Small press enthusiasts, littérateurs and zine-heads unite! Come to listen actively, converse heartily and drink organic beverages (beer & wine included!) slowly with the Cup and Pen Small Press Reading Series. Cup and Pen, a monthly small press reading series in the back room of Think Coffee @ Mercer St., is a series in which readers discover new presses to support and introduces emerging writers to publishers.
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MARK YOUR CALENDAR:
WEDNESDAY, October 29, 8-10pm, Cup & Pen presents Three Genres
readings by
Kim Dana Kupperman, Managing Editor at The Gettysburg Review
and others!
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WEDNESDAY, November 19, 8-10pm, Cup & Pen presents Sybil’s Garage
readings by
Mercurio D. Rivera
Veronica Schanoes
Richard Bowes
Sense Five Press
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PRESSES/MAGAZINES/FOLKS DOING GOD’S WORK
www.ballyhoostories.com
www.barnardzines.livejournal.com
www.belladonnabooks.blogspot .com
www.booklyn.org
www.calamaripress.com
www.foursquareeditions.blogspot.com
www.fuckinglies.blogspot.com/
www.givalpress.com
www.heebmagazine.com
www.hotelstgeorgepress.com
www.islandsfold.com/
www.jenna.openflows.com/cupandpen/bookfair/200
www.lamehouse.blogspot.com
www.languagefoundry.org
www.leavesofthetree.wordpress.com
www.litmuspress.org
www.lovelydaze.com
www.lowbrowreader.com
www.nycip.org
www.shannacompton.com/half-empty.html
www.smallbeerpress.com
www. sonaweb.net
www.subsumed.org/press
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ARCHIVES
WEDNESDAY, July 9th, 8-10pm Haiku Not Bombs a Booklyn book release party
Booklyn Artist Alliance is excited to announce the publication of Haiku Not Bombs, the latest edition of the Another Booklyn Chapbook series, a letterpressed and otherwise hand-generated book. Please join Booklyn and Collectivo Haiku authors for a book release party including readings, wine, and general brilliance.
readings by:
Tom Gilroy
Jim McKay
Shin Yu Pai
Patrick So
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WEDNESDAY, June 18th, 8-10pm Sarah Kipp & Robyn Citizen
Performance artist Sarah Kipp performs and tells stories about faces at the window with projections. Robyn Citizen lectures on gender in horror movies and curates a screening of the Chinese horror movie Gaau ji (Dumplings) (2004)
Sarah Kipp
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WEDNESDAY, May 28th, 8-10pm Lame House Press
Lame House Press irregularly publishes chapbooks by emerging poets.
readings by:
Arlo Quint
Dustin Williamson
Gabriella Torres
Franklin Bruno
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WEDNESDAY, May 14th, 8-10pm World War 3 Illustrated
World War 3 Illustrated is a labor of love, run by a collective of artists working with the unified goal of creating a home for political comics, graphics and stories.
readings by:
Rebecca Migdal
James Romberger
Sabrina Jones
Tom Keoug
FlyMac Mcgill
World War 3 Illustrated
World War 3 Illustrated myspace
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WEDNESDAY, February 13, 8-10pm - Small Beer Press
Cup and Pen Small Press Reading Series
presents
Small Beer Press
with readings by
Carol Emshwiller
Ellen Kushner
Veronica Schanoes
Delia Sherman
Born from the skull of the zine world and suckeled at the teet of indy book stores, Small Beer Press/ Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet descends from Massachusettes like an avenging angel of willing and risky writing. These are the books that you pick up in the bookstore based and their cover, the books that you then read with mounting love and horror and these are the people that claim “This is what we like: a cold beer in summer, hot tea in winter, good books all year round”. These are the good people. Come for an evening of readings by Carol Emshwiller, Ellen Kushner, Veronica Schanoes and Delia Sherman and gingerly emceed by Rebecca Alvarez.
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WEDNESDAY, January 30, 8-10pm - The Language Foundry
Cup and Pen Small Press Reading Series
presents
The Language Foundry
With readings by
Bill Lavender (New Orleans)
j.s.makkos (Cleveland)
Kate Sopko (Cleveland)
Mat Timmons (Los Angeles)
Carmen Tracey (Cleveland)
Celebrate a seminal reading in the Cup and Pen series as well the opening of the Give & Take Think Library by bringing your books to donate and enjoying a free spot of wine with a stable of brain-engorging writers from the Language Foundry. The Language Foundry, a performance space in Cleveland, makes the lover’s promise to bring you “quality programming, forward thinking, & tactile language projects.” Readings by Bill Lavender (New Orleans), Language Foundry organizer and writer j.s.makkos (Cleveland), Kate Sopko (Cleveland), Mat Timmons (Los Angeles) and Carmen Tracey (Cleveland) and emceed by the shamefully effusive Rebecca Alvarez.
Poets from the Language Foundry
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WEDNESDAY, January 9, 8-10pm - Urban Molecule Magazine
Urban Molecule
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Wednesday December 12, 2007
Cup and Pen Small Press Reading Series
presents
Calamari Press
With readings by
Alexandra Chasin,
Robert Lopez
and
Eva Talmadge
Cup and Pen puts Calamari Press back under the looking machine and pulls up the rorschachian images presented by their language-driven magazine sleepingfish. New Pages lit review claims “This is a journal where the swish of the cat’s tail might be appreciated for its metonymical qualities before the cat suddenly leaps off the balcony and into a cloud.” Readings by Alexandra Chasin, Robert Lopez and Eva Talmadge are prescribed by those who care and want to see you reconnect with your inner beauty-maker.
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Wednesday November 7th, 2007
Cup and Pen Small Press Reading Series
presents
Calamari Press
With readings by
Michael Peters
and
Be Blank Consort
November is celebrate-your-local-experimental-poetry-hero and we’re showing solidarity by inviting the soul-saving Be Blank Consort to perform solo readings of text poetry as well as group performances of collaborative sound and visual poetry. The night is lead by core members John M. Bennett, K.S. Ernst, Scott Helmes, Sheila E. Murphy, and Michael Peters. This not-to-be-missed performance will be followed by the you’d-have-to-not-be a fan-of-multi-media-specatcularness-to-miss-this performance by Michael Peters reading from the Vaast Bin (Calamari, 2007).
http://www.calamaripress.com
http://sleepingfish.net
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Wednesday October 10th, 2007
Cup and Pen Small Press Reading Series
presents
the Barnard Zine Library: a One-Two Zine Reading and Zine Making Event Combination
(and we saved you ringside seats)~
Leaning into the romantic chill of a new fall, we are more than amped to announce that the Barnard Zine Library will be making literary smores overs the flame of our passion! Join us for a one two combination where you’re smacked down with a collection of women zinsters reading from their work and helped up again with a zine making event (materials provided)! Readings by Sabrina Chapadjiev, Cliterature, Jennie Rose Halperin, So, you’re a Freshman? Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love college, (Think’s own!) Besty Housten, You Should Know, and Tya Kagamas i am the city. No one walks away without an ear full of opinions and a hand sticky with gluestick. Expertly curated by zine librarians Halle Kiefer and Jenna Freedman and dutifully emceed by Rebecca Alvarez.
http://barnardzines.livejournal.com
If you missed Barnard’s exciting zine reading and zine making workshop
http://barnardzines.livejournal.com/17695.html here is your chance to at least see what everyone was wearing http://flickr.com/photos/jennafreedman/tags/cupandpen
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Saturday, September 8th 2007
Cup and Pen Small Press Reading Series
presents
The Cup and Pen Small Small Press Fair, 2007
Readings from Belladonna Books, Litmus Press, Booklyn Artist Alliance, Sona Books, Ballyhoo Stories, Hotel St. George Press, The Lowbrow Reader and Heeb Magazine may not only give you a varied look at some of the most exciting writing and work coming out of independent presses today, it may just save your soul. Respectfully emceed by Rebecca Alvarez.
2:10pm- 2:30pm Belladonna Books
2:40pm- 3:00pm Litmus Press
3:10pm- 3:30pm Booklyn Artist Alliance
3:40pm- 4:00pm Sona Books
4:10pm- 4:30pm Ballyhoo Stories
4:40pm- 5:00pm Hotel St. George Press
5:10pm- 5:30pm The Lowbrow Reader
5:40pm- 6:00pm Heeb Magazine
www.thinkcoffeenyc.com
www.belladonnabooks.blogspot .com
www.litmuspress.org
www.booklyn.org
www. sonaweb.net
www.ballyhoostories.com
www.hotelstgeorgepress.com
www.lowbrowreader.com
www.heebmagazine.com
