turned suddenly to walls. If bones form a frame, & then you, we stand on the lawn in evening gowns, all the bats out into nightliness. A house is a house only in countryside shifting reference about loss--as in residue, her memory as though under glass. House of lunar aureole with a book hand-drawn--inverted roof, wings--the holes in the sky are closing up, but we remove our clothes & adieu/ so beautiful. Noun, noun. To denote a train or clockwork she is walking away from us. Here is the edge, MC Hyland's poems hint & cipher, let time slip through this isolation. What winter these stanzas. I am shouting in my sleep in this hot junkyard then. And then you--to the grass, laughing. MC Hyland.

Wendy Mnookin, Farrah Field and MC Hyland

2009-09-19T13:58:00.001-04:00

Thursday, October 1 2009 @ 7:00 PM
Featuring Wendy Mnookin, Farrah Field & MC Hyland

Pacific Standard Bar
82 Fourth Avenue
Brooklyn, NY
(between St. Marks and Bergen Streets)

http://chinmusicpoetry.blogspot.com

Please join us for our next evening of Chin Music @ Pacific Standard. On October 1st, we are excited to feature three excellent poets: Wendy Mnookin, Farrah Field, and MC Hyland.

FEATURED WRITERS

Wendy Mnookin's most recent book, THE MOON MAKES ITS OWN PLEA, was published by BOA Editions in 2008. Her other collections are WHAT HE TOOK and TO GET HERE, both released by BOA Editions, and GUENEVER SPEAKS, published by Round Table Productions. Wendy is the recipient of a book award from the New England Poetry Club and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. She teaches poetry at Emerson College and at Grub Street, a non-profit writing program in Boston, and lives in Newton, Massachusetts. You can learn more at her website: www.wendymnookin.com.

Farrah Field's first book, RISING, was published by Four Way Books in early 2009. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in the Mississippi Review, Margie, Chelsea, The Massachusetts Review, Harpur Palate, Typo, Harp & Altar, 420pus, Cortland Review, Pebble Lake Review, Another Chicago Magazine, Fulcrum, and The Pinch. She was born in Cheyenne, Wyoming and raised in Nebraska, Colorado, Louisiana, Arkansas, Sicily, and Belgium. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

MC Hyland is the author (or co-author) of four chapbooks, most recently Residential As In, an e-chap published by Blue Hour Press in February 2009. Her poems have appeared in H_NGM_N, The Paris Review, 42Opus, LIT, Colorado Review, and several other magazines, and new work is forthcoming in Cannibal and Slant. She also runs DoubleCross Press. She lives in Minneapolis, where she makes books, writes, teaches letterpress printing and writing, and works in a cheese shop.

Photographs -- Randall Mann, John Casteen, Will Dowd

2009-09-17T14:18:00.004-04:00

Will Dowd

John Casteen

Randall Mann

Introduction: John Casteen

2009-09-17T10:57:00.000-04:00

Who is the linchpin, the clevis, the keystone, the hinge? The cartographers convinced us of nothing. A dictionary of flowers is a register we populate, we punctuate. Like declensions of dead-language verbs, John Casteen’s poems wax, fill, new, sugartrace and say thus we have its measure: a wrench for a valve on a mothballed sub, smoke in pears, tinnitus, tin pines, tin oaks. Away from where things smell like us, I wanted to be a simple machine, he writes, like Miro, the old guys worked like Miro. This is not that poem like dowsing is, is the loam smell, is a valve without a governor. We’re all afternoon with augurs, the sodium traces drought leaves, wishing I was drunk and waiting. The finally flowering weeds. The smell of ether in the carb. Four winesaps and blood blossom. As I write, the range of variables narrows. It was crazing making. To the landfill for a clean start, then—we knew the bitch payback was. Whose insurgences are whose street riots. John Casteen can map how the annealing tool makes the colors of flowers in his eyes. The animals are gone. And barns like churches. And phloem, vocabularies that char, nomenclatures that say: I don’t want to die because I don’t and the spare room has the sphagnum smell. But it might just be those cool fall nights. John Casteen.

Randall Mann, John Casteen, and Will Dowd

2009-09-03T19:44:00.000-04:00

Chin Music: The Pacific Standard Poetry Reading Series
Featuring Randall Mann, John Casteen, and Will Dowd

Thursday, September 17th 2009 @ 7:00 PM

Pacific Standard Bar
82 Fourth Avenue
Brooklyn, NY
(between St. Marks and Bergen Streets)

Please join us for opening night of Chin Music’s Autumn/Winter 2009 season. On September 17th, we are excited to feature three fine poets: Randall Mann, John Casteen, and Will Dowd.

FEATURED WRITERS

Randall Mann is the author of two collections of poetry, BREAKFAST WITH THOM GUNN (University of Chicago Press, 2009) and COMPLAINT IN THE GARDEN (Zoo/Orchises, 2004), and co-author of the textbook WRITING POEMS (Pearson Longman, 2007). He lives in San Francisco.

John Casteen was self-employed as a designer and builder of custom furniture for ten years after graduating from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He has taught at The University of Virginia and at Sweet Briar College. He has contributed poems to The Paris Review, Ploughshares, The Southern Review, and other literary magazines; he has also written for Slate.com and Virginia Quarterly Review, where he serves on the editorial staff. His book, FREE UNION, appeared this spring from the University of Georgia Press. He lives outside Charlottesville, Virginia, with his wife and their two young children.

Will Dowd's work appeared recently in 32 Poems, The Comstock Review, and Post Road Magazine. He received a B.A. from Boston College and an M.S. from MIT. In 2007, he was named a Jacob K. Javits Fellow. He is currently pursuing an MFA at New York University.

Photographs -- June 18th, 2009

2009-06-18T10:04:00.001-04:00

Sarah Manguso

Dan Albergotti

Blue Chevigny

Sarah Manguso, Dan Albergotti, and Blue Chevigny

2009-06-12T13:34:00.002-04:00

Chin Music: The Pacific Standard Poetry Reading Series
Featuring Sarah Manguso, Dan Albergotti, and Blue Chevigny

Thursday, June 18th 2009 @ 7:00 PM

Pacific Standard Bar
82 Fourth Avenue
Brooklyn, NY
(between St. Marks and Bergen Streets)

Please join us for the season finale of Chin Music, the Pacific Standard Poetry Reading Series. On June 18th, we are excited to feature three excellent poets: Sarah Manguso, Dan Albergotti, and Blue Chevigny. Writers on-deck for the autumn season include Roddy Lumsden, John Casteen, Paige Starzinger, Major Jackson, and David Baker.

Please note our earlier reading time of 7:00PM.

Located on Fourth Avenue in downtown Brooklyn, near the Atlantic/Pacific subway hub, Pacific Standard is a literary bar serving up eighteen microbrews on tap and cask (including both West Coast and local breweries), fine wines and liquors, and tasty snacks like chips and salsa, and meat and cheese plates.

FEATURED POETS

Sarah Manguso is the author of the memoir THE TWO KINDS OF DECAY, recently released in paperback by FSG. It was named an Editors' Choice by the New York Times Sunday Book Review and a Best Nonfiction Book of the Year by the San Francisco Chronicle. Her other books include the story collection HARD TO ADMIT AND HARDER TO ESCAPE (2007), included in McSweeney's 145 Stories in a Small Box, and the poetry collections SISTE VIATOR (2006) and THE CAPTAIN LANDS IN PARADISE (2002), which was named a Favorite Book of the Year by the Village Voice. In 2008 she received the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Born and raised near Boston, she lives in Brooklyn.

Dan Albergotti’s collection of poems, THE BOATLOADS, was selected by Edward Hirsch as the winner of the 2007 A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize from BOA Editions and published in April 2008. His poems have appeared in The Cincinnati Review, Mid-American Review, Shenandoah, The Southern Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and other journals. His chapbook, CHARON’S MANIFEST, won the 2005 Randall Jarrell/Harperprints Chapbook Competition. Former poetry editor of The Greensboro Review, he currently edits the online journal Waccamaw (www.waccamawjournal.com) and teaches creative writing and literature courses at Coastal Carolina University.

Blue Chevigny is a native New Yorker who writes a lot of her poems on long subway commutes. Her work has appeared in Hanging Loose and Salamander Jacket. She is also a social worker and radio producer for public radio, and lives in Brooklyn.

Introduction: Kevin Goodan

2009-06-11T13:36:00.000-04:00

Who will angel what remains? For what is the earth but a thing to make time visible? Sparse birds, bright barns, Kevin Goodan’s poems try to decide what is noun from verb, are a winter storm’s augery. To elm & silence, to ripe the fruit, to rot the fruit, to know death is a place and each thing lives there. Listen to Adam singing in the weeds, he writes, how will I master the green language, the arrival of something unseen. Sing nones, sing vespers, satellites shimmer in abeyance to stars. Pigeon blood drying on the shit spreader, soil recalibrates simple desire or the freezer lambs calling to the unchosen. To coax dead flies from slumber, to choose the bird, to voice the bird: is brightening, miasma. Give me thorns and I will praise, and will not live to winter, which is a language I know. That my intelligence belongs to field, puddles at the base of thistle, every platelet hungry for the earth. Kevin Goodan’s poems are some vireos working toward rapture, a kingbird in the mind. The wicked shall be known as preachers of beauty, of fields, poplar that are verbs. O verb of verbs, shape me, bless me, realizing I have become what it was I wanted to be. The fallowing, feraling. Kevin Goodan.

Photographs -- June 11th, 2009

2009-06-11T10:32:00.001-04:00

Oni Buchanan

Kevin Goodan

Jessica Flynn

Oni Buchanan, Kevin Goodan and Jessica Flynn

2009-06-02T12:41:00.002-04:00

Chin Music: The Pacific Standard Poetry Reading Series
Featuring Oni Buchanan, Kevin Goodan, and Jessica Flynn

Thursday, June 11th 2009 @ 7:00 PM

Pacific Standard Bar
82 Fourth Avenue
Brooklyn, NY
(between St. Marks and Bergen Streets)

Please join us for the next evening of Chin Music, the Pacific Standard Poetry Reading Series. On June 11th, we are excited to feature three excellent poets: Oni Buchanan, Kevin Goodan, and Jessica Flynn. Other writers to be featured in Chin Music this season include Sarah Manguso, Dan Albergotti, Paige Starzinger, Blue Chevigny, Major Jackson, and David Baker.

Please note our earlier reading time of 7:00PM.

Located on Fourth Avenue in downtown Brooklyn, near the Atlantic/Pacific subway hub, Pacific Standard is a literary bar serving up eighteen microbrews on tap and cask (including both West Coast and local breweries), fine wines and liquors, and tasty snacks like chips and salsa, and meat and cheese plates.

FEATURED WRITERS

Oni Buchanan is the author of SPRING, selected by Mark Doty for the 2007 National Poetry Series, and published by the University of Illinois Press in September 2008. Her first poetry book, WHAT ANIMAL, was published in 2003 by the University of Georgia Press. Oni is also a concert pianist, has released three solo piano CDs, and actively performs across the U.S. and abroad. She lives in Boston, where she maintains a private piano teaching studio.

Kevin Goodan’s second collection of poems, WINTER TENOR, was released this spring by Alice James Books. His first book, IN THE GHOST-HOUSE ACQUAINTED, was published by Alice James in 2004, and received the L.L. Winship/PEN New England Award for 2005. He was raised in Montana, fought forest fires for many years, and he attended the University of Montana, and the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. He currently lives on a small farm in western Massachusetts.

Jessica Flynn's poems have appeared in Sonora Review and Phoebe. She currently works as a program coordinator at the NYU Creative Writing Program.

Introduction: Lytton Smith

2009-06-01T12:44:00.002-04:00

But there’s nothing magical about the magical: leave your instruments at the entrance. Lytton Smith’s poems fathom tule fog, minehaul and birdfright, a natural world turned human agent between weather and earthlight. My physicians say the spirits of animals flow within our hollow nerves, he writes, a mutiny in the lungs of children sealbark, wolfhowl. How you were chosen for laying on hands: belief would be an orchard, reliquary of seeds. You’re within the fantastical tent, the rubber man’s cabinet of exotic moths, the hollow hairs of winter animals. If only you had the eyes for it, this itinerance, this merry going round. At edge of the furze I’ve hidden a monster theory: a fear of wheatfields, of groundbeetles, a confusion of daughters, a liminality of, an aloneness of, a hic est monstrum of [monsters]. On unsteady feet, Lytton Smith’s poems rescue flotsam of dismantled carousels, the hot air of zeppelins, a forest washed ashore one winter. He maps the taut nerves, the bright coax, of the beyond-limits, the harnessed bird’s-eye view, hindsight more clearly charted, the slant scripts, as she asked him: comma, anvil, torn. Lytton Smith.

Photographs -- May 29th, 2009

2009-05-29T10:36:00.002-04:00

Glyn Maxwell

Rick Barot

Lytton Smith

Glyn Maxwell, Rick Barot & Lytton Smith

2009-05-20T12:25:00.002-04:00

Chin Music: The Pacific Standard Poetry Reading Series
Featuring Glyn Maxwell, Rick Barot, and Lytton Smith

Thursday, May 28th 2009 @ 7:00 PM

Pacific Standard Bar
82 Fourth Avenue
Brooklyn, NY
(between St. Marks and Bergen Streets)

Please join us for the next evening of Chin Music, the Pacific Standard Poetry Reading Series. On May 28th, we are excited to feature three excellent poets: Glyn Maxwell, Rick Barot, and Lytton Smith. Other writers to be featured in Chin Music this season include Sarah Manguso, Kevin Goodan, Dan Albergotti, Oni Buchanan, Paige Starzinger, Blue Chevigny, Major Jackson, and David Baker.

Please note our earlier reading time of 7:00PM.

Located on Fourth Avenue in downtown Brooklyn, near the Atlantic/Pacific subway hub, Pacific Standard is a literary bar serving up eighteen microbrews on tap and cask (including both West Coast and local breweries), fine wines and liquors, and tasty snacks like chips and salsa, and meat and cheese plates.

FEATURED WRITERS

Glyn Maxwell’s latest poetry collection, HIDE NOW, was published in 2008 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, and shortlisted for the 2008 T. S. Eliot Prize. He was appointed Poetry Editor at the New Republic in 2001, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Several of his books of poetry have been shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot and Forward Poetry Prizes, and the Whitbread Poetry Award, and his most recent collections—THE BOYS AT TWILIGHT, TIME’S FOOL, and THE NERVE—were selected as New York Times Notable Books of the Year. He has written a number of plays (BROKEN JOURNEY, THE LIFEBLOOD, BEST MAN’S SPEECH, and THE FOREVER WALTZ), radio plays (CHILDMINDERS), opera libretti (THE GIRL OF SAND and THE BIRDS), and novels (BLUE BURNEAU and THE GIRL WHO WAS GOING TO DIE). Glyn Maxwell is currently adapting Umberto Eco's THE NAME OF THE ROSE for Moving Pictures Theatre Company. He lives in London, England.

Rick Barot has published two books of poems with Sarabande Books: THE DARKER FALL (2002) and WANT (2008). His poems and essays have appeared in numerous publications, including Poetry, The Paris Review, American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, New England Review, The New Republic, and Virginia Quarterly Review. He lives in Tacoma, Washington and teaches both in the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College and at Pacific Lutheran University.

Lytton Smith was born in Galleywood, England, and lives in New York City, where he is a founding member of Blind Tiger Poetry, a group which aims to find innovative ways to promote contemporary poetry. His book, THE ALL-PURPOSE MAGICAL TENT (Nightboat Books, 2009) was selected by Terrance Hayes for the Nightboat Prize. His chapbook, MONSTER THEORY, was selected by Kevin Young for a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship and published in 2008. His poems and reviews have appeared in American Letters & Commentary, The Atlantic, Bateau, The Believer, Boston Review, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Ninth Letter, Tin House, Verse, and the anthology All That Mighty Heart: London Poems.

Introduction: Sarah Gambito

2009-05-16T10:53:00.001-04:00

I opened a melon last night and immigrants spilled out. Let’s make it more specific: I’m in the belly of the beast, if I am me. If there’s a poem within this poem, Sarah Gambito’s poems announce, I’ll kill its lion-honey, egrets on the rim of how you love me. I pray on my American xylophone, she writes, please don’t discover me, it won’t heal anything. I’m sick of pretending everything is a brierpatch hymnal inside the soldier. Like inside the anime. Surely I’m not interchangeable, my shock in the ghost of the guest of my boyfriend. We talk of jasper things in trees, love in love’s seed pod. I know other songs, I’m aggrieved, uninspired and writing my signature—what I’m capable of. With so much fruit, the cellar was confused, its habitat scares it, screaming back until it changes species. With a dream, a kingfisher like a farmtool in your mouth, Sarah Gambito carefully embroiders the sky, the skin, immigration, the radioactive, crawls fixedly over internal laws. Afterall, when God was a cup of coffee, she tells us, sometimes I think the words and daughters are sugar cubes. Are egrets, if I am me.

Photographs -- May 15th, 2009

2009-05-15T10:40:00.003-04:00

Sarah Gambito

Solmaz Sharif

Mrigaa Sethi

Sarah Gambito, Mrigaa Sethi, and Solmaz Sharif

2009-05-06T11:35:00.001-04:00

Thursday, May 14th 2009 @ 7:00 PM

Pacific Standard Bar
82 Fourth Avenue
Brooklyn, NY
(between St. Marks and Bergen Streets)

http://chinmusicpoetry.blogspot.com
email: chinmusicpoetry@gmail.com

Please join us for the next evening of Chin Music, the Pacific Standard Poetry Reading Series. On May 14th, we are excited to feature three excellent poets: Sarah Gambito, Mrigaa Sethi, and Solmaz Sharif. Other writers to be featured in Chin Music this season include Glyn Maxwell, Major Jackson, Kevin Goodan, Dan Albergotti, Lytton Smith, Oni Buchanan, Paige Starzinger, Blue Chevigny, and David Baker. Series curated by Colin Cheney.

Please note our earlier reading time of 7:00PM.

Located on Fourth Avenue in downtown Brooklyn, near the Atlantic/Pacific subway hub, Pacific Standard is a literary bar serving up eighteen microbrews on tap and cask (including both West Coast and local breweries), fine wines and liquors, and tasty snacks like chips and salsa, and meat and cheese plates.

FEATURED WRITERS

Sarah Gambito is the author of the poetry collections MATADORA (Alice James Books) and DELIVERED (Persea Books). Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Iowa Review, The Antioch Review, Denver Quarterly, The New Republic, Field, Quarterly West, Fence and other journals. She teaches at Fordham University, and is co-founder of Kundiman, a non-profit organization that promotes Asian American poetry.

Mrigaa Sethi was born in Delhi, raised in Thailand, and now teaches creative writing, literature, and composition in New York City. In 2007 she was a winner of an Amy Award through Poets and Writers for New York women under thirty. Her work appears in Gauge, Folio, and Seneca Review.

Born in exile, Solmaz Sharif completed majors in Sociology and Women of Color Writers at U.C. Berkeley. While there, she studied and taught with June Jordan’s Poetry for the People. She holds an MFA from New York University's Creative Writing program, where she taught creative writing and was a Goldwater Fellow. She currently lives in New York City.

Photographs -- April 30th, 2009

2009-04-30T10:54:00.004-04:00

Martin Rock

Rebecca Keith

Jee Leong Koh

Jee Leong Koh, Rebecca Keith and Martin Rock

2009-04-23T10:30:00.001-04:00

Thursday, April 30th 2009 @ 7:00 PM

Pacific Standard Bar
82 Fourth Avenue
Brooklyn, NY
(between St. Marks and Bergen Streets)

http://www.pacificstandardbrooklyn.com

Please join us for the next evening of Chin Music, the Pacific Standard Poetry Reading Series. On April 30th, we are excited to feature three excellent poets: Jee Leong Koh, Rebecca Keith, and
Martin Rock.

FEATURED WRITERS

Jee Leong Koh is the author of EQUAL TO THE EARTH and PAYDAY LOANS (both from Poets Wear Prada Press). His poetry has appeared in Best New Poets 2007, and Best Gay Poetry 2008, and has also been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Born in Singapore, he now lives in New York City, and blogs at Song of a Reformed Headhunter (http://jeeleong.blogspot.com).

Rebecca Keith holds an MFA in poetry from Sarah Lawrence College. She has received honors from the Atlantic Monthly and BOMB Magazine and was a finalist for the 2008 Laurel Review/GreenTower Press Midwest Chapbook Series Award. Her work has appeared most recently in The Laurel Review and Storyscape Journal. She is a founder and curator of the Mixer reading series in New York City.

Martin Rock is an MFA candidate at New York University, where he is a Starworks fellow and soon to be Editor in Chief of Washington Square Review. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in NANO Fiction, 13th Warrior Review, At-Large, and Mississippi Review. After living for four years in Japan, he now resides in Brooklyn.

Introduction: Donna Masini

2009-04-10T15:48:00.002-04:00

Then a blackout—we can’t see it yet—it’s daytime. But weren’t we amazed? Like a misguided dragonfly driving into the brick, Donna Masini’s poems auger and awl their way into us. Fiction & luster, I want them both, she tells us: his arm, his arm. Stupid, lusting, plunging—weren’t we imagining? What were we imagining? She could see herself layered with pages, the black print across her body—it’s touching really, what one stranger will do for another. This man in the snow (she saw him) peeling an orange, peeling the white shreds from the fruit like the organs under the plastic page in (she hadn’t seen this yet) Grey’s Anatomy, or The Beatles’ White Album, Joni Mitchell’s Blue, face half gone. Annunciations, inky diffusions—all year I’ve been watching myself flicker, unsure. And now the priest leans into the screen, your father moves the nativity to the coffee table. Donna Masini’s poems are a natural history of incarnation & grave, of being afraid of the small things, delphiniums, of thinking about sex. Not much lost—what I thought were birds was the Body of Christ I loved to hold in my mouth. The voice that makes him luster. Donna Masini.

James Hoch, Donna Masini, and Robert Ostrom

2009-04-09T15:38:00.002-04:00

Thursday, April 9th @ 7:00pm

James Hoch’s most recent collection of poems, MISCREANTS, was published by W.W. Norton and Co. His poems have appeared in Slate, Virginia Quarterly Review, New England Review, Ninth Letter, Pleiades, Black Warrior, Gettysburg, Five Fingers, and other magazines. His first book, A PARADE OF HANDS, won the Gerald Cable Book Award, and he was recently awarded a National Endowment for the Arts grant. Hoch teaches at Ramapo College and splits his time between New Jersey and Seattle, Washington.

Donna Masini is the author of two collections of poems—TURNING TO FICTION ( W.W. Norton and Co. 2004), and THAT KIND OF DANGER (Beacon Press, 1994), which was selected by Mona Van Duyn to win the Barnard Women Poet's Prize—and a novel, ABOUT YVONNE, (WW Norton and Co. 1998). Her poems have appeared in journals and anthologies including American Poetry Review, Open City, TriQuarterly, the Paris Review, KGB BAR Book of Poems, Parnassus, Boulevard, and Lyric. She is an Associate Professor of English at Hunter College where she teaches in the MFA Creative Writing program. She lives in New York City and is currently at work on a novel.

Rob Ostrom’s chapbook, TO SHOW THE LIVING, was published by the New York Center for Book Arts. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in 42Opus, Glitterpony, Drunken Boat, The Helen Burns Poetry Anthology, and elsewhere. He is from Jamestown, NY and lives in
Brooklyn.

Sophie Cabot Black, Sean Singer, and Camille Rankine

2009-03-26T15:45:00.001-04:00

Thursday, March 26th @ 7:00 PM

Chin Music Featured Writers

Sophie Cabot Black is the author of THE DESCENT (2004) and THE MISUNDERSTANDING OF NATURE (1994), both published by Graywolf Press. Her poems have appeared in publications such as The Atlantic Monthly, Boston Review, The Paris Review, Poetry, Fence, APR, Bomb, and The New Republic. She lives in New York City and Connecticut.

Sean Singer’s first book, DISCOGRAPHY, won the 2001 Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize, selected by W.S. Merwin, and the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America. He is also the recipient of an artists’ grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council
and a 2005 Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. He lives n New York City.

Camille Rankine received her MFA in poetry from Columbia University. Her poetry has appeared in Diagram and POOL: A Journal of Poetry. She lives in New York City and works as the Program and Communications Coordinator at Cave Canem Foundation, an organization committed to cultivating the artistic and professional growth of African American poets.

Introduction: Cecily Parks

2009-03-13T15:57:00.000-04:00

Did I mention the touch? Happiness, I mean: plant your wing beat in my sleep—Buffalo-, goose-, and bearberries. Such an odd-berried cobbler in the oven are Cecily Parks’ poems of the earth’s jurisdictions, all the turnings inside. Here calf, here lamb, here a wish for a garden, to garden, be gardened. After tabulations of climates, soils, wyoming’s thrall, I began to forget, am shot through with field. I am waiting then, to serve the undone: astral, petal, not bad, but wayward. To be the next verse, the hole the shovel blade sings to. Self portrait as cow skull flush with lupine, self portrait as perch swirling in the parlor. I am the most benign unknown: slate length essays, honeysuckle’s clockwise, spine seam, jaw knot. Dear Aleotory, Dear Magnitude, the jam jar waiting for weed blooms in a waiting house like mine. Each a calligraphic constellation, Cecily Parks poems wait to serve the undone, fumble for a syntax to utter the tameness, the variations of beast and lover that are the earth. Lost here, she says, get tired of loneliness. Were I loved, I would be braver. Did I mention the touch? Garden, shake me something fierce. Cecily Parks.

Lewis Warsh, Cecily Parks, and Zachary Sussman

2009-03-12T15:54:00.000-04:00

Thursday, March 12 @ 7:00pm

Chin Music Featured Poets

Lewis Warsh is the author of numerous books of poetry, fiction and autobiography, including THE ORIGIN OF THE WORLD, TOUCH OF THE WHIP, AVENUE OF ESCAPE and TED’S FAVORITE SKIRT. He is co-editor of THE ANGEL HAIR ANTHOLOGY, editor and publisher of United Artists Books, and director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Long Island University in Brooklyn. A new book, INSEPARABLE: POEMS 1995-2005, was published by Granary Books in 2008.

Cecily Parks is the author of FIELD FOLLY SNOW (University of Georgia Press/VQR Poetry Series, 2008) and the chapbook COLD WORK (Poetry Society of America, 2005). She is a PhD candidate in English at the CUNY Graduate Center, where she is working on a dissertation about swamps and American literature.

Zachary Sussman is the host and creator of the OnEarth Magazine poetry podcast, a publication of the Natural Resources Defense Council. In addition to serving as Poetry Editor for Small Anchor Press, he works as the Coordinator of New York University’s Graduate Program in Creative Writing. He lives in Brooklyn.

Introduction: Jason Myers

2009-02-27T16:02:00.000-05:00

In Rothko’s Seagram series, I could hear her, the whale swum up the Thames. But I cannot keep orchids and I want to give away the wind. Jason Myers has made America a mix-tape dubbed from a book she had made him out of poems he wrote to find her. A crane made of clay album, a rock shrimp with tarragon album. A thumbnail sketch, a jeweler’s stone—how a farmer stumbles on the terra cotta soldiers of an underworld, but already my heart was stray from yours. “Halloo halloo,” sings Grant Green, “golden rod and grass,” sings Richard Serra. The cider is about to turn and you must recognize, once more, that which surpasses all recognition. What Shakespeare might make of Hussein and the Bushes. How god pauses and passes on. A mix tape for the long drive out of the deep south, for being spun with joy and cold, for a city of ghosts & O the taste of all of her, America. America, like many affairs ours began in the backseat & I try to remember the meals we shared. Olive oil gelato with a pinch of salt? It is so hard to be true. Astonishment, reverence dubbed to a cassette for you to keep in your glove compartment, like Jonah in the belly of the whale up the Thames, gasping, waiting. Yes. Something tells me the eagle is a museum of wind. Yes. Halloo, halloo. Jason Myers.

Nick Laird, Jason Myers, and Austin LaGrone

2009-02-26T16:05:00.000-05:00

Thursday, February 26 @ 7:00pm

Chin Music Featured Poets

Born in Co. Tyrone, Northern Ireland in 1975, Nick Laird has received many awards for his fiction and poetry, including the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the Ireland Chair of Poetry Award and the Betty Trask Prize. His most recent collection, ON PURPOSE, published by W.W. Norton in 2008, received a Somerset Maugham award and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. His new novel, GLOVER’S MISTAKE, will be published by Viking Penguin in August.

Jason Myers was born in a small town. He has nothing against a big town. He went to Bennington College in Vermont where he was named Catherine Osgood Foster Scholar by poet Mary Oliver. This fall he will become a Master of Divinity student at the Candler School of Theology at Emory University. His writing has appeared in Agni, Euphony, The Paris Review, Poet Lore, Tin House, and West Branch. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

Born and raised in Louisiana, Austin LaGrone put himself through school bolting four hundred and fifty transmissions a day to Chevy S-10 engine blocks. He hiked the Annapurna Circuit in flip-flops before earning his master's degree in Liberal Arts at St. John's College in Annapolis. His poems have recently appeared in Brilliant Corners. He currently lives in Brooklyn and is pursuing an M.F.A. in Creative Writing at New York University.