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This Looks Cool: Dirty Looks & the Poetry Brothel
May 25, 2011Now that the sun is shining again, it’s due time to go out and enjoy the extended daylight and temperatures of summer evenings. Tonight offers what promise to be two very exciting events. Here’s the scoop straight from the horses’ … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged art, discussion, Ditry Looks, film, Gay, poetry, readings, slutty, steppin out, tawdry words, the Poetry Brothel | Leave a comment
THIS WEEKEND’S JUST COMIN UP BIRDSONG!
May 13, 2011The birdsong kids (and our friends) are really all over the map this weekend!! TONIGHT forever our girl Jess Paps is singing some tunes with Sweet Tooth Nelson on a rooftop in Greenpoint for the GOOD LUCK BAD LUCK ROOFTOP … Continue reading
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Five On It– with Mike Young
March 15, 2011Mike Young co-edits one of our favorite lit mags, NOÖ Journal, and his debut collection of short stories, Look! Look! Feathers, just came out from Word Riot Press in December. Mike’s got some poems up on Bomb Magazine’s blog, and … Continue reading
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Five On It- with Blake Butler
March 8, 2011Although his new novel There is No Year won’t be coming out for a month, Blake Butler takes to the streets of the city this week with several members of Gotham’s literati (including birdsong interviewees like Melissa Broder, Ben Greenman, … Continue reading
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THIS WEEK IN BIRDSONG– 2/28-3/6
February 28, 2011Monday 2/28– Tonight, KGB’s weekly Monday Night Poetry Series features former birdsong interviewee Shanna Compton– as well as Peter Davis and Jennifer L. Knox– in a Bloof Books poetry showcase. Years and years ago, it was with many of the … Continue reading
Posted in Boosting Birdsongers | Tagged Ablehearts, art, Bloof Books, chapbooks, emotive fruition, hash tags, Jesse Hlebo, KGB Poetry, Light Asylum, Matthew Hittinger, Mirror Mirror, readings, Shanna Compton, Swill Children, Twitter, zines, _Quarterly | Leave a comment
THIS WEEK IN BIRDSONG – 1/14–1/20
February 14, 2011Happy Valentimes! This is an appropriately ominous image, yeah? It’s like a Valentine from Satan. Took me serious minutes of Google image searching to find this gem. I’m not going to yawn about my lack of a Valentine yet again, … Continue reading
Posted in Boosting Birdsongers | Tagged Brothers, Fortnight Journal, Gypse Eyes, La Petite Zine, Love, making out, Max Steele, Melissa Broder, Mirror Mirror, PAPS, raffa and rainer, readings, Roy Pérez, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, zines | Leave a comment
PSYCHONS-film edition
January 26, 2011Dear Black Swan, why so much acclaim? I liked the blood, the crunching, the binding, The Hershey. But ultimately, even when I pulled out the knives and did my best reading of the film, a reading that almost convinced me … Continue reading
Posted in Hump Day | Tagged black swan, Crooklyn, friendship, Inland Empire, Philadelphia Story, psychons, readings, Su Friedrich, Sweetie, The Children's Hour, The Last Days of Disco, Tisha Campbell, Yeast | Leave a comment
SNOW DAY– Bulletin!
December 27, 2010Most of the birdsong crew are rearranging flights and spending and extra few days city-deprived, and with buses stuck, trains suspending service, and airports closed– it looks like we’re all just going to have to sit tight, maybe make some … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Beach House, covergirl, moving, readings, winter, writing contest, zines | Leave a comment
THIS WEEK IN BIRDSONG – 11/29-12/5
November 29, 2010by Tommy Again I’m in the frozen wilds of Middletown, CT and what instruments we have agree: the day of Leslie Nielson’s death was a dark, cold day. Indeed. The Naked Gun was one of the only movies I owned … Continue reading
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THIS WEEK IN BIRDSONG: 7/12-7/18
July 12, 2010compiled by Tommy Monday July 12 Novelist Brando Skyhorse, whose The Madonnas of Echo Park came out last month from Simon & Schuster and getting a lot of good buzz, is reading at Half King in Chelsea tonight. Despite the … Continue reading
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