Like A Double Rainbow!

This week/end in New York City is going to be joyful to the nth degree.

Starting with this: 7.22.10 - Heather Christle, Dorothea Lasky, and Maggie Nelson read at McNally Jackson Books @ 7pm. (52 Prince St)

Then! 7.24.10 Dear friends will get married!

7.24.10 & 7.25.10 Popsickle: A Festival Of Literary Arts!

Saturday, 3-8pm, Sunday1-5pm

Market Hotel, 957 Broadway, Brooklyn.

Here is who will read: Alaina Stamatis, Anna Fitzgerald, Ben Fama, Brett Price & Dani Leventhal, Carter Edwards, Dan Magers, Eddie Hopely, Emily Pettit, Evan Burton, Gina Abelkop, Jamie Peck, James Copeland, Jordan Michael Iannucci, Joshua Mehigan, Lauren Russell, Leigh Stein, Marc Nasdor, Michael Barron, Natalie Lyalin, Nicole Trigg, Paige Taggart, Parker Phillips, Timothy Donnelly and more. 

It might make you feel like this!

Rarities

Things that are rare:

A double-yolked egg! I could not eat it. But folklore is mostly on my
side, in terms of good vs. bad luck here.

And more rare, a blue copy of The Difficult Farm, which Heather Christle is awarding to a lucky person who can make an neat video, while dizzy. This is a video challenge with the possibility of a rare
gift -- you should meet this challenge.



Here is Heather's hand with the books. Look, the blue one could be yours!

Here are the contest rules:

1. Have access to a video recording device.
2. Turn it on.
3. Record a person getting very dizzy and then attempting to perform some kind of task. Or record a MISTAKE. A MEDIUM one.
4. Put it on YouTube or Vimeo and send a link to heathermchristle@gmail.com
5. Wait for finalists to be posted on Heather's blog.
6. Tell your friends to vote for your video.
7. Win all or most of the votes.
8. GET A FREE BLUE BOOK.


Heather's blog has more info. 


Do it to it.

Sonic Boom

HTML Giant is hosting a live online reading tonight and H.Christle is their first reader!

Check their site at 9pm promptly to see Heather beamed into your homes, ears, and hearts.

New & Exciting

(image courtesy thewinger.com)

SUPERMACHINE is a self described "Brooklyn based poetry reading series and literary magazine." It comes from Ben Fama, Shonni Enelow, James Copeland, and Michael Barron.

They have some seriously great readings coming up. For example, tomorrow night these people are reading: Christian Hawkey, Cristophe Casamassima, Jennifer Kronovet, and Macgregor Card.

Matvei Yankelevich has a new book out. It is called Boris by the Sea (Octopus Books, 09).

And this is Michelle Taransky's book, Barn Burned, Then (Omnidawn Publishing, 09).

And over at HTML GIANT it is Heather Christle week. Other online places are involved as well and chances to win things abound!

Eileen Myles interviews CA Conrad over at Poetry Foundation. Click here to read the interview (and see an original drawing by Paul Killebrew).

New & Exciting

Maggie Nelson's Bluets and Rachel Zucker's Museum of Accidents finish out Wave Poetry's 2009 series. Find them here.

This is not new per se, but it is a new development--this blog has devoted serious effort to the praise of a band called Reactor No.7. Josh Bolton was the lead singer. You can read all about him and the rest of the band here.

Publishing Genius wins a Best Of Baltimore award. Because there are many awesome things about PG, not the least being the success of Shane Jones and his book, Light Boxes.

Oh, and Heather Christle is giving away her book!