Bard Roving Reading Series

NATE PRITTS, DOROTHY ALBERTINI and JENNIFER H. FORTIN

2010-12-03T21:35:00.009-05:00

Friday December 10 6pm

Olin 102, Bard College

Annandale-on-Hudson NY

NATE PRITTS

NATE PRITTS is the author of four full-length books of poems, most recently The Wonderfull Yeare (Cooper Dillon) and Big Bright Sun (BlazeVOX). His poems and criticism have appeared in numerous journals including Gulf Coast and Rain Taxi. He is the founder and editor of H_NGM_N.

DOROTHY ALBERTINI has been a Fellow at the MacDowell Arts Colony and Wellspring House. Her fiction and poetry appear in many journals including Shifter,Tantalum, Milk Money, and NANO Fiction, where she was the winner of the first annual NANO fiction contest. The winning piece was also nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She co-curates the Bard Roving Reading Series .

JENNIFER H. FORTIN

JENNIFER H. FORTIN loves and lives in Brooklyn. Any day now, Dancing Girl Press will release her chapbook If Made Into a Law. Another chapbook is forthcoming in early 2011 (Dusie Kollektiv). With three other poets, she founded and edits LEVELER.

ROB SCHLEGEL AND KATE GREENSTREET

2010-11-08T10:03:00.010-05:00

Please join us for a reading

with Rob Schlegel and Kate Greenstreet:

Thursday November 18th, 2010

5pm

Bard College

Bertelsmann Campus

Center Lounge

...and then walk down the hall (to Weis Cinema) for the John Ashbery Poetry

Series' reading with John Ashbery and Anselm Berrigan at 6 pm!

ROB SCHLEGEL

Rob Schlegel is the author of The Lesser Fields, selected for the 2009 Colorado Prize for Poetry, and Bloom, selected for the 2010 Midwest Chapbook Series. His poetry and criticism appear in Boston Review, Colorado Review, Jacket2, Slope, Volt and elsewhere. He currently lives in Iowa City and teaches creative writing and literature at Cornell College.

KATE GREENSTREET

Kate Greenstreet's books are The Last 4 Things and case sensitive, both from Ahsahta Press. Her new work can be found in recent or forthcoming issues of Chicago Review, Colorado Review, Boston Review, Volt, and other journals. Her website is www.kickingwind.com

DEBORAH POE & MAX WINTER

2010-04-03T11:06:00.012-04:00

Friday September 24th 6pm

Olin 102, Bard College

Annandale-on-Hudson NY

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DEBORAH POE

Deborah Poe is the author of the poetry collections Elements (Stockport Flats Press 2010) and Our Parenthetical Ontology (CustomWords 2008). Deborah's writing has recently appeared in journals such as Jacket Magazine, Peaches & Bats, Sidebrow, Filter Literary Journal, and Denver Quarterly. Deborah Poe is assistant professor of English at Pace University, fiction editor of the international online journal of the arts Drunken Boat, and guest curator/editor for Trickhouse's "Experiment" door 2010/2011. For more information about Deborah, visit www.deborahpoe.com.

MAX WINTER

Max Winter's book The Pictures was published by Tarpaulin Sky Press in 2007. His work has appeared in The New Republic, Ploughshares, Denver Quarterly, Colorado Review, The Yale Review, Boulevard, The Iowa Review, Sentence, and Parthenon West. He has published reviews in The New York Times Book Review, Bomb, and many other publications. He is currently one of the poetry editors of Fence.

KATE SCHAPIRA & "TOWN"

2010-03-23T15:03:00.007-04:00

Friday April 2nd 6 pm

Olin 102, Bard College

Annandale-on-Hudson NY

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KATE SCHAPIRA is the author of Town (Factory School 2010), and the chapbooks The Saint's Notebook (Flying Guillotine Press 2009), Heroes and Monsters (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs 2009), and The Love of Freak Millways and Tango Wax (Cy Gist Press 2009). She organizes the Publicly Complex reading series in Providence RI, where she teaches and writes.

Kate will be joined by Joan Retallack, Jenny Lee Fowler, and Dorothy Albertini in a reading of Town.

Audio of Celia Bland and Reb Livingston Reading

2010-03-14T15:30:00.001-04:00

Available at the Internet Archive! What a great reading it was, too. Thanks Celia and Reb!

REB LIVINGSTON & CELIA BLAND

2010-03-04T10:09:00.016-05:00

Friday March 12th 5:30 pm

Bard Hall, Bard College

Annandale-on-Hudson NY

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REB LIVINGSTON

Reb Livingston is the author of God Damsel, Your Ten Favorite Words, and co-editor of The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel anthology series. She's also the editor of No Tell Motel, and publisher of No Tell Books. She blogs at www.reblivingston.blogspot.com

CELIA BLAND

Celia Bland teaches at Bard College and for the Bard Prison Initiative. She has work in the current issue of The American Poetry Review, and forthcoming in Fifth Wednesday Review.

ELIZABETH BRYANT & RACHEL LEVITSKY

2010-02-10T16:35:00.018-05:00

Friday February 26th 5:30 pm (reading postponed due to weather - stay tuned!)

Bard Hall, Bard College

Annandale-on-Hudson NY

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ELIZABETH BRYANT

Elizabeth Bryant is the author of (nevertheless enjoyment, published spring 2010 by Quale Press. Other forthcoming titles include her second book, Reality Visits the Land of Illusions (Black Radish Books 2010), and her fourth chapbook, No Subject (Dusie 2010). Her writing appears in many print and online lit mags, including: Delirious Hem (audio), Wheelhouse Magazine, Dusie, Intercapillary Space, and forthcoming in Coconut. She edits the intermittent writing experiment Defeffable, and co-curates the Bard Roving Reading Series. Her website is www.elizabeth-bryant.com

RACHEL LEVITSKY

Rachel Levitsky's second book, Neighbor, is newly released by Ugly Duckling Presse (2009). Her first full length volume, Under the Sun, was published by Futurepoem books in 2003. With Jan Lauwereyns she is currently guest editing DWB, in the 2010 issue of the Dutch language magazine, "The Empire of Women." Online, you can read her poems, prose and essays at Puppy Flowers, Sous Rature, and How2. In 1999, she started Belladonna*, a multi-faceted feminist avant-garde writing confluence. This past September, she moved into a house in Saugerties, NY.

BRETT PRICE, JEREMY HOEVENAAR, & ERICA SCHREINER

2010-01-30T11:23:00.013-05:00

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.

Erica Schreiner is an experimental video artist, writer, actor, and model from Portland, Oregon. One of her largest projects is her development of her character, Skye, whose world can be viewed at www.thisiskyeswebsite.com.

AMY KING & CARA BENSON

2010-01-19T19:26:00.022-05:00

Friday January 29th 6 pm

Bard Hall, Bard College

Annandale-on-Hudson NY

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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

2009-12-07T15:09:00.013-05:00

Friday December 11th 6 pm

Olin 102, Bard College

Annandale-on-Hudson NY

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

2009-11-10T21:34:00.017-05:00

Friday November 20th 6 pm

Bard Chapel, Bard College

Annandale-on-Hudson NY 12504

directions here

ANN LAUTERBACH

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

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

2009-10-23T11:31:00.022-04:00

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

Friday November 6th 6:30 pm

Bard Hall, Bard College

Annandale-on-Hudson NY

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.

Anne Gorrick, Lynn Behrendt, and Matthew Klane

2009-05-11T14:05:00.008-04:00

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

2009-05-01T14:08:00.003-04:00

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.

Cole Heinowitz & Paul Stephens

2009-04-01T14:09:00.008-04:00

Thursday April 16th 7:30 pm

Bard Hall, Bard College

Annandale-on-Hudson NY

(directions)

Cole Heinowitz received her BA from the University of California, San Diego in 1995 and her PhD from Brown University in 2003. She is the author of two books of poetry, Daily Chimera (Incommunicado Press 1995) and The Rubicon (The Rest Press 2008), and the chapbook, Stunning in Muscle Hospital (Detour Press, 2002). Her poems have appeared in journals including The Poker, The Brooklyn Rail, Canwehaveourballback, HOW2, 6X6, Factorial!, and Mirage 4 Period(ical). She is also the author of a number of critical articles on Romantic poets such as Lord Byron, Robert Southey, Felicia Hemans, and Anna Laetitia Barbauld. Her book-length study, Rewriting Conquest: Spanish America and British Romanticism is forthcoming from Edinburgh University Press.

Paul Stephens teaches literature at Bard College, and recently earned a PhD in English from Columbia. He is currently completing two books, The Rhetoric of Literary Experiment and Minima Temporalia: Reflections from Diminishing Time. Earlier this year he presented collaborative writing and photomontage with Robert Weston at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. Recent or forthcoming publications in Social Text, /nor, Rethinking Marxism, and Open Letter. For the 2009-2010 academic year, he was chosen for a junior faculty fellowship in poetics at Emory University.

MELANIE KLEIN, KEITH O'NEILL & DAN SHAPLEY

2009-03-01T14:12:00.007-05:00

Friday March 13th 7 pm

The Bunker

DIRECTIONS *HERE*

*Live music will follow, with refreshments at the bar.*

Melanie Klein lives in Poughkeepsie, NY and teaches at Dutchess Community College. She holds an M.A. in English from California State University, and an M.F.A. in Sculpture from Stanford University. She writes, makes things, and lives each day.

Keith O'Neill is an Assistant Professor of English and Humanities at Dutchess Community College, where he teaches literature, composition, and creative writing. He received his Ph.D. in American Literature from the University of Georgia. His poems have been published at McSweeney's, and he is currently working on a dystopian novel set in the near future.

Dan Shapley is the editor of The Daily Green, a website promoting environmentalism and green living for regular people. He also writes poems. He lives in Port Ewen and New York City.

JENNIE NEIGHBORS & DAVID GRUBER

2009-02-01T19:43:00.002-05:00

Thursday February 12th at 7pm

Bard Hall, Bard College

Annandale-on-Hudson NY

(directions)

Jennie Neighbors: her new book, Between the Twilight and the Sky was recently published by Parlor Press.

and

David Gruber: his new book, Sleepers’ Republic is now out from Astrophil Press.