KOLM, RUTKOWSKI, AND WRIGHT AT LIT BALM 7/25!

KEITH, RUFFIN, AND OLIVAS AT LIT BALM 7/18

Genrebenders, join us for Lit Balm this Saturday at 5:00 pm EST for Fiction Night! We have a great show for you with Michael C. Keith, Maurice Carlos Ruffin and Daniel A. Olivas! Zoom in or watch us livestream on Facebook! https://www.facebook.com/events/282279926334981/

Lit Balm Founders' Reading with John Yau, Elaine Equi, and Jerome Sala

This Saturday July 4 at 5:00 EST: Founders' Reading - Marc Vincenz, Jonathan Penton and I will read, as well as special guests John Yau, Elaine Equi, and Jerome Sala! Be sure to check it out, either in the Zoom room or Facebook Live!
https://www.facebook.com/events/744556266363891/

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Reading Translations for Columbia University Harriman Institute

I will be reading my translations of Maria Galina virtually for Columbia University's Harriman Institute this Thursday at 3:00 pm EST in celebration of Anna Halberstadt's anthology of contemporary Russian poetry. Please join us for the webinar!

https://harriman.columbia.edu/event/virtual-event-anthology-contemporary-russian-poetry-translation

"Looking Back on the Future of Poetry"

Join me and my LIT BALM co-hosts Marc Vincenz and Jonathan Penton this Sat 6/6 at 5:00 pm for a stimulating panel featuring Robert Archambeau, Mark Scroggins, and Sally Connolly on "Looking Back on the Future of Poetry" plus open mic. Don't miss this lively episode of LIT BALM!

https://www.facebook.com/events/666541577235960/

LIT BALM FOUNDERS CELEBRATE NEW AMERICAN WRITING

LIT BALM presents a special reading celebrating issue 38 of New American Writing with readings by Paul Hoover, Maria Baranda (Mexico). Alexandria Peary plus open mic this Sat May 30 at 5:00 pm! The Lit Balm founders Marc Vincenz of MadHat, Jonathan Penton of Unlikely Stories and emcee Larissa Shmailo of the Feminist Poets in Low Cut Blouses.will also read. Be sure to join us!
Every Saturday at 5:00 pm EST.
Zoom https://us04web.zoom.us/j/461603228
Livestream at https://www.facebook.com/LitBalm
Website: www.litbalm.org
YouTube: LIT BALM

AMY KING, KEVIN GALLAGHER, JOANNA SOLFRIAN AT LIT BALM MAY 23

LIT BALM is thrilled to present Amy King, Kevin Gallagher, and Joanna Solfrian plus open mic this Sat May 23 at 5:00 pm! Be sure to join us! Our question for this reading is "Which books would you take to a desert island?"
LIT BALM is a new weekly interactive livestream reading series brought to you by Jonathan Penton of Unlikely Stories Mark V and Unlikely Books, Marc Vincenz of MadHat and New American Writing (Magazine), and emcee Larissa Shmailo of the Feminist Poets in Low Cut Blouses.
Every Saturday at 5:00 pm EST.
Zoom https://us04web.zoom.us/j/461603228
Livestream at https://www.facebook.com/LitBalm
Website: www.litbalm.org
YouTube: LIT BALM

LAVENDER, BURNS, AND THE NEW ORLEANS POETRY FESTIVAL AT LIT BALM MAY 16

We have a special show this week Saturday May 16, 5:00 pm East Coast time at LIT BALM - Jonathan Penton will be interviewing Bill Lavender and Megan Burns about the NEW ORLEANS POETRY FESTIVAL and there will be lively NOLA readings, too! Join us!

LIT BALM is a new weekly interactive livestream reading series brought to you by Jonathan Penton of Unlikely Stories Mark V and Unlikely Books, Marc Vincenz of MadHat and New American Writing (Magazine), and emcee Larissa Shmailo of the Feminist Poets in Low Cut Blouses.
Every Saturday at 5:00 pm EST.
Zoom https://us04web.zoom.us/j/461603228
Livestream at https://www.facebook.com/LitBalm
Website: www.litbalm.org

SVOBODA, FINKELSTEIN, AND BICHER AT LIT BALM MAY 9

LIT BALM is thrilled to present Terese Svoboda, Kristina Andersson Bicher, and special guest Norman Finkelstein plus open mic! Our question for this reading is "What are you reading?"
LIT BALM is a new weekly interactive livestream reading series brought to you by Jonathan Penton of Unlikely Stories Mark V and Unlikely Books, Marc Vincenz of MadHat and New American Writing (Magazine), and emcee Larissa Shmailo of the Feminist Poets in Low Cut Blouses.
Every Saturday at 5:00 pm EST.
Zoom https://us04web.zoom.us/j/461603228
Livestream at https://www.facebook.com/LitBalm
Website: www.litbalm.org

REVELL, LEASE, AND BLAIR AT LIT BALM MAY 2

Saturday May 2 at 5:00 pm. East Coast time, LIT BALM is thrilled to present Donald Revell, Joseph Lease, and David Blair plus open mic! Our question for this reading is "Who are your influences?"


LIT BALM is a new weekly interactive livestream reading series brought to you by Jonathan Penton of Unlikely Stories Mark V and Unlikely Books, Marc Vincenz of MadHat and New American Writing (Magazine), and Larissa Shmailo of the Feminist Poets in Low Cut Blouses.


Every Saturday at 5:00 pm EST.

Zoom https://us04web.zoom.us/j/461603228
Livestream at https://www.facebook.com/LitBalm
Website: www.litbalm.org

Annie Finch and Hari Alluri at LIT BALM April 25

This Saturday at 5:00 pm. East Coast time, LIT BALM is thrilled to present Annie Finch and Haril Alluri plus open mic! Our question for this reading is "Page or stage?"

Annie Finch is an award-winning feminist poet and writer, author of Spells: New and Selected Poems, The Poetry Witch Little Book of Spells, and Among the Goddesses, winner of the Sarasvati Award for Poetry. She has published influential books on poetry and edited numerous anthologies, most recently Choice Words: Writers on Abortion from Haymarket Books. Her poetry has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Paris Review, The Penguin Book of Twentieth-Century American Poetry, and onstage at Carnegie Hall. Based in Washington, DC, she travels to teach and perform. Visit her website and schedule of classes at www.anniefinch.com

Hari Alluri (he/him/siya) is the author of The Flayed City, Carving Ashes, and the chapbook The Promise of Rust. A winner of the 2020 Leonard A. Slade, Jr. Poetry Fellowship for Poets of Color and a co-founding editor of Locked Horn Press, his current projects are supported by grants from the BC Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts. His work appears recently in Anomaly, The Margins, Massachusetts Review, Poetry, Pulpmouth, and Quiddity, among others.

LIT BALM is a new weekly interactive livestream reading series brought to you by Jonathan Penton of Unlikely Stories Mark V and Unlikely Books, Marc Vincenz of MadHat and New American Writing (Magazine), and Larissa Shmailo of the Feminist Poets in Low Cut Blouses.
Every Saturday at 5:00 pm EST.
Zoom https://us04web.zoom.us/j/461603228

Livestream at https://www.facebook.com/LitBalm

Website: www.litblam.org

Holman, Amirthanayagam, Frost and You!

This Saturday April 18 at 5:00 pm East Coast time LIT BALM is thrilled to feature Bowery Bob Holman, Indran Amirthanayagam
and Carol Frost plus open mic. Our question for this reading is "How do you define poetry?"
LIT BALM is a new weekly interactive livestream reading series brought to you by Jonathan Penton of Unlikely Stories Mark V and Unlikely Books, Marc Vincenz of MadHat and New American Writing (Magazine), and Larissa Shmailo of the Feminist Poets in Low Cut Blouses.
Every Saturday at 5:00 pm EST.
Zoom https://us04web.zoom.us/j/461603228
Livestream at https://www.facebook.com/LitBalm

Sensitive Skin Reading 9:00 pm EST

Tonight at 9:00 pm EST at

https://zoom.us/j/964081398

LIT BALM - An Interative Livestream Reading Series

LIT BALM is a new weekly interactive livestream reading series brought to you by Jonathan Penton of Unlikely Stories Mark V and Unlikely Books, Marc Vincenz of MadHat and New American Writing (Magazine), and Larissa Shmailo of the Feminist Poets in Low Cut Blouses. This Saturday April 4 at 5:00 pm East Coast Time expect great writing, panels, special guests, chat, open mikes and YOU! Join the fun at https://us04web.zoom.us/j/949509843

Reading Wednesday Feb 5 at Jefferson Market Library

A reading tomorrow at the landmark Jefferson Market Library, Sixth Avenue at 10th Street, 6:00 pm FREE!

https://www.nypl.org/events/programs/2020/02/05/poetry-prose-prose-poetry-reading

AWP International Experimental Poetry Panel on ALTA Blog

Thanks to ALTA, the American Literary Translators Association, for listing our AWP event, Translating the the Untranslatable: A Reading of International Experimental Poetry with Marc Vincenz, Helene Cardona, Jennifer Kwon Dobbs, Michele Gil-Montero and moderated by me, on their blog.

Translation Events at AWP20

Posted on December 11, 2019 by rcldaum

Planning to come to San Antonio from March 4 – 7, 2020 for the Association for Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) conference to enjoy North America’s largest literary conference? Then be sure to check out this list of translation-related events! Take a peek and get planning today. 

Thursday, March 5, 2020

9:00 am to 10:15 am

Room 211, Henry B. González Convention Center, Meeting Room Level. Translating the Untranslatable: A Reading of International Experimental Poetry. (Larissa Shmailo, Marc Vincenz, Hélène Cardona, Michelle Gil-Montero, Jennifer Kwon Dobbs) From the manifestos of Breton to the wordplay of Stein to the fantastical lines of Borges, avant garde movements have always driven poetry into revolutionary directions. This panel offers a panoramic view of international experimental poetries by noted world translators from French, German, Korean, Russian, and Spanish (Latin American) poets of the 20th and 21st centuries. Intercultural and intersectional issues in translation will be discussed as panelists read from a range of avant poetries.

2019 Lit Roundup, with Gratitude

What a whirlwind year 2019 has been ! I have been honored to read with amazing poets and wrtiers this year at AWP and on tour for my new novel, SLY BANG. We blew up sex writing in Portland with Thaddeus Rutkowski, Jonathan Penton, Cecilia Tan, and the iconic Erica Jong; we auteured poetry editorship with Kwame Dawes, Marc Vincenz, Michael Anania, and Sam Truitt.
Wonderful Russians and Americans alike helped me celebrate SLY BANG this year - supporting my "psychosexual feminist ebullience " were readings by Annie Finch, Ron Kolm, Irina Mashinski, Anton Yakovlev, Regina Khidekel, Don Yorty, Anna Halberstadt, Andrey Gritsman, Thaddeus generously again, Dean Kostos, Michael T. Young, Stephanie Strickland, Alexander Veytsman, Elizabeth L. Hodges and the late great Steve Dalachinsky, who read on my birthday and picked (of course) the most experimental section to perform, brilliantly. Deep thanks to all the SLY BANG reviewers, incuding Jeff Hansen, Baron Drave, Kimberly Rae Lorenz-Copeland, and MCQ Michael W McHugh!
Many great pubs, including Annie Finch's upcoming blockbuster anthology, Choice Words: Writers on Abortion, Bernard Meisler's Sensitive Skin anthology, Anna Halberstadt's Russian edition of the Cafe Review, the St. Petersburg Review, KGB Lit, and many more. And unexpected and wonderful, thanks to Marie C Lecrivain for nominating me for Sundress Best of the Net in creative nonfiction!
Deep respect and love to my co-ediitor and legendary Russian translator, Philip Nikolayev, for his contributions to our new anthology, From Pushkin to Pussy Riot: Russian Political Poetry and Prose, as well as to our remarkable poets, essayists, and translators; blessings upon Virginia Konchan of www.MatterMonthly.com for hosting us wild Slavs.
Next year brings new forays into international experimental poetry, immigrant literature and the politics of resistance, more SLY BANG events, and vigorous political activism. Until then, happiest of holiday seasons and best literary wishes!

Bios of My Birthday Readers!

I am thrilled to be celebrating my birthday May 31 at Unnameable Books with readings by Steve Dalachinsky, Ron Kolm, Dean Kostos, Stephanie Strickland, and Michael T. Young. Here are their bios below.

Poet/collagist STEVE DALACHINSKY was born in Brooklyn in1946. His book “The Final Nite” (Ugly Duckling Presse - 2006) won the PEN Oakland National Book Award. His latest cds are “The Fallout of Dreams” with Dave Liebman and Richie Beirach (Roguart 2014), “ec(H)o-system” with the French art-rock group, the Snobs (Bambalam 2015) and the book/cd “Pretty in the Morning with the Snobs”(Bisou Records – 2019). He is a 2014 recipient of a Chevalier D’ le Ordre des Artes et Lettres. His recent books include “The Invisible Ray” (Overpass Press – 2016) with artwork by Shalom Neuman, “Frozen Heatwave”, a collaboration with Yuko Otomo (Luna Bissonte Prods 2017) and Black Magic (New Feral Press 2017) and The Chicken Whisperer (Positive Manets – 2018). His newest book “where night and day become one – the french poems” (great weather for MEDIA 2018) received a 2019 IBPA award in poetr

Ron Kolm's latest collection of poetry is Welcome to the Barbecue. He is an editor of the 6th Unbearables anthology, From Somewhere To Nowhere: The End of the American Dream and a contributing editor of Sensitive Skin magazine. He is the author of Divine Comedy, Suburban Ambush, Night Shift and A Change in the Weather. He's had work in Flapperhouse, Great Weather for Media, the Resist Much / Obey Little: Inaugural Poems to the Resistance anthology, Maintenant, Live Mag!, Local Knowledge, The Opiate and the Outlaw Bible of American Poetry. Ron’s papers were purchased by the New York University library, where they’ve been catalogued in the Fales Collection

Dean Kostos is a poet, translator, anthologist, and memoirist. He is the author of eight books. His collection, THIS IS NOT A SKYSCRAPER won the Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award, selected by Mark Doty. He was the recipient of a Rockefeller Foundation Cultural Innovation grant. His memoir, THE BOY WHO LISTENED TO PAINTINGS, will be released this fall.

Stephanie Strickland’s 9 books of print poetry and 11 co-authored digital poems have garnered Brittingham, Sandeen, di Castagnola, and Best of the Net awards. She has been granted National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities, and New York Foundation for the Arts fellowships. Her digital poems have been shown at the Library of Congress and the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Strickland’s work in print and multiple media is being collected by the Rubenstein Library at Duke University. How the Universe Is Made, a volume of New & Selected Poems, has just been published. http://stephaniestrickland.com

Michael T. Young’s third full-length collection, The Infinite Doctrine of Water, was long-listed for the Julie Suk Award. His previous collections are The Beautiful Moment of Being Lost and Transcriptions of Daylight. He received a Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, and the Jean Pedrick Chapbook Award for his collection, Living in the Counterpoint. His poetry, essays, and reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in numerous journals including The Los Angeles Review, One, The Smart Set, Rattle, and Valparaiso Poetry Review. His poetry has also been featured on Verse Daily and The Writer’s Almanac.

COME TO MY BIRTHDAY READING 5/31