[May 30] Greetings from Rogal // Poppick // Pearl // Millstein // Spotless Leopards

To All the Children Of Spring That Have Not Yet Sprung & Then Some,   

And even to those who feel they've Sprung their last Spring - ho! You've got more left in that poetry machine than you know & nothing can put a flower tiger in your tank like some open air Spring in the World of Poor Mutts like some just right or wrong poetry can, so don't stay home & eat that leftover corn-dog alone- bring ye over to the delightful basement / backward of enigmatic realization & imbibe the night's spirit with us at Unnameable Greetings Readings. for the penultimate installment of Unnameable Greetings this  Thursday, May 30th, @ 7:30 pm featuring four poets & music: (please note earlier 7:30 meet - n - greet time in order to respectfully mind the neighbors' wish to have a crowd free space from 10 pm on - which means we'd like the first poet to go on as close to 8pm as possible & do our best to finish up by 9:30 so we can have a lil' hang time before departing to establishments possibly nearby  ) Now ya'll be aware that Mother Natural is calling for lovely rain & perhaps a few bolts of Zeus - which means we be gathered down below closer to Vulcan's stithy where we can get cozy with the built in library sensation awaiting us... 

Lisa Rogal - treads lightly in verse that at first feels floating then drifting then anchors us into clouds that are really masses of land we passed through not knowing where we were going until we got there & then by gum we were there & a pleasant sensation passed through us where it remains till this day like a smile we take out in the rain. 

Rachel Pearl - shhhh... Rachel is almost here.... she'll be here soon...you'll know her when she walks in... her voice will carry beyond her.... it is the voice you will know... the pages of pomes that walk out of her... the city in disguise... there once was a poet... & now there is too... & know you will hear her... & she will hear you 

Denise Milstein  - islands of fire surround her... the tale travels & so too the pome... where too?... where now?... who go?... why you ask?... what you say?... hit.. the... road?... or stay, sit & contemplate the neat rip in time you've made as Denise's verse takes a needle to the mess & sews it up only to have her lines bust the seams & pour forth like a biker scorning data for the whipping wind

Dan Poppick  - pops that top, pilfers the pedagogy of poetry, ponders period pieces then peels a pear without so much as a lazy adjective, pronto! poof! per annum, no no no - try daily! through a praxis of time-delayed performance, placed periodically on pivotal shelves, unlike the Po-po-police, not preening but productive, nothing out of the ordinary prurient but provoking nonetheless a pointed effort, not puritanical mind you but freedom inducing - like a drug you didn't know you needed till it opened the door inside you.  

Also on the bill - most likely strumming up a mood to set the meet & greet on its lively ear, dear, will be the return of the Greetings House Band OAE posing as SPOTLESS LEOPARDS recent escapees from mad King Leopold's deadly Congo catastrophe we'll be soothing souls of all traumatized Trumpe l'oeil victims who still have trouble believing that Trump actually exists in his present unreal-all-too-real form.

So hope to see you at the Unnameable Books, 600 Vanderbilt Ave, near the corner of St Marks in burgeoning Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. Meet n' Greet begins at 7:30 pm to be followed shortly thereafter by performances 8:00=ish. In what's left of the white stone backyard we'll be, (Tho it may be cold rainy thundery blurry & / or hairy) but if the weather does indeed turn inclement there's the snug book-lined basement. Either way the event is free. Listen for the drum then strum.

X's to Your O's

Jeffrey Joe 

Late May (plus June 2nd) events

******Unnameable Books welcomes Michael Levitin for the Brooklyn launch of his debut novel Disposable Man on Thursday, May 23rd at 7pm

“Let me begin by telling you about the time my great aunt Josephine wrote a postcard to Albert Einstein asking him to save her life.” Thus begins this debut novel about American journalist Max Krumm, a grandson of Holocaust survivors who has returned to his ancestral city of Berlin to bury the ghosts that still haunt him. A multigenerational novel woven into the backdrop of revolutionary Russia and Nazi Europe, "Disposable Man" tackles enduring themes of loss, male identity and the search for meaning. 
https://www.facebook.com/events/2284762028518148/

*******GREETINGS Thursday, May 30 at 7:30pm

Lisa Rogal, Denise Milstein, Rachel Pearl & Dan Poppick with Spotless Leopards


*******Larissa Shmailo celebrates Sly Bang Friday, May 31 at 7pm

Larissa Shmailo's Birthday Party and a reading to celebrate her novel Sly Bang with Ron Kolm Dean Kostos Michael T. Young Steve Dalachinsky Stephanie Strickland & more special guests.
https://www.facebook.com/events/369831693876530/

*******d.a. levy lives: celebrating renegade presses series Sunday, June 2 at
1pm presents Bottlecap Press (St. Louis)
 
Hosted and curated by Boog City editor David Kirschenbaum

with Meghann Boltz, Courtney LeBlanc, Izzy Leslie, and music from Aron Blue and Sourdoe
https://www.facebook.com/events/642715906150613/ 
 
 

[May 31] Larissa Shmailo's Birthday Bash and Sly Bang celebration

Friday May 31
7-9pm

Larissa Shmailo's Birthday Party
and a reading to celebrate her novel Sly Bang

with
Ron Kolm
Dean Kostos
Michael T. Young
Steve Dalachinsky
Stephanie Strickland
& more special guests

[May 16] Greetings: Marinovic // Galperin // Wang // Dan Veksler Experience

 

 It's Greetings! 

Poetry & Music with:

Filip Marinovic

Rachel Galperin

Sarah Wang

the Dan Veksler Experience 

Thursday May 16th @ 7:30pm

To Lovers, feathers, leathers, moons, deep-dishes, mountains, geldings, serenes & so forth 

Rain rain rain! Great for the garden, good for the gin, not so ideal for a poetry reading in the garden - but it's oracled to be mid Sixties to low Seventies (with only a 10% chance of...) so let's plan on being outside to observe the observable phenomena of poetry & prose - word at work working us over in to find the out door inside the Herculean chesthouse  & valleys of bodies, to put it more simply, this is the time when we dear sirs & sirettes, lambs & lambies, gals, galimyds & goldenrods, when we are alive, so come & imbibe the night's spirit with us at Unnameable Greetings Readings. for for the 2nd of 3 May installments of Unnameable Greetings this  Thursday, May 16th, @ 7:30 pm featuring four poets & music: (please note earlier 7:30 meet - n - greet time in order to respectfully mind the neighbors' wish to have a crowd free space from 10 pm on - which means we'd like the first poet to go on as close to 8pm as possible & do our best to finish up by 9:30 so we can have a lil' hang time before departing to establishments possibly nearby  ) 

Filip Marinovic - Wakes up & sniffs around: yep someone has schat in his cereal again! Those pesky squirrels don't know when to leave a werewolf librarian, sunlighting as a merman realtor alone.  He shakes the beardo & asks the tiny people living atop the towers of books in his abode if they'll open up their tiny hearts & they do, till his pomes swell with their prophecies, observations & ventilations from fears to love goo - 

 . 

Rachel Galperin- As she enters the script a door left ajar by a grip opens further; oddly all the notes have been removed from the furniture, walls, equipment & tchotchkes; how will she know which way to turn, what coffee cup to pick up, what stone to overturn? & yet she does, & you to, will & do as the pace is set, your non-scripted steps pick up, climbing through the pink & grey passages of a house set perfectly within the tale 

Sarah Wang - bombs the house... kidnaps Hollywood... frees the anus... skates 3rd rail... unbinds feminism... murders crimes... reports from dogface... mail orders temporality... performs karaoke newspapers... pushes beirut night.... shelters shapelessness... newly norms the artist formerly known as hey zeus... ich bin ein 29 memory plants      

Dan Veksler  - let me tell you about potentates... about sultans in velvet... about the camels of the Georgian mountains (1st of all they're not really camels)... about serge d'beouf, au contrair .... about canines without molars but plenty of bicuspid... about soil erosion & soul ....about dimension ...about flow of verbiage across the river stash ... about both apples & oranges ...about how you get to decide which tastes better, the pudding or the green tea... ah! 

So hope to see you at the Unnameable Books, 600 Vanderbilt Ave, near the corner of St Marks in burgeoning Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. Meet n' Greet begins at 7:30 pm to be followed shortly thereafter by performances 8:ooish. 

In what's left of the white stone backyard we'll be, (Tho it may be cold rainy) but if the weather does indeed turn inclement there's the snug book-lined basement. Either way the event is free. Listen for the drum then hum.

[May 23] Michael Levitin--Disposable Man Launch

Unnameable Books welcomes Michael Levitin for the Brooklyn launch of his debut novel Disposable Man on May 23rd at 7pm

“Let me begin by telling you about the time my great aunt Josephine wrote a postcard to Albert Einstein asking him to save her life.” Thus begins this debut novel about American journalist Max Krumm, a grandson of Holocaust survivors who has returned to his ancestral city of Berlin to bury the ghosts that still haunt him. A multigenerational novel woven into the backdrop of revolutionary Russia and Nazi Europe, "Disposable Man" tackles enduring themes of loss, male identity and the search for meaning. Levitin’s story about one man’s attempt to come to terms with history is also a story about modern men in search of themselves. Holding up a mirror to Gen X and millennials, it explores today’s generation of stalled, disposable men as it follows Krumm on a rambling journey east through Poland into Lithuania where he attempts to uncover a family secret and, in the process, regains his manhood.

Michael Levitin was born in Maine (USA) in 1976 and grew up in Northern California. He received a Bachelor of Arts in history from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a Masters degree from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. From 2004 to 2009, Michael worked as a foreign correspondent in Berlin covering politics, culture and climate change. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The Guardian, Los Angeles Times, TIME, Newsweek and other publications. Michael was co-founding editor of the Occupied Wall Street Journal and founding editor of the Prague Literary Review. He lives in Berkeley, California.


More info at http://www.michaellevitin.com/

[May 18] Ryan Dobran + Bridget Talone

 
 Join Golias Books Saturday, May 18 at 7 PM to celebrate the release of Ryan Dobran's full-length poetry collection "Old Business."

Ryan Dobran lives in Philadelphia. He is the author of "Old Business" (Golias Books, 2019) and the chapbooks "The Last Shyness" (Face Press, 2017) and "The Meritocrat" (Shit Valley, 2017). His poems have been published by Barque Press, Face Press, and Critical Documents, among others. He received his Ph.D. in English from the University of Cambridge and is also the editor of "The Collected Letters of Charles Olson and J.H. Prynne."

Bridget Talone is the author of "The Soft Life" (Wonder, 2018) and two chapbooks, "Sous Les Yeux" (The Catenary Press) and "In the Valley Made Personal" (No, Dear/Small Anchor Press). She received a 2017 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in Poetry from the New York Foundation for the Arts. She lives in Philadelphia, PA.

[POSTPONED] Small Countries in Big Literatures

Due to scheduling conflicts this reading has been postponed
 
The next reading and conversation from the Small Counties in Big Literatures series features T.M. De Vos. The series present Anglophone literature set elsewhere in the world.

Ben Bush (2016 Sozopol Fiction Seminars Fellow) will be in conversation with T.M. De Vos (2015 Sozopol Fiction Seminars Fellow) about her writing set in former Yugoslavia and Moldova.

T.M. De Vos is the author of Cimmeria (Červena Barvá Press, 2016); Co-Editor-in-Chief of Gloom Cupboard; and Reader at The Atlas Review. Her work has appeared most recently in Vagabond, MockingHeart Review, Folder Magazine, Drunken Boat, concīs, Juked, Pacific Review, and burntdistrict. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Elizabeth Kostova Foundation, Murphy Writing Seminars, Summer Literary Seminars, and Cullman Center at the New York Public Library.

Ben Bush is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, a 2017-2018 Fulbright Fellow to Bulgaria, and a contributing editor for The Organist podcast from McSweeney's / KCRW. His work has appeared in The Iowa Review, The Literary Review, Yeti, The Fanzine, Salon, Bookforum, The Believer, Los Angeles Review of Books, Poets & Writers, and San Francisco Chronicle.


***T.M. De Vos 's appearance is supported in part by Poets & Writers with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.***

[May 10] Heart Is // Feet Move Reading

Join us Friday, May 10th at 7:30 pm

where the heart is and the feet move

As you know, we read from someone else's stuff, then our own.

We are (so far): sparrow, eve, violet snow, anique taylor, david paul pemberton, kim brandon, ron kolm, tsaurah litzky,
carol wierzbicki, jim feast, austin alexis, robert gibbons, lehman weichselbaum, jason r. gallagher, federica pantana,
eli tapuchi + TBA + short open