Current Events

March 2011

March 8th-April 9th, Exhibition: ONE OF A KIND, An Exhibition of Unique Artist's Books.

Curated by Heide Hatry and featuring work from:

The first leg of the exhibition will take place at Pierre Menard Gallery in Cambridge, MA, and will contain work by more than 50 artists using the book as a medium for a diverse range visual and aesthetic experience.  The artists involved in this exhibition are: Roberta Allen (US), Tatjana Bergelt (Germany/Finland), Elena Berriolo (US/Italy), Star Black (US) Christine Bofinger (Germany), Dianne Bowen (US), Ian Boyden (US), Dove Bradshaw (US), Eli Brown (US), Inge Bruggeman (US), Kathline Carr (US), Chrissy Conant (US), Peggy Cyphers (US), Steven Daiber (US), George Deem (US), Thorsten Dennerline (US), Peter Downsbrough (US), Debra Drexler(US), Tim Ely (US), Max Gimblett (US/New Zealand), Chie Hasegawa (US), Heide Hatry (Germany/US), Laura Hatry (Germany/Spain), Ric Haynes(US), Anna Helm (Germany), Betty Hirst (US), Richard Humann (US), Iliyan Ivanov (US/Bulgaria), Paul* M. Kaestner(Germany), Kahn & Selesnick (US), Ulrich Klieber (Germany), Bill Knott (US), Bodo Korsig (Germany/US), Richard Kostelanetz (US), Christina Kruse (US/Germany), Andrea Lange (Germany), Nick Lawrence (US), Jean-Jacques Lebel (France), Gregg LeFevre (US), Annette Lemieux (US), Stephen Lipman (US), Larry Miller (US), Kate Millett (US), Roberta Paul (US), Jim Peters (US), Raquel Rabinovich (US), Aviva Rahmani (US), Osmo Rauhala (Finland), Tom Roth (Germany), Jacqueline Rush Lee (US), Elsbeth Sachs (Austria), Cheryl Schainfeld (US), Carolee Schneemann (US), Ilse Schreiber-Noll (Germany/US), Pat Steir(US), Michelle Stuart (US), Aldo Tambellini (US), Sharone Vendriger, (Israel), Maria Viviano (Italy), Jan Wechsler (US), Lewis Warsh (US), Clemens Weiss (Germany/US), Mark Wiener (US), Purvis Young (USA) and Ottfried Zielke (Germany).

17th, 6–9pm, Exhibition Reception, ONE OF A KIND.

 

This will be the last show at Pierre Menard Gallery. We are closing on 15 April.

We will keep you informed of further developments

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Past Events

 

March 2011

January 25th-March 7th, Exhibition: Boris Lurie No! Prologue to a retrospective.

 

February 2011

January 17th-10th February, Exhibition: Bruce Stuart, Oneiric Cartographies

19th, 6–9pm, Exhibition Reception, Boris Lurie, No! Prologue to a retrospective

20th, 2-4pm, Book Event: Eleanor Rubin, Dreams of Repair

January 25th-March 7th, Exhibition: Boris Lurie No! Prologue to a retrospective.

 

January 2011

Through the 20th, Aldo Tambellini, Black Is!
January 17th-10th February, Exhibition: Bruce Stuart, Oneiric Cartographies

January 25th-March 7th, Exhibition: Boris Lurie No! Prologue to a retrospective.

 

December 2010

1st-5th, Miami: PIERRE MENARD EXHIBITS AT THE RED DOT ART FAIR. Please visit us if you are in Miami
4th, 7:30 pm, Poetry Event: Iranian poet Karimi-Hakak reading Hafez
5th, 3:00 pm, Poetry Event: Book Launch, Mary Bonina new collection of poetry Clear Eye Tea

 

November 2010

2d, 7:00PM, Poetry event: "Indivisible South Asian Writers"
7th, 3:00PM, Cynthia Zarin reading from "Ada Poems"
9th, 7:00pm. Poetry Event: Cervana Barva Press. Readers: Mary Bonina, Joan Gelfand, Tam Lin Neville and Chad Parenteau
11th, 7:00PM, Dan Pritchard & Ernest Hilburt, Nora Delaney and Bill Coyle reading
13th, 1) 3:00-5:00PM: David Henderson, Askia Touré, Ishmael Reed & other Umbra authors, as well as the Liberation Collective, reading in honor of Aldo Tambellini at the Theater in the Carpenter Center for Visual Arts at 24 Quincy St in Cambridge (please call us with any questions)
13th, 2) 6:00-8:00PM: Public conversation at the gallery with Ishmael Reed, Aldo Tambellni, David Henderson,
Askia Touré and others on the East Village avant-garde in the 1960s.
15th, 6:30PM, Unlikely Stories of the Third Kind, Readings & visual presentation (ca. 3 hour program)
20th, 7:00PM, Deep Moat Reading Series: Damon Krukowski, Hollis Phillips, Jeremy Sigler

24th, 3:00pm, Poetry Event: Chicago Poets

 

July 2010

6th-August 1st,Exhibition Event: Imagine It Thick In Your Own Hair, Reception & Silent Auction to benefit the Audubon Gulf Oil Respnose, Thursday, July 22nd 6-9pm
24th, 3pm, Poetry Reading: Deep Moat Poetry Series: featuring Nate Pritts & Julia Story.
30th, 7–10pm, Boston Poet Tea Party Reading : A summer poetry marathon featuring 88 local and visiting poets reading for 8 minutes a piece.

 

June 2010

5th, 4pm, Exhibition Event: Woman in the Twenty-First Century "Conversation" with Kate Millett and curator, Lisa Paul Streitfeld
9th, 7pm, Reading Event: The Writer's Room of Boston presents Mary Bonina, Hyejung Kook, Katrin Schumann, and Pamela Greenberg
11th, Cancelled Woman in the Twenty-First Century "Conversation" with Jessica Lipnack and curator, Lisa Paul Streitfeld
12th, 4pm, Exhibition Event: Woman in the Twenty-First Century "Conversation" with Elinor Gadon and curator, Lisa Paul Streitfeld
18th, 7pm, Reading Event: Joiner Center Writer's Workshop presents Aracelis Girmay, Larry Heinemann, Ellen LaForge, Poetry Prize winner
19th, 4pm, Exhibition Event: Woman in the Twenty-First Century "Conversation" with Aldo Tambellini and curator, Lisa Paul Streitfeld
20th, 1-4pm, Closing Reception and Performance Painting by exhibition artists
24th, 6–9pm, Opening Reception, Likenesses, Photography of Judith Aaronson. Exhibition celebrates the publication of her photographic book, Likenesses

May 2010

1st, 6pm, Poetry Event: Deep Moat Reading Series: Sandy Florian, Lara Glenum, Ben Kopel. Hosted by Brian Foley
2nd, 3pm, Reading Event: Rosanna Warren and Tom Yuill. Warren reads from her recent works, and Yuill launches his new book, "Medicine Show"
4th, 7:30pm, Reading Event: Katie Peterson and Jericho Brown. Katie Peterson reads from her recent book, "This One Tree." Jericho Brown reading from his book, "Please" Hosted by Grolier Poetry Bookshop
6th, 7:30pm, Reading Event: Michael Mack, performs "Hearing Voices," a one man play in poetry. Hosted by Grolier Poetry Bookshop
7th, 5pm, Reading Event: Joanna Klink, reading from her newly published book of poetry, "Raptus"
13th, 7pm, Reading Event: Chris Tonelli, Elisa Gabbert, Joe Hall. Hosted by Birds, LLC www.birdsllc.com
16th, 3pm, Poetry Event: Deborah Digges Memorial Reading. Charlie Diggs, Henri Cole, Rebecca Kaiser Gibson, and others celebrate poet Deborah Digges who poetry collection The Wind Blows Through the Doors of My Heart will be posthumously published this month. Hosted by Grolier Poetry Bookshop.
20th, 7pm, Reading Event: Jerome Rothenberg
23rd, 7pm, Opening Reception: Opening Reception and Margaret Fuller Birthday. Celebration with Mask Performance by Suzanne Benton

April 2010

2nd, 7pm, Poetry Event: Robert Kelly reading from his new book, "Fire Exit"
3th, 3pm, Reading Event: Edward Hirsch kicks of National Poetry Month with a reading from "The Living Fire." Presented by Back Pages Books, Waltham, MA   www.backpagesbooks.com
7th, 7pm, Poetry Event: Červena Barvá Press presents William James Austin, Judith Katz-Levin, Mark Pawlak
8th, Pierre Menard Gallery attends the Boston Print Fair. Thursday April 8th – 10th, 5:30 – 9:30pm, at the Boston Center for the Arts Cyclorama
8th, 7pm, Poetry Event: Leonid Kostiukov and Dmitry Vedenyapin, hosted by Katia Kapovich, Fulcrum Poetry
11th, 3pm, Poetry Event: Michael McClure reading from "Mysteriosos" and other poems. Hosted by Grolier Poetry Bookshop and Back Pages Books. Tickets $10 at door, $8 online at backpagesbooks.com
15th, 6pm, Opening Reception: "Identities in the Original", J.P. Donleavy exhibition
16th, 7pm, Reading Event: Launch Party for Consequences Magazine
18th, 3pm, Reading Event: World-renowned Pulitzer Prize recipient and former Poet Laureate Maxine Kumin reads from her new book of poetry, "Where I Live, New and Selected Poems"
22nd, 7pm, Poetry Event: Clayton Eshleman event cancelled
25th, 3pm, Poetry Event: Ben Mazer & Stephen Burt. Book Launch. Two of Harvard Square's most beloved poets, wrap up National Poetry Month with reading of recent work
27th, 7:30pm, Poetry Event: Moya Cannon, Irish Poet, reading from recently published book
TBA, 7pm, Poetry Event: Červena Barvá Press presents Andrey Gritsman, Andrei Gurianu, and contributors from the anthology, "Stranger at Home: American Poetry with an Accent

March 2010

3rd, Pierre Menard Gallery attend Red Dot Art Fair, NYC. Fair dates, March 4 – March 7th
6th, 7:30pm,Poetry Event: Poetry for Haiti: From the Rubble to Rubble to Revolutionary Renewal. A reading for Haiti relief presented by the Liberation Poetry Collctive. 7:30 – 10pm. Free event, $10 releif donations welcome. All Proceeds go to Organizations doing direct relief work in Haiti. Readers: Danielle Legros Goerges, Martin Espada, Aldo Tambellini, Ashley Rose Salomon, Askia Toure, Everett Hoagland, Brenda Walcott, Ali AlSabbaagh, Jill Netchinsky, Marc Goldfinger, Tontongi, Soul Brown, and the Books of Hope Young Poets. Music: Idi and Guest Artist
"We knew that poetry, in itself, will never be enough to counter the machinery, structure, and supra-structure of oppression and malfeasance in our existing human societies. But we also know that though, concepts, words and feelings almost always precede or accompany human actions, if only at the unconsious level" -From the Collective's first anthology, Poets Against the Killing Fields (2007)

13th, 7pm, Reading Event: Hanging Loos Press presents Mark Pawlak
14th, 3pm, Reading Event: Henri Cole reads from "Pierce the Skin: Selected Poems 1982-2007"
21st, 7pm, Reading Event: Vera Pavlova
24th, 7pm, Reading Event: Červena Barvá Press
27th, 6pm, Film Screening: Revolution Books presents "Rediscovering China's Cultural Revolution"

February 2010

6th, 4pm, Reading Event: Franny Lindsay, presented by Grolier Poetry Bookshop
7th, 3pm, Reading Event: Dan Chaisson, Where's the Moon, There's the Moon National book release , presented by Back Pages Books, Waltham, MA   www.backpagesbooks.com
Join us for the national book release of acclaimed poet Dan Chiasson's stunning new collection, Where's the Moon, There's the Moon at the Pierre Menard Art Gallery in Harvard Square. Chiasson is the edtor of the Paris Review and teaches creative writing at Wellesley College. This event is cosponsored with the Grolier Poetry Bookshop, America's oldest all-poetry bookstore, and Lame Duck Books, Harvard Square's pre-eminentdestination for rare and antiquarian books.
17th, 7pm, Reading Event: Červena Barvá Press presenting: Francis Alix, William Delman, Irene Koronas, and Bert Stern.
26th, 7pm, Reading Event: Skysill Press & Rustbuckle Books present Jess Mynes & John Coletti

January 2010

30th, 5pm, Reading Event: Deep Moat Reading Series presents Julie Carr, Elizabeth Marie Young, and Jessica Bozek.  
Hosted by Brian Foley
22nd, 5pm, Reading Event: Aaron Tieger, Michael Carr, Whit Griffin. Presented by Editions Louis Wain
12th, 7pm, Reading Event: Behrle & Torra

December 2009

12th, 7pm, Poetry Event: Liberation Poets Collective: Neil Calendar, Mark Goldfinger, Everett Hoagland, Ashley Salomon,
Aldo Tambellini, Askia Toure Tontongi, Brenda Walcott.
5th, 3pm, Poetry Event: Grolier Poetry Bookshop presents Louis Ambroggio, Aleksey Dayan, and Aldo Tambellini.
Louis Ambroggio reading from Difficult Beauty, Selected Poems (1987 - 2006), 2009, Cross-Cultral Communications, Merrick, N,Yedited by Yvette Neisser Moreno.  Aleksey Dayan reading from NO!LOVE, 2008, Cross-Cultral Communications, Merrick, NY
4th, 7pm, Film Screening: The first US premier of Black Gate Cologne by avante garde artists and film makers, Aldo Tambellini and Otto Piene.  Black Gate Cologne, originally broadcasted in Germany, 1968, WNDR-TV-Cologne, was a hisortical moment for artists and television, being the first television performance and produced by artists. Join us for a rare occasion of the screening of the Black Gate Cologne broadcast in the company of artists, Aldo Tambellini and Otto Piene. Open to the public.

Black Gate Cologne

First US screening
12 . 4 . 09
7pm

November 2009

3rd, 7pm, Poetry Event: The Wolf (London) and Fulcrum Poetry host James Byrne, Ben Mazer, Philip Nikolayev, and Sandeep Parmar
4th, tba, Reading Event: Harvardwood presents the "Above Ground" anthology of short fiction with readings by authors, Stan Duncan, John Farrell, and Tony Rogers. Event followed by discussion with Gerry Bryant, director of Harvardwood Books (LA). Visit the Harvardwood website
6th, 7-10pm, Opening Reception: The Poet & The Artist's Book / Somewhere Far From Habit
12th, 7pm, Poetry Event:   The Free Wine Reading Series presents: Ernest Hilbert and Mark Schorr read from new and collected works. Hosted by Nora Delaney, co-editor Sixty-Six: The Journal of Sonnet Studies
13th, 7pm, Reading Event:  Ludmilla Petruševskaja reading from her new book, There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby: Fairy Tales.
18th, 7pm, Reading Event: Grolier Poetry Book Shop presents Celia Gilbert
20th, 7pm, Benefit Reading for Sam Hamill
21st, 4pm, Reading Event: Francine Koslow Miller reading from her new book, The Rape of The Rose, which chronicles the pillaging of the collection of a crown jewel of contemporary art -- the Rose Art Museum on the campus of Brandeis University -- in response to the Univrsity’s current economic crisis. This project -- intended to serve as a memorial and warning to other university museums -- focuses on the six months of protest that preceded the eventual shutting of the Rose’s doors as a public institution on May 17, 2009, in preparation for the sell-off of the core of its 7,000 work collection.
28th, 5pm, Reading Event: Deep Moat Reading Series presents Dan Boehl, Mike Young, and Dara Cerv. Hosted by Brian Foley

October 2009

12th, 7pm, Poetry Event: Rikki Ducornet
16th, 7pm, Poetry Event: Bill Berkson, Bill Corbett, and Joe Torra
25th, 3pm, Poetry Event: Marie Ponsot reading from her new collection, "Early: Poems" presented by Grolier Poetry Bookshop
30th, 7pm, Poetry Event: Gerritt Lansing and Jim Dunn

September 2009

25th, 7pm, Poetry Event: Deep Moat Reading Series, hosted by Brian Foley. Readers Darcie Dennigan, Kisa Olstein, and Janaka Stucky.
26th, 4pm, Poetry Event: Franz Wright reading from Wheeling Motel, hosted by Grolier Poetry Bookshop, Cambridge. Join us in celebration of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Franz Wright's stunning new collection of poems, Wheeling Motel.

July 2009

21st, 7pm, Poetry Event: Buffalo Expatriates Poety Tour. Readings by Elizabeth Swados, Bert Stern, and Mark Pawlak
18th, 7pm, Poetry Event: Deep Moat Poetry Series. Celebrating release of Chris Tonelli's new chapbook, No Theater, from Brave Men Press

June 2009

 

25th, 7pm, Poetry Event: Joiner Center Writers Workshop poetry event. Readings by Fred Marchant, Brian Turner, and Bruce Weigl.

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

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

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

 

 

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! website

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