Amazing reading October 9 at 7 pm.

You know a reading is good if we're telling you about it this far in advance! The details:

Priscilla Becker’s first book of poems, Internal West, was the winner of The Paris Review book prize. Her poems have appeared in Fence, Open City, Boston Review, The Paris Review, Raritan, American Poetry Review, and other journals. Her collection, Stories That Listen, was released from Four Way Books in the fall of 2010. She has completed her third book, Pure Brown, a chapbook A Very Young Black Hole, and a collection of essays: Morbid Dyslexia.

Joshua Mehigan's first book, The Optimist, was a finalist for the 2005 Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, The Paris Review, and other periodicals. He is the recent recipient of Poetry magazine’s Editor’s Prize for Feature Article, and of a Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. His second book, Accepting the Disaster, is forthcoming from Farrar, Straus and Giroux in spring 2014.

John Poch’s most recent book, Dolls, a collection of poems, was published in September 2009 with Orchises Press. Two Men Fighting with a Knife (Story Line Press 2008) won the Donald Justice Award. His first book, Poems, was published in January 2004 from Orchises Press and was a finalist for the PEN/Osterweil prize. Poch was a recipient of the “Discovery”/The Nation Prize in 1998. He has published poems in Ploughshares, Paris Review, The New Republic, Yale Review, Iowa Review, Agni, and many other literary magazines.

Reading Thursday, June 6, at 7 pm.

Three amazing poets are coming in in a couple months to read. The details:

D. Nurkse is the author of ten books of poetry, most recently A NIGHT IN BROOKLYN. He received a Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Philip Fried’s most recent book, EARLY/LATE: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS (Salmon, 2011), was called “skillful and memorable” by Publishers Weekly. In the fall of 2013, Salmon will bring out INTERROGATING WATER AND OTHER POEMS.

Tim Liardet has produced seven collections of poetry. His third collection Competing with the Piano Tuner was a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation and short-listed for the Whitbread Poetry Prize and his fourth— To the God of Rain— a Poetry Book Society Recommendation for Spring 2003.The Blood Choir, his fifth collection, won an Arts Council England Writer’s Award as a collection-in-progress, was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation for Summer 2006 and shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize for best collection of that year. The Storm House, his seventh collection, was published by Carcanet in June 2011. Madame Sasoo Goes Bathing, a pamphlet, appears this year; his next full collection is due from Carcanet in September 2014; his New and Selected Poems, from the same publisher, in September 2015. He is Professor of Poetry at Bath Spa University, England.

Mary Tyler Moore trivia on May 9th at 7 pm.

Please join Jennifer Keishin Armstrong to celebrate the release of her book, MARY AND LOU AND RHODA AND TED, and to partake of (or just watch) a 'Mary Tyler Moore Show' trivia contest ... prizes include free subscriptions to Entertainment Weekly, books, T-shirts, and more!

The Facebook invite is here: http://www.facebook.com/events/174154896072707/

And more info on me/the book is here: http://jenniferkarmstrong.com/

Save the date.

On April 13 we'll participate in Green Flash's Park Slope pub crawl, featuring Belgian Blonde, Double Stout, Grand Cru, and West Coast IPA. Come by and flash it until you crash it!

Great Weather for Media reading Thursday, March 7 at 7 pm.

Great Weather For Media is excited to have two major New York area talents cross over the river with us to Brooklyn for our debut event at Pacific Standard. From Upstate New York, former Brooklynite Donald Lev returns to his old stompin' grounds and NYC's own Amy Leigh Cutler will strut her poetic brilliance as she has been from NYC to London.

ABOUT

Great Weather for Media is a new independent press based in New York City focusing on edgy and experimental poetry and prose.

DESCRIPTION

"Out of the mainstream and away from the tributaries!"

Innovative, quality writing from fearless writers everywhere in the world. Our first anthology, "It's Animal but Merciful", was published October 2012.

”An ambitious work, and a risky one, It’s Animal but Merciful finds common ground for a diverse group of poets in excellent craft and fearless voices…Read this book. Stick with it to the end. You will not be disappointed. You will be dazzled.” The Pedestal Magazine

http://greatweatherformedia.com/
http://www.facebook.com/great.weather

DONALD LEV

attended Hunter College, worked in the wire rooms of the Daily News and New York Times, drove a taxi cab for 20 years, and had a brief film acting career. He also worked for The Village Voice and operated the Home Planet Bookshop on the Lower East Side. Award achievements include the Madeline Sadin Award from New York Quarterly in 1973 and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Catskill Reading Society/Outloudbooks in 2003. Donald was Distinguished Visiting Poet for the Northeast Poetry Center in Sugar Loaf, NY in 2012. In 2008 he put out The Darkness Above: Selected Poems 1968-2002. A chapbook, Only Wings: 20 Poems of Devotion was published in 2010, and a new collection, A Very Funny Fellow in 2012. Donald lives in High Falls, NY, where he spends most of his time publishing the literary tabloid Home Planet News, which he and his late wife Enid Dame founded in 1979.

http://www.homeplanetnews.org/

AMY LEIGH CUTLER

Author of "Orange Juice and Rooftops", and two chapbooks, "American Woman" and "You Gentle Thing", Amy has toured the U.S. and U.K., and is involved in the NYC slam poetry scene. "I do what I love; collaborate, tour, and lecture with artists from all over."

http://amyleighcutler.wordpress.com/
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKl9b6ZxvnA

Sixpoint Beer Week event February 23.

Once again, we've partnered with our good friends at Sixpoint, this time to do an event for NYC Beer Week. On the 23rd, we'll feature this lineup (tentative, but tentatively awesome):

Old Redhooker (rare; a blend of American and British barleywine flavors)
Spice of Life December (http://sixpoint.com/menus/sol2012-2013.pdf)
Spice of Life January (http://sixpoint.com/menus/sol2012-2013.pdf)
REDD (http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/10607/54928)
3Beans (http://sixpoint.com/blog/recent/3beans-is-here)
Mystery Tap Beer!

2 casks, to be determined but certainly excellent

Mark your calendars and come by any time on Saturday for an amazing selection of Brooklyn beer. The earlier, the better, since the rarer ones may kick quickly!

Elephant Rock Books fiction reading March 11 at 7 pm.

It's been a while since we've had a fiction reading, so we're thrilled to feature two very talented writers on March 11 at 7 pm.

Patricia Ann McNair will read from her award-winning collection The Temple of Air, which was the winner of the Devil’s Kitchen Award and the Chicago Writer’s Assn. Book of the Year.

Jacob Appel will read from his forthcoming novel The Biology of Luck. He's won the Tobias Wolff Award, The Journal Fiction Prize and the Walker Percy Prize.

Further info:

The Temple of Air was recently declared as The Chicago Writers Association’s Book of the Year in Traditional Fiction. It previously won The Devil’s Kitchen Reading Award in Prose and was a finalist for The Society of Midland Authors Award in Adult Fiction. In the manner of Winesburg, Ohio, McNair weaves the tragic, beautiful, secretive, and expectant lives of the townspeople of New Hope together to form a narrative that reveals more than just these characters themselves. The book unveils the story of a place, its inhabitants, and the tragedy and consequence that sometimes comes with simply living, in a way that only truly great fiction can. Find out more about this book at http://patriciaannmcnair.com/ or read the first chapter at http://erpmedia.net/books/TheTempleOfAir.html.

Jacob M. Appel has published short fiction in more than two hundred literary journals. His short story, Shell Game With Organs, won the Boston Review Short Fiction Contest in 1998. Another story, Enoch Arden's One Night Stands, won first prize in the New Millennium Writings competition in 2004. A third story, The Ataturk of the Outer Boroughs, won the William Faulkner-William Wisdom short story competition. Jacob has also won annual contests sponsored by Missouri Review, Arts & Letters, Briar Cliff Review, North American Review, Sycamore Review, Writers' Voice, the Dana Awards, the Salem Center for Women Writers, and Washington Square. His story about two census takers, Counting, was short listed for the O. Henry Award in 2001. Other stories received "special mention" for the Pushcart Prize in 2006 and 2007.