Bios
*Thursday
**David Baratier
http://www.pavementsaw.org/pages/editor.htm
http://www.chicagopostmodernpoetry.com/dabaratier.htm
http://herecomeseverybody.blogspot.com/2005/12/from-his-birth-in-1970-many-b
elieved.html
Although he has appeared in print since 1986, in 1991 David Baratier met the
poet laureate of New York State, at which point the powers of poetry were
bestowed to him in a macabre ceremony. Shortly thereafter he became a full
time poet. Many believe his previous life is fiction. He and his fine lady
Rita, a former model, who has appeared in films such as Traffic, live in the
deep south end of Columbus, Ohio, where his catty-corner neighbors ask to
mow his lawn nightly for $2. He has given featured readings at the Poetry
Project at St. Mark¹s Church, University of Pittsburgh, DC Arts Center, and
Small Press Traffic, among others. He is the editor of Pavement Saw Press.
His poems are anthologized in American Poetry: the Next Generation (Carnegie
Mellon University Press), Clockpunchers: Poetry of the American Workplace
(Partisan Press), Green Meanies (University of California Press), and Red,
White & Blues (University of Iowa Press). His poetry collections include A
Run of Letters (Poetry New York Press), The Fall Of Because (Pudding House),
Estrella¹s Prophecies I: Spinning the Wheel of Fortune (Runaway Spoon
Press), Estrella¹s Prophecies II: An American Fortune in Paris
(Anabasis/Extant), Estrella¹s Prophecies III: Return of the Magi (Luna
Bisonte Productions), and the epistolary and prose novel In It What¹s in It
(Spuyten Duyvil). His forthcoming collections include after Celan (Slack
Buddha Press) and Ugly American.
**Dr. Benstock
http://www.drbenstock.com
http://www.myspace.com/drbenstock
Dr. Benstock is a turntable duo, in the tradition of Christian Marclay and
Philip Jeck. Using Califone and PAC turntables and records found in
Salvation Army bins, turntablists John McDonough and Paul Spencer have
created a number of structured pieces, as well as improvisations,
referencing the entire universe of recorded music. At any given Benstock
performance one may hear the Clash, Berlioz, Sid Vicious, Frank Sinatra, Art
Blakey, Charles Mingus, Charles Nelson Reilly, Palestrina, self-hypnosis
instructions, Bach, Portuguese poetry, Penderecki, and Van Halen. These
records are mixed as a collage but never haphazardly. They are combined to
make unique compositions in their own right.
Dr. Benstock has been together since 1992. They have played venues such as
ABC No Rio, the Pourhouse, Tonic, the Knitting Factory, SUNY-Stony Brook,
and Collective Unconscious in the N.Y.-metropolitan area, and Café Koko in
Greenfield, Mass.
**Tony Gloeggler
Tony Gloeggler was born, lived, lives, and expects to die in some part of
NYC. He manages a group home for developmentally disabled men in one of the
suddenly too cool parts of Brooklyn. His first chapbook, One On One, won the
Pearl Poetry Prize, and Jane Street Press put out My Other Life. One Wish
Left (Pavement Saw Press) recently went into its second edition.
**Simon Perchik
http://www.geocities.com/simonthepoet
Simon Perchik is an attorney whose poems have appeared in The New Yorker,
Partisan Review, and Pavement Saw, among others. Family of Man (Pavement Saw
Press) and Rafts (Parsifal Editions) are forthcoming in 2007. For more
information, including his essay ³Magic, Illusion, and Other Realities² and
a complete bibliography, please visit his website.
**Rachel M. Simon
http://www.myspace.com/theoryoforange
http://www.chicagopostmodernpoetry.com/rsimon.htm
Rachel M. Simon lives in Yonkers, N.Y., where she teaches writing to high
school and college students, senior citizens, and maximum-security prison
inmates. Her book Theory of Orange won the Transcontinental Prize from
Pavement Saw Press.
**Daniel Zimmerman
Daniel Zimmerman teaches at Middlesex County College in Edison, N.J., where
he chairs the English department. He served as associate editor of the issue
of Anonym that first published Ezra Pound¹s last canto and edited the
single-issue magazines The Western Gate and Brittannia. The Institute of
Further Studies included his fascicle, Perspective, in its series, a
curriculum of the soul. He collaborated with American-Canadian artist
Richard Sturm on a livre deluxe, See All The People, lithographs, serigraphs
and embossings (Open Studio/ Scarborough College). In 1997 he invented an
anagrammatical poetic form, Isotopes. His works include the trans-temporal
collaboration blue horitals (Oasii), with John Clarke; ISOTOPES (Frame
Publications); Post-Avant (Pavement Saw Press), with an introduction by
Robert Creeley; and, forthcoming, ISOTOPES2 (Beard of Bees). His work has
recently appeared in Chain, Chelsea, Deluxe Rubber Chicken, ETC: A Review of
General Semantics, An Exaltation of Forms, House Organ, New York Quarterly,
Snakeskin, and Tinfish.
Friday
**David Baratier
(see Thursday for bio)
**Thomas Devaney
http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~wh/devaney.html
http://thomasdevaney.blogspot.com/
Thomas Devaney is the author of A Series of Small Boxes (Fish Drum Press).
He presented "No Silence Here, Enjoy the Silence" this spring at the
Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia for the "Locally Localized
Gravity" show. Devaney writes about poetry for The Philadelphia Inquirer.
Recent work has appeared in Jubilat, The Poetry Project Newsletter, and The
Sienese Shredder. He is a Penn Senior Writing Fellow in the English
department at the University of Pennsylvania.
**Joanna Fuhrman
http://www.hangingloosepress.com/recent.html
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=179254
Joanna Fuhrman is the author of three books of poetry, Freud in Brooklyn,
Ugh Ugh Ocean, and Moraine, all from Hanging Loose Press.
**I Feel Tractor
http://www.myspace.com/ifeeltractor
http://www.goodbyebetter.com
I feel tractor is available to you with musings of space folk and cut ups. I
feel tractor has a self-titled 7" from the Loudmouth Collective, and a CD,
Once I Had an Earthquake, from Goodbye Better.
**Mark Lamoureux
http://www.marklamoureux.com
Mark Lamoureux lives in Astoria, Queens. Spuyten Duyvil/Meeting Eyes Bindery
published his first full-length collection, Astrometry Organon, earlier this
year. He is the author of four chapbooks: Traceland, 29 Cheeseburgers, Film
Poems, and City/Temple. His work has appeared in print and online in Carve,
Coconut, Conduit, Denver Quarterly, Fence, GutCult, Jubilat, Lungfull!,
Melancholia¹s Tremulous Dreadlocks, miPoesias, and Mustachioed, among
others. He started Cy Gist Press, a micropress focusing on ekphrastic
poetry, in 2006. He is an associate editor for Fulcrum Annual, printed
matter editor for Boog City, and teaches English at Kingsborough Community
College.
**The Leader
http://olivejuicemusic.com/theleader.html
The Leader rock out with the dynamic grace of two sonic gymnasts (in formal
attire). Careening through a thousand time signatures and pop genres,
bassist Julie DeLano and drummer Sam Lazzara reign supreme over the low end,
with suspenseful rhythmic patterns beneath wickedly clever melodies and
lyrics. It would be math rock if it weren't so soulful Š yeah.
**Rachel Lipson
http://www.rachellipson.org
http://www.myspace.com/rachellipson
Rachel Lipson is a Brooklyn-based songwriter who performs her simple, honest
songs on guitar, ukulele and banjo. Born near Detroit, she spent her
childhood building forts with her brother and sister in the living room,
contemplating the dangers of the dark and pizza deliverers, riding horses
and playing with friends. Rachel first picked up a guitar at age 16 and a
few years later, after having moved to New York, began crafting the songs
that would make up her first album, This Way, which she self-released the
next year.
In 2003 Rachel released a 7" with Rough Trade recording artist Jeffrey
Lewis, on Holland's Nowhere Fast record label and self-released her second
album Some More Songs. She toured Europe for seven weeks with Lewis and
Herman Düne in the summer, including the Mofo festival in Paris in July. In
the fall, Rachel recorded a new album at Olive Juice Studios in New York for
the forthcoming release Pastures on Meccico Records, a U.K. label founded
and run by members of Cornershop. Rachel is returning to the studio to
record the first album of her side project, The Scruffles, with bandmate
Jeffrey Lewis.
In the last few years, Rachel has collaborated and performed extensively
with Leah Hayes (of La Laque and Scary Mansion), Herman Düne, and others.
She has also played alongside Eugene Chadbourne, Kimya Dawson, Daniel
Johnston, The Mountain Goats, and Refrigerator, as well as twice performing
live on WFMU in New Jersey and on WNYC, a division of NPR.
Rachel Lipson's music combines a sort of radical simplicity and honesty with
intricately woven narratives. The lyrics seem to have as much to do with
William Faulkner as they do with Woody Guthrie. The music recalls the
earliest folk traditions and yet speaks at the same time to a contemporary
minimal aesthetic. While sometimes the approach is blindingly direct and at
others masterfully oblique, the overall effect is irresistible, one of
invitingly gentle beauty and clarity. (Biography by Blue Bomber Press)
**Gillian McCain
http://www.twc.org/forums/poetschat/poetschat_gmccain.html
Gillian McCain is the author of two books of poetry, Tilt and Religion, and
is the co-author (with Legs McNeil) of Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral
History of Punk. She serves on the board of directors of the Poetry Project
at St. Marks Church.
**Nan and the Charley Horses
http://www.olivejuicemusic.com/nan.html
http://www.myspace.com/nanturner
Vocally, she's the missing link between Kathleen Hanna and Juliana Hatfield,
with a wail matched only by her whisper. The Lucy Ricardo of indie rock, her
zany, goof-ball spirit is cut only by the fierce sexuality of her drumming
style (see Schwervon!). Raised on the outskirts of Olympia, Nan was studying
theater when the riot grrrl movement seduced her into a life of rock ¹n'
roll. After several years with the power-pop girl band Bionic Finger, Nan
went solo with her jangly, eclectic EP Leg Out, but her one-woman act soon
morphed into the all-girl Pantsuit. After touring the U.K. with their
French-released The Path From the House to the Lawn, Pantsuit has
established itself as a virtual gland of playful melodies, moody sounds, and
old-school feminist ferocity.
Presently, Nan is writing songs on keys and guitar and experimenting live
with a rotating cast of musicians she has coined the One Night Stands. Her
new EP, For Champs and Losers, Version 1, is out now on Olive Juice Music.
**The Passenger Pigeons
http://myspace.com/rachelandrew
Andrew Phillip Tipton met Rachel Talentino in Savannah while working at The
Gap. A common love for catchy melodies, Carole King, and boys led them to
Brooklyn. As The Passenger Pigeons (né The Sparrows), Andrew and Rachel make
up the cutest anti-folk duo around! Simple and lovely.
**Wanda Phipps
http://www.mindhoney.com
Wanda Phipps is a writer/performer living in Brooklyn. She is the author of
Wake-Up Calls: 66 Morning Poems (Soft Skull Press), Your Last Illusion or
Break Up Sonnets (Situations), Lunch Poems (Boog Literature), and the Faux
Press issued e-chapbook After the Mishap and CD-Rom Zither Mood. Her poetry
has appeared in over 100 publications. She has received awards from the New
York Foundation for the Arts, the Meet the Composer/International Creative
Collaborations Program, Agni Journal, the National Theater Translation Fund,
and the New York State Council on the Arts. She's also curated reading and
performance series at the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church and is a
founding member of the Yara Arts Group, a resident theater company of La
Mama, E.T.C.
**Lauren Russell
Lauren Russell is now at the mercy of an idiopathic need to enter language
and manipulate it. Her poetry has appeared in Boog City, The Recluse, and
Van Gogh's Ear, among others. She is writing an experimental novella.
Saturday
**The Actual Feelings
The Actual Feelings are an assemblage of egos, chopped separately and thrown
together to make a tasty gazpacho. Their ingredient list is elastic. For
this Fugs tribute they will most likely consist of Steve Espinola, Debby
Schwartz, Heather Hoover, Andy Gilchrist, Andrew Rohn, and Catherine
Capellero, with some cilantro, tomatoes, and peppers. The Actual Feelings
manifesto calls for the immediate release of the complete 1965 Fugs
sessions, including, but not limited to, the out-of-print recordings once
found on Virgin Fugs, Fugs Four Rounders Score, and the alternate,
primitive, Broadside LP release of The Village Fugs. The Actual Feelings
have yet to hear the song "Bull Tongue Clit" and need to at once.
**Paul Cama
Paul Cama started to play drums at 14, performing all kinds of music from
jazz to blues to pop. He plays jazz in a big band in St. James. He was in
the folk rock Americana band Nylon & Steel from 1989-1997. They released the
album Slip Behind the Molecule in 1995. Cama also is a singer-songwriter
guitarist and occasionally play solo gigs. He is playing drums in the improv
band The Center For Hearing & Dizziness, which improves new sounds to
vintage films in the tradition of silent movies. They will be releasing
their first full-length DVD/CD later this year.
**John Coletti
John Coletti grew up in Santa Rosa, Calif. and Portland, Ore. before moving
to New York City 12 years ago. He is the author of Physical Kind (Portable
Press at Yo-Yo Labs/Boku Books), The New Normalcy (Boog Literature), and
Street Debris (Fell Swoop), a collaboration with poet Greg Fuchs with whom
he also co-edits Open 24 Hours Press.
**CAConrad
http://CAConrad.blogspot.com
http://www.myspace.com/CAConrad
CAConrad¹s childhood included selling cut flowers along the highway for his
mother and helping her shoplift. He escaped to Philadelphia the first chance
he got, where he lives and writes today with the PhillySound poet
(www.phillysound.blogspot.com). Soft Skull Press published his book Deviant
Propulsions last year.
**Greg Fuchs
http://www.gregfuchs.com
Greg Fuchs is a multi-disciplinary artist living in The Bronx. He works in a
variety of media including audio, digital, photography, poetry, and prose
often placed in alternative art spaces including independent media
organizations, non-profit galleries, and small press magazines. His latest
work is Metropolitan Transit published by Brooklyn-based publisher Isabel
Lettres.
**Sean T. Hanratty
http://www.myspace.com/seanthanratty
Sean T. Hanratty is straight outta Brooklyn and on his way into your shower,
by way of you singing his memorably melodic and incredibly enchanting songs
in the shower, of course.
**Huggabroomstik
http://www.huggabroomstik.com
http://myspace.com/lehuggacoustique
Neil and Dashan started Huggabroomstik on January 7, 2001. The original name
they went by was "Toenail Fungus Clippings Up Your A$$ho1e Bi+ch." The first
song they came up with was "You Ask For Peanuts, You Get Popcorn, Bi+ch,"
which featured Benny Hadley singing through the telephone. Huggabroomstik
has gone through a lot of changes through the past couple of years, but one
thing that will never change is their love for the rock. Not Rock & Roll,
but crack rock. So far, Huggabroomstik has been content playing shows in and
around NYC, but they dream of making it all the way to Nashville.
**Juanburguesa
http://myspace.com/jonathanberger
Jonathan Berger writes about music, reads poetry, and eats Twinkies. In
between these, he sometimes performs with his band, Juanburguesa.
**Eliot Katz
Eliot Katz is the author of five books of poetry, including, most recently,
When the Skyline Crumbles: Poems for the Bush Years (Cosmological Knot
Press), View from the Big Woods: Poems from North America's Skull
(Cosmological Knot Press), and Unlocking The Exits (Coffee House Press). A
cofounder, with Danny Shot, of Long Shot literary journal, Katz guest-edited
the journal's 2004 "Beat Bush issue." He is also a coeditor, with Allen
Ginsberg and Andy Clausen, of Poems for the Nation (Seven Stories Press).
Called "another classic New Jersey bard" by Ginsberg, Katz worked for many
years as a housing advocate for Central Jersey homeless families. He lives
in New York City, and works as a freelance writer and editor.
**Robert Kerr
Robert Kerr is a playwright and songwriter living in Brooklyn. He wrote the
book and lyrics for the short musical The Sticky-Fingered Fiancée, and the
songs for his plays Kingdom Gone and Meet Uncle Casper, as well as his
Brothers Grimm adaptations Bearskin and The Juniper Tree. He was a founding
member of the Minneapolis band Alien Detector.
**Amy King
http://www.amyking.org
http://www.mipoesias.com
http://wings.buffalo.edu/epc/poetics/welcome.html
Amy King is the author of I¹m the Man Who Loves You (BlazeVOX Books),
Antidotes for an Alibi (BlazeVOX Books), and The People Instruments
(Pavement Saw Press). She teaches creative writing and English at Nassau
Community College, is the editor-in-chief for the literary arts journal
MiPOesias, and is also a member of the Poetics List Editorial Board.
**Kristin Prevallet
http://www.kayvallet.com
Kristin Prevallet's most recent book is I, Afterlife: Essay in Mourning Time
(Essay Press). She is a 2007 NYFA poetry fellow and lives in Brooklyn.
**Nathaniel Siegel
Nathaniel Siegel is a poet, artist, and activist. He is a volunteer at The
Poetry Project at St. Mark¹s Church in the Bowery and an advisor to Study
Abroad on the Bowery at The Bowery Poetry Club. His work has been included
in Art Around the Park at The Howl Festival, and group shows at the Leslie
Lohman Gallery in SoHo. Poets for Peace, Poets Against the War, and Acts of
Art are all groups he supports. He is also a member of ACT UP NYC and the
Queer Justice League. His first chapbook is forthcoming from Portable Press
at Yo-Yo Labs.
**Christina Strong
http://www.xtina.org
http://www.openmouth.org
Christina Strong is a poet and designer who lives in Red Hook, Brooklyn.
Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs published her chapbook, [Anti-Erato] and Faux
Press her e-book Utopian Politics. Her poems have appeared in Boog City,
Jacket, Magazine CyPress, POM2, and Shampoo, among others. She is the editor
of Openmouth Press and the politics editor of Boog City, as well as managing
the above websites.
**Rodrigo Toscano
http://www.woodlandpattern.org/poems/rodrigo_toscano01.shtml
Rodrigo Toscano is the author of To Leveling Swerve, Platform, The
Disparities, and Partisans. Toscano is also the artistic coordinator of the
Collapsible Poetics Theater. His experimental poetics plays, polyvocalic
pieces, masques, anti-masques, and radio plays have recently been performed
at Los Angeles¹ Disney Redcat Theater; the Ontological Theater Poets Plays
Festival; New Langton Arts Space in San Francisco; Vancouver, Canada;
Teubingen, Germany; the Poet¹s Theater Jamboree 2007 at the California
College of the Arts Auditorium, and, most recently, at the Yockadot Poetics
Theater Festival in Alexandria, Va. His poetic works have been translated
into French, German, Portuguese, and Italian. Toscano is originally from the
Borderlands of California. He lives in Greenpoint township of Brooklyn, and
works in Manhattan at the Labor Institute.
**Scott M.X. Turner
http://www.fansforfairplay.com
http://www.dddb.net
Scott M.X. Turner's quarter-century of musical output has involved punk rock
bands (The Spunk Lads, The Service), Irish punk (The Devil's Advocates), ska
(one tumultuous tour with Bad Manners), soundtrack music for films (a bunch
of documentaries), and his one-man/one-guitar assemblage, RebelMart, is
currently recording its new album Brooklyn Is Dying. Turner's writings have
appeared in Boog City, Elysian Fields Quarterly, Lurch, and others. As a
coordinator of Fans For Fair Play and a steering committee member of Develop
Don't Destroy Brooklyn, Turner's joined thousands to fight overdevelopment
in NYC, starting with Bruce Ratner's disastrous Atlantic Yards project. He
lives with archeologist Diane George and the dogs Sirius and Tikkanen near
Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn.
**Ian Wilder
http://www.onthewilderside.net
Ian Wilder¹s life has always veered between art and politics. On the
cultural side, he has published chapbooks; given dozens of poetry readings;
wrote newspaper articles; and hosted events. At a master class, Yevegeny
Yevtushenko proclaimed that Ian¹s snowflake poem is perfect. He has
performed spoken word as a part of the near-mythic folk groovin¹ band Nylon
& Steel, and was co-founding lyricist for the duo Spiritwalkers. His work
with Nylon & Steel can be found on the album Slip Behind the Molecule.
With Nader¹s 2000 presidential campaign, Wilder was drawn back into
politics. Within four years he co-founded the Babylon Greens at his kitchen
table, helped run the first full ticket of Greens in his town¹s history,
gotten elected secretary of his county Green Party and then co-chair of the
Green Party of New York State. He currently represents Long Island to the
GPUS Presidential Campaign Support Committee.
Wilder also co-hosts The Green Party Show, a weekly public access TV show,
which you can also see posted at his blog. Some of the events he helped
organize this year are documented there, including a local UFPJ Peace Vigil,
a pro-day laborer/Love Thy Neighbor Rally, and a Step-It-Up 2007 event at
the Solar Cafe.
[Sunday
**David Baratier
(see Thursday for bio)
**Sean Cole
http://www.shampoopoetry.com/ShampooTwentyfour/coles.html
Sean Cole is the author of the chapbooks By the Author (Boog Literature) and
Itty City (Pressed Wafer), Boog's first full-length, single-author
collection The December Project. His work has appeared in Black Clock,
Carve, Magazine Cypress, Pavement Saw, Pom Pom, and Torch. Cole also writes
stories for public radio and bios like this one.
**Nada Gordon
http://ululate.blogspot.com
Nada Gordon is the author of five books, including the recently released
Folly from Roof Books. She lives happily on Ocean Parkway with the
cartoonist and poet Gary Sullivan.
**Mitch Highfill
http://www.fauxpress.com/e/highfill.pdf
Mitch Highfill is the author of Koenig's Sphere, and the forthcoming Rebis
(Openmouth Press).
**Brenda Iijima
http://www.yoyolabs.com
Brenda Iijima is the author of Around Sea (O Books). Her book of drawings,
collages, and poems, Animate, Inanimate Aims, is just out from Litmus Press.
She was the runner-up for Ahsahta Press's Sawtooth Prize, selected by Peter
Gizzi, with her book, If Not Metamorphic, to be published by Ahsahta.
Forthcoming from Fewer & Further Press is the chapbook Rabbit Lesson. She is
the editor of Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs.
**Kimberly Lyons
Kimberly Lyons is the author of Saline (Instance Press). A chapbook from
Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs/Katalanché Press is forthcoming.
**The Poetics Orchestra
The Poetics Orchestra plays improvisational music with poetry, conducted by
Drew Gardner.
**Jill Stengel
http://www.dusie.org/late%20may.pdf
Poet and publisher Jill Stengel lives in Davis, Calif. with her husband and
three young children. Jill's poetry has recently appeared at
www.notellmotel.org, www.shampoopoetry.com, and www.texfiles.blogspot.com,
as well as Dirt and Superflux, and in her recent chapbook, late may (see
link above). She has two new chapbooks due out later this year: may/be
(dusie) and wreath (Texfiles). Boog Literature published her chapbook Ladies
with Babies in 2003. She's the editor of a+bend press, former prolific
publisher of chapbooks in conjunction with a reading series in San
Francisco. a+bend is now publishing mem, a journal of writing by poets who
are currently mothering young children, and page mothers.
**David Baratier
http://www.pavementsaw.org/pages/editor.htm
http://www.chicagopostmodernpoetry.com/dabaratier.htm
http://herecomeseverybody.blogspot.com/2005/12/from-his-birth-in-1970-many-b
elieved.html
Although he has appeared in print since 1986, in 1991 David Baratier met the
poet laureate of New York State, at which point the powers of poetry were
bestowed to him in a macabre ceremony. Shortly thereafter he became a full
time poet. Many believe his previous life is fiction. He and his fine lady
Rita, a former model, who has appeared in films such as Traffic, live in the
deep south end of Columbus, Ohio, where his catty-corner neighbors ask to
mow his lawn nightly for $2. He has given featured readings at the Poetry
Project at St. Mark¹s Church, University of Pittsburgh, DC Arts Center, and
Small Press Traffic, among others. He is the editor of Pavement Saw Press.
His poems are anthologized in American Poetry: the Next Generation (Carnegie
Mellon University Press), Clockpunchers: Poetry of the American Workplace
(Partisan Press), Green Meanies (University of California Press), and Red,
White & Blues (University of Iowa Press). His poetry collections include A
Run of Letters (Poetry New York Press), The Fall Of Because (Pudding House),
Estrella¹s Prophecies I: Spinning the Wheel of Fortune (Runaway Spoon
Press), Estrella¹s Prophecies II: An American Fortune in Paris
(Anabasis/Extant), Estrella¹s Prophecies III: Return of the Magi (Luna
Bisonte Productions), and the epistolary and prose novel In It What¹s in It
(Spuyten Duyvil). His forthcoming collections include after Celan (Slack
Buddha Press) and Ugly American.
**Dr. Benstock
http://www.drbenstock.com
http://www.myspace.com/drbenstock
Dr. Benstock is a turntable duo, in the tradition of Christian Marclay and
Philip Jeck. Using Califone and PAC turntables and records found in
Salvation Army bins, turntablists John McDonough and Paul Spencer have
created a number of structured pieces, as well as improvisations,
referencing the entire universe of recorded music. At any given Benstock
performance one may hear the Clash, Berlioz, Sid Vicious, Frank Sinatra, Art
Blakey, Charles Mingus, Charles Nelson Reilly, Palestrina, self-hypnosis
instructions, Bach, Portuguese poetry, Penderecki, and Van Halen. These
records are mixed as a collage but never haphazardly. They are combined to
make unique compositions in their own right.
Dr. Benstock has been together since 1992. They have played venues such as
ABC No Rio, the Pourhouse, Tonic, the Knitting Factory, SUNY-Stony Brook,
and Collective Unconscious in the N.Y.-metropolitan area, and Café Koko in
Greenfield, Mass.
**Tony Gloeggler
Tony Gloeggler was born, lived, lives, and expects to die in some part of
NYC. He manages a group home for developmentally disabled men in one of the
suddenly too cool parts of Brooklyn. His first chapbook, One On One, won the
Pearl Poetry Prize, and Jane Street Press put out My Other Life. One Wish
Left (Pavement Saw Press) recently went into its second edition.
**Simon Perchik
http://www.geocities.com/simonthepoet
Simon Perchik is an attorney whose poems have appeared in The New Yorker,
Partisan Review, and Pavement Saw, among others. Family of Man (Pavement Saw
Press) and Rafts (Parsifal Editions) are forthcoming in 2007. For more
information, including his essay ³Magic, Illusion, and Other Realities² and
a complete bibliography, please visit his website.
**Rachel M. Simon
http://www.myspace.com/theoryoforange
http://www.chicagopostmodernpoetry.com/rsimon.htm
Rachel M. Simon lives in Yonkers, N.Y., where she teaches writing to high
school and college students, senior citizens, and maximum-security prison
inmates. Her book Theory of Orange won the Transcontinental Prize from
Pavement Saw Press.
**Daniel Zimmerman
Daniel Zimmerman teaches at Middlesex County College in Edison, N.J., where
he chairs the English department. He served as associate editor of the issue
of Anonym that first published Ezra Pound¹s last canto and edited the
single-issue magazines The Western Gate and Brittannia. The Institute of
Further Studies included his fascicle, Perspective, in its series, a
curriculum of the soul. He collaborated with American-Canadian artist
Richard Sturm on a livre deluxe, See All The People, lithographs, serigraphs
and embossings (Open Studio/ Scarborough College). In 1997 he invented an
anagrammatical poetic form, Isotopes. His works include the trans-temporal
collaboration blue horitals (Oasii), with John Clarke; ISOTOPES (Frame
Publications); Post-Avant (Pavement Saw Press), with an introduction by
Robert Creeley; and, forthcoming, ISOTOPES2 (Beard of Bees). His work has
recently appeared in Chain, Chelsea, Deluxe Rubber Chicken, ETC: A Review of
General Semantics, An Exaltation of Forms, House Organ, New York Quarterly,
Snakeskin, and Tinfish.
Friday
**David Baratier
(see Thursday for bio)
**Thomas Devaney
http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~wh/devaney.html
http://thomasdevaney.blogspot.com/
Thomas Devaney is the author of A Series of Small Boxes (Fish Drum Press).
He presented "No Silence Here, Enjoy the Silence" this spring at the
Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia for the "Locally Localized
Gravity" show. Devaney writes about poetry for The Philadelphia Inquirer.
Recent work has appeared in Jubilat, The Poetry Project Newsletter, and The
Sienese Shredder. He is a Penn Senior Writing Fellow in the English
department at the University of Pennsylvania.
**Joanna Fuhrman
http://www.hangingloosepress.com/recent.html
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=179254
Joanna Fuhrman is the author of three books of poetry, Freud in Brooklyn,
Ugh Ugh Ocean, and Moraine, all from Hanging Loose Press.
**I Feel Tractor
http://www.myspace.com/ifeeltractor
http://www.goodbyebetter.com
I feel tractor is available to you with musings of space folk and cut ups. I
feel tractor has a self-titled 7" from the Loudmouth Collective, and a CD,
Once I Had an Earthquake, from Goodbye Better.
**Mark Lamoureux
http://www.marklamoureux.com
Mark Lamoureux lives in Astoria, Queens. Spuyten Duyvil/Meeting Eyes Bindery
published his first full-length collection, Astrometry Organon, earlier this
year. He is the author of four chapbooks: Traceland, 29 Cheeseburgers, Film
Poems, and City/Temple. His work has appeared in print and online in Carve,
Coconut, Conduit, Denver Quarterly, Fence, GutCult, Jubilat, Lungfull!,
Melancholia¹s Tremulous Dreadlocks, miPoesias, and Mustachioed, among
others. He started Cy Gist Press, a micropress focusing on ekphrastic
poetry, in 2006. He is an associate editor for Fulcrum Annual, printed
matter editor for Boog City, and teaches English at Kingsborough Community
College.
**The Leader
http://olivejuicemusic.com/theleader.html
The Leader rock out with the dynamic grace of two sonic gymnasts (in formal
attire). Careening through a thousand time signatures and pop genres,
bassist Julie DeLano and drummer Sam Lazzara reign supreme over the low end,
with suspenseful rhythmic patterns beneath wickedly clever melodies and
lyrics. It would be math rock if it weren't so soulful Š yeah.
**Rachel Lipson
http://www.rachellipson.org
http://www.myspace.com/rachellipson
Rachel Lipson is a Brooklyn-based songwriter who performs her simple, honest
songs on guitar, ukulele and banjo. Born near Detroit, she spent her
childhood building forts with her brother and sister in the living room,
contemplating the dangers of the dark and pizza deliverers, riding horses
and playing with friends. Rachel first picked up a guitar at age 16 and a
few years later, after having moved to New York, began crafting the songs
that would make up her first album, This Way, which she self-released the
next year.
In 2003 Rachel released a 7" with Rough Trade recording artist Jeffrey
Lewis, on Holland's Nowhere Fast record label and self-released her second
album Some More Songs. She toured Europe for seven weeks with Lewis and
Herman Düne in the summer, including the Mofo festival in Paris in July. In
the fall, Rachel recorded a new album at Olive Juice Studios in New York for
the forthcoming release Pastures on Meccico Records, a U.K. label founded
and run by members of Cornershop. Rachel is returning to the studio to
record the first album of her side project, The Scruffles, with bandmate
Jeffrey Lewis.
In the last few years, Rachel has collaborated and performed extensively
with Leah Hayes (of La Laque and Scary Mansion), Herman Düne, and others.
She has also played alongside Eugene Chadbourne, Kimya Dawson, Daniel
Johnston, The Mountain Goats, and Refrigerator, as well as twice performing
live on WFMU in New Jersey and on WNYC, a division of NPR.
Rachel Lipson's music combines a sort of radical simplicity and honesty with
intricately woven narratives. The lyrics seem to have as much to do with
William Faulkner as they do with Woody Guthrie. The music recalls the
earliest folk traditions and yet speaks at the same time to a contemporary
minimal aesthetic. While sometimes the approach is blindingly direct and at
others masterfully oblique, the overall effect is irresistible, one of
invitingly gentle beauty and clarity. (Biography by Blue Bomber Press)
**Gillian McCain
http://www.twc.org/forums/poetschat/poetschat_gmccain.html
Gillian McCain is the author of two books of poetry, Tilt and Religion, and
is the co-author (with Legs McNeil) of Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral
History of Punk. She serves on the board of directors of the Poetry Project
at St. Marks Church.
**Nan and the Charley Horses
http://www.olivejuicemusic.com/nan.html
http://www.myspace.com/nanturner
Vocally, she's the missing link between Kathleen Hanna and Juliana Hatfield,
with a wail matched only by her whisper. The Lucy Ricardo of indie rock, her
zany, goof-ball spirit is cut only by the fierce sexuality of her drumming
style (see Schwervon!). Raised on the outskirts of Olympia, Nan was studying
theater when the riot grrrl movement seduced her into a life of rock ¹n'
roll. After several years with the power-pop girl band Bionic Finger, Nan
went solo with her jangly, eclectic EP Leg Out, but her one-woman act soon
morphed into the all-girl Pantsuit. After touring the U.K. with their
French-released The Path From the House to the Lawn, Pantsuit has
established itself as a virtual gland of playful melodies, moody sounds, and
old-school feminist ferocity.
Presently, Nan is writing songs on keys and guitar and experimenting live
with a rotating cast of musicians she has coined the One Night Stands. Her
new EP, For Champs and Losers, Version 1, is out now on Olive Juice Music.
**The Passenger Pigeons
http://myspace.com/rachelandrew
Andrew Phillip Tipton met Rachel Talentino in Savannah while working at The
Gap. A common love for catchy melodies, Carole King, and boys led them to
Brooklyn. As The Passenger Pigeons (né The Sparrows), Andrew and Rachel make
up the cutest anti-folk duo around! Simple and lovely.
**Wanda Phipps
http://www.mindhoney.com
Wanda Phipps is a writer/performer living in Brooklyn. She is the author of
Wake-Up Calls: 66 Morning Poems (Soft Skull Press), Your Last Illusion or
Break Up Sonnets (Situations), Lunch Poems (Boog Literature), and the Faux
Press issued e-chapbook After the Mishap and CD-Rom Zither Mood. Her poetry
has appeared in over 100 publications. She has received awards from the New
York Foundation for the Arts, the Meet the Composer/International Creative
Collaborations Program, Agni Journal, the National Theater Translation Fund,
and the New York State Council on the Arts. She's also curated reading and
performance series at the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church and is a
founding member of the Yara Arts Group, a resident theater company of La
Mama, E.T.C.
**Lauren Russell
Lauren Russell is now at the mercy of an idiopathic need to enter language
and manipulate it. Her poetry has appeared in Boog City, The Recluse, and
Van Gogh's Ear, among others. She is writing an experimental novella.
Saturday
**The Actual Feelings
The Actual Feelings are an assemblage of egos, chopped separately and thrown
together to make a tasty gazpacho. Their ingredient list is elastic. For
this Fugs tribute they will most likely consist of Steve Espinola, Debby
Schwartz, Heather Hoover, Andy Gilchrist, Andrew Rohn, and Catherine
Capellero, with some cilantro, tomatoes, and peppers. The Actual Feelings
manifesto calls for the immediate release of the complete 1965 Fugs
sessions, including, but not limited to, the out-of-print recordings once
found on Virgin Fugs, Fugs Four Rounders Score, and the alternate,
primitive, Broadside LP release of The Village Fugs. The Actual Feelings
have yet to hear the song "Bull Tongue Clit" and need to at once.
**Paul Cama
Paul Cama started to play drums at 14, performing all kinds of music from
jazz to blues to pop. He plays jazz in a big band in St. James. He was in
the folk rock Americana band Nylon & Steel from 1989-1997. They released the
album Slip Behind the Molecule in 1995. Cama also is a singer-songwriter
guitarist and occasionally play solo gigs. He is playing drums in the improv
band The Center For Hearing & Dizziness, which improves new sounds to
vintage films in the tradition of silent movies. They will be releasing
their first full-length DVD/CD later this year.
**John Coletti
John Coletti grew up in Santa Rosa, Calif. and Portland, Ore. before moving
to New York City 12 years ago. He is the author of Physical Kind (Portable
Press at Yo-Yo Labs/Boku Books), The New Normalcy (Boog Literature), and
Street Debris (Fell Swoop), a collaboration with poet Greg Fuchs with whom
he also co-edits Open 24 Hours Press.
**CAConrad
http://CAConrad.blogspot.com
http://www.myspace.com/CAConrad
CAConrad¹s childhood included selling cut flowers along the highway for his
mother and helping her shoplift. He escaped to Philadelphia the first chance
he got, where he lives and writes today with the PhillySound poet
(www.phillysound.blogspot.com). Soft Skull Press published his book Deviant
Propulsions last year.
**Greg Fuchs
http://www.gregfuchs.com
Greg Fuchs is a multi-disciplinary artist living in The Bronx. He works in a
variety of media including audio, digital, photography, poetry, and prose
often placed in alternative art spaces including independent media
organizations, non-profit galleries, and small press magazines. His latest
work is Metropolitan Transit published by Brooklyn-based publisher Isabel
Lettres.
**Sean T. Hanratty
http://www.myspace.com/seanthanratty
Sean T. Hanratty is straight outta Brooklyn and on his way into your shower,
by way of you singing his memorably melodic and incredibly enchanting songs
in the shower, of course.
**Huggabroomstik
http://www.huggabroomstik.com
http://myspace.com/lehuggacoustique
Neil and Dashan started Huggabroomstik on January 7, 2001. The original name
they went by was "Toenail Fungus Clippings Up Your A$$ho1e Bi+ch." The first
song they came up with was "You Ask For Peanuts, You Get Popcorn, Bi+ch,"
which featured Benny Hadley singing through the telephone. Huggabroomstik
has gone through a lot of changes through the past couple of years, but one
thing that will never change is their love for the rock. Not Rock & Roll,
but crack rock. So far, Huggabroomstik has been content playing shows in and
around NYC, but they dream of making it all the way to Nashville.
**Juanburguesa
http://myspace.com/jonathanberger
Jonathan Berger writes about music, reads poetry, and eats Twinkies. In
between these, he sometimes performs with his band, Juanburguesa.
**Eliot Katz
Eliot Katz is the author of five books of poetry, including, most recently,
When the Skyline Crumbles: Poems for the Bush Years (Cosmological Knot
Press), View from the Big Woods: Poems from North America's Skull
(Cosmological Knot Press), and Unlocking The Exits (Coffee House Press). A
cofounder, with Danny Shot, of Long Shot literary journal, Katz guest-edited
the journal's 2004 "Beat Bush issue." He is also a coeditor, with Allen
Ginsberg and Andy Clausen, of Poems for the Nation (Seven Stories Press).
Called "another classic New Jersey bard" by Ginsberg, Katz worked for many
years as a housing advocate for Central Jersey homeless families. He lives
in New York City, and works as a freelance writer and editor.
**Robert Kerr
Robert Kerr is a playwright and songwriter living in Brooklyn. He wrote the
book and lyrics for the short musical The Sticky-Fingered Fiancée, and the
songs for his plays Kingdom Gone and Meet Uncle Casper, as well as his
Brothers Grimm adaptations Bearskin and The Juniper Tree. He was a founding
member of the Minneapolis band Alien Detector.
**Amy King
http://www.amyking.org
http://www.mipoesias.com
http://wings.buffalo.edu/epc/poetics/welcome.html
Amy King is the author of I¹m the Man Who Loves You (BlazeVOX Books),
Antidotes for an Alibi (BlazeVOX Books), and The People Instruments
(Pavement Saw Press). She teaches creative writing and English at Nassau
Community College, is the editor-in-chief for the literary arts journal
MiPOesias, and is also a member of the Poetics List Editorial Board.
**Kristin Prevallet
http://www.kayvallet.com
Kristin Prevallet's most recent book is I, Afterlife: Essay in Mourning Time
(Essay Press). She is a 2007 NYFA poetry fellow and lives in Brooklyn.
**Nathaniel Siegel
Nathaniel Siegel is a poet, artist, and activist. He is a volunteer at The
Poetry Project at St. Mark¹s Church in the Bowery and an advisor to Study
Abroad on the Bowery at The Bowery Poetry Club. His work has been included
in Art Around the Park at The Howl Festival, and group shows at the Leslie
Lohman Gallery in SoHo. Poets for Peace, Poets Against the War, and Acts of
Art are all groups he supports. He is also a member of ACT UP NYC and the
Queer Justice League. His first chapbook is forthcoming from Portable Press
at Yo-Yo Labs.
**Christina Strong
http://www.xtina.org
http://www.openmouth.org
Christina Strong is a poet and designer who lives in Red Hook, Brooklyn.
Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs published her chapbook, [Anti-Erato] and Faux
Press her e-book Utopian Politics. Her poems have appeared in Boog City,
Jacket, Magazine CyPress, POM2, and Shampoo, among others. She is the editor
of Openmouth Press and the politics editor of Boog City, as well as managing
the above websites.
**Rodrigo Toscano
http://www.woodlandpattern.org/poems/rodrigo_toscano01.shtml
Rodrigo Toscano is the author of To Leveling Swerve, Platform, The
Disparities, and Partisans. Toscano is also the artistic coordinator of the
Collapsible Poetics Theater. His experimental poetics plays, polyvocalic
pieces, masques, anti-masques, and radio plays have recently been performed
at Los Angeles¹ Disney Redcat Theater; the Ontological Theater Poets Plays
Festival; New Langton Arts Space in San Francisco; Vancouver, Canada;
Teubingen, Germany; the Poet¹s Theater Jamboree 2007 at the California
College of the Arts Auditorium, and, most recently, at the Yockadot Poetics
Theater Festival in Alexandria, Va. His poetic works have been translated
into French, German, Portuguese, and Italian. Toscano is originally from the
Borderlands of California. He lives in Greenpoint township of Brooklyn, and
works in Manhattan at the Labor Institute.
**Scott M.X. Turner
http://www.fansforfairplay.com
http://www.dddb.net
Scott M.X. Turner's quarter-century of musical output has involved punk rock
bands (The Spunk Lads, The Service), Irish punk (The Devil's Advocates), ska
(one tumultuous tour with Bad Manners), soundtrack music for films (a bunch
of documentaries), and his one-man/one-guitar assemblage, RebelMart, is
currently recording its new album Brooklyn Is Dying. Turner's writings have
appeared in Boog City, Elysian Fields Quarterly, Lurch, and others. As a
coordinator of Fans For Fair Play and a steering committee member of Develop
Don't Destroy Brooklyn, Turner's joined thousands to fight overdevelopment
in NYC, starting with Bruce Ratner's disastrous Atlantic Yards project. He
lives with archeologist Diane George and the dogs Sirius and Tikkanen near
Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn.
**Ian Wilder
http://www.onthewilderside.net
Ian Wilder¹s life has always veered between art and politics. On the
cultural side, he has published chapbooks; given dozens of poetry readings;
wrote newspaper articles; and hosted events. At a master class, Yevegeny
Yevtushenko proclaimed that Ian¹s snowflake poem is perfect. He has
performed spoken word as a part of the near-mythic folk groovin¹ band Nylon
& Steel, and was co-founding lyricist for the duo Spiritwalkers. His work
with Nylon & Steel can be found on the album Slip Behind the Molecule.
With Nader¹s 2000 presidential campaign, Wilder was drawn back into
politics. Within four years he co-founded the Babylon Greens at his kitchen
table, helped run the first full ticket of Greens in his town¹s history,
gotten elected secretary of his county Green Party and then co-chair of the
Green Party of New York State. He currently represents Long Island to the
GPUS Presidential Campaign Support Committee.
Wilder also co-hosts The Green Party Show, a weekly public access TV show,
which you can also see posted at his blog. Some of the events he helped
organize this year are documented there, including a local UFPJ Peace Vigil,
a pro-day laborer/Love Thy Neighbor Rally, and a Step-It-Up 2007 event at
the Solar Cafe.
[Sunday
**David Baratier
(see Thursday for bio)
**Sean Cole
http://www.shampoopoetry.com/ShampooTwentyfour/coles.html
Sean Cole is the author of the chapbooks By the Author (Boog Literature) and
Itty City (Pressed Wafer), Boog's first full-length, single-author
collection The December Project. His work has appeared in Black Clock,
Carve, Magazine Cypress, Pavement Saw, Pom Pom, and Torch. Cole also writes
stories for public radio and bios like this one.
**Nada Gordon
http://ululate.blogspot.com
Nada Gordon is the author of five books, including the recently released
Folly from Roof Books. She lives happily on Ocean Parkway with the
cartoonist and poet Gary Sullivan.
**Mitch Highfill
http://www.fauxpress.com/e/highfill.pdf
Mitch Highfill is the author of Koenig's Sphere, and the forthcoming Rebis
(Openmouth Press).
**Brenda Iijima
http://www.yoyolabs.com
Brenda Iijima is the author of Around Sea (O Books). Her book of drawings,
collages, and poems, Animate, Inanimate Aims, is just out from Litmus Press.
She was the runner-up for Ahsahta Press's Sawtooth Prize, selected by Peter
Gizzi, with her book, If Not Metamorphic, to be published by Ahsahta.
Forthcoming from Fewer & Further Press is the chapbook Rabbit Lesson. She is
the editor of Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs.
**Kimberly Lyons
Kimberly Lyons is the author of Saline (Instance Press). A chapbook from
Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs/Katalanché Press is forthcoming.
**The Poetics Orchestra
The Poetics Orchestra plays improvisational music with poetry, conducted by
Drew Gardner.
**Jill Stengel
http://www.dusie.org/late%20may.pdf
Poet and publisher Jill Stengel lives in Davis, Calif. with her husband and
three young children. Jill's poetry has recently appeared at
www.notellmotel.org, www.shampoopoetry.com, and www.texfiles.blogspot.com,
as well as Dirt and Superflux, and in her recent chapbook, late may (see
link above). She has two new chapbooks due out later this year: may/be
(dusie) and wreath (Texfiles). Boog Literature published her chapbook Ladies
with Babies in 2003. She's the editor of a+bend press, former prolific
publisher of chapbooks in conjunction with a reading series in San
Francisco. a+bend is now publishing mem, a journal of writing by poets who
are currently mothering young children, and page mothers.