The Multifarious Array

6/1: David Brazil, Sara Larsen, and Robert Kocik

Dear Multifarious Array,

Please join us this Friday, 6/1, at 7 p.m. at Pete's Candy Store for our last reading of the 2011/12 season: David Brazil, Sara Larsen, and Robert Kocik.

Bios and pics below. Invite your Facebook friends here:

http://www.facebook.com/events/436110993080624/

Hope to see you soon,

Thom Donovan

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The Multifarious Array is a semi-monthly reading series featuring the very best poets at the very best place (Pete's Candy Store).

Pete's Candy Store is located at 709 Lorimer in Williamsburg Brooklyn. Take the G to the Metropolitan stop or the L to the Lorimer stop. (Map: http://www.petescandystore.com/petes_map.html)

Visit us online here: http://www.petescandystore.com/multifarious_array/multifarious_array.html.
Also, visit us here: http://multifariousarray.blogspot.com/

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David Brazil was born in New York and lives in Oakland, California. Forthcoming publications include Mass of the Phoenix : A Mina Loy Portal (Trafficker) and Economy (Compline).

Sara Larsen co-edits the Bay Area lit/art zine, Try!, along with David Brazil. Her chapbooks include "to paradise a dashboard" (autonomous earth press), "doubly circulatory" (artifact press), "2000 decembers" (ampersand press), "23 Chromosomes for David Wojnarowitz" (earthworm press & projects), "NOVUS" (earthworm press & projects), "The Hallucinated", and most recently "A, a, a, a, a".

Robert Kocik, writer, architect and visual artist, lives in Bed Stuy Brooklyn and SE Minnesota. With choreographer Daria Fain he started a field of applied research called the Prosody Body as well as the Commons Choir. Otherwise, he cares for his 98 year old father; and currently is raising orphaned squirrels. His books include: Overcoming Fitness (2000, Autonomedia), Rhrurbarb (2010, Field Books) and Supple Science (forthcoming from ON).

5/18-Shonni Enelow, Sasha Fletcher, Joseph Bradshaw

Dear poetry lovers,

Please join us this Friday, 5/18, at 7 p.m. at Pete's Candy Store for Shonni Enelow, Sasha Fletcher, and Joseph Bradshaw.

Bios and pics below. Invite your Facebook friends here:

http://www.facebook.com/events/433020763375716/.

See you there,

Dorothea Lasky

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Joseph Bradshaw lives In the Common Dream of George Oppen (Shearsman Books, 2011) across the street from Maria Hernandez Park, Bushwick, Brooklyn.

Shonni Enelow writes about literature and culture for both academic and popular audiences. She holds a PhD in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Pennsylvania. Her dissertation is on Method acting as a theory of the subject. Shonni received a BFA in Theater from the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. Her plays have been performed in New York and Los Angeles, at the Williamstown Theater Festival, and at Small Press Traffic's Poets Theater in San Francisco. Her poetry has appeared most recently in PomPom, Birddog, and Try, and her mini-chapbook "Nietzsche is a Girl, or, Shonni and Kathleen Have Boyfriends," was recently released as a Supermachine spirit gift. Critical writing has appeared in Alef Magazine, Theater Topics, and The Poetry Project Newsletter. She has served on the editorial board at the Brooklyn-based Supermachine poetry journal, and writes regularly for the web edition of The New York Times Style Magazine. Interests include psychoanalysis, mid-century aesthetics, poetic drama, and new marxisms. Recent obsessions (other than Bernard) include Brewster Mccloud, Cristina Monet, Robert Walser, and Adrian Stokes.

Sasha Fletcher is the author of the novella WHEN ALL OUR DAYS ARE NUMBERED MARCHING BANDS WILL FILL THE STREETS AND WE WILL NOT HEAR THEM BECAUSE WE WILL BE UPSTAIRS IN THE CLOUDS. His poetry manuscript EVERYTHING HERE IS OK has twice been a finalist for Octopus Books. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

5/11-Eric Baus, Cynthia Sailers, Stacy Szymaszek

Hello!

Please join the Multifarious Array this Friday at 7 p.m. at Pete's Candy Store for readings by Eric Baus, Cynthia Sailers, and Stacy Szymaszek.

Bios and pics below. Invite your facebook friends here.

See you there, Dorothea Lasky
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The Multifarious Array is a semi-monthly reading series featuring the very best poets at the very best place (Pete's Candy Store).

Pete's Candy Store is located at 709 Lorimer in Williamsburg Brooklyn. Take the G to the Metropolitan stop or the L to the Lorimer stop. (Map: http://www.petescandystore.com/petes_map.html)

Visit us online here: http://www.petescandystore.com/multifarious_array/multifarious_array.html.
Also, visit us here: http://multifariousarray.blogspot.com/

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Cynthia Sailers is a psychologist in private practice in San Francisco. Author of Lake Systems (Tougher Disguises, 2004) and a recently published chapbook of poems Lady of Leisure of Leisure (Cypress, 2011). Her current writing projects include the history of the clinic, perversion, and group psychology. She leads a work group in psychoanalysis and film and curates a film program for the Lacan School of Psychoanalysis.

Stacy Szymaszek is a poet, editor and arts administrator. She is the author of the books Emptied of All Ships (2005) and Hyperglossia (2009), both published by Litmus Press, as well as numerous chapbooks, including Pasolini Poems (Cy Press, 2005), Orizaba: A Voyage with Hart Crane (Faux Press, 2008), Stacy S.: Autoportraits (OMG, 2008), from Hart Island (Albion Books, 2009) and austerity measures (Fewer & Further Press, 2012). Lisa Jarnot says of her work: ”Her writing peeks into that world of desire with a fierce determination—desire for the beauty of language, desire for gnosis, desire for the emancipation of the human form from the less-than-perfect sociopolitical world.” She is the Artistic Director of the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church, where she also curates their hallmark Wednesday Night Reading Series.

Eric Baus is the author of the books Scared Text, Tuned Droves, and The To Sound. With Andrea Rexilius, he co-edits Marcel Chapbooks and lives in Denver.

5/4: B.C. Edwards & Sam Truitt

Hello!

Please join us this Friday, 5/4, 7 p.m. at Pete's Candy Store for readings by B.C. Edwards and Sam Truitt

Bios and photos below. Invite your Facebook friends here: http://www.facebook.com/events/227577207348559/

Hope you can make it,
Thom Donovan

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The Multifarious Array is a semi-monthly reading series featuring the very best poets at the very best place (Pete's Candy Store).

Pete's Candy Store is located at 709 Lorimer in Williamsburg Brooklyn. Take the G to the Metropolitan stop or the L to the Lorimer stop. (Map: http://www.petescandystore.com/petes_map.html)

Visit us online here: http://www.petescandystore.com/multifarious_array/multifarious_array.html
Also, visit us here: http://multifariousarray.blogspot.com/
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B.C. Edwards is a producer at The Upright Citizens Brigade theater in New York. He was awarded the 2011 Hudson Prize for fiction and is the author of the collected stories "The Aversive Clause" (fall 2012) as well as two collections of poetry "To Mend Small Children," (february 2012) and "From the Standard Cyclopedia of Recipes" (fall 2013). He is a regular contributor to BOMBlog and his work can be found in Red Line Blues, No Dear, The Sink Review, Mathematics Magazine, Hobart and others. He is also a Literary Death Match Champion and has the medal to prove it.

Sam Truitt is the author of Vertical Elegies 6: Street Mete; Vertical Elegies: Three Works; Vertical Elegies 5: The Section; and Anamorphosis Eisenhower, among other books. Born in Washington, DC, and raised there and in Tokyo, Japan, Truitt currently lives in Woodstock, NY, where he is Director of Station Hill Press. For more, visit www.samtruitt.org

Todd Colby, Kate Schapira, and Leigh Stein this Friday!

Hello!

Please join us this Friday, 4/20, at 7 p.m. at Pete's Candy Store for readings by Leigh Stein, Todd Colby, and Kate Schapira!

Bios and photos below. Invite your Facebook friends here: http://www.facebook.com/events/192830940835666/.

See you there,
Dorothea Lasky
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The Multifarious Array is a semi-monthly reading series featuring the very best poets at the very best place (Pete's Candy Store).

Pete's Candy Store is located at 709 Lorimer in Williamsburg Brooklyn. Take the G to the Metropolitan stop or the L to the Lorimer stop. (Map: http://www.petescandystore.com/petes_map.html)

Visit us online here: http://www.petescandystore.com/multifarious_array/multifarious_array.html
Also, visit us here: http://multifariousarray.blogspot.com/
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Leigh Stein is the author of the novel The Fallback Plan, out now from Melville House. Her first full-length poetry collection, Dispatch from the Future, is forthcoming in July from Melville House.

Todd Colby has published four books of poetry: Ripsnort, Cush, Riot in the Charm Factory: New and Selected Writings, and Tremble & Shine, all published by Soft Skull Press. He was also the editor of the poetry anthology Heights of the Marvelous: A New York Anthology (St. Martin’s Press). Colby’s poems have been read on NPR for Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac. He serves on the Editorial Board of LungFull! Magazine and is a contributing editor for Cousin Corrine's Reminder. He posts new work on gleefarm.blogspot.com.

Kate Schapira is the author of six chapbooks of poetry: Heroes & Monsters (Portable Press forthcoming 2009), Figure With Sunspots (Nasturtium Press forthcoming 2009), The Love of Freak Millways and Tango Wax (Cy Gist Press 2009), Case Fbdy and The Painting (Rope-A-Dope Press 2008), and Phoenix Memory (horse less press 2007). Curator of the Publicly Complex Reading Series in Providence. She is a Writer in the Schools in Providence elementary schools and also teaches at Brown University.

Hello friends and poets,

How are you?

How am I? Um. This week is like really stressing me out, man.

Oh well. Let's let the stress subside while we chill at Pete's Candy Store and listen to some cool tunes. By tunes, yes, I do mean poetry.

First of all, it's a book party! Let's celebrate!

Michael Robbins' new book, Alien vs. Predator, is just out from Penguin! Carley Moore's new book, The Stalker Chronicles, is just out from Farrar, Straus, and Giroux! Angelo Nikolopoulos' new book, Obscenely Yours, just won the Kinereth Gensler Award and is forthcoming from Alice James Books next year!

If that's not reason enough. But if you need another, then, I'll say: it's just fun to be together! A poetry reading is just fun to go to.

Invite your fun Facebook friends here: https://www.facebook.com/events/299519466785035/?notif_t=plan_user_joined Bios and pics below.

Fun, let's have it.

See you Friday.

See you there,
Dorothea Lasky

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The Multifarious Array is a semi-monthly reading series featuring the very best poets at the very best place (Pete's Candy Store).

Pete's Candy Store is located at 709 Lorimer in Williamsburg Brooklyn. Take the G to the Metropolitan stop or the L to the Lorimer stop. (Map: http://www.petescandystore.com/petes_map.html)

Visit us online here: http://www.petescandystore.com/multifarious_array/multifarious_array.html
Also, visit us here: http://multifariousarray.blogspot.com/
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Angelo Nikolopoulos is the recipient of the 2011 “Discovery”/Boston Review Poetry Prize and a graduate of NYU's Creative Writing Program. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Best American Poetry 2012, Best New Poets 2011, Boston Review, Cortland Review, Los Angeles Review, Meridian, New York Quarterly, North American Review, Tin House and elsewhere. His first book of poems, Obscenely Yours, is the winner of the Kinereth Gensler Award and is forthcoming from Alice James Books in 2013.

Michael Robbins is the author of Alien vs. Predator (Penguin, 2012). His poems have appeared in the New Yorker, Poetry, Harper's, Boston Review, and elsewhere. He reviews books regularly for the London Review of Books and several other publications, and music for The Daily and the Village Voice. He received his PhD in English from the University of Chicago.

Carley Moore's poetry and essays have been published or are forthcoming in American Poetry Review, Aufgabe, Coconut, Conduit, Drunken Boat, Fence, Linebreak, and Swink. She is the co-curator of the POD reading series with Matt Longabucco and a Book Review Editor for the website, Writing in Public. She teaches writing in the Liberal Studies Program at New York University. Her young adult novel, The Stalker Chronicles, was published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux in 2012. You can see more of her work at: www.carleymoorewrites.com.

3/23: Anelise Chen, Andrew Levy, and Ken Walker

Hey there!

Join us Friday night for another spectacular reading:

Anelise Chen, Andrew ("complete tornado") Levy, and Ken Walker

More info below.

See you there,
--Thom Donovan

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The Multifarious Array is a semi-monthly reading series featuring the very best poets at the very best place (Pete's Candy Store).

Pete's Candy Store is located at 709 Lorimer in Williamsburg Brooklyn. Take the G to the Metropolitan stop or the L to the Lorimer stop. (Map: http://www.petescandystore.com/petes_map.html)

Visit us online here: http://www.petescandystore.com/multifarious_array/multifarious_array.html
Also, visit us here: http://multifariousarray.blogspot.com/
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Anelise Chen's fiction has appeared in such places as the New Haven Review, Gigantic, and Everyday Genius. Her articles have appeared in PEN America, The Poetry Project Newsletter, The Rumpus, and other places.

Andrew Levy's recent titles of fiction and poetry are Nothing Is In Here (EOAGH Books, 2011) and Cracking Up (Truck Books, 2010). He collaborated with the President of the United Hearts collective to The Big Melt (Factory School, 2007), and is the author of Ashoka (Zasterle Books), Paper Head Last Lyrics (Roof Books), Curve (O Books) and Values Chauffeur You (O Books), among other titles. Don’t Forget to Breathe is forthcoming from Chax Press. Levy co-edited the poetry journal CRAYON with Roberto Harrison, 1997-2008.

Ken L. Walker still keeps am up-to-date Kentucky driving license in his wallet even though he has lived in Brooklyn and Queens for the past four years. He earned an MFA in Poetry from Brooklyn College CUNY where he now teaches. His poetry and criticism can be found in the Poetry Project Newsletter, Rain Taxi, No Dear, Catch-Up, Crab Orchard Review, The New Yorker on-line, Bomb Magazine, the Boxcar, La Fovea, Washington Square and at Coldfront magazine where he is the features editor.