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Hugh Behm-Steinberg
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Shanna Compton
Bruce Covey
Jill Alexander Essbaum
Shafer Hall
Jennifer L. Knox
Sueyeun Juliette Lee
Reb Livingston
Danielle Pafunda
PF Potvin
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When: Thursday, January 10th, 7:00 p.m.
Where: Press Club, 2621 SE Clinton
Readers: Joseph Bradshaw, Susan Denning, Dean Gorman, Rebecca Loudon



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Tuesday, January 15 at 5:30 PM at Stanford Bookstore (519 Lasuen Mall, Stanford, CA 94305, (650) 329-1217)
Reader: Hugh Behm-Steinberg, Author of Shy Green Fields

In the December issue of Open Letters Jeffrey Eaton reviews Shafer Hall's Never Cry Woof:



"If Hall likes to elevate the ordinary, in other poems he does the opposite, presenting a deadpan acceptance of the totally weird. In these poems he is quietly introspective, but the calm of his introspection is almost entirely overshadowed by the details of the offbeat and rough world he depicts. In "Brooklyn Aubade" we are gently reminded that at breakfast "egg creams and jellybeans are sustenance too." His treatment of the typically sad cliché of the couple heard arguing through thin apartment walls is not just easygoing acceptance, but absolute ownership – it is an unassumingly natural feature of his world."


and PF Potvin's The Attention Lesson:

"Potvin's poems are generally written in whole sentences. He does not often rely on traditional poetic techniques, rather he employs two seemingly homebrewed techniques (apologies to James Joyce) for manipulating his tempo. The first is to conjoin two words, such as "elephantmasked," "shookstill," and "downswooping," and the second is to eliminate the second word in a word pair when the omitted word is obvious. Supplying the missing words in brackets you get "sneak [attack]," "merrygo [round]" and "pave[ment]". The conjunction of words serves to quicken the pace of reading while the omission of words creates a mental stumble that retards it. Both moves come across as playful and off hand, which is refreshing given the weightiness of his political and character-building content."


Listen to Collin Kelley interviews with PF Potvin & Shafer Hall at The Business of Words.

Sally Franson at The L Magazine:

"The beauty of a simple machine is its ability to accomplish something extraordinary simply: a pen, say, some paper, and the capacity to leap headfirst into the realm of the imagination. Laurel Snyder's verse is a simple machine in itself, and this collection finds the author combining playful syntax, simple, direct language and a few ethereal prose poems to create a sum that is as profound as its component poems."

Nate Slawson at Luna:

"The Myth of the Simple Machines is from that wonderful world where poetry intersects with storytelling. And as Laurel Snyder shows, it's a world of endless possibility, myth, truth, and reward."

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"Wanton Textiles is a very satisfying collaboration to read, a salubrious interaction to experience. It's worth pursuing -- the poems will harden you as much as they will soften you and it won't matter which because these poems also want you to feel as many ways as possible of being unraveled towards ecstatic release."

— Eileen Tabios at Galatea Resurrects, read entire review here.

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are now available here! Get the whole year and save $27 off the retail price. The subscription includes the following titles:

The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel - Second Floor edited by Reb Livingston & Molly Arden

Shy Green Fields by Hugh Behm-Steinberg

Harlot by Jill Alexander Essbaum

Myth of the Simple Machines by Laurel Snyder

Never Cry Woof by Shafer Hall

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Jill Alexander Essbaum is the guest poet at Poets.org for January/February:

I believe in the body. The body of work, the body of the poem, the body of Christ, and the best of all bodies, the human body. I mention this because in addition to being unashamedly religious, my poems are also, well, unashamed. Critics and former colleagues alike have hinted at the Donne-esque impulses in my work. Whether or not that's a comparison I deserve is another story. But the truth is that the Christian tradition is ripe with flesh-conscious apologists. Even the words we use to describe religious experience—the passion, the ecstasy, the rapture—sound less like a Sunday service and more like a roll in the hay. When I write my more erotic poems, the bespoken-of Lover is sometimes a person, sometimes God. In my better poems, the Lover is both. In my professional experience (and forgive the categorizing), the Christian reader has an easier time dealing with the sexual nature of my work than a purely secular reader has embracing the Christo-centric poems.

Please join us for The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel - Second Floor Release Party

Monday Dec. 3, 2007 - 7:30PM
KGB Monday Night Poetry Reading Series
85 East 4th Street., New York, NY 10003

Readers: Hugh Behm-Steinberg, Ana Bozicevic-Bowling, Bruce Covey, Jill Alexander
Essbaum, Kate Greenstreet, Shafer Hall, editor Reb Livingston, Justin Marks, Gina Myers,
Carly Sachs, Allyson Salazar, Evie Shockley, and Nicole Steinberg

"The Fine Art of Pedestal Construction" by Meghan Punschke

"pink-think (a primer for girls of other colors)" by Evie Shockley

"The Difference Between Toggle Bolts & Molly Screws" by Bruce Covey

"Hush Money" by Dora Malech

"Great Lash" by Suzanne Frischkorn

"This far I have come with no name" by Ann M. Fine