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         <description><![CDATA[<br>SUNDAY AUGUST 5, 1:30 P.M., 3:45 P.M.
<br> 
<br>Bowery Poetry Club
<br>308 Bowery
<br>NYC
<br>$5
<br> 
<br>1:30 p.m. The Future of Small Press Publishing
<br>         curated and moderated by Mitch Highfill
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<br>featuring
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<br>David Baratier, editor Pavement Saw Press (Columbus, Ohio)
<br>Brenda Iijima, editor Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs (Brooklyn)
<br>Jill Stengel, editor a+bend press (Davis, Calif.)
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<br> 
<br>3:45 p.m.
<br>Readings and musical performances
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<br>  3:45 p.m.-The Poetics Orchestra
<br>  4:15 p.m.-Kimberly Lyons
<br>  4:30 p.m.-Gary Sullivan
<br>  4:45 p.m.-Brenda Iijima
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<br>  5:00 p.m.- break
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<br>  5:15 p.m.-The Poetics Orchestra
<br>  5:35 p.m.-Jill Stengel
<br>  5:55 p.m.-Mitch Highfill
<br>  6:10 p.m.-Nada Gordon
<br>  6:25 p.m.-Sean Cole
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<br>Directions: F/V to 2nd Ave., 6 to Bleecker
<br>Venue is at E.1st St.
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         <description><![CDATA[<br>SATURDAY AUGUST 4, 11:00 A.M., 5:00 P.M.
<br> 
<br>Cakeshop
<br>152 Ludlow St.
<br>NYC
<br> 
<br>11:00 a.m.
<br> 
<br>4th Annual Small, Small Press Fair
<br>Free
<br> 
<br>Small press fair, this year with indie records and crafts, too. Featuring 15 on the 15’s—a 15-minute musical performance at the fair each hour on the 15’s:
<br> 
<br>11:15 a.m.-Bob Kerr
<br>12:15 p.m.-Bob Kerr
<br>  1:15 p.m.-Bob Kerr
<br> 
<br>  2:15 p.m.-Sean T. Hanratty
<br>  3:15 p.m.-Sean T. Hanratty
<br>  4:15 p.m.-Sean T. Hanratty
<br> 
<br> 
<br>5:00 p.m. 
<br>Political poets and The Fugs, Village Fugs live
<br>$5
<br> 
<br> 
<br>  5:15 p.m.-Amy King
<br>  5:30 p.m.-Nathaniel Siegel
<br>  5:45 p.m.-Christina Strong
<br>  6:00 p.m.-Ian Wilder
<br>  6:15 p.m.-John Coletti
<br>  6:30 p.m.-CAConrad
<br>  6:50 p.m.-Greg Fuchs
<br>  7:05 p.m.-Kristin Prevallet
<br>  7:20 p.m.-Eliot Katz
<br>  7:35 p.m.-Rodrigo Toscano and his Collapsible Poetics Theater
<br>  7:55 p.m.-
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<br>The Fugs, Village Fugs. Performed live by:
<br> 
<br>*I Feel Tractor
<br>1. Slum Goddess
<br>2. Ah, Sunflower Weary of Time
<br> 
<br>*Scott MX Turner
<br>3. Supergirl 
<br>4. Swinburne Stomp 
<br> 
<br>*Paul Cama
<br>5. I Couldn't Get High 
<br>6. How Sweet I Roamed From Field to Field 
<br> 
<br>*The Actual Feelings
<br>7. Carpe Diem 
<br>8. My Baby Done Left Me 
<br> 
<br>*JUANBURGUESA
<br>9. Boobs a Lot
<br> 
<br>*Huggabroomstik
<br>10. Nothing
<br> 
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<br>Directions: F/V to 2nd Ave.
<br>Venue is bet. Stanton and Rivington sts.
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         <description><![CDATA[<br>FRIDAY AUGUST 3, 7:30 P.M.
<br> 
<br>Sidewalk Café
<br>94 Ave. A, NYC
<br>free with a two-drink minimum
<br> 
<br>Readings and musical performances
<br> 
<br>  7:30 p.m.-Lauren Russell
<br>  7:45 p.m.-Mark Lamoureux
<br>  8:00 p.m.-Rachel Lipson (music)
<br>  8:30 p.m.-Joanna Fuhrman
<br>  8:45 p.m.-Gillian McCain
<br>  9:00 p.m.-I Feel Tractor
<br>  9:30 p.m.-Tom Devaney
<br>  9:50 p.m.-The Passenger Pigeons (né The Sparrows)
<br>10:20 p.m.-Wanda Phipps
<br>10:35 p.m.-David Baratier
<br>11:00 p.m.-The Leader
<br>12:00 a.m.-Nan and the Charley Horses
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<br>Directions: F/V to 2nd Ave., L to 1st Ave.
<br>Venue is at E.6th St.
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         <description><![CDATA[THURSDAY AUGUST 2, 6:00 P.M.
<br> 
<br>d.a. levy lives: celebrating the renegade press
<br> 
<br>Pavement Saw Press
<br>(Columbus, Ohio) 
<br> 
<br>Thurs. Aug. 2, 6:00 p.m. sharp, free
<br> 
<br>ACA Galleries
<br>529 W.20th St., 5th Flr.
<br>NYC
<br> 
<br>Event will be hosted by
<br>Pavement Saw Press editor
<br>David Baratier
<br> 
<br> 
<br>Featuring 
<br> 
<br>Tony Gloeggler
<br>Simon Perchik
<br>Rachel M. Simon
<br>Daniel Zimmerman
<br> 
<br>music from turntablists Dr. Benstock
<br> 
<br>There will be wine, cheese, and crackers, too.
<br> 
<br>Directions: C/E to 23rd St., 1/9 to 18th St.
<br>Venue is bet. 10th and 11th avenues
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         <description><![CDATA[*Thursday<br /><br />**David Baratier<br /><a href="http://www.pavementsaw.org/pages/editor.htm" target="_blank" title="Pavement Saw">http://www.pavementsaw.org/pages/editor.htm</a><br /><a href="http://www.chicagopostmodernpoetry.com/dabaratier.htm" target="_blank">http://www.chicagopostmodernpoetry.com/dabaratier.htm</a><br /><a href="http://herecomeseverybody.blogspot.com/2005/12/from-his-birth-in-1970-many-b" target="_blank">http://herecomeseverybody.blogspot.com/2005/12/from-his-birth-in-1970-many-b<br />elieved.html</a><br />Although he has appeared in print since 1986, in 1991 David Baratier met the<br />poet laureate of New York State, at which point the powers of poetry were<br />bestowed to him in a macabre ceremony. Shortly thereafter he became a full<br />time poet. Many believe his previous life is fiction. He and his fine lady<br />Rita, a former model, who has appeared in films such as Traffic, live in the<br />deep south end of Columbus, Ohio, where his catty-corner neighbors ask to<br />mow his lawn nightly for $2. He has given featured readings at the Poetry<br />Project at St. Mark&sup1;s Church, University of Pittsburgh, DC Arts Center, and<br />Small Press Traffic, among others. He is the editor of Pavement Saw Press.<br />His poems are anthologized in American Poetry: the Next Generation (Carnegie<br />Mellon University Press), Clockpunchers: Poetry of the American Workplace<br />(Partisan Press), Green Meanies (University of California Press), and Red,<br />White &amp; Blues (University of Iowa Press). His poetry collections include A<br />Run of Letters (Poetry New York Press), The Fall Of Because (Pudding House),<br />Estrella&sup1;s Prophecies I: Spinning the Wheel of Fortune (Runaway Spoon<br />Press), Estrella&sup1;s Prophecies II: An American Fortune in Paris<br />(Anabasis/Extant), Estrella&sup1;s Prophecies III: Return of the Magi (Luna<br />Bisonte Productions), and the epistolary and prose novel In It What&sup1;s in It<br />(Spuyten Duyvil). His forthcoming collections include after Celan (Slack<br />Buddha Press) and Ugly American.<br /><br />**Dr. Benstock<br /><a href="http://www.drbenstock.com" target="_blank">http://www.drbenstock.com</a><br /><a href="http://www.myspace.com/drbenstock" target="_blank">http://www.myspace.com/drbenstock</a><br />Dr. Benstock is a turntable duo, in the tradition of Christian Marclay and<br />Philip Jeck. Using Califone and PAC turntables and records found in<br />Salvation Army bins, turntablists John McDonough and Paul Spencer have<br />created a number of structured pieces, as well as improvisations,<br />referencing the entire universe of recorded music. At any given Benstock<br />performance one may hear the Clash, Berlioz, Sid Vicious, Frank Sinatra, Art<br />Blakey, Charles Mingus, Charles Nelson Reilly, Palestrina, self-hypnosis<br />instructions, Bach, Portuguese poetry, Penderecki, and Van Halen. These<br />records are mixed as a collage but never haphazardly. They are combined to<br />make unique compositions in their own right.<br /><br />Dr. Benstock has been together since 1992. They have played venues such as<br />ABC No Rio, the Pourhouse, Tonic, the Knitting Factory, SUNY-Stony Brook,<br />and Collective Unconscious in the N.Y.-metropolitan area, and Caf&eacute; Koko in<br />Greenfield, Mass.<br /><br />**Tony Gloeggler<br />Tony Gloeggler was born, lived, lives, and expects to die in some part of<br />NYC. He manages a group home for developmentally disabled men in one of the<br />suddenly too cool parts of Brooklyn. His first chapbook, One On One, won the<br />Pearl Poetry Prize, and Jane Street Press put out My Other Life. One Wish<br />Left (Pavement Saw Press) recently went into its second edition.<br /><br />**Simon Perchik<br /><a href="http://www.geocities.com/simonthepoet" target="_blank">http://www.geocities.com/simonthepoet</a><br />Simon Perchik is an attorney whose poems have appeared in The New Yorker,<br />Partisan Review, and Pavement Saw, among others. Family of Man (Pavement Saw<br />Press) and Rafts (Parsifal Editions) are forthcoming in 2007. For more<br />information, including his essay &sup3;Magic, Illusion, and Other Realities&sup2; and<br />a complete bibliography, please visit his website.<br /><br />**Rachel M. Simon<br /><a href="http://www.myspace.com/theoryoforange" target="_blank">http://www.myspace.com/theoryoforange</a><br /><a href="http://www.chicagopostmodernpoetry.com/rsimon.htm" target="_blank">http://www.chicagopostmodernpoetry.com/rsimon.htm</a><br />Rachel M. Simon lives in Yonkers, N.Y., where she teaches writing to high<br />school and college students, senior citizens, and maximum-security prison<br />inmates. Her book Theory of Orange won the Transcontinental Prize from<br />Pavement Saw Press.<br /><br />**Daniel Zimmerman<br />Daniel Zimmerman teaches at Middlesex County College in Edison, N.J., where<br />he chairs the English department. He served as associate editor of the issue<br />of Anonym that first published Ezra Pound&sup1;s last canto and edited the<br />single-issue magazines The Western Gate and Brittannia. The Institute of<br />Further Studies included his fascicle, Perspective, in its series, a<br />curriculum of the soul. He collaborated with American-Canadian artist<br />Richard Sturm on a livre deluxe, See All The People, lithographs, serigraphs<br />and embossings (Open Studio/ Scarborough College). In 1997 he invented an<br />anagrammatical poetic form, Isotopes. His works include the trans-temporal<br />collaboration blue horitals (Oasii), with John Clarke; ISOTOPES (Frame<br />Publications); Post-Avant (Pavement Saw Press), with an introduction by<br />Robert Creeley; and, forthcoming, ISOTOPES2 (Beard of Bees). His work has<br />recently appeared in Chain, Chelsea, Deluxe Rubber Chicken, ETC: A Review of<br />General Semantics, An Exaltation of Forms, House Organ, New York Quarterly,<br />Snakeskin, and Tinfish.<br /><br /><br />Friday<br /><br />**David Baratier<br />(see Thursday for bio)<br /><br />**Thomas Devaney<br /><a href="http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~wh/devaney.html" target="_blank">http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~wh/devaney.html</a><br /><a href="http://thomasdevaney.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://thomasdevaney.blogspot.com/</a><br />Thomas Devaney is the author of A Series of Small Boxes (Fish Drum Press).<br />He presented &quot;No Silence Here, Enjoy the Silence&quot; this spring at the<br />Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia for the &quot;Locally Localized<br />Gravity&quot; show. Devaney writes about poetry for The Philadelphia Inquirer.<br />Recent work has appeared in Jubilat, The Poetry Project Newsletter, and The<br />Sienese Shredder. He is a Penn Senior Writing Fellow in the English<br />department at the University of Pennsylvania.<br /><br />**Joanna Fuhrman<br /><a href="http://www.hangingloosepress.com/recent.html" target="_blank">http://www.hangingloosepress.com/recent.html</a><br /><a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=179254" target="_blank">http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=179254</a><br />Joanna Fuhrman is the author of three books of poetry, Freud in Brooklyn,<br />Ugh Ugh Ocean, and Moraine, all from Hanging Loose Press.<br /><br />**I Feel Tractor<br /><a href="http://www.myspace.com/ifeeltractor" target="_blank">http://www.myspace.com/ifeeltractor</a><br /><a href="http://www.goodbyebetter.com" target="_blank">http://www.goodbyebetter.com</a><br />I feel tractor is available to you with musings of space folk and cut ups. I<br />feel tractor has a self-titled 7&quot; from the Loudmouth Collective, and a CD,<br />Once I Had an Earthquake, from Goodbye Better.<br /><br />**Mark Lamoureux<br /><a href="http://www.marklamoureux.com" target="_blank">http://www.marklamoureux.com</a><br />Mark Lamoureux lives in Astoria, Queens. Spuyten Duyvil/Meeting Eyes Bindery<br />published his first full-length collection, Astrometry Organon, earlier this<br />year. He is the author of four chapbooks: Traceland, 29 Cheeseburgers, Film<br />Poems, and City/Temple. His work has appeared in print and online in Carve,<br />Coconut, Conduit, Denver Quarterly, Fence, GutCult, Jubilat, Lungfull!,<br />Melancholia&sup1;s Tremulous Dreadlocks, miPoesias, and Mustachioed, among<br />others. He started Cy Gist Press, a micropress focusing on ekphrastic<br />poetry, in 2006. He is an associate editor for Fulcrum Annual, printed<br />matter editor for Boog City, and teaches English at Kingsborough Community<br />College.<br /><br />**The Leader<br /><a href="http://olivejuicemusic.com/theleader.html" target="_blank">http://olivejuicemusic.com/theleader.html</a><br />The Leader rock out with the dynamic grace of two sonic gymnasts (in formal<br />attire). Careening through a thousand time signatures and pop genres,<br />bassist Julie DeLano and drummer Sam Lazzara reign supreme over the low end,<br />with suspenseful rhythmic patterns beneath wickedly clever melodies and<br />lyrics. It would be math rock if it weren't so soulful Š yeah.<br /><br />**Rachel Lipson<br /><a href="http://www.rachellipson.org" target="_blank">http://www.rachellipson.org</a><br /><a href="http://www.rachellipson.org" target="_blank">http://www.myspace.com/rachellipson</a><br />Rachel Lipson is a Brooklyn-based songwriter who performs her simple, honest<br />songs on guitar, ukulele and banjo. Born near Detroit, she spent her<br />childhood building forts with her brother and sister in the living room,<br />contemplating the dangers of the dark and pizza deliverers, riding horses<br />and playing with friends. Rachel first picked up a guitar at age 16 and a<br />few years later, after having moved to New York, began crafting the songs<br />that would make up her first album, This Way, which she self-released the<br />next year.<br /><br />In 2003 Rachel released a 7&quot; with Rough Trade recording artist Jeffrey<br />Lewis, on Holland's Nowhere Fast record label and self-released her second<br />album Some More Songs. She toured Europe for seven weeks with Lewis and<br />Herman D&uuml;ne in the summer, including the Mofo festival in Paris in July. In<br />the fall, Rachel recorded a new album at Olive Juice Studios in New York for<br />the forthcoming release Pastures on Meccico Records, a U.K. label founded<br />and run by members of Cornershop. Rachel is returning to the studio to<br />record the first album of her side project, The Scruffles, with bandmate<br />Jeffrey Lewis.<br /><br />In the last few years, Rachel has collaborated and performed extensively<br />with Leah Hayes (of La Laque and Scary Mansion), Herman D&uuml;ne, and others.<br />She has also played alongside Eugene Chadbourne, Kimya Dawson, Daniel<br />Johnston, The Mountain Goats, and Refrigerator, as well as twice performing<br />live on WFMU in New Jersey and on WNYC, a division of NPR.<br /><br />Rachel Lipson's music combines a sort of radical simplicity and honesty with<br />intricately woven narratives. The lyrics seem to have as much to do with<br />William Faulkner as they do with Woody Guthrie. The music recalls the<br />earliest folk traditions and yet speaks at the same time to a contemporary<br />minimal aesthetic. While sometimes the approach is blindingly direct and at<br />others masterfully oblique, the overall effect is irresistible, one of<br />invitingly gentle beauty and clarity. (Biography by Blue Bomber Press)<br /><br />**Gillian McCain<br /><a href="http://www.twc.org/forums/poetschat/poetschat_gmccain.html" target="_blank">http://www.twc.org/forums/poetschat/poetschat_gmccain.html</a><br />Gillian McCain is the author of two books of poetry, Tilt and Religion, and<br />is the co-author (with Legs McNeil) of Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral<br />History of Punk. She serves on the board of directors of the Poetry Project<br />at St. Marks Church.<br /><br />**Nan and the Charley Horses<br /><a href="http://www.olivejuicemusic.com/nan.html" target="_blank">http://www.olivejuicemusic.com/nan.html</a><br /><a href="http://www.myspace.com/nanturner" target="_blank">http://www.myspace.com/nanturner</a><br />Vocally, she's the missing link between Kathleen Hanna and Juliana Hatfield,<br />with a wail matched only by her whisper. The Lucy Ricardo of indie rock, her<br />zany, goof-ball spirit is cut only by the fierce sexuality of her drumming<br />style (see Schwervon!). Raised on the outskirts of Olympia, Nan was studying<br />theater when the riot grrrl movement seduced her into a life of rock &sup1;n'<br />roll. After several years with the power-pop girl band Bionic Finger, Nan<br />went solo with her jangly, eclectic EP Leg Out, but her one-woman act soon<br />morphed into the all-girl Pantsuit. After touring the U.K. with their<br />French-released The Path From the House to the Lawn, Pantsuit has<br />established itself as a virtual gland of playful melodies, moody sounds, and<br />old-school feminist ferocity.<br /><br />Presently, Nan is writing songs on keys and guitar and experimenting live<br />with a rotating cast of musicians she has coined the One Night Stands. Her<br />new EP, For Champs and Losers, Version 1, is out now on Olive Juice Music.<br /><br />**The Passenger Pigeons<br /><a href="http://myspace.com/rachelandrew" target="_blank">http://myspace.com/rachelandrew</a><br />Andrew Phillip Tipton met Rachel Talentino in Savannah while working at The<br />Gap. A common love for catchy melodies, Carole King, and boys led them to<br />Brooklyn. As The Passenger Pigeons (n&eacute; The Sparrows), Andrew and Rachel make<br />up the cutest anti-folk duo around! Simple and lovely.<br /><br />**Wanda Phipps<br /><a href="http://www.mindhoney.com" target="_blank">http://www.mindhoney.com</a><br />Wanda Phipps is a writer/performer living in Brooklyn. She is the author of<br />Wake-Up Calls: 66 Morning Poems (Soft Skull Press), Your Last Illusion or<br />Break Up Sonnets (Situations), Lunch Poems (Boog Literature), and the Faux<br />Press issued e-chapbook After the Mishap and CD-Rom Zither Mood. Her poetry<br />has appeared in over 100 publications. She has received awards from the New<br />York Foundation for the Arts, the Meet the Composer/International Creative<br />Collaborations Program, Agni Journal, the National Theater Translation Fund,<br />and the New York State Council on the Arts. She's also curated reading and<br />performance series at the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church and is a<br />founding member of the Yara Arts Group, a resident theater company of La<br />Mama, E.T.C.<br /><br />**Lauren Russell<br />Lauren Russell is now at the mercy of an idiopathic need to enter language<br />and manipulate it. Her poetry has appeared in Boog City, The Recluse, and<br />Van Gogh's Ear, among others. She is writing an experimental novella.<br /><br /><br />Saturday<br /><br />**The Actual Feelings<br />The Actual Feelings are an assemblage of egos, chopped separately and thrown<br />together to make a tasty gazpacho. Their ingredient list is elastic. For<br />this Fugs tribute they will most likely consist of Steve Espinola, Debby<br />Schwartz, Heather Hoover, Andy Gilchrist, Andrew Rohn, and Catherine<br />Capellero, with some cilantro, tomatoes, and peppers. The Actual Feelings<br />manifesto calls for the immediate release of the complete 1965 Fugs<br />sessions, including, but not limited to, the out-of-print recordings once<br />found on Virgin Fugs, Fugs Four Rounders Score, and the alternate,<br />primitive, Broadside LP release of The Village Fugs. The Actual Feelings<br />have yet to hear the song &quot;Bull Tongue Clit&quot; and need to at once.<br /><br />**Paul Cama<br />Paul Cama started to play drums at 14, performing all kinds of music from<br />jazz to blues to pop. He plays jazz in a big band in St. James. He was in<br />the folk rock Americana band Nylon &amp; Steel from 1989-1997. They released the<br />album Slip Behind the Molecule in 1995. Cama also is a singer-songwriter<br />guitarist and occasionally play solo gigs. He is playing drums in the improv<br />band The Center For Hearing &amp; Dizziness, which improves new sounds to<br />vintage films in the tradition of silent movies. They will be releasing<br />their first full-length DVD/CD later this year.<br /><br />**John Coletti<br />John Coletti grew up in Santa Rosa, Calif. and Portland, Ore. before moving<br />to New York City 12 years ago. He is the author of Physical Kind (Portable<br />Press at Yo-Yo Labs/Boku Books), The New Normalcy (Boog Literature), and<br />Street Debris (Fell Swoop), a collaboration with poet Greg Fuchs with whom<br />he also co-edits Open 24 Hours Press.<br /><br />**CAConrad<br /><a href="http://CAConrad.blogspot.com" target="_blank">http://CAConrad.blogspot.com</a><br /><a href="http://www.myspace.com/CAConrad" target="_blank">http://www.myspace.com/CAConrad</a><br />CAConrad&sup1;s childhood included selling cut flowers along the highway for his<br />mother and helping her shoplift. He escaped to Philadelphia the first chance<br />he got, where he lives and writes today with the PhillySound poet<br />(www.phillysound.blogspot.com). Soft Skull Press published his book Deviant<br />Propulsions last year.<br /><br />**Greg Fuchs<br /><a href="http://www.gregfuchs.com" target="_blank">http://www.gregfuchs.com</a><br />Greg Fuchs is a multi-disciplinary artist living in The Bronx. He works in a<br />variety of media including audio, digital, photography, poetry, and prose<br />often placed in alternative art spaces including independent media<br />organizations, non-profit galleries, and small press magazines. His latest<br />work is Metropolitan Transit published by Brooklyn-based publisher Isabel<br />Lettres.<br /><br />**Sean T. Hanratty<br /><a href="http://www.myspace.com/seanthanratty" target="_blank">http://www.myspace.com/seanthanratty</a><br />Sean T. Hanratty is straight outta Brooklyn and on his way into your shower,<br />by way of you singing his memorably melodic and incredibly enchanting songs<br />in the shower, of course.<br /><br />**Huggabroomstik<br /><a href="http://www.huggabroomstik.com" target="_blank">http://www.huggabroomstik.com</a><br /><a href="http://myspace.com/lehuggacoustique" target="_blank">http://myspace.com/lehuggacoustique</a><br />Neil and Dashan started Huggabroomstik on January 7, 2001. The original name<br />they went by was &quot;Toenail Fungus Clippings Up Your A$$ho1e Bi+ch.&quot; The first<br />song they came up with was &quot;You Ask For Peanuts, You Get Popcorn, Bi+ch,&quot;<br />which featured Benny Hadley singing through the telephone. Huggabroomstik<br />has gone through a lot of changes through the past couple of years, but one<br />thing that will never change is their love for the rock. Not Rock &amp; Roll,<br />but crack rock. So far, Huggabroomstik has been content playing shows in and<br />around NYC, but they dream of making it all the way to Nashville.<br /><br />**Juanburguesa<br /><a href="http://myspace.com/jonathanberger" target="_blank">http://myspace.com/jonathanberger</a><br />Jonathan Berger writes about music, reads poetry, and eats Twinkies. In<br />between these, he sometimes performs with his band, Juanburguesa.<br /><br />**Eliot Katz<br />Eliot Katz is the author of five books of poetry, including, most recently,<br />When the Skyline Crumbles: Poems for the Bush Years (Cosmological Knot<br />Press), View from the Big Woods: Poems from North America's Skull<br />(Cosmological Knot Press), and Unlocking The Exits (Coffee House Press). A<br />cofounder, with Danny Shot, of Long Shot literary journal, Katz guest-edited<br />the journal's 2004 &quot;Beat Bush issue.&quot; He is also a coeditor, with Allen<br />Ginsberg and Andy Clausen, of Poems for the Nation (Seven Stories Press).<br />Called &quot;another classic New Jersey bard&quot; by Ginsberg, Katz worked for many<br />years as a housing advocate for Central Jersey homeless families. He lives<br />in New York City, and works as a freelance writer and editor.<br /><br />**Robert Kerr<br />Robert Kerr is a playwright and songwriter living in Brooklyn. He wrote the<br />book and lyrics for the short musical The Sticky-Fingered Fianc&eacute;e, and the<br />songs for his plays Kingdom Gone and Meet Uncle Casper, as well as his<br />Brothers Grimm adaptations Bearskin and The Juniper Tree. He was a founding<br />member of the Minneapolis band Alien Detector.<br /><br />**Amy King<br /><a href="http://www.amyking.org" target="_blank">http://www.amyking.org</a><br /><a href="http://www.mipoesias.com" target="_blank">http://www.mipoesias.com</a><br /><a href="http://wings.buffalo.edu/epc/poetics/welcome.html" target="_blank">http://wings.buffalo.edu/epc/poetics/welcome.html</a><br />Amy King is the author of I&sup1;m the Man Who Loves You (BlazeVOX Books),<br />Antidotes for an Alibi (BlazeVOX Books), and The People Instruments<br />(Pavement Saw Press). She teaches creative writing and English at Nassau<br />Community College, is the editor-in-chief for the literary arts journal<br />MiPOesias, and is also a member of the Poetics List Editorial Board.<br /><br />**Kristin Prevallet<br /><a href="http://www.kayvallet.com">http://www.kayvallet.com</a><br />Kristin Prevallet's most recent book is I, Afterlife: Essay in Mourning Time<br />(Essay Press). She is a 2007 NYFA poetry fellow and lives in Brooklyn.<br /><br />**Nathaniel Siegel<br />Nathaniel Siegel is a poet, artist, and activist. He is a volunteer at The<br />Poetry Project at St. Mark&sup1;s Church in the Bowery and an advisor to Study<br />Abroad on the Bowery at The Bowery Poetry Club. His work has been included<br />in Art Around the Park at The Howl Festival, and group shows at the Leslie<br />Lohman Gallery in SoHo. Poets for Peace, Poets Against the War, and Acts of<br />Art are all groups he supports. He is also a member of ACT UP NYC and the<br />Queer Justice League. His first chapbook is forthcoming from Portable Press<br />at Yo-Yo Labs.<br /><br />**Christina Strong<br /><a href="http://www.xtina.org">http://www.xtina.org</a><br /><a href="http://www.openmouth.org">http://www.openmouth.org</a><br /><br />Christina Strong is a poet and designer who lives in Red Hook, Brooklyn.<br />Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs published her chapbook, [Anti-Erato] and Faux<br />Press her e-book Utopian Politics. Her poems have appeared in Boog City,<br />Jacket, Magazine CyPress, POM2, and Shampoo, among others. She is the editor<br />of Openmouth Press and the politics editor of Boog City, as well as managing<br />the above websites.<br /><br />**Rodrigo Toscano<br /><a href="http://www.woodlandpattern.org/poems/rodrigo_toscano01.shtml">http://www.woodlandpattern.org/poems/rodrigo_toscano01.shtml</a><br />Rodrigo Toscano is the author of To Leveling Swerve, Platform, The<br />Disparities, and Partisans. Toscano is also the artistic coordinator of the<br />Collapsible Poetics Theater. His experimental poetics plays, polyvocalic<br />pieces, masques, anti-masques, and radio plays have recently been performed<br />at Los Angeles&sup1; Disney Redcat Theater; the Ontological Theater Poets Plays<br />Festival; New Langton Arts Space in San Francisco; Vancouver, Canada;<br />Teubingen, Germany; the Poet&sup1;s Theater Jamboree 2007 at the California<br />College of the Arts Auditorium, and, most recently, at the Yockadot Poetics<br />Theater Festival in Alexandria, Va. His poetic works have been translated<br />into French, German, Portuguese, and Italian. Toscano is originally from the<br />Borderlands of California. He lives in Greenpoint township of Brooklyn, and<br />works in Manhattan at the Labor Institute.<br /><br />**Scott M.X. Turner<br /><a href="http://www.fansforfairplay.com" target="_blank">http://www.fansforfairplay.com</a><br /><a href="http://www.dddb.net" target="_blank">http://www.dddb.net</a><br />Scott M.X. Turner's quarter-century of musical output has involved punk rock<br />bands (The Spunk Lads, The Service), Irish punk (The Devil's Advocates), ska<br />(one tumultuous tour with Bad Manners), soundtrack music for films (a bunch<br />of documentaries), and his one-man/one-guitar assemblage, RebelMart, is<br />currently recording its new album Brooklyn Is Dying. Turner's writings have<br />appeared in Boog City, Elysian Fields Quarterly, Lurch, and others. As a<br />coordinator of Fans For Fair Play and a steering committee member of Develop<br />Don't Destroy Brooklyn, Turner's joined thousands to fight overdevelopment<br />in NYC, starting with Bruce Ratner's disastrous Atlantic Yards project. He<br />lives with archeologist Diane George and the dogs Sirius and Tikkanen near<br />Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn.<br /><br />**Ian Wilder<br /><a href="http://www.onthewilderside.net" target="_blank">http://www.onthewilderside.net</a><br />Ian Wilder&sup1;s life has always veered between art and politics. On the<br />cultural side, he has published chapbooks; given dozens of poetry readings;<br />wrote newspaper articles; and hosted events. At a master class, Yevegeny<br />Yevtushenko proclaimed that Ian&sup1;s snowflake poem is perfect. He has<br />performed spoken word as a part of the near-mythic folk groovin&sup1; band Nylon<br />&amp; Steel, and was co-founding lyricist for the duo Spiritwalkers. His work<br />with Nylon &amp; Steel can be found on the album Slip Behind the Molecule.<br /><br />With Nader&sup1;s 2000 presidential campaign, Wilder was drawn back into<br />politics. Within four years he co-founded the Babylon Greens at his kitchen<br />table, helped run the first full ticket of Greens in his town&sup1;s history,<br />gotten elected secretary of his county Green Party and then co-chair of the<br />Green Party of New York State. He currently represents Long Island to the<br />GPUS Presidential Campaign Support Committee.<br /><br />Wilder also co-hosts The Green Party Show, a weekly public access TV show,<br />which you can also see posted at his blog. Some of the events he helped<br />organize this year are documented there, including a local UFPJ Peace Vigil,<br />a pro-day laborer/Love Thy Neighbor Rally, and a Step-It-Up 2007 event at<br />the Solar Cafe.<br /><br /><br />[Sunday<br /><br />**David Baratier<br />(see Thursday for bio)<br /><br />**Sean Cole<br /><a href="http://www.shampoopoetry.com/ShampooTwentyfour/coles.html" target="_blank">http://www.shampoopoetry.com/ShampooTwentyfour/coles.html</a><br />Sean Cole is the author of the chapbooks By the Author (Boog Literature) and<br />Itty City (Pressed Wafer), Boog's first full-length, single-author<br />collection The December Project. His work has appeared in Black Clock,<br />Carve, Magazine Cypress, Pavement Saw, Pom Pom, and Torch. Cole also writes<br />stories for public radio and bios like this one.<br /><br />**Nada Gordon<br /><a href="http://ululate.blogspot.com" target="_blank">http://ululate.blogspot.com</a><br />Nada Gordon is the author of five books, including the recently released<br />Folly from Roof Books. She lives happily on Ocean Parkway with the<br />cartoonist and poet Gary Sullivan.<br /><br />**Mitch Highfill<br /><a href="http://www.fauxpress.com/e/highfill.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.fauxpress.com/e/highfill.pdf</a><br />Mitch Highfill is the author of Koenig's Sphere, and the forthcoming Rebis<br />(Openmouth Press).<br /><br />**Brenda Iijima<br /><a href="http://www.yoyolabs.com" target="_blank">http://www.yoyolabs.com</a><br />Brenda Iijima is the author of Around Sea (O Books). Her book of drawings,<br />collages, and poems, Animate, Inanimate Aims, is just out from Litmus Press.<br />She was the runner-up for Ahsahta Press's Sawtooth Prize, selected by Peter<br />Gizzi, with her book, If Not Metamorphic, to be published by Ahsahta.<br />Forthcoming from Fewer &amp; Further Press is the chapbook Rabbit Lesson. She is<br />the editor of Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs.<br /><br />**Kimberly Lyons<br />Kimberly Lyons is the author of Saline (Instance Press). A chapbook from<br />Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs/Katalanch&eacute; Press is forthcoming.<br /><br />**The Poetics Orchestra<br />The Poetics Orchestra plays improvisational music with poetry, conducted by<br />Drew Gardner.<br /><br />**Jill Stengel<br /><a href="http://www.dusie.org/late%20may.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.dusie.org/late%20may.pdf</a><br />Poet and publisher Jill Stengel lives in Davis, Calif. with her husband and<br />three young children. Jill's poetry has recently appeared at<br />www.notellmotel.org, www.shampoopoetry.com, and www.texfiles.blogspot.com,<br />as well as Dirt and Superflux, and in her recent chapbook, late may (see<br />link above). She has two new chapbooks due out later this year: may/be<br />(dusie) and wreath (Texfiles). Boog Literature published her chapbook Ladies<br />with Babies in 2003. She's the editor of a+bend press, former prolific<br />publisher of chapbooks in conjunction with a reading series in San<br />Francisco. a+bend is now publishing mem, a journal of writing by poets who<br />are currently mothering young children, and page mothers.<br /><br />]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[<br />THURSDAY AUGUST 2, 6:00 P.M.<br /><br />d.a. levy lives: celebrating the renegade press<br /><br />Pavement Saw Press<br />(Columbus, Ohio)<br /><br />Thurs. Aug. 2, 6:00 p.m. sharp, free<br /><br />ACA Galleries<br />529 W.20th St., 5th Flr.<br />NYC<br /><br />Event will be hosted by<br />Pavement Saw Press editor<br />David Baratier<br /><br /><br />Featuring<br /><br />Tony Gloeggler<br />Simon Perchik<br />Rachel M. Simon<br />Daniel Zimmerman<br /><br />music from turntablists Dr. Benstock<br /><br />There will be wine, cheese, and crackers, too.<br /><br />Directions: C/E to 23rd St., 1/9 to 18th St.<br />Venue is bet. 10th and 11th avenues<br /><br /><br />FRIDAY AUGUST 3, 7:30 P.M.<br /><br />Sidewalk Caf&eacute;<br />94 Ave. A, NYC<br />free with a two-drink minimum<br /><br />Readings and musical performances<br /><br />&nbsp;7:30 p.m.-Lauren Russell<br />&nbsp;7:45 p.m.-Mark Lamoureux<br />&nbsp;8:00 p.m.-Rachel Lipson (music)<br />&nbsp;8:30 p.m.-Joanna Fuhrman<br />&nbsp;8:45 p.m.-Gillian McCain<br />&nbsp;9:00 p.m.-I Feel Tractor<br />&nbsp;9:30 p.m.-Tom Devaney<br />&nbsp;9:50 p.m.-The Passenger Pigeons (n&eacute; The Sparrows)<br />10:20 p.m.-Wanda Phipps<br />10:35 p.m.-David Baratier<br />11:00 p.m.-The Leader<br />12:00 a.m.-Nan and the Charley Horses<br /><br />Directions: F/V to 2nd Ave., L to 1st Ave.<br />Venue is at E.6th St.<br /><br /><br />SATURDAY AUGUST 4, 11:00 A.M., 5:00 P.M.<br /><br />Cakeshop<br />152 Ludlow St.<br />NYC<br /><br />11:00 a.m.<br /><br />4th Annual Small, Small Press Fair<br />Free<br /><br />Small press fair, this year with indie records and crafts, too. Featuring 15<br />on the 15&sup1;s&lsaquo;a 15-minute musical performance at the fair each hour on the<br />15&sup1;s:<br /><br />11:15 a.m.-Bob Kerr<br />12:15 p.m.-Bob Kerr<br />&nbsp;1:15 p.m.-Bob Kerr<br /><br />&nbsp;2:15 p.m.-Sean T. Hanratty<br />&nbsp;3:15 p.m.-Sean T. Hanratty<br />&nbsp;4:15 p.m.-Sean T. Hanratty<br /><br /><br />5:00 p.m.<br />Political poets and The Fugs, Village Fugs live<br />$5<br /><br /><br />&nbsp;5:15 p.m.-Amy King<br />&nbsp;5:30 p.m.-Nathaniel Siegel<br />&nbsp;5:45 p.m.-Christina Strong<br />&nbsp;6:00 p.m.-Ian Wilder<br />&nbsp;6:15 p.m.-John Coletti<br />&nbsp;6:30 p.m.-CAConrad<br />&nbsp;6:50 p.m.-Greg Fuchs<br />&nbsp;7:05 p.m.-Kristin Prevallet<br />&nbsp;7:20 p.m.-Eliot Katz<br />&nbsp;7:35 p.m.-Rodrigo Toscano and his Collapsible Poetics Theater<br />&nbsp;7:55 p.m.-<br /><br />The Fugs, Village Fugs. Performed live by:<br /><br />*I Feel Tractor<br />1. Slum Goddess<br />2. Ah, Sunflower Weary of Time<br /><br />*Scott MX Turner<br />3. Supergirl<br />4. Swinburne Stomp<br /><br />*Paul Cama<br />5. I Couldn't Get High<br />6. How Sweet I Roamed From Field to Field<br /><br />*The Actual Feelings<br />7. Carpe Diem<br />8. My Baby Done Left Me<br /><br />*JUANBURGUESA<br />9. Boobs a Lot<br /><br />*Huggabroomstik<br />10. Nothing<br /><br /><br />Directions: F/V to 2nd Ave.<br />Venue is bet. Stanton and Rivington sts.<br /><br /><br />SUNDAY AUGUST 5, 1:30 P.M., 3:45 P.M.<br /><br />Bowery Poetry Club<br />308 Bowery<br />NYC<br />$5<br /><br />1:30 p.m. The Future of Small Press Publishing<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; curated and moderated by Mitch Highfill<br /><br />featuring<br /><br />David Baratier, editor Pavement Saw Press (Columbus, Ohio)<br />Brenda Iijima, editor Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs (Brooklyn)<br />Jill Stengel, editor a+bend press (Davis, Calif.)<br /><br /><br />3:45 p.m.<br />Readings and musical performances<br /><br />&nbsp;3:45 p.m.-The Poetics Orchestra<br />&nbsp;4:15 p.m.-Kimberly Lyons<br />&nbsp;4:30 p.m.-Gary Sullivan<br />&nbsp;4:45 p.m.-Brenda Iijima<br /><br />&nbsp;5:00 p.m.- break<br /><br />&nbsp;5:15 p.m.-The Poetics Orchestra<br />&nbsp;5:35 p.m.-Jill Stengel<br />&nbsp;5:55 p.m.-Mitch Highfill<br />&nbsp;6:10 p.m.-Nada Gordon<br />&nbsp;6:25 p.m.-Sean Cole<br /><br /><br />Directions: F/V to 2nd Ave., 6 to Bleecker<br />Venue is at E.1st St.]]></description>
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