POEM event at the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France June 26th & 27th

Reading in Paris on June 18 at Université Paris Est Marne-La-Vallée

Colloque « La Géographie dans le monde anglophone
(littérature et civilisation) »
Jeudi 18 – Samedi 20 juin 2009 Université Paris Est Marne-La-Vallée
IMAGER (ANGLES) EA 3958

Jeudi 18 juin

- 18h: Poetry reading. Thomas Devaney (University of Pennsylvania)
Poet, Critic, and Senior Writing Fellow Critical Writing Program, Department of English. Author of A Series of Small Boxes (Fishdrum) ».

The long & short of it: Teaching Ashbery's 37 Haiku

This week Al Filreis invited me to lead
a workshop on a poem with a group of students
visiting Kelly Writers House.
I taught John Ashbery's poem "37 Haiku."

When I reflect upon Ashbery's poems, Haiku
is not my first association. Ashbery may be difficult
to categorize, but he sure as heck isn't a minimalist.

I handed out two translations of Basho's
"Old pond" poem as a jumping-off point
to talk about Ashbery's poem.

Al Filreis wrote about the session --
here is the post: high school, haiku, tweet tweet.

Ernesto Neto at the Park Avenue Armory

Ernesto Neto's Anthropodino

with Tom Eccles and Rebecca Robertson
in Wade Thompson Drill Hall at
Park Avenue Armory

Article in The New York Times
on Neto's Anthropodino

Forthcoming in July 2009:
My book Letters to Ernesto
online. There were originally 300 copies
of the book published with letter press cover
and design by Nicole Michels.
I am working with a designer on an interface
for book for the web. -TD

Tom Devaney, Lon Chaney

April 30th at Robin's -- Jen Currin, Thomas Devaney, Suzanne Heyd & Christine Leclerc

MOONSTONE READING AT ROBIN'S

110A S 13th St - Apr 30, 2009 at 7:30

Jen Currin, Thomas Devaney, Suzanne Heyd &
Christine Leclerc

Jen Currin has published two books of poems, The Sleep of Four Cities and Hagiography. The Inquisition Yours is forthcoming in 2010. She lives in Vancouver, where she is currently pursuing a Masters in Literature at Simon Fraser University, and trying to grow vegetables in her front yard.

Thomas Devaney is the author of A Series of Small Boxes (2007, Fish Drum). He was a curatorial consultant for the exhibition "Quote the Raven" on Edgar Allan Poe for the Phila Free Library (2008-09). Devaney has worked with the ICA on a number of site specific, multi-sensory projects, including "No Silence Here, Enjoy the Silence" for the Locally Localized Gravity exhibition (2007). His reviews and essays have been published in The Philadelphia Inquirer and Artforum.

Suzanne Heyd is the author of Crawl Space (2007, Phylum Press) and the forthcoming Fascicles (Finishing Line Press, June 2009). She is the recipient of a 2009 Artists Fellowship from the State of Connecticut and the 2008 Literal Latte Poetry Award. Recent work appears in Ploughshares, jubliat, AGNI, Third Coast, Spillway, and Interim.

Christine Leclerc, originally from Montreal, now lives in Vancouver. She is the author of Counterfeit (2008, Capilano University Editions). Her work has appeared in 42opus, Dig, FRONT, FU, Memewar, OCHO, Pistola, subTerrain, terry, the Worksound gallery, and is forthcoming in Interim.

LUNGFULL! MAGAZINE GALA at Zinc Bar- 4/18

4/18: LUNGFULL! MAGAZINE RELEASE GALA AND NEW NEW DEAL PARTY

Welcome to the interesting times we were warned about living in.
On Saturday April 18 at 6:45 they get a whole lot more interesting...
LUNGFULL! MAGAZINE RELEASE GALA AND NEW NEW DEAL PARTY
Join us as we usher in the latest issue AND a new era of shantytowns
decorated with the discarded blackberries of vanquished bankers,
& the quaint but worthless wallets of laid off ad men.
At the event, pick up the latest issue of LUNGFULL!
-- perhaps the last which will be available for "money" --
next year bring a pair of shoes and some fried squirrel,
someday you'll point to your copy of LUNGFULL and
dazzle your kids with stories about paying for things
with little plastic rectangles and pieces of paper.
200 pages of poems, fiction, rough drafts, art, world news reports,
irate letters to the editor. A complete list down below.

Saturday 4/18 at 6:45pm
Zinc Bar
82 West 3rd Street NYC
Between Sullivan and Thompson
Subway ACEBDQF to West 4th RW to 8th or Prince

$5-15 sliding scale fundraiser. $20 gets you in plus a copy of the magazine.
Madoff Victims and AIG Excs willing to divide their bonuses among the audience get in free.
Still reading this invitation?
Good, now that it's just the two of us, I can further invite you
to hit the (relatively) TOTALLY NEW www.lungfull.org
• sneak preview of the upcoming issue.
• video for those too drunk/lazy to read
• explanation of why the crash is a good thing
• because LUNGFULL receives state money, full financial dislosure. Main sources of income: buying beer for teenagers at the bodega and stealing old people's medicine to resell to poets. Cost saving measures: eating coworker's lunch - just click on "budget" for more.
If lungfull.org won't run on your broke down computer, upgrading's never been easier now that looting is the new paypal.
Pick up a new hi-def TV and homemade ice cream maker while you're out.
Some people came to New York to make a buck. Others to live a creatively fulfilled life. With no money left to be made, anyone left is either a chump or a creative genius. In either case, you'll feel right at home at the LUNGFULL! RELEASE GALA AND NEW NEW DEAL PARTY.
Hope to see you there my fellow bums & hobos.
Brendan
lungfull.org
Many of the following contributors will be there, singing or reading a poem or two.
New writing from:
Matt Hart, Jessea Perry, Sam Magavern, Nathan Hoks, Nick Antosca, David Berrigan, Bradford Gray Telford, Sean Kilpatrick, Stephanie Cleveland, Rebecca Loudon, Anthony Farrington, Elizabeth Hughey, Craig Cotter, Duane Vorhees, Todd Colby, Jeni Olin, Chris Martin, Scott Abels, Eugene Ostashevsky, Fred Schmalz, Lee Ranaldo, Noelle Kocot, Will Morris, Marianne Vitale, Mike Topp, Clnt Frakes, Kevin McWha Steele, Suejin Suh

World News Reports From:
Sawako Nakayasu in Japan
Dmitry Golynko in Russia
Eugene Ostashevsky in Florence, Italy
Bernadette Mayer & Phil Good in Upstate New York
Sparrow on Long Island, NY
Edmund Berrigan in Brooklyn, NY
Thomas Devaney in Philadelphia, PA
Michael Kelleher in Buffalo, NY
John Most in Virginia
Chuck Stebelton in Milwaukee, WI
Eric Lorberer in Minneapolis, MN
J.S. Makkos in New Orleans, LA
Shafer Hall in Austin, TX
Julie Reid in Petaluma, CA
C.E. Putnam in Seattle, WA
Visual Art from:
Jeff Benjamin, Tracey Mctague, Deth P. Sun, Marci Washington

BRENDAN LORBER • LUNGFULL.ORG

Spotlight on food class in 34th Street

There is a nice blurb about my class Food for Thought at Penn
in today's 34th Street, which is the weekend magazine
of the Daily Pennsylvanian

Currin, Devaney Heyd, Leclerc at Moonstone 4/30/09

MOONSTONE READING AT ROBIN'S BOOKS

Jen Currin, Thomas Devaney, Suzanne Heyd & Christine Leclerc
110A S 13th St
Apr 30, 2009 at 7:30 PM

Jen Currin has published two books of poems, The Sleep of Four Cities and Hagiography. The Inquisition Yours is forthcoming in 2010. She lives in Vancouver, where she is currently pursuing a Masters in Literature at Simon Fraser University, and trying to grow vegetables in her front yard.

Thomas Devaney is the author of A Series of Small Boxes (2007, Fish Drum) and The American Pragmatist Fell in Love (1999, Banshee Press). He was a curatorial consultant for the exhibition "Quote the Raven" on Edgar Allan Poe for the Philadelphia Free Library (2008-09). Devaney has worked with the Institute of Contemporary Art on a number of site specific, multi-sensory projects, including "New Invisible Cities" for The Puppet Show (2008) and "No Silence Here, Enjoy the Silence" for the Locally Localized Gravity exhibition (2007). His reviews and essays have been published in The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Boston Review, and Artforum.

Suzanne Heyd is the author of Crawl Space (2007, Phylum Press) and the forthcoming Fascicles (Finishing Line Press, June 2009). She is the recipient of a 2009 Artists Fellowship from the State of Connecticut and the 2008 Literal Latte Poetry Award. Recent work appears in Ploughshares, jubliat, AGNI, Third Coast, Spillway, and Interim.

Christine Leclerc, originally from Montreal, now lives in Vancouver. She is the author of Counterfeit (2008, Capilano University Editions). Her work has appeared in 42opus, Dig, FRONT, FU, Memewar, OCHO, Pistola, subTerrain, terry, the Worksound gallery, and is forthcoming in Interim.

Chayotes on a Saturday

Experiments with Chayotes boiled and baked --
boiled is better (12 mins), tho must season.
Snap of the raw chayotes.

BY HEART at Haverford 4/6/09

BY HEART
A Night of Poetry Recited By Heart

****************************************************************

Monday, April 6th 2009
HAVERFORD COLLEGE
8:00 PM
CPGC Café Stokes 104

The students of the Advance Poetry seminar ENGL 292
and Thomas Devaney will host an evening of lively verse, poetry,
and relevant passages that have been committed to memory!

****************************************************************

Spring has come again. The earth
is like a child who has learned poems by heart,
many, oh many ...by working long
and hard at her lessons, she has won the prize.

Her teacher was strict. We liked the white
in the beard of the old man.
Now, if we ask her to name the blues,
the greens: she can, she can!

Lucky, vacationing earth, play
now with the children. We try to catch you,
happy earth. The happiest will do it.

Oh, what her teacher has taught her--so much
and everything that's printed in roots, and long,
difficult stems: she sings it, she sings!

-from Sonnets to Orpheus, by Rainer Maria Rilke
(translated by Christopher Hawthorne)

Red Rover by Susan Stewart

"The Complaint of Mars" is a serial poem

in Susan Stewart's gorgeous new book Red Rover.
Here is a stanza from a section of the poem entitled Complaint:

At first bite, the fish has all he desires
and cannot know he's hooked to hurt.

READ LUNGFULL!

LUNGFULL! Magazine

Lyn Hejinian's "The Book of a Thousand Eyes" PoemTalk

Episode #15 of PoemTalk is out today:

http://www.poemtalk.org

Tom Mandel, Bob Perelman and Thomas Devaney discuss Lyn Hejinian's unfinished series, "The Book of a Thousand Eyes."

PoemTalk is sponsored by the Kelly Writers House, the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing, and the Poetry Foundation.

Donald Riggs and postcard of Cezanne's "Portrait of Victor Chocquet"

I ran into poet Don Riggs on Saturday in Center City Philadelphia and took this photo of him. Don said he continues to write his daily sonnets, which he composes while bathing each morning. Don also said he's getting ready to present a paper on time travel narratives at The International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, which will be held in Florida.

Scorched at The Wilma Theater

I attended the opening of Scorched last night at The Wilma Theater. I urge anyone who is thinking of going to see it--to go. It's worth the price of the ticket and the time (3 hours and 15 mins). Scorched is a story, it seems, can not be told, but one that keeps revealing and doubling back upon itself to the very end. It's all there: the script, the cast, the staging, and yes, the utterly conflicted, damning human story.

Three poems from FENCE's AWP reading in Chicago - FEB 2009

I read three poems at FENCE'S 10th Anniversery Reading in Chicago at AWP -- the poems here are: "They're Fighting in Atlantic City, in Atlantic City," "Sonnet," and "Trying to life as if it were morning."

Ron Silliman's the Alphabet

Ron Silliman read tonight at the Kelly Writers House. The achievement of the Alphabet is stunning and a testament to a life-long engagement of the world via language, words, observation, ideas.

Now let's think
about a piece called "Ink."
I am what iamb trochee. -page 841

AWP Bookfair & Conference in Chicago 2009

Across the street from the Hilton there were about 20 odd ice sculptures. I took a liking to this mini snow being.

-Marcella Durand and Thomas Devaney (we weren't this blurry).

James Castle's soot and spit drawning "SALT"