Wednesday, January 03, 2007
Short story competition judged by Zadie 'the woman' Smith update
Just a reminder that the Willesden short story competition has now closed and the short list and winner for 2007 will be announced here as soon as the results are in, at which time short-listed writers will be notified by email. Thanks to everyone who entered.
Thursday, December 21, 2006
Calling all bums: free drinks!
Press Release
The WordTemple Poetry Series will celebrate the beginning of its second year on Friday, January 12, 2007 by featuring Michael McClure1 and Michael Rothenberg2. Refreshments will be provided as part of the celebration so come early, and please spread the word!
Michael McClure and Michael Rothenberg
Friday, January 12, 2007 - 7 p.m.
Copperfield's Books, 2316 Montgomery Dr., Santa Rosa
Tipsy O'Hara
1 Michael McClure is famous for his dynamic poetry performances. Author of Rain Mirror, Touching the Edge: Dharma Devotions from the Hummingbird Sangha, and Huge Dreams, McClure has given hundreds of readings from the legendary Six Gallery in San Francisco (with Allen Ginsberg) to the Library of Congress. Recently, McClure joined with composer Terry Riley to create a CD titled I Like Your Eyes Liberty, a stunning exploration of music and voice. A musician and playwright, as well as a poet—McClure's songs include "Mercedes Benz" popularized by Janis Joplin.
2 Michael Rothenberg's books include The Paris Journals, Monk Daddy and Unhurried Vision. He is editor and publisher of Big Bridge (www.bigbridge.org), the editor of Overtime, Selected Poems by Philip Whalen, As Ever, Selected Poems by Joanne Kyger, and David's Copy, Selected Poems by David Meltzer. Rothenberg's readings are stunning for their wide range of experience and emotion. David Meltzer calls Unhurried Vision a "deeply stirred & stirring affirmation of poetry's centrality in realizing mundane & profound instances in the everyday extraordinary."
The WordTemple Poetry Series will celebrate the beginning of its second year on Friday, January 12, 2007 by featuring Michael McClure1 and Michael Rothenberg2. Refreshments will be provided as part of the celebration so come early, and please spread the word!
Michael McClure and Michael Rothenberg
Friday, January 12, 2007 - 7 p.m.
Copperfield's Books, 2316 Montgomery Dr., Santa Rosa
Tipsy O'Hara
1 Michael McClure is famous for his dynamic poetry performances. Author of Rain Mirror, Touching the Edge: Dharma Devotions from the Hummingbird Sangha, and Huge Dreams, McClure has given hundreds of readings from the legendary Six Gallery in San Francisco (with Allen Ginsberg) to the Library of Congress. Recently, McClure joined with composer Terry Riley to create a CD titled I Like Your Eyes Liberty, a stunning exploration of music and voice. A musician and playwright, as well as a poet—McClure's songs include "Mercedes Benz" popularized by Janis Joplin.
2 Michael Rothenberg's books include The Paris Journals, Monk Daddy and Unhurried Vision. He is editor and publisher of Big Bridge (www.bigbridge.org), the editor of Overtime, Selected Poems by Philip Whalen, As Ever, Selected Poems by Joanne Kyger, and David's Copy, Selected Poems by David Meltzer. Rothenberg's readings are stunning for their wide range of experience and emotion. David Meltzer calls Unhurried Vision a "deeply stirred & stirring affirmation of poetry's centrality in realizing mundane & profound instances in the everyday extraordinary."
Saturday, November 18, 2006
Brokeback newsdesk
Short story competition update
Dear literary people, the north wind is rustling the trees with a sound reminiscent of paper chains. Time to round-up untold stories for the winter and send them to: entries. So what are you waiting for? And furthermore...
Willesden Herald and Pretend Genius Press today shook on a deal to publish an anthology called 'New Short Stories' featuring short-listed stories from the competition, next spring. Inclusion is optional. If you don't want it we'll just die (laughing).
Ortwright Gerder
Updated announcement
Guardian Books news story
Dear literary people, the north wind is rustling the trees with a sound reminiscent of paper chains. Time to round-up untold stories for the winter and send them to: entries. So what are you waiting for? And furthermore...
Willesden Herald and Pretend Genius Press today shook on a deal to publish an anthology called 'New Short Stories' featuring short-listed stories from the competition, next spring. Inclusion is optional. If you don't want it we'll just die (laughing).
Ortwright Gerder
Updated announcement
Guardian Books news story
Wednesday, June 07, 2006
Special Reports | Zadie Smith wins Orange prize
blinkers
"Zadie Smith has held off competition from perhaps the strongest Orange shortlist in the prize's history to take this year's award with her third novel, On Beauty." (Guardian)
This class filly saw off a strong field to take the Orange by a length.
Tipsy O'Hara
"Zadie Smith has held off competition from perhaps the strongest Orange shortlist in the prize's history to take this year's award with her third novel, On Beauty." (Guardian)
This class filly saw off a strong field to take the Orange by a length.
Tipsy O'Hara
Saturday, May 20, 2006
Thursday, May 11, 2006
a mustard bastard production (friends of pretend genius)
mustard bastard hosting poetry night every thursday night at the muse in danville, va. featuring kim goransson and jimbo brown. there are too many thursdays. you can't miss them all. get on.
Thursday, May 04, 2006
Monday, May 01, 2006
Joanne Kyger reading & celebration*
Small Press Traffic / Friday, May 26, 2006 at 7:30 p.m.
Every year the board of directors of Small Press Traffic Literary Arts Center votes a Lifetime Achievement Award to a living writer of distinction. Past honorees have included Barbara Guest, Jackson Mac Low, and Carl Rakosi. The latest recipient of SPT's Lifetime Achievement Award is Joanne Kyger.
Joanne Kyger made an auspicious debut as the golden girl of the Spicer-Duncan circle of the late 1950s in San Francisco. Within a month of her arrival everyone wanted a piece of Kyger, and she became associated with many of the fluid, mercurial poetry scenes around the "New American Poetry." Like her best writing, she was everywhere at once, deep inside the Beat movement, all over Japan and India, up and down the San Francisco Renaissance, steeped in Charles Olson's polis-based soul curriculum, our ambassador to the New York scenes of Ted Berrigan and Anne Waldman, the mainstay of Bolinas, and a seer in the Buddhist poetics of the Jack Kerouac School at Naropa University in Boulder. Those are only the locations; deeper underneath, the substance of her many lives created, over forty-five years, a new poetic freedom. Based on frank and sensual observation, an innovating line, a sometimes acerbic wit, and a devotion to the 'golden root' of compassion, Kyger's poetry continues to win her the admiration of numerous generations.
Joining us for Kyger's reading will be her friend, the poet Michael Rothenberg, who edited As Ever, Kyger's selected poems, for Penguin Books in 2002. Rothenberg, author of Unhurried Vision, has recently relocated to the Russian River area and will be on hand to introduce her. We will also show Kyger's 1968 video, "Descartes."
* Two previously unpublished poems by Joanne Kyger are featured in the new anthology "Last Night's Dream Corrected". (Link). An epic new journal poem "Éire" and others by Michael Rothenberg are also included, as well as new poetry by Bill Berkson, Ira Cohen, Mikey Delgado and others.
Every year the board of directors of Small Press Traffic Literary Arts Center votes a Lifetime Achievement Award to a living writer of distinction. Past honorees have included Barbara Guest, Jackson Mac Low, and Carl Rakosi. The latest recipient of SPT's Lifetime Achievement Award is Joanne Kyger.
Joanne Kyger made an auspicious debut as the golden girl of the Spicer-Duncan circle of the late 1950s in San Francisco. Within a month of her arrival everyone wanted a piece of Kyger, and she became associated with many of the fluid, mercurial poetry scenes around the "New American Poetry." Like her best writing, she was everywhere at once, deep inside the Beat movement, all over Japan and India, up and down the San Francisco Renaissance, steeped in Charles Olson's polis-based soul curriculum, our ambassador to the New York scenes of Ted Berrigan and Anne Waldman, the mainstay of Bolinas, and a seer in the Buddhist poetics of the Jack Kerouac School at Naropa University in Boulder. Those are only the locations; deeper underneath, the substance of her many lives created, over forty-five years, a new poetic freedom. Based on frank and sensual observation, an innovating line, a sometimes acerbic wit, and a devotion to the 'golden root' of compassion, Kyger's poetry continues to win her the admiration of numerous generations.
Joining us for Kyger's reading will be her friend, the poet Michael Rothenberg, who edited As Ever, Kyger's selected poems, for Penguin Books in 2002. Rothenberg, author of Unhurried Vision, has recently relocated to the Russian River area and will be on hand to introduce her. We will also show Kyger's 1968 video, "Descartes."
* Two previously unpublished poems by Joanne Kyger are featured in the new anthology "Last Night's Dream Corrected". (Link). An epic new journal poem "Éire" and others by Michael Rothenberg are also included, as well as new poetry by Bill Berkson, Ira Cohen, Mikey Delgado and others.
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