LETTER HOME Reading Series (Second Sequel, AKA Vol. 3)

This is the third installment of the Letter Home Reading Series. Word. Word is spreading fast (not quite like H1N1, but you know?) and running redlights. This Tuesday, November 24, at 7pm, Alice James Books has found its way to Brooklyn all the way from icy Maine...

I cannot tell you how wondrously wanderingly wonderful it is to host these human beings (who happen to write fiction and poetry):

SELECTED READERS

Tim Carroll
Nikita Nelin

FEATURED READERS

Carey Salerno (Shelter, AJB)
Cynthia Cruz (Ruin, AJB)
Bill Rasmovicz (The World In Place of Itself, AJB)
Idra Novey (The Next Country, AJB)

We will begin promptly at 7 pm, possibly 7:02. I know that it is the Tuesday before Thanksgiving, but you will be missing this one-two hit. Please come, have a drink at the oldest bar in Fort Greene, stick around for the jazz, and in the middle, hear some great wordsmiths smith all over the crowd.

Peace.
Ken L. Walker (your host).

P.S. The blog program is not allowing the posting of photographs for some EFFed up reason, so please visit this facebook page for further information: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=2521244#/event.php?eid=181935972101&ref=mf

"Shelter" review picked up by Boxcar Poetry Review.

http://www.boxcarpoetry.com/022/review_carey_salerno_walker.html

This was a difficult book to review, the review itself published by both ColdFront and Boxcar Poetry Review. Salerno is, doubtlessly a talented poet and she attempted to highlight human violence and torture by utilizing a conceptual lens of animal cruelty.

Enjoy.
Thank you.

Ken L. Walker

LETTER HOME Reading Series Vol. II

I am very much looking forward (what an odd turn of expression, as if any of us have eyes in the backs of our heads) to this second installment of the LETTER HOME Reading Series. The first series went well, with about 50 people attending. Frank's Lounge is felt around the world, unanimously, as the dopest spot in town to host a poetry reading. No one carried a single complaint out the door. Although, the bar is CASH ONLY (b-t-w).

Anywhom, hosting

Chris Martin (of American Music fame, Copper Canyon Press, no slouch) and Mary Austin Speaker (co founder of the Triptych Reading Series, who this year will host John Ashbery, Charles Wright, and many other fantastic poets) is going to be one of the greatest honors I have had yet, living in New York City.

Not to mention, my friends and colleagues:

Michelle DuPre, Nora Fussner, Curtis Jensen, Connie Mae Oliver, and Yun Wei will be spouting and spewing their nuclear fire as well.

Here is the Facebook link: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=154991489375&ref=nf

Please pass it along and invite whomever you choose. We will have advertisements with FREENYC, Brooklyn Vegan and TimeOut.

Hold up the golf-flag of poetry.

Ken L. Walker

LETTER HOME reading series.

This is the first ever reading series I have curated; and, while it is incredibly stressful (much more than Legos) to put together, hopefully the payoff will be big (not financially).

This month's Selected Readers are:

Ian Parfrey
Nickolas Henderson
Jenny Williams
Gloria Munoz

and the Featured Readers:

Sharon Mesmer
Paul Beatty

It is an honor to be able to host these folks, no doubt, but even more, a year and a half ago (in keeping with humility) I never thought anything like this could be done, at least not by me. Apparently, the first person plural is capable of more. This will be fiction and poetry and Frank's Lounge is one of the better, more chilled out atmospheres in the historic, architecturally inclined Fort Greene neighborhood.

Here is the Facebook invite... Share it if you will.
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/event.php?eid=140230982535&ref=nf

An archive from old reading.

This is just to archive it.

http://southernwritersny.wordpress.com/2009/03/25/reading-april-8-2009/

Don't bore yourself, you have no right. Kierkegaard paraphrasings are fun.

The New Design.

COLDFRONT, the blog and magazine I review new books of poetry for, has altered its format and I would (personally) like to know how anyone feels about the aesthetic, graphic design, and general strategy of the site. ---> ColdFront <--- Feel free to e-mail me any comments. KLConscious@gmail.com Thank you people. Ken L. Walker