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pith:

“An unseen hand also pass’d over their bodies, It descended tremblingly from their temples and ribs.”

From our “Song of Myself” reading on April 27!

Podcast haikus!

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I really dig this “dream daguerreotype” on the cover of the new American Poet. It’s by Rachel Eliza Griffiths, whose poetry is also featured in the magazine. Come to the launch event tonight and grab your own free copy!

This Week at HWBC:

Today through April 30th celebrate National Poetry Month with 30% off all poetry, poet biographies, and prose written by poets!

Then stay tonight for Noteworthy: A Conversation with Women at the Forefront of the NYC Arts Programming Community, co-presented with GreenHouse and Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater. This panel moderated by the New York Post’s Elisabeth Vincentelli features women programmers and artistic directors from Celebrate Brooklyn!, SummerStage, Japan Society, and Joe’s Pub.

Tomorrow, Black Balloon Publishing’s Buzz Poole talks with celebrated Croatian novelist Robert Perisic about Perisic’s new book Our Man in Iraq.

Wednesday night come celebrate the launch of the spring 2013 issue of American Poet with readings from Sophie Cabot Black, Cynthia Cruz, and Rachel Eliza Griffiths.

Then on Thursday, a launch of a different kind, this time for comedian Ophira Eisenberg’s new memoir Screw Everyone: Sleeping My Way to Monogamy. Wine and cheese will be served!

Finally on Saturday from 1-4, as National Poetry Month comes to a close, come to Song of Myself, a marathon reading of Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself” from the 1891 edition of Leaves of Grass.

togatherinc:

On Wednesday we went to HousingWorks Bookstore Cafe to see three amazing sci-fi authors, Andri Magnason, Sean Ferrell, and Stephen H. Segal, discuss their latest books. Intern Emilio Herce had some interesting thoughts about the event, especially about Magnason’s novel LoveStar.  

The hero of this novel, the eponymous LoveStar, has discovered a way for humans to communicate through brain waves. “How similar are authors to LoveStar’s mad genius?” Emilio asks.

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On Wednesday, Andri told this amazing story about how (paraphrasing) ten years ago he was living in the Reykjavik suburbs trying to be a poet and all his friends were “doing drugs in New York City” or gallivanting with prostitutes in Paris and he was just there in the Icelandic suburbs, going grocery shopping. He was worried grocery shopping isn’t very poetic. But then he realized the grocery store resembled Dante’s circles of hell in the way it was arranged, and he wrote poetry about that, and then the grocery store chain published his poems, because Iceland is a magical place. He said the book was free with the purchase of thirty pounds of meat. ICELAND! Also he said lots of smart stuff and we have a few copies of LoveStar leftover, come and get it.

livefromthenypl:

Participate and let your tweets be heard! Be a part of NYPL’s first National Poetry Contest. Tweet three 140 character poems to @nypl. One of the three poems must be about libraries, books, reading, or New York City.

Register today and let your creativity fly! Submission period is March 1 -10

See Official Rules for details

This is super cool. Working on my bookstore haikus now.

Tonight! Celebrate the first issue of The Atlas Review with the contributors and music. With readings by contributors:

• Caitlin Dube (poet)
• Matthew Zingg (poet)
• Ken Walker (poet)
• Brandon Kreitler (poet; author of Dusking [Argos Books])
• Kathleen Ossip (poet; author of The Cold War, Cinephrastics)
• Justin Boening (poet; author of Self-Portrait as Missing Person [Poetry Society of America])
• Robert Ostrom (poet; author of The Youngest Butcher in Illinois [YesYes Books])
• Sam Allingham (fiction)
• Michael Simon (poetry)
• Kendra Grant Malone (author of Everything Is Quiet) reading for Catherine Lacey.
• Ana Božičević reading for Eileen Myles (poet; author of Rise in the Fall)

and music by Alex Simon.

sorryhouse:

photos of our first book launch & reading at housing works bookstore. in order, spencer madsen, melissa broder, willis plummer, marshall mallicoat, giancarlo ditrapano, victor ‘kool ad’ vazquez, mira gonzalez. credit: julia berke

This was fun! We have some copies left of Mira’s collection, come pick one up.

therumpus:

wordbrooklyn:

Chad highly recommends you pick up the debut issue of The Atlas Review, which contains not only work from Eileen Myles but an interview with George Saunders!

The Rumblr <3’s the The Atlas Review like whoa.

Celebrate The Atlas Review with us on Wednesday, HERE, free, 7PM! With readings by contributors:

• Caitlin Dube (poet)
• Matthew Zingg (poet)
• Ken Walker (poet)
• Brandon Kreitler (poet; author of Dusking [Argos Books])
• Kathleen Ossip (poet; author of The Cold War, Cinephrastics)
• Justin Boening (poet; author of Self-Portrait as Missing Person [Poetry Society of America])
• Robert Ostrom (poet; author of The Youngest Butcher in Illinois [YesYes Books])
• Sam Allingham (fiction)
• Michael Simon (poetry)
• Kendra Grant Malone (author of Everything Is Quiet) reading for Catherine Lacey.
• Ana Božičević reading for Eileen Myles (poet; author of Rise in the Fall)

and music by Alex Simon.

(Source: wordbookstores)