Dear Friends,
Please come out to The Waypost (3120 N. Williams Ave., PDX) Saturday, June 25th at 7.30pm to celebrate the latest issue of Seattle-based Page Boy Magazine! Readings by Thomas Walton, Sarah Galvin, Sarah Erickson and Jesse Morse. Watercolor portraits on display by Shannon Perry. And a surprise musical guest.....
Come out and support the arts!
Food, beer, wine and espresso all available at The Waypost.
Sincerely,
Smorg
Saturday, June 18, 2011
Thursday, June 16, 2011
Writing: Schomburg, Anderson
TUNGUSKA EVENT
People have started behaving as if they’ve been destroyed by an asteroid. They’re sleeping on the floor like flattened fiery trees. How can I carve out an exact life from this mess of everyone in the world’s days? I cannot even seem to make a dinner with the ingredients in this cupboard in this kitchen disemboweled and on its side in this forest in central Siberia. I’ll look at anything just to avert my eyes.
- Zachary Schomburg
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The new Bible won’t end
even if, in the end, we fill it
with dead insects, old photos, dust.
I’m writing
you from a yellow place, where I’m composing
a lovesong to orange.
Much as, in the original,
David wrote a lovesong to Goliath (expunged).
This is and isn’t true.
There are no oranges in the Bible.
- Erik Anderson
Monday, March 28, 2011
Zachary Schomburg, Richard Froude and Erik Anderson! Saturday, May 21 7.30pm
Dear friends,
Please come out to The Waypost (3120 N. Williams Ave., PDX) Saturday, May 21st for a smashing night of poetry. Local poet Zachary Schomburg will read with Coloradans Erik Anderson and Richard Froude, in town for one night only. Come out and support the arts!
Food, beer, wine and espresso all available at The Waypost.
Festivities begin at 7.30pm.
Hope to see you there!
Wishes,
Smorg
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Zachary Schomburg is the author of Scary, No Scary (Black Ocean 2009) and The Man Suit (Black Ocean 2007). He co-edits Octopus Books and Octopus Magazine. He lives in Portland, OR.
Richard Froude was born in London, grew up in Bristol and moved to the US in 2002. He is most recently the author of FABRIC, published by Horse Less Press. New writing can be found in Birkensnake, Witness, and forthcoming in Slack Lust. He lives in Denver, Colorado.
Erik Anderson's The Poetics of Trespass was published by Otis Books/Seismicity Editions in 2010. He teaches in the low-residency MFA program at Naropa University and, with Richard Froude and Anne Waldman, co-edits the magazine Thuggery & Grace.
Please come out to The Waypost (3120 N. Williams Ave., PDX) Saturday, May 21st for a smashing night of poetry. Local poet Zachary Schomburg will read with Coloradans Erik Anderson and Richard Froude, in town for one night only. Come out and support the arts!
Food, beer, wine and espresso all available at The Waypost.
Festivities begin at 7.30pm.
Hope to see you there!
Wishes,
Smorg
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Zachary Schomburg is the author of Scary, No Scary (Black Ocean 2009) and The Man Suit (Black Ocean 2007). He co-edits Octopus Books and Octopus Magazine. He lives in Portland, OR.
Richard Froude was born in London, grew up in Bristol and moved to the US in 2002. He is most recently the author of FABRIC, published by Horse Less Press. New writing can be found in Birkensnake, Witness, and forthcoming in Slack Lust. He lives in Denver, Colorado.
Erik Anderson's The Poetics of Trespass was published by Otis Books/Seismicity Editions in 2010. He teaches in the low-residency MFA program at Naropa University and, with Richard Froude and Anne Waldman, co-edits the magazine Thuggery & Grace.
Writing from Frey, Wayne and Maziar
from SORROW ARROW
The second to last train stop overlooks a metal yard
A lot of people are eating
In the movie we're graceful, less monotonous
We're not bunched up against the present
The sign at the church says heaven's got an edge
I don't want my donut
There's that picture book about the steam shovel that keeps digging
Old-fashioned nostalgia for a machine that works
My zone opens
I'll keep several appointments with a gaping zone
Then lob my machines into the cold, swollen river
Emily Kendal Frey
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Poem
sounds like we’re stopping a party along its glitter track
this transcriptionist is bird shaped
behind a door of neon-like light
a cabinet of speech
it’s my new dress
patterned as a beast might
the heat comes on, the roof is a reserve
we work our way into the archive
and the particular paper adheres
to a green glow, purple text with silver thread
I walk a small circumference
where the city starts to reopen
dry notes rain down with the cottonwood
Phoebe Wayne
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Magick
Come where you can hear
the traffic light change
from lime to carmine
so small
disentangle me
fly me away
what you say
many moonlit times
Paul Maziar
The second to last train stop overlooks a metal yard
A lot of people are eating
In the movie we're graceful, less monotonous
We're not bunched up against the present
The sign at the church says heaven's got an edge
I don't want my donut
There's that picture book about the steam shovel that keeps digging
Old-fashioned nostalgia for a machine that works
My zone opens
I'll keep several appointments with a gaping zone
Then lob my machines into the cold, swollen river
Emily Kendal Frey
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Poem
sounds like we’re stopping a party along its glitter track
this transcriptionist is bird shaped
behind a door of neon-like light
a cabinet of speech
it’s my new dress
patterned as a beast might
the heat comes on, the roof is a reserve
we work our way into the archive
and the particular paper adheres
to a green glow, purple text with silver thread
I walk a small circumference
where the city starts to reopen
dry notes rain down with the cottonwood
Phoebe Wayne
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Magick
Come where you can hear
the traffic light change
from lime to carmine
so small
disentangle me
fly me away
what you say
many moonlit times
Paul Maziar
Monday, January 31, 2011
Emily Kendal Frey, Phoebe Wayne & Paul G. Maziar! Sunday, Feb 20th 7:30 p.m.
Dear friends,
Please come out to the Waypost at 3120 N. Williams Ave, PDX for a night of Portland poetry. Smorg is delighted to host Emily Kendal Frey, Phoebe Wayne and Paul G. Maziar, three poets that call Portland home. Festivities begin around 7:30. Come out and support the arts!
Food, beer, wine and espresso all available at the Waypost.
See you there!
Wishes,
Smorg
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Please come out to the Waypost at 3120 N. Williams Ave, PDX for a night of Portland poetry. Smorg is delighted to host Emily Kendal Frey, Phoebe Wayne and Paul G. Maziar, three poets that call Portland home. Festivities begin around 7:30. Come out and support the arts!
Food, beer, wine and espresso all available at the Waypost.
See you there!
Wishes,
Smorg
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Emily Kendal Frey is the author of AIRPORT (Blue Hour 2009), FRANCES (Poor Claudia 2010), and THE NEW PLANET (Mindmade Books 2010) as well as three chapbook collaborations. Her first full-length collection, THE GRIEF PERFORMANCE, was just published by Cleveland State University Poetry Center. She lives in Portland, Oregon.
Phoebe Wayne is the author of a chapbook called Lovejoy (c_L press), which is part research project, part text collage, and part reflection, all revolving around a 20th century historical drama involving some public artworks in Northwest Portland. Some of her other recent work is in the magazines Foursquare, With + Stand, and Peaches and Bats. She lives in Portland and works in the children's department of a public library.
Paul G. Maziar is a writer & poet, and bell-hop, living in Portland OR, via NYC via L.A. via Vegas. His first book, What it is: What it is, was a collaboration of his early prose works along with the typographic & photographic designs of the artist Matt Maust, published in 2008. In 2010, Paul self-published his first chapbook of poems, Last Light of Day, which is being brought out as a full-length collection by Publication Studio in Portland. Currently, he curates a monthly reading, art & music series in Portland called The Switch, and is studying under the poet Hoa Nguyen. His work has been published in ListenLight, Poets & Artists, and he's the co-creator of an ongoing poetry blog called Don’t Fog the Feelers.
Monday, August 23, 2010
Eileen Myles - Sunday, September 19th 7:30pm
Dear friends,
Please come out to The Waypost to see renowned poet Eileen Myles read from her new poet's novel, Inferno. Smorg is extremely excited to host this event. Sunday, September 19th, 7:30 pm.
Food, beer, wine and espresso all available at The Waypost.
See you there!
Smorg
Eileen Myles will be reading from Inferno (a poet’s novel) which chronicles the adventures of a young female writer finding her sex and aesthetics in the last decades of the 20th C. Eileen’s books of poems include Not Me, School of Fish and Sorry, Tree. Her first fiction, Chelsea Girls, appeared in 1994 followed by Cool for You (a nonfiction novel) in 2000. She taught in the writing program at the University of California at San Diego for five years, returning to New York in 2007. Last spring she was the Hugo visiting writer at U.MT, Missoula. Her essays were collected in 2009 in The Importance of Being Iceland for which she won a Warhol/Creative Capital grant.
Please come out to The Waypost to see renowned poet Eileen Myles read from her new poet's novel, Inferno. Smorg is extremely excited to host this event. Sunday, September 19th, 7:30 pm.
Food, beer, wine and espresso all available at The Waypost.
See you there!
Smorg
Eileen Myles will be reading from Inferno (a poet’s novel) which chronicles the adventures of a young female writer finding her sex and aesthetics in the last decades of the 20th C. Eileen’s books of poems include Not Me, School of Fish and Sorry, Tree. Her first fiction, Chelsea Girls, appeared in 1994 followed by Cool for You (a nonfiction novel) in 2000. She taught in the writing program at the University of California at San Diego for five years, returning to New York in 2007. Last spring she was the Hugo visiting writer at U.MT, Missoula. Her essays were collected in 2009 in The Importance of Being Iceland for which she won a Warhol/Creative Capital grant.
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
David Abel and Chris Daniels, Friday May 21, 7pm
Dear friends,
Please come out to The Waypost (3120 N. Williams, PDX) for some fine poetry Friday, May 21 with Portland's own David Abel and longtime Bay Area resident Chris Daniels. Daniels' new chapbook porous, nomadic (airfoil) will be available for the first time.
Food, beer, wine and espresso all available at The Waypost.
Festivities begin at 7pm.
Hope to see you there!
Sincerely,
Smorg
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The perfervidly anti-capitalist, godless, internationalist son of well-known language-artist maestro David Daniels, Chris Daniels was born in NYC in 1956. He dropped out of high school to become a dishwasher and never bothered with college. He worked as a cook and played electric bass guitar for many years. In 1980, he moved to the San Francisco Bay Area, where he still lives and, until very recently, sold his labor at a terrible loss. For reasons still unclear to him, he passed the GED and received a high school diploma in 1996.
His books of translation include The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro by Fernando Pessoa and The Collected Poems of Álvaro de Campos by Fernando Pessoa, vol. 2 (both published by Shearsman Books; vol. 1 of Campos is forthcoming); On the Shining Screen of the Eyelids by Josely Vianna Baptista (Manifest Press); and an ongoing, fascicular anthology of Lusophone poetry, self-published and -distributed as exceedingly modest chapbooks.
Poet, performer, and multidisciplinary artist David Abel moved to Portland in 1997, after tenures in New York City and Albuquerque (where he maintained the Bridge Bookshop, and Passages Bookshop & Gallery, respectively). Also an editor, bookseller, and curator, he frequently collaborates in various capacities with friends far and near. He is a founding member of the Spare Room reading series (www.flim.com/spareroom), now in its ninth year, and the author of various chapbooks and artist’s books, most recently Commonly (airfoil), While You Were In (disposable books), and Twenty- (Crane’s Bill Books). He is the publisher of the Envelope broadside series, and copublisher with Sam Lohmann of airfoil chapbooks.
Please come out to The Waypost (3120 N. Williams, PDX) for some fine poetry Friday, May 21 with Portland's own David Abel and longtime Bay Area resident Chris Daniels. Daniels' new chapbook porous, nomadic (airfoil) will be available for the first time.
Food, beer, wine and espresso all available at The Waypost.
Festivities begin at 7pm.
Hope to see you there!
Sincerely,
Smorg
------
The perfervidly anti-capitalist, godless, internationalist son of well-known language-artist maestro David Daniels, Chris Daniels was born in NYC in 1956. He dropped out of high school to become a dishwasher and never bothered with college. He worked as a cook and played electric bass guitar for many years. In 1980, he moved to the San Francisco Bay Area, where he still lives and, until very recently, sold his labor at a terrible loss. For reasons still unclear to him, he passed the GED and received a high school diploma in 1996.
His books of translation include The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro by Fernando Pessoa and The Collected Poems of Álvaro de Campos by Fernando Pessoa, vol. 2 (both published by Shearsman Books; vol. 1 of Campos is forthcoming); On the Shining Screen of the Eyelids by Josely Vianna Baptista (Manifest Press); and an ongoing, fascicular anthology of Lusophone poetry, self-published and -distributed as exceedingly modest chapbooks.
Poet, performer, and multidisciplinary artist David Abel moved to Portland in 1997, after tenures in New York City and Albuquerque (where he maintained the Bridge Bookshop, and Passages Bookshop & Gallery, respectively). Also an editor, bookseller, and curator, he frequently collaborates in various capacities with friends far and near. He is a founding member of the Spare Room reading series (www.flim.com/spareroom), now in its ninth year, and the author of various chapbooks and artist’s books, most recently Commonly (airfoil), While You Were In (disposable books), and Twenty- (Crane’s Bill Books). He is the publisher of the Envelope broadside series, and copublisher with Sam Lohmann of airfoil chapbooks.
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