PhillySound: new poetry

Poetry reading at Robin's Books (108 S. 13th Street):

Cathleen Miller will be reading with Michele Belluomini Tuesday, June 24, 6pm as part of the Moonstone reading series. Follow this link for more details: http://www.robinsbookstore.com/events/062408.html

I hope to see you there!

--cathleen

Brandon Holmquest sent me this link (to an article & video) of a Memphis transsexual named Duanna Johnson being SEVERELY BEATEN AND MACED by a police officer while in custody at the station. It's OUTRAGEOUS! Click HERE

All over our country transsexuals are treated like this, even in Philadelphia where the MURDER of Erika Keels STILL TO THIS DAY remains on the record as an accident! Erika (let us NEVER EVER FORGET) had just celebrated her 21st birthday when she was forcefully ejected from the car on North Broad Street and run over four times. The medical examiner's report confirms witness statements that in fact she was run over four times, yet the police allowed her murderer Rolland Buttons to go free. Buttons is STILL free, and when many of us gathered to protest, the chief organizers of the protest were literally run out of town.

"What would kari edwards think?" I think when watching this video of Duanna Johnson's beating? kari's blog was a BLOODBATH of information just like this. No one culled the brutality against transsexuals in such a way, and in doing so kari let us see JUST HOW BLOOD THIRSTY the world is to harm this inimitable and invaluable part of our human community. Click HERE to see kari's blog. And on the sidebar are her other two blogs you'll want to check out as well.

I'm so SICK from watching this video. And it makes me think of kari, and how much I miss her. And makes me think of Poodles, Patches, Lily, and SO MANY OTHERS who died of AIDS, suicide, and murder since I moved to Philadelphia in 1986. My good friend Marie Fontini and I went to drag show memorials for drag queens who were shot and killed by skinheads at the corner of 12th & Spruce, and none of these murders were ever solved.

When I was a kid fresh on the scene here in Philly, it was the drag queens living in my building who took me under their wing, gave me advice, showed me how to have your eyes all around you when walking the streets. They were these older, wise goddesses, elegant, and like no one I had ever met, and most of them are now gone because they didn't see the bullets coming, or, or whatever else. But I feel a stronger, more beautiful person for having known them.

It's sad, and shakes me up when I realize how sanctioned such brutality appears to be!

CAConrad

Boog City presents

d.a. levy lives: celebrating the renegade press

ixnay press
(Philadelphia)

Tues. June 24, 6:00 p.m. sharp, free

ACA Galleries
529 W. 20th St., 5th Flr.
NYC

Event will be hosted by
ixnay press editors
Chris and Jenn McCreary


Featuring readings from

Jen Coleman
Brenda Iijima
Jenn McCreary


with music from

Brian Speaker


There will be wine, cheese, and crackers, too.

Curated and with an introduction by Boog City editor David Kirschenbaum

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**ixnay press
http://www.ixnaypress.com

For a decade, ixnay press has been a Philadelphia-based publisher of experimental writing, including chapbooks, a staple-bound journal, and the ixnay reader, a perfect-bound, semi-regular mini-anthology. Information about the press, including pdfs of past publications, can be found at the above website.


*Performer Bios*

**Jen Coleman
http://chax.org/eoagh/issue3/issuethree/coleman.html
http://www.ixnaypress.com/the_ixnay_reader.html

Jen Coleman is the author of numerous chapbooks, and has poems online at EOAGH and in volume two of the ixnay reader (see above) links), as well as in print journals such as Chain. Her blog, http://jencolemanreading.blogspot.com is chock full o’ goodness, but it still doesn’t match seeing her read live.

**Brenda Iijima
http://yoyolabs.com/

Brenda Iijima is the author of Animate, Inanimate Aims (Litmus Press) and Around Sea (O Books). If Not Metamorphic was runner up for the Sawtooth Prize and will be published by Ahsahta Press. She is the editor of Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs. Together with Evelyn Reilly she is editing a collection of essays by poets concerning poetry and ecological ethics titled, )((eco (lang)(uage(reader). She is the art editor for Boog City as well as a visual artist. She lives in Brooklyn, New York where she designs and constructs homeopathic gardens.

**Jenn McCreary
http://www.asu.edu/pipercwcenter/how2journal/

Jenn McCreary lives in Philadelphia where she co-edits ixnay press with Chris McCreary and works for the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program. She is the author of two chapbooks, errata stigmata (Potes & Poets Press) and four o'clock pocket chiming (BeautifulSwimmer Press), and of a doctrine of signatures (Singing Horse Press). Her new collection, :ab ovo:, is forthcoming from Dusie Press. A portion of the manuscript can be found online at How2 (see above link).


**Brian Speaker
http://www.brianspeaker.com

Brian Speaker is a colorful singer/songwriter blending acoustic, Americana, pop rock and folk.

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Directions: C/E to 23rd St., 1/9 to 18th St.
Venue is bet. 10th and 11th avenues

[ posted by Chris McC ]

REVIEW by Mr. Filreis!

(posted by CAConrad)

Gina Myers' Lame House Press is featured in this month's Venus Zine. Gina's published some of my favorite recent chapbooks, including Dustin Williamson's Cab Ass'n and Arlo Quint's Photogenic Memory. I heard Kate Greenstreet read from her upcoming This is Why I Hurt You and I can't wait to see it. It's now available for pre-order.

For a good number of years I corresponded w/ Cid Corman. I'd mark the calendar exactly two weeks from the day I sent my letter off to Kyoto. An aerogramme would be in my mailbox to the day almost every time- three sides of type that are brilliant, sometimes crazy & always rich with poetic history and connection. Fran Ryan & I would call each other the day our letters came in & read them over the phone. It was Cid's belief in the poets that came after the days of ORIGIN that kept him going. It was through these letters that I was put in touch with Joseph Massey, John Taggart, Tsering Wangmo Dhompa and many others.

TERRIFIC recordings by Dorothea Lasky and Thom Donovan from their collaborative poems "Deadpan," up on WEIRD DEER! Click HERE!

(posted by CAConrad)

Palm Press has just released Landscapes of Dissent: Guerilla Poetry and Public Space by Jules Boykoff and Kaia Sand.

My review on GENTLY READ is HERE today! This is an amazing book that Frank and Brett wrote, let's celebrate it as much as possible!

CAConrad