BRETT PRICE & JEREMY HOEVENAAR

Saturday Feb 6th 6pm

Kingston Shirt Factory

77 Cornell Street

Kingston NY

BRETT PRICE

Brett price is the author of the chapbook The Trouble With Mapping (Flying Guillotine Press 2008), and is an editor at Forklift, Ohio: A Journal of Poetry, Cooking, and Light Industrial Safety. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.

JEREMY HOEVENAAR

Jeremy Hoevenaar is a writer, musician, and non-complainer. His work has appeared in Forklift Ohio, Shifter, and Tantalum. He lives in Brooklyn, NY where he cultivates egg-teeth, and hopes one day to play with his whole arm in the style of bluegrass legend Hollerfoot Thompson.

AMY KING & CARA BENSON

Friday January 29th 6 pm

Bard Hall* at Bard College

Annandale-on-Hudson NY

*Bard Hall is located near the corner of North Ravine Road and Annandale Road. It is a small, grey, church-like structure--set back from Annandale Road--and should not be confused with the stone chapel located to its left.

click here for more directions

AMY KING

Amy King is the author of I'm the Man Who Loves You, Antidotes for an Alibi, Slaves to Do these Things (forthcoming from BlazeVox), and I Want to Make You Safe (forthcoming from Litmus Press). She teaches English and Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College, and co-curates The Stain reading series in Brooklyn, NY.

CARA BENSON

Cara Benson is editor of the interdisciplinary book Predictions for ChainLinks. Her newest titles include the book (made), which is forthcoming from BookThug, and Protean Parade (Black Radish Books 2010). Her writing has been published in Belladonna Elders Series #7, Imaginary Syllabi, Spell/ing Bound, as well as in Quantum Chaos and Poems: A Manifest(o)ation, which won the 2008 bpNichol Prize. She edits Sous Rature, and teaches poetry in a New York State prison.

COLEEN MURPHY ALEXANDER & DANIEL GILHULY

Friday December 11th 6 pm

Bard College, Olin 102

**directions here**

DANIEL GILHULY was born in Cos Cob, Connecticut in 1963. He graduated from Columbia University and has a PhD in Filologia Griega from the University of Barcelona, Spain. He is author of 46 poems and numerous novellas. He lives and writes in the Hudson Valley.

COLEEN MURPHY ALEXANDER grew up in northeastern PA, the youngest of 9 children. She works for the Institute for Writing & Thinking, as well as the Language & Thinking Program for incoming students, at Bard College. She is currently developing and leading poetry workshops in rural elementary schools and community centers in upstate NY. She lives in Catskill with Matt, Iain, Jack, and 8 needy goats.

ANN LAUTERBACH & MICHAEL IVES

Friday November 20th 6 pm

Bard Chapel at Bard College

Annandale Road

Annandale-on-Hudson NY 12504

**directions here **

ANN LAUTERBACH

Her biography can be found at the SUNY Buffalo Electronic Poetry Center.

MICHAEL IVES

Michael Ives lives in the Hudson Valley. His work with the language/performance trio, F'loom, was featured on National Public Radio and in various international anthologies of sound poetry. He is the author of The External Combustion Engine, from Futurepoem Books. His poetry and prose have appeared in numerous magazines and journals both in the US and abroad. He has taught at Bard College since 2003.

A sample of Michael Ives' poems can be found at Jacket Magazine #13.

MARY BURGER & LEE ANN BROWN

The Bard Roving Reading series is happy to announce the start of its second season!

Mary Burger & Lee Ann Brown

Friday November 6th, 6:30 pm

Bard Hall, at Bard College

Annandale Road

Annandale-on-Hudson NY 12504

**directions here **

MARY BURGER

Mary Burger's latest book A Partial Handbook for Navigators is about spending time in different kinds of places (Interbirth Books). Her recent catalog essay 'But What If the Object Began to Speak?', studies objects in places in artist Amy Trachtenberg's permanent installation 'Groundwork' (Oro Editions). Mary lives in Oakland and works at a landscape architecture firm in San Francisco, focusing on public park water conservation, greenway development, and related urban/environmental reintegrations.

LEE ANN BROWN

Lee Ann Brown was born in Japan and grew up in North Carolina. She is the author of numerous volumes of poetry including The Sleep That Changed Everything (Wesleyan), and Polyverse (Sun & Moon), and a song cycle, The 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time, as well as the recent Sop Doll! A Jack Tale Noh, co-written with Tony Torn, recently seen at Howl Festival, starring Felix Bernsetin as "Jack," and Julie Patton as "Cat-Witch." She also teaches at St. John's University in NYC, and edits Tender Buttons press. With her family and friends, she is creating the French Broad Institute in Marshall, NC, a mountain hideout for artistic practice and performance.

Upcoming for Fall 2009...

The Bard Roving Reading series will continue in the fall of 2009. So far, our scheduled guests include Ann Lauterbach, Cara Benson, Lee Ann Brown, and Anna Moschovakis. Our September schedule also includes a reading by the contributors to the third go-round of Defeffable, featuring Robert Kelly, Celia Bland, Anne Gorrick, and many others. Please check back for details!

THURSDAY NIGHT AT THE BUNKER!

LYNN BEHRENDT, ANNE GORRICK & MATTHEW KLANE

THURSDAY MAY 28th 6pm at The Bunker (directions).

Scroll down to previous post for details about our readers and musical guests...

Videos of Our Readings

At last, we have videos of our readings posted to our page on YouTube. Here's PART 1 of Jennie Neighbor's reading (and many more to come...it's taking some time to format and load them all...):

Anne Gorrick, Lynn Behrendt, and Matthew Klane

We are very, very pleased to host for the FIFTH and final reading of the Spring 09 season of the Bard Roving Reading Series, the following FABULOUS, local, and very active poets:

Anne Gorrick, Lynn Behrendt, and Matthew Klane

Thursday May 28th 6 pm

The Bunker

15 Gage Street

Kingston NY

DIRECTIONS *HERE*

Live music by Profesor Wayne, and Enchanted Castle will follow, with refreshments at the bar.

Anne Gorrick’s work has been published in many journals including: American Letters and Commentary, Bird Dog, the Cortland Review, Fence, Glitterpony, Gutcult, No Tell Motel, Otoliths, the Seneca Review, Sulfur and word for/word. Collaborating with artist Cynthia Winika, she produced a limited edition artists’ book called "Swans, the ice," she said, with grants through the Women’s Studio Workshop in Rosendale, NY, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. She also curates the reading series, Cadmium Text, which focuses on innovative writing in and around the Hudson Valley. Her first book, Kyotologic, is available from Shearsman Books. 

Lynn Behrendt is the author of The Moon as Chance, Characters, and Tinder. She edits the Annandale Dream Gazette, an online chronicle of poets' dreams, and was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

Matthew Klane is co-editor/founder of Flim Forum Press, publisher of the anthologies Oh One Arrow (2007) and A Sing Economy (2008). His book is B_____ Meditations from Stockport Flats Press (2008). His latest chapbooks include Friend Delighting the Eloquent, Sorrow Songs, and The- Associated Press. Also see: The Meister-Reich Experiments, a sprawling hypertext, online at www.housepress.org. He currently lives and writes in Albany, NY. For more info on Matthew, visit his website.

Joan Retallack & Matthias Göritz

We are honored to host for the FOURTH Bard Roving Reading Series:

Joan Retallack & Matthias Göritz

Thursday May 7th, 6 pm

Bard Hall, Annandale-on-Hudson NY

Joan Retallack is John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of Humanities at Bard College. She is author of The Poethical Wager (2004), How to Do Things with Words (1998), Musicage: Cage Muses on Words Art Music (1996), Afterimages (1995), and Errata 5uite (1993), among other books.

Matthias Göritz was born in Hamburg in 1969.  He studied philosophy and literature and has lived in Moscow, Paris and Chicago.  He was writer in residence at the German House at New York University and a guest in the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa.

 

Göritz’ first volume of poetry, Loops, was published in 2001.  His first novel, The Short Dream of Jakob Voss (2005), was awarded the Hamburg Literature Prize, the Jury Prize of the Bavarian Broadcasting Company and the Mara Cassens Prize.  In fall 2006 his second collection of poetry, Pools, was published.  The German state of Lower Saxonia awarded him a grant for these poems. Göritz' translations include work by major American poets like John Ashbery, Rae Armantrout, and Ann Lauterbach.

 

His first play, Dear Mrs. Krauss, had its premiere in 2008 at the Autorentheater in Frankfurt.  He is currently at work on a second novel and a commissioned play. Göritz lives in Frankfurt am Main.

Here’s a sample of Matthias reading from PRIs The World: Inauguration Poets.