SATURDAY ♦ MAY 14 ♦ 7PM

Ish Klein is the author of the poetry books Moving Day and Union! published by Canarium Press. A compilation of her recent videos, entitled Success Window, has been released by Poor Claudia of Portland, Oregon. She's from Long Beach, New York but now lives in Amherst, MA with the writer Greg Purcell. Together they record the poetry podcast called No Slander.

Greg Purcell's poetry has appeared in Fence, Open City, The Brooklyn Rail and The Agriculture Reader, and has been anthologized in A Best of Fence: The First 9 Years. He lives in Amherst, and with Ish Klein he records The No Slander Podcast.

Matt Hart is the author of the poetry collections Who's Who Vivid (Slope Editions, 2006), Wolf Face (H_NGM_N BKS 2010), and Light-Headed (BlazeVOX, 2011). A fourth collection Sermons and Lectures Both Blank and Relentless will be published by Typecast in 2012. He lives in Cincinnati, where he is a co-founder and editor of Forklift, Ohio: A Journal of Poetry, Cooking, & Light Industrial Safety and the Poet-in-Resistance at the Art Academy of Cincinnati.

Guy Pettit lives in Northampton, MA. He has a chapbook, Love Me or Love Me NO1, published by minutes BOOKS. Currently, he directs Flying Object Center for Independent Publishing⎯non-profit bookstore, gallery and letterpress, which he founded in 2010. He is a co-editor for Factory Hollow Press and the online journal notnostrums.

Ben Mirov grew up in Northern California. He is the author of Ghost Machine (Caketrian, 2010) and the chapbooks Vortexts (SUPERMACHINE, 2011), I is to Vorticism (New Michigan Press, 2010), Collected Ghost (H_NGM_N, 2010).

CR❍WD ♦ Saturday May 7 ♦ 7PM

Danica Colic was raised in Queens and earned her MFA at Hunter College. She is the author of the chapbook Sufficience (Love Among the Ruins). Her poems have most recently appeared in Fugue, Nimrod, and Pebble Lake Review. She lives in Brooklyn, where she manages Pequena on Vanderbilt, a Mexican Restaurant.

Samita Sinha is a vocal artist and composer who combines tradition with experiment to create new forms, drawing from a deep grounding in North Indian classical music, a contemporary vocabulary, folk and ritual music, and songs and texts in several languages. She has collaborated with poets (Sekou Sundiata, Fiona Templeton) and jazz musicians (Marc Cary, Sunny Jain), and is currently performing her solo work, Cipher. Sinha received her MFA in Music/ Sound from Bard, and has received awards from NYSCA, Urban Artists Initiative, Queens Council on the Arts, and the Fulbright Foundation.

Christopher Salerno’s books of poems include Minimum Heroic (Mississippi Review Poetry Series Award, 2010), and Whirligig (Spuyten Duyvil, 2006). A chapbook, ATM is available from Horse Less Press. Recent poems can be found in journals such as Denver Quarterly, Boston Review, American Letters and Commentary, Black Warrior Review, and elsewhere. Currently, he’s an Assistant Professor of English at William Paterson University.

Stephanie Strickland is a print and new media poet. Her prize-winning print volumes include V: WaveSon.nets / Losing L’una, True North, and The Red Virgin: A Poem of Simone Weil. Digital works include True North, Errand, Vniverse, and two, Ballad of Sand and Harry Soot and slippingglimpse, whose scores appear in her fifth book, Zone : Zero (Ahsahta, 2008). Sea and Spar Between, a poetry generator written with Nick Montfort, just appeared in Dear Navigator, a new journal of electronic literature from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

A director of the Electronic Literature Organization, she edited the first volume of the Electronic Literature Collection with Kate Hayles, Nick Montfort, and Scott Rettberg. She also co-edited an issue of the Iowa Review Web, featuring two Flashartists, and has taught hypermedia literature as part of experimental poetry at many colleges and universities, most recently in the PhD poetry program at the University of Utah. She lives in New York City.

Paige Taggart’s chapbook DIGITAL MACRAMÉ was recently released by Poor Claudia. On the horizon Polaroid Parade will emerge in chapbook-form from Greying Ghost Press. She has poems forthcoming. Check her out: http://mactaggartjewelry.blogspot.commactaggartjewelry.blogspot.com

CR❍WD ♦ Saturday April 2 ♦ 7PM

Mary Austin Speaker is the author of two chapbooks—In the End There Were Thousands of Cowboys, and Abandoning the Firmament, (Menagerie Editions 2009 & 2010). She is co-curator and founder of Triptych Readings (www.triptychreadings.com) in NYC, poet laureate of F.E.A.S.T. (http://feastinbklyn.org/), and works as an art director, designing books for Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. Her work can be found in recent or upcoming issues of Iowa Review, Boston Review, H_NGM_N, New Orleans Review, Gray Tape, Mrs. Maybe and elsewhere. In previous iterations, she was poetry editor of Indiana Review, co-curator of Readings Between A&B, and taught creative writing at Indiana University. She loves westerns, astronaut paraphernalia and the Manhattan Bridge.

Jess Mynes is the author of several published works, including, How's the Cows (Cannot Exist Press) and Sky Brightly Picked (Skysill Press:). His One Anthem will be published by Pressed Wafer Press in 2011. He is the editor of Fewer & Further Press and he co-curates a reading series in Western, MA, All Small Caps.

Stephen Motika is the editor of Tiresias: The Collected Poems of Leland Hickman (2009) and the author of the poetry chapbooks Arrival and At Mono (2007) and In the Madrones (2011). His first book, Western Practice, is forthcoming from Alice James Books. Recent work has appeared in The Brooklyn Review, Eleven Eleven, The Boog City Reader 4, and The Poetry Project Newsletter. The Field, his collaboration with visual artist Dianna Frid, was on view at Gallery 400 at the University of Illinois, Chicago, in 2003. Motika is the program director at Poets House and publisher of Nightboat Books.

Arlo Quint is the author of Drawn In (Fewer & Further), Photogenic Memory (Lame House) and Days on End (Open 24 Hours). He's Program Coordinator for The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church and co-edits Brawling Pigeon.

CR❍WD ♦ Sunday MARCH 6th ♦ 6PM

Zachary Schomburg is the author of Scary, No Scary (Black Ocean, 2009), The Man Suit (Black Ocean, 2007), Viking (McSweeney's Books, 2012), and about three hundred chapbooks, including From the Fjords (Spork, 2010), The Pond (Greying Ghost, 2009), I Am a Small Boy (Factory Hollow, 2009), and several collaborations with Emily Kendal Frey -- Team Sad (Cinematheque Press, 2009), OK Goodnight (Futuretense, 2009), and Feelings Using Wolves (Small Fires, 2010). Read an interview with Zach in BOMB.

Jesse Lichtenstein’s writing has appeared widely and can be found or is forthcoming in Octopus, Denver Quarterly, Harp & Altar, The Paris Review, Boston Review, EOAGH, The New Yorker, The NY Times Magazine, Slate, n + 1, and the Economist.

Jackie Clark is the series editor of Poets off Poetry on Coldfront, a monthly series where poets write about music and is the author of two chapbooks Office Work (Greying Ghost) and Red Fortress (H-NG-M-N). She lives in Jersey City and can be found online at nohelpforthat.com

Sampson Starkweather is the author of four chapbooks, most recently The Heart is Green from So Much Waiting from Immaculate Disciples Press and Self Help Poems a Greying Ghost production, starring: Mickey Rourke, Charlie Rose, Mike Tyson, the history of fields, Johnny Depp, Chris Rock, Belinda Carlisle, Rockwell, the mythical monster Brah-zilla, breathing machines, McCain's Concession speech, Somalian pirates, and much, much more!!!

CR❍WD returns this March!

7 PM ⡇DEC 4th

PAUL LEGAULT's poems have appeared in Denver Quarterly, Maggy, Supermachine, and other journals. He is the co-founder and co-editor of the translation journal Telephone. His first book, The Madeleine Poems, is just out from Omnidawn.

CATE MARVIN's first book of poems, World's Tallest Disaster, was chosen by Robert Pinsky for the 2000 Kathryn A. Morton Prize and published by Sarabande Books in 2001. In 2002, she received the Kate Tufts Discovery Prize. Her second book of poems, Fragment of the Head of a Queen, also published by Sarabande, appeared in 2007. A 2007 Whiting Award recipient and NYFA Gregory Millard Fellow, she co-edited with poet Michael Dumanis the anthology Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century (Sarabande, 2006). Marvin is an associate professor in English at the College of Staten Island, CUNY, and teaches in Columbia University's MFA program, as well as the low-residency M.F.A. program in creative writing at Lesley University. She lives in Staten Island, NY, and is Co-Director, with poet Erin Belieu, of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts (vidaweb.org).

BIANCA STONE is co-curator of Ladder Reading Series and editor of Monk Books. Her most publications include Crazyhorse, The Green Mountain Review, Agriculture Reader, and Conduit. She is the author of the chapbook Someone Else’s Wedding Vows from Argos Books. Her blog is called Poetry Comics. She lives in Brooklyn.

MICHELLE TARANSKY is the author of BARN BURNED, THEN selected by Marjorie Welish for the 2008 Omnidawn Poetry Prize. Taransky lives in Philadelphia where she works at Kelly Writers House, as reviews editor for Jacket2, and teaches writing at University of Pennsylvania and Temple University. A chapbook, NO, I WILL BE IN THE WOODS will be published by Brave Men Press this spring.

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SHONNI ENELOW's recent projects include her solo performance piece, "My Dinner with Bernard Frechtman," a new work of theater on ecology and ecocide, and her PhD in Comparative Literature. She lives in Brooklyn.

KRISTEN KOSMAS is an American playwright and performer. Her plays and solo performances have been produced in Seattle, Austin, Boston, Chicago, and in New York City at numerous venues including the Prelude festival, Peformance Space 122, Dixon Place, Little Theater, Barbès, and the Ontological/Hysteric Downstairs Series. Her play Hello Failure was recently published by Ugly Duckling Presse, and her multi-voice performance text This From Cloudland appears in the latest issue of “PLAY A Journal of Plays.”

NATHANIEL OTTING is a sub-sub librarian for minutes BOOKS and Walser & Company, both based at Flying Object in Hadley, MA. Also, he is writing The Wrong Book.

EMILY PETTIT is the author of two chapbooks How (Octopus Books) and What Happened To Limbo (Pilot Books). She is an editor for notnostrums (notnostrums.com) and Factory Hollow Press. As well as assistant editor at jubilat. Her first full-length book, Goat in the Snow is forthcoming from Birds LLC.

STEPHANIE BARBER is a multi media artist who creates meticulously crafted, odd and imaginative writing, films and videos as well as performance pieces which incorporate music, literature and video. Her poems and essays have been published by Publishing Genius Press, Bronze Skull Press and Crayon among others. Her films and videos have screened at MoMA, NY; The Whitney Museum of American Art, NY; The Tate, London and others. She currently resides in the USA.

MARY-CATHERINE JONES' writing has appeared in Poetry International, elimae, Scapegoat Review and WebDelSol. She has been awarded residencies by the Burnt Norton Abbey and The Apple Hill Chamber Players, in Nelson, NH, 2009. She curates the Datum:Earth reading series at the Starving Artist in Keene, NH. Her commercial work for clients like Target, Aveda and Southwest Airlines has appeared in numerous awards shows and design annuals like Communication Arts, How and Print.

KATHLEEN MILLER is a poet and social worker who lives in Brooklyn, NY. Her writing has been featured in journals such as Shampoo, Matrix Magazine, Jacket, Bay Poetics and How2.

STACY SZYMASZEK was born in Milwaukee, WI. She is the author of the books Emptied of All Ships (Litmus Press, 2005) and Hyperglossia (Litmus Press, 2009), as well as numerous chapbooks, including Orizaba: A Voyage with Hart Crane (Faux Press, 2008), Stacy S.: Autoportraits (OMG, 2008), and from Hart Island (Albion Books, 2009). From 1999 to 2005, she worked at Woodland Pattern Book Center in Milwaukee's Riverwest neighborhood. In 2005 she moved to New York City where she is the current Artistic Director of the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church.

FALL 2010 PREVIEW
STEPHANIE BARBER
SHONNI ENELOW
MARY-CATHERINE JONES
KRISTEN KOSMAS
PAUL LEGAULT
NATHANIEL OTTING
EMILY PETTIT
NIINA POLLARI
MICHAEL SCHARF
LAUREN SPOHRER
BIANCA STONE

MICHELLE TARANSKY
SARA WINTZ
+ ??? GUESTS TBA

POPSICKLE 2010 unites Brooklyn’s literary curators for a two-day festival of readings, performances and screenings. The festival will take place on Saturday July 24th from 3-8 PM & Sunday July 25th 1-5 PM at Bushwick's beloved MARKET HOTEL | 957 Broadway | Brooklyn.

FEATURING: Alaina Stamatis, Anna Fitzgerald, Ben Fama, Brett Price & Dani Leventhal, Carter Edwards, Dan Magers, Eddie Hopely, Emily Pettit, Evan Burton, Gina Abelkop, Jamie Peck, James Copeland, Jordan Michael Iannucci, Joshua Mehigan, Lauren Russell, Leigh Stein, Marc Nasdor, Michael Barron, Natalie Lyalin, Nicole Trigg, Paige Taggart, Parker Phillips, Timothy Donnelly and more!

Participating series include:

• BODY ACTUALIZED CONTROL
• THE BUSHWICK READING SERIES
• CROWD
  
• POETRY TIME at SPACE SPACE
  
• STAIN
• SUPERMACHINE

For more information, please visit http://popsicklefestival.blogspot.com.

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Seth Landman lives in Denver, CO where he edits Invisible Ear, a journal and chapbook series. His chapbook The Wild Hawk the Sea was recently released by Minutes Books, and another chapbook, Parker's Band, is available from Laminated Cats. His poems are appearing or forthcoming in Jubilat, Skein, Glitterpony, Boston Review, Notnostrums, and some other places.

Lewis Freedman lives in Madison where he co-hosts the ________-Shaped Reading Series with Andy Gricevich. He is a co-editor of the multi-located publishing collective, Agnes Fox Press. Poems have recently appeared in cannot exist, Correspondence, Invisible Ear, and Skein. Two chapbooks, "The Third Word" {what to us(press)} and "Catfish Po' Boys" (minutesBooks) appeared in 2009. A poem "Osagee Icarus" written collaboratively with Seth Landman, was published as a very small book by Mondo Bummer in 2010.

Claire Donato's poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Black Warrior Review, Boston Review, Columbia Poetry Review, Denver Quarterly, and Action Yes. She is the author of a chapbook, Someone Else's Body (Cannibal Books 2009). She lives in Brooklyn, NY and will receive her MFA from Brown University in late May.

Poet & musician Zach Barocas lives in Brooklyn, NY with his wife Kimberley Yurkiewicz. He is the author of one book of poems, Among Other Things, and edits The Cultural Society.

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SANDRA LIM is the author of Loveliest Grotesque, selected for the 2006 Kore Press First Book Award by Marilyn Chin. Her poems have appeared in American Letters & Commentary, Boston Review, Colorado Review, Court Green, and other journals. She is currently the Elma Stuckey Poet-in-Residence at Columbia College of Chicago.

JAMES SHEA is the author of Star in the Eye, selected for the 2008 Fence Modern Poets Series. His poems have appeared in various journals, including American Letters & Commentary, Colorado Review, Boston Review, jubilat, and Verse.

JOANNA PENN COOPER's writing appears or is forthcoming in Boog City, Opium, elimae, Ping Pong, and SUPERMACHINE. Her chapbook, Mesmer, will be available from Dancing Girl Press in Spring 2010. Joanna is a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow at Fordham University.

KEN CHEN is the author of Juvenilia, selected for the 2009 Yale Younger Poets competition by Louise Glück. His work has been published or recognized in Best American Essays 2006, Best American Essays 2007, and The Boston Review of Books. A graduate of Yale Law School, he lives in Brooklyn, NY and is the executive director of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop.

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J. Gordon Faylor's work has appeared in Nap, Sustainable Aircraft, Physical Poets Vol. 3, Other Cl/utter, and Nod. His chapbooks include 5 6, Tremblies (with Eddie Hopely), Dunk Runts (with Josef Kaplan), LURK+ SWIT*-HITT+, and Remault Drenander. He co-edits mid)rib with Andy Martrich.

Josef Kaplan is the author of Our Heavies and co-author of Dunk Runts (Trees+Squashy 2010) with Gordon Faylor. He edits Sustainable Aircraft, an online journal of mostly critical writing on contemporary poetry, and lives in Brooklyn.

John Coletti is the author of Physical Kind (Yo-Yo-Labs 2005), Same Enemy Rainbow (fewer & further 2008), and the freshly published Mum Halo (Rust Buckle Books 2010). He recently finished serving as editor of The Poetry Project Newsletter and co-edits Open 24 Hours Press with Greg Fuchs.

Douglas Rothschild's work has appeared in Jacket, 6x6, The Poker and Fauxpress — among others. He is the author of Theogony (subpress 2009).

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Ben Fama is the author of the chapbook Sun Come and co-author of the chapbook Girl Boy Girl Boy. He is the founder of the Brooklyn-based Supermachine Reading Series and poetry journal. His chapbook Aquarius Rising, is forthcoming from Ugly Duckling Presse (Fall 2010.) His work has appeared in GlitterPony, Pank! and No, Dear Magazine, among others.

Christie Ann Reynolds received her MFA from The New School and her chapbook, idiot heart, was chosen by Brenda Shaughnessy as the 2009 New School University Chapbook Contest winner. She is also the coauthor of a chapbook forthcoming with The Corresponding Society press, is a member of The Poetry Brothel, and teaches at Hofstra University.

James Copeland is the author of the chapbooks A Constructing Egg and Why I Steal. He is the Managing Director at Ugly Duckling Presse.

Christine Hamm is a PhD candidate in English Literature at Drew University. She won the MiPoesias First Annual Chapbook Competition with her manuscript, Children Having Trouble with Meat. Her poetry has been published in The Adirondack Review, Pebble Lake Review, Lodestar Quarterly, Poetry Midwest, Rattle, and many others. She has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and teaches English at CUNY. She is the author of The Transparent Dinner (Mayapple Press 2006) and her second book, Saints & Cannibals, is due out this spring.

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Lucy Ives is the author of a chapbook, My Thousand Novel (Cosa Nostra Editions, 2009), and a full-length collection, Anamnesis (Slope Editions, 2010). She has also made some pictures.

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Chris Hosea's poems have run recently in Swerve, VOLT, Denver Quarterly, and LIT. With Cecily Iddings he edits The Blue Letter. He teaches at a high school in Manhattan and lives in Brooklyn.

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Will Edmiston is a poet and librarian living in Brooklyn. His work has appeared in The Tiny, the Agriculture Reader, EOAGH, The Boog Reader 4, and is forthcoming in The Bridge and Bardic Sepulchral. He is the archivist at The Poetry Project.

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Corina Copp hails from Kansas and Colorado. A staged reading of her performance text, "OK (Office Killer)" was produced in Dec. 2008 by Theatreworks at NYCCT/Voorhees Theater; and recent work has appeared in Aufgabe, Antennae, and Puppy Flowers. She is currently studying playwriting with Mac Wellman at Brooklyn College, and is the editor of The Poetry Project Newsletter.

Jonathan Thirkield is the author of The Waker's Corridor, selected by Linda Bierds for the 2008 Walt Whitman Award, presented by the Academy of American Poets. His poems have appeared in WebConjunctions, New American Writing, Colorado Review, 1913: a journal of forms, American Letters & Commentary, Verse, and other journals. He lives in New York.

Matvei Yankelevich is the author of Boris by the Sea (Octopus, 2009) and the long poem, The Present Work (Palm Press, 2006). He edited and translated Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings of Daniil Kharms (Ardis/Overlook, 2009). He is a co-translator of Oberiu: An Anthology of Russian Absurdism (Northwestern, 2006). His translation of Vladimir Mayakovsky's poem "A Cloud in Pants" is included in Night Wraps the Sky: Writings by and About Mayakovsky (FSG, 2008). His translations from Russian have appeared in The New Yorker, Harpers, New American Writing, Circumference, Calque, Bombay Gin, Poetry, Cutbank, and other journals. His poems have been published in periodicals including Boston Review, Open City, Fence, Damn the Caesars, and Tantalum; and in on-line publications such as Action Yes!, Hotel St. George, and 3am. He teaches at Hunter College and Columbia University. He is a founding editor of Ugly Duckling Presse, where he designs books, co-edits 6x6, and curates the Eastern European Poets Series.

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todd colby

Todd Colby is a poet, lyricist and actor. He has published four books of poetry: Ripsnort (1994), Cush (1995) and Riot in the Charm Factory: New and Selected Writings (2000), Tremble and Shine (2004), all published by Soft Skull Press. He has edited an anthology of cutting edge and new genre poetries: Heights of the Marvelous (St. Martin Press, 2000). Todd has performed his poetry on PBS, MTV and Canada’s Much Music Network. He has performed and read live at: The Whitney Museum of American Art, Performance Space 122, Lollapalooza, The Knitting Factory and Universities throughout the continental United States. He has produced many collaborative books and paintings with the artist David Lantow. These works are in the collections of the MOMA and Brooklyn Museum of Art. Todd has taught numerous poetry workshops, coordinated reading series at the Poetry Project with which he has long been associated. He keeps a daily blog at gleefarm.blogspot.com.

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julian brolaski

Julian Brolaski is the author of the chapbooks Hellish Death Monsters (Spooky Press, 2001), Letters to Hank Williams (True West Press, 2003), The Daily Usonian (Atticus/Finch, 2004) and Madame Bovary’s Diary (Cy Press, 2005), Buck in a Corridor (flynpyntar, 2008) and the blog herm of warsaw. Xir first book gowanus atropolis is forthcoming from Ugly Duckling Presse in 2010. Brolaski lives in Brooklyn where xe writes poetry, serves as a Litmus Press editor, plays country music in The Low & the Lonesome, and curates Mongrel Vaudeville.

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zachary cale

Zachary Cale's recent release, WALKING PAPERS, is his sophomre effort and marks his leap from a four-track-bedroom-folkie to a songwriter of visionary scope. Recorded in 2005 in the legendary Bearsville Sound Studios by Marcata engineer, Kevin Mcmahon (The Walkmen, Titus Andronicus), WALKING PAPERS was granted a belated release in December 2008 on the burgeoning Brooklyn-based label, All Hands Electric.

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