Micah Towery

Adam Fitzgerald has been up to some crazy shit lately. Not only is the man a teaching, (Maggy) magazine editing, maniac, he’s also managed to put together a 100-page, 6-part poem collage in all that spare time he has. This is how Adam describes this piece: “The Gorgias” will have the first of six installments to be posted online. It incorporates poetry, collage, pornography, emails, Gchats, Facebook, and something I’m very excited about — music by STARS OF THE LID (an amazing ambient drone band that I’ve listened to for the past year when writing). The work is today. Check it out.

I’m sure many of you read Stanley Fish’s articles on the topic ? from a year or so ago. I came from the “great tradition” tradition, the Mortimer J. Adler mindset of reading all the great books in the Western canon. I also got my dose of composition advice, much of coming from the slightly pushy Strunk & White. Some of my professors knew Strunk & White so well that they would underline sentences and cite the pages from the revered style book that I needed to consult in order to fix my sentence. Thus I followed Strunk religiously until I read , and in recent years I have reconsidered my devotion. First I should say that Strunk & White definitely made a difference in my writing for the better. But what has improved my writing even more has been teaching it in the last year or so. Not just [...]

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This month Metro Rhythm is proud to present five outstanding poets: Meghan O’Rourke, Eleanor Lerman, Sarah V. Schweig, Zachary Pace and Jay Deshpande. The reading will be held at Blue Angel Wines in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Related posts: Things to Know, Celebrate, Cherish: MAGGY POETRY CONTEST NOTES ON NOISE {insert shrug} Timothy Donnelly’s The Cloud Corporation Launch

Heads up for Michael Klein’s new book of poetry, , which will drop this Friday, October 15. Here is a list of upcoming readings for Michael in the NYC area. Wednesday, October 20, 2010, 7PM David Groff, Michael Klein, and Elaine Sexton City College 135th Street and Convent Avenue New York, NY Monday, November 8, 2010, 7PM Michael Klein and Sean Singer 85 East 4th Street New York, NY Monday, November 22, 2010, 7PM Shanna Compton, Michael Klein, Jennifer L. Knox and Jason Schneiderman 505 West 23rd Street New York, NY Tuesday, December 21, 2010, 7:30PM 5th Avenue and 5th St. Brooklyn, NY Tuesday, February 1, 2011, 6:00PM Michael Klein, Joan Larkin, and Jean Valentine Cornelia St. Cafe (Downstairs) 29 Cornelia St. New York, NY Stay tuned to THE THE for a review of Klein’s latest work of poetry. Vancouver-area Reading: Micah Towery Harry Mathews’ New Poetry Book, Upcoming Reading [...]

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In a recent blog post, and takes George Philip, president of SUNY-Albany, to task for axing the French, Italian, classics, Russian, and theater programs. Fish claims it is the job of presidents and chancellors to proclaim the value of liberal arts education loudly and often and at least try to make the powers that be understand what is being lost when traditions of culture and art that have been vital for hundreds and even thousands of years disappear from the academic scene. Fish’s strategy is political: take the debate to the floors of state senates. Yet allow me to tentatively posit that perhaps our Modern Liberal Democracy (MLD for brevity) itself may be to blame. Whether we like it or not, MLD—the American one in particular—has a hard time understanding the value of something apart from its utility, its instrumentality—McLuhan called this “know how” (for a fuller, if occasionally simplistic, [...]

is releasing first collection of poetry in some 20 years: . Books are available now directly from the press and very soon and other fine bookstores, by way of . Harry will giving a celebratory reading at Harry will also be reading at , October 21st. Stay tuned to THE THE for a coming review of Matthew’s latest book. Read More ...

Hunter College puts together a bitchin’ reading series each semester. You’ve already missed Robert Hass, but on Oct. 5, Hari Kunzru is reading in the Lang Recital Hall at 7:30 pm. Don’t miss it. Still to come: ZZ Packer and Greg Grandin. Read More ...

A few years back, I met at a writing conference in Binghamton, NY. We ended up talking metaphysics and Marxism and Beat poetics deep into the night. After Gene left, we kept in touch and Gene ended up contributing to The Cartographer Electric! the magazine I helped found as an undergrad at Binghamton. After I had left Binghamton, I thought about starting an online press that would give away free chapbooks in PDF form on the internet. We published a book by Gene, originally titled Excerpt from Pastoral Emergency. The chapbook featured Gene’s artwork side by side with his poetry (Gene studied both art and poetry at Iowa). Recently, Gene expressed a desire to revise the work. He conceived of the revision as an illuminated chapbook, and I think it turned out amazingly well. The at . While you’re there, and a few other chapbooks that I worked on with [...]

I just posted this in the Poems | News | Events sidebar, but I wanted to put it out there in the main section too. . When I was there, I got to see Robert Pinsky, Mark Strand, Ed Hirsch, Mary Karr, Anne Carson, Frank Bidart, Gary Shteyngart, and tons more. It’s free (and so is the wine and cheese–at least when I was a student), but you should RSVP. You’ve just missed Robert Hass, the first reader of Fall 2010. But there are still more to come. Read More ...

Some of you have noticed a few changes here and there to The The. There are more ahead: a few contributors are moving on, and some new ones are moving in. Others will continue to contribute but on a less regular basis. I would like to welcome two new contributors: and . Make them feel at home, please. Thanks for sticking with us as we continue to figure out what TheThe is all about! Related posts: Blogging through Grossman, Part 2: Grossman demolishes otherness? “Because I am Looking to Complicate My Biography I Go Out to Buy a Tree” by Heather Christle TheThe Lookin’ for a Few Good Poetry Book Reviewers

THEthe’s will be presenting her poetry comics in Burlington, Vermont’s at the Painted Word Poetry Series this Wednesday, October, 27th. There was word on the of a road trip from NYC. Related Posts Things to Know, Celebrate, Cherish: Harry Mathews’ New Poetry Book, Upcoming Reading Dorothea Lasky’s POETRY IS NOT A PROJECT or Cutting More Lines in the Cosmic Divide Some images from the original archive are unavailable. Private: Lookin’ for a Few Good Poetry Book Reviewers The Flaming Poodle of the Mind: Poetry Readings, Vaudeville & Louise Gluck’s Legs

@ St. Mark’s Church in the Bowery, 8pm. Related posts: Anne Carson, Daniel Mendelsohn, Dixon’s Place, 7pm

We like to big up our own, and is definitely worth the big up. In case you didn’t know, Simone won the Amy Award for the best female poet under 30 in NY. Because of that, she will be giving a reading TONIGHT at the New York Society Library from 6 to 8pm. The address is 53 East 79th St. Come out and show your support! Michael Klein’s New Poetry Book, Upcoming Readings MAGGY POETRY CONTEST Partial board meeting Hamlet and his (Public) Problems