Friday, June 11, 2010

Eugene Marten + Susan Froderberg + Gordon Lish



In association with Park-Lit, the New York Tyrant will be holding the first outdoor reading of ParkLit's summer reading series.
Wednesday, June 16th
6:30PM
Jackson Square Park in the West Village (On 8th Ave. and Horatio)

Master of Ceremonies: Gordon Lish
Readers: Eugene Marten and Susan Froderberg
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=126305724059559&ref=mf

Eugene Marten is the author of In the Blind and Waste. His third novel Firework will be released from Tyrant Books on June 25th, 2010 Susan Froderberg's novel Old Border Road will be published by Little, Brown in December, 2010. Her stories have appeared in Conjunctions, Antioch Review, Prairie Schooner, Alaska Quarterly, Massachusetts Review, as well as the New York Tyrant.

Time Out New York gives Marten's latest FIREWORK five stars:
http://newyork.timeout.com/articles/books/86268/eugene-marten-firework-book-review

Thursday, June 3, 2010

Praise for THE MOTHERING COVEN

Nice words for THE MOTHERING COVEN in this review for Joanna's Ruocco's fantastic latest: MAN'S COMPANIONS:


"The prose of Joanna Ruocco’s remarkable debut novel The Mothering Coven is so exuberant and thoroughly enlivening in its contagious and cheeky love for the mutability of language’s meanings that its plot often seemed to serve a subsidiary role to its stylistic rollicks; one could read for sound and linguistic play alone – its rhetorical approach to story seemed a narrative unto itself, and one could enjoy and take from this element of the novel as much – indeed, far more than – one could from practically any other published work out there, contemporary or otherwise... a kind of sui generis gem."

Read the rest at: http://www.artandculture.com/feature/2467

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Harp & Altar Launch Party!

Celebrating the launch of our latest issue and
The Harp & Altar Anthology
6/19 With readings by:


Ana Božičević
Dan Hoy
Eileen Myles
Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi

And special musical guest: Miracles



Saturday June 19th, 2010
6:30 - 9:00PM
267 Douglass Street
Brooklyn, NY 11217

Part of the Yardmeter Editions Reading Series


Now Available:
The Harp & Altar Anthology
ISBN 978-0-9637536-4-9
Poetry & Fiction | 336 pages | $17
Edited by Keith Newton and Eugene Lim

The Harp & Altar Anthology ($17 + shipping):

Collecting the ground-breaking poetry and fiction from the first six issues of the online journal Harp & Altar. With writing by Roberta Allen • Stephanie Anderson • Jason Bacasa • Andrea Baker • Jessica Baran • Jessica Baron • Shane Book • Donald Breckenridge • Michael Carlson • Joshua Cohen • Julia Cohen • Adam Clay • Lynn Crawford • Oisín Curran • Claire Donato • Farrah Field • Corey Frost • David Goldstein • Andrew Grace • Kate Greenstreet • Sarah Gridley • Emily Gropp • Evelyn Hampton • Jennifer Hayashida • Stefania Heim • Lily Hoang • Joanna Howard • Dan Hoy • Thomas Kane • Steve Katz • Karla Kelsey • Joanna Klink • Jennifer Kronovet • Norman Lock • Jill Magi • Justin Marks • Peter Markus • Eugene Marten • Stephen-Paul Martin • Zachary Mason • Miranda Mellis • Sara Michas-Martin • Patrick Morrissey • Ryan Murphy • Eileen Myles • Bryson Newhart • Linnea Ogden • Cameron Paterson • Johannah Rodgers • Joanna Ruocco • Elizabeth Sanger • Rob Schlegel • Zachary Schomburg • Kate Schreyer • Andrei Sen-Senkov • Brandon Shimoda • Peter Jay Shippy • Joanna Sondheim • Mathias Svalina • Bronwen Tate • G.C. Waldrep • Derek White • Jared White • Joshua Marie Wilkinson • Paul Winner • David Wirthlin • Michael Zeiss • Leni Zumas

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About our presenters:

Ana Božičević was born in Zagreb, Croatia, in 1977. She emigrated to NYC in 1997. Her first book of poems is Stars of the Night Commute (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2009), a Lambda Literary Award finalist. Her fifth chapbook, Depth Hoar, will be published by Cinematheque Press in 2010. With Amy King, Ana co-curates The Stain of Poetry reading series in Brooklyn. She works at the Center for the Humanities of The Graduate Center, CUNY.

Dan Hoy lives in Brooklyn and is co-founder of SOFT TARGETS. His publications include Glory Hole, published with Jon Leon’s The Hot Tub (Mal-O-Mar, 2009), Basic Instinct: Poems (Triple Canopy, 2008), and Outtakes(Lame House Press, 2007).



Eileen Myles’s collection of essays The Importance of Being Iceland, for which she received a Warhol/Creative Capital grant, is just out from Semiotext(e)/MIT. Eileen also writes novels (Chelsea Girls, Cool for You) and libretti (“Hell”) and many many poems (Sorry, Tree, Not Me). She ran St. Mark’s Poetry Project in the ’80s. In 1992 she conducted an openly female write-in campaign for president. She’s Professor Emeritus of Writing and Literature at UC San Diego. She lives in New York.



Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi received her MFA from Brown University and currently teaches Literature and Creative Writing at Rhode Island School of Design. Her work can be found in the Wave Books Anthology of Political Poetry, Sleepingfish, Xcp: A Journal of Cross-Cultural Poetics, Paul Revere’s Horse, and PoetryProject.com. In 2010–2011 she will be traveling on a Fulbright Grant to Barcelona, Spain, where she will finish her second novel, The Holy City, Dream & the Traveler.



After ten-plus years of periodic collaboration on poetry, art and music projects, Miracles Adam Stolorow (vocals, keyboards) and Baxter Holland (bass) arrived in Brooklyn by way of late ’90s Providence and the requisite diet of utopian thinking and freak flag waving. Ready archivists of existence, Miracles throw their bodies into nature’s cycle of collapse and renewal. Dirty bass, overdriven keyboards, sparse vocals and maniac drums try to compete with the crash and clatter of human fortunes and failures. Miracles have a new record, Ovum, due out on Creative Capitalism in June, and will be performing a new long piece for theHarp & Altar launch party. Miracles work in skyscrapers but worship like beasts.