Nation of Accusers

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Friday, June 19, 2009

Night Fast by Allyssa Wolf

Night Fast Night Fast by Allyssa Wolf


My review


rating: 5 of 5 stars
Marked as "read," it will always be also. Current

ly.



If I said, these poems extend beyond "Vaudeville," it would not do either justice. Best? What is "Best"? Beast. dear deer heart people polis gut gutter.

Allyssa Wolf is creating the best poetry I've ever read. There's nothing like it. Comes from every and no. Prophetic.



Night Fast.


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This Sunday the 21st @ Myopic Books/Simone Muench, Philip Jenks, & Patrick Culliton

THE MYOPIC POETRY SERIES — a weekly series of readings and occasional poets' talks

Myopic Books in Chicago — Sundays at 7:00 / 1564 N. Milwaukee Avenue, 2nd Floor


Sunday, June 21 – Simone Muench, Philip Jenks, & Patrick Culliton

Simone Muench was raised in Louisiana and Arkansas and now lives in Chicago, IL. She is the author of The Air Lost in Breathing (Marianne Moore Prize for Poetry; Helicon Nine, 2000), Lampblack & Ash (Kathryn A. Morton Prize for Poetry; Sarabande, 2005), and Orange Crush (Sarabande, 2010). Her latest chapbooks are Orange Girl (dancing girl press, 2007) and Sonoluminescence written with Bill Allegrezza (Dusie Press, 2007). She also published collaboratively with Philip Jenks, writing a book of epistolary poems titled Little Visceral Carnival on Cinematheque Press (2009). She is a recipient of an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship, the 49th Parallel Award for Poetry, the PSA's Fine Lines Contest, the Charles Goodnow Award, the AWP Intro Journals Project Award, the Poetry Center's 9th Annual Juried Reading Award, the Frederick Stern Award for Teaching, and the PSA's Bright Lights/Big Verse Contest. She received her Ph.D from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and is director of the Writing Program at Lewis University where she teaches creative writing and film studies. Currently, she serves on the advisory board for Switchback Books and UniVerse: A United Nations of Poetry, and is an editor for Sharkforum.

Philip JENKS will be reading with Simone Muench from their new "Little Visceral Carnival" (Cinematheque Press, 2009). Additionally, he wrote two volumes of poetry, On the Cave You Live In (Flood Editions, 2002) and My First Painting will be “The Accuser” (Zephyr Press, 2005). He's published two chapbooks, The Elms Left Elm Street (Plane Bukt Press, 1993 and Cultural Society, 2008) and the ekphrastic How Many of You are You? (Dusie, 2006). He is completing his third manuscript, "Colony Collapse Disorder". He teaches at University of Illinois at Chicago. His poems have appeared in MoonLit, Chicago Review, Traverse, GutCult, h_ngm_n, The Canary, The Gig, Cultural Society, LVNG, Cultural Society and elsewhere. He collaborates with Simone Muench, publishing in The Canary, Zoland, Moonlit, barrelhouse, and Eleven Eleven and elsewhere. He is a vegan and plays percussion, sings, and howls with the Howling Hex on Drag City Records.

Patrick CULLITON was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. His poems have appeared, or will soon, in American Letters & Commentary, Coconut, Columbia Poetry Review, Conduit, Court Green, The Hat, Indiana Review, The Journal, jubilat, Rabbit Light Movies, Realpoetik, Tarpaulin Sky, and elsewhere. He is the recipient of a 2009 Individual Artists Fellowship from Illinois Arts Council.



Contact curator Larry Sawyer for booking information and requests.
E-mail: larrysawyerpoet@yahoo.com



UPCOMING

Sunday, June 28 – Poet’s Talk: Tim Yu (w/Judith Goldman) on Race and the Avant-Garde - Experimental and Asian American Poetry since 1965

Sunday, July 26 – Farrah Field & Jared White

Sunday, August 2 – Kerri Sonnenberg & Guest

Sunday, August 23 – Carrie Etter & Guest

Sunday, October 4 – Chicago Calling w/Dan Godston (additional readers to be announced)



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Myopic Books — 17 years of innovative poetry in Chicago

Monday, March 30, 2009

Modern Love...XII I think...

from Modern Love, by George Meredith

At dinner, she is hostess, I am host.
Went the feast ever cheerfuller? She keeps
The Topic over intellectual deeps
In buoyancy afloat. They see no ghost.
With sparkling surface-eyes we ply the ball:
It is in truth a most contagious game:
Hiding the Skeleton, shall be its name.
Such play as this the devils might appal!
But here's the greater wonder; in that we,
Enamoured of an acting nought can tire,
Each other, like true hypocrites, admire;
Warm-lighted looks, Love's ephemerioe,
Shoot gaily o'er the dishes and the wine.
We waken envy of our happy lot.
Fast, sweet, and golden, shows the marriage-knot.
Dear guests, you now have seen Love's corpse-light shine.