Benefit with Breyten Breytenbach, David Hinton, & Emna Zghal

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

RSVP for event on Facebook.

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

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.

RSVP on Facebook.

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.