Tom Healy, Ada Limon, Lytton Smith and Roy Perez
361 Manhattan Avenue, Unit 1
Brooklyn, NY 11211
info(at)cprnyc.org
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361 Manhattan Avenue between Jackson St. and Withers St
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Curated by Zach Pace, Projection features text projected beside the reader to produce a unique sonic and visual experience of the literary arts. This reading series, happening once month at CPR, differs from others by utilizing projections of the poems on-screen behind the reader. A great deal of kinetic energy is lost when an audience simply hears a poem. It's important for listeners to visually follow the reader. Audience will view the choices made by author on the page--including word-choice, syntax and line-length--therefore receiving the work in its complete presentation. Projection inaugurates the first performative-literary event at CPR.
Tom Healy's first book, What the Right Hand Knows is just out from Four Way Books. Once upon a time, Tom studied at Harvard and Columbia, opened one of the first galleries in Chelsea and served as president of Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, where he led efforts to rebuild the downtown arts community after 9/11. He now teaches at Pratt and the Goreé Institute in Dakar, Senegal. He is a contributing editor at BOMB and serves on the boards of Creative Time and Poets House. His poems and essays have appeared in the Paris Review, Yale Review, Tin House and Salmagundi.
“The smiles [these poems] compel are taut and tight-lipped, but the language conjuring that pleasure is at once sumptuous and cost-effective, precise and loving." -Richard Howard
Ada Limón’s first book, lucky wreck, was the winner of the Autumn House Poetry Prize and her second book, This Big Fake World, was the winner of the Pearl Poetry Prize. She’s won the Chicago Literary Award and fellowships from the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Her work has appeared in the Iowa Review, Subtropics, Barrow Street, The New Yorker, and others. She is the Creative Director, Advertising for Travel + Leisure. Her third book of poems, Sharks in the Rivers, will be published by Milkweed Editions in 2010.
“There’s no other poet that so naturally weaves story and verse, humor and sadness. The ‘familiar’ story becomes unexpectedly appetizing through Limón’s singular ability to ‘make a fire out of everyday things.’” —CUTBANK MONTANA
Lytton Smith was born in Galleywood, England, and lives in New York City, where he is a founding member of Blind Tiger Poetry, a group which aims to find innovative ways to promote contemporary poetry. His poems and reviews have appeared in American Letters & Commentary, The Atlantic, Boston Review, Tin House, Verse, and the anthologyAll That Mighty Heart: London Poems, among others. His book, The All-Purpose Magical Tent (Nightboat Books, 2009) was selected by Terrance Hayes for the Nightboat Prize. His chapbook, Monster Theory, was selected by Kevin Young for a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship and published in 2008. He has taught creative writing, translation, and expository writing at Columbia University.
“…A subtle fusion of wit and whims.”—Mark Ford
Roy Pérez is a founding member of the Birdsong Collective in Brooklyn and a regular contributor to the Birdsong zine. He is a graduate of the University of Central Florida, where he was poetry editor at The Cypress Dome and a fiction reader at The Florida Review. He is currently completing a Ph.D. in American literature at NYU. Roy's first collection of poems, Inch Back, will appear as three little chapbooks to be published serially by Birdsong Press in 2010.
CPR programming made possible through generous support by the Foundation for Contemporary Arts.
Boog City Presents
d.a. levy lives: celebrating the renegade press
Effing Press (Austin, Texas), featuring readings from
Farrah Field, Ada Limón, Justin Marks, with music from Katie May
Hosted by Effing Press editor Scott Pierce
Curated and with an introduction by Boog City editor David Kirschenbaum
ACA Galleries
529 W. 20th Street, 5th Floor (10th/11th Avenues)
Free, incl. wine & cheese | welcometoboogcity.com |editor@boogcity.com | 212-842-2664
Subway: C/E to 23rd Street, or 1/9 to 18th Street
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2) Wednesday, July 8, 2009
6-8PM
Heading Home:
Art Opening & Gallery Reading on UWS
46 W. 90th St. Fl 2
With Jason Schneiderman
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3) Tuesday, August 18
7:30-9PM
The Word for Word Series in Bryant Park
Robert Polito & Dana Goodyear & Ada Limón
(hope to see you!)
