AWP Reading @ Bridge Street, Fri. 2/4, 7 PM

THE EDGE READING SERIES
presents The Bridge Street Books AWP reading

Friday, February 4th, 7 PM

@ Bridge Street Books, 2814 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington DC

ROSMARIE WALDROP, COLE SWENSEN, SASHA STEENSEN,
JANE SPRAGUE, ELIZABETH ROBINSON, EILEEN MYLES,
MARK MCMORRIS, LAURA MORIARTY, LEE ANN BROWN,
& CHARLES ALEXANDER

Please be advised that space is limited, we recommend that you
come early to assure admission.

Ted Berrigan/Robert Duncan Book Party @ Bridge Street Books, Thurs 2/3, 6-8 PM, w/ Anselm Berrigan, Cole Swensen, & Rod Smith

Please join Bridge Street Books
& The University of California Press
for a publication celebration

Thursday, February 3rd, 6-8 PM

THE SELECTED POEMS OF TED BERRIGAN
&
THE H.D. BOOK BY ROBERT DUNCAN

Poet & editor ANSELM BERRIGAN will present a short reading/talk on The Selected Poems. COLE SWENSEN and ROD SMITH will speak on The H.D. Book.

@ Bridge Street Books, 2814 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington DC

The H.D. Book
Robert Duncan

This magisterial work, long awaited and long the subject of passionate speculation, is an unprecedented exploration of modern poetry and poetics by one of America’s most acclaimed and influential postwar poets. What began in 1959 as a simple homage to the modernist poet H.D. developed into an expansive and unique quest to arrive at a poetics that would fuel Duncan’s great work in the 1970s A meditation on both the roots of modernism and its manifestation in the work of H.D., Ezra Pound, D.H. Lawrence, William Carlos Williams, Edith Sitwell, and many others, Duncan’s wide-ranging book is especially notable for its illumination of the role women played in creation of literary modernism. Until now, The H.D. Book existed only in mostly out-of-print little magazines in which its chapters first appeared. Now, for the first time published in its entirety, as its author intended, this monumental work—at once an encyclopedia of modernism, a reinterpretation of its key players and texts, and a record of Duncan’s quest toward a new poetics—is at last complete and available to a wide audience.

The Selected Poems of Ted Berrigan

Following the highly acclaimed Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan, poets Alice Notley, Anselm Berrigan, and Edmund Berrigan have collaborated again on this new selection of poems by one of the most influential and admired poets of his generation. Reflecting a new editorial approach, this volume demonstrates the breadth of Ted Berrigan’s poetic accomplishments by presenting his most celebrated, interesting, and important work. This major second-wave New York School poet is often identified with his early poems, especially The Sonnets, but this selection encompasses his full poetic output, including the later sequences Easter Monday and A Certain Slant of Sunlight, as well as many of his uncollected poems. The Selected Poems of Ted Berrigan provides a new perspective for those already familiar with his remarkable wit and invention, and introduces new readers to what John Ashbery called the “crazy energy” of this iconoclastic, funny, brilliant, and highly innovative writer.

Anselm Berrigan's most recent book is Free Cell (City Lights, 2009). He is the author of three collections from Edge Books, Integrity Dramatic Life, Zero Star Hotel, and Some Notes on My Programming. He directed The Poetry Project at Saint Mark's Church from 2003 through 2007, and is currently co-chair of the writing program at Bard College summer MFA program, and a professor at Wesleyan University. He co-edited the recently released Selected Poems of Ted Berrigan with Edmund Berrigan for The University of California Press.

Cole Swensen's latest book is Greensward (Ugly Duckling) She teaches
poetry at the Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa. Her books
include Ours, Goest, Such Rich Hour, Oh, Try, and Noon. Her poetry
has won the Iowa Poetry Prize and the SF State Poetry Center Book
Award. She is the editor/publisher of La Presse which has
published works in translation by Marie Borel, Emmanuel Hocquard,
Claude Royet-Journoud, & others. Swensen is also a translator and has
won the PEN USA Award in Literary Translation. She teaches at the Iowa Writers' Workshop.

Rod Smith is the author of Deed, Music or Honesty, Protective
Immediacy, and In Memory of My Theories. He edits the journal
Aerial, publishes Edge Books, and manages Bridge Street Books in
Washington, DC. Smith is also editing The Selected Letters of
Robert Creeley with Kaplan Harris and Peter Baker for The
University of California Press. He was a Visiting Professor
in Poetry at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Spring 2010.

BRIDGE STREET BOOKS
2814 Pennsylvania Ave NW
Washington, DC 20007
ph 202 965 5200

Located in Georgetown, next to the Four Seasons Hotel, five blocks from the
Foggy Bottom Metro, blue & orange lines.

UPCOMING READINGS:

Immediately following the Duncan/Berrigan book party:

Thursday, February 3rd, 8 PM
Bridge Street Books presents
THE FOUR SEASONS AWP READING
featuring 2010 Pulitzer Prize winning author RAE ARMANTROUT
& internationally recognized poets ANSELM BERRIGAN, TIMOTHY DONNELLY, ROBERT FERNANDEZ, CATHY PARK HONG, ISH KLEIN, K. SILEM MOHAMMAD, CHRIS NEALON, MEL NICHOLS, ED ROBERSON, ELIZABETH WILLIS, & MATHEW ZAPRUDER
@The Four Seasons Hotel in Georgetown, 2800 Pennsylvania Ave NW.
Next door to Bridge Street Books.

Friday, February 4th, 7 PM
Bridge Street Books AWP reading
ROSMARIE WALDROP, COLE SWENSEN, SASHA STEENSEN, JANE SPRAGUE, ELIZABETH ROBINSON,
MARK MCMORRIS, LAURA MORIARTY, LEE ANN BROWN, & CHARLES ALEXANDER
@ Bridge Street Books, 2814 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington DC

Saturday, February 5th, 1 PM
The Song Cave AWP reading featuring
MACGREGOR CARD, ANDY FITCH, AMARANTH BORSUK,
JANE GREGORY, AMANDA NADELBERG, ROD SMITH,
& JARED STANLEY. Hosted by Ben Estes.
@ Bridge Street Books, 2814 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C.

Saturday February 5th, 5 PM
The EDGE BOOKS/ABRAHAM LINCOLN/WEST WIND REVIEW AWP Reading
Marie Buck, Leslie Bumstead, Shanna Compton, Brandon Downing, Buck Downs, Cathy Eisenhower, K. Lorraine Graham, Dan Gutstein, Lacey Hunter, Ish Klein, Doug Lang, Emily Liebowitz, K. Silem Mohammad, Chris Nealon, Mel Nichols, A.L. Nielsen, Tom Orange, Adam Roberts, Sandra Simonds, Rod Smith, Gary Sullivan, Anna Vitale, & Ryan Walker
@ THE REEF, 2446 18th Street NW, Washington DC

The Song Cave AWP Reading @ Bridge Street Books, Saturday 2/5, 1 PM

Saturday, Feb 5th, 1 PM

The Song Cave AWP reading featuring
MACGREGOR CARD, ANDY FITCH, AMARANTH BORSUK,
JANE GREGORY, AMANDA NADELBERG, ROD SMITH,
& JARED STANLEY. Hosted by Ben Estes.

@ Bridge Street Books
2814 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C.

Macgregor Card is the author of The Archers, from The Song Cave. He lives in Queens New York and teaches at Pratt Institute. His first book Duties of an English Foreign Secretary was published by Fence Books. With Andrew Maxwell he edited The Germ: a journal of poetic research.

Jared Stanley is the author of How The Desert Did Me In, from The Song Cave. He lives in Merced California and is also the author of three chapbooks and the collection Book Made of Forest, published by Salt, and an editor of the journal Mrs. Maybe.

Amaranth Borsuk is the author of Tonal Saw, from The Song Cave. She currently lives in Boston Massachusetts, and is the co-curator of the reading series The Loudest Voice, in Los Angeles. Her work has been published in Denver Quarterly and Colorado Review (among others), and is the author of the digital pop-up book Between Page and Screen.

Andy Fitch is the author of Island, from The Song Cave. He currently lives in Laramie Wyoming, and teaches at the University of Wyoming. He is the author of Ten Walks / Two Talks published by Ugly Duckling Presse, and Andy's book Not Intelligent, But Smart: Rethinking Joe Brainard is forthcoming from Dalkey Archive Press.

Amanda Nadelberg is the author of Building Castles in Spain, Getting Married, from The Song Cave. She currently lives in Orleans Massachusetts, and is the author of Isa, The Truck Named Isadore published by Slope Editions. Her next book Bright Brave Phenomena, is forthcoming from Coffee House Press.

Jane Gregory is the author of Some Books, from The Song Cave. She currently lives in Berkeley California. Her work has appeared in Notnostrums, Jerry, Mary, and Mutha Fucka.

Rod Smith is the author of What's The Deal, from The Song Cave. He lives in Washington D.C. and is the author of Deed, Music or Honesty, Protective Immediacy, and In Memory of My Theories. He is also editing The Selected Letters of Robert Creeley with Kaplan Harris and Peter Baker for The University of California Press.

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Four Seasons AWP Reading Thurs 2/3, 8 PM

Please join us

Thursday February 3rd, 8 PM

BRIDGE STREET BOOKS presents

THE FOUR SEASONS AWP READING

featuring 2010 Pulitzer Prize winning author RAE ARMANTROUT
& internationally recognized poets ANSELM BERRIGAN, TIMOTHY DONNELLY, ROBERT FERNANDEZ, CATHY PARK HONG, ISH KLEIN, K. SILEM MOHAMMAD, CHRIS NEALON, MEL NICHOLS, ED ROBERSON, ELIZABETH WILLIS, & MATHEW ZAPRUDER

@ The Four Seasons Hotel in Georgetown (next to Bridge Street Books)
2800 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C.

Rae Armantrout is the author of more than ten books of poetry, including Versed (2009), for which she won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize, the 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award, and was a finalist for the 2009 National Book Award. She is a professor of literature and writing at the University of California, San Diego. Her new book is Money Shot.

Anselm Berrigan's most recent book is Free Cell (City Lights, 2009). He is the author of three collections from Edge Books, Integrity & Dramatic Life, Zero Star Hotel, and Some Notes on My Programming. He directed The Poetry Project at Saint Mark's Church from 2003 through 2007, and is currently co-chair of the writing program at Bard College summer MFA program, and a professor at Wesleyan University. He co-edited the recently released Selected Poems of Ted Berrigan for The University of California Press with Edmund Berrigan and Alice Notley.

Timothy Donnelly is the author of The Cloud Corporation (Wave Books, 2010), and Twenty-Seven Props for a Production of Eine Lebenszeit (Grove Press, 2003). He is a professor at Columbia University, and has been poetry editor of Boston Review since 1996. He lives in Brooklyn.

Robert Fernandez’s first book, We Are Pharaoh, was just published by Canarium Books, which will also publish his second book, Pink Reef, in 2013. He grew up in Miami and now lives in Iowa City, where he's a fellow in the English PhD program at the University of Iowa.

Cathy Park Hong's second collection, Dance Dance Revolution, was chosen for the Barnard Women Poets Prize and was published in 2007 by WW Norton. Her first book, Translating Mo'um was published in 2002 by Hanging Loose Press. She is an Assistant Professor at Sarah Lawrence College and is regular faculty at the Queens MFA program in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Ish Klein's first book, Union!, was published in 2009 by Canarium Books, which has just published her second book, Moving Day. Also an artist and filmmaker, a DVD of some of her short films was just released by Poor Claudia. After many years in Philadelphia, she now lives in Amherst.

K. Silem Mohammad is the author of The Front (Roof Books, 2009) Breathalyzer (Edge Books, 2008), A Thousand Devils (Combo Books, 2004), and Deer Head Nation (Tougher Disguises, 2003). He edits the poetry magazine Abraham Lincoln and teaches literature and creative writing at Southern Oregon University.

Chris Nealon is the author of Plummet (Edge Books, 2009), and The Joyous Age (Black Square, 2004). His The Matter of Capital: Poetry and Crisis in the American Century is soon to be released by Harvard University Press. Foundlings: Lesbian and Gay Historical Emotion before Stonewall appeared from Duke University Press in 2001. He teaches at Johns Hopkins University.

Mel Nichols is the author of Catalytic Exteriorization Phenomenon (National Poetry Series finalist), Bicycle Day (Slack Buddha 2008), The Beginning of Beauty, Part 1: hottest new ringtones, mnichol6 (Edge 2007), and Day Poems (Edge 2005). Other recent work can be found in Poetry, New Ohio Review, and The Brooklyn Rail. She teaches at George Mason University.

Ed Roberson is author of eight books of poetry, most recently To See the Earth Before the End of the World. He is the recipient of the Poetry Society of America’s Shelley Memorial Award and his prior books have won the Iowa Poetry Prize and the National Poetry Series.

Elizabeth Willis is Shapiro-Silverberg Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Wesleyan University. She is the author of four books of poetry, The Human Abstract, Turneresque, Meteoric Flowers, and most recently, Address.

Matthew Zapruder's latest book is Come on All You Ghosts, published by Copper Canyon in Fall of 2010. He is also the author of American Linden (Tupelo Press, 2002), The Pajamaist (Copper Canyon, 2006),winner of the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. He lives in San Francisco, where he teaches poetry as a member of the permanent faculty of the Juniper Summer Writing Institute at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, and works as an editor for Wave Books.


Curated by Rod Smith and Nick Twemlow in conjunction with
Wesleyan University Press, Canarium Books, Edge Books,
The Iowa Review, MAKE magazine, & Wave Books.