Now less Halloweeny for yr convenience. The reading is on THURSDAY Oct. 29th! Please come on THURSDAY!

Salacious Banter

Chris Martin
Ted Mathys

Thursday October 29th, 8pm
900 S 5th St
5th & Walker
Enter on Walker. Door now marked LOBBY for yr convenience.


Chris Martin is a rapper, teacher, and editor of Puppy Flowers, an online magazine of the arts. He holds an MA in poetry, performance, and education from the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University. He lives in Brooklyn.

Ted Mathys is the author of The Spoils (Coffee House Press, 2009) and Forge (Coffee House Press, 2005). Originally from Ohio, he lives in Boston.

Please arrive by 8:00. Food & drinks are possible but feel free to BYO too!

Judith Goldman
Brandon Brown
Friday October 9, 8pm
900 S 5th St
5th & Walker
Enter on Walker. Door now marked LOBBY for yr convenience.

Judith Goldman is the author of Vocoder (Roof Books 2001) and DeathStar/Rico-chet (O Books 2006), as well as a chapbook, "The Dispossessions" (Atticus/Finch (forthcoming June 2009)). Her work appears or will appear in recent issues of Wig, Parameter, 580 Split, onedit, model homes, and cannot exist. She was a coeditor in the Krupskaya Collective from 2002 through 2004 and coedits the annual anthology War and Peace with Leslie Scalapino (#4 due out in June). Currently, she teaches as a professor and Harper Schmidt Fellow in the arts humanities core and the creative writing department at the University of Chicago; at her home in Chicago, she has started an inter-arts performance series combining music, sound art, visual art and installation, and performance poetry.

Brandon Brown is from Kansas City, Missouri. Poems recently in Brooklyn Rail, Try!, Sprung Formal, West Wind Review. His friends have published chapbooks. Memoirs of My Nervous Illness (Cy Press) 908-1078 (Transmission), Camels! (Taxt) and the forthcoming Wondrous Things I Have Seen (Mitzvah Chaps). In 2008 and 2009 he co-curated the (New) Reading Series at 21 Grand in Downtown Oakland.