YES, READING!

Yes! Welcomes MacGregor Card + Conchitina Cruz + Jason Cosco 11.11.11

Yes! Reading Series — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 12:13:42 +0000

We hope you can join us for the last Yes! event of the year. Featuring the film of Jason Cosco and the poetry stylings of MacGregor Card and Conchitina Cruz.

Yes! Reading Series Welcomes Kristi Maxwell, Megan Martin and Pete Edwards 10.4 8pm

Yes! Reading Series — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 16:54:43 +0000

Join us for an awesome night of word and circuit bending!

Yes! presents Rebecca Wolff, Charles Alexander and Nick Demske 9.30.11 8pm

Yes! Reading Series — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 15:29:42 +0000

Join us for a night of poetry and publishing genius! All events start at 8pm at the Social Justice Center 33 Central Ave. Albany NY 12210

Yes! Welcomes Heather Christle, Dana Ward and Eric Hardiman 9.9.11 8pm

Yes! Reading Series — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 23:51:01 +0000

Join us for a night of poetry and sound shaping!

Yes! Reading Series Welcomes Anne Gorrick, Maryrose Larkin and Lynn Behrendt

Yes! Reading Series — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 00:32:13 +0000

Please join us for an amazing trio of poets!

: Anne Gorrick is the author of I-Formation (Book One) (Shearsman Books, 2010), the forthcoming I-Formation (Book Two), and Kyotologic (Shearsman Books, 2008). She also collaborated with artist Cynthia Winika to produce a limited edition artists’ book, “Swans, the ice,” she said, funded with grants from the Women’s Studio Workshop in Rosendale, NY and the New York Foundation for the Arts. She curates the reading series Cadmium Text, featuring innovative writing from in and around New York’s Hudson Valley (www.cadmiumtextseries.blogspot.com). She also co-edits the electronic poetry journal Peep/Show with poet Lynn Behrendt (www.peepshowpoetry.blogspot.com). Anne Gorrick lives in West Park, New York.

Maryrose Larkin lives in Portland, Ore. where she works as a donor researcher. She is the author of Inverse (nine muses books, 2006), Whimsy Daybook 2007 (FLASH+CARD, 2006), The Book of Ocean (i.e. press, 2007), DARC (FLASH+CARD, 2009), The Name of this Intersection is Frost (Shearsman Books, 2010), and Marrowing (Airfoil, 2011) Maryrose is one of the organizers of Spare Room, a Portland-based writing collective, and is co-editor, with Sarah Mangold, of FLASH+CARD, a chapbook and ephemera poetry press. She is currently working on "Twenty Questions for Five Masters" a play for Language Master and voice.

Lynn Behrendt is the author of several chapbooks, most recently Acquiescence and This is the Story of Things That Happened, both as part of the Dusie Kollektiv 5. A full length collection, petals, emblems, is available through Lunar Chandelier press. She co-edits the Annandale Dream Gazette, an online chronicle of poets' dreams, as well as Peep/Show, an electronic journal of innovative contemporary poetry.

Yes! Reading Series Welcomes Adam Golaski & John Cotter

Yes! Reading Series — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 16:17:56 +0000

Yes Reading series kicks off its 3rd season with a stupendous bang! Please join us February 13th at 4pm for a radical afternoon of poetry and prose. See samples below.

See samples of Adam Golaski’s work here:

See samples of John Cotter’s work here:

Yes! Reading Series Welcomes Jay Millar, Mark Goldstein, Marianne Apostolides and Andrew Hugues 11.19-20.10

Yes! Reading Series — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 15:14:34 +0000

Back to Back Amazing Events! Join us for a reading on Friday evening and a workshop on TransTranslation on Saturday. Details for both below!

Yes! Reading Series Welcomes Brenda Coultas and Ted Mathys 11.13.10

Yes! Reading Series — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 01:32:20 +0000

Please join us for another awesome reading by two phenomenal poets!

Yes! Reading Series Welcomes David Mills and Tomas Urayoan Noel 11.7.10

Yes! Reading Series — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 14:36:50 +0000

Join us for another incredible evening of poetry. Note the different time. Excerpts from their work are included below.

Tomas Urayoan Noel

co-opt city

hi then, city

cooped, recouped

hi-density

hidden

sí, tú

quién?

in situ

our birthright

dead end

yet

& then

andén

domainofhope

atdoubtdotnet

a burned

a Citi-®

scan

some ziti

strained

somos sums

cu dada nos

de servers

eros

do shared

sensoria

da citizens

be vocal

dem denizens

transLorcal

say when

ye urb

of quién?

(op. city)

Ionic Man

Knee scream.

M-are-I

a hot dog eased into a hi-tech bun?

III

Have you ever dated a claustrophobic frank?

Medial collateral ligament rip, right?

Right. The right.

Physical the see therapist three weeks a day.

Hydrocollator. Human

barbecue. Hot ribs. White.

Hot. Season me.

VII

Stimulation: electrodes

flank my knee. Volley sparks

coast to coats.

VIII

Muscle mumble.3.3 Mhz.

After rub. Lotion glows in the blood.

Ultra sound: the pate of the albino

temple turtle orbiting my knee.

Isometricks:

Leg the left swing like a pendulum;

Right the swing pendulum leg a like.

XVI

Full moon: a knee

cap

perforating

this evening

of ink.

XII

Femur. Patella. Tibia. Beneath

the flesh: mortal and pestle.

XIII

Little fails don’t feet me now. The miles

of 1,000 starts journeys with one step:

weak down the stairs on the walk leg;

up strong the stairs on the start leg.

XIV

A New Negro movement. A New Negro move

meant: think about it, there’s more to this this

than this that.

Walking is nothing

but a constant

recovery from a fall.

Yes! Reading Series Welcomes Bernadette Mayer, Joe Hall and Travis Macdonald 10.2.10

Yes! Reading Series — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 03:09:11 +0000

It is in the stars! Join us for an evening of unpredictable poetry at the Social Justice Center Albany NY!