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Basil King – painter, poet. His recent books are 77 Beasts: Basil King’s Beastiary, mirage: a poem in 22 sections, and the chapbooks Twin Towers and In the Fields Where Daffodils Grow (both from his on-going project Learning to Draw/A history). Baz may be the only living person to have studied writing with Charles Olson, Robert Duncan and Robert Creeley: the result is sui generis. See spdbooks.org for titles.
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hosted by Martha King & Elinor Nauen
New venue! SIDEWALK CAFÉ New venue!
Thursday, October 8, 2009
6:30 [boldly prompt!] to 8:30 p.m.
94 Avenue A at 6th Street
212-473-7373
V or F train to Second Avenue stop (get off at the front of the train at 1st Ave)
Ekphrastic - Elastic - Fantastic
Michael Heller – poet, essayist and critic. His recent books are Eschaton, a collection of poems and Marble Snows: Two Novellas. His fascinating Beckmann Variations (as in Max Beckmann) is forthcoming in 2010. Look for his books at saltpublishing.com, thing.net/~grist/ld/heller.htm or at good bookstores. Mike has also collaborated with the composer Ellen Fishman Johnson.
* * * The reading takes place in the welcoming backroom of the Sidewalk Cafe, famed for really great hamburgers, plus vegetarian fare (mmm, panini!) and all beverages. * * *NEXT Up, Thursday November 5: Joyce Johnson and pj borum.
Eat! Drink! Tip!
We don’t charge a cover, but we do pass the hat. All proceeds go to the readers.
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Eschaton (new poems) Talisman House Publishers (2009) available at SPD, Greenfield Distribution (www.gfibooks.com ), www. amazon.com and good bookstores. Two Novellas: Marble Snows & The Study (ahadada press 2009) available from SPD, amazon.com and from ahadadpress at http://www.ahadadabooks.com/content/view/162/41/. Speaking The Estranged: Essays on the Work of George Oppen (2008); Uncertain Poetries: Essays on Poets, Poetry and Poetics (2005) and Exigent Futures: New and Selected Poems (2003) available at www.saltpublishing.com, amazon.com and good bookstores. Survey of work at http://www.thing.net/~grist/ld/heller.htm Collaborations with the composer Ellen Fishman Johnson at http://www.efjcomposer.com/EFJ/Collaborations.html Recordings at http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Heller.html