Here is a June song.

Also, here is the closet leg of The Tiny Tour. The first video features me, Dorothea Lasky. The second video is Ish Klein. The third is Eric Baus. And the fourth video is the Q & A. Bios of the readers can be found below. For more information about The Tiny Tour, click here.

Date and time of the reading: Saturday, 12/8/07, 8 p.m.

Readers: Eric Baus, Ish Klein, and Dorothea Lasky

Camerawork: Laura Solomon

Introductions: CA Conrad

Bios:

Eric Baus is the author of The To Sound (Wave Books, 2004) and Tuned Droves (Octopus Book, forthcoming 2008). He edits Minus House chapbooks and occasionally posts comments on poetry audio files on his site To The Sound. He is currently in the PhD program in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Denver.
CAConrad is the author of Deviant Propulsion (Soft Skull, 2006), The Book of Frank (Chax, 2008), (Soma)tic Midge (FAUX, 2008) and a collaboration with poet Frank Sherlock titled The City Real & Imagined: Philadelphia Poems (Factory School, 2008). He can be found http://CAConrad.blogspot.com.
I, Ish Klein, am a self-taught filmmaker, puppetmaker and writer. Poetry is my favorite thing to listen to. My friends and I do a youtube show called “the BOO! show”; there are now four episodes. You can find this on youtube under ishkleinfilms. This show videos the greatest writers in the world personally reading their poems. Also there is singing and other fun stuff. You might really like it. In the near future I hope to tour around with my book Union! and project videos.
Dorothea Lasky is the author of AWE (Wave Books, 2007). Recent work can be found in Tourmaline (Transmission Press, 2008). Currently, she lives in Philadelphia, where she studies creativity and education at the University of Pennsylvania.

Until then, world love…

“When the rhythm calls the government falls Here come the cops
From Tokyo to Soweto viva la musica pop We are black & white
and we dance all night down at the hop and the letters were tall
on the Berlin Wall viva la musica pop so if you’re feeling low
stuck in some bardo I, even I, know the solution
love, music, wine and revolution love, love, love music, wine and revolution
This too shall pass so raise your glass to change and chance
and freedom is the only law shall we dance…”

––”World Love,” The Magnetic Fields

The first video features me, Dorothea Lasky. The second video features Jason Zuzga. The third video features Julia Bloch. The fourth video features Jim Behrle. The last video is the Q & A session.

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Date and time of the reading: Monday, 11/12/07, 6 p.m.

Readers: Dorothea Lasky, Jason Zuzga, Julia Bloch, Jim Behrle

Camerawork: Dorothea Lasky, Jim Behrle, Frank Sherlock

Introductions: Frank Sherlock

Bios:

Jim Behrle lives in Brooklyn, NY. SHE’S MY BEST FRIEND was released in late 2006 by Pressed Wafer.
Julia Bloch’s poetry has appeared recently in the anthologies Bay Poetics (Faux Press) and Pocket Myths: The Odyssey, in The Philadelphia Inquirer, and in the journals Cue, Women’s Studies Quarterly, Double Room, and Sidebrow. Her chapbook Problem-Solving Outline was published by Bigfan Press; she has a new chapbook of sonnets forthcoming from Katalanché Press. She co-curates the Emergency reading series for new poetries at the Kelly Writers House. You can listen to her work here.
Dorothea Lasky’s first book of poems, AWE, came out in the fall of 2007 from Wave Books. Recent poems can be found in Octopus, Forklift, Ohio, small town, and Satellite Telephone, among other places. Currently, she lives in Philadelphia, where she is pursuing her doctorate in education from the University of Pennsylvania.
Frank Sherlock is the author of Wounds in an Imaginary Nature Show (Night Flag Books), Spring Diet of Flowers at Night (Mooncalf Press), ISO (furniture press) and 13 (Ixnay Press). Forthcoming chapbook publications include Daybook of Perversities & Main Events (Cy Gist Press), Over Here (Katalanché Press) and a collaborative poem with Brett Evans, out this Spring from Lavendar Ink, entitled Ready-to-Eat Individual. He is alive in Philadelphia.
Jason Zuzga’s poetry has appeared in VOLT, LIT, FENCE, SPORK, Cue, etc. He had a residency at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown 2001-2002 and was the James Merrill Poet-in-Residence 2005-2006. He is the nonfiction editor of FENCE. He is currently in the English PhD Program at the University of Pennsylvania and has an MFA in poetry and nonfiction from the University of Arizona in Tucson and a BA fro Brown, and he lived in New York for a good while, too. He can be reached at jasonzuzga@gmail.com.

Here is her poem:

The Wildness is Interior
For Dottie Lasky and Gaston Bachelard

That music is fled; our reaction
to daydreaming is to call color out
and also expectation. The music
is a nest but not a shell and these
things are different as one red lip
to another red lip. I ask you what
you are looking at and you say,
“sometimes your breasts, sometimes
the fire” and I think this must be
what is called the aesthetics of shiny
things, like how birds fall headlong
into the hard earth and only then
look back into the hidden places
for import and understanding. You took
my picture several times but not
just my picture, always with new light,
angle, recording the awkward expression
of the watched. If only I could daydream
before cameras, or all the music in the world
comes and goes in the form of longing
so I can say, “sound is a forward presentation”
even as the space is rounding to make
everything available, though really
it always was, buried in my body
like risky pearls.

I have some new poems and an interview in Octopus 10. If I could, through this text, I would shout big thank yous to Joshua Marie Wilkinson for interviewing me and to the lovely editors of Octopus. Their whole new issue is exquisite and you should check it out, if you haven’t already.

There is a new review of AWE today in the St. Petersburg Times.

And last, but not least, I am shooting for a new leg of The Tiny Tour (the hallway leg) to be up here tomorrow night. Please check back tomorrow night or Tuesday.

The beautiful drawing you see is by the artistic genius that is none other than Camilla Schofield.

(And by the way, I have a new chapbook coming out from Transmission Press soon and Camilla did the drawings for it. I can’t wait to show you how beautiful they are when it comes out.)

Here is the fire escape leg of The Tiny Tour. The first video features Thomas Devaney. The second is Sueyeun Juliette Lee. The third is me, Dorothea Lasky. The fourth is Michael Carr. The fifth is Aaron Tieger. And finally, the sixth is the Q&A session (unfortunately, this video is without Thomas Devaney because he had previous engagements during this portion of the reading.)

I hope you enjoy this leg of the tour! In a little bit from today, I will be posting the hallway leg.

Did you miss The Tiny Tour? If you did, well then The Tiny Tour missed you more.

Date and time of the reading: Sunday, 10/21/07, 3 p.m.

Readers: Thomas Devaney, Sueyeun Juliette Lee, Dorothea Lasky, Michael Carr, Aaron Tieger

Camerawork: Laura Solomon

Introductions: Chris Roberti

Bios:

Michael Carr is the author of Softer White, published in 2007 by House Press, and Platinum Blonde, a chapbook of poems and collages (Fewer & Further Press, 2006). He has edited a manuscript journal of John Wieners’ called A book of PROPHECIES, which was published in the summer of 2007 by Bootstrap Productions. With Dorothea Lasky, he co-edits Katalanché Press, and lives in Cambridge, Mass.
Thomas Devaney is a poet. His new book of poetry is A Series of Small Boxes (Fish Drum). He has worked with the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia on a number of projects, including “The Empty House” tour at the Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site for “The Big Nothing” exhibit. His first book of poetry was entitled The American Pragmatist Fell in Love (Banshee Press). Devaney’s book, Letters to Ernesto Neto (Germ Folios), is a collection of letters written to the Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto.
Dorothea Lasky was born in St. Louis in 1978. Her first book of poems, AWE, came out in 2007 from Wave Books. Her poems have appeared in Crowd, 6×6, Boston Review, Delmar, Phoebe, Filter, Knock, Drill, Skein, Coconut, Lungfull!, and Carve, among others. She is also the author of four chapbooks: Tourmaline (Transmission Press, 2008), The Hatmaker’s Wife (Braincase Press, 2006), Art (H_NGM_N Press, 2005), and Alphabets and Portraits (Anchorite Press, 2004). She is a graduate of the MFA program at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and also has been educated at Harvard University and Washington University. Currently, she lives in Philadelphia, where she edits the Katalanché Press chapbook series (along with poet, Michael Carr) and is pursuing her doctorate in education from the University of Pennsylvania.
Sueyeun Juliette Lee grew up three miles from the CIA in McLean, Virginia. She edits Corollary Press, a small chapbook series of new work by writers of color. Her publications include the chapbooks Trespass Slightly In (available online from coconut), Perfect Villagers (octopus books) and her first book, That Gorgeous Feeling (coconut), is forthcoming in 2008. Sueyeun currently lives in Philadelphia. She can be reached at s.juliette.lee@gmail.com.
Chris Roberti lives in brooklyn where he writes poems, teaches kids, builds furniture, and rides his bike. He has studied at Muhlenberg College and Harvard University.
Aaron Tieger is the editor of the first American edition of the late British poet Richard Caddel’s Uncertain Time, due out from Boston’s Pressed Wafer in Spring 2008. His latest book, Anxiety Chant, is due out from Skysill Press in Spring 2008. He is the editor of CARVE Poems. He lives and writes in Cambridge, MA, with a very fat cat.

Here’s wishing you a happy and healthy New Year’s from everyone at Birdinsnow.

Oh wait, that’s just me. Well, in that case, Happy New Year!

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The bedroom leg of the tour features two poetry readings and one dance performance. The first video is me, Dorothea Lasky. The second video features dancers, Rebecca Ketchum and Nathan Kosla. The third video is Noelle Kocot. The fourth video is the Q & A.

Date and time of the reading: Sunday, 10/14/07, 11:30 a.m.

Readers: Noelle Kocot and Dorothea Lasky

Dancers: Rebecca Ketchum and Nathan Kosla

Camerawork: Laura Solomon

Introductions: Chris Roberti

Bios:

Rebecca Ketchum lives in Brooklyn. If you saw her there she would probably be baking, dancing, or surfing the net. Her cake company is named CAKED and she is currently dancing with Racoco Productions and Movementpants. Rebecca’s choreography for this performance was inspired by her dear friend Dottie’s magical poetry. She feels honored to be a part of this bedroom reading and to have worked with such great artists as Dorothea Lasky and Nathan Kosla.
Noelle Kocot is the author of three books: 4 (2001) and The Raving Fortune (2004), both from Four Way Books and Poem for the End of Time (2006) from Wave Books. She is the recipient of awards from The Academy of American Poets, The NEA, The Fund for Poetry, and The American Poetry Review. She lives in Brooklyn.
Nathan Kosla is a nice boy who lives just across the river from New York City and loves to dance and sing and play and might be getting a dog soon.
Dorothea Lasky was born in St. Louis in 1978. Her poems have appeared in Crowd, 6×6, Boston Review, Delmar, Phoebe, Filter, Knock, Drill, Lungfull!, and Carve, among others. She is the author of three chapbooks: The Hatmaker’s Wife (Braincase Press, 2006), Art (H_NGM_N Press, 2005), and Alphabets and Portraits (Anchorite Press, 2004). She has been educated at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Harvard University, and Washington University. Currently, she lives in Philadelphia, where she edits the Katalanché Press chapbook series (along with poet, Michael Carr) and is pursuing her doctorate in education from the University of Pennsylvania.
Chris Roberti lives in Brooklyn where he writes poems, teaches kids, builds furniture, and rides his bike. He has studied at Muhlenberg College and Harvard University.