The Deep Moat Reading Series

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

2010-11-08T12:24:00.000-08:00

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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2010-07-17T06:37:00.000-07:00

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

2010-04-23T10:52:00.000-07:00

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!

2010-01-18T13:20:00.000-08:00

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

Nov 28th, 2009, 5PM - Dan Boehl, Mike Young, & Dara Cerv

2009-11-18T05:53:00.000-08:00

The Deep Moat Reading Series!

Saturday, November 28th at 5:00 PM SHARP!

(please note the early start time)

at The Pierre Menard Gallery, Cambridge, MA

DAN BOEHL
MIKE YOUNG
&
DARA CERV

Dan Boehl lives in Austin. He writes poems, novels, art reviews, and is a founding editor of the publishing company, Birds, LLC.

Read a poem by Dan at Ink Node - http://www.inknode.com/piece/139-dan-boehl-self-improvement

Read 3 poems by Dan at Ekleksographia - http://ekleksographia.ahadadabooks.com/issuetwo/authors/dan_boehl.html

Mike Young is the author of We Are All Good If They Try Hard Enough (Publishing Genius 2010) and the chapbook MC Oroville's Answering Machine (Transmission Press 2009). He co-edits NOÖ Journal and Magic Helicopter Press. Visit him online at http://mike.noojournal.com.

Read a poem by Mike at Night Train - http://www.nighttrainmagazine.com/contents/young_8_1.php

Read a poem by Mike at No Tell Motel - http://notellmotel.org/poem_single.php?id=1697_0_1_0

Lily Ladewig's poems have appeared in Drunken Boat, Invisible Ear, Juked, and THERMOS Blog, among other places. She is currently finishing her MFA at UMass Amherst where she teaches undergraduates how/how not to read and write poems. In her spare time she also teaches yoga and blogs about poetry and pop culture on http://lilyladewig.wordpress.com.

Read some poems by Lily at Drunken Boat - http://www.drunkenboat.com/db10/08poe/ladewig/

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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 bullfights 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

Hope to see you there,
Brian

The Deep Moat Reading Series is part of the Boston Poetry Collective.
For other readings from the Boston Poetry Collective go to: http://bostonpoetry.blogspot.com/

This Friday, Sept 25th, 7:00

2009-09-20T07:40:00.000-07:00

This Friday, Sept 25th, at 7:00 PM
The Deep Moat Reading Series presents

Lisa Olstein, Darcie Dennigan and Janaka Stucky

Lisa Olstein is the author of Radio Crackling, Radio Gone (Copper Canyon Press, 2006), which won the Hayden Carruth Award, and of Lost Alphabet (2009). A recipient of a Pushcart Prize, as well as fellowships from both the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the Centrum Foundation, Olstein has been widely published. She presently serves as associate director of the MFA program at the University of Massachusetts and is a cofounder of the Juniper Initiative for Literary Arts & Action.

About her new collection, The Lost Alphabet: ""This second collection from Olstein is an impressive sequence of prose poems spoken in a voice of a lepidopterist engaged in isolated research on butterflies and moths near a village whose residents reluctanctly embrace her presence....Most appealing is Olstein's sensitive, quietly pained and earnest tone, which, more than the unusual subject, is the real star of this book. It's as if everything Olstein says gains dire importance."—Publishers Weekly."

Read selections from Lost Alphabet here, here , and here

Darcie Dennigan is the author of Corinna A-Maying the Apocalypse, winner of Coldfront Magazine's best first collection of poetry in 2008. Her poems and other writing have appeared in 180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day, Atlantic Monthly, The Believer, Black Warrior Review, Gulf Coast, The Nation, and Tin House. She is an infrequent blogger for the Kenyon Review and an associate editor at H_NGM_N, an online
journal of poetry, poetics, etc.

Read a glowing reviews of Corinna A-Maying the Apocalypse here & here
Read Poems by Darcie here & here

Janaka Stucky is practicing the perfection of effort while working on silent relationships with knives, hairpins, & a history of tentacles. Other passions include whiskey and pugilism. He is also the Publisher of Black Ocean and its literary magazine, Handsome. Some of his poems have appeared in Cannibal, Denver Quarterly, Fence, Free Verse, No Tell Motel, North American Review, Redivider and VOLT.

Read new poems by Janaka here

As always, limited edition coinsides (tiny broadsides) will be available at the reading and through the Brave Men Press website. Find them online at http://www.bravemenpress.com

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

All readings are held at the Pierre Menard Gallery.

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

2009-08-13T17:29:00.000-07:00

Next Up at The Deep Moat Reading Series, Wednesday, August 26th, 7pm

Zachary Schomburg is the author of The Man Suit (Black Ocean 2007) and Scary, No Scary (Black Ocean 2009). He co-edits Octopus Magazine and Octopus Books. He lives in Portland, OR, where he teaches film, literature, and writing at Portland State University and Portland Community College.

View Poems by Zachary Schomburg at Fou, Sxith Finch, Pilot, and Dear Camera.

Reviews of The Man Suit at Barn Owl Review, Coldfront Magazine, and Publishers Weekly.

Emily Kendal Frey lives in Portland, Oregon and teaches at Portland Community College. She is the author of AIRPORT (Blue Hour Press, 2009). Recent work appears or is forthcoming in Handsome, Sink Review, Sixth Finch, jubilat, Microfilme and Word For/Word.

Read Emily's AIRPORT here.

View poems by Emily Kendal Frey at Coconut, Shampoo, & La Petite Zine.

Find collaborative poems by Zachary Schomburg and Emily Frey at Wheelhouse, Diode, SIR!

Mark Leidner grew up in Tifton, a small town in south Georgia. His two chapbooks are The Night of 1,000 Murders (Factory Hollow Press, 2007) and The Empire (Scantily Clad Press, 2009). He lives in Northampton, MA and his blog is located http://trembyle.livejournal.com

View Poems by Mark Leidner at La Petite Zine,Not Nostrums, & SIR!.

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

2009-07-08T09:53:00.000-07:00

Next Up at The Deep Moat Reading Series,
Saturday July 18th, 7:00 P.M.

The Deep Moat Reading Series celebrates the release of Chris Tonelli's NO THEATER, the first chapbook available from new local publisher Brave Men Press. We are extremely excited about the release of this book, as it is some of the best poetry written this decade or any other, and hope you will join us for a night that will not soon be forgotten.

Chris Tonelli co-curates The So and So Series and is the author of four chapbooks, most recently For People Who Like Gravity and Other People (Rope-A-Dope Press, forthcoming). He teaches at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, where he lives with his wife Allison.

A poem from NO THEATER from Sixth Finch.
Another poem from NO THEATER in Sixth Finch.
Three poems from NO THEATER in SIR! Magazine.

Jon Woodward was born in Wichita, Kansas and grew up in Wichita and in Denver, Colorado. His two published books are Rain (Wave Books, 2006) and Mister Goodbye Easter Island (Alice James Books, 2003). He lives in Boston and works at the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology.

A review of RAIN in The Believer.
Five Poems from La Petite Zine.
Two Poems in Octopus.

Sampson Starkweather is the author of three chapbooks, The Heart is Green from So Much Waiting forthcoming from Immaculate Disciples Press, City of Moths a Rope-a-Dope Press production, and The Photograph from horse less press. He dwells deep within da Qua.

A review of CITY OF MONTHS in Coldfront magazine
A poem from Typo Magazine
A poem from Sixth Finch

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

2009-06-22T10:07:00.001-07:00

Someone videotaped the last Deep Moat. Here are some clips, and more if you're inclined.

Heather Green

Julia Cohen

Justin Marks

The next Deep Moat will be on July 18th with Chris Tonelli, Sampson Starkweather, and Jon Woodward. On August 26th its Zach Schomburg, Emily Kendal Frey, and Mark Leidner.

Images from Deep Moat #3 - 06.13.09

2009-06-16T08:50:00.000-07:00

Pictures by Elisa Gabbert

Justin Marks

Julia Cohen

June 13th, 7pm

2009-05-31T13:54:00.000-07:00

Next at The Deep Moat Reading Series, Saturday June 13th, 7pm

Justin Marks' first book is A Million in Prizes (New Issues Press). He is also the author of several chapbooks, the most recent being Voir Dire (Rope-a-Dope Press). New work can be found in Harp & Altar, Sink Review and Tusculum Review. He is the founder and editor of Kitchen Press Chapbooks and lives in New York City with his wife and their twin son and daughter.

Matter of Fact

I wanted to create the ocean, the sky,
the intricate structure of a leaf

and thought by now
I’d have come close.

What joy I have in knowing
creation of that sort

doesn’t exist.
The world has little

use for me.
Its glare blinds.

How glad I am
for the orbit I inhabit.

A planet to the sun.

another poem from A Million in Prizes
Justin's blog
Kitchen Press Chapbooks
See Justin's inclusion in Stephen Burt's essay on 'The New Thing' in the latest Boston Review

Julia Cohen is the author of several chapbooks including The History of a Lake Never Drowns (Dancing Girl Press), Who Could Forget the First Sensational Evening of the Night (H_NG M_N Pres) & When We Broke the Microscope (with Mathias Svalina) (Small Firess Press) . Her poems have been published in Denver Quarterly, Copper Nickel, Bird Dog, Spinning Jenny, RealPoetik, Forklift, Ohio, MiPOesias, and GutCult amongst others. Her first collection Triggermoon, Triggermoon is forthcoming from Black Lawrence Press.

There Was a Bridge of Tattered Rugs

I've cut the rope-swing, carved scars in a tree
I've taken a glass bottle and shingled its sides
I've taken some velvet leg and tossed it in the gully of my bed
I've wasted quilt

A nightgown soaked in milk
The bassinet sleeping in the greenhouse
A boat-shaped spider crabbing the high corner
What have I done to this world

The fairness of snap peas
Did that sound leave me
I’ve tattered a rug to bridge the embankment
but the cry came from below

I’ve leeched from and leeched from
and left what I could no longer hold
No refuge is permanent
The human voice
Pelts of my name

Julia's Blog

a poem by Julia in Typo

Heather Green’s chapbook, The Match Array, is available from Dancing Girl Press. Her work has appeared in Denver Quarterly, Barrow Street, The Hat, Tarpaulin Sky, and other journals. She lives in Boston, though not for long.

from The Match Array

I’ve got to stop saying, “Look.”

He doesn’t even know there’s a pattern to recognize:
a young man appeared, upriver or downriver.

The other idea is the machine, the house:
Just because we’re sitting in the same room doesn’t mean. . .

By the next morning, the man fell asleep
by the clock.

Meanwhile, subjects had collected data about colors.
Fixed color terms unreliable,

Their attitude was, Who cares what the color is?
They make fun, give really bad information sometimes.

another poem by Heather at Real Poetik and another at Agni online.

2009-05-11T13:17:00.000-07:00

Available now from Brave Men Press in association with The Deep Moat Reading Series we present three new coinsides: one for each reader present at the May 8th event.

This series features Ben Mazer with his poem, A Movie Is Available Knowledge...

$3.50

Eric Baus with his poem, Glass Ear...

$3.50

& Elisa Gabbert with her poem, Dream Missive...

$3.50

Each CoinSide is 2 3/8" x 4" and contains a printed image along with the poem in hand-set type. Each is printed in a limited edition of 23.

You also may buy the set of all three for a minor discount....

$9.50

Photos from the Moat - 05.08.09

2009-05-11T13:06:00.000-07:00

Next up at The Deep Moat Reading Series

2009-04-13T09:05:00.000-07:00

Friday - May 8th - 7pm

Ben Mazer

Eric Baus

Elisa Gabbert

Ben Mazer's poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Harvard Review, Verse, Stand, Fulcrum, Salt, Agenda, Poetry Wales, The Warwick Review, Harvard Magazine, Jacket, Thumbscrew, Pequod, Jewish Quarterly (London), and many other periodicals. He is the author of one full length collection of poems, White Cities (Cambridge, MA: Barbara Matteau Editions), to which Robert Lowell's friend Frank Parker contributed a cover and frontispiece illustration, and two chapbooks, The Foundations of Poetry Mathematics (NY: Cannibal Books) and Johanna Poems (NY: Cy Gist Press). He is the editor of Selected Poems of Frederick Goddard Tuckerman (forthcoming from Harvard University Press), Landis Everson's Everything Preserved: Poems 1955-2005 (Graywolf Press; winner of the first Emily Dickinson Award from the Poetry Foundation), and The Complete Poems of John Crowe Ransom (forthcoming). He is a contributing editor to Fulcrum: an annual of poetry and aesthetics, for which he has edited feature anthologies on 'The Berkeley Renaissance' and 'Poetry and Harvard in the 1920s'.

Eric Baus was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana in 1975. Winner of the 2002 Verse Prize, selected by Forrest Gander, his publications include The To Sound (Wave Books), Tuned Droves (Octopus Books), and several chapbooks. He edits Minus House chapbooks and is currently in the PhD program in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Denver

Elisa Gabbert is the poetry editor of Absent. Her recent poems have appeared in Colorado Review, Diagram, Eleven Eleven, Meridian, Pleiades, Typo and Washington Square. A chapbook, Thanks for Sending the Engine, is available from Kitchen Press. She is also the author, with Kathleen Rooney, of Something Really Wonderful (dancing girl press, 2007) and That Tiny Insane Voluptuousness (Otoliths Books, 2008). Their collaborations can be found in Boston Review, Caketrain, jubilat, No Tell Motel and other journals.

Coinsides (i.e. tiny letterpressed broadsides) for all three poets will be created and printed by Brave Men Press in celebration of the occasion.

Greying Ghost at the Deep Moat

2009-04-10T08:05:00.000-07:00

Carl will be selling the Greying Ghost back catalog at tomorrow's reading. Bring your checkbooks.

The Deep Moat Reading Series Vol 1 & 2

2009-03-11T12:29:00.001-07:00

Saturday - April 11th - 7pm

Heather Christle

Matthew Klane

Claire Donato

Heather Christle grew up in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire. Her poems have recently appeared in 6X6, Boston Review, No: a journal of the arts and Skein. Octopus Books will publish her first poetry collection, The Difficult Farm, later this year. She lives, studies and teaches in Western Massachusetts.

Matthew Klane is co-editor/founder of Flim Forum Press, publisher of the anthologies Oh One Arrow (2007) and A Sing Economy (2008). His book is B_____ Meditations from Stockport Flats Press (2008). His latest chapbooks include Sons and Followers, Friend Delighting the Eloquent, Sorrow Songs, and The- Associated Press. He currently lives and writes in Albany, NY. http://www.matthewklane.blogspot.com/

Claire Donato is the author of a chapbook, Someone Else's Body (Cannibal Books 2009). Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in journals such as Coconut, Dewclaw, Harp & Altar, Caketrain, Fou, and Cannibal. She is currently an MFA Literary Arts candidate at Brown University in Providence, RI. Her hometown is Pittsburgh, PA.

Friday - May 8th - 7pm

Ben Mazer

Eric Baus

Elisa Gabbert