La Medusa
Book Party Party
Saturday, September 13 at 7:30pm

Join US for An evening of food & drink, riddled with entertainment. Dancing to follow. De-light to ensue.
feaTuring aMazing *bRief* perFormances by many of the folloWing:

JANET SARBANES flame-eating la difference!

JUDITH FREEMAN whistling Mother!

JOHANNA BLAKELY washing her dotter in soda water!

CHRISTINE WERTHEIM finding the petit objet “a”!

TERESA CARMODY unicycling transubjectivity!

SISSY BOYD autoharping autodictat!

ANNA JOY SPRINGER joiassance on a stick!

BRIGHDE MULLINS daring the adorable detail !

STEPHANIE TAYLOR oh-de-lady-oh!

VANESSA PLACE rendez-vous des cheminots?

Handsome Fish Offices
Book Release Party for Ara Shirinyan
Saturday, July 19 at 8pm

Handsome Fish Offices Book Release Party for Ara Shirinyan with readings from the text and other performances.

“While office supply products and tropical fish might at first thought seem to have nothing to do with one another, once side by side they reveal the interconnections between global acquisitions, multinational capital, and environmental destruction” -Juliana Spahr.

One Break, A Thousand Blows!
Book Release Party for Maxi Kim
Friday, July 18 at 8pm

One Break, A Thousand Blows! Book Release Party for Maxi Kim with performances by Christine Wertheim, Gina Clark, Daiana Feuer, and Gerard Olson.

One Break, A Thousand Blows! is a novel about Japan. The protagonist is a metaphor, wanting to negate Japan, but not by writing a novel about Japan, but by writing falsely about it, using Japan as a screen for the author’s innermost hopes and desires. One Break, A Thousand Blows! aims to express the claim that there is no gap between sexuality and textuality; it aims to be anti-metaphorical, to escape the logic of modernism and postmodernism and express a pre-modernist, post-human morphogenetic aesthetics in all its wild sacred expressivity.

Maxi Kim is the grandson of illiterate Korean peasant farmers. He is a recent graduate of CalArts MFA Writing Program, currently researching a Phd at the University of Greenwich. He has worked with performance artists Gina Clark & Janice Lee, editorially with Matias Viegener and Christine Wertheim, and organised events with Chris Kraus and Mark von Schlegell. This is his first novel.

Please join us for readings from Flim Forum’s new anthology, A Sing Economy. With readings from Harold Abramowitz, Amanda Ackerman, Mathew Timmons, Jennifer Karmin and Jaime Corbacho.

A SING ECONOMY is the second Flim Forum Press anthology and contains extensive selections from 20 contemporary poets. Founded in 2005, Flim Forum Press is an independent press that provides SPACE for emerging poets working in a variety of experimental modes. It’s edited by Matthew Klane and Adam Golaski.
http://www.flimforum.com

HAROLD ABRAMOWITZ is a writer and teacher from Los Angeles, author of a chapbook, Three Column Table, from Insert Press. With Mathew Timmons, Harold co-curates the Late Night Snack literary cabaret series at BetaLevel in L.A., and with Amanda Ackerman, he co-edits a short form literary press called eohippus labs. Harold also has a book, Dear Dearly Departed, to be published in the near future by Palm Press and a micro-book, Sunday, or a Summer’s Day, to be published in the near future by PS Books. He teaches at Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science in Los Angeles.

AMANDA ACKERMAN lives in Los Angeles where she writes and teaches. Along with Harold Abramowitz, she is co-editor of the press eohippus labs. She is also a member of BetaLevel. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Flim Forum; String of Small Machines; The Physical Poets; Womb; and the Encyclopedia Project, Volume F-K.

JAIME CORBACHO was grown in Ohio, aged in Boston and vinted in Los Angeles. She has been published in LIT, Rattapallax, Oh One Arrow and New Genre and has two chapbooks Tricked in Waking and Killingly.

JENNIFER KARMIN curates the Red Rover Series with fiction writer Amina Cain and is a founding member of the public art group Anti Gravity Surprise. Her multidisciplinary projects have been presented at a number of festivals, artist-run spaces, community centers, and on city streets. She teaches creative writing to immigrants at Truman College and works as a Poet-in-Residence for the Chicago Public Schools. Recent poems are published in Bird Dog, MoonLit, Womb, Seven Corners, Milk Magazine, and the anthologies Growing Up Girl: An Anthology of Voices from Marginalized Spaces, The City Visible: Chicago Poetry for the New Century, and The Outside Voices 2008 Anthology of Younger Poets.

MATHEW TIMMONS is guest editor of Trepan, co-edits Insert Press, co-hosts LA-Lit, and co-curates Betalevel’s Late Night Snack. His writings appear in Manufactured Inspirato, Greetings, Disaster, Sleepingfish, P-Queue, Holy Beep!, Outside Voices 2008 Sound Poetry Anthology, Flim Forum, The Physical Poets Vol. 2 and PSBooks.

P-Queue is a journal of poetry, poetics, and innovative prose, dedicated to investigations of hybridity and cross-genre work. Published by the Poetics Program and the English Department at SUNY Buffalo, P-Queue has had a brief but exciting history of publishing innovative, unclassifiable works from a variety of authors across the nation, including Rosa Alcala, Eula Biss, Barbara Cole, Michael Cross, Mathew Goulish, Meredith Quartermain, Stephen Ratcliffe, Jennifer Scappettone, Kyle Schlesinger, Sasha Steensen, and Elizabeth Treadwell.

Come celebrate the release of P-Queue, vol. 4 with readings from the issue by:

Harold Abramowitz is a writer and teacher from Los Angeles, author of a chapbook, Three Column Table, from Insert Press, and of various other works. Harold co-curates the Late Night Snack literary cabaret series at BetaLevel in L.A. He is also co-editing a new literary/experimental press called Eohippus-Labs.

Allison Carter currently lives in Los Angeles, CA. She works with Palm Press, an independent press located in LA; is an assistant editor at Black Clock literary magazine; and is the editor of P.S. Books (the Particle Series). Her work has recently been included (or is forthcoming in): Fence, 5_trope, The Big Ugly Review, 3rd Bed, Horse Less Review, Artizen, and 400 Words.

Susanne Hall recently returned to Los Angeles after an autumn spent as the Abbott fellow in SUNY Buffalo’s poetry collection. Her current works in progress are a dissertation on 1960s U.S. poetry and politics and a work of fiction entitled Sweet Tobacco. Her most recent publishing gambit can be found online at <quietpirate.com> and scattered around Los Angeles.

Mathew Timmons is currently Guest Editor of Trepan vol. 5 & 6 , is co-editor of Insert Press, co-curates the Late Night Snack literary cabaret series at BetaLevel, and co-hosts the internet radio show LA-Lit. His writings have appeared or are scheduled to appear in Manufactured Inspiration, Greetings, Disaster3, Sleepingfish, and in Flim Forum’s second anthology. He is the Program Coordinator of CalArts MFA Writing Program, and is an adjunct professor for CalArts School of Critical Studies.

Fold Appropriate Release
Friday August 17 at 7:30pm

Come celebrate the release of the first issue of FOLD MAGAZINE, Fold Appropriate Text, published by Insert Press. Featuring readings by Harold Abramowitz, Franklin Bruno, Guy Bennett, Teresa Carmody, Marcus Civin, Jen Hofer, Vanessa Place, Michael Smoler and more. Plus you can buy yourself a copy of this gorgeous literary journal at a discount (very exciting)!

The emphasis of this issue is on the use of borrowed, stolen, plundered, reused, retooled and/or sampled texts to create literature and includes essays by Mark Wallace and Guy Bennett that discuss these methods. Our intent is to present the work of writers who use text which they did not originate and do not own or own only by virtue of appropriation.

Contributors to Fold Appropriate Text are: Harold Abramowitz, Guy Bennett, Franklin Bruno, Teresa Carmody, Marcus Civin, Katie Degentesh, Drew Gardner, Nada Gordon, K. Lorraine Graham, Jen Hofer, Mark Hoover, Mike Magee, Sharon Mesmer, K. Silem Mohammad, William Moor, Bruna Mori, JeffreyJoe Nelson, Vanessa Place, Dan Richert, Rod Smith, Michael Smoler, Mark Wallace

Insert Press is edited by Stan Apps and Mathew Timmons. Insert Press has published chapbooks THREE COLUMN TABLE by Harold Abramowitz and ABSURD GOOD NEWS by Julien Poirier. HANDSOME FISH OFFICES by Ara Shirinyan, the first perfectbound book published by Insert Press is forthcoming.

Visit InsertPress[dot]Net for more information and to purchase fine literature.

If you’re going to be in San Francisco on Saturday, August 18 at 7:30pm, join us for another launch party at Pegasus Books in downtown Berkeley and hear readings by Franklin Bruno, K. Lorraine Graham, William Moor, Mathew Timmons, and Mark Wallace.

Come say hello to the newest chapbook by Stan Apps and say goodbye to Stan Apps himself. Stan’s new chapbook is “Princess of the World in Love” from Cy Press, and its release will be celebrated with poetry readings by Stan and by Cy Press editor Dana Ward. This will be Stan’s last public poetry reading as an LA resident before he moves to the moist and sunny land of Tampa, Florida.

This event may involve amazing surprises.