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The Biscuit Spoken Word Series continues with a Special Selective reading. We are proud to provide a welcoming nest for the Marsh Hawk Collective.
SUNDAY MAY 27TH
6 PM
BISCUIT BBQ
230 5th Ave (at President Street)
Brooklyn, NY11215
Phone: (718) 399-2161
N, R to Union
The Marsh Hawk Collective Selective: Four Poets Reading
Join us at Biscuit for an early evening reading of new & published works by selective poets from the Collective:
Burt Kimmelman
'Century Gothic'; ">Stephen-Paul Miller
Rochelle Ratner
Corinne Robins
A Word from the Collective:
“Marsh Hawk Press takes its name from the strong, independent, wide-ranging bird found everywhere in America's open spaces, and not too close to solid, built-up ground. Our books present forms and sensibilities that have assimilated modern and post-modern traditions but expand from these without political or aesthetic bias, outside of "schools" yet with affinities to the visual arts. The books are jury-selected and carefully edited in consultation with their authors.”
About the Selective from the Collective:
Burt Kimmelman:
Somehow
“Burt Kimmelman is a poet who obviously admires the clarity of classical Chinese poetry and strives for it in his tight syllabics and in his shifting images of light and dark. In doing so, he finds what is luminously transcendent in the routines of everyday life.”—Harvey Shapiro
Stephen Paul Miller:
Skinny Eighth Avenue
Skinny Eighth Avenue is poetry of the future. But it’s grounded in a wildly flexible strength of language, childhood, open-ended enthusiasm, concrete connections between Judaism and experimental poetry, post-World War II “totems” of holocaust and computer and suburb, meta-modernism, the socioeconomic, Iraq war, “George Whatever Bush,” and senses of love and the divine. Miller’s poetry interacts dynamically with Noah Mavael Miller’s startlingly observant and lovely illustrations.—Maria Mazziotti Gillan
Rochelle Ratner:
Balancing Acts
“Rochelle Ratner explores the forgotten corners of one’s life, the bits of nourishment one finds but is not given, or is given only to hunger for more... The effect of this narrative in prose poems is unsettling, as if the cobwebs in the corners of our own lives had been pulled aside.”—Jessica Treat
Corinne Robins:
Today's Menu
Illustrations by Joyce Romano
“'Art, Art, Art!' With exuberant repetition Corinne Robins begins Today’s Menu, her best book of poems so far. These poems whisk readers on a fast-clipped journey through the world orf visual art from the nineteen sixties to the twenty-first century, displaying delight and depth of gratitude at the life-saving nature of the image. She buttonholes her favorite painters and sculptors the way Blake questions his Tyger, firing up ekphrasis, and burning each poem bright.”— Molly Peacock
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Biscuit BBQ, Brooklyn, Burt Kimmelman, Corinne Robins, Marsh Hawk Press, poetry, Rochelle Ratner, skinny eighth avenue, spoken word, Stephen Paul Miller
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