Glyn Maxwell
Rick Barot
Lytton Smith
Friday, May 29, 2009
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Glyn Maxwell, Rick Barot & Lytton Smith
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.
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.
Saturday, May 16, 2009
Introduction: Sarah Gambito
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.
Friday, May 15, 2009
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Sarah Gambito, Mrigaa Sethi, and Solmaz Sharif
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.
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.
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