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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.

Special ONE DAY Poetry Workshop with Dorothy Friedman

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SPECIAL ONE DAY
POETRY WORKSHOP
with Dorothy Friedman August
Dorothy August is an award winning poet, teacher and editor. She is author
of 3 books of poems, Family Album, Liberty Years, and NIGHT poems. Ms.
August studied with John Ashbery and Susan Fromberg Schaeffer at
BrooklynCollege where she received her M.F.A. She’s won prestigious
awards, including a 1997 N.Y.F.A. fellowship and has published in The
Partisan Review, Hanging Loose, The California Quarterly, The Centennial
Review, Mudfish, Tribes, Orbis, Mobius, The Long Islander, Big Bridge,
Sinister Wisdom, The New York Arts Journal, Kayak, spinybabble, etc.
Anthologies include Speaking The Word, Ikon, Two Unbearables collections:
Worst Book and Sex anthology, as well as excerpt from a memoir in A Jewish

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Theatre Breaking Through Barries Presents: According to Goldman

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We are excited to announce that in our 33rd season Theater Breaking Through Barriers will be presenting the New York City premiere of According to Goldman, a play by Bruce Graham, opening Off-Broadway on April 6th and continuing through May 5th.

 

Theater Breaking Through Barriers is the only Off-Broadway theater, and one of the few theaters in the country, dedicated to advancing actors and writers with disabilities and changing the image of people with disabilities from dependence to independence. The cast includes Stephen Drabicki, Pamela Sabaugh and Nicholas Viselli, mixing able-bodied, hard-of-hearing and visually-impaired actors.

 

The New York Times calls us “an extraordinary troupe designed to defy expectations”. The New York Post says we are “quite simply one of the most enjoyable companies in the country,” and The Village Voice touts us as “long purveyors of quality drama.”

 

According to Goldman tells the story of Gavin Miller, a former Hollywood screenwriter, who has left the industry to teach a college-level screenwriting course in the northeast. Jeremiah, a student in the class from Africa with an affinity for old films and Fred Astaire, proves to be a promising writer.  Gavin and Jeremiah begin working on a Hollywood screenplay about Jeremiah’s life with the hopes of making it big. Gavin’s wife Melinda is less than thrilled to hear that her husband wants another shot in Tinseltown.

 

Out of town reviews:

“Entirely fresh and captivating”– Talkin’ Broadway

“It’s a pleasure to experience.”– Central Record

“Savvy and insightful…”– Courier Post

 

To purchase tickets, learn about discounts or more information please contact us at:

tbtbinfo@gmail.com.

 

Hope to see you at the show,

Samantha Plakun

Theater Breaking Through Barriers

The Carol Novack Christmas-Hannukah-Kwanzaa-Solstice-and-Atheists-Who-Love-to-Party Tribute Party

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For immediate release:

Contact:

Larissa Shmailo

212-712-9865

larissa_shmailo@yahoo.com

 

The Carol Novack

Christmas-Hannukah-Kwanzaa-Solstice-and-Atheists-Who-Love-to-Party

Tribute Party

A Gathering of the Tribes

285 East Third Street, Second Floor

New York City

Saturday, December 8, 7:00 pm to midnight

FREE!

 

MadHat Honors Founder with Gala Event: The Carol Novack Christmas-Hannukah-Kwanzaa-Solstice-and-Atheists-Who-Love-to-Party Tribute Party December 8 at Tribes

 

MadHat honors its late founder, publisher, eclectic anti-genre writer, and lawyer Carol Novack, with a gala reading and party December 8 at New York City’s landmark multicultural arts center A Gathering of the Tribes. The event features such poetry luminaries as Andrei Codrescu, Cornelius Eady, Bob Holman, CA Conrad, Philip Nikolayev, Katia Kapovich, Steve Dalachinsky, Marc Vincenz, Larissa Shmailo, Sarah Sarai, Ben Mazer, Lee Ann Brown, and many others.

Leon Dewan of Dewanatron, whose Swarmatron was extensively featured in the movie The Social Network, and the Ubudis Duo, featuring cellist Jonathan Golove and Mexican musician Omer Tamez, will provide music for the evening. Posthumous collections by Hugh Fox, Primate Fox, and Carol Novack and Tom Bradley’s Felicia’s Nose will be launched in a party atmosphere with costumes, prizes, and holiday merriment.

The late Carol Novack was a writer known for testing the boundaries of established literary genres who founded the multimedia online journal Madhatters’ Review. Known for its antic, eclectic, and international spirit, the magazine quickly became a mecca for the avant garde in literature today.  Today, MadHat is a book publishing press as well as a journal, lead by publisher and editor-in-chief Marc Vincenz.

In the spirit of Carol Novack, who was also a lawyer known for her championship of the arts and underrepresented causes, the Carol Novack tribute party is being held at A Gathering of the Tribes in support of poet and mentor Steve Cannon. Cannon’s Tribes is one of the few remaining institutions committed to poetry in a neighborhood once known for poetry and the arts. The embattled arts organization is currently fighting eviction from its longtime home in Manhattan’s Lower East Side.

 

The Carol Novack gala features some of the most important voices in cutting-edge literature. Andrei Codrescu founded Exquisite Corpse: a Journal of Books & Ideas in 1983 and has taught literature and poetry at Johns Hopkins University, University of Baltimore, and Louisiana State University where he was MacCurdy Distinguished Professor of English. He’a been a regular commentator on NPR’s All Things Considered since 1983, and received a Peabody Award for writing and starring in the film Road Scholar.

Cornelius Eady is the author of seven volumes of poetry inspired by blues and jazz. Recently awarded honors include the Strousse Award from Prairie Schooner, a Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Award, and individual Fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Bob Holman is an American poet most closely identified with the oral tradition, spoken word, and slam poetry. As a promoter of poetry in many media, including the legendary Bowery Poetry Club, Holman’s current project is a PBS special on endangered languages. He is a visiting professor at Columbia University.

 

“The son of white trash asphyxiation,” CA Conrad’s childhood included “selling cut flowers along the highway for my mother and helping her shoplift.” He is the author of several popular books of poetry including The Book of Frank and is a 2011 PEW Fellow, a 2012 RADAR and UCROSS Fellow, and a 2013 Banff Fellow.

Philip Nikolayev and Katia Kapovich, husband and wife, are Russian émigrés bilingually active in literature in both the United States and the Russian Federation. Considered leaders in the experimental poetry movement, they are publishers of the landmark literary annual Fulcrum.

Ben Mazer‘s most recent collections of poems are Poems (Pen & Anvil) and January 2008 (Dark Sky Books). His New Poems is forthcoming from Pen & Anvil in 2013. He is the editor of Landis Everson’s Everything Preserved: Poems 1955-2005 (Graywolf) and of a forthcoming critical edition of The Complete Poems of John Crowe Ransom (Un-Gyve). He is co-editor of The Battersea Review.

In keeping with MadHat’s international outlook, new publisher and executive editor Marc Vincenz was born in Hong Kong to Swiss-British parents. An English-German bilingual collection of his poems Additional Breathing Exercises is to be released by Wolfbach, Zurich (2013) and a full-length collection, Mao’s Moles, is forthcoming from NeoPoiesis Press (2013). Marc is Executive Editor of MadHat Press and Mad Hatters’ Review.

Larissa Shmailo is an award-winning poet and a Russian translator known for her original translations of Alexei Kruchenych and other zaum. Her books and CDs include The No-Net World (SongCrew Records), In Paran (BlazeVOX), and A Cure for Suicide (Cervena Barva Press). Her second full-length poetry collection #SpecialCharacters is forthcoming from Spuyten Duyvil Press.

Also featured are Susan Lewis, Brendan Lorber, Bill Yarrow, Rafael Urweider, Gretchen Primack, Sarah Sarai, Patricia Carragon, Tom Bradley, Yuriy Tarnawsky, Susan Scutti, and Steve Dalachinsky.

 

EXTRA! Ocean Vuong Joins Carol Novack Tribute Party!
Born in Saigon, Vietnam, Ocean Vuong is the author of the chapbookBURNINGS (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2010) and is a recent graduate from Brooklyn College with a B.A. In English. A Kundiman fellow, he was a finalist for the 2011 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award. Other honors include a 2012 Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize for YoungerPoets, an Academy of American Poets award, the Connecticut Poetry
Society’s Al Savard Award, as well as four Pushcart Prize nominations. Poems appear in The American Poetry Review, Verse Daily, RHINO, diode, Guernica, Drunken Boat, South Dakota Review, and The Collagist, amongst others. He keeps a blog at www.oceanvuong.blogspot.com

Please read the Carol Novack Tribute issue of Madhatters’ Review at http://www.madhattersreview.com/issue13/index.shtml

The Carol Novack Christmas-Hannukah-Kwanzaa-Solstice-and-Atheists-Who-Love-to-Party Tribute Party is a free event. Donations will be requested in support of MadHat and A Gathering of the Tribes. Wine and beer will be sold, with proceeds to go to MadHat and A Gathering of the Tribes.

 

For more information about the event, which will be recorded for the television show Poetry Thin Air, please contact Larissa Shmailo at 212-712-9865 or larissa_shmailo@yahoo.com

 

The Carol Novack Christmas-Hannukah-Kwanzaa-Solstice-and-Atheists-Who-Love-to-Party Tribute Party

A Gathering of the Tribes

285 East Third Street, Second Floor

New York City

Saturday, December 8, 7:00 pm to midnight

FREE

 

Contact:

Larissa Shmailo

212-712-9865

larissa_shmailo@yahoo.com


Two Word Jewels

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The show is an experiment in ritual and time. Firstly, it will exist in space, minutes, and season. Second, the imprint of participation can last for a long while. Third, someday all present will decompose, geology will take over, and Tribes will have been real.

On October 5, 2012 join us for the October 5th of your life, including homemade applesauce, sculpture, sound, light, and cheap beer/live girls. Bring the extra contents of your extra pockets to empty and we’ll turn it into treasure.

Collaborating artists include Rob Peterson, Sarah Skenazy, Sophie Nichols, Allyson Packer, Graham Parker Ansell, Olivia Peebles, Moira Connelly, and Jane-Claire Quigley.

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

Jason Kao Hwang this Saturday, August 25

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Jason Kao Hwang

Liminal Vibrations for Solo Violin, Viola, and Electronics
http://jasonkaohwang.com

Saturday, August, 25, 7pm

19th Annual Charlie Parker Festival
A Gathering of Tribes
285 East 3rd St., 2nd fl. (bet. Ave. C & D), NYC, NY
Adm:  $5

Liminal Vibrations are explored to create music living between spheres of existence, where the ritual of truth struggles to surrender to that truth.  The violin is my cauldron of destruction and creation. Bird will be the inspiration at Tribes, one of the most unique places on earth.

Bluebird of Happiness Homecoming Danse

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Rayvon Browne curates an exquisite Bluebirdman of Happiness Homecoming Danse to celebrate their return from touring abroad. And we mean boogie. This event is a cool part of the annual NYC Charlie Parker festival.

Saturday, August 11
5-10pm, $5
A Gathering of the Tribes
285 E. 3rd St., 2nd Floor, NYC 10009

facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/415424555176833/

ISAAC KATALAY & THE LIFE LONG PROJECT

Isaac Katalay is an artist and orator whose main objective is to promote the beauty of connections in humanity. Born in Kinshasa, the capital city of the Democratic Republic of Congo, and now living in New York City, Isaac Katalay’s music represents the blending of two worlds. For the past two decades, Isaac has worked as an ensemble musician, choreographer, dancer, and speaker. It is the everyday movements and music of daily life that provide a lens through which Isaac Katalay experiences the world.

ST LENOX

St. Lenox is the current project of Andy Choi.  He was trained as a concert violinist at Juilliard, and learned the Great American Songbook at jazz jam sessions in Columbus, OH.  He is an electronic singer-songwriter who employs sampling, classical melody lines, soul music and pop skill to write songs about politics, love, and the wonders of ordinary life.

ALBERT GOOLD

Albert is a bit of keys maestro, a precociousness that fulminates in a Baroque-Vaudeville-Death-Metal contraption. Joined by brother Charles on drums, father Ned on soprano sax, and Steve Conroy on bass.

Photo credit: Jim Flynn

RAYVON BROWNE

Morgan Heringer is a “ukulele virtuoso” (The New York Times) and Cal Folger Day has “vocal control & onstage presence [that] command attention” (The New Yorker). Together they present a diverse set of original tunes & compositions, plus some remix’d classix, featuring vocal harmonies & swapping around on keyboard, uke, guitar, Casio, upright bass, mandolin, melodica, & more. The release of their second album ‘Companion’ in May 2012 was followed by a tour of the UK. They will release their third set of recordings with Basement Floods Records in October 2012.

Photo credit: Charles Lavoie

MIND-ROAMING JOURNEYS: Surreal Reading Performances with Photo-Projections

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MIND-ROAMING JOURNEYS: Surreal Reading Performances with Photo-Projections

CONTEMPORARY NY SURREALIST ARTIST/WRITERS READ FROM THEIR TEXT-WORKS
AS THEIR ART-WORKS ARE PROJECTED LARGE-SCREEN
(SOMETIMES ACCOMPANIED BY ACTIONS, MUSIC, LIGHTS AND SOUND).

SUNDAY, JULY 22nd: 5-7 p.m

Sunday Summer Reading Series
hosts: Alyssa Devine and Natalie N. Caro
event curator: Barbara Rosenthal

some contributors: Barbara Rosenthal, Willow Gray, Peter Grzybowski, Plankhead, Dean Ebben, Rafael Sánchez….more TBA

the theme: ‘inwardly focussed psychologically-motivated images in words and pictures.’

curatorial statement: “Each performer will take the audience on a short voyage through their souls and psyches.”

where: Tribes Gallery, 285 e. 3rd st, 2fl
see you then!

$5 donation
cheap cash bar