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Tumblr Peeps—I invite you, your friends & loved ones to the launch of my new volume of poetry, Near Your Mirror Home (Stay On), out now from Poets of Queens. Ive long wanted to publish a book of dream poems, a genre Ive always written in but rarely published. This new volume debuts my ongoing experiment with the short, serial dream poem, and is paired with a long cri against anti AAPI hate, inspired by the poetry of Faye Chiang, Frances Chung, Amiri Baraka, & Jayne Cortez; Matt Reeves’ ‘The Batman’; Christina Noll’s journalism; & the example of NY AG Tish James.

During the launch, I will be joined by Queens authors Pichchenda Bao & Emmy Catedral. As well, attendees will have the opportunity to sign up for and take part in a FREE self defense workshop facilitated by Deena Hadhoud of Malikah, an anti violence organization based in Queens. ✊🏽

Finally, there will be a mini fair after the readings with representatives from local non-profit organizations committed to art & action: Kimberly Powell (@asiansfightinginjustice), Sarinya Srisakul (@angryasianwomxn), Chong Gu (@redcanarysong), Ming Lin (@canal_street_research), & Natalie Bedon (@flushing_town_hall).

Copies of Near Your Mirror Home (Stay On) will be available for purchase at the launch. 👍🏽 For folx unable to attend but would like to order a copy, please click the link on my profile. Thank you for your support of experimental poetry, & I hope you will join us on the 17th! 🙏🏽

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Cover reveal of my forthcoming volume from Astoria-based publisher Poets of Queens. Initially conceived as a two-poem chapbook, I’m thrilled to be sharing new directions in my poetry in a slightly larger capacity with you all next month. Super grateful to chuck kuan for the memorable design, & humbled by editors Olena Jennings & Jared Beloff for publishing such a dream-soaked work. 🙏🏽 Deets to follow about the launch at the World’s Borough Bookshop in Jackson Heights!

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Maraming salamat to ryan cook and Rhoni Blankenhorn for including me in their new series. Excited to see where it leads! 🙏🏽🙌🏽👏🏽❤️🔥

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Thank you, Matvei Yankelevich, for sending me this stunning package of inaugural titles from Winter Editions. A reader of poetry can certainly get used to such a luxuriant spread. 🥳 Looking forward to wrapping up the summer with these books, including by ROBERT DESNOS (trans LEWIS WARSH), RICHARD HELL, EMILY SIMON, & GARTH GRAEPER. Each edition bears the stamp of Matvei’s meticulous editing & impeccable design. Find out more about these titles, & please consider subscribing to the series/season, at wintereditions.net 👍🏽

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Maraming salamat, Big Other Mag, & Phinder Dulai, for the nod & for spending time with my book.

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Today at 3pm! F R E E.

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Mabuhay, ryan patrick cooke + Unnameable Books! Looking forward to sharing the stage with such an exciting group of poets. 🙏🏽❤️💥

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Mabuhay, A Perfect Vacuum, & Judah Rubin for including my new poetry in yr terrific new issue. Check it out here.

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Description: “Paolo Javier leads a close reading of John AshberyOn Thursday, April 6th, 2023, 3–4pm (ET)—Paolo Javier led a thinking-and-reading-through of John Ashbery’s “Riddle Me,” followed by a short reading of his own work.”

Big thanks to Jeffrey Lepdendorf and the Flow Chart Foundation for the opportunity to discuss Mr Ashbery’s terrific poem. 

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Please join us for today's solstice reading of Bernadette Mayer's unforgettable masterpiece Midwinter Day, beginning at 3 PM Eastern Standard Time. Maraming salamat uli to Lee Ann Brown, Tony Torn, and Katy Bohinc of Tender Buttons Press for including me in your collective prayer. Honored to be reading from Part 5 (Evening section) with an amazing group of poets. Please click on the link below to rsvp: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bernadette-mayers-midwinter-day-reading-2022-tickets-488954695657 Donations are still being accepted thru the following link to support Bernadette's Poetry State Forest : https://www.bernadettemayer.com/donate IN LOVING MEMORY OF BERNADETTE

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MARAMING SALAMAT @notadancingbear & @cara_the_org for the immense honor & privilege to contaminate, converse about, launch, & transmit our books with/&/through you at 225 west 13th Street, Mannahatta, on 12/9. Tumblr peeps, join us! For more deets, click here.  

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Oh how I love (lived) Chia-Lun Chang’s Prescribee! Not since my encounters with Gertrude Stein’s Tender Buttons, John Ashbery’s The Tennis Court Oath, and Kamau Brathwaite’s Eleguas have I experienced the power of the (my) multilingual brain thinking out loud, unapologetic, across the pages of a book of poetry in English. This debut endtroduces to American poetry a disorientalist speaker whose accents float against nostalgia and longing for family members; foundering relationships and disrespectful advice; French military fantasy and obscure history; filariasis and naive American boys; creepy male American photographers; and the cold, cold heart of a green- card-denying government. Prescribee desires and laments a (Jan)US America whose “boundaries assimilate”/ “border crosses beef soup” yet also condemns whoever comes here for love (and chooses to remain after) to a struggle “with stacks of papers” “suppressed/shuddered” by “shredders/shelters.” Defiant “{l}ike a song/that has not been hurt,” Chang “lay{s} down” linguistically intricate lyric poetry and prose whose slippages summon the fruit mutations and matadoras of Frances Chung, Hsia Yü, and Sarah Gambito, while thrumming with the registers of the probing traveler of Chen Zhifan’s My America Journal. “Invisionable until//the empire murders itself,” Prescribee stands out for its darkly comic dreaming through the U.S. America, conjured in an “Engli-shhh” whose honey still burns my throat.

- Paolo Javier, author of O.B.B.

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Honored and thrilled to be reading at the brilliant Chia-Lun Chang’s book launch! Hope you can make it, and please do order a copy of Prescribee, Chia-Lun’s groundbreaking and powerful new book of poetry asap. 

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Please check out roof books dot com for more deets about the book, and for ordering info!

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Deeply honored and grateful to Roof Books for publishing this new gathering of paraliterary and experimental poetic forms. Thank you, too, too Jill, Roberto, Will, and Charles for the kind words. 

Book launch on December 9th; deets to follow. 

Meantime, please do order your copy here.  As ever, maraming salamat for your support!

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"experiences with language": Interview with Paolo Javier (Tuesday 11th October 2022). 

It was a delight (in every Brainard-esque sense of the word) to talk with former Queens Poet Laureate, sound poet, and visual artist Paolo Javier, author of the spectacular O.B.B. (Nightboat, 2021), the time at the end of this writing (2004), and Court of the Dragon (2015), as well as the forthcoming True Account of Talking to the 7 in Sunnyside (Roof Books, next month!). Our conversation was about conversations - about discovering New York School writers through reading, through personal connection, through moving in and around the city, through writing; about outsider status, the paraliterary, the not-quite-poem; about 'schools' as places of learning, of discovery, of connection, of experimentation, of the childlike; about Queens, resilience, and the spirit of the New Yorker; about Frantz Fanon, Joe Brainard, Frank Lima; about 'unheard rhythms', comics, collaboration, and collage... You can watch/listen to the interview by clicking the image above, or on our Youtube channel. (Interview by Rona Cran.) If you want to find about more about O.B.B. and the comics inspirations for it, check out this nightboat blog. And if you want more, there's a great interview with Javier here. - Dr. Rona Cran, co-founder of Network for New York School Studies