Nate Pritts, Leigh Stein, Karin Randolph & Matthew Rohrer

Friday, November 20, 7 pm

Nate Pritts is the author of the books Sensational Spectacular and Honorary Astronaut - with a new book, The Wonderfull Yeare, due out in early 2010. The editor & founder of H_NGM_N, Nate teaches poetry for the Downtown Writers Center/YMCA in Syracuse, NY & works as a freelance tech editor & copywriter.

Leigh Stein is the author of the chapbooks How to Mend a Broken Heart with Vengeance (Dancing Girl Press) and Least Inhabited Island II (h-ngm-n Combatives). Other work has appeared in Bat City Review, DIAGRAM, h-ngm-n, No Tell Motel, and Absent, among others. She lives in Brooklyn, where she teaches drama to public schoolchildren.

Karin Randolph is an ex-painter turned writer. She is the author of Either She Was, which was selected by David Shapiro for the 2007 Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize. She was also a finalist in the 2007 National Poetry Series.

Matthew Rohrer is the author of 6 or 8 books of poems, depending on what your definition of "book" is. Most recently Ugly Duckling Presse published his A PLATE OF CHICKEN. With Joshua Beckman he wrote NICE HAT. THANKS and recorded the audio CD ADVENTURES WHILE PREACHING THE GOSPEL OF BEAUTY, and with Joshua Beckman and Anthony McCann he wrote the secret book GENTLE READER! He lives in Brooklyn and teaches in the creative writing program at NYU.

Julian Billups, Thomas Sayers Ellis & Wendy S. Walters

Friday, November 6, 7 pm



Julian Billups' work has appeared in AGNI Online, Barrow Street, Colorado Review, Salt Hill, and others. He lives and works in New York. Read his poems here.



Thomas Sayers Ellis is the author of The Maverick Room (2005). His poems and photographs have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including American Poetry Review, Callaloo, Best American Poetry (1997 and 2001), Grand Street, The Baffler, Jubilat, Tin House, Poetry, and The Nation. He is also an Assistant Professor of Writing at Sarah Lawrence College and a faculty member of The Lesley University low-residency M.F.A Program. He lives in Brooklyn, NY and spends his summers in Washington, D.C. working on The Go-Go Book: People in the Pocket in Washington, D.C. He recently joined the faculty of Cave Canem, performed at SummerStage in Central Park and at the Smithsonian Instituite’s Folklife Festival on the National Mall. His new book, Skin, Inc., is forthcoming from Graywolf Press in fall 2010. Here is a poem and here, too.




Wendy S. Walters’ is the author of Longer I Wait, More You Love Me (just released!) and a chapbook, Birds of Los Angeles (2005), both published by Palm Press (Long Beach, CA). Walters’ poetry has been recognized with residency fellowships from Breadloaf, MacDowell and Yaddo, and her poems have recently appeared in Callaloo, HOW2, Natural Bridge, Seneca Review and the Yalobusha Review, among several others. Her lyric and personal essays have been published or are forthcoming in Seneca Review, Seattle Review, and Harper’s Magazine.

Frank Sherlock & Jen Hyde Read

Frank Sherlock & Jen Hyde read for the Multifarious Array at Pete's Candy Store, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, October 9, 2009.

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Skip to Jen: 22'23"

Sandy Florian & Justin Taylor Read

Sandy Florian & Justin Taylor read for the Multifarious Array, Pete's Candy Store, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, October 9, 2009.

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Skip to Justin: 19'33"

Beth Bachmann, Alex Lemon & Nick Flynn

Beth Bachmann, Alex Lemon and Nick Flynn read for Beth Bachmann's book release party at the Multifarious Array, Pete's Candy Store, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, October 10, 2009.

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Skip to Beth: 30'23"

Paige Taggart, Sharon Dolin, Esther K. Smith & Patrick Lucy

Friday, October 23, 7 pm



Paige Taggart is a 2009 NYFA fellow and has an e-chapbook with Scantily Clad Press, Won’t Be a Girl. Her poems have appeared in Alice Blue Review, La Petite Zine, Six Finch, Blazevox, Elimae, Caketrain, Eleven Eleven, Boog City. Here is more of her.



Sharon Dolin’s fourth book, Burn and Dodge won the AWP Donald Hall Prize in Poetry. Her other books include Heart Work. Serious Pink, and Realm of the Possible. She is Writer-in-Residence at Eugene Lang College, The New School. She also teachers at the Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y and directs the Center for Books Arts Annual Letterpress Poetry Chapbook Competition. Here she is in Jacket.




Esther K Smith publishes limited editions and artist books at Purgatory Pie Press in New York City in collaboration with letterpress printer Dikko Faust and other artists and writers. She is the author of HOW TO MAKE BOOKS, MAGIC BOOKS & PAPER TOYS and forthcoming, THE PAPER BRIDE--published by Random House imprint, Potter Craft. Her poems have recently been published in Clwn Wrs, White Rabbit, and Live Mag. She is a proud member of Brevitas, a group that emails short poems on the first and fifteenth of each month. A few days ago, she opened a box in a basement and found a huge cockroach, sketchbooks and her first book of poetry, written when she was in sixth grade.




Patrick Lucy is a member of the New Philadelphia Poets, a group committed to advancing poetry, space & community in Philadelphia. His work has appeared recently in the Corduroy Mtn and Ink Node (featured). His chapbook, WILLIAM, is forthcoming from Con/Crescent Press. Patrick's disembodied press & blog, Catch/Confetti, produces fine poetry ephemera and comment. He lives in Fishtown and runs a web development company called Nimblelight.

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