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

Thursday May 7th 6 pm

Bard Hall, Bard College

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.