NYC Friends: This Just In: FORKLIFT, OHIO and THE AGRICULTURE READER-- Premiere Final Installment of One Time Only Reading Series

I'll be reading at KGB on Wed. Jan. 2nd at 7PM with Forklift, Ohio's Assistant Editor Brett Price, The Agriculture Reader's Editor Jeremy Schmall and the The Apocalypse Reader's Editor Justin Taylor. If you'll be in the area, we'd love to see you there.

For directions to KGB, etc. here's the link to the reading on the KGB site:
http://www.kgbbar.com/calendar/event/2008-01-02_forklift_ohio_a.html

And the official announcement for the event goes like this:

FORKLIFT, OHIO and THE AGRICULTURE READER-- Premiere Final Installment of One Time Only Reading Series

As Voltairine de Cleyre once wrote, "The goal strived for should, and must, be a very different one from that which led the mediaeval fanatics to despise the body and belabor it with hourly crucifixions." We could not agree more! Start 2008 off right by coming to the KGB Bar on January 3rd to hear poetry by Jeremy Schmall, Matt Hart, Brett Price, and Justin Taylor, who between them are the editors of Forklift, Ohio; The Apocalypse Reader; The Agriculture Reader; and Come Back, Donald Barthelme. Poet Julia Cohen says "attending this event will raise your IQ by 50 points," and she'd know. This special non-repeating series of one promises a potpourri of modest thrills that it's almost certainly capable of delivering. Let geniality reign!

Bios:

Matt Hart [Let's skip mine, since if you're reading this on my blog, you're probably either a) one of my pals or b) one of my enemies. In the first case, you know me too well, and in the second case, you don't need anymore ammo].

Brett Price is from Cincinnati, OH and is the assistant editor of Forklift, Ohio: A Journal of Poetry, Cooking, and Light Industrial Safety. He is working toward an MFA in writing at Bard College. His work can be found in such journals as H_NGM_N, Octopus, and Incliner.

Jeremy Schmall edits The Agriculture Reader, and is the author of a chapbook Underneath an Obnoxious Moon and an artist book The Slapdown. He lives in Brooklyn, the sandwich capital of the Western Hemisphere.

Justin Taylor is the editor of The Apocalypse Reader (Thunder's Mouth Press), a collection of 34 new and selected short stories about the end of the world, and "Come Back, Donald Barthelme" (McSweeney's #24), a celebration of the author's life and work. His writing—fiction, criticism, and poetry—has been published in The Believer, Bookslut, The Boston Review, Dennis Cooper's Userlands, Pilot Poetry, Paste, and numerous other magazines, journals, and websites. His website is http://www.justindtaylor.net/

NEW H_NGM_N -- #7!

Yeah, I know I'm way late on the draw here, but if you haven't checked this out yet, please do. Nate's put together another fine issue.

Congrats Nate!

See his note below, or do not pass GO, and instead GO!

http://www.h-ngm-n.com/

Matt


Dear Yes Dear:Please allow me to say hello to you with my voice! I am EDITOR NATE PRITTS writing with a special proposition only for someone with your name because of how it was uncovered in a secret document. About money! Yes, please read on. I would like to transfer to you, at no charge and for all of your own use, the new issue of H_NGM_N. Please respond to me by clicking this link here in the next word – http://www.h-ngm-n.com/ - & you will be transported immediately to the secret trove of literature that was left to you by your dearly beloved dead relative you do not know.

What’s more is that there is even more! If you were to considering sending me the sum of $6 US, I would surely then find myself putting in the mail to you a copy of the last will and testament of your dearly beloved dead relative you do not know. The title of this tome is WHO COULD FORGET THE SENSATIONAL FIRST EVENING OF THE NIGHT by Julia Cohen and she is even not dead as I write this! And it is not even a will but really a chapbook of really terrific & ultimately edifying poems!

You could do worse than this and I’m not only kidding about that but also I am telling a quiet kind of truth that makes you want to spend money on things. Things like this! Even if they are free.

http://www.h-ngm-n.com/

Please act now before the government of England claims all of this money & prize. Please exercise your right and use the finger on your hand to manipulate the computer clicking device and bring yourself to the new issue of H_NGM_N that you need.

Yours most sincerely,

Nate Pritts, Editor in Chief.

http://www.h-ngm-n.com/

Siren 5

Enjoy the new issue of Siren, #5, in which I have some poems. Here's the announcement from the desk of Siren editor, Sara Kearns:

Siren 5 is up, out, and feeling extra special:

Read work by ROBYN ART, ADAM CLAY, MARK CUNNINGHAM, SARAH J. DEN BOER, JEHANNE DUBROW, KATHLEEN FLENNIKEN, VALERIE FOX, MATT HART, TIM KEANE, KATHRYN RANTALA, and PAUL SIEGELL

and view the photography of ARLENE ANG and MARIA SZULC.

Also, in News & Notes find out about what some of our previous contributors such as Nick Courtright, Ira Joel Haber, Dorianne Laux, Kiki Petrosino, and Elizabeth Volpe have been doing; read nominations to Best of the Net and the Pushcart Prize, also in News & Notes; and review new Submissions guidelines.

Thank you so much for your interest in Siren.

Warmly,
Sara Kearns, Editor