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- Reading with Jon Cotner & Andy...
McNally Jackson
Thursday, January 7 at 7:00pm
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- KRISTEN KOSMAS TO PERFORM THIS TUESDAY! (New York) 8:58am Dec 6
- R E A D I N G: Flip Marinovich & Julien Poirier 10:51am Dec 1
- 6x6 # 19 will be on its way soon... 6:27pm Nov 29
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Jon Cotner and Andy Fitch read from their new book, Ten Walks/Two Talks, new from Ugly Duckling Presse.
Ten Walks/Two Talks updates the meandering and meditative form of Basho’s travel diaries. Mapping 21st-century New York, Cotner and Fitch tap their predecessor’s collaborative tendencies in order to construct a descr...iptive/dialogic fugue.
Read more here: http://www.uglyducklingpresse.org/page-1
"Neurasthenia never had finer spokesmen."—WAYNE KOESTENBAUM
Jon Cotner and Andy Fitch have performed their dialogic improvisations at festivals and conferences across the United States, as well as in Toronto and Berlin. They co-edited the 1036-page digital anthology Interdisciplinary Transcriptions. Other publications include Animal Shelter (Semiotext(e)), Brooklyn Rail, Denver Quarterly, Electric Literature, LIT, n+1, and UbuWeb. Jon lives in New York City, where he is finishing his Ph.D. for SUNY Buffalo’s Poetics Program. Andy is an assistant professor in the University of Wyoming’s MFA Program.
Their New Book from UDP: Ten Walks/Two Talks
Time:7:00PM Thursday, January 7th
Location:McNally Jackson
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KRISTEN KOSMAS's play "This from Cloudland" is in the latest issue of
Paper Theatre's Play A Journal of Plays. Intro: "In her choral work,
[she] asks us to discern dialogue from action and plot from dream."
http://www.papertheatre.org/playjournal.
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Join UDP & the Makers Market TONIGHT from 6 pm to 12 am at the Old Can Factory for a Holiday Party! The Market will also be open SAT & SUN.
http://www.xoprojects.com/market.html
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Daniil Kharms "Today I Wrote Nothing" (translated by UDP's Matvei Yankelevich) makes list of 25 IMPORTANT BOOKS OF POETRY!
Brain Foley writes:
"Black fairy tales told in a gasp. And still rejuvenatingly human even
when the nose is missing, the eyes are missing, and the whole is
transformed into the unrecognizable. You mus...t laugh. Along with Eugene
Ostashavesky’s OBERIU, essential enlightenment through confusion and
violent nonsense."
http://htmlgiant.com/?p=20554
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[In continuing from my Important Books of the 00s list, which mostly intentionally swerved poetry in manner of context, the excellent and esteemable Brian Foley of Brave Men Press, Sir!, and many other ...
Ugly Duckling Presse Interview with Matvei Yankelevich on BOMBLOG. http://bombsite.powweb.com/?p=6654
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Matvei Yankelevich’s first full-length book,Boris by the Sea, was published in November 2009 by Octopus Books. Yankelevich’s playful writing makes for an enjoyable read, combining absurd theater, avant-garde poetry, and children’s fable into Boris’s slim 62 pages. ...
Ugly Duckling Presse Marina Temkina is reading today (5:05pm ... sharp!) at the Bowery Poetry Club as part of Bob Holman’s NYU Poetry Census Class. http://www.bowerypoetry.com/ ... or watch live on the web: http://www.bowerypoetrylive.com/
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• Bar • Art Wall • Bookstore Story • Family • Propaganda Building • Directions Press • Urbana • Interns Bowery Arts and Science BobWeb Videos Bowery Women Urbana ...
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Pictures! From the Hello Failure event!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/40291338@N0
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Flickr is almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world. Show off your favorite photos and videos to the world, securely and privately show content to your friends and family, or blog the photos and videos you take with a cameraphone.
Join UDP's KRISTEN KOSMAS this Tuesday, December 8, for her solo-ish performance, ANTHEM (brought to you by the reading series: Experiments & Disorders: New Poetic Forms) The event will also feature a poetry/dance collaboration by Zeynep Kocaoglu, Jose Ramos, Maria Stankova, Margarita...
Join UDP's Flip Marinovich & Julien Poirier for a poetry reading THIS WEDNESDAY (tomorrow!) at 7 pm at Unnameable Books. Unnameable Books: corner of St Marks and Vanderbilt Park Slope Brooklyn right across from Soda Bar!
Ugly Duckling Presse UDP in the news at The Makers' Market held every Sunday at The Old American Can Factory.
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More Photos from the 6x6 Release Party!!!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/42555663@N0
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UDP’s Full Presse Subscription for 2010 includes more than 25 titles, plus several ephemeral print objects, sent directly to your home throughout the year, including new works of poetry, essays, and artist books.
These books are all uniquely designed, using letterpress, hand-sewn binding, and other methods that demonstr...ate “a philosophical curiosity about what makes a book a book” (Michael Miller, Time Out New York).
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Time:12:00PM Tuesday, December 1st
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Kristen Kosmas interviewed on CULTUREBOT!
http://culturebot.org/2009/11/28/five-qu
culturebot.org
1. Where did you grow up and how did you end up where you are now?I grew up in a very small town in Florida called New Smyrna Beach in a very unusual house that was made of cinderblock with the ocean in front of it and the river behind it. ...
