On Sunday, June 12th, 2011, at 5pm, The Jubilant Thicket Literary Series presents a celebration of (Soma)tics, featuring a reading & discussion by CAConrad, and films by Courtney Shumway.
CACONRAD is the son of white trash asphyxiation. His childhood included selling cut flowers along the highway for his mother & helping her shoplift.
COURTNEY SHUMWAY is a series of movements contained within a female body centered out of nowhere & existing forever tomorrow beside you. They were hungry so she fed them. 8. All at once. She is least relevant in the early morning & highly significant at any other time of day, unless the sun is up. She has gone mad with your waiting & fills herself with things untold. In spite of knowing better, she speaks constantly, resulting in her continued presence & frequent misgivings. She is deeply honored to bear, among other tragedies, the affliction of poet.
This will be an amazing day in the history of the world & poetry. Please come. This happens, as ever, at The Walking Fish Theatre, 2509 Frankford Avenue, Philadelphia, PA, at 5pm EST.
Monday, June 6, 2011
Sunday, April 24, 2011
SUNDAY, MAY 8th, 2011, 5pm
The Jubilant Thicket Literary Series presents poetry by Dorothea Lasky & Stan Mir, as well as a lecture + Q&A about the concept of understanding in tragic poetry by William McGuire.
DOROTHEA LASKY is an American poet. She was born in St. Louis, Missouri on March 27, 1978. Lasky earned her BA in Classics & Psychology from Washington University in St. Louis. She earned her MFA in Poetry from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst's MFA Program for Poets & Writers, & her Ed.M. in Arts & Education from Harvard University.
STAN MIR is the author of two books of poetry, Song & Glass (Subito Press, 2010) & The Lacustrine Suite (Pavement Saw Press, 2011), as well as the chapbooks Flight Patterns & Test Patterns, both published by JR Vansant. His work has also appeared in Fascicle, Ixnay, LVNG & The Poker. Currently he lives in the Germantown section of Philadelphia.
WILLIAM McGUIRE bravely sacrificed a normal social life in order to read old books with odd titles. He enjoys poetry, philosophy, & sleazy detective novels, but not in that order.
This all occurs, as usual, at The Walking Fish Theatre, 2509 Frankford Avenue, Philadelphia PA. Please come. Will be stupendous.
DOROTHEA LASKY is an American poet. She was born in St. Louis, Missouri on March 27, 1978. Lasky earned her BA in Classics & Psychology from Washington University in St. Louis. She earned her MFA in Poetry from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst's MFA Program for Poets & Writers, & her Ed.M. in Arts & Education from Harvard University.
STAN MIR is the author of two books of poetry, Song & Glass (Subito Press, 2010) & The Lacustrine Suite (Pavement Saw Press, 2011), as well as the chapbooks Flight Patterns & Test Patterns, both published by JR Vansant. His work has also appeared in Fascicle, Ixnay, LVNG & The Poker. Currently he lives in the Germantown section of Philadelphia.
WILLIAM McGUIRE bravely sacrificed a normal social life in order to read old books with odd titles. He enjoys poetry, philosophy, & sleazy detective novels, but not in that order.
This all occurs, as usual, at The Walking Fish Theatre, 2509 Frankford Avenue, Philadelphia PA. Please come. Will be stupendous.
Monday, March 28, 2011
SUNDAY, APRIL 10, 2011, 5PM
On Sunday, April 10th, 2011, at 5pm, THE JUBILANT THICKET LITERARY SERIES features poetry by Joe Hall & Wade Fletcher, & visual poetry by Francesca Costanzo.
JOE HALL is the founder & co-organizer (with Wade Fletcher) of the Washington, D.C. area reading series Cheryl's Gone. His first book, Pigafetta Is My Wife, was published by Black Ocean Press in April 2010. He is also an avid collector of bloody noses.
WADE FLETCHER lives in Falls Church, VA with his wife & their wonderful new son. He teaches composition, literature, & poetry at two of the George Universities: Mason & Washington, & also serves as assistant manager for Fall of the Book, a yearly literary arts festival. He completed his MFA in poetry in 2008 at GMU, where he held the Heritage Writer Fellowship. A former poetry editor for Phoebe, he now coordinates Cheryl's Gone, a monthly multi-genre reading & performance series in Washington D.C. His chapbook, Snitch Culture, was published in 2007, & recent poems have appeared in Barrelhouse & Versal.
FRANCESCA COSTANZO sought refuge in her room for writing poetry at the age of five. At age six, she took photographs at family gatherings. Now, she blends the two together to create a mood, an emotion, a sequence in time. Never knowing the final outcome, she manipulates her piece until words jump off the pages & images pop like firecrackers. Like still moving pictures showing what just was, & what has been forever captured in time.
This all occurs, as usual, at The Walking Fish Theatre, 2509 Frankford Avenue, Philadelphia. Please come!
JOE HALL is the founder & co-organizer (with Wade Fletcher) of the Washington, D.C. area reading series Cheryl's Gone. His first book, Pigafetta Is My Wife, was published by Black Ocean Press in April 2010. He is also an avid collector of bloody noses.
WADE FLETCHER lives in Falls Church, VA with his wife & their wonderful new son. He teaches composition, literature, & poetry at two of the George Universities: Mason & Washington, & also serves as assistant manager for Fall of the Book, a yearly literary arts festival. He completed his MFA in poetry in 2008 at GMU, where he held the Heritage Writer Fellowship. A former poetry editor for Phoebe, he now coordinates Cheryl's Gone, a monthly multi-genre reading & performance series in Washington D.C. His chapbook, Snitch Culture, was published in 2007, & recent poems have appeared in Barrelhouse & Versal.
FRANCESCA COSTANZO sought refuge in her room for writing poetry at the age of five. At age six, she took photographs at family gatherings. Now, she blends the two together to create a mood, an emotion, a sequence in time. Never knowing the final outcome, she manipulates her piece until words jump off the pages & images pop like firecrackers. Like still moving pictures showing what just was, & what has been forever captured in time.
This all occurs, as usual, at The Walking Fish Theatre, 2509 Frankford Avenue, Philadelphia. Please come!
Thursday, March 3, 2011
SUNDAY, MARCH 13th, 2011, 5pm
On Sunday, March 13th, 2011, The Jubilant Thicket Literary Series features poetry by Lauren Ireland, film by Brian Melton, & a lecture plus Q&A by Nicholas Deboer on Ezra Pound's The Cantos.
LAUREN IRELAND grew up in coastal Virginia & southern Maryland. Currently an editor at Lungfull! Magazine, she also curates the monthly poetry series The Readings at Chrystie Street, & edits Invisible Magazine with Steve Roberts. Her poems have appeared in Sixth Finch, Conduit, Caketrain, & Bateau, among others; a chapbook is forthcoming from Factory Hollow Press. She lives in Brooklyn.
BRIAN MELTON is a freelance cinematographer who's worked on indie films such as Great World of Sound, which premiered at Sundance in 2007 & the Oscar-nominated Junebug. In February of 2007, the American Society of Cinematographers awarded Brian the ASC Heritage Award for Cinematography for his work on the 16mm short film Red Autumn. Since then, he has shot several projects including an HD feature directed by Stephen Cone called The Chritians, which made its debut in November of 2008 at Chicago's Gene Siskel film center, a Joshua Harrell music video that is currently running on MTV's LOGO network, & Cowboy Funeral, an upcoming independent feature produced by Crosswater Entertainment. Brian is an alumnus of the North Carolina School of the Arts School of Filmmaking. He currently lives in Philadelphia.
NICHOLAS DEBOER was born at 1024pm with a temperature of 29.1 degrees farenheit. The wind gust a bit, around 5.8 mph under a clear sky in Chicago, Illinois. It was the Michael Reece Hospital, designed by Walter Gropius. He certainly still likes to think about it. Later on, he attended schools, they were nice schools & some of his friends were met there. He found out that he could get obsessed with things by the age of 11, when his mother told him he could listen to their vinyl & found a photograph of Edgar Poe in the Beatles' seventh album. It got worse, over time. By his early 20s he found out that he really liked Guy Debord & the Situationist International, & really thought it was important at 18 to watch Citizen Kane something like 100 times. Now, it's Ezra Pound, then it's Charles Olson. He went to Naropa & Western Michigan University. People have been nice enough to take some of his words in poetry journals, such as Fact-Simile, Bombay Gin & other(s). He was born on the 23rd of October, 1981.
This all happens at 5pm at The Walking Fish Theatre, 2509 Frankford Avenue, Philadelphia, PA. Please come!
LAUREN IRELAND grew up in coastal Virginia & southern Maryland. Currently an editor at Lungfull! Magazine, she also curates the monthly poetry series The Readings at Chrystie Street, & edits Invisible Magazine with Steve Roberts. Her poems have appeared in Sixth Finch, Conduit, Caketrain, & Bateau, among others; a chapbook is forthcoming from Factory Hollow Press. She lives in Brooklyn.
BRIAN MELTON is a freelance cinematographer who's worked on indie films such as Great World of Sound, which premiered at Sundance in 2007 & the Oscar-nominated Junebug. In February of 2007, the American Society of Cinematographers awarded Brian the ASC Heritage Award for Cinematography for his work on the 16mm short film Red Autumn. Since then, he has shot several projects including an HD feature directed by Stephen Cone called The Chritians, which made its debut in November of 2008 at Chicago's Gene Siskel film center, a Joshua Harrell music video that is currently running on MTV's LOGO network, & Cowboy Funeral, an upcoming independent feature produced by Crosswater Entertainment. Brian is an alumnus of the North Carolina School of the Arts School of Filmmaking. He currently lives in Philadelphia.
NICHOLAS DEBOER was born at 1024pm with a temperature of 29.1 degrees farenheit. The wind gust a bit, around 5.8 mph under a clear sky in Chicago, Illinois. It was the Michael Reece Hospital, designed by Walter Gropius. He certainly still likes to think about it. Later on, he attended schools, they were nice schools & some of his friends were met there. He found out that he could get obsessed with things by the age of 11, when his mother told him he could listen to their vinyl & found a photograph of Edgar Poe in the Beatles' seventh album. It got worse, over time. By his early 20s he found out that he really liked Guy Debord & the Situationist International, & really thought it was important at 18 to watch Citizen Kane something like 100 times. Now, it's Ezra Pound, then it's Charles Olson. He went to Naropa & Western Michigan University. People have been nice enough to take some of his words in poetry journals, such as Fact-Simile, Bombay Gin & other(s). He was born on the 23rd of October, 1981.
This all happens at 5pm at The Walking Fish Theatre, 2509 Frankford Avenue, Philadelphia, PA. Please come!
Thursday, January 27, 2011
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 13th, 2011, 7pm
On Sunday, February 13th, at 7pm, The Jubilant Thicket Literary Series features Poetic Fiction by Jonathan Pogoda, Poetry by Quincy Scott Jones, & Bardic Tales & Magic by Elizabeth Kirwin.
JONATHAN POGODA received his MFA from Naropa University in 2005. He lives in Brooklyn & works as a librarian. His band plays around Brooklyn occasionally. He is busy working on a couple of novels. He edits Puzzled America, a literary journal.
QUINCY SCOTT JONES earned a Bachelor's Degree from Brown University, a Master's Degree in English & Creative Writing from Temple University, & $100 once for working as a supermarket clown. He currently writes, teaches, & performs in the Philadelphia area, & is adjunct professor of Creative Writing at Arcadia University & an adjunct instructor at Temple University. He is the creator & host of New Directions of Black Poetics, a semiannual panel of writers & scholars discussing their relation to the African-American community & literary tradition. He taught Arcadia University's first ever Poetry On Page & Stage class, a course exploring the possibilities in the relationship between poetry as spoken performance as well as performance on the page.
ELIZABETH KIRWIN is the editor & publisher of FairiesInAmerica.com, a neo-pagan website that tracks the faery movement in North America. Kirwin & Liam Sckhot, an eclectic music composer, have been collaborating on Fairy Gothic Ballads for three years. Kirwin has created a male character, an 18th century Irish Bard. The Bard collects stories of the land & people & the legendary tales & magic of the Irish. She performs these ballads as a man. Elizabeth Kirwin is an Internet Entrepreneur, & she's based in Asheville, NC.
All of this will take place at THE WALKING FISH THEATRE, 2509 Frankford Avenue, Philadelphia, PA. Please come. This will be a varied & MAGICAL evening.
JONATHAN POGODA received his MFA from Naropa University in 2005. He lives in Brooklyn & works as a librarian. His band plays around Brooklyn occasionally. He is busy working on a couple of novels. He edits Puzzled America, a literary journal.
QUINCY SCOTT JONES earned a Bachelor's Degree from Brown University, a Master's Degree in English & Creative Writing from Temple University, & $100 once for working as a supermarket clown. He currently writes, teaches, & performs in the Philadelphia area, & is adjunct professor of Creative Writing at Arcadia University & an adjunct instructor at Temple University. He is the creator & host of New Directions of Black Poetics, a semiannual panel of writers & scholars discussing their relation to the African-American community & literary tradition. He taught Arcadia University's first ever Poetry On Page & Stage class, a course exploring the possibilities in the relationship between poetry as spoken performance as well as performance on the page.
ELIZABETH KIRWIN is the editor & publisher of FairiesInAmerica.com, a neo-pagan website that tracks the faery movement in North America. Kirwin & Liam Sckhot, an eclectic music composer, have been collaborating on Fairy Gothic Ballads for three years. Kirwin has created a male character, an 18th century Irish Bard. The Bard collects stories of the land & people & the legendary tales & magic of the Irish. She performs these ballads as a man. Elizabeth Kirwin is an Internet Entrepreneur, & she's based in Asheville, NC.
All of this will take place at THE WALKING FISH THEATRE, 2509 Frankford Avenue, Philadelphia, PA. Please come. This will be a varied & MAGICAL evening.
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
SUNDAY, JANUARY 9th, 2011, 7PM
The Jubilant Thicket Literary Series features poetry by Jamie Townsend & Brenda Iijima, & music by members of Cuddle Magic.
JAMIE TOWNSEND has poems published or forthcoming in Bombay Gin, The Cultural Society, Gam, Diagram, Fact-Simile, Wheelhouse, Volt, & Jacket. With Nicholas DeBoer, he edits con/crescent press, a chapbook publisher & print magazine focused on discursive essay/creative nonfiction, & curates the upcoming c/c reading series. He writes & performs with The New Philadelphia Poets, & lives right around the block in East Kensington.
BRENDA IIJIMA is the author of If Not Metamorphic (Ahsahta Press, 2010), Revv. You'll-Ution (Displaced Press, 2009), Subsistence Equipment (Faux Press, 2008), Animate, Inanimate Aims (Litmus, 2007) & Around Sea (O Books, 2004). She edited the collection Eco Language Reader (Nightboat Books, 2010), & is a visual artist. She lives in Brooklyn, NY, & teaches at The Cooper Union.
CUDDLE MAGIC is a large ensemble & songwriting collective band based in Brooklyn & Philadelphia. With nary an electric guitar in sight, Cuddle Magic uses a quiet 20th century pallette -- vibraphone, clarinet, muted trumpet, banjo, ukulele, violin, vocal counterpoint, etc. -- to create a rhythmically sophisticated folk music from an imaginary folk.
A mesmerizing evening will ensue. Please come. This all occurs, as always, at Germ Books & Gallery, 2005 Frankford Avenue, Philadelphia, PA. Hosted by Debrah Morkun.
JAMIE TOWNSEND has poems published or forthcoming in Bombay Gin, The Cultural Society, Gam, Diagram, Fact-Simile, Wheelhouse, Volt, & Jacket. With Nicholas DeBoer, he edits con/crescent press, a chapbook publisher & print magazine focused on discursive essay/creative nonfiction, & curates the upcoming c/c reading series. He writes & performs with The New Philadelphia Poets, & lives right around the block in East Kensington.
BRENDA IIJIMA is the author of If Not Metamorphic (Ahsahta Press, 2010), Revv. You'll-Ution (Displaced Press, 2009), Subsistence Equipment (Faux Press, 2008), Animate, Inanimate Aims (Litmus, 2007) & Around Sea (O Books, 2004). She edited the collection Eco Language Reader (Nightboat Books, 2010), & is a visual artist. She lives in Brooklyn, NY, & teaches at The Cooper Union.
CUDDLE MAGIC is a large ensemble & songwriting collective band based in Brooklyn & Philadelphia. With nary an electric guitar in sight, Cuddle Magic uses a quiet 20th century pallette -- vibraphone, clarinet, muted trumpet, banjo, ukulele, violin, vocal counterpoint, etc. -- to create a rhythmically sophisticated folk music from an imaginary folk.
A mesmerizing evening will ensue. Please come. This all occurs, as always, at Germ Books & Gallery, 2005 Frankford Avenue, Philadelphia, PA. Hosted by Debrah Morkun.
Friday, November 19, 2010
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2010, 7pm
JUBILANT THICKET features poetry by Anne-Adele Wight & Laura Spagnoli, plus a lecture and Q & A on the poet Anne Sexton by Philadelphia's leading scholar of Sexton, Tamara Oakman.
ANNE-ADELE WIGHT is a surrealist who experiments with different styles. She is the author of two chapbooks. A third, The Black Dog, is forthcoming. Anne-Adele's work has appeared in American Writing, The Doriens, Mad Poets Review, Philadelphia Writer's Conference Anthology Poets, Philadelphia Poets, Shrike, & Tabula Rasa. She has read at many local venues. She is Vice-President of the longest continuous Philadelphia Poetry Series Organization, Poets & Prophets. In her daily life, she works as an editor, living with one husband and two cats.
LAURA SPAGNOLI has recently published poems in Sleet, Apiary, E. Pluribus Unum, and ONandOnScreen.net, and her short story, A Cut Above, came out last month in the collection Philadelphia Noir. She lives south of South Street and teaches French at Temple University. If the weather is wintry, she is probably happy.
TAMARA OAKMAN is a graduate of Temple University. She has won awards in poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, and drama. She has been published by Many Mountains Moving, Philadelphia Stories, Mad Poets Review, Fox Chase Review and other online and in print journals; reads poetry and fiction everywhere in Philadelphia and the tri-state area; judged a fiction and drama contest for Hidden River Arts, is judging a poetry contest at the next Philadelphia Writer's Conference, and has completed her Master's thesis in English (a book of poetry entitled "Snatched" at Arcadia University. Her efforts have been documented in The Metro, The City Paper, The Inquirer, Philly Weekly and others. She is the executive director of The Light of Unity Association, co-editor of APIARY, co-editor of Philadelphia Stories, author of two books of poetry "Sapphire's Song" and "Snatched." Her independent study at Arcadia University focused on Anne Sexton and poetry as memoir. She travelled to Massachusetts, interviewed prominent authors such as Maxine Kumin, former students, former colleagues, and others who knew Anne Sexton in the flesh. She walked in Sexton's footsteps, visiting mental hospitals, her homes, places she dined and drank, schools she taught at, her grave, etc. She also read her original and unpublished work at The Howard Gotlieb Archive Center in Boston, MA and later at the Harry Ransom Center in Austin, TX. She owns a collection of first print Anne Sexton books and several recordings of the poet reciting her work. She would like to continue her studies on a doctoral level. She will be performing from "Snatched" Saturday, December 11, 2010 at Swarthmore College. http://theapiarycorp.com/2010/11/lighthoney-series-teaser-swarthmore-college/
This will be an AMAZING DAY in the history of POETRY IN PHILADELPHIA. Please come. This event will occur at Germ Books & Gallery, 2005 Frankford Avenue. Hosted by Debrah Morkun.
ANNE-ADELE WIGHT is a surrealist who experiments with different styles. She is the author of two chapbooks. A third, The Black Dog, is forthcoming. Anne-Adele's work has appeared in American Writing, The Doriens, Mad Poets Review, Philadelphia Writer's Conference Anthology Poets, Philadelphia Poets, Shrike, & Tabula Rasa. She has read at many local venues. She is Vice-President of the longest continuous Philadelphia Poetry Series Organization, Poets & Prophets. In her daily life, she works as an editor, living with one husband and two cats.
LAURA SPAGNOLI has recently published poems in Sleet, Apiary, E. Pluribus Unum, and ONandOnScreen.net, and her short story, A Cut Above, came out last month in the collection Philadelphia Noir. She lives south of South Street and teaches French at Temple University. If the weather is wintry, she is probably happy.
TAMARA OAKMAN is a graduate of Temple University. She has won awards in poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, and drama. She has been published by Many Mountains Moving, Philadelphia Stories, Mad Poets Review, Fox Chase Review and other online and in print journals; reads poetry and fiction everywhere in Philadelphia and the tri-state area; judged a fiction and drama contest for Hidden River Arts, is judging a poetry contest at the next Philadelphia Writer's Conference, and has completed her Master's thesis in English (a book of poetry entitled "Snatched" at Arcadia University. Her efforts have been documented in The Metro, The City Paper, The Inquirer, Philly Weekly and others. She is the executive director of The Light of Unity Association, co-editor of APIARY, co-editor of Philadelphia Stories, author of two books of poetry "Sapphire's Song" and "Snatched." Her independent study at Arcadia University focused on Anne Sexton and poetry as memoir. She travelled to Massachusetts, interviewed prominent authors such as Maxine Kumin, former students, former colleagues, and others who knew Anne Sexton in the flesh. She walked in Sexton's footsteps, visiting mental hospitals, her homes, places she dined and drank, schools she taught at, her grave, etc. She also read her original and unpublished work at The Howard Gotlieb Archive Center in Boston, MA and later at the Harry Ransom Center in Austin, TX. She owns a collection of first print Anne Sexton books and several recordings of the poet reciting her work. She would like to continue her studies on a doctoral level. She will be performing from "Snatched" Saturday, December 11, 2010 at Swarthmore College. http://theapiarycorp.com/2010/11/lighthoney-series-teaser-swarthmore-college/
This will be an AMAZING DAY in the history of POETRY IN PHILADELPHIA. Please come. This event will occur at Germ Books & Gallery, 2005 Frankford Avenue. Hosted by Debrah Morkun.
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