Overheard While Hiding From the Sun + Found Poetry at GRIN Gallery

When I fill a notebook, I go back through, gather words and phrases that I haven't already turned into something else, and use them as the first draft of a poem. Sometimes they're phrases that sound good but that I haven't found a place for; sometimes they're things I've read on signs or labels, or heard people say. I have about 35 of these poems now, and some of them have just come out as a chapbook from above/ground press, Overheard While Hiding From the Sun.

I'll be reading from this book, and from the cento booklets I make of past Publicly Complex readings, at:

Finding Poetry in the Existing and Everyday
at the GRIN Gallery in Providence (60 Valley St.,  #3)
on Friday, February 21st, at 7 pm.

Maria Anderson, Martin Elwell, Paul Hostovsky and Amy Pickworth will be reading with me.

Publicly Complex: Simone White, Christine Hou, Geoffrey Nutter!

Tomorrow (Saturday, 10/26) at 6pm:

poetry by
Simone White
Geoffrey Nutter
Christine Hou

at Ada Books (717 Westminster St.)

Three poets whose work I think is just so great. You will too, if you come and hear them.

Publicly Complex presents Waldrop, Ragosta, Hayden!

This is tonight we're talking about:

poetry by
Keith Waldrop
Ray Ragosta
Sarah Hayden

Saturday, October 19th, at 6 pm
at Ada Books (717 Westminster St., Providence)

Arterian, Mena, Schapira at Ada Books on September 4th!

This reading just popped up like an enthusiastic and intricate fungus in the hot damp end of summer:

Diana Arterian
Erica Mena
and me, Kate Schapira

at Ada Books (717 Westminster St., Providence)
on Wednesday, September 4th, at 7 pm

Please come!

Note: this isn't a Publicly Complex reading. Those start on 9/21, with Krystal Languell and Rangi McNeil.

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.

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.

Reading tonight!

I'm reading with colleagues Susan Kushner Resnick, Michael Stewart, and Robert Ward, on the Brown University campus (Wilson 102, on the main green -- if you walk in from Brown St./Waterman St, it's on the left). The reading's at 6:30 pm. Please come!

Divination in Providence: Jori Ketten, Hollis Mickey and Kate Schapira at AS220 Project Space

 Hollis Mickey and I are doing a collaborative event with Jori Ketten's Wayfinding show at the AS220 Project Space!

IT IS LIKE THE END, OR PERHAPS THE BEGINNING 

an event featuring images and text from 

Wayfinding: New Letterpress prints (and some tiny books)

TUESDAY APRIL 23

5-7PM

AS220 Project Space
93 Mathewson Street
Providence, RI 02903

 
You can hold small prints from the show in your hands while contemplating the future and past. With Jori Ketten's Wayfinding prints as a starting point, I'll write your sacred texts and Hollis Mickey will explores what you hold for your future. Tent by Ariele Affigne, map (maybe) by Walker Mettling. 

This is free, fun, and potentially formative. Please come and discover.

Out Like a Lion: Fertile Underground Fundraiser

Fertile Underground, a food co-op in Providence, is raising money for a new food access effort that you can read about here. I think this is a good project. I and a bunch of other people are reading to benefit it on Friday, March 29th, at 6 pm, at 1577 Westminster St.

Mary-Kim Arnold
Mark Baumer
Tina Cane
Darcie Dennigan
David Emanuel
Laura Brown Lavoie
Wendy Lawton
Casey Llewellyn
Serena Putterman
Kate Schapira

The event itself is free. You can see the store, investigate the project, donate if you'd like. Please come!

I return

I was busy. I went to New Orleans to see my dearest friend. I worked on some writing, and I got my syllabi together for the teaching semester, which has now started.

Rob McClennan interviewed me for his series 12 or 20 Questions, and he also reviewed The Soft Place. Thanks, Rob!

Don't forget to buy Little Eva, the Insomniac from Mars. Send me your receipt and I'll send you something special!

The first Publicly Complex reading of 2013 is on February 9th at 6 pm: Michael Tod Edgerton, whose amazing new book Vitreous Hide is just out from Lavender Ink, and Rachel Levitsky. If you're in the Providence area, you should come!

BONUS READING: Anthony Madrid and David Gorin in Providence!

There's a reading tonight! Come out, come out ...

poetry by
Anthony Madrid
David Gorin
TONIGHT (Friday, November 2nd) at 7 pm
at 186 Carpenter St., Providence

Refreshments will be served. Poems will be great. Please come! Here's the Facebook page, for those of you who do that.

In which I am a revenant

I have two readings coming up this week in places I used to live!

Friday, October 26th, 7 pm
Poetry Night at the Gallery Arts Guild: Halloween Edition
342 Main St., Lakeville, CT

I'll read for a bit, and then other people will share their favorite eerie poems. Then ...

Saturday, October 27th, 2 pm
Cadmium Text Series
with Anselm Berrigan
The Gallery at R&F Handmade Paints
84 Ten Broeck Avenue
Kingston, NY 

I will be the one who looks stunned, as though trapped in a time not her own.

Kate Schapira and francine j. harris at the Poetry Project at St. Mark's!

So excited to report that this coming Monday, I'm reading with the great francine j. harris at the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church (131 East 10th St)! The reading will be at 8 pm on October 15th. Here's the event listing on Facebook if you want to remind yourself or others that this is happening.

Kate Schapira reads in Georgia!

Headed down to GA this week! Folks in the area, here are two readings you could attend:

Dustin Brookshire, Kate Schapira, Laura Straub, Shelly Taylor
What's New in Poetry
Thursday, August 9th, 8 pm
Emory University Bookstore, 1st floor
1390 Oxford Road, Atlanta, GA

AND

Kate Schapira and Caroline Young
Friday, August 10th, 7 pm
Avid Bookshop
493 Prince Avenue, Athens, GA

Kate Schapira & Mary Wilson read at Carpenter St.!

Mary Wilson and Kate Schapira
read AND write for you
on Thursday, August 2nd, at 7 pm
at 186 Carpenter St., Providence

We'll follow short readings with poems written on the spot, just for you. Listen to our tasty work, then hang out and eat snacks while we respond to your requests!

Daniela Olszewska, Kate Schapira, Luis Humberto Valdez at Myopic Books!

So excited to be reading with these fine poets in Chicago!

Daniela Olszewksa
Kate Schapira
Luis Humberto Valdez

Saturday, June 16th, at 7 pm
Myopic Books (1564 North Milwaukee Ave.)

Also: Come visit cartoonist James McShane (and me) (and some of the other best cartoonists working today) at CAKE earlier in the day. The Chicago Alternative Comics Expo is in Columbia College's Ludington Building (1104 South Wabash) from 11-6 on Saturday, June 16th and Sunday, June 17th.

Transmission from JUPITER 88!

CAConrad's video journal, JUPITER 88, offers up short readings by poets writing now. My video is up today and I'm so pleased to be a cell in the honeycomb!

We did this video before our reading together (with Michelle Taransky and Adam Roberts) in Albany, NY for the Yes! series, at the dining room table of co-organizer and friend Matthew Klane.

This is a particularly great project for those who prefer to hear poetry. Go look and listen -- and then check out some of the other delights. Just before me were Sara Larsen, Kevin Killian, Dodie Bellamy ...