Narrow House

M. Magnus's Idylls Show

2011-12-01T09:32:00.001-05:00

HERE

Don't forget to order the book, Idylls for a Bare Stage
(http://twentythreebooks.com )
for its three-part offering: poetry on the page, poetic monologues for the stage, and - through the book's introduction - an old-new theory and practice for Acting and Theatre (with a chewy set of monologues for the actor)...

M. Magnus's book/theatrical piece Idylls for a Bare Stage.

2011-10-21T09:28:00.000-04:00

Triple Launch Party – November 20th, 2011 7pm at The Athenaeum

The D.C. release event takes place on November 20th, and will feature performances of several Idylls and of other relevant works by other authors, plus music, and general celebratory good times.

Enter the Mindscape of

a Sorceress and a Saint, a Horse and a Captive Woman

A Mother feeling her estranged daughter's labor pains

Antigone burying her brother's body

Palamedes (inventor of numbers, alphabets and lighthouses)

and Leda (after the swan)

and more

Featured Actors’ Center performers planned for this evening: Margaret Anthony, Genna Davidson, Carol McCaffrey, Kimberly Mikec, Rachel Morrissey, Paul Morton, Harlie Sponaugle, and Sue Struve.

Musical Guest is Old Songs, with Mark Jickling and Chris Mason - planned for this evening, songs taking us from the art of poetic monologue to the art of poetic insult, their versions of the raunchy and caustic 6th century B.C.E. poet, Hipponax

This is a triple launch: 1), for the book publication of Idylls for a Bare Stage; 2), for the production and presentation of the Idylls, featuring actors from The Actors’ Center of Washington D.C., to be performed in various contexts and venues throughout the next year or so, at least; and 3), for the producing entity, Sui Generis Literary Performing Arts Lab.

The Sui Generis Literary Performing Arts Lab (or, SiGiLPAL) is my in-progress framework for creating approaches to acting the Idylls and developing the Art of the Poetic Monologue, as well as a progression from experiences I had as director of the Yockadot Poetics Theatre Project 2005-2010. As showcase and incubator, Yockadot concentrated on “Poetics Theatre”; SiGiLPAL continues that exploration, adding to it an interest in Poets’ Theatre from whatever traditional or avant-garde sources, plus openness to any poetic or text-centric/language rich performance and theatre pieces by artists working along affinitive lines.

None of this could be possible without The Actors’ Center of Washington D.C. and, for our first event (and perhaps more to come), the Athenaeum and its organization, the Northern Virginia Fine Arts Association.

The show will begin soon after the 7pm arrival time (please see side panel for event details and map - and yes it is 7pm, that "8pm local" note is probably something that will correct itself at Daylight Savings Time); please arrive on time so that you won't miss any of the performances.

Hum Who Hiccup in the Baltimore City Paper

2011-08-18T09:43:00.003-04:00

HERE

Dark Sky Magazine - A Conversation with Adam Robinson

2011-03-14T08:12:00.002-04:00

HERE

Book Release Party for Hum Who Hiccup

2011-03-01T12:56:00.010-05:00

Chris Mason
&
R.M.O’Brien
music by
The Tinklers
&
Microkingdom
__________________________________________________
Red Room*
415 E. 31st St., Balt., MD 21218

Sunday, March 13th, 2011
3pm
$4
*the Red Room is attached to Normals Books and Records

Thank you to Nick Piombino for the shout out - Hum Who Hiccup

2011-02-24T06:23:00.001-05:00

http://nickpiombino.blogspot.com

review of Hum Who Hiccup by Michael Lally

2011-02-24T06:20:00.005-05:00

http://lallysalley.blogspot.com/

See you at AWP!

2011-02-02T07:16:00.001-05:00

M. Magnus's poems in Literature: An Introduction to Reading and Writing

2011-01-31T08:31:00.002-05:00

Narrow House is very excited to announce that M. Magnus's poems are published in Literature: An Introduction to Reading and Writing. These poems first appeared in Verb Sap (Narrow House 2008). More here.

LITERATURE PARTY

2011-01-31T07:19:00.001-05:00

Friday February 4, 2011

9:30pm @ The Black Cat

with literature from

Amelia Gray
Tao Lin
Patrick Somerville

party by

DJ lil'e
Melissa Broder's Literary Astrological Forecast
Giancarlo DiTrapano's Incredible Physical Strength
Richard Nash's Confessional Booth
Adam Robinson's guitar solo contest

and host

Blake Butler

sponsored by
BOMB Magazine
Cursor/Red Lemonade
Featherproof
HTMLGiant
La Petite Zine
Narrow House
NY Tyrant
Publishing Genius
Small Press Distribution
Submishmash

BUY TICKETS

Lauren Bender, Narrow House'r, in the news

2011-01-20T12:48:00.002-05:00

HERE

Chris Mason - Hum Who Hiccup - review at Pank Magazine

2011-01-20T06:57:00.003-05:00

HERE

We are weeks away from releasing Chris Mason's Hum Who Hiccup

2011-01-12T18:23:00.002-05:00

Indie Lit Roadshow in Baltimore, Sunday, December 12

2010-12-09T08:37:00.005-05:00

Narrow House's nascent Monumental Reading Series teams up with Publishing Genius, jmww and more to host the Baltimore installment of the 11-city Indie Lit Roadshow. The Roadshow is a cross-country celebration bringing together independent bookstores, presses, journals, magazines, and more -- read about it.

In Baltimore, we'll have a one-day pop-up bookshop at the Monumental with readings, a books, gift wrapping, cookies, poker, and general good times.

Time: Open from 11am to 8pm with a set of readings at both 2 and 7 featuring Baltimore writers with the help of our friends from Publishing Genius, Shattered Wig Review, jmww, WORMS, and Normals Books & Records all lend a hand.

Place: 24 East Mount Vernon Place (apartment 4), Baltimore, MD

Readers:
2pm

Eric Amling
John Woods
Laura van den Berg
Michael Kimball
Rupert Wondolowski
Lauren Bender
Jamie Gaughran-Perez
David NeSmith & Aparna Jonnal

7pm
JMWW
Robert O’Brien
David Kiefaber
Joseph Young
Linda Franklin
Stephanie Barber
Justin Sirois
Dina Kelberman

VOTE for Adam Robison

2010-12-06T12:21:00.001-05:00

We are super proud of Adam Robinson for making it to the final round of the Good Reads Choice Awards. Now he needs to win. Vote HERE!

ORDER HUM WHO HICCUP by CHRIS MASON

2010-10-21T09:47:00.010-04:00

Chris Mason has fabricated a set of visual charms, small and
intense constellations of words that make & do, bounce &
hop, zap & slap. These are dreams of poems more than poems
of dreams, sweet & filled with delight.

Charles Bernstein

Introducing the Monumental Reading Series

2010-10-11T07:34:00.004-04:00

We hope you'll join us for the new Monumental Reading series from Narrow House. This sporadic series kicks off with a slate of readers from Artifice Magazine on their Issue 2 Release Tour.

Wednesday, October 15, 2010
7:30pm - 9pm
24 East Mount Vernon Place, #4

Baltimore, MD

Readings by:
Molly Gaudry
David Blomenberg
Andrew Farkas
M. Kitchell
...and others!

There'll be beer, fun, and friends, but feel free to bring more of all of those things!

P.S. Narrow House's-own Lauren Bender will be reading on the same night, at the same time across town at the Worms reading. The scheduling gods are unkind, I know, but we're sure you'll make it to one even or the other.

Here's the Facebook event for it.

SUNDAY - book pre-order party/show/reading - Chris Mason - HUM WHO HICCUP

2010-09-28T07:21:00.000-04:00

Please join us for a preorder fundraiser October 3, 2010 from 6:00 to 10:00 at The Windup Space with Lurch and Holler, Sweat Pants, and Mason’s band Old Songs, as well as raffles and book previews. HUM WHO HICCUP will be available for preorder at a discounted price.

DIRECTIONS

2/3 of Narrow House reading and maybe Lauren Bender, too

2010-09-08T06:15:00.001-04:00

Molly Gaudry, Jamie Gaughran-Perez, Barry Graham, Jen Michalski, Justin Sirois Kate Wyer, Scott Oliver. At the Red Room, Saturday September 11th, 8pm, directions here

Gently Read Literature on Robinson/Robison

2010-09-03T09:25:00.002-04:00

"When the last ruminants wandered out from Midwestern slaughterhouses to repopulate the scorched fields, one man was there to receive them. That man was Adam Robinson..."

Adam Robi(n)son and the Evolution of One-Handed Piano Compositions: Matt Jasper on Adam Robinson’s Adam Robison and Other Poems

Adam Robinson (Robison) interview on Bookslut

2010-08-02T07:23:00.000-04:00

Here.

Publishing Genius and Narrow House in DC via Barrel House

2010-06-14T09:52:00.006-04:00

Rachel Glaser
Mike Young
Natalie Lyalin
Ric Royer
Adam Robinson

Wonderland Ballroom
Directions here.

Narrow House is 7 - here's a big celebration sale!

2010-06-04T08:20:00.007-04:00

So, Narrow House just turned 7.
To celebrate, if you buy a copy of Adam Robison and Other Poems, you get a total of SEVEN books/CDs including

Adam Robison and Other Poems
Say Poem - Adam Robinson
Fear the Sky - Rod Smith
Women in the Avant Garde
Pictures for Private Devotion - Anselm Berrigan
Surrealism's Bad Rap - Garrett Caples
Verb Sap - M. Magnus

Only 10 available. Ends 6/18/10.

an interview with Adam Robinson

2010-06-03T07:56:00.003-04:00

Overheard: “I didn’t like poetry until I realized that I was in charge of deciding what was ‘good’ and what was ‘bad’, based on what I liked.” Adam Robinson said that.

More here.

Adam Robison / Adam Robinson / Jason Koo / Matvei Yankelevich

2010-06-02T10:14:00.000-04:00

Daren Kagasoff Understands

2010-05-26T22:06:00.001-04:00

photos from Ric Royer's book release

2010-05-17T19:18:00.006-04:00

Ric Royer - She saw Ghosts, He saw Bodies BOOK RELEASE PARTY

2010-05-11T10:01:00.004-04:00

This is your only chance to select your favorite Jackie Milad drawing from the first batch of hand drawn covers. Come out early and reserve your copy!

SUNDAY, MAY 16

7pm

Ric Royer
Adam Robinson
Stephanie Barber

Red Room/Normals Books and Records
425 e. 31st st
Baltimore Maryland

map

Reason #348 to Come to Marfa

2010-05-05T16:23:00.000-04:00

The Narrow House shelf at the wonderful Marfa Book Co.

Adam Robison and Other Poems Review

2010-04-28T07:42:00.003-04:00

On Reading Local: Baltimore

WINNER

2010-04-27T07:04:00.005-04:00

Ric Royer and Narrow House are pleased to announce the winner of the She saw Ghosts, He saw Bodies contest! It is

ADAM GOOD

for this inventive and creepy entree:

The man smashed the kaleidoscope and crammed the pieces into his mouth, chewed them slowly and methodically. He opened his mouth and a pale, shimmering projection of my dead grandfather emerged, floating silently just inches from my face, gesturing for me to take a kaleidoscope from his hand.

The Understanding Campaign t-shirts are in!!

2010-04-26T12:48:00.003-04:00

Very limited edition of the first run.
Smalls and mediums. $18.00

She saw Ghosts - He saw Bodies - CONTEST!

2010-04-14T10:05:00.013-04:00

Can you write the shortest and scariest ghost story ever? Ric Royer wants to know. Because if you can, you're going to win his new book - She saw Ghosts, He saw Bodies. Each limited edition book has a hand-drawn cover by Jackie Milad. That's scary awesome if you ask us. Narrow House will also throw in his other books/projects (There were One & It was Two, Time Machine, the weather not the weather, and more)

Deadline is April 23rd

Post your ghost / scary / terrifying short, short story in the comments section. Shortest and scariest wins. Judged by Ric Royer. No more than 3 entrees per person, please.

Purchase ($15 in the U.S.):

65 pages

Fiction

Ric Royer writes his fictions with the attention to language of a poet and the staging of scene of a playwright. The interplay between syllables and phrasings, between sleep and sex and death, and between he and she creates a new kind of fiction.
Michael Kimball

The Understanding Campaign welcomes Ken Baumann to the staff

2010-04-12T12:44:00.005-04:00

Very proud to have you on board.

understandingcampaign.org

Robinson on Robison (and Kimball) at The Faster Times

2010-04-08T15:02:00.003-04:00

"...[T]here aren’t tidy distinctions. I am always both Robinson and Robison. Sometimes, in a way that is as real as anything else. I am also Kimball. I behave and think differently around you than I do around, say, Mom or Cats."

Read all about it in "I Don’t Actually Mention Michael Jackson: Michael Kimball Interviews Adam Robinson"

off to AWP

2010-04-07T08:29:00.003-04:00

Come by the HTML Giant, Publishing Genius, Narrow House table at AWP. Say hi. Buy me a drink. I'll give you a book. Or a CD. Or both.

Stupid River Prize for Poetry

2010-04-06T09:34:00.002-04:00

I am happy to announce that Adam Robison and Other Poems has won the Stupid River Prize for Poetry, second place, an award for first poetry books. The prize was awarded by Awesome Machine and did not include money, but did come with a handsome plaque:

thank you Ken Baumann (of Sator Press and The Secret Life of the American Teenager)

2010-04-06T07:22:00.001-04:00

Thank you, Ken Baumann for the HTML Giant link:

http://htmlgiant.com/web-hype/understanding-campaign/

some vinatge NH

2010-04-05T07:30:00.003-04:00

2004

2004

Narrow House and the Understanding Campaign

2010-03-30T07:48:00.003-04:00

We're excited to offically annouce The Understanding Campaign! Our goal: to get everyone in the world to read just one word of Arabic. Through true understanding we can break down stereotypes and taboos – our mission is to begin with a single word.

http://www.understandingcampaign.org/

BALTIMORE according to Kate Wyer and Joseph Young

2010-03-23T07:45:00.001-04:00

Hey AWP attendees. Look out for these mini chapbooks.

hey Robison

2010-03-22T07:33:00.000-04:00

Thérèse Bachand, M. Magnus, Joe Ashby Porter - March 20th in Durham NC

2010-03-17T12:38:00.006-04:00

Minor American Presents:

Thérèse Bachand
Magus Magnus
Joe Ashby Porter

MUSICAL PERFORMANCE BY:
Workday/Schoolnight
at
THE SPACE:
8pm:
March 20th
715 Washington Street,
Durham NC
(Free and Open to the Public)

[This Event is Sponsored by Duke English Department's Graduate Reading Groupin Contemporary Poetry]

Thérèse Bachand is the author of luce a cavallo, the winner of a GertrudeStein Award from Green Integer Books. Daughter of the Ephemeral Word isforthcoming from i.e press in 2010. Her work has been anthologized in ThePIP Anthology of World Poetry #5 – Intersections: Innovative Poetry inSouthern California, and published in many journals, including area sneaks,Beyond Baroque, Brooklyn Rail, chain, el pobre mouse, minor american, Mirage#4 Period(ical), Primary Writing,and Tinfish. She works in early childhoodeducation at the UCLA Lab School, located on the UCLA campus.

Magus Magnus' book Verb Sap came out from Narrow House of Baltimore inFall 2008. He is currently working on two projects: The Re-echoes, abook-length streaming poem, and Imposter!: instances, regrets, a hybrid workof poetry, prose-poems, and poetic prose, each of which-in different ways-represents a formal and thematic offshoot from Verb Sap. M. lives and writesin Alexandria, Virginia.

Fiction writer Joe Ashby Porter's books are the novels Eelgrass, ResidentAliens, and The Near Future, and the collections The Kentucky Stories,Lithuania: Short Stories, Touch Wood: Short Stories, and All Aboard:Stories. His awards include two NEA Creative Writing Fellowships, and anAcademy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Literaturewith the commendation, “No writer of his gifted generation has shown greaterdaring, or has earned higher praise.”

Adam Robison book release party for friends

2010-03-12T09:45:00.002-05:00

Friday the 19th
8pm
at

The Narrow House
1 Summerfield Rd
Gwynn Oak, Maryland 21207

BBQ, fire pit, poems, Robison, cats, s'mores, and you.

Bring friends because we are all your friend.

Adam Robinson and Joseph Young at Apostrophe Cast

2010-03-11T13:51:00.001-05:00

tiny Robisons for AWP

2010-03-10T06:35:00.002-05:00

Or if you preorder before April 7th! Free button!

She saw Ghosts - He saw Bodies

2010-03-09T14:08:00.005-05:00

Hand drawn covers by Jackie Milad
1 of 300 limited edition
$15 presale only

Ric Royer writes his fictions with the attention to language of a poet and the staging of scene of a playwright. The interplay between syllables and phrasings, between sleep and sex and death, and between he and she creates a new kind of fiction.

Michael Kimball

yeah - Robison - yeah - AWP 2010

2010-03-04T07:52:00.000-05:00

Yeah, I just ordered 100 Adam Robison 1" buttons for AWP. You buy a Robison at AWP, you get a Robison button. AWP only. Denver. April 7th.

Ric Royer - She saw Ghosts, He saw Bodies coming soon.

2010-03-03T07:20:00.000-05:00

Michael Kelleher Demonstrates One of the Few Ways to Get the Yankees on Narrow House

2010-02-28T21:10:00.004-05:00

From his Flickr stream...

Hope you are doing well out there, sir! And same to everyone else.

New Ric Royer book in the works...

2010-02-25T09:30:00.001-05:00

She saw Ghosts He saw Bodies
Ric Royer

Limited edition of 300
Hand drawn covers by Jackie Milad

Feeling Like Big Kids

2010-02-23T08:37:00.008-05:00

Our first quarterly statement from SPD! That's Small Press Distribution – they have a great biannual catalog you should get – if you don't know them.

Of course we don't feel like big enough kids (a) to understand a lot of what the codes on the statement mean... email to our friends at SPD forthcoming; or (b) to have them owe us money for book sales rather than vice versa (dues and listing fees and such). But this is 2010 and we are turning both those things around.

Bonus points to SPD for the awesome penmanship – making us feel special!

Adam Robison and Other Poems on Good Reads

2010-02-17T11:02:00.002-05:00

ADD IT!

Buy Adam Robison

2010-02-17T08:17:00.010-05:00

[Adam Robinson's] mix of classical and mundane references imbues lines like "There would be a pronounced lack/ Of throwing Nerf balls to paralytics/ In the basement" with more meaning than they have any right to have.

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- Baltimore City Paper

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Reviews (yes):

Emerging Writers Network

Read Local: Baltimore

We Who Are About To Die

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Excerpt (poem):

Curtis Ebbesmeyer, Leading Authority on Flotsam

What’s up with bottled water man

Bottled water is an interesting economy

One at $1.29 or a big case for $3.89

Boy howdy what’s the deal with bottled water

What’s the deal with the trash vortex

Who put all that plastic in the ocean

Dude why’d your uncle put all that plastic in the ocean

What’s up with watered bottles man

Oh crap they got Legos in the ocean

Radial tires ten meters deep and toothbrushes

They got kayaks just floating around nowhere

What the heck happened there

When there are unmanned kayaks floating in the ocean

Is it right do you think that we’re thinking about waste

Why aren’t we thinking “uh oh where’s Bob and Marcia”

“Where’s Bob and Marcia since their honeymoon”

Oh holy wow Curtis Ebbesmeyer is so cool

One time 90,000 Nikes fell off a boat actually

34,000 hockey gloves fell off a boat no joke so

Curtis Ebbesmeyer got all the surfers together

He got all the beachcombers and together they tracked the ocean

Whenever a Nike floated past somebody called him up

Curt put it on a map and that’s how he tracked the ocean

They were all tracking ocean currents with mis-shipped Nikes

You see what I’m saying broham

What’s the deal with bottled water

Sometimes as a whole we’re smart

And sometimes as a whole

We’re going to die in four years

Verb Sap review on Rants Raves Reviews

2010-02-16T08:05:00.001-05:00

"Magnus’ poems are filled with word play, rife with puns and twists, with titles like “Lust We Be Misunderstood” and “Birdman in a No-Fly Zone”. You won’t find much in the way of straightforward narrative, but in their roundabout way, the poems pull together glimpses of the poet who holds the pen."

More.

Baltimore Premiere: 60 Writers, 60 Places

2010-02-03T08:34:00.007-05:00

UPDATED: Moved to Feburary 21 due to a little snow. Same links for info.

7pm on Friday, February 5
Creative Alliance at the Patterson
3134 Eastern Avenue
Baltimore
Ticket info over at the Creative Alliance

Come see the Baltimore premiere of Luca Dipierro and Michael Kimball's 60 Writers / 60 Places -- featuring 60 writers reading in 60 different places for less than a minute each. Many Narrow Housers and friends of Narrow House can be found in the rundown... Justin Sirois, Lauren Bender, Joe Young, Adam Robinson, myself (Jamie Gaughran-Perez), and 55 others the full list of readers is at the Little Burn Films site along with great still shots from the film.

Also showing will be Luca and Michael's film I Will Smash You. You will enjoy both. I swear.

i.e. Reader on Small Press Distrobution

2010-01-29T10:35:00.001-05:00

2010-01-26T07:35:00.001-05:00

RIP David Franks

2010-01-14T14:17:00.003-05:00

on left.

David Franks (as read by David Franks, Lauren Bender and Jamie Gaughran-Perez)
.
Click (or right-click and save), listen, enjoy.

via Rock Heals

i.e. Reader in Radar Redux

2010-01-13T09:45:00.003-05:00

by Alexandra Stevens

i.e. Reader release party

2010-01-05T08:13:00.004-05:00

Goodness! That was one of the best readings I've been to. Seriously. Being in a room of 50+ friends and having a crazy good time, screaming "storm the stage!", book throwing, Tom Orange's sax, meeting new writers, drinking Wild Turkey, trying not to barf - now that's a Baltimore poetry reading. Narrow House thanks everyone for coming out. Thank you Rod Smith for the documentation. More photos to come.

Adam Robinson is a book of poems

2009-12-22T09:46:00.004-05:00

http://www.adamrobisonisabookofpoems.com/

i.e. Release Party Moved to January 2

2009-12-18T22:11:00.004-05:00

The snow has scared us all. We admit it.

The release party will now be held at:
The LOF/t (Load of Fun Theater)
120 W. North Ave.
Baltimore, MD

Saturday, January 2, 8pm

RSVP on Facebook, y'all.

Mark Wallace on the i.e. Reader

2009-12-18T12:57:00.007-05:00

"There are a lot of intriguing poems in the i.e. reader. Like a few other collections and anthologies that focus on a local scene but don’t feature exclusively local writing, the i.e. reader probably makes most sense for people who are part of the area community, or who are aware of the dynamics that make literary communities work, or who have some significant understanding already of directions in contemporary avant work. Yet I’m also going to use the book in a creative writing class this spring because of the impressive range of poetic approaches on display. It doesn’t contain explanatory or contextual material, not that by any means it automatically needs to, but it certainly constitutes a record (although, of course, not even close to a complete one) of what a group of people can do if they decide to work together where they live to make poetry an essential part of an active life that always involves much more than poetry."

More Here.

what the hell?

2009-12-16T13:25:00.002-05:00

There's a contest under that bloody shirt. I swear.

i.e. Reader on Good Reads (add it!)

2009-12-11T09:26:00.001-05:00

Narrow Houses

2009-12-10T09:46:00.001-05:00

future NH headquarters (post MacAuthor)

i.e. Reader release party

2009-11-18T07:42:00.010-05:00

Please join Narrow House and Michael Ball of the i.e. reading series for the launch of the i.e. Reader at Dionysus on Saturday December 19th, 8pm. There will be short sets by the writers (as there are a lot of us) and live music and/or a DJ that will make you thrash/dance until the early morn.

Dionysus
8 E Preston St
Baltimore, MD 21202
(410) 244-1020

2009-11-05T11:06:00.001-05:00

Buy Adam Robison

2009-10-28T11:20:00.010-04:00

.
- Baltimore City Paper

-----------------------------------------

Reviews (yes):

Emerging Writers Network

Read Local: Baltimore

We Who Are About To Die

-----------------------------------------

Excerpt (poem):

Curtis Ebbesmeyer, Leading Authority on Flotsam

What’s up with bottled water man

Bottled water is an interesting economy

One at $1.29 or a big case for $3.89

Boy howdy what’s the deal with bottled water

What’s the deal with the trash vortex

Who put all that plastic in the ocean

Dude why’d your uncle put all that plastic in the ocean

What’s up with watered bottles man

Oh crap they got Legos in the ocean

Radial tires ten meters deep and toothbrushes

They got kayaks just floating around nowhere

What the heck happened there

When there are unmanned kayaks floating in the ocean

Is it right do you think that we’re thinking about waste

Why aren’t we thinking “uh oh where’s Bob and Marcia”

“Where’s Bob and Marcia since their honeymoon”

Oh holy wow Curtis Ebbesmeyer is so cool

One time 90,000 Nikes fell off a boat actually

34,000 hockey gloves fell off a boat no joke so

Curtis Ebbesmeyer got all the surfers together

He got all the beachcombers and together they tracked the ocean

Whenever a Nike floated past somebody called him up

Curt put it on a map and that’s how he tracked the ocean

They were all tracking ocean currents with mis-shipped Nikes

You see what I’m saying broham

What’s the deal with bottled water

Sometimes as a whole we’re smart

And sometimes as a whole

We’re going to die in four years

ie Reader

2009-10-22T07:08:00.006-04:00

.Elena Alexander, Bruce Andrews, Michael Ball, Sandra Beasley, Lauren Bender, Bill Berkson, Charles Bernstein, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Miles Champion, Norma Cole, CA Conrad, Bruce Covey, Tina Darragh, Ben Doller, Sandra Doller, Buck Downs, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, kari edwards, Cathy Eisenhower, Graham Foust, Heather Fuller, Peter Gizzi, Adam Good, Jamie Gaughran-Perez, K. Lorraine Graham, Jessica Grim, P. Inman, Lisa Jarnot, Bonnie Jones, Beth Joselow, Michael Kelleher, Amy King, Doug Lang, Katy Lederer, Reb Livingston, M. Magnus, Tom Mandel, Chris Mason, Kristi Mexwell, Megan McShea, Anna Moschovakis, Gina Myers , Chris Nealon, Mel Nichols, Aldon Nielsen, Tom Orange, Bob Perelman, Simon Pettet, Tom Raworth, Adam Robinson, Phyllis Rosenzweig, Ric Royer, Ken Rumble, Justin Sirois, Rod Smith, Cole Swensen, Maureen Thorson, Chris Toll, Edwin Torres, Les Wade, Rosemarie Waldrop, Ryan Walker, Mark Wallace, Terence Winch, Rupert Wondolowski, John Yau, Geoffrey Young

interview with M. Magnus

2009-10-20T09:36:00.002-04:00

Dialogue's End Interview.
Right here.

M. Magnus in NYC 10/30

2009-10-15T12:41:00.000-04:00

Benson, Bryant, Drysdale, Iijima, M. Magnus & Surani!
with special guest host Julian T. BrolaskiHost

The Stain of Poetry

Friday, October 30, 2009
7:00pm - 9:00pm
Goodbye Blue Monday
1087 Broadway
Brooklyn, NY

so close

2009-10-15T08:32:00.000-04:00

2009-10-13T11:16:00.001-04:00

“The unendurable oppression of the lungs, the stifling fumes from the damp earth, the clinging of the death garments, the rigid embrace of the narrow house, the blackness of the absolute night, the silence like a sea that overwhelms, the unseen but palpable presence of the Conqueror Worm."

~Edgar Allan Poe

Narrow House at the HTML Giant table - AWP

2009-09-24T09:15:00.000-04:00

April 7-10, 2010

In 2010, AWP will bring its annual conference and bookfair back to Denver, Colorado at the Hyatt Regency Denver & the Colorado Convention Center.

Adam Robinson in the Faster Times

2009-09-18T10:59:00.000-04:00

Here.

Anselm Berrigan in Poets & Writers

2009-09-03T07:15:00.002-04:00

Narrow House owes a great deal to Anselm. He's really the one who jump started us in 2003 when he agreed to record a studio album with us. Here's some photos from the recording session at Quad Studios (where 2 Pac got shot in the balls) and the 96 channel solid state logic sl 9000 j series mixer that we only use one channel on. Thanks also go to Chris Coady for his expertise and generosity and to the fabulous Ryan Schneider for keeping us company.

Adam Robinson interview Inside Higher Ed

2009-08-12T06:58:00.000-04:00

Here.

about... to hit... print

2009-08-10T14:10:00.000-04:00

Dogzplot Reading in Atlantic City w/ all of Narrow House

2009-07-29T13:50:00.000-04:00

FRIDAY JULY 31, 2009

IRISH PUB - 10PM - 12AM

Mary Miller

Elizabeth Ellen

Andrea Kneeland

Kate Wyer

Barry Graham

SATURDAY AUGUST 1, 2009

BOARDWALK PAVILLION

(next to bally's - across from memorial)

Kevin Michaels

Timothy Gager

Robert Lopez

Lauren Bender

Joe Salvatore

Timmy Waldron

Jamie Gaughran-Perez

Scott McClanahan

Justin Sirois

Jackie Corley

SUNDAY AUGUST 2, 2009

(tentative)

Curtis Smith

Randall Brown

Amanda Nazario

Lydia Copeland

Erin Pringle

Lane Falcon

More info here:

LINK.

Adam Robinson Interviewed on Dogzplot

2009-07-09T08:04:00.001-04:00

"I’m actually getting tired of drinking! Finally! Well, maybe not really. But for the purposes of this answer I am, so I would invite my best friends from every stage of my life and see if we still clicked. We’d, um, we’d stay up really late, like till 2am, and talk about the story “Teddy” by JD Salinger."

More here.

Verb Sap review by J. A. Tyler

2009-07-01T07:10:00.001-04:00

"Verb Sap by Magus Magnus is a weighty, head-game of a book. Poetry built on stilts and walking off cliffs, this is not a collection to read lightly or quickly, it requires stamina and concentration, a keen focus to its ins and outs, an eye toward its perpetual philosophical musings..."

More.

ie Reader now avaialble for pre order

2009-06-04T07:53:00.001-04:00

HOW AWESOME IS THIS? The book will be a bit thicker than the photo above - it's just a mock-up.

154 pages

with

Elena Alexander, Bruce Andrews, Michael Ball, Sandra Beasley, Lauren Bender, Bill Berkson, Charles Bernstein, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Miles Champion, Norma Cole, CA Conrad, Bruce Covey, Tina Darragh, Ben Doller, Sandra Doller, Buck Downs, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, kari edwards, Cathy Eisenhower, Graham Foust, Heather Fuller, Peter Gizzi, Adam Good, Jamie Gaughran-Perez, K. Lorraine Graham, Jessica Grim, P. Inman, Lisa Jarnot, Bonnie Jones, Beth Joselow, Michael Kelleher, Amy King, Doug Lang, Katy Lederer, Reb Livingston, M. Magnus, Tom Mandel, Chris Mason, Kristi Mexwell, Megan McShea, Anna Moschovakis, Gina Myers , Chris Nealon, Mel Nichols, Aldon Nielsen, Tom Orange, Bob Perelman, Simon Pettet, Tom Raworth, Adam Robinson, Phyllis Rosenzweig, Ric Royer, Ken Rumble, Justin Sirois, Rod Smith, Cole Swensen, Maureen Thorson, Chris Toll, Edwin Torres, Les Wade, Rosemarie Waldrop, Ryan Walker, Mark Wallace, Terence Winch, Rupert Wondolowski, John Yau, Geoffrey Young

Metro Mix

2009-06-02T12:55:00.002-04:00

Apparently Narrow House is cool enough to be included into Metro Mix's survey of Baltimore record labels. Well, we do put out some recordings once and a while. This is kinda awesome:

Metro Mix Link

JGP and BC

2009-05-18T09:06:00.001-04:00

"I'm diggin' those girlie socks you have on."

"Thank you, Mister President."

Justin and Jamie on Marfa Public Radio at 12 Central Time

2009-05-02T10:05:00.000-04:00

Leading up to a reading at the Marfa Book Company tonight, Justin Sirois and Jamie Gaughran-Perez will be on the local NPR station in a few hours (12noon Central; 1pm Eastern; like anyone in Mountain or Pacific cares) gabbing about Narrow House, reading a thing or two, and missing Lauren Bender muchly.

You can even listen to it online (I think): http://www.marfapublicradio.org/

Narrow House reads in Marfa 5-1-09

2009-04-22T08:19:00.001-04:00

Jamie Gaughran-Perez, Lauren Bender, and Justin Sirois with music by Ross and Joe Cashiola at the Marfa bookstore on 5-1-09. Midnight. So that's actually 5-2-09. Yeah. .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marfa,_Texas

Verb Sap Now Available Through SPD

2009-04-17T14:13:00.001-04:00

Where now = something like five days from today when the copies we mail them get there.
Verb Sap by M. Magus at SPD

Narrow House ist legit. So is M.

This Blog Is Not Just About Adam Robinson

2009-04-17T14:08:00.000-04:00

But he is a busy beaver...

Read about his great outdoor literary journal Is Reads over at Poets & Writers. (That photo is from Adam, too.)

And then get out to his new play, Time Machine (well the latest installment of Time Machine that may or may not be Ric Royer's) at LOF/T in Baltimore.

Do more. Do more often.

via Adam

2009-04-16T00:15:00.000-04:00

in a dream that loved one's face meets mine
the house is narrow, the place is bleak.

Robert Browning

More Awesome From Adam Robinson

2009-03-11T13:06:00.001-04:00

Courtesy of Adam Robinson's official videographer, Michael Kimball. Can you be a serious poet without an official videographer?

I advise that you buy the first edition of Adam Robison and Other Poems, because the second edition is going to look like a mess after we add the foil seals for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer and the Pushcart and the Nobel Prize. You won't even be able to see the dope cover through all that shiny-shiny.

This post was not funded by all the money I took from Adam and Michael at poker last Friday. I used that for other stuff.

Somewhere in America, Adam Robinson Is Writing the Book That Will Change Your Life

2009-02-26T09:34:00.001-05:00

OK, so by somewhere we mean Baltimore and by writing we mean taking a smoke break. But, over the weekend Michael Kimball captured this preview of what is to come in Adam's forthcoming first full-length book Adam Robison and Other Poems -- out this Summer from Narrow House.

And read this stirring account of the night the video was made as Baltimore showed HTML GIANT what's up. Thanks for the shout out, yo!

Justin wanted it noted that Jamie wrote this post, but then he dicked around with it and now the site thinks Justin wrote it.

coming soon - the ie series reader

2009-02-25T09:51:00.000-05:00

A collection of new poems from ie series poets (2005-2009)

Perfect bound

6x9

156 pages

http://ieseries.wordpress.com/

Elena Alexander, Bruce Andrews, Michael Ball, Sandra Beassley, Lauren Bender, Bill Berkson, Charles Bernstein, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Miles Champion, Norma Cole, CA Conrad, Bruce Covey, Tina Darragh, Ben Doller, Sandra Doller, Buck Downs, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, kari edwards, Cathy Eisenhower, Graham Foust, Heather Fuller, Peter Gizzi, Adam Good, Jamie Gaughran-Perez, K. Lorraine Graham, Jessica Grim, P. Inman, Lisa Jarnot, Bonnie Jones, Beth Joselow, Michael Kelleher, Amy King, Doug Lang, Katy Lederer, Reb Livingston, M. Magnus, Tina Mandel, Chris Mason, Kristi Mexwell, Megan McShea, Anna Moschovakis, Gina Myers , Chris Nealon, Mel Nichols, Aldon Nielsen, Tom Orange, Bob Perelman, Simon Pettet, Tom Raworth, Adam Robinson, Phyllis Rosenzweig, Ric Royer, Ken Rumble, Justin Sirois, Rod Smith, Cole Swensen, Maureen Thorson, Chris Toll, Edwin Torres, Les Wade, Rosemarie Waldrop, Ryan Walker, Mark Wallace, Terence Winch, Rupert Wondolowski, John Yau, Geoffrey Young

M. Magnus - Verb Sap

2009-02-25T09:09:00.000-05:00

Magus Magnus - Verb Sap
2008
ISBN 10: 0-9793901-1-7
ISBN 13: 978-0-9793901-1-1
Library of Congress Number: 9780979390111

Word to the wise: read this love letter to what language can do foryou. M. Magnus' Verb Sap taps the very blood of language — the textures here get at the many-fingered roots, the "crossweave fabric"of rhizomatic namings that thrust ever outward, always "by way of a word." here, the "Elfic D'oracle" signifies how a "single word canchange your life."

Lee Ann Brown

Reminiscent of 20th Century Russian absurdist poetry, with its wild wordplay and philosophic underpinning, Verb Sap's 13 th hour ruminations, break-of-day transpositions, and in-your-face midday tagging, make it irresistible work-a-day sneak reading. This book has a skewed rational or disorderly relationship to American Daily Life. It is itself a life-form — for the gobbling. Me, I broke it down by way of post-industrial nucleotides. To great effect.

Rodrigo Toscano

Verb Sap is smart, funny and absorbing — makes you want to move around, read it out, a strange kind of aural knowledge. Magnus' writing calls up the familiar, even the absurd, and twists every observation or overheard fragment into a play of sustained revelations.

Thalia Field

Magus Magnus lives and writesin Alexandria, Virginia.

Ric Royer - There Were One and It Was Two

2009-02-25T09:08:00.001-05:00

(nh7

2007

A book that you can hear, a cd that you can read. "There Were One..." uses items borrowed from The Doubles Museum, curated by Canadian artists Jill Millings and Dr. Armand Rudge, to examine the double in its uncanny manifestations. Learn about Klaus the Two-Person, hear the lonely cries of lovers afraid of loving, feel the mist of the mysterious Gemini Fountain. Includes a booklet and cd designed to be read/listened to simultaneously.

1- "There Were One..."; Visiting relevant exhibits at the Museum of Unnatural History in Zürich, 1998.

2- "Introduction to the Museum"; Long electronic phase doubling with field recordings from Buffalo, Montreal, and Calgary.

3- "Obsidian"; Music composed for four Obsidian drills.

4- "The Two-Headed Nickel"; Selective application of the Ives-Stillwell time dilation effect to the signal. Thanks to Kate Porter for cello performance in Venice, Italy.

5- "Rural Autumn Interlude"; Mobile permutations of mirror-state material.

6- "The Bloomfield Coincidence"; All of the instruments of the modern studio perform a palindromic piece, "The Way of The World,"filtered through themselves both forward and backward.

7- "The Twins"; Sounds made with the Aleatron (an instrument invented by Q.R. Ghazala), with an application of "Berndt Delay Convolution" to the voice.

8- "The Redivider Box"; Both halves of the audio were designed around the inflection of a single pause in the middle of the text.

9- "Vera the Cats"; Sub-audible discourse streams amplified with special quack equipment.

10- "The Mountain and The Universe"; Ric Royer in duet with self, with the assistance of a ventriloquist dummy and a multi-speed tape recorder.

Ric Royer is a writer, performer and performer of writing. He tours regularly as a performance lecturer for the Performance Thanatology Research Society, a group dedicated to the advancement of higher histrionics since 1999. He is also a founding editor of Ferrum Wheel, an organizing member of the Transmodern Festival, and a frequent performer with Bufffluxus.

John Berndt, born 1967. Continuously develops his non-reductionistic sensibility in relation to thought and experience, interacting in a subversive and culturally straining way with major referencepoints such as philosophy, music, light, economy, and language. Seeks coherent novelty. Grew up as a member of the cultural vanguard of the West and today seeks benevolence without compromise as he attempts to recover from that experience. Becoming, not being.

Dowload SUCCESS! (PDF)

2009-02-25T09:07:00.000-05:00

download web PDF (1.5 MB)
download print PDF (5.7 MB)

featuring

David Baratier, Jeffery Beam, John M. Bennett, John Berndt, Dan Breen, David-Baptiste Chirot, Mark Dickinson, Adam Good, Diana Bellessi translated by Cathy Eisenhower, Raymond Farr, Jamie Gaughran-Perez, Amira Hanafi, Jeff Harrison, Amy King, Richard Kostelanetz, M. Magnus, Megan McShea (with John Eaton), a.e.m., Tom Orange, Ross Priddle, Ric Royer, Cole Swenson, Chris Toll, Justin Sirois, Irving Weiss

Rod Smith - Fear the Sky

2009-02-25T09:06:00.000-05:00

(nh5
2005

1- Snips (8:03)
3- Identity is the Cause of Warts (2:03)
4- The Spider Poems (9:15)
7- Homage to Homage to Creeley (4:40)
12- A Grammar Manikin (5:50)
13- Ted's Head (1:44)
14- the love that is truly a refuge for all living things
15- Farlow (1:09)
16- All of It’s Gone to Moneyland (w/ Alexandra Smith) (0:23)
17- Sweet Sweet Sweet Sweet Sweet Dirt. Susie Asado. (0:45)
18- The Classics (5:12)
24- Clothes Shaver Plus (1:46)
25- Disgusted Optimistic Lyric Language Poem (0:56)
26- Love Poems (6:01)
29- The Strength (0:41)
30- The Narrative Quiescence (3:32)
31- The Good House (16:15)

"...at just under 71 minutes a full length recording with production values that would make an indie band weep with envy. Smith is the perfect poet for such a project, as he has the most active ear of any writer of his generation & he’s a great – if decidedly deadpan – reader of his own work. Listening to this recording feels like it takes 20 minutes & one is totally engrossed the entire time, as Smith demonstrates a range of affect far wider than I’ve heard from him before..."
Ron Silliman

“the Rod Smith CD really shows how much this medium aurally illuminates the voice, renders a space for the voice, scopes out a multidimensional use of the voice (voice, in every aspect of the term, itself an essential poetic medium)... developing phenomenologically another layer of poetic experience, beyond poetry on the page and poetry during readings, to poetry through the mic intimately, the voice raised to its own power... cool stuff... “
M. Magnus

Joseph Cashiola - Lips of the Cheribum (PDF)

2009-02-25T08:45:00.000-05:00

download web PDF with sound (13.1 MB)
download print PDF (14.5 MB)

2008

K. Lorraine Graham - Moving Walkways

2009-02-25T07:41:00.000-05:00

K. Lorraine Graham - Moving Walkways

(chapdisc A

2007
edition of 100
SOLD OUT

1. Demons Arrive
2. From* It does not go back
22. From* Terminal Humming
30. From* Some Epistles
31. From* Dear [Blank] I Believe in Other Worlds
32. From* And so for you there is no heartbreak
34. (after Frank O'Hara)

Gratitude and love to/for the poet folk of DC and Baltimore. Text versions of these pieces appeared in Mirage#4/Periodical, Submodern Fiction, the DCPoetry.com online anthology, and Rock Heals. it does not go back was originally a Subpoetics Self Publish or Perish project written in response to the 2001 Rand McNally Road Atlas of North America and Mexico. Dear [Blank] I Believe in Other Worlds was published as a pamphlet in 2003 by Phylum Press.Terminal Humming is a 2004 chapbook available from Slack Buddha. Klorraine@gmail.com