Coming Events
June 2009
19th, 7pm, Poetry Event: Joiner Center Writers Workshop poetry event. Readings by Martín Espada, Demetria Martínez, Nguyen Quang Thieu, and Tran Thi Hong Hanh. Joiner Center website
25th, 7pm, Poetry Event: Joiner Center Writers Workshop poetry event. Readings by Fred Marchant, Brian Turner, and Bruce Weigl.
May 2009
20th, 7pm, Poetry Event: Cervena Barva poetry event presenting CL Bledsoe and Nancy Mitchell
21st, 7 - 9:30pm, Screening: Bordertown, presented by Revolution Books (Harvard Square, Cambridge). Revolution Books Fundraising event. $6 suggested donation
TBA, Screening: Black Gate Cologne, by Otto-Piene and Aldo Tambellini. This will be the first US showing of original 1968 television broadcast at WNDRTV-Cologne Germany. Artist will be present during the event.
Past Readings and Events
June 2009
13th, 4pm–6pm, Poetry Event: Terri Cader and Fred Marchant . Reading, book signing, and reception
13th, 7pm–9pm, Poetry Event: Deep Moat Poetry Series, Readings by Justin Marks, Lea Cohen, and Heather Green.
Presented by Brian Foley
3rd, 7 - 9:30pm, Screening: Taxi from The Darkside , presented by Revolution Books (Harvard Square, Cambridge). Revolution Books Fundraising event. $6 suggested donation
4th, 8pm, Music Event: Dan Blakeslee, Chris Moore, and Audrey Ryan
May 2009
8th,7pm, Poetry Event: Deep Moat Reading Series. Poets, Eric Baus, Elissa Gabbert, and Ben Mazer. Hosted by Brian Foley
14th, 7pm, Poetry Event: Writer's Room of Boston. Readings by Hannah Baker-Siroty, Mary Bonina, Eric Grunwald, Katheline Henry, and Sofie Powell
April 2009
10th, 7pm, Poetry Event: "Sound n' Found Poetry", Jean-Pierre Bobillot and Alan Green
Renowned French sound-poet, Jean-Pierre Bobillot, will perform his latest work, Prose des Rats [Prose of the Rats] (L’Atelier de l’Agneau, 2009), as well as other works. Similarly, Alan Greene will perform Mots Cassés [Broken Words] and Eyes Two Sing America, which are adaptations of found-collages he photographed in Paris and Boston between 2001 and 2005.
11th, 7pm, Reading Event: Matthew Klane, Heather Christle, and Clare DeNato. Hosted by Brian Foley
15th, 7pm, Poetry Event: Cervena Barva poetry event
presenting CL Bledsoe and Nancy Mitchell
16th, 6pm, Reception: Opening Reception for Scenes from Vagabondia: Thomas Buford Meteyard & Dawson Dawson Watson, From Giverny to Scituate, 1890 - 1910
23rd, 7pm, Poetry Event: Fulcrum Poetry presents Patrick Herron and Stephen Sturgeon
Patrick Herron is a poet, artist and information scientist residing in Chapel Hill, NC. He is the author of The American Godwar Complex (2004, Blaze VOX) as well as the chapbooks, Man Eating Rice (Blaze VOX) and Three Poems (Gateway Songbooks). His poems and essays have appeared in journals such as Exquisite Corpse, Jacket, Talisman, Fulcrum, in the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, and in the anthology 100 Days (Barque Press). Current writing projects include two works of translation, a collection of essays and criticism, and a book of poetry. Stephen Sturgeon's poems have appeared in Boston Review, Cannibal, Harvard Review, Jacket, and other magazines. He is the editor of Fulcrum: an Annual of Poetry and Aesthetics.
25 - 26th: Special Event: Megalpolis, Audio Art and Documentary Festival
Megapolis!
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29th: 7pm, Poetry Event: Aldo Tambellini and Gerard Malanga. Poetry and poetry projections. Join in celebration of Aldo Tambellini's 79th birthday.
Aldo Tambellini will be celebrating his 79th birthday on April 29th and on that evening at 7:30pm he will join Gerard Malanga for an evening of Poetry and a Video Poetry Projection. The event will, also, celebrate Poetry Month and will be held at the Pierre Menard Gallery, 10 Arrow Street, at Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA. The evening will mark Gerard Malanga’s return to Cambridge and his first reading in Cambridge after 35 years. It will, also, be the premier of Aldo Tambellini’s video poetry projection “Black on Black,” with the voices of poets, Askia Toure’ and Neiel Israel.
Aldo Tambellini, painter, sculptor, photographer, video artist, filmmaker & poet was born in Syracuse, N.Y. in 1930. Father from São Paulo, Brazil - Mother from Italy. He was taken to Lucca (Tuscany), Italy at the age of 18 months. He studied Art at the age of 10 at the Passaglia Art Institute. During WWII, at the age of 13, Aldo miraculously survived the air raid which destroyed most of his neighborhood. He returned to the United States in ‘46.
In NYC, in the 60‘s, Aldo cofounded “The Gate Theatre” in the Lower East Side, showing avant-garde and independent films daily. With Otto Piene, he cofounded “The Black Gate,” the 1st space in NYC for live multi-media (Electromedia) performances and installations. He pioneered in the video art movement in NYC in the 60’s. From 1976 to 1984, Aldo was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
As Ann Brodzsky, then Editor of Arts Canada said of Aldo in 1967: “Tambellini defines his role as an artist through the expression of a world view based on the concept of ‘Black.’ For Tambellini, ‘Black’ leads to an awareness of a sense of a new reality.” He believes that we are “The Primitives of a New Era” experiencing the cosmos through the voyages of the Space Explorers aware that we are all part of a Planetary Society. Aldo is a member of the Planetary Society. His website is aldotambellini.com.
Gerard Malanga was born in 1943 and raised in the Bronx, New York, the only child of Italian immigrant parents. He is the author of a dozen books of poetry spanning a nearly 45-year period and will be reading selections from a work-in-progress, titled Who's there? He has also produced 2 books of photography, 2 books of non-fiction and 2 CD compilations. His most recent publication is No Respect: New & Selected Poems 1964-2000.
Gerard Malanga is many things to many people, but poet Robert Creeley (1926-2005), an intimate friend, summed it up succinctly: "Now and again a poet is found who is a complex of so many capabilities and patterns, all relating but none so isolating in its practice that the one is lost to the other. I have marvelled for years at Gerard Malanga's articulate endurance as a poet--and also as a photographer of singular power. He has moved with deftness and great authority in the various worlds of art and pop, and never lost either his wits or his footing. In short, he reminds me as do few others of what poets might be in a common world if only they could or would." Ben Maddow (1909-1992), poet and legendary Hollywood screenwriter of such classics as The Asphalt Jungle, The Unforgiven and Johnny Guitar, in the preface for Gerard's first book of photography, Resistance to Memory, clearly stated that "Malanga has that great essential virtue of the photographer: humility before the complex splendor of the real thing..."
Gerard's current projects include Someone's Life, a collection of inter-related snapshots of an unknown family & friends (ca. the late 1930s), which Aron Morel Publishing (U.K.) will publish this year. The Smithsonian on-line magazine has just launched an in-depth interview about Malanga's photography, including a portfolio of 15 photographs, many previously unpublished. This can be found at the Smithsonian website smithsonian.com. He lives in a small town in upstate New York. His website is gerardmalanga.com
March 2009
1st, 4pm: Violette Noizeres, performance by Anna Wexler and Patti Deuter
15th, 4pm, Reading Event: Heads and Tales, book signing and reading, featuring Heads and Tales collaborating writers, Rosanna Yamagiwa Alfaro, Svetlana Boym, Lo Galluccio, and Katia Kapovich.
16th, 7pm, Reading Event @ Porter Square Books: Heads and Tales reception, book signing, and reading event, featuring a conversation with art critic, Francine Koslow Miller, and Heide Hatry. Readings by Heads and Tales collaborating writers, Diana George, Joanna Howard, and Thyrza Nichols Goodeve. Reception to follow the readings.
Porter Square Books, 25 White St., Cambridge MA (map)
17th, 7 pm, Poetry Event: Fanny Howe and Tom Rawworth, hosted by John Mulrooney of The Unaffiliated Reading Series. website
18th, 7pm, Poetry Event: Cervena Barva Press presenting poets, Dorothy Derifield,
Lo Galluccio, and Kim Triedman
21st, 7pm, Poetry Event: Keith Waldrop and Jane Unrue, hosted by John Mulrooney of The Unaffiliated Reading Series. website
27th, 8pm, Music Performance: Prince Rama Ayodhya, Psychic Ills, Truman Peyote,
and Lord Jeff
28th, 6pm, Opening Reception: Oppression and Pleasure. Sculpture, drawings, and prints by Kate Millet
29th, 2pm, Conversation with Kate Millett and Catharine A. MacKinnon
29th, 7pm, Music Performance: Gabe Boyers String Quartet, concert
30th, 7pm, Reading Event: Kate Millett and Artemis March
February 2009
13th, 6pm, Heads and Tales Reception. Artist, Heide Hatry
January 2009
31st: Gail Mazur and Tom Sleigh, hosted by John Mulrooney
November 2008
5th: WRITERS’ ROOM ANNUAL READING 11/5
Join The Writers’ Room of Boston for its Annual Reading at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, November 5th at Pierre Menard Gallery, 10 Arrow Street, Cambridge.
This year we are celebrating the release of six new books by resident writers. CD Collins, Gail Fenske, Courtney Humphries, Mark Schafer, Katrin Schumann, and Amy Sutherland are scheduled to read. Doors open at 6:30. Please email info@writersroomofboston.org or call 617 523 0566 for further information.
6th: Tuesday; An Art Project presents poets, Richard Blanco and Quraysh Ali Lansana
19th: Robert Johnson, Irene Koronas, and Sue Owen, presented by Cervena Barva Press
October 2008
5th: Filmakers, Peter Pizzi and Jonas Mekas, presented by Demolicious Poetry
15: John Amen, Glen Sheldon, Kevin Gallagher. Presented by Cervena Barva Press
19th: Clayton Eshleman reading from new collection, The Grindstone of Rapport. Presented by Black Widow Press
September 2008
7th: Thom Donovan and Ophibre (sound artist Benjamine Rossignol), presented by Demolicious Poetry
14th: Eva Salzman, Mary Baine Campbell
17th: Kathi Aguero, Mike Amado, George Held, presented by Cervena Barva Press
25th: Sergey Gandlevsky, presented by Fulcrum Poetry
August 2008
25: Joe Green, presented by Fulcrum Poetry
July 2008
19th: Chris Tonelli
30th: Clifford Forshaw, John Hennessy, Sebastian Lockwood, presented by Fulcrum Poetry
June 2008
6th: Brian Kim Stefans, Noah Dreminger, presentation in electronic poetry. Presented by Demolicious Poetry
9th: James Lenfestey reading from his new book A Cartload of Scrolls: 100 poems in the manner of T'ang Dynasty Poet Han-sha
10th: Vivek Narayanan and Katia Kapovich. Presented by Fulcrum Poetry
20th: Poetry Like BreadII: Sandy Taylor Memorial. A Celebration of
Sandy Taylor, Curbstone Press, one of the most conscientious publishers of Latin American literature in this country. Poets Martin Espada, Kevin Bowen, Nguyen Ba Chung, Demetria Martinez, Doug Anderson, Tino Villanueva, and Marilyn Nelson. Hosted by Kevin Bowen
24th: A tribute to Grace Paley. Hosted by Kevin Bowen
26th: Carolyn Forche, Bruce Weigl, Van Cam Hai. Hosted by Kevin Bowen
May 2008
8th: Sam Truitt, Aaron Kiely, Michael Ruby. Presented by Ugly Duckling Press
11th: Simon Barraclough, Steven Sturgeon, presented by Fulcrum Poetry
24th: Sarah Hannah, Ava Salzman, and Philip Nikolayev reading his recent Samuel Beckett translations. Presented by Fulcrum Poetry
27th: Bill Berkson and Bill Corbett, presented by Fulcrum Poetry
April 2008
9th: Tim Brown reading from his new novel, Walking Man, and Paul McComas (author of Planet of the Dates) on national book tour.
16th: Dzvinia Orlowsky, Flavia Cosma, Catherine Sasanov, presented by Cervena Barva Press
25: Cannibal Poetry Reading Marathon, hosted by Ben Mazer. Three hour poetry event
March 2008
12th: Poetry reading. Hosted by John Mulrooney
November 2007
8th: Stuart Dischell reading from his book, Backwards Days, and David Blair reading from his book, Ascension Days, Del Sol Press
10th: Lev Rubinstein (author of Catalogue of Comedic Novelties). Presented by Ugly Duckling Press.
29th: Irving Singer reading from his book, Igmar Bergman, Cinematic Philosopher, MIT Press
October 2007
17th: Cervena Barva Press
19th: Clayton Eshleman presented by Fulcrum Poetry
23rd: Trevor Joyce presented by Fulcrum Poetry
August 2007
27th: Clifford Forshaw and Katia Kapovich, presented by Fulcrum Poetry
May 2007
6th: Michael Robins, Elizabeth Hughey, Cristpoher Janke
April 2007
7th: Robert Kelly reading from a selection of new works
14th: Zoland Poetry Annual Launch. David Blair, Sam Cornish, Fanny Howe, Tanya Larkin, Gian Lombardo, John Maloney, Meg Tyler, Elizabeth Oehlkers Wright. Zoland Poetry Annual, an annual of contemporary writing from around the globe, edited by Roland Pease. Each volume contains an equal fusion of English-language poetry, translated work from various languages and conversations with featured poets.
Only having a local map makes it difficult to see the world. Zoland Poetry is an atlas of literature that shows the importance of reading around the entire world. It is an invaluable book for anyone interested in poetry.
— Bei Dao
29th: Arrowsmith Press Book Release: Etnairis Rivera (translated by Erica Mena), Catherine Parnell, Kevin Bowen, Peter Balakian, Joyce Peseroff, Bill Corbett, Steven Cramer, Tom Sleigh, Gearóid Mac Lochlainn, James Gray, Tran Dang Khoa (translated by Fred Marchant), Nguyen Duy (translated by Kevin Bowen), Nguyen Quang Thieu (translated by Martha Collins), Nguyen Quyen (translated by Bruce Weigl), and Nduka Otiono. Presented by Arrowsmith Press
March 2007
20th: Sheridan Hay reading from, The Secret of Lost Things
February 2007
15th: Glynn Maxwell, Katia Kapovich, Philip Nikolayev, presented by Fulcrum Poetry
22nd: Tuesday Literary Journal Publication Launch Party. Presenting poets, Teresa Cader, David Rivard,
Margot Pappas, and Chris Bock.
January 2007
10th: "Marathon Poetry Reading" to celebrate the publication of Fulcrum's latest annual, "Fulcrum 5" Presented by Fulcrum Poetry
November 2006
8th: Clayton Eshleman reads from his poems and monumental translations of Chilean Poet, Cesar Vellejo. Reading from The Complete Poetry of Cesar Vallejo, and An Alchemist with One Eye on Fire.
October 2006
21st: Bill Corbett reading from, The Letters of James Schuyler to Frank O'Hara, edited by Bill Corbett.
Performances
All performances begin at 8:30p unless otherwise noted.
October 2008
19th: Lasha Apso, Prince Rama of Ayodhya, Golden Ghost, and Viking Moses. Spontaneous show, Lasha Apso hosts friends, Golden Ghost and Viking Moses, to the Pierre Menard Gallery as the first stop of national tour. * Recorded show
7th: Doctor Gasp! (Dan Blakeslee), Hot Ron Scorcher, Monster Reusch. A night of music and other scary sounds to prep us for some Halloween mischief!
June 2008
30th: Ramona Córdova with François Virot, Dan Blakeslee, Needy Visions, 8:30p *Recorded show
Art Fairs
Aqua Art Fair, Miami, Dec 3rd- 7th, 2008 (Winwood District)
Art Now Fair, NYC, Mar 27th - 30th, 2008
Art Now Fair, Miami Beach, Dec 6th - 9th, 2007
