i.e. series: Saturday June 6- Baltimore

i.e. reading series presents
Frank Sherlock, Mel Nichols & CAConrad
The LOF/t
Saturday June 6 @ 8pm
120 W. North Ave.
Baltimore

Saturday May 23- Philly

Frank Sherlock & Simon Pettet
Chapterhouse Cafe & Gallery
Saturday May 23 @ 8pm

I'll be reading brand new work, w/ a throwback nugget or two.

Lower East Side Englishman Simon Pettet will read from Hearth, his New & Selected Poems. It's fresh off the press from Talisman.

Don't be scared. The swine flu hasn't killed you, & we probably won't either.

Friday April 17 @ St. Mark's Poetry Project- NYC

A NIGHT OF HERETICAL TEXTS

Erica Kaufman, Bill Marsh, kathryn pringle &
Frank Sherlock

April 17 @ 9:30pm
St. Mark's Poetry Project
131 E.10th Street NYC

Heretical Texts is an ongoing Factory School book series that aims to test old assumptions about the political efficacies of poetic texts while utilizing the series structure as a framework for documentation and investigation. Since 2005, Factory School has published twenty titles under the Heretical Texts series banner, with future volumes appearing in 2010 and beyond. Volume 4 includes books by Jules Boykoff, Brett Evans, Erica Kaufman, kathryn l. pringle and Frank Sherlock.

Please join us for an evening of readings and festivities celebrating Heretical Texts Vol. 4. with Erica Kaufman, kathryn l. pringle, Frank Sherlock and Bill Marsh.

The Brooklyn Rail Reviews OVER HERE

This month's issue of The Brooklyn Rail features Jeffrey Cyphers Wright's review of OVER HERE. Check it out here.

This Sunday- OVER HERE Book Release Party

OVER HERE Book Release Reading Party
Frank Sherlock w/ Sarah Dowling & Steve Dolph
Sunday February 8 at 7:30pm
L'Etage (above Beau Monde)
624 S. 6th Street (6th & Bainbridge)

This Sunday we'll be sharing poems and cocktails to launch OVER HERE into public space. Come out to celebrate the engaging work of two of my favorite writers, Sarah and Steve. If you make it, I'll read a poem just for you. I promise.

Poet/editor/friend Jenn McCreary will be our distinguished host.

OVER HERE Release

Today (January 15) is the official release date of OVER HERE. I'm happy to have this book published as part of Factory School's Heretical Texts Series.

From the FS catalog:

OVER HERE is a collection of works written for farewell parties in the era of endings. These poems are culled from notebooks kept during imaginary road trips across the late empire, serving as toasts to new futures. Come inside for a strange celebration, and watch for sparks.

It's now available from SPD Books. Check it out here.

- for an excerpt from a poem included in the book, see EOAGH
- for a look at the title poem, see Critiphoria

NYC- Poetry Project New Year's Marathon

I'll be reading tomorrow during the 10pm hour at...

The 35th Annual New Year’s Day Marathon Reading
beginning Thursday, 2:00 pm

Poets and performers include

Bruce Andrews & Sally Silvers, Arthur’s Landing (Ernie Brooks, Steven Hall & Peter Zummo), Vyt Bakaitis, Jim Behrle, Martine Bellen, Anselm Berrigan, Edmund Berrigan, Barbara Blatner, Justin Bond, Donna Brook, Franklin Bruno, Tisa Bryant, Peter Bushyeager, Reuben Butchart (w/ John Carroll), Steve Cannon, Yoshiko Chuma, Todd Colby, John Coletti, CAConrad, Corina Copp, Brenda Coultas, Geoffrey Cruickshank-Hagenbuckle, Mónica de la Torre, Katie Degentesh, Barry Denny, Maggie Dubris, Douglas Dunn, Marcella Durand, Steve Earle, Will Edmiston, Marty Ehrlich, Joe Eliot, Laura Elrick, Avram Fefer, Bonny Finberg, Jess Fiorini, Corrine Fitzpatrick, Foamola, Merry Fortune, Tonya Foster, David Freeman, Ed Friedman, Joanna Fuhrman, Cliff Fyman, Drew Gardner, John Giorno, John Godfrey, Abraham Gomez-Delgado, Sylvia Gorelick, Stephanie Gray, Ted Greenwald, John S. Hall, Janet Hamill, Diana Hamilton, David Henderson, Bob Hershon, Mitch Highfill, Bob Holman, Erica Hunt, Brenda Iijima, Lisa Jarnot, Hettie Jones, Patricia Spears Jones, Pierre Joris, Erica Kaufman, Lenny Kaye, Evan Kennedy, Aaron Kiely, Paul Killebrew, David Kirschenbaum, Bill Kushner, Paul La Farge, Susan Landers, Denize Lauture, Joseph Legaspi, Joel Lewis, Rachel Levitsky, Brendan Lorber, Filip Marinovic, Susan Maurer, Gillian McCain, Tracy McTague, Taylor Mead, Jonas Mekas, Jennifer Monson, Rebecca Moore, Tracie Morris, Gina Myers, Eileen Myles, Marc Nasdor, Murat Nemet-Nejat, Jim Neu, Richard O’Russa, Akilah Oliver, Geoffrey Olsen, Dael Orlandersmith, Yuko Otomo, Ron Padgett, Julie Patton, Yvette Perez, Nicole Peyrafitte, Wanda Phipps, Kristin Prevallet, Arlo Quint, Chris Rael, Lee Ranaldo, Citizen Reno, Frances Richard, Renato Rosaldo, Bob Rosenthal, Douglas Rothschild, Thaddeus Rutkowski, Tom Savage, Michael Scharf, Harris Schiff, David Shapiro, Elliott Sharp, Frank Sherlock, Nathaniel Siegel, Samita Sinha, Hal Sirowitz, Patti Smith, Christopher Stackhouse, Stacy Szymaszek, Anne Tardos, Cecil Taylor, Steven Taylor (w/ Debra Salvo), Susie Timmons, Rodrigo Toscano, David Vogen, Anne Waldman, Nicole Wallace, Jo Ann Wasserman, Phyllis Wat, Karen Weiser, Dustin Williamson, Max Winter, Don Yorty, Emily XYZ and more.

ADMISSION: $17 general, $13 students & seniors, $10 members.

* sketch by Eric Drooker