POD with Downing and Collins

Our next POD, featuring Brandon Downing and Arda Collins, takes place on April 5th at 6:30 pm at the Red Horse Cafe.

Brandon Downing is a writer and visual artist originally from California. His books of poetry include The Shirt Weapon and Dark Brandon (Faux Press, 2005); a monograph of his literary collages from 1996-2008, Lake Antiquity, was released late 2009. A long poem, AT   ME, is just out from Octopus Books; his next collection, Mellow Actions, will be published by Fence this fall. In 2007 he released a feature-length collection of collaged digital shorts, Dark Brandon: Eternal Classics, with a 2nd volume forthcoming next year. You can see some at his online channel  www.youtube.com/user/bdown68

Arda Collins is the author of It Is Daylight, awarded the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize and published in 2009, and the May Sarton Award from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her poems have appeared in the New Yorker, A Public Space, jubilat, and elsewhere. She is pursuing a Ph.D. in poetry at the University of Denver. 

POD with Jarcho and George

Our next POD features playwrights, Julia Jarcho and Madeleine George and takes place on Thursday, March 8th at the Red Horse Cafe.

Julia Jarcho is a playwright and director. Her plays include Dreamless Land (New York City Players, 2011) American Treasure (13P and Bay Area Playwrights Festival, 2009), The Highwayman (Missiles With Teeth), A Small Hole (Performance Lab 115), and Nursery (Young Playwrights Festival). She is a member of 13P. Artists she has worked with include Aaron Landsman, Tory Vazquez, Richard Maxwell, Mark Ravenhill, Ami Garmon, Benjamin Gassman, and Ásta Bennie Hostetter. She has studied with Mac Wellman and has been a writer-in-residence at the Eugene O'Neill Playwrights Conference, a winner of the Berrilla Kerr award, and a Resident Playwright at the Playwrights Foundation in San Francisco. She is also a grad student in Rhetoric at UC Berkeley.

Madeleine George's plays include THE ZERO HOUR, PRECIOUS LITTLE, and SEVEN HOMELESS MAMMOTHS WANDER NEW ENGLAND. Her plays have been produced and developed by 13P, Clubbed Thumb, Soho Rep, Playwrights Horizons, New York Theatre Workshop, City Theatre in Pittsburgh, About Face Theatre in Chicago, The Playwrights' Center in Minneapolis, Two River Theater Company in New Jersey, and the O'Neill Playwrights Conference, among other places. Her novels for young readers, LOOKS and THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN YOU AND ME, are published by Viking. Madeleine is a founding member of the Obie-Award-winning playwrights' collective 13P (Thirteen Playwrights, Inc.), and she lives in Brooklyn.

POD with Coan and Walker

Our next POD features Jaime Shearn Coan and Ken L. Walker and takes place on February 2nd, 6:30 pm at the Red Horse Cafe.

Jaime Shearn Coan teaches creative writing and literature at the City College of New York and facilitates a writing workshop with LGBT elders through the NY Writers Coalition. A 2010 Lambda Literary Fellow, Jaime's poems have appeared in journals including the Mississippi Review, L.E.S. Review, drunken boat, and The Portland Review. He has been awarded residencies at the Vermont Studio Center and VCCA. His artist book dear someone, the product of a collaborative letter-writing project, is distributed through Printed Matter.

Ken L. Walker still has a Kentucky driver’s license and sadly completed leading a poetry workshop at the Riker’s Island Correctional Facility. He received his MFA degree from Brooklyn College and has published criticism and poetry in the Boxcar, the Poetry Project Newsletter, The New Yorker on-line, Lumberyard, The Wolf, Crab Orchard Review, La Fovea, No, Dear magazine, and Well-Greased. He is the features editor for Coldfront magazine and curates the semi-annual Letter Home Reading Series. 

POD with Alcalá and Grinnell

Our next POD features Rosa Alcalá and E. Tracy Grinnell at the Red Horse Cafe.

January 12^th, 2012

6:30-8:00

Rosa Alcalá is the author of a poetry collection, Undocumentaries (Shearsman Books, 2010), and two chapbooks, Some Maritime Disasters This Century (Belladonna, 2003) and Undocumentary (Dos Press, 2008). Alcalá has also translated poetry by Cecilia Vicuña, Lourdes Vázquez, and Lila Zemborain, among others. Recent translations include Zemborain’s Guardians of the Secret (Noemi Press, 2009), and poems for The Oxford Book of Latin America Poetry (2009).  She teaches in the Department of Creative Writing and Bilingual MFA Program at the University of Texas at El Paso. 

E. Tracy Grinnell is the author of Helen: A Fugue (Belladonna Elder Series #1, 2008), Some Clear Souvenir (O Books, 2006), and Music or Forgetting (O Books, 2001), as well as the limited edition chapbooks Mirrorly, A Window (flynpyntar press, 2009), Leukadia (Trafficker Press, 2008),  Hell and Lower Evil (Lyre Lyre Pants on Fire, 2008), Humoresque (Blood Pudding/Dusie #3, 2008) Quadriga, a collaboration with Paul Foster Johnson (gong chapbooks, 2006), Of the Frame (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, 2004), and Harmonics (Melodeon Poetry Systems, 2000). She lives in Brooklyn, New York, and is the founding editor and director of Litmus Press.

POD with Schwartz and McDonnell

Our next POD takes place Thursday, November 10th at the Red Horse Cafe...

Brian Schwartz's fiction and non-fiction have appeared or will appear soon in Harvard Review, Ascent, Washington Square, The Seattle Review and others. His story “Different Skin” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. When he has time, which is almost never, he writes the sports column A Fan’s Notes at TheRumpus.net. Schwartz received an M.F.A. in fiction from the University of California, Irvine, where he was awarded a Regents Fel...lowship and the Cheng Fellowship in Fiction. He is now a lecturer in the Expository Writing Program at New York University.

Caitlin McDonnell's poetry and prose have appeared in numerous print and online journals and her chapbook, Dreaming the Tree, was published by Belladonna Books in 2003. Her poetry manuscript, Looking for Small Animals, was a finalist for several first book prizes. She's been awarded fellowships and prizes for her poetry from the New York Times Foundation, Washington Square, the Yaddo Colony, Blue Mountain Center and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. Currently, she teaches writing at Laguardia Community College, spends time with her two year old daughter, Kaya Hope and is finding her way back to writing.

POD with Conrad and Smith

You do not want to miss our next POD!  We'll host CA Conrad and Tracy K. Smith on October 13th at 6:30 at the Red Horse Cafe in Park Slope, Brooklyn. 

CAConrad is a recipient of a 2011 Pew Fellowship in the Arts. He is the author of A Beautiful Marsupial Afternoon (Wave Books, 2012), The Book of Frank (Wave Books, 2010), Advanced Elvis Course (Soft Skull Press, 2009), Deviant Propulsion (Soft Skull Press, 2006), and a collaboration with poet Frank Sherlock titled The City Real & Imagined (Factory School, 2010). The son of white trash asphyxiation, his childhood included selling cut flowers along the highway for his mother and helping her shoplift. Visit him online at http://CAConrad.blogspot.com

 - For more on his new book, coming soon:  http://CAConrad.blogspot.com/

- To see his new film (under 2 minutes):  THE SINGING RINGS OF SATURN:  http://youtu.be/61D3Kogw8tM

 - Milano's Poetry Series:  http://MilanoPHILADELPHIA.blogspot.com

Tracy K. Smith is the author of three poetry collections, most recently Life on Mars (Graywolf Press 2011).  She is the recipient of the James Laughlin Award, a Whiting Writers' Award, and a Rona Jaffe Award, among other honors.  She is an assistant professor of Creative Writing at Princeton University.

POD with Knox and Joseph

The first POD of our second season takes place September 8 at the Red Horse Café and features Jennifer L. Knox and Rajiv Joseph.

Jennifer L. Knox’s new book of poems, The Mystery of the Hidden Driveway, is available from Bloof Books. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, and four times in The Best American Poetry series, including the upcoming 2011 edition.

Rajiv Joseph's plays have been produced in Romania, Australia, Mexico and across the United States.  His play "Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo", a 2010 Pulitzer Prize finalist for Drama, was produced this past spring on Broadway.  He attended NYU for grad school, and then subsequently taught essay writing there for 5 years.  He is currently a staff writer on the Showtime Series "Nurse Jackie".  

POD with Wilson and Koestenbaum

Our next reading, featuring Ronaldo Wilson and Wayne Koestenbaum, takes place at the Red Horse Café at 6:30 on Tuesday, June 14th, followed by drinks at Buttermilk (577 5th Ave, Park Slope).

Ronaldo V. Wilson is the author of Narrative of the Life of the Brown Boy and the White Man (University of Pittsburgh, 2008), winner of the 2007 Cave Canem Poetry Prize and Poems of the Black Object (Futurepoem Books, 2009), winner of the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry, and the Asian American Literary Award in Poetry in 2010. Co-founder of the Black Took Collective, Wilson is a currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at Mount Holyoke College, and recent guest faculty at The Millay Colony, The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church, and the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, Naropa University.  He will begin teaching in the Literature Program at U.C. Santa Cruz in Fall 2011.

Wayne Koestenbaum has published five books of poetry:  Best-Selling Jewish Porn Films, Model Homes, The Milk of Inquiry, Rhapsodies of a Repeat Offender, and Ode to Anna Moffo and Other Poems.  He has also published a novel, Moira Orfei in Aigues-Mortes, and six books of nonfiction:  Hotel Theory, Andy Warhol, Cleavage, Jackie Under My Skin, The Queen’s Throat (a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist), and Double Talk.  His next two books are Humiliation (Picador, August 2011) and The Anatomy of Harpo Marx (University of California Press, February 2012).  Koestenbaum is a Distinguished Professor of English at the CUNY Graduate Center, and also a Visiting Professor in the painting department of the Yale School of Art.

 

Spring POD! Carelli and Harvey

Our next reading, featuring Anthony Carelli and Matthea Harvey, takes place at the Red Horse Café at 6:30 on Tuesday, May 10th, followed by drinks at Buttermilk (577 5th Ave, Park Slope).

Anthony Carelli was raised in Poynette, Wisconsin, and studied at the University of Wisconsin–Madison before completing an MFA in poetry at New York University. His poems have appeared in various magazines, including AGNI, Columbia, and the New Yorker. His first book of poems, Carnations, was published in spring of 2011 as part of the Princeton University Press series of contemporary poets. He is currently living in Brooklyn where he works at a savory pie shop.

Matthea Harvey is the author of four books of poetry—Of Lamb (an illustrated erasure with Amy Jean Porter), Modern Life, Sad Little Breathing Machine and Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form as well as a fable for children and adults, The Little General and the Giant Snowflake, illustrated by Elizabeth Zechel.

POD with Piccinnini and Barocas

Our next reading, featuring Douglas Piccinnini and Zach Barocas, takes place at the Red Horse Café at 6:30 on Tuesday, April 12th, followed by drinks at Buttermilk (577 5th Ave, Park Slope).

  

Douglas Piccinnini is the author of CRYSTAL HARD-ON (minutes BOOKS) and SOFT (The Cultural Society). He is also the founder of the CROWD Reading Series and, with Josef Kaplan, co-editor of Tea Party Republicans Press.
http://douglaspiccinnini.blogspot.com/

Poet & musician Zach Barocas lives in Brooklyn, NY with his wife Kimberley Yurkiewicz. He is the author of Looking Up, Among Other Things and, edits The Cultural Society.  He currently plays the drum kit in BELLS≥ (http://bklynbells.com).

POD with Dombek and Buuck

Our next reading, featuring Kristin Dombek and David Buuck, takes place at the Red Horse Café at 6:30 on Tuesday, March 22^nd, followed by drinks at Buttermilk (577 5th Ave, Park Slope).

Kristin Dombek writes essays about religion, rhetoric, pedagogy, and other animals, which can be found in n+1, Painted Bride Quarterly, and TDR (The Drama Review), among other places.  She is a founding member of the Brooklyn Writers Collaborative, and teaches in the Princeton Writing Program.

David Buuck is a writer who lives in Oakland, CA. He is the founder of BARGE, the Bay Area Research Group in Enviro-aesthetics, and co-founder and editor of Tripwire, a journal of poetics. Publications, writing & performance samples, and further info available via davidbuuck.com

 

Chris Hosea reads at the Red Horse Cafe on February 8th, 2011

Timothy Donnelly reads at the Red Horse Cafe on February 8th, 2011

Upcoming Reading

Our fourth reading, featuring poets Chris Hosea and Timothy Donnelly, takes place at the Red Horse Café at 6:30 on Tuesday, February 8^th.

Chris Hosea is an artist based in Brooklyn. He was educated at All Saints Nursery School, Riverside Elementary, John Witherspoon Junior High, Princeton High School, Johns Hopkins, Harvard, New York University, and University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Timothy Donnelly is the author of Twenty-seven Props for a Production of Eine Lebenszeit (Grove, 2003) and The Cloud Corporation (Wave, 2010). His poems have appeared in Harper's, The Iowa Review, The Nation, The New Republic, The Paris Review and elsewhere. He is poetry editor of Boston Review and teaches in the Writing Program of Columbia University’s School of the Arts. He lives in Brooklyn.

Ariana Reines and Dawn Lundy Martin Read

 Ariana Reines reads at the Red Horse Cafe on December 7th, 2010

Dawn Lundy Martin reads at the Red Horse Cafe on December 7th, 2010

Our third reading, featuring Erica Kaufman and Eileen Myles, takes place at the Red Horse Cafe at 6:30 pm on Tuesday, January 11.

ERICA KAUFMAN is the author of censory impulse (Factory School 2009) as well as several chapbooks. Poems from her most recent project, INSTANT CLASSIC, can be found online in Little Red Leaves and Elective Affinities. Kaufman is currently pursuing a Ph.D. at the CUNY Graduate Center in Composition & Rhetoric, and teaches at Baruch College and Bard College’s Institute for Writing & Thinking.

EILEEN MYLES was born in Cambridge, Mass and moved to New York in 1974. Her Inferno (a poet's novel) was out this fall from orbooks.com.  She received a Warhol/Creative Capital grant for her collection of essays, The Importance of Being Iceland. Books of poems include Sorry, Tree, School of Fish and Not Me. She’s lately finishing a book of new poems and mid-book with My Dog (a memoir).

Our second reading, featuring Dawn Lundy Martin and Ariana Reines, takes place at the Red Horse Cafe at 6:30 pm on Tuesday, December 7.

Dawn Lundy Martin, a poet, essayist, and activist, is the winner of the 2009 Nightboat Books Poetry Prize for her manuscript, DISCIPLINE, selected by Fanny Howe and forthcoming in February, 2011. In 2006, she was awarded the Cave Canem Poetry Prize by Carl Phillips for her manuscript, A Gathering of Matter/A Matter of Gathering (U of Georgia P, 2007). Dawn is also the author of The Morning Hour (2003) selected by C.D. Wright for the Poetry Society of America’s National Chapbook Fellowship, and The Undress, a chaplet published by Belladonna Books.  Among her honors include Massachusetts Cultural Council Artists Grants for Poetry in 2002 and 2006, and the 2008 Academy of American Arts and Sciences May Sarton Prize for Poetry. Excerpts from DISCIPLINE, can be found in Jubilat, Hambone, Daedalus, and are forthcoming in the Norton anthology, Writing Self and Community: African-American Poetry After the Civil Rights Movement, edited by Charles Rowell. She is an assistant professor of English in the Writing Program at the University of Pittsburgh.

 

ariana reines is the author of the cow (alberta prize, fence: 2006), coeur de lionmerucry (fence: forthcoming 2011), and the play telephone, commissioned and produced by the foundry theatre in 2009, with two obies.  an audiobook, save the world, is forthcoming in 2011 from fence, starring lili taylor.  translations include my heart laid bare by charles baudelaire (mal-o-mar: 2009), the little black book of grisélidis réal by jean-luc hennig (semiotext(e): 2009), and girl theory (working title) by TIQQUN (semiotext(e): forthcoming 2011).  she was roberta c. holloway lecturer in poetry at uc berkeley in 2009 and will teach a master class at the university of pittsburgh this february.  ariana doesn't 'live and work' anywhere.  she spends whatever money she finds on fresh fruit, high heels, and her friends, in that order.  (mal-o-mar: 2006)

We're thrilled to announce our first reading, featuring Matthew Rohrer and Dorothea Lasky.  Join us at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, November 2 at the Double Windsor bar.

Matthew Rohrer is the author of A HUMMOCK IN THE MALOOKAS, SATELLITE, A GREEN LIGHT, RISE UP and A PLATE OF CHICKEN. With Joshua Beckman he wrote NICE HAT. THANKS and recorded the audio CD ADVENTURES WHILE PREACHING THE GOSPEL OF BEAUTY. With Joshua Beckman and Anthony McCann he wrote the secret book GENTLE READER! It is not for sale. Octopus Books published his action/adventure chapbook-length poem THEY ALL SEEMED ASLEEP in 2008.  DESTROYER AND PRESERVER is forthcoming from Wave Books in 2011.

His poems have been widely anthologized and have appeared in many journals. He’s received the Hopwood Award for poetry and a Pushcart prize, and was selected as a National Poetry Series winner, and was shortlisted for the Griffin International Poetry Prize.  Recently he has participated in residencies/ performances at the Museum of Modern Art (New York City) and the Henry Art Gallery (Seattle).

Dorothea Lasky is the author of Black Life and AWE, both out from Wave Books. She is also the author of several chapbooks, including Poetry is Not a Project (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2010). She currently lives in New York City.