3 THINGS: JEREMY SCHMALL AND REBECCA MORGAN FRANK READ @ THE PAINTED LADY, IMAGINARY PRESS READING, AND THE NEW ANONYMOUS

1. Below is an announcement for a poetry reading on Thurs. Sept. 18th, featuring my friend and Agriculture Reader editor, Jeremy Schmall, and newly-transplanted-to-Cincinnati poet and Memorious editor, Rebecca Morgan Frank. The reading will take place in Norwood at the Painted Lady, a.k.a. the home of poets, Kristi Maxwell, Ann Fine, and Michael Rerick.  See details about the reading, as well as links to poems by each poet and to their respective magazines, in the message from Kristi below.

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Please join us Thursday, Sept. 18, at 7:00 p.m. for a backyard poetry reading. Alas, it is too late in the season for fireflies to act as accompaniment for the readers, but we're sure the readers will glow enough on their own. Tee. Please be prompt, for the natural light's sake. There will be a few finger foods, along with cold things to drink in buckets scattered throughout the yard, but please bring your own bug spray if you prefer to use it.
Our address is: 1808 Lincoln Ave., Cincinnati, 45212
Our phone: 513/698-8205

The readers are out-of-towner Jeremy Schmall and recent Cincinnati transplant (and incoming PhD student) Rebecca Morgan Frank.

About the readers:

Jeremy Schmall is the co-editor and founder of The Agriculture Reader, and the author of two chapbooks, Underneath an Obnoxious Moon and Open Correspondence from the Senator, as well an artist book, The Slapdown. He's been published in Hotel St. George, Pilot, Juked, and Forklift, OH: A Journal of Poetry, Cooking, & Light Industrial Safety. He lives in Brooklyn.

Chap link:
http://x-ingbooks.com/senator.html

Ag Reader:
http://booklyn.org/agric2.html

Poems:
http://juked.com/2006/09/awake.asp

http://juked.com/2006/12/senatorpoem.asp

http://www.hotelstgeorgepress.com/library/08winter/web/content/camera.shtml

http://pilotpoetry.com/s1schmall.html

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Rebecca Morgan Frank is the Editor-in-Chief and co-founder of the online journal Memorious: A Journal of New Verse and Fiction. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Georgia Review, Guernica, Prairie Schooner, Ploughshares, Best New Poets, and elsewhere.

Poems:
http://www.guernicamag.com/poetry/372/rescue/

http://www.inertiamagazine.com/i4/frank.html

The journal she edits:
http://www.memorious.org/


I hope you're able to join us!
Kindly,

Kristi Maxwell

2. I'll be reading in the Imaginary Press Reading Series in Minneapolis on Saturday Sept. 20th at 7:30PM with the amazing Karen Carcia and Sun Yung Shin. If you're a Twin Cities person please come out and hear the fireworks. And me. Here are all the details:

What: The Imaginary Press Reading Series featuring Karen Carcia, Matt Hart, and
Sun-Yung Shin
When: Saturday, September 20th, at 7:30 PM
Where: The Jon Oulman Salon
331 NE 13th Avenue, Minneapolis
(upstairs from the 331 Club)
Admission: FREE
website: http://imaginarypress.blogspot.com

2. Two days ago I received an email (from a mysterious source who will remain nameless), which contained the following call for submissions.

THE NEW ANONYMOUS CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Announcing The New Anonymous, a print journal whose contributors and editors will remain forever nameless. Indeed, The New Anonymous will publish all work anonymously. And all submissions will be blindly screened and edited, i.e., the submission, editorial, and publishing process will be anonymous from beginning to end. Our goal is to serve as a safehouse where writers—both up-and-coming and well established—can not only question the creative process but also, in the words of Freud, "play."

We are now reading submissions in all genres for our upcoming debut issue and hope you'll join us in this unique endeavor. For submission guidelines and more information, visit our website at:

www.thenewanonymous.com