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Divine Comedy book party!

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For Immediate Release:

Steve Cannon’s Fly By Night Press has just released a collection of Ron Kolm’s recent poems. The title of the book is Divine Comedy. The book release party/reading will be on Saturday, May 18th, at seven in the evening. Thad Rutkowski, Chavisa Woods, Carl Watson, Bonny Finberg, George Spencer, Tsaurah Litzky, Rob Hardin and Steve Dalachinsky will be reading from the book. As always, Jim Feast will be the MC. There will be copies of Divine Comedy for sale at a special price.

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Amazon Review by Michael Lindgren:

The poet, editor, and activist Ron Kolm has been a part of the downtown literary scene since the mid-1970s, when he was among the writers and booksellers who rotated around the now-legendary Strand / Eighth Street Books / CBGBs axis. Kolm is a member of the literary collective the Unbearables, where he has acted as editor and anthologist for a series of counter-hierarchical literary endeavors of varying scope and impact, and is currently an associate editor of the (now online-only) Evergreen Review. The publication of Divine Comedy represents the clicking into place of the final facet of his multivalent career, and an elegy of sorts for a dirtier, randier, tougher, lost city. The book consists of a series of brief lyrics describing, with acerbic humor, the misadventures in sex and love and literature of a sensitive-but-fearless poet-narrator at sea in the whirlwind of the New York City demimonde in all its seedy glamour. An essential, era-defining work; a classic of rough’n'ready alternative literature.

 

A Gathering of Tribes is at 285 East 3rd St, 2nd Floor (between Ave C & D)
New York, NY, 10009
Private Party! Please RSVP to email below!
Phone: 212-674-3778
Email: gatheringofthetribes@gmail.com

Don’t forget to look at our current exhibit: Out of the closet, Into the open. Art auction, bidding starts @ $100.

Backwards the Drowned Go Dreaming by Carl Watson BOOK PARTY!

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Book Release Party!  
Backwards the Drowned Go Dreaming by Carl Watson
a gathering of the tribes gallery
2285 E. 3rd St.  2nd floor
Saturday Sept. 22nd. 7 pm.
Special guests and cheap refreshments
Backwards the Drowned Go Dreaming is the first novel in Carl Watson’s trilogy covering the last three decades of the 20th century.  It is published by Sensitive Skin Books, the book publishing arm of Sensitive Skin magazine.  Watson will be reading excerpts from the book, and along with other material. Special guests will also be on hand.  Come celebrate in the relaxed atmosphere of the Tribes Gallery, one of the great cultural institutions of the East Village.

Here’s what the critics have to say:

Carl Watson evokes his desolation angels with great empathy and care, but also with ruthless candor. He writes like someone who pushed himself to the wall, then pushed through it to the void and came back with stories to tell. Here he reclaims the Seventies, one of the more desolate of recent epochs, with the clarity of Proust, the balefulness of Bodenheim, and the raw honesty of an Iggy song.
—John Strausbaugh, author of Black Like You and Sissy Nation“CW writes like he put his thumb in the air on some two-lane American highway that used to be an Indian Trail, where he got picked up by God. Like he has come back to the fire in the woods we have gathered around at the end of the world with our loved ones to tell us what he saw.
—Andrew Huebner, author of We Pierce, American By Bloodand East of Bowery

With prose unfurling like cigarette smoke bleeding into that cloud of half-forgotten memories forever shadowing missed opportunities that hangs over a noonday dive somewhere during the twilight of the last blown century, heartbreak rock-n-roll on the radio crackling in exquisite precision between am stations and windswept interstates, Carl Watson daydreams before silent black-and-white televisions in SRO lobbies or as he drinks himself sober in crumbling Chicago tenements. Backwards the Drowned Go Dreaming explodes the bleary-eyed myth of the American road.
—Donald Breckenridge, author of This Young Girl Passing

Carl Watson’s work is desolate poetry. He writes with sharp nostalgia for a past that really wasn’t all that great. It feels like a stay in a down-and-out motel, but right on the other side of the paper-thin wall is transcendence. Watson never lets you forget that even in the most desperate situations, there is humor (even if it’s mostly black) and greatness of the spirit. —Emily XYZ, United States of Poetry

Groove, Bang, and Jive Around

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Release Party Tuesday, August 28, 6-9 pm

Perform if you want to, round robin reading, wine as always.

Steve’s nasty, dirty book, is now on the world wide interwebs. Bring your infernal device loaded with the book and be prepared to read and blush.

NOW AVAILABLE on Amazon Kindle

Or through Smashwords, who give Steve a much bigger cut.
Enter code “LJ25S” to buy for $5.99 until Sept 28.

Google Books / Google Play: Currently the best bargain, and offering 20% preview!

Barnes & Noble Nook

Links to all retailers will be available on Tribes’s Books page.

Annette, the heroine of Steve Cannon’s underground classic Groove, Bang, and Jive Around, is a black New Orleans teenager with serious family troubles and a recently acquired appetite for sex. In Cannon’s hands her story becomes a satire on every aspect of American culture: race politics, religion, and sexual freedom. In its opening chapters Groove is almost a conventional erotic novel, with the more frenzied sexual activity set against a backdrop of jazz and voodoo; but halfway through, Cannon takes his heroine to the Oz-like Oo-bla-dee, an idyllic country – supposedly founded by Dizzy Gillespie – where “people ran their own lives.” There, after witnessing much revelry and payback, Annette meets her real mother, who reveals to her the true circumstances of her birth. Although Groove, Bang, and Jive Around sold more than 150,000 copies when it first appeared, it was not available for twenty years, and copies of the 1997 printing have rarely stayed in one place long. This is the first eBook publication, aiming to make the book widely available while providing some much-needed income to its author and his organization.

Thank Janet Bruesselbach. Contact janet@bruesselbach.com for review copy.

Groove, Bang, and Jive Around – eBook coming soon!

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Art by Richard Merkin, 1993

Steve Cannon’s seminal underground hit is coming to Amazon, iBooks, Google Books, and anywhere else you request, Tuesday, August 28th!

We’re also announcing a CALL FOR ENTRIES of art inspired by this filthy novel, set in 60s New Orleans and the land of Oo-bla-dee, full of jazz, voodoo, sex and satire, and starring Annette, a gorgeous, sex-crazed teenage girl.  Tribes will host the Groove, Bang, and Jive Around show August 5-30.  To enter, email janet@bruesselbach.com before July 27 with a jpg, your name, the title, date, and price, or just email to tell her you’re in, and drop off the pieces and labels with that info before August 2nd.

We’ll be hosting a release party Tuesday, August 28th, 6-9 pm.  Bring your e-reader or phone loaded with the book and be ready to read out loud. If you can help set up direct sales of the book, would like to perform at the release party, or can help with the art show, email gatheringofthetribes@gmail.com

DARING DAUGHTERS/DEFIANT DREAMS By Pamela L. Laskin

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A GATHERING OF TRIBES

announces the publication of

DARING DAUGHTERS/DEFIANT DREAMS

 

 

By Pamela L. Laskin

Based very loosely on Judy Chicago’s “The Dinner Party,” which is a multi-media table setting, symbolizing the architecture, art and history of women, this follows the 39 famous goddesses, historical figures, artists, writers and social activists in verse. Pamela L. Laskin integrates the lives of the women with her personal narrative, creating a dialogue between the plate, the significant woman and her history. Women as diverse as Hatshepsut, Sappho, Ann Hutchinson, and Emily Dickinson live alongside her mother, grandmother and daughter, creating a whirling tour-de force of both history and dreams. It is homage to the ideals of womanhood. Elana Bell, recipient of the Walt Whitman Award, has this to say about the collection:

 

“The women in the first section of DARING DAUGHTERS/DEFIANT DREAMS speak with the sharpness and authority that provides a powerful counterpoint to Laskin’s lush language and imagery. In the second section of the collection, Laskin explores the mother/daughter relationship with a vulnerability that strokes the wound fresh and startles us awake!”

 

Pamela Laskin is a lecturer in the English Department at The City College, where she directs The Poetry Outreach Center. Ms. Laskin is the author of five books of poetry and several children’s books. CENTRAL STATION, her first collection of poetry, was the winner of the Millennium Poetry Prize and since that time, four other books have come out, including VAN GOGH’S EAR (Cervena Barva Press, 2010). She edited THE HEROIC YOUNG WOMAN, a collection of original fairy tales. In 2009 she received a grant from RF CUNY to work on DARING DAUGHTERS, which Stacy Parker LeMelle says can help us, “look to the female elders for wisdom as we struggle to love, to nourish and to forgive those who fail us.”

 

 

 

A Gathering of Tribes is an arts and cultural organization dedicated to excellence in the arts from a diverse perspective. Steve Cannon conducts a literary salon in his space, where artists and audiences come together from all artistic disciplines to exchange ideas, create peer relationships and find mentorship. TRIBES is proud of its artists, and excited to present this eclectic book of poetry.

 

 

For more information contact Steve Cannon, info@tribes.org , 212-674-5576

 

 

 

The book can be ordered directly from the author at 414 5th St., Brooklyn, New York 11215 for a cost of $17.00

BOOK PARTY ANNOUNCEMENT TO FOLLOW IN THE FALL

The Buffalo Readings

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The Buffalo Readings:

Poetry Art Music

Gathering of The Tribes

285 East Third Street (Between Ave C & D) #2

New York, NY 10009

Every Third Friday (July 15)

8-10PM

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Dear New York City,

You are cordially invited to a Buffalo Readings’ newest reading series to be held in this the year of our mind Two-thousand-eleven, monthly on the third Friday and eight hours past noon at the legendary Gathering of The Tribes in New York’s Lower East Side.

Your practitioners will be NYC’s own Buffalo Poets. They’ll offer up their brand of mind-expanding poetry and Discordian prayers, with musical interludes and crappy prizes for ordinary feats.

Admission is $5 at the door. Poetry and/or performance implements are encouraged, and may be brought.

Book Party & Celebration for Cleaning The Duck and The Magic Feather, December 11th 7pm

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Boo Party & Celebration for Cleaning the Duck and The Magic Feather
Sunday, December 11th, 2011      7pm to 9pm

Come join us for a Book Party & Celebration for
Cleaning The Duck, Tsaurah Litzky’s new book
just out from Bowery Books, and for Marjorie
Tesser’s new book, The Magic Feather, published
by Finishing Line Press. Musical entertainment
will be provided by Joe Maynard of the great
Maynard and the Musties.
FREE