A Review & a Reading

A nice review of Steven Karl & Angela Veronica Wong's Don't Try This On Your Piano, or am i still standing here with my hair down is now up at Good Reads. Check it out!

Also, if you're in the DC area, please check out Steven & Veronica's reading tomorrow at In Your Ear. They'll be reading with Tony Mancus and Jordan Davis. The reading is at 3PM at the DC Arts Center, Sunday, May 20th. Steven & Veronica will have copies of their chapbook with them, and also be sure to check out Veronica's new full-length book How To Survive a Hotel Fire!

Now Available: Don't Try This On Your Piano or am i still standing here with my hair down

Don't Try This On Your Piano or am i still standing here with my hair down by Steven Karl & Angela Veronica Wong is now available!

The hand bound chapbook is printed in a limited edition of 120 copies.

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Tonight in NYC!

Angela Veronica Wong is taking part in a reading and discussion at the New York Public Library. Here's the announcement from The Common:

April 10, 2012 - 18:00 - 19:30

Periodically Speaking at the New York Public Library hosts The Common. Join editor Jennifer Acker in conversation with (and readings by): Brook Wilensky-Lanford; Maura Candela; and Angela Veronica Wong.

Periodically Speaking is "a reading series providing a major venue for emerging writers to present their work while emphasizing the diversity of America’s literary magazines and the magazine collections of The New York Public Library." Find more information about Periodically Speaking here.

Head to the main branch of the Library and enter at 5th Ave (betwixt the famous lions). Once you're in the lobby, take a left and walk all the way to the end of the hallway—we'll be in the last room on the left (Room 108).

Admission is free.

Jackie Clark @ Coldfront!

Jackie Clark gets a little write-up over at Coldfront Magazine today! Read it here.

New Review at Horse Less Press

Michael Sikkema reviews Ben Somers's Your Sorcerer's Way at Horse Less Press. It is a wonderful review in which Ben's work is described as tapping into that "good ole American weirdness." You can read the full review here. And if you're interested in picking up a copy ($5 + $1 shipping), click here.

Jackie Clark in the Jersey City Independent!

Jackie Clark on the writing of I Live Here Now:

Well, there was really no preparing for these poems. These poems came from a deep need to rebuild my emotional stability. I was trying to recover not only from a really bad breakup but from that kind of lost in the world feeling that usually accompanies them.

I worked on these poems internally for about four months before I was brave enough to write anything down. But once I did, I’d say I wrote these poems in about two weeks. Once I started I just couldn’t stop until I had said what I needed to say. I wrote most of these poems on the train in the morning, typing them up later in the day. Usually I find myself writing almost anywhere except at home. When I write varies greatly.

Read more from her interview in the Jersey City Independent.

LH#17: Coming Soon!

by Steven Karl & Angela Veronica Wong

I Live Here Now gets some love!

Today at FANZINE, the wonderful Amy Herschleb recommends the latest Lame House chapbook, Jackie Clark's I Live Here Now:

Chapbook
I Live Here Now by Jackie Clark
The latest offering from Lame House Press (which "irregularly publishes chapbooks from emerging poets"), Jackie Clark's I Live Here Now, reads like the description of an object that is just out of view, or the description of a feeling about an event, always at one remove. The only commitment to titling pieces is the recurring ( ) which introduces each poem. Maybe there's too much invitation to speculate, and maybe the reader begins to think, "now that's a handsome SWAT team guy" (ahem, awkward), or maybe there is just enough and each of the 15 poems may expand in the brain pan like a Shrinky Dink and take on that encoded form. An incomplete list of obsessions (go on, obsess) found herein: repetition, "counting the moments like counting the moments," lists, "prolongs the anti-effacing, / prolongs the darkness," reversal of the word onto the word, "even without the pay off, / which is the pay off," "all this while someone may or may not be looking over my shoulder," and a romance with the end-stop comma, which may or may not be self-evident. Available for $5 (+$1 shipping) from Lame House Press in a limited edition of 100. Jackie Clark can be found at nohelpforthat.com. Did I mention I'm a fan? –– AH

Check out her other recommendations and all the other great articles at FANZINE here.