The So and So Series

The last Boston podcast. How sad and sad. October 2008 Part II: James Tate

The So and So Series Reading No. 30 The final reading to be held in Boston. At the Distillery in South Boston, MA on Saturday, October 11, 2008 This month's poets are Dorothea Lasky, Dara Weir, and James Tate! Due to technical difficulties, only portions of the recordings were captured. Part Two features the words and poems of James Tate. The final installment of the this series of broadsides is also here. This month's artist is Robert daVies. For more information on the Manila Broadsides and our collaboration with this small press, visit: http://rope-a-dope-press.blogspot.com/ All rights reserved. Look for our readings come 2009 in North Carolina. About the Poets: Dorothea Lasky was born in St. Louis in 1978. She is the author of the full-length collection of poems, AWE (Wave Books, 2007), as well as the chapbooks Alphabets and Portraits and The Hatmaker’s Wife. She has attended Harvard University and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She currently lives in Philadelphia, where she co-edits the Katalanché Press chapbook series and is pursuing her doctorate in education from the University of Pennsylvania. Dara Wier is the author of ten collections of poetry, most recently Remnants of Hannah and Reverse Rapture (Wave Books, 2006 and 2005, respectively). She has received awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the NEA and The American Poetry Review. She directs the MFA program for poets and writers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and co-directs the University of Massachusetts' Juniper Initiative for Literary Arts and Action. James Tate is the author of numerous books of poetry and prose, most recently The Ghost Soldier (Ecco, 2008). His Selected Poems won the Pulitzer Prize and the William Carlos Williams Award in 1991. His other honors include a National Book Award and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He teaches at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

The Boston Blues, October 2008 Part I: Dorothea Lasky

The So and So Series Reading No. 30 Held at the Distillery in South Boston, MA on Saturday, October 11, 2008 This month's poets are Dorothea Lasky, Dara Weir, and James Tate! Due to technical difficulties, only portions of the recordings were captured. Part one includes some of the works of Dorothy Lasky. The final installment of the this series of broadsides is also here. For more information on the Manila Broadsides, visit: http://rope-a-dope-press.blogspot.com/ All rights reserved. About the Poets: Dorothea Lasky was born in St. Louis in 1978. She is the author of the full-length collection of poems, AWE (Wave Books, 2007), as well as the chapbooks Alphabets and Portraits and The Hatmaker’s Wife. She has attended Harvard University and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She currently lives in Philadelphia, where she co-edits the Katalanché Press chapbook series and is pursuing her doctorate in education from the University of Pennsylvania. Dara Wier is the author of ten collections of poetry, most recently Remnants of Hannah and Reverse Rapture (Wave Books, 2006 and 2005, respectively). She has received awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the NEA and The American Poetry Review. She directs the MFA program for poets and writers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and co-directs the University of Massachusetts' Juniper Initiative for Literary Arts and Action. James Tate is the author of numerous books of poetry and prose, most recently The Ghost Soldier (Ecco, 2008). His Selected Poems won the Pulitzer Prize and the William Carlos Williams Award in 1991. His other honors include a National Book Award and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He teaches at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

September 2008: Rauan Klassnik, Justin Marks, and Lisa Olsetein for Reading #29!

The So and So Series Reading No. 29 Held at the Distillery in South Boston, MA on Saturday, Septemeber 20, 2008 This month's poets are Rauan Klassnik, Justin Marks, and Lisa Olstein. Tricia Gray was this months artist for our September Manila Broadside, the collaboration with Rope-a-Dope press that puts our poets on paper--awesomely. For more information on the Manila Broadsides, visit: http://rope-a-dope-press.blogspot.com/ All rights reserved. About the Poets: Rauan Klassnik was born a long time ago. Rauan Klassnik is not dead, though he often sure-damned feels like it. Rauan's primary goal in life is to live forever. Perhaps this explains why he has such a bad attitude. Rauan Klassnik does, though, believe in singing. Like Emily Dickinson on the charnel steps. His poems have appeared many places and his first book, Holy Land, released April 1st (no joke) from Black Ocean. Justin Marks is the author of A Million in Prizes (New Issues Press, forthcoming 2009). His latest chapbook is [Summer insular] (Horse Less Press, 2007). He is the founder and Editor of Kitchen Press Chapbooks and lives in New York City. Lisa Olstein is the author of RADIO CRACKLING, RADIO GONE, winner of the 2005 Hayden Carruth Award, and LOST ALPHABET, forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press. She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the Centrum Foundation. She is the Associate Director of the MFA Program for Poets and Writers at UMass Amherst.

August 2008: Mary and the Librarians!!!

The So and So Series Reading No. 28 Held at the Distillery in South Boston, MA on Saturday, August 23, 2008 This month's poets are Sommmer Browning, Hazel McClure, and Aaron Tieger Don't forget to oggle over this month's Manila Broadsides, our collaboration with Rope-a-Dope press that puts our poets on paper--awesomely. Especially since Mary Walker Graham of Rope-a-Dope had to pinch hit and host for Chris Tonelli who was busy with car trouble in NC. For more information on the Manila Broadsides, a project that combines visual art and poetry, visit: http://manilabroadsides.blogspot.com Silkscreen by this month's featured artist, Carrie Siegel. All rights reserved. About the Poets: Sommer Browning lives in Brooklyn. Her chapbook, Vale Tudo, is out with horse less press. She curates the poetry readings at Pete's Candy Store, is almost a librarian, and draws vulgar comix. Visit her here: http://www.asthmachronicles.blogspot.com. Hazel McClure wrote Nothing Moving, a chapbook from Lame House press. Her work has been published in Mirage #4/ Period(ical), the tiny, Coconut and Can We Have Our Ball Back. She lives and writes in Buffalo. Aaron Tieger's most recent books are Anxiety Chant (Skysill Press) and The Collected Typos of Aaron Tieger (Editions Louis Wain). Formerly the editor of CARVE Poems, he now publishes Petrichord Books in Cambridge, MA.

July 2008: Take 27! with Elizabeth Bradfield, Kevin Gallagher, and Jon Thompson

The So and So Series Reading No. 27 Held at the Distillery in South Boston, MA on Saturday, July 26, 2008 This month's poets are Elizabeth Bradfield, Kevin Gallagher, and Jon Thompson Don't forget to ogle over this month's Manila Broadsides, our collaboration with Rope-a-Dope press that puts our poets on paper--awesomely. For more information on the Manila Broadsides, a project that combines visual art and poetry, visit: http://manilabroadsides.blogspot.com/ All rights reserved. About the Poets: Elizabeth Bradfield is the author of Interpretive Work (Arktoi Books/Red Hen Press, 2008) and editor of Broadsided (www.broadsidedpress.org), a virtual, grassroots press that harnesses the tradition of the broadside to put words on the streets. Her poems have appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, in anthologies, and are forthcoming in Ploughshares and Orion. Her second book, Ice-Blink, will be published in late 2009. A recent transplant from Alaska, she lives in North Truro. When not writing, she works as a naturalist. Kevin Gallagher is the author of two chapbooks of poetry, Isolate Flecks (Cervena Barva), and Looking for Lake Texcoco (Cy Gist, forthcoming, August 2008). His poetry and reviews have appeared in such publications as The Boston Review, Emergency Almanac, Green Mountains Review, Harvard Review, Jacket, Peacework, the Partisan Review, and elsewhere. In 2004 he edited a feature on Kenneth Rexroth for Jacket, and a chapbook titled Nevertheless: Some Gloucester Writers and Artists. From 1992 to 2002 he was a publisher and editor of compost magazine. A retrospective anthology of compost, co-edited with Margaret Bezucha, is titled There’s No Place on Earth Like the World (Zephyr, 2006). He is now guest editing a feature on Denise Levertov for Jacket. He lives with his wife Kelly, and son Theo, in Newton, Massachusetts. Jon Thompson teaches at North Carolina State University, where he edits Free Verse: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry & Poetics and Free Verse Editions, a new poetry series. His first volume of poems, The Book of the Floating World, was reissued in a new expanded edition in 2007. He recently finished a new collection of poems called Strange Country.