tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-242621582023-11-15T11:03:54.731-08:00Flarf Festival 2008April 24-26 at Dixon Place and the Bowery Poetry Club in New York City.Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06115441682219034891noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24262158.post-29053244939222282572008-04-24T06:07:00.000-07:002008-04-12T19:11:54.303-07:00FLARF IS LIFE<a href="http://flickr.com/photos/poetrycomics/2368878813/sizes/o/"><img style="width: 406px; height: 231px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2276/2368878813_629f409e94.jpg" height="177" width="408" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);font-size:130%;" ><strong>2008 Holistic Expo & Peace Conference<br /></strong></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><strong>THURSDAY, APR 24, 8:00 P.M., DIXON PLACE, 258 BOWERY, $8</strong></span><br /><span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Film, neo-benshi, and theater by:</span><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />Brandon </span><strong style="font-weight: bold;">Downing</strong>: Two new short films<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Rob </span><strong style="font-weight: bold;">Fitterman:</strong><strong> </strong>Film: Bisquick / Bismarck<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Nada </span><strong style="font-weight: bold;">Gordon: </strong>Neo-benshi: "Uzumaki"<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Mitch </span><strong style="font-weight: bold;">Highfill</strong>: Play: "The Secret History of the '60s"<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Rodney </span><strong style="font-weight: bold;">Koeneke: </strong>Neo-benshi: "Mary Poppins"<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Michael </span><strong style="font-weight: bold;">Magee: </strong>Play: "William Logan: A Sedentary Life"<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">K. Silem </span><strong style="font-weight: bold;">Mohammad</strong><span style="font-weight: bold;"> & Gary </span><strong style="font-weight: bold;">Sullivan: </strong>Play: "Chain: A Dialog"<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Kim </span><strong style="font-weight: bold;">Rosenfield</strong>: Neo-benshi: "Meglio Stasera / The Libido Theory"<br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><strong>FRIDAY, APR 25, 7:00 P.M., 300 Bowery, buzz "Sherry/Thomas," FREE</strong></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Publication party for new books and DVDs by:</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><strong style="font-weight: normal;"></strong><span style="font-weight: bold;">Brandon Downing:</span> Dark Brandon (DVD)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Mitch Highfill:</span> Moth Light<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sharon </span><strong style="font-weight: bold;">Mesmer: </strong><strong style="font-weight: normal;">Virgin Formica</strong><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">K. Silem </span><strong style="font-weight: bold;">Mohammad: </strong><strong style="font-weight: normal;">Breathalyzer</strong><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Mel </span><strong style="font-weight: bold;">Nichols:</strong> Bicycle Day<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Rod </span><strong style="font-weight: bold;">Smith: </strong><strong style="font-weight: normal;">Deed</strong><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Gary </span><strong style="font-weight: bold;">Sullivan</strong><span style="font-weight: bold;">: </span>PPL in a Depot<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><strong>SATURDAY, APR 26, 6:00 P.M., BOWERY POETRY CLUB, 308 BOWERY, $8</strong></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">A Segue reading to </span><strong style="font-weight: bold;">benefit</strong><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Bowery Arts and Sciences, featuring:</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Shanna </span><strong style="font-weight: bold;">Compton</strong><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Katie </span><strong style="font-weight: bold;">Degentesh</strong><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Benjamin </span><strong style="font-weight: bold;">Friedlander</strong><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Drew </span><strong style="font-weight: bold;">Gardner</strong><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Nada </span><strong style="font-weight: bold;">Gordon</strong><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Mitch </span><strong style="font-weight: bold;">Highfill</strong><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Rodney </span><strong style="font-weight: bold;">Koeneke</strong><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Michael </span><strong style="font-weight: bold;">Magee</strong><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sharon </span><strong style="font-weight: bold;">Mesmer</strong><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">K. Silem </span><strong style="font-weight: bold;">Mohammad</strong><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Mel </span><strong style="font-weight: bold;">Nichols</strong><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Eiríkur Örn </span><strong style="font-weight: bold;">Norðdahl</strong><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">James </span><strong style="font-weight: bold;">Sherry</strong><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Rod </span><strong style="font-weight: bold;">Smith</strong><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Christina </span><strong style="font-weight: bold;">Strong</strong><br /><br />With music by the <strong>Drew Gardner Orchestra</strong> and <span style="font-weight: bold;">The Saw Lady</span>. Hosted by Brandon Downing and Gary Sullivan.<br /><br /><strong>This benefit reading will help keep Segue readings at an affordable $6.</strong>Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06115441682219034891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24262158.post-25021397012036877372008-04-23T06:04:00.000-07:002008-04-12T18:37:04.496-07:00A PRIVILEGE"And if I hear one more teenager<br />stand up in church and say,<br />'These people had so little,<br />and now I'm so thankful<br /><br />"'I think I'm going to puke<br />the eyes of exploited workers<br />on an atlas<br />I'm so thankful now for all I have.'<br /><br />"Society will be tired<br />of being nice someday.<br />People will forget<br />what people look like."<br /><br />He took his teenagers<br />to a local homeless shelter<br />and told the director:<br />"I prefer clean toilets.<br /><br />"If you want my teenagers<br />to clean toilets,<br />then they will clean toilets.<br />An accessible clean toilet is a privilege.<br /><br />"The toilet should be dry and clean<br />and accessible by road from everywhere<br />and it should provide storage for the normally<br />difficult-to-store seasonal worker.<br /><br />"Toilet security is an emergency<br />matter in that apocalyptic cavern,<br />where more and more mouths open up<br />and all the lost align their eyes and ears.<br /><br />"Even if we do all become like animals<br />and our future is unearthed from ancient graves,<br />the height of the seat and the amount of turning<br />space within the stall still matter,<br /><br />"just like food continues to be<br />taxable, even if there will be no evil,<br />because the more we advance, the more<br />letters we write." Experts all over the world<br /><br />are thought to have become extinct,<br />so we will never know if honest, moral people<br />are truly conscious, or if it's just nerves:<br />either way, clean toilets change our hearts,<br /><br />the heart belongs to u<br />and it fills with special warmth<br />better than a bed of roses<br />to invite the hard work into the toilet.<br /><br />--Stan AppsGaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06115441682219034891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24262158.post-30586470881824900692008-04-22T07:00:00.000-07:002008-04-12T18:10:03.899-07:00JAMES JOYCE GONE WILD!just imagine the look on Benjamin Franklin's face. <br />Put that in your Poor Richard's Almanac, <br />and smoke it! <br /><br />Into the heavens and hells and boobs of forever!<br />Abraham Lincoln said. as he fell down. on Ben Franklin's mutilated corpse ... I think I could hook this Senate thing up, too.<br />My Interests are Boobs, big boobs, bigger boobs. and Ben Franklin.<br /><br />My point exactly... where are the boobs?<br />Ben Franklin stripteases being historically accurate<br /><br />"Me horny me love you long tim3e"<br /><br />--Mel NicholsGaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06115441682219034891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24262158.post-84227863716516342962008-04-21T18:18:00.000-07:002008-04-12T18:20:07.225-07:00RULES FOR DRINKING FORTIESSkip’s book highlights the people and events of the Hippy Movement<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">bitch stop calling me bitch you BITCH</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">when i woke up this morning there were six empty forties</span><br />It’s a great resource for hippies<br /><br />If you could vote for every feelgood in the “Weird” category<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Once the forties are empty, you can untape your hands</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">.</span>.. in the 1970s...fundamentally a cultural rather than a political protest<br />Skip’s book highlights the people and events of the Hippy Movement<br /><br />It’s a great resource for hippies<br />empty nesters in their late forties<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">We will be coming to Dallas this weekend</span><br />when I woke up this morning there were six empty forties<br /><br />Skip’s book highlights people and events of the Hippy Movement<br />the term is generally seen as pejorative<br />Do you have sound on your Web pages?<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Skip’s book highlights the people and events of the Hippy Movement</span><br /><br />If you were drafted by the hippy movement or the military, what would you do?<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Witch might shit out after six cans of creamed corn</span><br />Do you have sound on your Web pages yet?<br />i woke up this morning there were six empty forties<br /><br />‘Newhart’ Sidekick Dies at 85<br />Many of the houses lay vacant and have so for years<br />Skip’s book highlights the people and events of the Hippy Movement<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">when i woke up this morning there were six empty forties</span><br /><br />--Rodney KoenekeGaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06115441682219034891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24262158.post-18246292369313413972008-04-20T06:31:00.000-07:002008-04-12T18:10:48.384-07:00YANKEE DOODLE FUCK MACHINEI am a robot and I'm angry at people<br />I'm not wasting a vacation on a Boy Scout jamboree<br />the songs I can play are "Fur Elise,"<br />"The Entertainer," "Fuck You Becky," and "I'm Not Gay"<br /><br />Anne Murray is the ugliest boy<br />I have ever seen in my life<br />"he is optimistic that man will come out on top"<br />where the FUCK is my time machine<br /><br />regardless of how "indisputable" it may seem<br />to the fags or Arabs or whatever<br />we all have to have banks and as such banks get<br />to fuck up politics in America and the world<br /><br />"at night we ride through mansions of glory<br />in suicide machines ... and fuck them," Flaubert wrote<br />in his journal with a little riiipp! AUGH! whap whap<br />whap whap whap as he sat in his gold Rolls-Royce<br /><br />poems from Kansas don't have to be that crazy<br />one of them is "Yankee Doodle," the other one isn't<br />then cowboy change your ways today or with us you will ride<br />keep your stick on the ice, go fuck yourself<br /><br />there are over 100 words for "shit"<br />and only one for "fuck you"<br />and every one of the self-serve machines at Kinko's<br />is an Anne Of Green Gables pop-up dollhouse<br /><br />--K. Silem MohammadGaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06115441682219034891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24262158.post-61234132672327597902008-04-19T06:31:00.000-07:002008-04-12T18:32:17.885-07:00THE NEW YORK SCHOOLFist me! Cried Frank O'Hara and I did, shoved my own<br />bio so far up there he saw stars, fuckers that is, like<br />the next generation who only wanted blowjobs in the<br />off hours while printing facsimiles of their assholes on<br />mimeo. There is one true god, and he is dead and his<br />name is not pounding into and into…yes Butterick,<br />there is a revisionist inside me bc you too, are a twat.<br />Name dropping swill of a…your portrait gives me<br />thought, like a cock hanging below the knees, even.<br />Command preparation H. We are, after all, elitist<br />brick upon brick upon what once was two scenes<br />but now conflated. But as all tricks, it was heartless<br />and demanded more of my time and energy than was necessary ...<br /><br />--Christina StrongGaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06115441682219034891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24262158.post-29571482050051013922008-04-18T07:25:00.000-07:002008-04-12T18:29:56.839-07:00WHYStan is always horny, but he won't admit it.<br />He says it doesn't work for him<br />to say so on job interviews. Let him eat cake<br /><br />off my tongue I say<br />sooner or later<br />he'll get it, I mean<br />he'll get some satisfaction<br />by shouting it out to the world. Me?<br />I look up. "You have sausage<br />in your pants." "Yes, it needed<br />"Oh." And I go over and look<br />at a stonecutter hammering away<br />at his rock perhaps a hundred times<br />without getting a hand cramp. He has<br />these weird braces that make sex<br />difficult, and his room smells<br /><br />of Jeff. It's not a terrible smell, actually,<br />but it's definitely there. Also, there's no<br />soothing white space to stare at until he's finished.<br />"Celebrity Butt Crack Galleries"<br />are going<br />on on all fours. I drop The sausage<br />is finished. "Where's<br />All that's left is just remnants of oil<br />in hard-to-get spots, "It was too much,"<br />Stan says. Maybe for you! Me, I could eat<br />sausage all day. I'm pregnant and outrageously horny<br />and my husband's too busy for sexI'm horny!<br />Slang term for female masturbation<br /><br />--Benjamin FriedlanderGaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06115441682219034891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24262158.post-40107469358462758162008-04-17T06:35:00.000-07:002008-04-12T18:41:21.511-07:00THE MONITORReal feel™<br /> in the malathion light<br />not adrift with centaurs<br />not splattering,<br /> jailed<br />like an epidermis<br />in the center of fluorescence<br /> smelly<br /> Two small syllables<br />in sensurround with<br /> domineering<br /> men<br />I sway them with a low<br /> moist.<br /><br />Nothing moos.<br /><br />The horror groans<br /> retching outwards<br /><br />It's a bummer<br /> snidely mulling over<br />my fear – the pups dehydrate<br /><br />over lethargic strain –<br /><br />Great asses<br /> obscene convex<br /><br />clowns full of sex<br /><br />flatten<br /><br />the rogue dwarf blackens<br /><br />Tomorrow they'll behave<br />They'll spill out of their blouses<br />Tomorrow they'll wheeze<br /><br />Nothing moos.<br />The hovering barges<br /><br />and I the lone moron<br /><br />jailed<br />in the figure of the girlfriend<br /><br />If I stretch out my hand<br />the air is a spongy booty<br />a superfluous nameless bean<br /><br />I pee<br /><br />It is not tight nor the tights<br />of the loon<br /><br />It is not the irritants that<br />can be felt<br /><br />but a memory of corncobs<br /><br />This that I see,<br />this grinning<br /><br />in the flics and flacs<br /><br />behind it there is humming,<br />it is the girlfriend of days<br /><br />(Bony moon<br />bony bone)<br /><br />That eyeball<br />on the slum-colored lips<br /><br />I saw for an instant<br />true lies<br /><br />It had the face of breath<br />the same face<br />unsolved<br />in the same darkling pupils<br /><br />What you have breathed<br />You will unbreathe today<br /><br />I stimulate myself<br /><br />Leaning over the mnitor I see<br /><br />huge clowns and<br />a piece of croon<br /><br />all that is miserable here<br /><br />feeble mouses<br />the deep peasant<br /><br />concave like a glower<br />and all the miserable<br />cheer –<br /><br />my derision<br /><br />If this protuberance<br />is a protuberance<br /><br />It does not begin with "p"<br /><br />It begins with it<br /><br />It perpetuates itself in it<br /><br />leaning over the monitor<br /><br />It sees<br /><br />This wildlife that is so gross<br />It doesn't know what to call it.<br /><br />The light fondles<br />the pretty like a jelly mountain<br /><br />Sudden handstand falls into space<br />and the gerbil is flustered<br /><br />not to the ground<br /><br />to its vertigo<br /><br />to the center of its fluorescence<br />It was there<br /><br />I "have no idea" is where<br /><br />Not the chirped<br />lime<br />envaginating in<br />neurotic stanzas<br /><br />kite and loon<br />bombastic sounds<br /><br />flea-like fleas<br />rigorous face<br /><br />dimwits and violets in the air<br />a spurious crust that's fake<br /><br />The lights are on at the airport<br /><br />Uttering wrong from the<br />very start<br /><br />Grimaces<br /><br />"a milked-out stud<br />or vagabond floozy"<br /><br />on this glittering g-string<br />of words<br /><br />The sour silt – it –<br />that time hungers for.<br /><br />It's damnation<br /><br />Being itself<br /><br />in the air<br />it scribbles – on<br /><br />my navel.<br /><br />--Nada GordonGaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06115441682219034891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24262158.post-63657744627454787952008-04-16T18:56:00.000-07:002008-04-12T18:41:51.749-07:00THE POINT OF POETRY IS TO ENTRENCH FALSEHOODSbehold my sword, what you see at the vanishing point<br />is the first virgin ever, for I can see no fruits<br />but a McGuffin within a McGuffin<br />the news I'd like to point to<br />is the media saying they are sorry for the falsehoods<br />of the swift boat ads that<br />Tom Waits waged against my abs<br />it is only in pointed statements that no point inheres at any point<br />can you hear this?<br />we need to entrench the party<br />in the mass anti-party movement at every level.<br />such processes are littered with Victorian-gathering devices<br />piling up on dogmatic families even to acknowledge the evidence<br />that suggests that torture is not a reliable means of abortion<br />aestheticizes and abstracts Boston's paupers<br />almost to the point of ancient life<br />husbandry was once a sacred font<br />but most of the size savings come in at the margins of epic thought<br />taken for granted in a self-evident<br />hostile physical science as I am by pro-lifers<br />who complain that King Herod<br />used similar logic in ordering the slaughter of thousands of infant Jesuses<br />who are more valuable than other infants Jesuses because they<br />are more related to God.<br />that doesn't mean it's false,<br />as a social contract, falseness has an obligation<br />to follow the deer droppings wherever they may lead.<br />But that doesn't mean it's true, either ...<br />getting information from a friendly caterpillar<br />about how the international law prohibiting<br />torture in all circumstances should be relaxed<br />someone might save perhaps thousands of relaxations by this<br />some people make matters worse by<br />praising existence as excellent information interns<br />held by the poet to share the poet's experiences<br />with the rest of the world.<br />to knock us off in a response looking for opportunities<br />in the text or the next world, what would the distinction<br />between sentimentality and falsehood wish to be free of<br />when the only idiom in which germ warfare is okay<br />sees the future on a weaponized Church Lady<br />--they currently have more Cardinals then snow--<br />the point of life is to escape the drabness of our plain<br />and ponderous existence<br />the obliging daffodil and accurate television.<br />I shall not sing the endless songs<br />behind the pure arithmetic -- sorry<br />thank you for pulling the fire alarm<br />and getting me out of class.<br />it's good because it's helped me open to more<br />real-world people and more<br />insolently obvious statements about how we can readily be<br />miraculously condensed<br />one word like a bell<br />the undertone of fear<br /><br />--Drew GardnerGaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06115441682219034891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24262158.post-60100068812318159502008-04-14T06:25:00.000-07:002008-04-12T18:42:18.298-07:00C-BIZKIT & THE MAD-TWATTER<i>the word C-Bizkit was derived from the name craig<br />to form a word describing a fat, opinionated hippy<br /><br />who worships a man named jim and<br />invents annoying phrases<br /><br />such as "those freshmen are such twatsporks" or<br />"some one's got sand in his vagina"<br /><br />or "this is one turned on donkey<br />who doesn't enjoy Australia" nevertheless<br /><br />I feel like a can of smashed assholes so<br />it's important to madly twat<br /><br />Mad-Twatter<br />Thats a nice european clothing shop<br /><br />See ya Spring semester!</i><br /><br />--Rod SmithGaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06115441682219034891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24262158.post-37770836896486950342008-04-12T07:42:00.000-07:002008-04-12T18:42:46.573-07:00COMPONENTS FOR A SPACE-BASED KINETIC KILL VEHICLE (KKV)1. a bear trap<br />2. spy plane<br />3. an erection<br />4. Canadian biathelete<br />5. dong or wang<br />6. horrific vision<br />7. a puny shield<br />8. anal sex and cheesy poofs<br />9. the Alps against the cock<br />10. "you bend over and get the black bear experience"<br />11. a snook<br />12. a prescription drug benefit<br />13. cock sparrows<br />14. Klan member<br />15. used condom protecting Moscow<br />16. 6-foot high ice sculpture of a penis<br />17. a 1973 Texas statute<br />18. a lone Koala<br />19. physical closeness<br />20. loaded gun in teddy bear<br />21. Alabama Woman<br />22. a leash on dangerous dogs<br />23. Mel the aficionado<br />24. a young polar bear<br />25. grandparents' beef stick<br />26. elimination of debate<br />27. bunnypoker bear furniture<br />28. abused elephant's galactic vagina<br />29. Cock-fighting operation<br />30. Wal-Mart values<br />31. a hole<br /><br />--The Reverend Bob UnicornGaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06115441682219034891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24262158.post-2124080917738049962008-04-10T07:10:00.000-07:002008-04-12T18:43:57.019-07:00GRANDMOTHER'S EXPLOSIVE DIARRHEA<em>for <a href="http://blindelephant.blogspot.com/">Craig Santos Perez</a></em><br /><br />Callused, knobby, aching,<br />This is my grandmother's anus.<br /><br />Overworked, but always looking for more to do,<br />Wrenched open again & again<br />When it should stay closed.<br /><br />My grandmother’s explosive diarrhea<br />Resembles the sound of bowling balls<br />Dropped into a wooden tub<br />Filled with moist grapes and papayas.<br /><br />My grandmother’s anus has been working for 84 years,<br />This 110 pound woman, weak from<br />Dehydration, with strength pulsing from her anus like<br />The vein of an ox.<br /><br />Could my anus ever be like this?<br /><br />Could my anus ever experience the pain?<br />The glory?<br />The peace?<br /><br />Already my anus looks withered from<br />The flatulence and loose stools of my 45 years,<br />45 years of pampered life.<br /><br />But her every wrinkle tells a story,<br />Like waves of movement<br />That have expelled the feces.<br /><br />The Holocaust caused watery stools,<br />The depression caused near-catastrophic constipation,<br />The birth of 4 children caused waste rich with joy.<br /><br />Her rectum shows the grace of a swan and<br />The tenacity of a lioness.<br /><br />Could my rectum ever reach this ironic state?<br /><br />My grandmother’s anus soaked with wisdom,<br />Apprehension, and comfort.<br /><br />Buba’s explosive diarrhea is my afflation,<br />My goal,<br />My aspiration.<br /><br />--Gary SullivanGaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06115441682219034891noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24262158.post-29767167112046043682008-03-31T07:19:00.000-07:002008-04-12T19:12:43.840-07:00FLARF IS LIFE<a href="http://flickr.com/photos/poetrycomics/2368878813/sizes/o/"><img style="width: 406px; height: 231px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2276/2368878813_629f409e94.jpg" height="177" width="408" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);font-size:130%;" ><strong>2008 Holistic Expo & Peace Conference<br /></strong></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><strong>THURSDAY, APR 24, 8:00 P.M., DIXON PLACE, 258 BOWERY, $8</strong></span><br /><span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Film, neo-benshi, and theater by:</span><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />Brandon </span><strong style="font-weight: bold;">Downing</strong>: Two new short films<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Rob </span><strong style="font-weight: bold;">Fitterman:</strong><strong> </strong>Film: Bisquick / Bismarck<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Nada </span><strong style="font-weight: bold;">Gordon: </strong>Neo-benshi: "Uzumaki"<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Mitch </span><strong style="font-weight: bold;">Highfill</strong>: Play: "The Secret History of the '60s"<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Rodney </span><strong style="font-weight: bold;">Koeneke: </strong>Neo-benshi: "Mary Poppins"<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Michael </span><strong style="font-weight: bold;">Magee: </strong>Play: "William Logan: A Sedentary Life"<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">K. Silem </span><strong style="font-weight: bold;">Mohammad</strong><span style="font-weight: bold;"> & Gary </span><strong style="font-weight: bold;">Sullivan: </strong>Play: "Chain: A Dialog"<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Kim </span><strong style="font-weight: bold;">Rosenfield</strong>: Neo-benshi: "Meglio Stasera / The Libido Theory"<br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><strong>FRIDAY, APR 25, 7:00 P.M., 300 Bowery, buzz "Sherry/Thomas," FREE</strong></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Publication party for new books and DVDs by:</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><strong style="font-weight: normal;"></strong><span style="font-weight: bold;">Brandon Downing:</span> Dark Brandon (DVD)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Mitch Highfill:</span> Moth Light<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sharon </span><strong style="font-weight: bold;">Mesmer: </strong><strong style="font-weight: normal;">Virgin Formica</strong><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">K. Silem </span><strong style="font-weight: bold;">Mohammad: </strong><strong style="font-weight: normal;">Breathalyzer</strong><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Mel </span><strong style="font-weight: bold;">Nichols:</strong> Bicycle Day<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Rod </span><strong style="font-weight: bold;">Smith: </strong><strong style="font-weight: normal;">Deed</strong><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Gary </span><strong style="font-weight: bold;">Sullivan</strong><span style="font-weight: bold;">: </span>PPL in a Depot<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><strong>SATURDAY, APR 26, 6:00 P.M., BOWERY POETRY CLUB, 308 BOWERY, $8</strong></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">A Segue reading to </span><strong style="font-weight: bold;">benefit</strong><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Bowery Arts and Sciences, featuring:</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Shanna </span><strong style="font-weight: bold;">Compton</strong><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Katie </span><strong style="font-weight: bold;">Degentesh</strong><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Benjamin </span><strong style="font-weight: bold;">Friedlander</strong><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Drew </span><strong style="font-weight: bold;">Gardner</strong><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Nada </span><strong style="font-weight: bold;">Gordon</strong><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Mitch </span><strong style="font-weight: bold;">Highfill</strong><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Rodney </span><strong style="font-weight: bold;">Koeneke</strong><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Michael </span><strong style="font-weight: bold;">Magee</strong><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sharon </span><strong style="font-weight: bold;">Mesmer</strong><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">K. Silem </span><strong style="font-weight: bold;">Mohammad</strong><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Mel </span><strong style="font-weight: bold;">Nichols</strong><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Eiríkur Örn </span><strong style="font-weight: bold;">Norðdahl</strong><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">James </span><strong style="font-weight: bold;">Sherry</strong><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Rod </span><strong style="font-weight: bold;">Smith</strong><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Christina </span><strong style="font-weight: bold;">Strong</strong><br /><br />With music by the <strong>Drew Gardner Orchestra</strong> and <span style="font-weight: bold;">The Saw Lady</span>. Hosted by Brandon Downing and Gary Sullivan.<br /><br /><strong>This benefit reading will help keep Segue readings at an affordable $6.</strong>Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06115441682219034891noreply@blogger.com0