NOV 20TH - DAMON KRUKOWSKI, ALEX PHILLIPS & JEREMY SIGLER

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20TH

at 7:00 PM

DAMON KRUKOWSKI, ALEX PHILLIPS
& JEREMY SIGLER

Damon Krukowski writes and teaches poetry as well music criticism. He is the author of a book of prose poems, The Memory Theatre Burned (Turtle Point Press). Along with Naomi Yang he runs Exact Change, a publishing house specializing in Surrealist and other experimental literature and artists' writings, and is one half of the influential avant-folk duo, Damon and Naomi.

Find more info on Damon and Naomi here

See poems by Damon here

Jeremy Sigler received an MFA in sculpture from the University of California, Los Angeles. He has published five books: To and To (Left Hand Books, 1998), Mallet Eyes (Left Hand Books, 2000), Led Almost by My Tie (with Jessica Stockholder, Ruth Lingen Editions, 2007), Math (Ubuweb Editions, 2008), and Crackpot Poet (Black Square Editions/Brooklyn Rail, 2010). Sigler is also the publisher of a 2-page, malleable clay journal called Rational/Irrational currently installed in the bookstore café at MoMA/PS1. While teaching at the Maryland Institute College of Art, Sigler formed the band Ponytail and directed his own stage adaptation of Jerzy Kozinski's "Being There." In 2006, Sigler was a recipient of a Lannan Foundation residency in Marfa, Texas. He is the Associate Editor of Parkett Publishers, teaches in the graduate art departments of Yale University, SUNY Purchase, and The Maryland Institute College of Art, and is the creator of the Theater of Therapeutic Choreography

See poems by Jeremy here

Alex Phillips was born in Concord, Massachusetts, in 1977. He is the
poet in residence at Fort Juniper in Cushman Village, Amherst, and is
an assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts. He is the author of Crash Dome (Factory Hollow Press, 2010)

On Crash Dome: "That from the twenty-six letters of our alphabet this book could be born is a miracle, a heartbreakingly glorious one that demands it be read, and talked about, and marveled over, and, like all true miracles, doesn't give a damn if it isn't."--Mary Ruefle

See a poem by Alex here

All readings are free and open to the public. Wine guaranteed if you get there early.

All readings are held at the Pierre Menard Gallery,

10 Arrow Street, Cambridge MA

http://www.pierremenardgallery.com/

Contact Brian Foley with any questions at brianjamesfoley@gmail.com

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Saturday, July 24th 7:00 PM

JULIA STORY
NATE PRITTS
&
FRANCESCA CHABRIER


It is time once again for the summer fires to burn
lit by the sparks
of three startling poets



JULIA STORY's first collection of poetry, Post Moxie, was the winner of the 2009 Kathryn A. Morton Prize and was published by Sarabande Books. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in journals such as the Iowa Review, Octopus, Ploughshares, and the Paris Review. She lives in Somerville, MA.

Read some of Julia's poems in Octopus here

Read a glowing review of Post Moxie in Coldfront here




FRANCESCA CHABRIER is the assistant editor of jubilat. Her work appears or is forthcoming in places like notnostrums, Sixth Finch, Invisible Ear, Wolf in a Field, Forklift, Ohio and SIR! Her collaborations with Christopher Cheney can be found in GlitterPony. She lives in a valley on Orchard St.

Read FRANCESCA's poem in Sixth Finch here





NATE PRITTS is the author of three full-length books of poetry - The Wonderfull Yeare (Cooper Dillon Books, 2010), Honorary Astronaut (Ghost Road Press, 2008) & Sensational Spectacular (BlazeVOX, 2007). His poetry & prose have been published widely, both online & in print, in journals such as The Southern Review, Jacket, Gulf Coast, DIAGRAM, Rain Taxi Review of Books, Octopus, & Forklift, Ohio among many others.

Read Nate's poems at the Poetry Foundation here

Read a review of The Wonderful Year in Huffington Post here



All readings are free and open to the public. Wine and crime guaranteed if you get there early.

All readings are held at the Pierre Menard Gallery,

10 Arrow Street, Cambridge MA

http://www.pierremenardgallery.com/

Contact Brian Foley with any questions at brianjamesfoley@gmail.com

Next Deep Moat

Join Us
Saturday, May 1st at 7:00 PM
at The Pierre Menard Gallery, CambrIdge, MA

for the Deep Moat Reading Series One Year Anniversary
with

SANDY FLORIAN, LARA GLENUM & BEN KOPEL



Sandy Florian is the author of Telescope (Action Books), 32 Pedals & 47 Stops (Tarpaulin Sky), The Tree of No (Action Books), Prelude to Air From Water (Elixir Press), and On Wonderland & Waste (Sidebrow Press). She lives in San Francisco where she is an affiliate artist at Headlands Center for the Arts and works as one of the “other” editors for Tarpaulin Sky Journal. For more information, visit her blog at http://boxingthecompass.blogspot.com

Lara Glenum is a poet, scholar, and translator. She is the author of two books of poetry: The Hounds of No (Action Books, 2005) and Maximum Gaga (Action Books, 2009). Her chapbook, The Hotling Chronicles, is due out from Tarpaulin Sky later this year. With Arielle Greenberg, she is the co-editor of Gurlesque, an anthology of contemporary women’s poetry and visual art (Saturnalia Books, 2010). She has recently been collaborating with sound, visual, and digital media artists on Meat Out of the Eater [hyperlink: http://vimeo.com/7215889], a multimedia installation. She teaches in the MFA program in Creative Writing at LSU.



Ben Kopel, a native of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, currently lives in Northampton, Massachusetts where he edits Laminated Cats Press. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Conduit, Sir!, Forklift: Ohio, H_NG_M_N, Sixth Finch, Diagram, and elsewhere. In his joints he feels life.



As always, limited edition coinsides (tiny broadsides) will be available at the reading and through the Brave Men Press website.

All readings are free and open to the public. Wine and crime guaranteed if you get there early.

All readings are held at the Pierre Menard Gallery,

10 Arrow Street, Cambridge MA

http://www.pierremenardgallery.com/

Contact Brian Foley with any questions at brianjamesfoley@gmail.com

Next Deep Moat!

SATURDAY, JANUARY 30th at 5PM

JULIE CARR, ELIZABETH MARIE YOUNG,
& JESSICA BOZEK

(please note the early start time)

at The Pierre Menard Gallery, Cambridge, MA

JULIE CARR is the author of four books of poetry: Mead: An Epithalanion, Equivocal, 100 Notes on Violence (winner of the Sawtooth Poetry Prize), and Sarah-of Fragments and Lines, forthcoming from Coffee House Press. She is the co-publisher, with Tim Roberts, of Counterpath Press, teaches at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and lives in Denver.

Read a poem by Julie here

ELIZABETH MARIE YOUNG teaches Classics and Comparative Literature at Wellesley College. She was a finalist for the 2007 National Poetry Series award and her first book of poems, Aim Straight at the Fountain and Press Vaporize, won the Motherwell prize from Fence books. A chapbook of dissolute sonnets is also available from Omahrahu Press.

Read a poem by Elizabeth here



JESSICA BOZEK is the author of The Bodyfeel Lexicon (Switchback Books) and several chapbooks, including the recent Other People's Emergencies (Hive/Dusie). Recent poems appear in Action, Yes, Artifice, Fairy Tale Review, P-QUEUE, and Womb. Jessica runs Small Animal Project (smallanimalproject.com), a reading series and web-text experiment based in Cambridge, MA.

Read a poem by Jessica here




As always, limited edition coinsides (tiny broadsides) will be available at the reading and through the Brave Men Press website.

All readings are free and open to the public. Wine and chapstick guaranteed if you get there early.

All readings are held at the Pierre Menard Gallery,

10 Arrow Street, Cambridge MA

http://www.pierremenardgallery.com/

Contact Brian Foley with any questions at brianjamesfoley@gmail.com

For more information, visit – www.thedeepmoatreadingseries.blogspot.com