Late Late Capital Bootleg Sessions

Neighbor Ballads

2011-10-03T20:24:00.005-04:00

The Neighbor Ballads project is a public art installation available for the taking from honor boxes in South Philly. These seven poems celebrate figures from immigrant communities that continue to shape one of Philadelphia's most diverse and storied neighborhoods.

It's been a pleasure to meet and work with the friends, families and figures themselves that make this project a reality. Big ups to collaborator Erik Ruin for his visual design and box installation.

Where you can find them:

Antonio Isoleri- 9th & Carpenter
Frank Snock- 9th & Washington
Fabiola Canto- 9th & Ellsworth
Ba Nguyen- 9th & Passyunk
Bill McIntyre- 10th & Dickinson
Dorothy Allen- Cross & Passyunk
Joe Tayoun- Passyunk & Morris

The installation is a component of Journeys South, a neighborhood-wide Mural Arts Program initiative . Check out all the great installations that comprise Journeys South.

Conrad, Zurawski & Me

2011-04-20T15:59:00.004-04:00

I'll be reading with CAConrad & Magdalena Zurawski this Saturday in Raleigh-Durham.

Saturday April 23 at 8pm
Women's Studies Lounge
East Duke Building,
Duke University East Campus

Carolina peoples, I'll see you there.

You Can Feel Good About

2011-02-11T13:00:00.000-05:00

Check out my new poem for Zoe Strauss on Jupiter 88. You should feel good about it. If not, feel good about the fact that you don't feel good about it. Either way, just relax & feel it.

PoemTalk: I'd Like to See It That Way

2011-01-25T12:58:00.002-05:00

Julia Bloch, Linh Dinh & I discuss Norman Fischer's I'd Like to See It on PENNSOUND's PoemTalk. Take a listen...

Windows and Mirrors- Friday November 5

2010-11-03T16:30:00.005-04:00

Windows and Mirrors
Reflections on the War in Afghanistan
AFSC Arch Street Meeting House
4th & Arch Street
November 5 @ 8pm

Frank Sherlock, Carlos Soto Roman, Mytili Jagannathan & CAConrad will join members of Warrior Writers for a reading at the Windows and Mirrors exhibition. The traveling exhibit provides an opportunity to see ourselves in depictions of the war in Afghanistan through the eyes of artists and children.

For more on the Windows and Mirrors project, click here.

Reading w/ CAConrad & Danbert Nobacon of Chumbawamba

2010-10-17T16:17:00.004-04:00

Giovanni's Room presents
CAConrad, Frank Sherlock & Danbert Nobacon
Monday October 18
Giovanni's Room
12th & Pine Street @5:30pm

CAConrad & Frank Sherlock read from The City Real & Imagined. Danbert Nobacon celebrates the release of Three Dead Princes: an Anarchist Fairytale. See you there.

Audio from The City Real & Imagined at the ICA

2010-09-22T12:40:00.002-04:00

PennSound Daily posted the audio from The City Real & Imagined book launch at the Philadelphia Institute of Contemporary Art. I forgot about the cellphone music in the very beginning, but somehow it works with the piece as an impromptu introduction.

For your listening pleasure... click here.

You can also read Rachel Blau DuPlessis' proper introduction for the event here.

Feast Day Gone & Coming

2010-07-16T18:58:00.003-04:00

My new chapbook entitled Feast Day Gone & Coming is now available from Cy Gist Press.

From editor Mark Lamoureux:

"In his second chapbook for Cy Gist Press, Feast Day Gone & Coming, Frank Sherlock gives us a map of the heavens as revolutionary love song, replacing Andromeda & Orion with you & me. It may cost us dearly to be humanized, but Sherlock’s work is what we get for our trouble. With beautiful cover comix by James Comey."

Check it out here.

POETEEVEE

2010-05-29T11:45:00.000-04:00

FRANK SHERLOCK FOR POETEEVEE from A. Lee Abelson on Vimeo.

Don't Forget Me in the Dimension You Choose to Live

2010-05-06T13:04:00.003-04:00

My new chapbook is available from Splitleaves Press.

You can check out Don't Forget Me in the Dimension You Choose to Live here.

This Thursday NYC- St. Mark's Bookshop Series @ Solas

2010-02-23T16:45:00.005-05:00

St. Mark's Bookshop Reading Series presents
Conrad, Eckes, Klein & Sherlock
Solas Bar @ 7:30pm sharp
232 E. 9th St. (between 2nd & 3rd Avenues)
NYC

Come out to enjoy & experience a night of poetry from the City of Otherly Love.Ish Klein, Ryan Eckes, CAConrad & I will bring the PhillyStyle, just for you. Books will be available for sale & signing. Cocktails will be available for toasting then drinking. See you there!

The City Real & Imagined at the ICA

2010-02-03T14:55:00.004-05:00

The City Real & Imagined Book Release Party
CAConrad & Frank Sherlock w/ Zoe Strauss
Wednesday February 3 @ 8pm
ICA (Institute of Contemporary Art)
118 S. 36th Street (36th & Sansom) Philly

Come out to celebrate the release of the long-awaited collaboration by CAConrad and me- The City Real Imagined. Hear us read from the book, with a special slide presentation from Zoe Strauss.

Wander with CAConrad & me through this psychogeographical work/play. Experience peoples' histories and magical traditions rooted in the first capital of the american possible- the city of Philadelphia. Visit landmarks that remain standing, revisit citizens that live on in memory, and participate in the future mappings of your city yet to be realized- the city real & imagined.

In ELECTIVE AFFINITIES, In Great Company

2010-01-22T16:24:00.004-05:00

I'm happy to be included in the new online cooperative anthology of U.S. contemporary poets- Elective Affinities edited by Carlos Soto Roman. The inclusion process is viral and ongoing, and I like that idea. There are also Elective Affinities anthologies for Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Italy, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Spain, Uruguay and Venezuela. Check out the links on the right side of the site.

New Work in The Brooklyn Rail

2009-11-25T15:31:00.003-05:00

Unlike the Trees appears in the current issue of The Brooklyn Rail. For the online version, click here.

ECONVERGENCE in Portland

2009-09-30T14:34:00.004-04:00

I'll be reading here on Friday night:
Poetry Reading by Poet/Activists gathering for Econvergence
SEA Change Gallery, 625 NW Everett Street Gallery #110
Poets engaging the concerns of the Econvergence will read.

I'll be speaking here on Saturday afternoon:
“Genocide as Ecocide: The Impact of Occupation on the People and Land of Gaza” – Lawrence Mosqueda, Cindy Corrie, Serena Becker, Ron Smith, Frank Sherlock

& here:
“Art & Poetry in Action: Interventions (BARGE & PACE)” – David Buuck, Frank Sherlock & CA Conrad

For more info on this weekend's EcoNvergence, go here.

SF & LA- September 11-14

2009-09-07T14:28:00.012-04:00

SAN FRANCISCO

A night of poems w/ CA Conrad & Frank Sherlock

Friday, September 11, 7:30pm/ Timken Hall, California College of the Arts/ 1111 Eighth Street

Dialogues with CA Conrad & Frank Sherlock: the New American Hybrid

Saturday, September 12, 1pm/935 Natoma Street (btwn. 10th and 11th, btwn. Mission and Howard)

Reading $8-15 sliding scale; free to current SPT members and CCA faculty, staff, and students; Dialogues $25 // $20 for Nonsite Collective participants and SPT members and students

LOS ANGELES

CA Conrad & Frank Sherlock

Sunday, September 13 2009 at 4:00pm @ The Poetic Research Bureau

3702 San Fernando Blvd/ Glendale, CA
Doors open at 4:00pm- Reading starts at 4:30pm $5 donation requested

THE WILD... for the human animal

2009-08-26T10:50:00.003-04:00

featuring letters by:

Frank Sherlock, Brandon Holmquest, Nadia Berenstein, Benjamin Lansky, Nestor Perlongher (translated by Steve Dolph), Christopher P. Miller, Lyssa Tall Anolik, Sara Manheimer, Priscilla Paton, Bela Shayevich, Ish Klein, Samuel Lang Budin, Eileen Moeller, Evelyn Sharenov, Catherine Gaffney, Carolyn M. Martin, Megan Milks, CA Conrad, and Chris Pearson

and art by:

Pete Deevakul, Guillermo Srodek-Hart, Eric Trosko, Andrea Stanislav, Tami Demaree, Mike Calway-Fagen, and Misako Inaoka

Copies are 8 dollars (plus shipping). Send check or money order to:

The Wild (c/o Laura Jaramillo)
35-20 35th street apt D2
L.I.C., N.Y. 11106

e-mail laura.jmillo@gmail.com for information on shipping prices, etc.

i.e. series: Saturday June 6- Baltimore

2009-05-28T15:26:00.002-04:00

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

2009-05-12T14:21:00.005-04:00

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

2009-04-06T19:30:00.008-04:00

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

2009-03-09T03:34:00.004-04:00

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

2009-02-05T02:17:00.007-05:00

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

2009-01-15T01:25:00.008-05:00

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

2008-12-31T16:05:00.006-05:00

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

HERETICAL TEXTS (v.4) Available for Pre-Order

2008-12-29T03:48:00.002-05:00

The January 2009 release of the Heretical Texts series (v.4) is now available for pre-ordering from Factory School Books.

Volume Four includes books from:

Frank Sherlock- Over Here
Kathryn L. Pringle- Right New Biology
Brett Evans- Slosh Models
Jules Boykoff- Hegemonic Love Potion
Erica Kaufman- Censory Impulse

The entire set can be pre-ordered from Factory School here for $50, a savings of five bucks per book.

Have great holidays!

NEXUSradio This Wednesday

2008-12-15T23:40:00.003-05:00

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17TH

8PM TO 11PM

Frank Sherlock & CAConrad will host

MOUTHBREATHER

TUNE IN AT YOUR AM DIAL IN PHILADELPHIA OR ON THE WEB AT NEXUSradio.com FOR POETRY/MUSIC/INTERVIEWS

This Monday- Poets for Healthcare at St. Mark's

2008-11-06T01:06:00.008-05:00

Monday November 10 @ 8pm
St. Mark's Poetry Project
131 E. 10th Street NYC

There is a growing movement across the U.S. to support a single-payer, national health care system that would provide health care for all. Currently, over 47 million Americans are without health insurance and another 50 million are under-insured. More than 18,000 people die every year because they have no medical insurance. Since we know that so many poets have difficulty finding affordable, quality health care, The Poetry Project is pleased to host this benefit for two of the leading health-care activist groups based in New York City: Healthcare-NOW, and the Private Health Insurance Must Go Coalition. Featured poets, performers, and speakers include: David Amram, Andy Clausen, David Henderson, Suheir Hammad, Frank Sherlock, Eliot Katz, Rachel Levitsky, Akilah Oliver, Katie Robbins, Ajamu Sankofa, Stacy Szymaszek, Rodrigo Toscano, Anne Waldman,Citizen Reno, Steven Taylor and others.

Oxford American features Ready-To-Eat Individual

2008-10-21T17:52:00.003-04:00

Katy Henriksen wrote a feature article on Ready-To-Eat Individual called Poems Ready-To-Eat: A collaborative poem by the city of New Orleans. It appears in the new online issue of Oxford American. You can check it out here.

* photo by Cree McCree, taken at The Gold Mine this spring

Buffalo 9/18

2008-09-15T02:56:00.004-04:00

Small Press Poetry Series features Frank Sherlock & Logan Ryan Smith

Sponsored by: Just Buffalo
Thursday, September 18, 2008 @ 7:00 PM
Hallwalls Cinema
Babeville | 341 Delaware Ave. @ Tupper
Buffalo, NY

Durham, North Carolina 8/23

2008-08-12T16:28:00.004-04:00

I'll be reading with CAConrad on August 23 for Magdalena Zurawski & Kathryn Pringle's Minor American Reading Series. Show up at 7:30pm & make yourself comfortable. You'll find us at 2717 Highland Avenue.

Please bring the beverages that make us smile.

Satellite Telephone

2008-07-30T13:31:00.003-04:00

The new issue of Satellite Telephone features new writing by Claire Becker, Lynn Behrendt, Robert Dewhurst, Fanny Howe, Kevin Killian, Rodney Koeneke, Chris Kraus, Dorothea Lasky, Sam Lohmann, Kimberly Lyons, Simon Pettet, Chris Piuma, Arlo Quint, Dan Raphael, Hannah Sayle, Kyle Schlesinger, Frank Sherlock, and Susie Timmons.

Kyle Schlesinger of Cuneiform Press says "Satellite Telephone is without a doubt one of the coolest magazines running." And he didn't just say that because he's in it!

Like the first issue, #2 is free as a trade for mail art or other zines. You should do this. Email the editor robert@endingthealphabet.org for his current address.

Ready-To-Eat Streetnotes

2008-07-27T18:40:00.002-04:00

The summer edition of XCP Streetnotes features Chris Marker, Ed Taylor, Jon Cotner & Andy Fitch, Jennifer Firestone, Rich Hamilton, Ami Sommariva, Leigh Herrick, Michael Caylo-Baradi, Christian Albertson, Janice B. Fornillier, Mike Rollin, along with an excerpt of Ready-To-Eat Individual.

Streetnotes Summer 2008 is here.

RTE review on GENTLY READ

2008-06-10T14:29:00.002-04:00

Read CAConrad's review of Ready-To-Eat Individual on Gently Read Literature.

Check it out here.

Saturday June 7- Baltimore

2008-06-06T01:38:00.004-04:00

Sunday June 7 @ 8pm

i.e. Reading Series presents

Adam Good, Ryan Walker & Frank Sherlock
CARRIAGE HOUSE
2225 Hargrove Street
Baltimore, MD

Saturday MAY 31 NYC

2008-05-28T15:09:00.004-04:00

Saturday May 31 @3:30pm The Enclave presents
Frank Sherlock, Yew Leong Lee & Brandon Holmquest
Kenny's Castaways 157 Bleecker Street NYC

I'll be reading with translator/ poet/ editor/ all'round practitioner of the important work of the word Brandon Holmquest. I'm also looking forward to meeting/hearing Singaporean sensation Yew Leong Lee, a fiction & nonfictioneer that has appeared in many publications, from H.O.W journal to New York Times Magazine.

Ready-To-Eat Reading Tour

2008-04-09T12:29:00.005-04:00

PHILLY: APRIL 13-
w/ Rachel Blau DuPlessis & Larry Kearney
Robin's Books 108 S. 13th St. @ 4pm

NYC: APRIL 21-
w/ Kate Greenstreet
St. Mark's Poetry Project 131 E. 10th St. @8pm

NEW ORLEANS: MAY 1-
book party w/ Brett Evans
The Gold Mine 701 Dauphine St. @ 8pm

(Baltimore, DC & Durham dates TBA)

Ready-To-Eat Individual- available now!

2008-03-14T03:32:00.003-04:00

The post-Katrina New Orleans book I co-wrote with poet Brett Evans has just been released from Lavender Ink Press.

From publisher Bill Lavender:

"In New Orleans, USA, during the Year 1 A.K. (After Katrina), Frank Sherlock & Brett Evans sifted through the ration fossils to put words where the food used to be. The latest development resulted in a poem that is a State-of-the-City and post-apocalyptic journal, sealed by a retort pouch and blocked from future contamination. The resulting taste and texture are much more realistic and natural than those normal dehydrated and freeze dried histories.

The big difference is the TASTE, but look what else Ready-To-Eat Individual gives:"

ORDER HERE

READ AN EXCERPT HERE

Thanks!

DC- Split This Rock Poetry Conference

2008-03-05T19:15:00.005-05:00

Read, Write, Resist! March 20-23. The Split This Rock Poetry Festival will bring poets and writers to Washington, D.C. on the fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, in the midst of the presidential election, for four days of collaboration, learning, and performance. The festival will feature opportunities to build community and celebrate the many ways that poetry can act as an agent for change. Join us as we celebrate poetic diversity and the transformative power of the imagination.

I will have the pleasure of accompanying Tina Darragh & Cathy Eisenhower on a Split This Rock panel to discuss the works of the Argentinian poet Diana Bellessi and the French poet Francis Ponge, and their approaches to disrupting fascism’s appropriation of the voice of the poet. We will collaboratively translate poems using alternative procedures such as homophonic substitution, and participate in group readings from various kinds of texts (for example, depleted uranium stock quotes alongside Gulf War Syndrome research reports). We will also discuss the voice of the poet as a means of addressing violence, citing the works of Baraka, Brathwaite, Dunya Mikhail & Yoko Ono.

Friday March 21 1:30-3pm

Washington DC.Thurgood Marshall Center, Room #1

1816 12th Street, NW, Washington DC

Plus, don't miss the Jen Benka, Nathaniel Siegel, Lynn Procope & Susan Brennan panel just before us 11-12:30pm: Off the Page and Into the Streets – Reports from the Field.

I know I won't.

NYC- Peace on A

2008-02-29T17:50:00.000-05:00

Saturday, MARCH 1st @ 8pm
166 Avenue A (btwn 10th & 11th)APARTMENT #2

PhillySound READERS WILL BE: CAConrad, Mytili Jagannathan, Dorothea Lasky, Chris McCreary, Frank Sherlock & Kevin Varrone

TONIGHT!

2008-02-27T15:37:00.003-05:00

2008-02-15T17:07:00.002-05:00

I'm glad to included in the amazing debut issue of Critiphoria! Here it is.

Q&A

2008-01-31T18:03:00.000-05:00

Now that dinner's done, digest w/ me & check out this conversation with G. Emil Reutter.

New Release! OVER HERE on Katalanche Press

2008-01-15T19:19:00.000-05:00

Katalanche Press has just released my latest chapbook Over Here. Check it out over there.

In Your Ear w/ Tina Darragh- DC

2008-01-11T18:21:00.000-05:00

In your Ear Poetry Series presents

Frank Sherlock & Tina Darragh

Sunday January 20 at 3pm

DC Arts Center

2438 18th St NW Washington DC

See you in New York...

2007-12-27T12:41:00.000-05:00

to kick off 2008 at the 34th annual St. Mark's Poetry Marathon. Good thing I'm a night person, as I'm reading on the late side.

Boston Reading Review

2007-12-18T13:54:00.000-05:00

Jack Kimball reviews my reading in Boston w/ Alan Davies here.

Wounds Mini-review

2007-12-18T13:33:00.000-05:00

Gina Myers wrote a mini-review of Wounds in an Imaginary Nature Show. You can find it at DIY Poetics.

New release- Daybook of Perversities & Main Events

2007-12-09T23:56:00.000-05:00

Cy Gist Press has just released my new chapbook Daybook of Perversities & Main Events. Check it out here. Dig the cover art by the excellent Kris Chau!

Reading w/ Alan Davies (Boston)

2007-12-03T01:57:00.000-05:00

This Saturday...

Alan Davies & Frank Sherlock
Saturday December 8 @ 7pm
Pierre Menard Gallery/Lame Duck Books
12 Arrow Street (near Harvard Square)

THIS SATURDAY- CHAPTER & VERSE

2007-11-29T09:42:00.000-05:00

Stacy Szymaszek, Abbi Dion & Frank Sherlock
Saturday December 1 @ 8pm

Chapterhouse

620 S. 9th Street Philly

Start December with Stacy, Abbi and me next Saturday at Chapterhouse Cafe. Come by & enjoy the poetry of Stacy Szymaszek and the fiction of Abbi Dion. I'll also be celebrating the release of Daybook of Perversities & Main Events (Cy Gist Press). See you there.

Rock Heals!: a Narrow House Weekly

2007-11-29T09:20:00.000-05:00

Check out the Narrow House Recordings blog Rock Heals, featuring an excerpt from Daybook of Perversities & Main Events and the song of the week from Animal Collective. Get your Rock Heals here.

EOAGH Issue 4 Launch

2007-11-13T12:33:00.000-05:00

SUNDAY NOVEMBER 18
5 PM at Unnameable Books

A Poetry Reading Celebrating the Launch of
EOAGH: A Journal of the Arts Issue 4

56 Bergen Street Brooklyn, NY FREE

Featuring:Gilbert Adair, Cara Benson, Joel Chace, James Cook, Alan Davies, Thom Donovan, Joanna Fuhrman, Rebecca Gopoian, Dan Hoy, Sara Marcus, Stephen Paul Miller, Nick Piombino, Tim Peterson, Evelyn Reilly, Edwin Rodriguez, Frank Sherlock, Christina Strong, Gregory Vincent St Thomasino, Shelly Taylor, Adam Tobin, Lynn Xu

EOAGH Issue 4
Edited by Tim Peterson

Check out the new issue here.

***The editors of Time Out New York have appointed Unnameable Books as one of NYC's 50 Essential Secrets.***

Action Aids Benefit

2007-11-13T12:17:00.000-05:00

BENEFIT FOR ACTION AIDS

Action AIDS is an invaluable Philadelphia resource for those living with HIV. They need our help to keep their doors open, and CAConrad & Betsy Andrews have created a fantastic night of MUSIC, POETRY and PERFORMANCE.

NOVEMBER 13TH, 2007
STARTING AT 8PM
THE BALCONY
(UPSTAIRS AT THE TROCADERO)
1003 ARCH STREET
CHINATOWN, PHILADELPHIA

BRING YOUR FRIENDS! Admission on a sliding scale of $5 to $20, but if you can afford more, PLEASE BE GENEROUS, this is an important night.

HOSTED BY AD Amarosi, CAConrad, and Betsy Andrews. MCs For the night will be Needles Jones & The Divine Ms. Jimmi

PERFORMERS INCLUDE: The Feverfew, The Absinthe Drinkers, My Invisible, Gemini Wolf, Ish Klein,Jason Zuzga, Frank Sherlock, There Are Birds, Ashraf Osman, Dorothea Lasky and Tara Murtha

from the Tiny Tour

2007-11-02T15:21:00.001-04:00

Studio 111 Session

2007-10-17T13:59:00.000-04:00

PENNSOUND has released the Studio 111 Session recorded a few weeks ago. You can check it out here. And if you're not familiar with PENNSOUND, please make yourself familiar & bounce around a while.

Night Flag Books Release Party News

2007-09-04T13:32:00.000-04:00

It was great sharing the stage with David Shapiro Friday night. He was very generous and sweet and gave a great reading. I also received one of his wonderful collages by the end of the night.

Friday also served as a release party for Wounds in an Imaginary Nature Show. Long-time comrade and poeterrorist co-conspirator CAConrad & I have launched Night Flag Books. For news on the debut publication and ordering information, visit here.

* photo by Julia Cohen

August 31 at Jimmy's No. 43 NYC

2007-08-24T14:58:00.000-04:00

Friday August 31
Burning Chair presents
Frank Sherlock & David Shapiro
Jimmy's No. 43 Stage43 East 7th Street (2nd/3rd Avenues)
8pm

Next Friday (8/31) I’ll be reading as part of the Burning Chair Series with David Shapiro (see above). Join me for the release of Wounds in an Imaginary Nature Show- the debut chap from Night Flag Books. It will also serve as a hospital hallucination Thank You card to the NY folks who helped get me this far into 2007. See you there. I’ll gladly give up your copy and a hug!

Coming Soon...

2007-08-08T21:00:00.000-04:00

Wounds in an Imaginary Nature Show will be the debut publication of Night Flag Press. Look for it in the next few weeks.

* image by Amze Emmons

August 4- BOOG Anniversary Party NYC

2007-07-30T00:02:00.000-04:00

CAKESHOP
152 Ludlow St., NY, NY
Saturday August 4

starting at 5pm
poets, in order of appearance:

Amy King, Nathaniel Siegel, Christina Strong, Ian Wilder, Frank Sherlock, CAConrad, Greg Fuchs, Kristin Prevallet, Eliot Katz, Rodrigo Toscano and his Collapsible Poetics Theater, followed by music from THE FUGS from I Feel Tractor.

St. Paul- Working Class Studies Conference June 14-16

2007-06-14T10:34:00.000-04:00

I'm in the Twin Cities for the Working Class Studies Conference at Macalester College. If you're in town from June 14-16, let's get together between Counter-Culture Organizing workshops and the talk on neighborhood football clubs of Sao Paolo. Email me at the address in the last post...

Chicago Second Salon- June 8

2007-06-06T23:51:00.000-04:00

This Friday I'll be reading in Chicago w/ Aaron Belz, Joel Felix & Nadya Pittenrigh. The place is Chris Glomski's Second Salon series. If you're interested, email me at fsherlock7@hotmail.com for details.

Gil Ott Tribute June 3

2007-05-28T21:47:00.000-04:00

Sunday June 3 @ 4pm

ROBIN'S BOOKSTORE

108 S. 13th St. Philly

Tim Peterson is the recipient of the 1st Annual GIL OTT BOOK AWARD for his book SINCE I MOVED IN (Chax Press, 2007)

We are also celebrating Gil Ott's work and life as told and read by a few of his many friends and admirers. It's going to be a poetry event to remember! Please join us!

Those participating:

Alicia Askenase,Julia Blumenreich, CAConrad, Linh Dinh, Ryan Eckes, Kristen Gallagher, Eli Goldblatt, Chris McCreary, Jenn McCreary, Bob Perelman, Joshua Schuster, Frank Sherlock &

Ron Silliman

NYC- Zinc Talk/Reading Series May 27

2007-05-16T15:17:00.000-04:00

Ana Bozkivec-Bowling & Frank Sherlock
Sunday May 27 @ 7pm
90 West Houston between Laguardia & Thompson
NYC

Note: Tom Devaney was orginally scheduled to read, but will instead be appearing in the exciting world of the future.

MAY 12! The Poems are at MOLLY'S

2007-05-11T13:07:00.000-04:00

Saturday May 12
7pm at Molly's Books
1010 S. 9th Street Philly

I'll read new work. Eric Baus gives you poems from his latest book. Chicago poet Bill Allegrezza blows through on his whirlwind East Coast tour. Adam Fieled reads from recent collaborations... ALL FOR YOU! If it's not your birthday, just pretend. We'll see you there.

Tong Bliss Telephone

2007-04-09T22:37:00.000-04:00

You can hear a sampling of my hospital hallucinations in Joseph Massey's April 10 audio edition of Mr. Tong Bliss' Journal.

Sometimes phoning it in is enough. Thanks Joe!

Ready-to-Eat Individual

2007-03-29T11:56:00.000-04:00

"Ready-to-Eat Individual" is a collaborative piece written with New Orleans poet Brett Evans. The work is part post-apocalyptic journal, part state-of-the-city in the Year 1 A.K. You can hear the poem in its entirety here, read at the Bowery Poetry Club on January 13. Scroll down to the date & click on the MP3 link. Brett's sections are read by John Coletti.

CANNIBAL!

2007-03-29T11:30:00.000-04:00

"The New New World & Other Geographies" is included in the new issue of Cannibal. Issue #2 also features Shafer Hall, Hadara Bar-Nadav, Stacy Szymaszek, Arlo Quint, John Coletti, Kate Greenstreet & more. Find it here.

Alive!

2007-02-15T21:43:00.000-05:00

...& it looks like I should stay that way for a while. Thanks so much for everyone's overwhelming support, food & company. You'll all hear from me personally once I get my steam back.

A special thanks to CAConrad who probably saved my life with his beans & rice & vegetable soup.

Love, Frank

photo by hassen

January 13 w/ Mark Lamoureux in NYC

2007-01-11T12:36:00.000-05:00

Segue Reading Series presents
Frank Sherlock & Mark Lamoureux
Saturday January 13 @ 4pm
The Bowery Poetry Club NYC
308 Bowery @ Bleecker, right across from CBGB's
F train to Second Ave 6 train to Bleecker 212-614-0505

Frank Sherlock is the author of Spring Diet of Flowers at Night, ISO, and 13, and has engaged in collaborative projects with CA Conrad, Jennifer Coleman and sound artist/DJ Alex Welsh. He is a contributing editor for XConnect: Writers for the Information Age.

Mark Lamoureux's first full-length book of poems, Astrometry Organon, is due out from Spuyten Duyvil/Meeting Eyes Bindery in early 2007. He is the editor of Cy Gist Press, a micropress focusing on ekphrastic poetry, and teaches English at Kingsborough Community College.

curated by Brenda Iijima & Evelyn Reilly

NOLA! w/ Brett Evans at the Goldmine

2006-10-17T15:32:00.000-04:00

17 Poets! presents
Frank Sherlock & Brett Evans
Thursday October 26
The Gold Mine Saloon
701 Dauphine Street
(Corner of Dauphine & St. Peter)
New Orleans 8PM

October 2- Wave Books Poetry Bus Tour

2006-09-27T17:05:00.000-04:00

On Monday, October 2nd, the Wave Books Poetry Bus Tour will bring 14 poet-readers to The FUEL Collection (former MTV Real World House), 3rd and Arch, Philadelphia 6pm: Read more about the tour on Philadelphia Weekly's A-List.

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John Yau
Frank Sherlock
Molly Russakoff
Prageeta Sharma
CA Conrad
Brenda Shaughnessy
Thomas Sayers Ellis
Catie Rosemurgy
Joshua Beckman
Nick Flynn
Eric Baus
Dorothea Lasky
Matthew Zapruder
Major Jackson
performance art by: Typing Explosion

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Food and Drink provided!

Burning Chair- Brooklyn

2006-09-22T11:41:00.000-04:00

The Burning Chair Readings Say YES! to Innovative Poetry w/The Poetry Stylings of
Jane Gregory, Frank Sherlock & Jake Adam York

Friday, September 22nd
7:30 PM
The Fall Café
307 Smith Street Between Union & President
Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn
F or G to Carroll Street

Frank Sherlock is the author of Spring Diet of Flowers at Night (Mooncalf Press), ISO (furniture press), 13(ixnay press) and has engaged in collaborative projects with CAConrad Jennifer Coleman among many others. He is a contributing editor forXConnect: Writers for the Information Age.

Jake Adam York is the author of Murder Ballads, selected by Jane Satterfield for the Fifth Annual Elixir Press Awards Judge’s Prize. His poems have appeared in Shenandoah, Oxford American, Greensboro Review, Gulf Coast, New Orleans Review, Quarterly West, Diagram, Octopus, Southern Review, Poetry Daily, and other journals as well as in the anthologies Visiting Walt (Iowa University Press, 2003) and Digerati (Three Candles, 2006). York is an associate professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center in Denver, Colorado, where he directs an undergraduate Creative Writing program and produces Copper Nickel with his students. York is also a contributing editor for Shenandoah, a co-editor of the online journal story South and a founding editor ofThicket, an electronic journal dedicated to Alabama writers and Alabama writing. His work of poetic history, The Architecture of Address: The Monument and Public Speech in American Poetry, was published by Routledge in 2005.

Jane Gregory is one of Brooklyn’s best kept secrets,unless you read Cannibal or are a regular during The Witching Hours. Then you know all about her.

Amazing Disgrace- Katrina Benefit in NYC

2006-08-21T15:36:00.000-04:00

Contribute much needed funds and help raise awareness for the ongoing Hurricane Katrina relief work of Common Ground Collective . They are providing short term relief for victims of hurricane disasters in the gulf coast region, and long term support in rebuilding the communities affected in the New Orleans area.

Saturday August 26
Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery @ Bleecker
(right across from CBGB's)
7-11pm

Poetry by:

Tasha Robbins, Amy Ouzoonian, Hal Sirowitz, Harris Schiff, Frank Sherlock, Justin Lacour, Nathaniel A. Siegel, Marcella Durand, Michael Ford, John Giorno and Sapphire.

Performances by:

Dorothy Goodman, Ed Sanders, Professor Arturo, Hungry Marching Band and Cave Canum.

DRAKE!!!

2006-08-10T14:38:00.000-04:00

I'll be doing a word set during the Drake show tomorrow night on August 11 at:

Cafe Habana/ 102 21st Street/ Philly/ 11pm-2am $6

If you haven't heard of Drake yet, they're a hot classjazzical drum-n-bass sophisticated modern music ensemble. Listen to sample work here.

The players are:

Monica McIntire- cello

Dave Ramsey- trumpet, vocals, composition

Brandon May- piano

Josh Machiz- ContraBass (acoustic)

Matt Scarano- drums

There will also be a late late late jazz jam session w/ Lucian Dowdell, AKA 'THE TRUTH,' on drums... and of course, a tequila toast for trumpeter/vocalist Dave Ramsey's birthday.

See you there!

Saturday July 29...

2006-07-27T16:23:00.000-04:00

Poetry: CA Conrad, Will Esposito, Adam Fieled, Frank Sherlock, Jessica Lee White

Fiction: Mike Land, Christian Tebordo

Movie: Ish KleinPhotography: Jeremy Eric Tenenbaum

Installation: Steven & Billy Blaise Dufala

Music: Bad News Bats, Bitter Sweetheart, Drake, Eddy Walsh

Spring Diet of Flowers at Night

2006-06-28T18:41:00.000-04:00

My poem written for the Poetry, Politics, Proximity: Third Annual Kerry Sherin Wright Prize event at Kelly Writers House on April 27 is now available in chapbook form.

You can get a copy of Spring Diet of Flowers at Night at Robin's Bookstore- 108 S. 13th Street, Philly.

For ordering inquiries, contact Mooncalf Press at MooncalfPress@aol.com

Cover art by Jonathan Allen.

Post Pacino Spectacular! June 24th Brooklyn

2006-05-22T15:41:00.000-04:00

The Post Pacino Spectacular is a festival that will take place on Saturday, June 24th. The Spectacular is a circus of sorts based around diversity and fostering communication between different communities, including musicians and bands of multiple genres, painters, poets, theater, dancers, and mostly mad fun, the first Post-Pacino Spectacular will include: Reflectiostack, So L'il,I Feel Tractor, Ifwhen Seaman & Queerfunkel, Sleeping Kings of Iona & Katherine Betty Jones will be displaying her paintings. Poets Dustin Williamson and Frank Sherlock will be reading. Additionally, limited edition Goodbye Better compilations and zines will be released in accordance with each performance. Pete’s Candy Store is located at
709 Lorimer St.
Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

For more info on them please visit: http://www.petescandystore.com/ Gratzi mucho. Love,Goodbye Better

TOOL: a Magazine

2006-05-22T13:44:00.000-04:00

The Sixth Issue of TOOL:a Magazine features Joyelle McSweeney, Brenda Iijima, Susan Schultz, Mark Lamoureux and myself. Included here are the first few installments of the PECO Poems.

Letter to New Orleans for New Year's Eve

2006-01-04T01:42:00.000-05:00

This poem appeared in Tuesday's Philadelphia Inquirer Commentary

Refinery Deal Pays Off
(Letter to New Orleans for New Year’s Eve)

There are the dead & those who talk to the dead
         through song    The parade is almost here &

this is an American mirror    Squint hard
    to see the Ninth Ward see Two Street    America

Cities are mothers that never stop raising
                   as long as the rhythms continue

And I will raise them up    And I will raise them up
And I will ra-ai-se them up on the last day

         Bayou Eagle feathers sewn into headdresses
keep the five-fifths citizen beat & burning

crude in the purified cold will be a dance called
         the dirty phoenix    This is American music

    A new year is coming with us    a dedication
Rebirth is playing our song    Don’t let them steal you

We come to party we come to remember
       We come to party & will not let you die

Frank Sherlock & CAConrad: The B. Franklin Basement Tapes

2005-11-30T12:42:00.000-05:00

Nexus Foundation for Today's Art (137 N. 2nd St.) is featuring our audio installation, entitled The B. Franklin Basement Tapes. The collaborative piece is part of the gallery's Benjamin Franklin: American Idol exhibit to commemorate Franklin's 300th birthday. The show runs through January 2006, & will offer website access to many of the works via podcast. The opening reception is December 2, 5-9pm. We welcome you to stop by & listen. You may see our street team on your way to Nexus, handing out fliers & hyping the project, thus participating in the show beyond the gallery walls. Hope to see you there.

Frank Sherlock & CAConrad: The B. Franklin Basement Tapes
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Be cupid to world government. - “Pops” Lonnie Lynn

The B. Franklin Basement Tapes is a lo-fi response to the institutionalization of the Franklin myth. On the occasion of the 300th birthday of this visionary rebel & sexy nerd, much will be made of Franklin the statesman, the writer, the founder of services, and of course- the inventor. Rather than exalting the larger-than-life creator alongside his voluminous discoveries, we choose to take it back to the beginning. We channel Benjamin Franklin, DIY Idea Man. Mythology has a life of its own, establishing vertical relationships and hierarchical systems. But before mythology, there was/is the seed. Since we've yet to discover the Franklin Sun Recordings or Ben's Woodstock Years, The Basement Tapes document the kinds of beginnings that propelled Franklin to rock star status. Before the marble busts and the institutes, there were moments- as basic & genius as re-imaginations of the present.

The project can alternately be known as The Be Franklin Basement Tapes. In the spirit of the democratic thinker, these dream liberator exercise tapes can be worked out in basements all over the world. The poems are instructions to coronate our private parts. Make new musical instruments. Develop new ways of communicating subversions. Be a douser of flames. Make up lies & stoke revolts. This kind of urban planning & good-natured treason requires no degrees, and no academic pedigree. Franklin stopped schooling at age eleven and started studying margins, where all things are visible/possible. The Basement Tapes are not an homage to The Great Genius, but a recognition of the G-E-N-I-U-S that is not born & does not die. Today is your birthday. Be Franklin.

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To Baltimore!

2005-11-30T12:30:00.000-05:00

Saturday December 17 i.e. Reading Series presents
CAConrad, Tina Darragh & Frank Sherlock
Red Emma's 800 St. Paul Street, Baltimore 7pm

2005-08-20T17:00:00.000-04:00