Eileen Tabios engages with COMMON TIME

I can see that you're feeling a bit out of sorts.  You can't put your finger on what's the matter, but you're misspeaking, dropping things, and all day it's felt like Thursday, when it's actually Friday.

Maybe it's the nearness of Christmas and your inexplicable fear of reindeer.  Or perhaps the weather is changing--it being December--and your wardrobe won't accommodate the cold.  Or maybe you're having your midlife Flowers for Algernon moment, and this is the beginning of some awful, drawn-out neurological decline.

But what if I told you that I had the cure for it all?  The one thing on earth that would make you feel like Friday on Friday?  Well, friends, I have just the thing: a beautiful engagement of Common Time by Eileen Tabios, that fantastic poet and renowned oenophile, which appears in the scorching new number of Galatea Resurrects.  But don't take my word for it: get on over there and have a look for yourself. 

Eileen Tabios Engages Common Time by Chris Pusateri
http://galatearesurrection19.blogspot.com/2012/12/common-time-by-chris-pusateri.html?m=1

Every day is Christmas

The good people at the Brooklyn Rail have some newish poems up by yours truly, and the mysterious R(r)s over at oona, who have taken to reading books by candlelight while the lights are doused in the city, have some smarts to impart re: Common Time, a copy of which can be had for the rock-bottom, altruistic price of $9.99 over at SPD.  If you're a reviewer, you can get it for nothing--just drop me a line and I'll send you something to help pass the time until Con Edison gets its shit together. 

Calling all North Carolinians

Hey youse,

Michelle Naka Pierce and I will be reading for the So and So Series this Saturday with Christopher Janke and Betsy Wheeler.  It's our final junket of 2012, so come out and listen to some poetry, and if you're feeling surly or brave or both, take this last opportunity to give me hell.

poetry by Christopher Janke, Michelle Naka Pierce, Chris Pusateri, 

& Betsy Wheeler 

 Saturday * October 20 * Morning Times * 10 E. Hargett St. * Raleigh, NC

http://soandsomag.org/#/series-home/4565832790.

Christopher Janke's first book, Structure of the Embryonic Rat Brain, won the Fence Modern Poets Series prize. His poems have been published in Harper's, American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, A Public Space, Field, Forklift Ohio, Conduit, and dozens of other journals. He fixes laundry machines, tends bar, and hosts a yearly lost-and-found fashion show on 3rd Street in Turners Falls, Mass. Across the river in Greenfield, he stacks wood, cooks, writes poems, and edits manuscripts for Slope Editions, where he is VP and Senior Editor. His recent series of hybrid poem/sculptures called "of the of of the of" involve lots of plexiglas and vellum and explore the question: how do words attach to non-words? http://www.christopherjanke.com/.

Michelle Naka Pierce is the author of Continuous Frieze Bordering Red (2012), awarded Fordham University's Poets Out Loud Editor's Prize; She, A Blueprint (2011) with art by Sue Hammond West; Beloved Integer(2007); TRI/VIA (2003), co-authored with Veronica Corpuz; and several chapbooks. Pierce has collaborated with artists, dancers, and filmmakers and performed internationally, most recently in France. Her work has been translated into French, Spanish, Japanese, and Hebrew. Born in Japan, Pierce currently teaches in and directs the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University in Boulder, CO.

Chris Pusateri is the author of several books of poetry, most recently Common Time (Steerage Press, 2012) and Molecularity (Dusie, 2011). His work appears in many journals in the US and abroad, including Chicago Review, Fence, Jacket, Verse and others.  In spring 2012, he was a visiting artist at La Kunsthalle Mulhouse in France, where he performed as part of their Locus Metropole exhibition. A librarian by trade, he works in Denver, where he reviews new poetry and fiction titles for Library Journal and curates the Belmar Film Series, a free public program that showcases independent cinema.

Betsy Wheeler is the author of the poetry collection Loud Dreaming in a Quiet Room, and Start Here, a poetry chapbook. Her poems have appeared in notnostrums, Bat City Review, Forklift Ohio, The Journal, and elsewhere. From 2005-2007, she served as the Stadler Fellow at Bucknell University. She is editor of the limited-edition poetry chapbook publisher Pilot Books, and Managing Director of the Juniper Summer Writing Institute. Visit her website (http://louddreaming.com) or read a poem.

THE GLEAMING ROOFTOPS AT SUNDOWN

Howdy troupers,

We’ll be making a crash landing in New York this Sunday, Sept 16^th at 5:30 at the Zinc Bar.  Michelle Naka Pierce and me, reading from new books, and a standing invitation from me to you, asking (no, scratch that) begging for your best, most considered verbal abuse!  Think of it: tell off a stranger and get a reward!  What could be better?  Tell you what: why don’t you practice a couple of times in front of the bathroom mirror, and once you’ve worked yourself into a seething rage, come on down to the Zinc Bar and let me have it!

Sunday, September 16, 2012 @5:30pm

Chris Pusateri & Michelle Naka Pierce

Zinc Bar

82 W. Third Street

New York, NY 10012

Details at http://lungfull.org/zinc/

MICHELLE NAKA PIERCE was born in Japan. She is the author of seven titles, including She, A Blueprint (BlazeVOX, 2011) with art by Sue Hammond West and Symptom of Color (Dusie, 2011). Awarded the Poets Out Loud Editor's Prize, Continuous Frieze Bordering Red (Fordham UP, forthcoming 2012) documents the migratory patterns of the hybrid as she travels the floating borders in Rothko's Seagram murals. Pierce is associate professor and director of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University in Boulder, CO.

CHRIS PUSATERI is the author of several books of poetry, including Common Time (Steerage Press, 2012), Molecularity (Dusie, 2011), Anon (BlazeVox, 2008) and North of There (Dusie, 2007). His poetry and critical prose has appeared in many periodicals, including American Letters & Commentary, Boston Review, Chicago Review, Denver Quarterly, Fence, Jacket, Verse and many others. A librarian by trade, he works in Denver, where he reviews new poetry and fiction titles for Library Journal and curates the Belmar Film Series, a free public program that showcases independent and foreign-language cinema.

BECOME AN HONORARY KANSAN

If you haven't heard, I’m offering secret poetry gifts to anyone who comes to a reading and insults me memorably. Points awarded for style, delivery and originality. Oh, and volume--can't forget volume. All participants will receive a gift, none will be refused!

So link up with the latest leg in the Pusateri/Pierce traveling poetry circus by coming out to one of these spine-tingling events, and insult someone who can truly appreciate your abrasiveness.

Friday, August 24th at 7:30pm
Eleni Sikelianos, Chris Pusateri, Michelle Naka Pierce & others
$8/general; $5 members of BMOCA or Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art
1750 13th St
Boulder, CO 80302
More info @: http://www.bmoca.org/2012/06/the-art-of-ekphrasis/

Sunday, August 26th at 5pm
Chris Pusateri & Michelle Naka Pierce
Taproom Poetry Series
Eighth Street Taproom
801 New Hampshire Lawrence, KS 66044
More info @: http://taproompoetry.blogspot.com/

TELL ME OFF AND GET A GIFT

Hello poets and readers,

As some of you know, Michelle Naka Pierce and I are traversing the country this year, bringing avant-goodness to any group of people who will sit still long enough to listen. I'm also making a solemn promise to anyone good enough to attend one of our readings: if you approach me and say, in your most menacing voice "Give me my fucking gift, poet!," I will give you a secret poetry gift. Because we're all in the Olympic spirit, points will be awarded for maximizing the element of surprise and for the originality of your delivery; hence, the more points awarded, the greater the gift. And face it: it's been months since your last birthday, the heat is making you cranky, and there's nothing you'd like more than to tell someone off and be awarded a prize for it. So if you're in the Portland, OR area this Sunday, come on down and get your grouch on.

Chris Pusateri, Michelle Naka Pierce and Stephen Vincent read from new work
Sunday, August 12th @ 7:30pm
The Waypost
3120 N. William Ave
Portland, OR
Complete details and bios @ http://www.flim.com/spareroom/

Now, despite what Heisenberg says, you can't always be everywhere at once. So for those of you whose hearts are in Portland but whose corporeal forms are in Denver or Boulder, let me strongly recommend that you drop by Innisfree Poetry Bookstore, to check out the inimitable Debrah Morkun, author of The Ida Pingala and Projection Machine, both by BlazeVox. She's appearing with j/j hastain.

Debrah Morkun & j/j hastain
Saturday, August 11, 2012 @ 4pm
Innisfree Poetry Bookstore
1203 13th St, Ste A
Boulder, CO 80302
More info @ http://www.innisfreepoetry.com/

Because You Have Excellent Taste

Michelle Naka Pierce and I will read for Nick Demske's Bonk Performance Series this Saturday, July 28th at 6pm. For those of you in the Racine-Kenosha-Northern IL area, or for anyone passing through, here are the details.

Here's a promise: If you come to the reading and utter the words, "Give me my fucking gift, poet!" I will give you a secret poetry gift.

Michelle Naka Pierce, Chris Pusateri, Debra Hsueh & Nick Ramsey
Saturday July 28th @ 6pm (doors open at 5:30)
Racine Arts Council
316 6th St
Racine, Wisconsin
6pm (doors open at 5:30)
More info @: http://bonkperformanceseries.wordpress.com/

Chris Pusateri & Michelle Naka Pierce Read in Philadelphia, Sun 7/8 @ 7pm

Hello all,

Michelle Naka Pierce and I will read in Philadelphia this Sunday with Kari Larsen and Jaime Fountaine. Details are below, and we'd love to see you if you're free.

Sunday, July 8th @ 7pm
Jubilant Thicket Literary Series
Robin's Book & Moonstone Arts Center
110A South 13th Street
Philadelphia, PA
more info at: jubilantthicket.blogspot.com/

JAIME FOUNTAINE lives and writes in Philadelphia, where she is often found politely discussing her age and valid state-issued identification with the clerks at the liquor store.

KARI LARSEN is the author of Say you're a fiction (Dancing Girl), the Black Telephone (Unthinkable Creatures), and Come as Your Madness (Birds of Lace). More information on these and other projects can be found at www.cold-rubies.com.

MICHELLE NAKA PIERCE was born in Japan. She is the author of seven titles, including She, A Blueprint (BlazeVOX, 2011) with art by Sue Hammond West and Symptom of Color (Dusie, 2011). Awarded the Poets Out Loud Editor's Prize, Continuous Frieze Bordering Red (Fordham UP, forthcoming 2012) documents the migratory patterns of the hybrid as she travels the floating borders in Rothko's Seagram murals. Pierce is associate professor and director of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University in Boulder, CO.

CHRIS PUSATERI is the author of several books of poetry, including Common Time (Steerage Press, 2012), Molecularity (Dusie, 2011), Anon (BlazeVox, 2008) and North of There (Dusie, 2007). His poetry and critical prose has appeared in many periodicals, including American Letters & Commentary, Boston Review, Chicago Review, Denver Quarterly, Fence, Jacket, Verse and many others. A librarian by trade, he works in Denver, where he reviews new poetry and fiction titles for Library Journal and curates the Belmar Film Series, a free public program that showcases independent and foreign-language cinema.

Upcoming Readings in France

Next week, I'll be headed to France for the Lex-ICON Conference at Upper Alsace University in Mulhouse, stopping in Paris along the way. For those of you who are local or making the trip, Michelle Naka Pierce & I will be reading at the following events.

Tuesday, June 5th @7pm
Berkeley Books of Paris
8 Rue Casimir Delavigne (Métro Odéon), Paris
Chris Pusateri, Michelle Naka Pierce and Alexander Dickow read from new work


Thursday, June 7th @ 8:30
La Kunsthalle Mulhouse, 16 rue de la Fonderie, Mulhouse, FR
8 Rue Casimir Delavigne (Métro Odéon), Paris
Chris Pusateri performs with Gisela Hochuli (Suisse), Démosthène Agrafiotis (Grèce), Valentine Verhaeghe (France), Alessandro De Francesco et Caroline Zekri (Italie) and Michelle Naka Pierce (États-Unis)

There will be another reading on the evening of June 10th in Mulhouse, in conjunction with Lex-ICON. Details shortly.

Book Launch This Thursday

For those of you in the Denver/Boulder area, come celebrate the publication of Continuous Frieze Bordering Red by Michelle Naka Pierce and Common Time by Chris Pusateri.

Thursday, April 26, 2012 at 7:00 pm

Innisfree Bookstore and Cafe

1203 13th Street Suite A, Boulder, CO 80302

Book signing following the readings.

Born in Japan, Michelle Naka Pierce is the author of seven titles, including She, A Blueprint (2011), Beloved Integer (2007), and TRI/VIA (2003). Awarded the Poets Out Loud Editor’s Prize, Continuous Frieze Bordering Red (Fordham, 2012) documents the migratory patterns of the hybrid as she travels the floating borders in Rothko’s Seagram murals. She is associate professor and director of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University in Boulder, CO.

Chris Pusateri is the author of several books of poetry, most recently Common Time (Steerage Press, 2012), and Molecularity (Dusie, 2011). His poetry and critical prose appear in many periodicals, including American Letters & Commentary, Boston Review, Chicago Review, Denver Quarterly, Fence, Jacket, Verse and others. A librarian by trade, he works in Denver, where he reviews new poetry and fiction titles for Library Journal and curates the Belmar Film Series, a free public program showcasing independent cinema.

THE TREES ARE SCREAMING

Common Time
by Chris Pusateri
Normal, IL: Steerage Press
Release date: February 22, 2012
106pps
ISBN: 0983632626 ISBN-13: 9780983632627
Price: $9.99 (paper)

Hot off the press, with a beautiful cover by HR Hegnauer, and a steal at only $9.99. The superlatives below will tell you all about it, and you can order from these guys until SPD has copies available, which should be soon. For those of you who don’t delight in the sound of trees screaming, a Kindle edition will also be released shortly (and for only 99 cents!).

Originally conceived as three discrete books, Common Time takes pianist Glenn Gould’s notion of the two-take as its procedural centerpiece, soldering together sections from each of the three finished versions and combining them to make one final work. But unlike Gould’s idea of an authoritative masterwork built from multiple versions of an original piece, Chris Pusateri turns the telescope backwards, making of this brokenness a meditation on what it means to compose, to couple, to comprehend.

“Common Time is a ‘collection’ in the best sense, a self-consciously accretive book; here, meanings precipitate out of the nonsense detritus of the working day and observations tighten into aphorism. Pusateri’s method exposes the paths that obstruct meaning and those that allow it to accrue: ‘There is a grid within/what we utter,/within phonemes, associations form/and dissolve like flies on bison.’ A humane, wise, and wicked smart book.”
– CATHERINE WAGNER