The Rundown

Here is the rundown on some great events going down this weekend here in NYC including the book launch for PARSE!

1) For all of you who were at last night’s Acentos, you know that Martín Espada tore down and then rebuilt the whole house. Catch him again tonight at The Pink Pony Reading Series at 6pm.
http://www.poetz.com/pony/pinkpony.htm

2) 2005 National Poetry Series Finalist, Tyehimba Jess reads from his new collection of poetry, Leadbelly (Verse Press). With guest poets, Pat Rosal, the author of Uprock Headspin Scramble and Dive (Persea Books) and LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs at the St Marks Poetry Project, Fri, Oct 14th @ 10:30pm.
http://www.poetryproject.com/calendar.html

3) PARSE Book Release Party
Saturday, October 15 (8 – 10pm)
Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery at Bleeker Street
$10 cover

Please join Friendlyfire Press (Chad Griffin and Scot Lee Williams) as they celebrate the release of PARSE – Alchemy, a new collaboration of visual artistry and poetry featuring poems by:

Elana Bell, Oscar Bermeo, Jai Chakrabarti, Robert Bevan Dalton, Sabrina Hayeem-Ladani, Mara Jebsen, Raymond Daniel Medina, John J Trause & Rich Villar

With readings by the poets, musical collaboration from synonymUS and Raj spinning tunes.

PARSE Volume 1 – Alchemy is the first in a series of books based on the fruits of collaboration between artists of different disciplines.
Friendlyfire Press is dedicated to promoting the arts through the creation of beautiful books and amazing poetry. Hope to see you there!
http://bowerypoetry.com/
http://friendlyfirepress.com/

4) Celebrate the launch of Paolo Javier’s book ’60 lv bo(e)mbs’ (O Books) on Saturday, October 15 (8pm) at Mangiami. NO COVER!
http://www.obooks.com/books/60lvboembs.htm
http://newyork.citysearch.com/profile/41740791/new_york_ny/mangiami.html

bits and bytes

tomorrow, martin at acentos
saturday, parse book release

today, i am the happiest i have ever been in my life

later today, letter writing and memorizing more poems

at the rate, i might have a whole half hour of “hits” and “covers” stored in the dome by months end

re: the “hits” i have not had a whole lot of desire to be on any open mic in the last few months. in actuality, i have not had very much desire to perform in the last few months. the opportunities come and i attack em pretty well but i think that particular phase of my poetic existence may be fading fast.

re: the “covers” performing barbara’s poem this last weekend was a real joy. i still smile when i say “it is always autumn”

carpet-micers, i am expecting some to come out but not to the extent of some of the other high-profile events we have done in the past. lemme say this, as an audience member- i dig these “big” events. as the curator, i cant stand em. i hate hype. “martín is fly. take my word for it. come on down” you know how many times i can type that sentence and how many names i can list for a variety of reasons.

ima miss both nina & raina tomorrow. they should really be here enjoying this.

dreaming of silver blue constellations. apparently, if you follow orion, you will find your self home. at least, thats how it works for me.