NEWS FLASHES AND FLASHBACKS

1) Forklift, Ohio will have a table--no. 441--in America's Hall 2 at the AWP Bookfair this year, and we'll have a brand new issue for sale--our 18th!--featuring cover art by Elizabeth Zechel and poems by the likes of Matthew Rohrer, G.C. Waldrep, Dean Young, Dorothea Lasky, Todd Colby and Amanda Nadelberg, among many marvelous others. Stay tuned to this blog and/or http://www.forkliftohio.com/ for more details coming soon. Also, at AWP we'll have some (FEW!) remaining copies of a handful of back issues, along with some free giveaways and some weirdly light industrial surprises. If you'll be at AWP, please stop by our table and say Hello!


2) The good people at The Agriculture Reader have done it again! This is without a doubt my favorite print journal going at the moment, and I'm proud to have a few poems in this new issue. See it, read about it, acquaint yourself with all the contributors, and most importantly BUY your copy here: http://www.booklyn.org/agric2.html



3) My old pop-punk band, Squirtgun , will re-unite for one show in Lafayette, Indiana on Feb. 9th. The show will take place at The Venue (corner of 6th and Main) in downtown Lafayette. The cover is $6 and all proceeds will benefit the YWCA's anti-domestic violence programs.

And last but not in anyway least,

4) check out a brand new Michael Schiavo cento/sonnet at Cento Bingo.

GOODBYE, PUBLICO POETRY

For those of you in the Cincinnati area: after five years of amazing art, music, and poetry events, Publico Gallery is closing its doors forever.

With that in mind, please consider coming out to the final reading ever at Publico Gallery (1308 Clay Street in Over-the-Rhine) this Wednesday Jan. 16th at 8PM. This event is a FREE group reading featuring:

Pat Clifford
Evan Commander
Scott Dennis
Norman Finkelstein
Matt Hart
Cindy King
Kristi Maxwell
Aryanil Muhkjaree
Michael Rerick
Dana Ward
Tyrone Williams

Additionally, we'll all have the privilege of reading behind an art-object podium made for the event by artist Keith Benjamin (who happens to be one of my colleagues at the Art Academy and who is an amazingly inventive sculptor).

More about this event and all the Publico closing events at http://www.publicoart.com/