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2.24.2009
Reading at University of Rhode Island
UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND
KINGSTON CAMPUS
Spring 2009 Read/Write Series
March 5th, 4:00 PM, in the new Lippit Auditorium 402
Jan Clausen and Jane Lazarre
Feminist activist Jan Clausen’s eleven books include two novels, the memoir Apples and Oranges, and five volumes of poetry. Her two most recent poetry titles, From a Glass House (IKON) and If You Like Difficulty (Harbor Mountain Press), both came out in 2007. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in Another Chicago Magazine, Fence, Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, Tarpaulin Sky, The Village Voice, and elsewhere, and she frequently reviews books and the literary scene for Boston Review, Ms., The Nation, Poets and Writers, and The Women’s Review of Books. She teaches creative writing at the New School and in the Goddard College MFA in Writing Program.
Jane Lazarre is the author of the acclaimed feminist classic, The Mother Knot, Beyond the Whiteness of Whiteness: Memoir of a White Mother of Black Sons, and Wet Earth and Dreams, a Narrative of Grief and Recovery, all published by Duke University Press, and the novels, The Powers of Charlotte (Crossing) and Worlds Beyond My Control (Dutton). Her short fiction and essays have been widely anthologized, and appear internationally and in translation. The recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts grant in fiction, a New York State Foundation for the Arts grant in fiction, and the Myers Center Award for the Study of Human Rights in America, Jane Lazarre will read from her new novel, Some Place Quite Unknown, just out from Hamilton Stone editions.
This event is co-sponsored by the Program in Womens Studies
All events are free and open to the public.
KINGSTON CAMPUS
Spring 2009 Read/Write Series
March 5th, 4:00 PM, in the new Lippit Auditorium 402
Jan Clausen and Jane Lazarre
Feminist activist Jan Clausen’s eleven books include two novels, the memoir Apples and Oranges, and five volumes of poetry. Her two most recent poetry titles, From a Glass House (IKON) and If You Like Difficulty (Harbor Mountain Press), both came out in 2007. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in Another Chicago Magazine, Fence, Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, Tarpaulin Sky, The Village Voice, and elsewhere, and she frequently reviews books and the literary scene for Boston Review, Ms., The Nation, Poets and Writers, and The Women’s Review of Books. She teaches creative writing at the New School and in the Goddard College MFA in Writing Program.
Jane Lazarre is the author of the acclaimed feminist classic, The Mother Knot, Beyond the Whiteness of Whiteness: Memoir of a White Mother of Black Sons, and Wet Earth and Dreams, a Narrative of Grief and Recovery, all published by Duke University Press, and the novels, The Powers of Charlotte (Crossing) and Worlds Beyond My Control (Dutton). Her short fiction and essays have been widely anthologized, and appear internationally and in translation. The recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts grant in fiction, a New York State Foundation for the Arts grant in fiction, and the Myers Center Award for the Study of Human Rights in America, Jane Lazarre will read from her new novel, Some Place Quite Unknown, just out from Hamilton Stone editions.
This event is co-sponsored by the Program in Womens Studies
All events are free and open to the public.
2.04.2009
Benefit Reading for Gaza Relief
Saturday, February 7, 2009, 7:00pm
McNally Jackson Bookstore.
52 Prince Street (between Lafayette & Mulberry)
New York, NY 10012
212.274.1160
With authors Mary Morris, Wesley Brown, Alix Kates Shulman, Elizabeth Strout, Dawn Raffel, Levi Asher, Melody Moezzi, Beverly Gologorsky, Chuck Wachtel, Leora Skolkin-Smith, Robert Reilly, Jan Clausen, Barbara Schneider, Humerea Afridi, and others to be announced.
This evening's special event aims to raise awareness and funds for humanitarian aid to civilian victims in Gaza. Proceeds from this reading will go to the International Red Cross in order to facilitate relief work and aid in their efforts to coordinate safe passage for ambulances and repair technicians from Israel to Gaza.
McNally Jackson Bookstore.
52 Prince Street (between Lafayette & Mulberry)
New York, NY 10012
212.274.1160
With authors Mary Morris, Wesley Brown, Alix Kates Shulman, Elizabeth Strout, Dawn Raffel, Levi Asher, Melody Moezzi, Beverly Gologorsky, Chuck Wachtel, Leora Skolkin-Smith, Robert Reilly, Jan Clausen, Barbara Schneider, Humerea Afridi, and others to be announced.
This evening's special event aims to raise awareness and funds for humanitarian aid to civilian victims in Gaza. Proceeds from this reading will go to the International Red Cross in order to facilitate relief work and aid in their efforts to coordinate safe passage for ambulances and repair technicians from Israel to Gaza.
4.20.2008
Clausen & Rohe, Poetry & Song on May 1
Jan Clausen and Jean Rohe
Celebrate May Day with an evening of Poetry and Song
Thursday, May, 1, 2008, 7:30 pm
K-Dog and Dunebuggy Café, 43 Lincoln Road (near Flatbush Avenue)
in Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Brooklyn
(718) 282-7139
No charge, but come prepared to support K-Dog by consuming some of their scrumptious edibles and drinkables, including dinner items, sandwiches, wine, beer, coffee, tea, and desserts. (If you want to know more, check out their Yelp review at http://www.yelp.com/biz/k-dog-and-dune-buggy-cafe-brooklyn)
Directions: K-Dog is less than half a block from the Prospect Park train stop. Take the Q or B to Prospect Park and exit at the front of the train. Turn left down Lincoln Road (toward Flatbush) and look for the blue K-Dog awning.
About the Performers:
Jan Clausen’s poems respond lyrically to the poet’s age-old concerns—“love, death, and the changing of the seasons”—as they register in an intimate psychic space charged with the urgency of our historical moment. She will read from two new poetry collections, including If You Like Difficulty, of which Rodney Koeneke writes:
Jan Clausen’s witty, resourceful poems turn on a dime from “abab” formal to text message-y digital, hugging the curves of language with precision and wild glee. “Tufts of dithyramb” thrust from the cracks of a staggered republic, her verses had me feeling we’re just one good ablation away from making things right & new.
Jean Rohe will sing her own songs and some of her favorite tunes from Brazilian and American writers, accompanying herself on guitar and a variety of percussion instruments.
Celebrate May Day with an evening of Poetry and Song
Thursday, May, 1, 2008, 7:30 pm
K-Dog and Dunebuggy Café, 43 Lincoln Road (near Flatbush Avenue)
in Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Brooklyn
(718) 282-7139
No charge, but come prepared to support K-Dog by consuming some of their scrumptious edibles and drinkables, including dinner items, sandwiches, wine, beer, coffee, tea, and desserts. (If you want to know more, check out their Yelp review at http://www.yelp.com/biz/k-dog-and-dune-buggy-cafe-brooklyn)
Directions: K-Dog is less than half a block from the Prospect Park train stop. Take the Q or B to Prospect Park and exit at the front of the train. Turn left down Lincoln Road (toward Flatbush) and look for the blue K-Dog awning.
About the Performers:
Jan Clausen’s poems respond lyrically to the poet’s age-old concerns—“love, death, and the changing of the seasons”—as they register in an intimate psychic space charged with the urgency of our historical moment. She will read from two new poetry collections, including If You Like Difficulty, of which Rodney Koeneke writes:
Jan Clausen’s witty, resourceful poems turn on a dime from “abab” formal to text message-y digital, hugging the curves of language with precision and wild glee. “Tufts of dithyramb” thrust from the cracks of a staggered republic, her verses had me feeling we’re just one good ablation away from making things right & new.
Jean Rohe will sing her own songs and some of her favorite tunes from Brazilian and American writers, accompanying herself on guitar and a variety of percussion instruments.
2.18.2008
Bookstore Reading Tuesday, Feb. 26, 7 p.m.
WHAT: Bluestockings Bookstore Women’s/Trans Poetry Jam & Open Mike
Featuring Poetry and Prose by Jan Clausen and Tsaurah Litzky
WHEN: Tuesday, February 26th, 2008 at 7 pm
WHERE: Bluestockings Bookstore, 172 Allen Street between Stanton and Rivington
Phone: (212) 777-6028
Jan Clausen will read from her two new poetry collections. From a Glass House reflects a pervasive fragility and our responsibility to local and global histories, while If You Like Difficulty unwraps the gallows humor and smiley face of the wars of the new millennium. Tsaurah Litzky offers her newest collection, Lake Of Love, which concerns eros and existence post-September 11th. The jam is hosted by Vittoria Repetto, the hardest working guinea butch dyke poet on the Lower East Side. Open microphone to follow, with readers invited to deliver up to 8 minutes of poetry, prose, songs and spoken word.
$5 Suggested Donation
Featuring Poetry and Prose by Jan Clausen and Tsaurah Litzky
WHEN: Tuesday, February 26th, 2008 at 7 pm
WHERE: Bluestockings Bookstore, 172 Allen Street between Stanton and Rivington
Phone: (212) 777-6028
Jan Clausen will read from her two new poetry collections. From a Glass House reflects a pervasive fragility and our responsibility to local and global histories, while If You Like Difficulty unwraps the gallows humor and smiley face of the wars of the new millennium. Tsaurah Litzky offers her newest collection, Lake Of Love, which concerns eros and existence post-September 11th. The jam is hosted by Vittoria Repetto, the hardest working guinea butch dyke poet on the Lower East Side. Open microphone to follow, with readers invited to deliver up to 8 minutes of poetry, prose, songs and spoken word.
$5 Suggested Donation
10.07.2007
Jan Clausen Reading from New Poetry Books, Park Slope, 10/18/2007
Jan Clausen, Beatrix Gates, and Joan Larkin will read at the Community Bookstore in Park Slope, Brooklyn, on Thursday, October 18, 2007, at 7:30 p.m. (free admission—books for sale!). The Community Bookstore is located at 143 Seventh Avenue (between Carroll and Garfield). Phone 718-783-3075.
ABOUT THE POETS
Jan Clausen has just published two poetry collections: From a Glass House (IKON) and If You Like Difficulty (Harbor Mountain Press). Her nine previous books include a memoir, Apples and Oranges (Houghton Mifflin) and the poetry collection Duration (Hanging Loose Press). The recipient of an NEA fiction fellowship as well as a NYFA poetry fellowship, Clausen has also published two novels and a short story collection. She teaches creative writing in the Goddard College MFA Writing Program, at Eugene Lang College, and at New York University.
Beatrix Gates is the author of the poetry collections Ten Minutes, native tongue, Shooting at Night, and In the Open, which was a Lambda Poetry Award finalist. As librettist and conceiver of the opera “The Singing Bridge,” with composer Anna Dembska, she and the composer received support from Meet the Composer/Commissioning Music USA/NEA; the opera premiered at Maine’s Stonington Opera House in 2005. In another collaboration, Beatrix Gates and Electa Arenal were awarded a 2003 Witter Bynner Translation Residency at the Santa Fe Art Institute to co-translate poems by contemporary Spanish poet Jesús Aguado. Gates edited The Wild Good: Lesbian Writings and Photographs on Love (Anchor) and founded Granite Press (1973-89) in Penobscot, Maine. She currently teaches in the Goddard College MFA Program.
Joan Larkin is the author of the poetry collections Housework (1975), A Long Sound (1986), Cold River (1997), and My Body: New and Selected Poems, published in 2007 by Hanging Loose Press. Cold River was the recipient of a Lambda Literary Award. With Elly Bulkin, Larkin co-edited the anthologies Amazon Poetry and Lesbian Poetry; with Carl Morse, she co-edited Gay and Lesbian Poetry in Our Time; and she is also the editor of A Woman Like That: Lesbian and Bisexual Writers Tell Their Coming Out Stories. In her fourth decade of teaching writing, Larkin is a member of the core faculty of the MFA Program in Poetry at New England College.
ABOUT THE POETS
Jan Clausen has just published two poetry collections: From a Glass House (IKON) and If You Like Difficulty (Harbor Mountain Press). Her nine previous books include a memoir, Apples and Oranges (Houghton Mifflin) and the poetry collection Duration (Hanging Loose Press). The recipient of an NEA fiction fellowship as well as a NYFA poetry fellowship, Clausen has also published two novels and a short story collection. She teaches creative writing in the Goddard College MFA Writing Program, at Eugene Lang College, and at New York University.
Beatrix Gates is the author of the poetry collections Ten Minutes, native tongue, Shooting at Night, and In the Open, which was a Lambda Poetry Award finalist. As librettist and conceiver of the opera “The Singing Bridge,” with composer Anna Dembska, she and the composer received support from Meet the Composer/Commissioning Music USA/NEA; the opera premiered at Maine’s Stonington Opera House in 2005. In another collaboration, Beatrix Gates and Electa Arenal were awarded a 2003 Witter Bynner Translation Residency at the Santa Fe Art Institute to co-translate poems by contemporary Spanish poet Jesús Aguado. Gates edited The Wild Good: Lesbian Writings and Photographs on Love (Anchor) and founded Granite Press (1973-89) in Penobscot, Maine. She currently teaches in the Goddard College MFA Program.
Joan Larkin is the author of the poetry collections Housework (1975), A Long Sound (1986), Cold River (1997), and My Body: New and Selected Poems, published in 2007 by Hanging Loose Press. Cold River was the recipient of a Lambda Literary Award. With Elly Bulkin, Larkin co-edited the anthologies Amazon Poetry and Lesbian Poetry; with Carl Morse, she co-edited Gay and Lesbian Poetry in Our Time; and she is also the editor of A Woman Like That: Lesbian and Bisexual Writers Tell Their Coming Out Stories. In her fourth decade of teaching writing, Larkin is a member of the core faculty of the MFA Program in Poetry at New England College.
9.03.2007
If You Like Difficulty: Inaugural Reading
Jan Clausen will be featured in the Ear Inn literary series on September 15. She will read from her poetry collection If You Like Difficulty, just out from Harbor Mountain Press (www.harbormountainpress.com). The reading includes two other Harbor Mountain poets, Sinan Antoon (Baghdad Blues) and Laura Davies Foley (Mapping the Fourth Dimension). The Ear Inn is located in Manhattan at 326 Spring Street (near Greenwich). Reading begins at 3 p.m. Closest transportation: 1 to Houston Street or C,E to Spring Street. FREE admission.
5.29.2007
June 14 Reading: Clausen, Jones, Lieu, Ragusa
FREE EVENT
Reading with Kym Ragusa, Jocelyn Lieu, Jan Clausen and Hettie Jones
Thursday, June 14th at 7pm
Freebird Books & Goods
123 Columbia St.
Btwn Kane and Degraw
Brooklyn, NY 11231
718-643-8484
www.freebirdbooks.com
rachel@freebirdbooks.com
sam@freebirdbooks.com
Kym Ragusa is the author of The Skin Between Us: A Memoir of Race, Beauty and Belonging, published by W.W. Norton and Company in 2006. Her essays have appeared in the anthologies Are Italians White: The Making of Race in America and The Milk of Almonds, and the journals Leggendaria and TutteStorie. She is the recipient of a fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts and an Ida and Daniel Lang Award for Excellence in the Humanities. She has taught Creative Writing at City College, Queens College, and Eugene Lang College in New York, and at Josai International University in Japan. Her films, Passing and Fuori/Outside, have been shown on PBS and at festivals throughout the U.S., Canada, and Europe. Her video, Demarcations, had its premiere at the Whitney Museum of American Art. The Skin Between Us will be translated into Italian in 2007. She is currently at work on a new book of nonfiction.
Jocelyn Lieu is the author of a 9/11 memoir titled What Isn’t There: Inside a Season of Change, published in April by Nation Books; and a collection of stories, Potential Weapons. Her work has appeared in 110 Stories: New York Writes After September 11, Charlie Chan Is Dead, the Asian Pacific American Review, and the Denver Quarterly, among other anthologies and journals. Currently, she teaches writing at the New School ’s Eugene Lang College .
Jan Clausen received a New York Foundation for the Arts Poetry Fellowship in 2003. She has two poetry collections forthcoming in 2007: From a Glass House (IKON) and If You Like Difficulty (Harbor Mountain Press). Her nine previous books include a memoir, Apples and Oranges (Houghton Mifflin) and the poetry collection Duration (Hanging Loose Press). The recipient of an NEA fiction fellowship, Clausen has also published two novels and a short story collection. Her creative work has appeared in Another Chicago Magazine, Calyx, CrossConnect, An Ear to the Ground: An Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry, Fence, Gay and Lesbian Poetry in Our Time, Hanging Loose, The Hat, Ikon, The Kenyon Review, Lodestar Quarterly, Luna, Margie, Nightsun, North American Review, Ploughshares, Tarpaulin Sky, 13th Moon, and The Village Voice. Clausen’s book reviews and articles have appeared in a broad range of periodicals including Boston Review, Ms., The Nation, Poets and Writers, and The Women’s Review of Books. A founding editor of the feminist literary journal Conditions, she has served as a panelist for NYFA and for the Lambda Literary Awards. She teaches creative writing in the Goddard College MFA Writing Program, at Eugene Lang College , and at New York University .
Hettie Jones's twenty books for children and adults include her memoir of the Beat scene, How I Became Hettie Jones; the poetry collection Drive, which won the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber Award; Big Star Fallin’ Mama, Five Women in Black Music, honored by the New York Public Library; and No Woman No Cry, a memoir she authored for Bob Marley’s widow, Rita. Just published are From Midnight to Dawn, the Last Tracks of the Underground Railroad (with Jacqueline Tobin), and a third poetry collection, Doing 70. Jones is the former Chair of the PEN Prison Writing Committee, and the editor of Aliens at the Border, a poetry collection from her workshop at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility. She teaches at the 92nd Street Y Poetry Center and in the Graduate Writing Program of The New School.
Reading with Kym Ragusa, Jocelyn Lieu, Jan Clausen and Hettie Jones
Thursday, June 14th at 7pm
Freebird Books & Goods
123 Columbia St.
Btwn Kane and Degraw
Brooklyn, NY 11231
718-643-8484
www.freebirdbooks.com
rachel@freebirdbooks.com
sam@freebirdbooks.com
Kym Ragusa is the author of The Skin Between Us: A Memoir of Race, Beauty and Belonging, published by W.W. Norton and Company in 2006. Her essays have appeared in the anthologies Are Italians White: The Making of Race in America and The Milk of Almonds, and the journals Leggendaria and TutteStorie. She is the recipient of a fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts and an Ida and Daniel Lang Award for Excellence in the Humanities. She has taught Creative Writing at City College, Queens College, and Eugene Lang College in New York, and at Josai International University in Japan. Her films, Passing and Fuori/Outside, have been shown on PBS and at festivals throughout the U.S., Canada, and Europe. Her video, Demarcations, had its premiere at the Whitney Museum of American Art. The Skin Between Us will be translated into Italian in 2007. She is currently at work on a new book of nonfiction.
Jocelyn Lieu is the author of a 9/11 memoir titled What Isn’t There: Inside a Season of Change, published in April by Nation Books; and a collection of stories, Potential Weapons. Her work has appeared in 110 Stories: New York Writes After September 11, Charlie Chan Is Dead, the Asian Pacific American Review, and the Denver Quarterly, among other anthologies and journals. Currently, she teaches writing at the New School ’s Eugene Lang College .
Jan Clausen received a New York Foundation for the Arts Poetry Fellowship in 2003. She has two poetry collections forthcoming in 2007: From a Glass House (IKON) and If You Like Difficulty (Harbor Mountain Press). Her nine previous books include a memoir, Apples and Oranges (Houghton Mifflin) and the poetry collection Duration (Hanging Loose Press). The recipient of an NEA fiction fellowship, Clausen has also published two novels and a short story collection. Her creative work has appeared in Another Chicago Magazine, Calyx, CrossConnect, An Ear to the Ground: An Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry, Fence, Gay and Lesbian Poetry in Our Time, Hanging Loose, The Hat, Ikon, The Kenyon Review, Lodestar Quarterly, Luna, Margie, Nightsun, North American Review, Ploughshares, Tarpaulin Sky, 13th Moon, and The Village Voice. Clausen’s book reviews and articles have appeared in a broad range of periodicals including Boston Review, Ms., The Nation, Poets and Writers, and The Women’s Review of Books. A founding editor of the feminist literary journal Conditions, she has served as a panelist for NYFA and for the Lambda Literary Awards. She teaches creative writing in the Goddard College MFA Writing Program, at Eugene Lang College , and at New York University .
Hettie Jones's twenty books for children and adults include her memoir of the Beat scene, How I Became Hettie Jones; the poetry collection Drive, which won the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber Award; Big Star Fallin’ Mama, Five Women in Black Music, honored by the New York Public Library; and No Woman No Cry, a memoir she authored for Bob Marley’s widow, Rita. Just published are From Midnight to Dawn, the Last Tracks of the Underground Railroad (with Jacqueline Tobin), and a third poetry collection, Doing 70. Jones is the former Chair of the PEN Prison Writing Committee, and the editor of Aliens at the Border, a poetry collection from her workshop at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility. She teaches at the 92nd Street Y Poetry Center and in the Graduate Writing Program of The New School.
4.15.2007
Tuesday, May 1: Reading at The Perch, Park Slope
I'll be reading poems from the manuscripts of my two forthcoming collections: From a Glass House and If You Like Difficulty. The reading begins at 7:30 p.m. and is followed by an open mic. The Perch Cafe is located at 365 5th Avenue in Park Slope (between 5th and 6th Streets). Transportation: F Train to 4th Ave. and 9th Street.
9.26.2006
Ten Minutes
Sunday, October 1, 2006 4 pm:
Book Party and Reading for Beatrix Gates's Ten Minutes.
Where: Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery, New York, NY 10012
Book Party and Reading for Beatrix Gates's Ten Minutes.
Where: Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery, New York, NY 10012
12.26.2005
Read My New Work in Tarpaulin Sky
The notorious "I.K.B.M." section--an excerpt from my novel The Company of Cannibals--is just out in the third anniversary issue of Tarpaulin Sky (http://www.tarpaulinsky.com). Here's how the editors summarize the contents:
Our 3rd Anniversary Issue includes poetry by Jesus Aguado (translated byElecta Arenal and Beatrix Gates) as well as an assortment of poetry, prose,and cross/trans-genre work Julie Carr, Jan Clausen, Josh Corey, MichaelCostello, Barbara DeCesare, Joan Fiset, Sandy Florian, Ada Limón, PaulMcCormick, Joyelle McSweeney, Amanda Nadelberg, Daniel Nester, Mark O'Neil,Francis Raven, Andrew Roberts, Brian Torrey Scott, Laura Sims, Jeff Tapia,Cody Walker, Joshua Marie Wilkinson, and Max Winter. Also in this issue: TimRoberts reviews Beth Anderson's _Overboard_, Alexis M. Smith reviews AimeeBender's _Willful Creatures_, and Amy Havel reviews Norman Lock's _A Historyof the Imagination_.
Our 3rd Anniversary Issue includes poetry by Jesus Aguado (translated byElecta Arenal and Beatrix Gates) as well as an assortment of poetry, prose,and cross/trans-genre work Julie Carr, Jan Clausen, Josh Corey, MichaelCostello, Barbara DeCesare, Joan Fiset, Sandy Florian, Ada Limón, PaulMcCormick, Joyelle McSweeney, Amanda Nadelberg, Daniel Nester, Mark O'Neil,Francis Raven, Andrew Roberts, Brian Torrey Scott, Laura Sims, Jeff Tapia,Cody Walker, Joshua Marie Wilkinson, and Max Winter. Also in this issue: TimRoberts reviews Beth Anderson's _Overboard_, Alexis M. Smith reviews AimeeBender's _Willful Creatures_, and Amy Havel reviews Norman Lock's _A Historyof the Imagination_.
12.12.2005
Just Out
To see my piece on the work of Michael Cunningham (available in hard copy in the Nov./Dec. issue of Boston Review), go to: http://bostonreview.net/BR30.6/clausen.html. Also, check out my long poem "Voxology" in the brand new issue of Bloom (#4).
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