Tuesday, November 4, 2008


Salacious Banter

Lewis Warsh
John Koethe


Thursday, November 13
8pm


900 S 5th St
5th & Walker
Walker's Point
Milwaukee
Food and drinks provided
Suggested donation: 5 dollars


Lewis Warsh has been a luminary on New York’s writing scene for 40 years. With Anne Waldman, he co-edited Angel Hair Books and Press, an important catalyst in the "mimeo revolution" of the 1960s and publisher of Alice Notley, Philip Whalen, Bernadette Mayer and Ron Padgett among others. The Angel Hair Anthology, brought out by Granary Books in 2001, was also co-edited with Waldman. Since 1977 he has edited United Artists Books.

Previous works of poetry, fiction and autobiography include Inseperable: Poems 1995-2005, Touch Of The Whip and The Maharajah's Son. Of the poetry collection, The Origin Of The World, Robert Creeley wrote: “Given the complexity of this world and all the myriad people who are in it, these poems are poignantly articulate experiments, which reach out endlessly, day or night, so as to feel another is still there too. If one could ever doubt, Lewis Warsh proves again that the world exists, even after all is said and done.” Here's a link to his website: http://www.lewiswarsh.org/


John Koethe has been placed by many critics in the tradition of Wallace Stevens and John Ashbery. Robert Huddleston wrote this of his work: "he can show us as few other contemporary poets can into an oneiric world of magnificent austerity."

Some of his books are The Late Wisconsin Spring, Falling Water, North Point North and his latest Sally’s Hair published in 2007 from Harper-Collins. He has taught Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee since 1973. More Koethe’s page at The Poetry Foundation Website.

Friday, October 10, 2008


Salacious Banter

Brenda Iijima
Brandon Downing

Saturday, October 18
7:30ish
Reading starts at 8ish

900 S 5th. Fifth & Walker (Enter on Walker) Walker's Point Milwaukee
As usual, some food and drink will be provided, but feel free to BYOB. Suggested Donation is $5. Please come even if you don't have $5, but try to have $5.

Brenda Iijima’s publications include Around Sea (O Books), Animate, Inanimate Aims (Litmus Press), If Not Metaphoric (Ashanta Press), and recently Rabbit Lesson (Fewer & Further Press). She lives in Brooklyn and edits Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs.

Brandon Downing’s publications include The Shirt Weapon (Germ Monographs), Dark Brandon (Faux Press), and Dark Brandon, a DVD. Photographic work can be viewed at http://www.brandondowning.org/. He lives in New York City.

Questions, concerns: flabscoresbig@yahoo.com

Monday, July 28, 2008


Dustin Williamson &
Ara Shirinyan

August 10th @ 6:30
(Reading will start at approximately 7:30)





900 S 5th.
Fifth & Walker
Walker's Point
Milwaukee

As usual, some food and drink will be provided, but feel free to BYOB.
Suggested Donation is $5.
Please come even if you don't have $5, but try to have $5.


Many of you will remember Dustin Williamson from his time here, when he served as Milwaukee Poetry's Premiere Boyish Provocateur. He now lives in Brooklyn where he occasionally rarely publishes books under the Rust Buckle imprint and spent much of the spring curating the Zinc Bar Reading Series. His chapbooks are Cab Ass'n (Lame House Press), Gorilla Dust (Open 24 Hours), Heavy Panda (Goodbye Better), and the newish Exhausted Grunts from Cannibal Books. Work can be found online at Dusie (http://www.dusie.org/williamson.html) and Rock Heals! (http://www.rockheals.com/archives/2008/01/weighted_down_b.html).


Ara Shirinyan was born in the former Soviet Socialist Republic of Armenia and now lives in Los Angeles, California. He co-curates readings at the quickly legendary LA club The Smell and, with his Make Now Press (makenow.org), publishes diverse works of poetry including three books from Kenneth Goldsmith and several written under Oulipian constraints. He is the author of Syria is in the World (Palm Press) and the just published Your Country Is Great (Afghanistan-Guyana) from Futurepoem Books. His Speech Genres 1-2 is available as part of UBUWEB's Publishing the Unpublishable Series here (pdf): http://www.ubu.com/ubu/unpub/Unpub_024_Shirinyan_Speech-Genres.pdf. If that's not enough, check out mp3's from his band Godzik Pink via Kill Rock Stars/5 Rue Christine: http://www.5rc.com/discography/ger013/index.htm.


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Michael Carr (Top Row, Last Person on the Right)
Somebody take pictures next time!

Dana Ward

Jess Mynes


Monday, June 9, 2008

Salacious Banter Reading Series
Thursday, June 26th


Jess Mynes
Michael Carr
Dana Ward

Food & Drinks @ 6:30
(some will be provided, but please bring your own)
Reading @s close to 7:30
as good taste and decorum allow.

900 S 5th St.
(5th & Walker / Enter on Walker)
Milwaukee
salaciousbanter AT gmail DOT com



Jess Mynes lives in Wendall, MA (that's Massachusetts, folks!) where he edits Fewer & Further Press and runs the all small caps reading series. Chapbooks include Birds for Example, Coltsfoot Insularity (w/ Aaron Tieger), In(ex)teriors, and Full on Jabber (w / Christopher Rizzo). Several more are forthcoming. Poems are in Shampoo (here & here), The Cultural Society, and loads of other places as well.

Michael Carr, along with
Dorothea Lasky, publishes chapbooks under the Katalanché Press moniker. He edited last year's blockbuster The Book of Prophecies by John Wieners and is part of the Boston Poetry Collective. His chapbooks include Platinum Blonde and Softer White.

Dana Ward edits Cy Press from his home in Cincinnati. OMG Press recently published For Paris in Prison, a collaboration with
Matthew Hughes Boyko (no word on whether or not she got it). Two chapbooks, The Imaginary Lives of My Neighbors and The Wrong Tree, are available online in pdf format from Duration Press and Dusie Press, respectively. Visit rabbitlightmovies.com to see him in action.

Sunday, June 8, 2008

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Images stolen from Kevin Thurston & Gina Myers

Sunday, April 13, 2008

The Inaugural Salacious Banter Reading Series Reading


Sunday, April 20th 7pm

Gina Myers & Kevin Thurston

Salacious Banter Salon
(a.k.a. my apartment)
900 S 5th St., Milwaukee

5th & Walker in Walker's Point

1 Block South of National, La Perla, & the Mexican Restaurant District
3 Blocks West of 2nd St & the Gay Bar District
(a.k.a. Fun for Everyone!)

Enter on Walker St. Look for balloons or something.

Come on up.

salaciousbanter@gmail.com
for questions, concerns, my number in case you get lost, etc.