Jonathan Ames
Monday, March 01, 2004
Readings and Performances
Sunday, March 14, 5PM I will be part of the Eastside Oral reading series, which is held at the Living Room. The other readers are:
Ned Vizzini (host)
Nicholas Antosca
Carrie Hill Wilner
John Strasubaugh
Marty Beckerman
with music by
One Ring Zero
The Living Room has moved around the corner from its original location.
The new address is:
154 Ludlow
between Stanton and Rivington
F Train to 2nd Avenue or Delancey Street
no cover
2 drink minimum
A Celebration of Fulcrum: an annual of poetry and aesthetics
Wednesday, March 24, 7 p.m. @ The KGB Bar, 85 E 4th Street (b/w Bowery & 2nd). Info: (212) 505-3360.
Fulcrum: an annual of poetry and aesthetics is an international serial anthology of poetry and of critical and philosophical essays on poetry. It aims to offer a map of what is most important and vibrant in the current poetic process throughout the English-speaking world, with occasional detours into other lands.
Reading participants:
Jonathan Ames is the author of five books. His most recent, Wake Up, Sir!, will be published by Scribner in July.
Billy Collins is a recent Poet Laureate of the United States and the author of numerous collections of poetry.
Glyn Maxwell was born in Hertfordshire, England, and now lives in NY City. He is the author of several books of poetry, including The Breakage and The Nerve (both Houghton Mifflin), and the poetry editor of The New Republic. He teaches at Princeton and Columbia.
Philip Nikolayev is the author of Monkey Time (2001 Verse Prize) and co-editor of Fulcrum.
Katia Kapovich is the author of five books of Russian poetry. A collection of her English language poems, Gogol in Rome, is forthcoming from Salt later this year. She is co-editor of Fulcrum.
Ben Mazer's poetry appears in leading international literary magazines (Agenda, Fulcrum, Jacket, Salt, Stand, Verse, etc.). He is the editor of the Collected Poems of John Crowe Ransom (Handsel Books, 2005) and of an anthology of the Berkeley Renaissance forthcoming in Fulcrum no. 3.
Jeet Thayil is the author of English (Penguin/Rattapallax, 2004). His poems have appeared in Verse, Stand, Agenda, Fulcrum and London Magazine, among others journals. He lives in New York City, where he works as an editor and writer.
Mark Lamoureux's work has appeared in Jubilat, Lungful!, Carve, Fulcrum, Art New England, Agni and others. His chapbook, 29 Cheeseburgers, was released by Boston's Pressed Wafer in 2004. Another chapbook, City/Temple, was published by Ugly Duckling Presse in 2003. He is the managing editor of Fulcrum.
John Hennessy's poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Fulcrum, The Yale Review, Salt, Ontario Review, New Letters, Washington Square and other journals. His book manuscript, Bridge and Tunnel, is presently making the rounds of publishers. He teaches creative writing and literature at the University of Massachusetts.
Andrew McCord’s poems have appeared recently in various magazines, including The Pairs Review and Fulcrum. He is also a translator and publisher of Alef Books.
