Ana Bozicevic, James Copeland, Ben Fama, Levi Rubeck

TEXTFORM: a summer reading seriesWITH:
Ana Bozicevic
Ben Fama
Levi Rubeck
Hosted by James Copeland

TONIGHT: At the Center for Book Arts, 28 West 27th Street, 3rd Floor, at 6:30pm, July 14, 2010

TONIGHT: Special OMG (WTF) chapbook giveaway to attendees

TONIGHT: Ana Bozicevic will be reading from her book Stars of the Night Commute and, from a new manuscript, poems on petroleum, Mayakovski, Lady Gaga, and “portrait of the immigrant as your little pony.”

TONIGHT: Ben Fama will be reading from his brand new chapbook AQUARIUS RISING, about which Heather Christle has said: “If you love someone you might want to call her and leave Ben Fama’s poems as messages on her voicemail. The messages would be informative and casual and glowing. They would be a big deal—a glamorous shrug from the heart!” Grab him up before Poets & Writers does!

TONIGHT: Levi Rubeck describes what he’s doing this way: “This performance is comprised of two pieces: one is a short film produced by myself and my collaborator in evil, Julie Buck, who is a filmmaker and producer in the master’s program at Columbia. It is titled “Lunar Flare,” and was shot by Julie and I on Super8 in the city of New York circa November 2009, then subsequently colorized, soundified, and presented at the 2009 MONO NO AWARE film festival. I produced the soundtrack from a sample of a song by the band The Life and Times, internet cello samples, a Nintendo DS synthesizer, and guitar. The poem will be read aloud along with the film and the music. The second piece does not have a title at this moment, but will be comprised of a group of collages. Each collage mashes pop culture, video game art, fashion photography, and pages ripped from the New Testament, from which I have created erasure poems commenting mostly on materialism and masculine confusion. It will probably offend my mom when I eventually show it to her.”

TONIGHT: James Copeland will be introducing the poets, as well as presenting his PowerPoint demonstration on the natural lineage of love in Maryland.

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Ana Bozicevic was born in Zagreb, Croatia in 1977. She emigrated to NYC in 1997. Her first book of poems is Stars of the Night Commute (Tarpaulin Sky Press, November 2009), a Lambda Literary Award finalist. Her fifth chapbook, Depth Hoar, will be published by Cinematheque Press in 2010. With Amy King, Ana co-curates The Stain of Poetry reading series in Brooklyn. She works at the Center for the Humanities of The Graduate Center, CUNY.

Ben Fama is the author of Aquarius Rising (UDP 2010) and co-author of the chapbook Girl Boy Girl Boy (Correspondences, 2010). He is the founder of the Brooklyn-based Supermachine Reading Series and poetry journal. His work has appeared in GlitterPony, Pank! and No, Dear Magazine, among others.

Levi Rubeck is a poet from Wyoming. He teaches creative writing in the Bronx, helps out at Ugly Duckling Presse, duplexes at Mr. Boddington’s Studio, tutors at NYU Poly, lends a hand at The Brooklyn Rail/Black Square Editions, dabbles in personal assistance on occasion, and smiles as passing strangers when appropriate.

James Copeland is the author of the chapbooks A Constructing Egg and Why I Steal. Poems have appeared in No Dear, Fence, 6×6, and elsewhere. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, where he is Managing Director at Ugly Duckling Presse.

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Suggested donation: $10 / $5 for members, includes chapbook giveaway for people!