This Friday at AWP!

Plume MadHat White Pine Reading 2/10

Reading for Seattle AWP 2014 for Madhat and Fulcrum

Reading of my poems "In Paran," "Bloom," "Father of a Ghost (after Stephen Dedalus's Theory of Hamlet), and "Letter to Lermontov." Video by Jonathan Penton
Madhat/Fulcrum Seattle 2014 AWP reading

I will guest edit Cardinal Points 6 - call for work

I'm delighted to serve as guest editor for issue 6 of the splendid journal Cardinal Points. The reading period starts immediately and ends on August 31, 2015. The issue will come out in February of 2016 and will be presented at AWP in LA.

 Please send your work as a Word file to lshmailo@stosvet.net with CP6 in subject line.
For the kind of work we are looking for, please refer to http://www.stosvet.net/cardinalpoints.html
and if you still have any questions, please feel free to forward them to lshmailo@stosvet.net
 
Since 2014, Cardinal Points journal is being published in collaboration with MadHat Press.

http://www.stosvet.net/cardinalpoints.html

Call for work: Poetry, MadHat Annual

As poetry editor of MadHat Annual (formerly Mad Hatters' Review), I am pleased to invite your poetry submissions for our next issue. Please see the Submittable guidelines below. I look forward to reading you!

https://madhatter.submittable.com/submit/997

Compass Translation Award Ceremony

I'm please to be reading at the Compass Award-2014 Ceremony, which will take place at Poets House in New York, on Saturday, January 17 at 4:00 pm.

The presentation of Compass awards for Arseniy Tarkovsky translations will happen in conjunction with the launch of Volume 4 of Cardinal Points literary journal (presented by StoSvet Project, together with MadHat Press http://madhat-press.com/ and Russian-American Cultural Center http://www.russianamericanculture.com/ ).

This year's Compass Award Ceremony is dedicated to the memory of George Kline and Nina Cassian, both esteemed Cardinal Points friends and authors.

The poet for the 2015 contest will be announced at the Award Ceremony.

With questions concerning the event, please contact Alexander Veytsman, the Director of the Compass Award at compass@stosvet.net

I am the new poetry editor for MadHat Annual!

Dear friends, I am pleased to be joining the MadHat team as poetry editor for the amazing MadHat Annual. Thanks to editor-in-chief Marc Vincenz and team MadHat Alex Cigale, Jonathan Penton, and Clare L. Martin. More anon!

désolé de ne pas être avec vous (for Vladimir Nabokov’s Ada)*

mood: like a monarch’s genitalia
labeled under glass, I miss you (u).
when did you stop being my brot-
her (her), my lover, my tramp, my
scamp? Best incest, this fraternal/
maternal. Royalty did this, scions.
Now we are husband, huffed up,
and Hera-wife-strife. désolé de
ne pas être avec vous today and
as we once were, her/him, heard.

From #specialcharacters available now from Amazon and Unlikely Books.
*This poem appeared in MadHat 15: Eye on the World.

My Foreword to Shadows of the Future: An Otherstream Anthology, edited by Marc Vincenz

Foreword and Forewarned

There is, as Bob Grumman termed it, the knownstream; then there is the otherstream, a raging subterranean river of literary lava. It bursts through to an unsuspecting public in Warholian, beat, and Dadaesque and Sadean eruptions— a few readers live to tell the tale and the rest never know what hit them.

Welcome to Shadows of the Future. Here you have Chris Mansel and his he/she serial killers, Marc Vincenz's Swiss-Chinese eyes, Sheila Murphy ripping zen a new one, C. Brannon Watts with blood in his mouth, mIEKAL aND's Unglish, Annie Pluto's words entwined like lovers, Camille Baco's spare music, Marie-Marcia Casoly's fleshy skeletons, John M. Bennett's muy orthography, Sarah Sarai's mellifluous light, and Joani Reese's evanescence. Carol Novack calls from from the other side and Jack Foley calls from any coast he wants. Jeffrey Side's words looks knowlingly upon the festivities, Jukka-Pekka Kervinen's poems pulse like his recordings, and Susan Lewis's pivots the prose poetics at impossible new angles.

And there are more of us, of course, because Otherstream is more, even de trop, or monk minimalist, as it wants. Ask Jake Berry, who rules our online haunts like a happy Pluto handing out inheritances.

Yes, we are legion. Like it.

Otherstream is where every significant literature was born, midwifed by a writer who asked, looking at a new syntax and/or semantics, how can I write like that, never worrying about the may. Like all poets, but perhaps more extreme, we seek the new perspective, though our sense, sounds, and sentences, broken or not.

Ask me: May we write this way? Try to stop us

-Larissa Shmailo

Poems in Madhat

Thrilled to have my poems "désolé de ne pas être avec vous" and "Selene and Endymion" in the brilliant new Madhat Annual! Viva Marc Vincenz and Jonathan Penton (Unlikely Stories) and Clare L. Martin and everyone! http://www.madhattersreview.com/issue15/poetry_shmailo.shtml

Madhat Live Presents Two Extraordinary Readings This Friday and Saturday

I hope you will join me for two extraordinary readings.

First, this Friday, November 1 at Unnameable Books, 600 Vanderbilt Ave, Brooklyn, I am delighted to be reading with:

Terese Svoboda, author of five books of poetry, six novels, the 2007 Graywolf Nonfiction Prize-winning memoir Black Glasses Like Clark Kent, a book of translation, and over a hundred published short stories. She recently published two novels, Pirate Talk or Mermelade (Dzanc Books, 2010) and Bohemian Girl (Bison Books, 2011).

Yuriy Tarnawsky, author of twenty collections of poetry, eight books of fiction, seven plays, a biography, as well as numerous articles and translations, his English language books include the novel Three Blondes and Death, a collection of stories Short Tails, three collections of mininovels The Placebo Effect Trilogy, the play Not Medea, and Modus Tollens (Jaded Ibis).

Marc Vincenz, author ofThe Propaganda Factory, or Speaking of Trees (2011); Gods of a Ransacked Century (Unlikely Books, 2013), Mao's Mole (Neopoiesis Press, 2013) and forthcoming, Beautiful Rush (Unlikely Books, 2014) and a meta-novel, Behind the Wall at the Sugar Works (Spuyten Duyvil, 2014).

Marthe Reed, author of pleth (Unlikely Books, 2013), (em)bodied bliss (Moria Books 2013), Gaze (Black Radish Books) and Tender Box, A Wunderkammer (Lavender Ink), and forthcoming in 2014 Nights Reading (Lavender Ink). She publishes Black Radish Books with Nicole Mauro and with Jonathan Penton is Managing Editor of the newly revived journal Fulcrum Poetry.

Then Saturday, November 2, a fabulous line-up of FIVE POETS at Sidewalk on Avenue A and hosted by yours truly!!

Marc Vincenz and Marthe Reed (see above) and:

Susana Gardner is the author of the full-length poetry collections CADDISH (Xexoxial Editions, 2013), HERSO (Black Radish Books, 2011) and [ LAPSED INSEL WEARY ] (The Tangent Press, 2008). She recently left Zürich, Switzerland and moved to Rhode Island, where she also edits and curates the online poetics journal and experimental kollektiv press, Dusie.

Michael Ruby is a poet and journalist who lives in Brooklyn. He's the author of two poetry books, At an Intersection and Window on the City, and the editor of Washtenaw County Jail and Other Writings by David Herfort.

Ocean Vuong is the author of two chapbooks: No (YesYes Books, 2013) and Burnings (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2010), which was an American Library Association’s Over The Rainbow selection and has been taught widely in universities, both in America and abroad. A recipient of a 2013 Pushcart Prize, other honors include fellowships from Kundiman, Poets House, and the Saltonstall Foundation For the Arts.

I hope you will join us!

My prose poem, "Fall," appears on MadHat Lit

Read my poem, "Fall," on MadHat Lit

http://madhatlit.com/poem-by-larissa-shmailo/

or here:

Fall

(Note: Creation, as calculated by Bishop James Ussher, was the night preceding Sunday, October 23, 4004 BC —which means the fall, Eve’s fall, the day when she stared into the eyes of the saurian and said, yes, yes, I will, might have been an autumn day.)

Later that fall, knowing then the cold, the clothing of autumn air with leaves, always remembering the snake, his blandishments and begging, his coaxing: fall. And she goes down again to that place like warm down in the fallow recesses of this season of iridescent light playing on the water’s edge, dimming in the crepuscule over rotting apples, burst brown in the decaying arms of the fall; in this season unknown in the jejune days of the garden, where all was perpetually young, perpetually whole, without blemish or age, where gravity had no power and nothing needed to fail and fall in the imperfections of loss and overripe flesh.

The apples glisten in the dying sun. She sees a small viper dart into the pile of fruit.

The Carol Novack Tribute Party in Support of Tribes

For immediate release:

Contact:
Larissa Shmailo
212-712-9865
larissa_shmailo@yahoo.com

The Carol Novack
Christmas-Hannukah-Kwanzaa-Solstice-and-Atheists-Who-Love-to-Party
Tribute Party
A Gathering of the Tribes
285 East Third Street, Second Floor
New York City
Saturday, December 8, 7:00 pm to midnight
FREE! (Donation to MadHat and Tribes requested)

MadHat Honors Founder with Gala Event: The Carol Novack Christmas-Hannukah-Kwanzaa-Solstice-and-Atheists-Who-Love-to-Party Tribute Party December 8 at Tribes

MadHat honors its late founder, publisher, eclectic anti-genre writer, and lawyer Carol Novack, with a gala reading and party December 8 at New York City’s landmark multicultural arts center A Gathering of the Tribes. The event features such poetry luminaries as Andrei Codrescu, Cornelius Eady, Bob Holman, CA Conrad, Philip Nikolayev, Katia Kapovich, Steve Dalachinsky, Marc Vincenz, Larissa Shmailo, Sarah Sarai, and many others.

Leon Dewan of Dewanatron, whose Swarmatron was extensively featured in the movie The Social Network, and the Ubudis Duo, featuring cellist Jonathan Golove and Mexican musician Omer Tamez, will provide music for the evening. Posthumous collections by Hugh Fox, Primate Fox, and Carol Novack and Tom Bradley’s Felicia’s Nose will be launched in a party atmosphere with costumes, prizes, and holiday merriment.

The late Carol Novack was a writer who tested the boundaries of established literary genres and who founded the multimedia online journal Madhatters’ Review. Known for its antic, eclectic, and international spirit, the magazine quickly became a mecca for the avant garde in literature today. Today, MadHat is a book publishing press as well as a journal, led by publisher and editor-in-chief Marc Vincenz.

In the spirit of Novack, who was also a lawyer and activist who championed the arts and underrepresented causes, the Carol Novack tribute party is being held at A Gathering of the Tribes in support of poet and mentor Steve Cannon. Cannon’s Tribes is one of the few remaining institutions committed to poetry in a neighborhood once known for poetry and the arts. The embattled arts organization is currently fighting eviction from its longtime home in Manhattan’s Lower East Side.

The Carol Novack gala features some of the most important voices in cutting-edge literature. Andrei Codrescu founded Exquisite Corpse: a Journal of Books & Ideas in 1983 and has taught literature and poetry at Johns Hopkins University, University of Baltimore, and Louisiana State University where he was MacCurdy Distinguished Professor of English. He has been a regular commentator on NPR's All Things Considered since 1983, and received a Peabody Award for writing and starring in the film Road Scholar.

Cornelius Eady is the author of seven volumes of poetry inspired by blues and jazz. Recently awarded honors include the Strousse Award from Prairie Schooner, a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Award, and individual Fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Bob Holman is an American poet most closely identified with the oral tradition, spoken word, and slam poetry. As a promoter of poetry in many media, including the legendary Bowery Poetry Club, Holman’s current project is a PBS special on endangered languages. He is a visiting professor at Columbia University.

“The son of white trash asphyxiation,” CA Conrad’s childhood included “selling cut flowers along the highway for my mother and helping her shoplift.” He is the author of several popular books of poetry including The Book of Frank and is a 2011 PEW Fellow, a 2012 RADAR and UCROSS Fellow, and a 2013 Banff Fellow.

Philip Nikolayev and Katia Kapovich, husband and wife, are Russian émigrés bilingually active in literature in both the United States and the Russian Federation. Considered leaders in the experimental poetry movement, they are publishers of the landmark literary annual Fulcrum.

In keeping with MadHat’s international outlook, new publisher and executive editor Marc Vincenz was born in Hong Kong to Swiss-British parents. An English-German bi-lingual collection of his poems Additional Breathing Exercises is to be released by Wolfbach, Zurich (2013) and a full-length collection, Mao’s Moles, is forthcoming from NeoPoiesis Press (2013). Marc is Executive Editor of MadHat Press and Mad Hatters’ Review.

Larissa Shmailo is an award-winning poet and a Russian translator known for her original zaum translations of Alexei Kruchenych. Her books and CDs include The No-Net World and In Paran.

Please read the Carol Novack Tribute issue of Madhatters’ Review at here

The Carol Novack Christmas-Hannukah-Kwanzaa-Solstice-and-Atheists-Who-Love-to-Party Tribute Party is a free event. Donations will be requested in support of MadHat and A Gathering of the Tribes. Wine and beer will be sold, with proceeds to go to MadHat and A Gathering of the Tribes.

For more information about the event, which will be recorded for the television show Poetry Thin Air, please contact Larissa Shmailo at 212-712-9865 or larissa_shmailo@yahoo.com

The Carol Novack Christmas-Hannukah-Kwanzaa-Solstice-and-Atheists-Who-Love-to-Party Tribute Party
A Gathering of the Tribes
285 East Third Street, Second Floor
New York City
Saturday, December 8, 7:00 pm to midnight
Free!(Donation requested)

SAVE THE DATE! MadHat presents: The Carol Novack Christmas-Hannukah-Kwanzaa-Solstice-and-Atheists-Who-Love-to-Party Tribute Party

• Readings by Andrei Codrescu, Cornelius Eady, CA Conrad, Philip Nikolayev, Katia Kapovich, Howie Good, Lee Ann Brown, Marc Vincenz, Susan Lewis, Larissa Shmailo, Brendan Lorber, Bill Yarrow, Rafael Urweider, Gretchen Primack, Sarah Sarai, Patricia Carragon, Tom Bradley, and a heavenly host

• Music of the spheres by Dewanatron (The Social Network) and the Ubudis Duo (Jonathan Golove and Omer Tamez)

• Launch and ascension of Hugh Fox’s Primate Fox and Carol Novack and Tom Bradley’s Felicia’s Nose

• Art by MadHat's Artistic Souls

• Angelic ale and wine

And much, much more! Costumes encouraged.

Saturday, December 8, 7:00 p.m. until late. A Gathering of the Tribes 285 E. 3rd Street (between C&D) Contact: 212-712-9865 /Larissa_Shmailo@yahoo.com