87 Years Of Salacious Banter!

Help us kick off our month-long celebration of all things Salacious Banter-y, and the 2010 reading season, and like, Spring with:

Rod Smith
Mel Nichols

Saturday, March 27
7pm
Green Gallery East
1500 Farwell Ave
Milwaukee WI 53202

--PLEASE NOTE THE LOCALE--

Rod Smith is the author of Deed, Music or Honesty, In Memory of My Theories, and more. Here is a link to his page at Electronic Poetry Center. http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/smithr/smith-bio.html.

Mel Nichols is the author of Catalytic Exteriorization Phenomenon, and Bicycle Day. Here is a link to a work that appeared in the Flarf and Conceptual Writing issue of Poetry. http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=237048

And in the offing:

Dustin Williamson, John Coletti, Jess Mynes, Dana Ward -- April 8
Matvei Yankelevich, Lewis Freedman, Zack Pieper -- April 24
BOTH OF THESE ARE TAKING PLACE AT THE OLD SAFFRAN MANSE AT 900 S. 5TH ST. AT 7PM

Brandon Downing & Macgregor Card--May 14th TBA

Saturday December 12th 8pm

Eric Unger
Michael Slosek
Luke Daly

900 S 5th St
5th & Walker
Enter on Walker. Door now marked LOBBY for yr convenience.
$5 (or as close to $5 as you can muster) goes to the readers.



Ok, ready? Eric, Michael and Luke all live in Chicago and, along with Barrett Gordon, make up the Chicago faction of House Press. Eric, Michael, Luke and Barrett edit the magazine String of Small Machines. Eric edits edited the magazine Spell. Michael and Luke publish the arrow as aarow chapbook series. All three will have new books out.


Eric Unger is here: http://www.housepress.org/authors/unger/unger.html

Michael Slosek is here: http://www.housepress.org/authors/slosek/slosek.html

Luke Daly is here: http://www.housepress.org/authors/daly/daly.html

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.

WAGNER

WARD

WILLIAMS

WWW, Y'ALL.

Catherine Wagner

Dana Ward

Tyrone Williams

Sunday, September 6th 8pm

900 S 5th St

5th & Walker

Enter on Walker. Door now marked LOBBY for yr convenience.

Catherine Wagner's latest book, My New Job, is forthcoming from Fence. Her other books are Macular Hole and Miss America (both Fence). Recent chapbooks include Articulate How (Big Game Books/Dusie, 2008), Hole in the Ground (Slack Buddha, 2008) and the forthcoming Bornt (Dusie). She teaches at Miami University in Ohio.

Dana Ward is the author of Goodnight Voice (arrow as arrow, 2008), The Wrong Tree (dusie e-chap, 2007), Roseland (Editions Louis Wain, 2009) and The Drought (Open 24 Hours, 2009). He edits Cy Press and curates a house reading series where lives in Cincinnati.
Dana is the poet so nice we asked him to read twice.

Tyrone Williams teaches literature and theory at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio. He is the author of two books of poetry, c.c. (Krupskaya Books, 2002) and On Spec (Omnidawn Publishing, 2008). He also has several chapbooks out, including AAB (Slack Buddha Press, 2004), Futures, Elections (Dos Madres Press, 2004)and Musique Noir (Overhere Press, 2006). Recent poems are in or forthcoming from Critiphoria, Laurel Review and The Nation. He is currently writing a book of poems for the innovative writing press, Atelos Books.

Farrah Field
Jared White

Thursday July 23rd 8pm







Salacious Banter Sweatbox
900 S. 5th St. (5th & Walker)
Enter on Walker (door now marked
LOBBY for your convenience)

There will be some food and drink, but feel free to BYOB.

Farrah Field’s first book of poems, Rising, won Four Way Books’ 2007 Levis Prize. Her poems have appeared in many publications including the Mississippi Review, Margie, The Massachusetts Review, Pool, Typo, Harp & Altar, 42Opus, La Petite Zine, Sojourn, Pebble Lake Review, Another Chicago Magazine, Fulcrum, and The Pinch. She lives in Brooklyn and blogs at adultish.blogspot.com.

Jared White was born in Boston, and has lived in Brooklyn for about eight years, during which time he received an MFA in poetry from Columbia, as well as playing a fair amount of music, mostly on the piano. His poems have appeared journals in print (Another Chicago Magazine, Barrow Street, Cannibal, Fulcrum) and online journals (Coconut, Horse Less Review, Word For / Word, Verse). He also published essays on poetry and music, most recently in Harp & Altar, Open Letters, and Poets Off Poetry. He was awarded a University Writing Prize from the Academy of American Poets. A chapbook of poems, entitled Yellowcake, was in Cannibal Books' Narwhal compendium. His very occasional blog, No No Yes No Yes, can be found at jaredswhite.blogspot.com.


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GET YR SWEAT ON

STACY SZYMASZEK & SARAH BUCCHERI

Tuesday July 7th 8pm

Salacious Banter Sweatbox
900 S. 5th St. (5th & Walker)
Enter on Walker (door now marked
LOBBY for your convenience)

There will be some food and drink, but feel free to BYOB.

Everyone knows and loves STACY SZYMASZEK. But if you happen to be one of the uninitiated, we'll save you a googling:
Stacy Szymaszek is the Director of the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church in New York City. Her work has appeared in Lvng, Aufgabe, antennae, Crayon, Xcp, 26 and online at The Cultural Society. She has also been featured online by Chicago Postmodern Poetry and Here Comes Everybody. She is the author of Some Mariners (EtherDome Press, 2004), Mutual Aid (gong press, 2004), There Were Hostilities (repair, 2005) and Pasolini Poems (Cy Press, 2005). She grew up in Milwaukee, WI.


Also beloved and beknown is SARAH BUCCHERI.
Sarah Buccheri was born and raised in suburban Chicago. After a stint in New York City, she now resides in Milwaukee, Wis. She earned a bachelor’s degree from Sarah Lawrence College and a master’s degree in film from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. Aside from her film and video work, Sarah is a performer and collaboratively produces regular performance art evenings at Darling Hall, one of Milwaukee’s finest underground art spaces. She has performed at The Marcus Center for the Performing Arts, Walker’s Point Center for the Arts, Galapagos Art Space, and at a variety of venues across the U.S. Most recently, she toured with a new show titled EPHKLATCHEMERAL, a collaborative performance that premiered at Baltimore’s 5th Annual Transmodern Festival 2008.

Stacy will be celebrating the release of her new book HYPERGLOSSIA, just out from Litmus Press. Bring yr checkbook, dummy.