Brenda Iijima's going blooming falling blooming

I reviewed the drastically beautiful going blooming falling blooming, by Brenda Iijima (from Delete Press), for LitBridge! Go look, and then invite this object into your home so it can bite you.

Danielle Vogel TODAY (Sunday) at the RISD Museum!

Danielle is the last performer in my week, so you can scratch your nagging "I was supposed to come to that thing Kate was curating" itch AND hear incredible, embracing, destabilizing and recentering work at the same time! 12-1, Lower Farago Gallery (Benefit St entrance), please come.

Joanna Howard AND Joanna Ruocco TODAY (Saturday) at the RISD Museum!

Not one but TWO Joannas! 12-1 pm, Lower Farago Gallery (Benefit St. entrance), you should be there, I will be there.

Andrew Colarusso TODAY (Friday) at the RISD Museum!

Enter the museum on Benefit St. at 12 pm.

Leave the museum THROUGH THE ROOF at 1 pm having been completely electrified by Andrew Colarusso's words.

Kate Colby TODAY (Thursday) at the RISD Museum!

Starting at 12, wander in and out of Kate Colby's rigorous and winged poetic accumulations.

Same as before -- Lower Farago Gallery (Benefit St. entrance). Also, stick around (or come back) for musical transformers Humanbeast between 4 and 8.

Tina Cane TODAY (Wednesday) at the RISD Museum!

From 12 to 1 pm or so

Tina Cane will lay some peerless precision down for you all

in the RISD Museum's Farago Gallery (Benefit St. entrance).

Drop by with your ears open!

Serena Putterman TODAY (Tuesday) at the RISD Museum!

All Providential people with a free lunch hour (12 to 1)

are advised come to the RISD Museum's Farago Gallery (Benefit St. entrance)

TODAY (Tuesday, August 13th)

to hear Serena Putterman's frank, strange words open a window.

Locally Made Poetry and Prose at the RISD Museum!

I'm excited to report a weeklong set of events at the RISD Museum: as part of their Locally Made show and series of programs this summer and fall, they've given me the chance to invite some writers -- some of whom you may know -- to share their work at the museum, in the gallery just below the Benefit Street entrance, at noontime. Here are the writers and dates:

8/13: Serena Putterman
8/14: Tina Cane
8/15: Kate Colby
8/16: Andrew Colarusso
8/17: Joanna Howard and Joanna Ruocco
8/18: Danielle Vogel


You can count on hearing good work any day you show up. There's a list of these and other amazing Locally Made events at the Museum's Facebook page. Hope to see you there!

Reading at Brookline Booksmith, 8/9: Knox, Schapira, Flatt

Michael Flatt
Caroline Knox
Kate Schapira

will be reading for BASH (curated by Black Ocean)
Friday, August 9th, 7 pm
at Brookline Booksmith
279 Harvard St.
Brookline, MA


Here's the Facebook event page. Please come! Tell your Boston-area friends! I've been wanting to read at Brookline Booksmith for years, and I'm particularly excited to read there with these excellent writers.