Steve Roggenbuck & Friends reading at STADIUM

 (pic courtesy of Liz Maney)

"Steve Roggenbuck & Friends" reading at STADIUM. A multimedia/poetry event in NYC, June 15, 2012.

The other readers of the evening were the incomparable Steve Roggenbuck, James LaMarre, and Hilary Gardiner.

Greg Santos and Steve Roggenbuck. Poetry bros forevs.

The recording of the reading can be found HERE. My reading starts at 32:15.

Thanks again Steve. Word to James and Hilary, too.

Hugs all around,
G

Steve Roggenbuck & Friends Reading in NYC, June 15

I'm gonna be reading with Steve Roggenbuck & Friends this Friday, June 15th in NYC.

Here's the Facebook event page. Can't make it IRL? It's also gonna be streamed live HERE.

Gotta go get ma poet face on. Wheee!

G

A Face to Meet the Faces: New York Launch

HEY, NEW YORK! HULK TAKE BREAK FROM AVENGERS TO READ POEM TONIGHT @ THE CORNELIA STREET CAFE! UGH!

Tuesday, May 15, 2012, 6:00pm
Cornelia Street Cafe
29 Cornelia Street New York, NY 10014

Join us for a celebration of the very first anthology of persona poetry. This book release party celebrates the launch of A Face to Meet the Faces, which features poems in voices of characters ranging from mythology to tabloids to pop culture and everything in between.

Featured poets include Eduardo C. Corral, Matthew Thorburn, Tara Betts, Evie Shockley, Jason Koo, Greg Santos, Greg Pardlo, Jacqueline Jones LaMon, Maria Terrone, Jee Leong Koh, Matthew Hittinger, Leigh Phillips, Khadijah Queen, R. A. Vilanueva, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, and editor and emcee Stacey Lynn Brown.

admission: $7.00 includes a drink

BY SUBWAY:
A, B, C, D, E, F, and M to West 4th St. or 1 to Christopher St.-Sheridan Square.

The Incredible Hulk is Back, Babay!

The Incredible Hulk and the rest of The Avengers are making their way to the big screen today.

Hulk happy!

In honour of Hulk's triumphant return to the big screen, I'm reposting this reading of my poem, "Hulk Smash!" Stay tuned at the 6:38 minute mark and enjoy. If you haven't seen the above video, please do check it out. It features students from SIUE (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville) perfoming readings from A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poetry.

And in more Hulk goodness, I'll be a featured reader at the New York launch of A Face to Meet the Faces on Tuesday, May 15th at the Cornelia Street Cafe. If you're going to be in NYC, please come out and say hi. Hulk will smash. Say hi back.

A Face to Meet the Faces: A Reading of Persona Poetry

Stacey Lynn Brown, host
Cornelia Street Cafe
29 Cornelia Street, New York, NY
Tuesday, May 15 - 6:00pm

Join us for a celebration of the very first anthology of persona poetry. This book release party celebrates the launch of A Face to Meet the Faces, which features poems in voices of characters ranging from mythology to tabloids to pop culture and everything in between. Featured poets include Matthew Thorburn, Tata Betts, Evie Shockley, Jason Koo, Greg Santos, Greg Pardlo, Jacqueline Jones LaMon, Maria Terrone, Jee Leong Koh, Matthew Hittinger, Leigh Phillips, Khadijah Queen, R. A. Villanueva, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, and editor and emcee Stacey Lynn Brown.

$7.00 includes a drink

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A Face to Meet the Faces Website

The website for A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poetry is now up and running.

Please check it out HERE.

Don't forget to check out their Calendar of Events for upcoming readings featuring contributors to the anthology at a location near you.

I'm gonna be at the AWP launch in Chicago on March 1st and will be a featured reader for the New York launch on May 15th at the Cornelia St. Cafe. Mark your calendars, it's gonna be epic!

Thanks for reading.

G

EARSHOT! Featuring Santos and Rohrer

Hey, People of New York,

Please come to this reading on January 19th for the EARSHOT! reading series. I will be the featured reader along with Matt L. Rohrer.

Please come out to say hello. I will be launching my new chapbook, Tweet Tweet Tweet (Corrupt Press, 2011), and reading selections from The Emperor's Sofa (DC Books, 2010).

Check out the EARSHOT! Facebook event page HERE.

Hope to see you there.

G

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EARSHOT!

Thursday, January 19th at 7:30 PM
@ Lolita Bar
Admission: $5 + FREE DRINK!

Featuring:
GREG SANTOS
MATT L. ROHRER
Robert Balun (City College)
Alanna Wray (Hunter College)
Ansley Moon (New School)

Join us on Thursday, January 19th at 7:30pm, at Lolita Bar on the Lower East Side, for excellent readings by featured readers, GREG SANTOS and MATT L. ROHRER. They'll be joined by three talented MFA students, Robert Balun (City College ), Alanna Wray (Hunter College), and Ansley Moon (New School)

The cost of an evening full of riches is just five bucks, which gets you a FREE drink!
LOLITA BAR is located at 266 Broome Street in NYC, between Allen and Orchard. Visit their website for directions: lolitarbar.net

EARSHOT is a bi-monthly reading series, dedicated to featuring new and emerging literary talent in the NYC area. Visit earshotnyc.com for more information or email at earshotnyc@gmail.com.

100 Thousand Poets for Change - New York

100 Thousand Poets for Change is happening tomorrow (September 24, 2011) across the USA and around the world.

Watch out, NYC, I'm gonna check this event out and wish Steve Dalachinsky a happy 65th birthday.

Hope to see you there.

G

IRL Poetry Tour Photos and Poetry by Emily Dickinson

1) If you haven't seen them, HERE are some photos from the IRL Poetry Tour kickoff that happened on August 6th that featured myself, Steve Roggenbuck, Poncho Peligroso, Mike Bushnell, Guillaume Morrissette, and a whole slew of awesome poets. Thanks to the peeps at We Who Are About To Die for the coverage. If you click through them you can see my plaiderrific self (I think Poncho and I shop at the same plaid store...) as well as a nice shot of The Emperor's Sofa.

2) Speaking of Roggenbuck, Steve-o has launched his Poetry by Emily Dickinson website. Please check it out HERE.

I submitted some tweets a few months back and they've been remixed into a collaborative poem titled "Tonight We Dine On Salad". Please check it out HERE.

Interested in participating? Here's some more info:

Today is the launch of the website Poetry by Emily Dickinson, a collaborative project to steal Google traffic from a dead writer & redirect it to living writers collaborating online. You can participate in 3 ways:

1. Tweet lines of poetry including the tag “#poetrybyemilydickinson.”

2. Remix/combine people’s tweets into longer texts and submit them to poetrybyemilydickinson.com/submit

3. Link the phrase “poetry by emily dickinson” to this website, poetrybyemilydickinson.com, so it gradually rises in search results.

You can also follow Poetry by Emily Dickinson on Twitter. Thank you very much. Get in my <3.

(Source: livemylief)

OK. Thanks for reading.

G

Greg Santos Reading With Steve Roggenbuck & Poncho Peligroso

People of Brooklyn, I will be joining the epic lineup of Poncho Peligroso and Steve Roggenbuck's New York kick-off of their IRL poetry tour on August 6th:

Ryan Schuyler Shephard's roof (and streaming on Ustream)

345 Eldert Street

Brooklyn, NY

Saturday, August 6, 2011 @ 8:00pm-11:00pm

Please come out and say hello.

For more info please check out the Facebook event page HERE.

The reading will also be streamed online live for those of you who can't make it in person HERE.

Yay! But stay tuned, I have more stuff to announce over the next couple of days...

G

Epistle to New York

I remember having bad vegetable dumplings with Ben, Alina, Lia, Lauren, and Mollye. The place looked like a rectangle. From the windows it seemed like they only sold trays and cups.

I remember Alina bicycling into a crowd of people, her blue blouse flapping in the crisp autumn evening before disappearing.

I remember walking back from Café Loup with Ben and grabbing cheese fries and hot dogs at Papaya Dog.

I remember going to Papaya Dog one night and being completely flabbergasted by an angry guy who was upset because they wouldn’t let his girlfriend use the restroom and he told the African American cook behind the counter to “Go back to Africa.”

I remember walking by either beautiful people or the raging mad.

I remember we went to the bad dumpling place because someone outside said “It’s good. Really good.” And we believed him.

I remember talking about how bad it was to eat greasy late-night snacks, yet still doing it.

I remember having strong coffee and soy milk while sitting cross-legged on Ben’s apartment floor.

I remember Ben asking me to buy him some rice crackers and being worried I bought the wrong kind and at the same corner store being asked if I was from India.

I remember hearing sounds coming from one of the apartments near Ben’s and him saying, “I’m not sure if she’s masturbating or is just crazy.”

I remember having pastrami on rye with Ben at Katz’s Deli and feeling both at home and homesick for Schwartz’s Montreal smoked meat.

Greg Santos

Paris, France

November 22, 2010

Early June Roundup of Stuff starring Orange Alert, Mirov, Cha, Swift, Sze, & Ticker Text

1) My poem "I Am Okay" published in Word Riot made 'The Watch List' on Orange Alert.

Thanks, Jason Behrends.

2) Ben Mirov's awesome book, Ghost Machine, is reviewed at elimae. Please check it out here.

3) The newest issue of Cha: An Asian Literary Journal is now online. It features a lovely poem by Todd Swift.

If you haven't read it yet, please check out my 3-part interview with Todd Swift up at The Best American Poetry Blog here, here, and here.

4) Gillian Sze (author of Fish Bones) has made forty homemade magnets with her poems on them and strewn them about New York. If you're in NYC, try to find Sze's poems while you still can.

5) Poems are going head-to-head with stock quotes on the stock ticker in the John Molson School of Business in Montreal for the Ticker Text Project.

Please check out a short vid featuring a brief clip of the ticker here. Oh, and my dapper editor, Jason Camlot.

Thanks fer reading.

G

The Best American Poetry 2009 Launch

The Best American Poetry 2009
Gala Launch Reading
September 24, 7pm
@ The New School, 66 W. 12th Street

Join series editor David Lehman as he introduces an all-star line up of the following contributors of this year's volume, chosen by guest editor David Wagoner: John Ashbery, Mark Bibbins, Suzanne Cleary, Billy Collins, Jim Cummins, Mark Doty, Margaret Gibson, Douglas Goetsch, Michael Grabell, Dolores Hayden. Jennifer Michael Hecht reading Sarah Hannah's "The Safe House," Richard Howard. Tina Kelley, Philip Levine, Phillis Levin, Susan Blackwell Ramsay, James Richardson, Martha Silano, Mitch Sisskind, Craig Morgan Teicher, and Matthew Zapruder.

Woweewow. Now that's a lineup! I got a review copy of BAP 2009 in the mail and will be giving my two-cents about this year's anthology soon.

In the meantime, here are a couple of reviews of BAP 2009.

Happy poeticizing,

G

Poetry Brothel in the NY Post

The New York Post has done a photo spread and a video feature on The Poetry Brothel.

The next web issue of pax americana is going to be guest-edited by Poetry Brothel founders, The Madame (Stephanie Berger) and Tennessee Pink (Nicholas Adamski).

Reading @ Brooklyn College Reading Series

I have a reading today at The Brooklyn College Reading Series.

It takes place at 169 Bar (169 East Broadway, NYC) Sunday, April 26, 6:30pm.

Fun Fact: They just filmed an episode for season 2 of Flight of the Conchords here!

Here's the lineup:

Noah Grossman
Greg Santos
Christina Olivares
Ken Walker
Yun Wei
Tim Carroll
Rosie Misdary
Abba Belgrave

I dare ya to show up.

B.C. Edwards is the reigning Literary Death Match Champ!

B.C. Edwards (pax americana's very own Prose Editor) took on all-comers and defeated the likes of Heidi Julavits and Cheryl Wagner to become the new reigning Literary Death Match champ! Congrats, Carter!

Deemed the unluckiest Literary Death Match of them all, NYC Ep. 13 was anything but. A steamy and stuffed Pianos was the site of a literary night of festive genius, in which B.C. Edwards won a fierce final battle of “Baseball Chopstick War” against co-finalist Cheryl Wagner by a final tally of 6-3. Edwards’ chopstick talents etched his name into the annals of LDM history.

Check out the full coverage of last night's craziness here.

Pax Readings Galore!

Myself, and the other two editors of pax americana (Ben Mirov and B.C. Edwards) have some readings coming up. Come check us out if you're in the neighborhood.

READINGS

Ben Mirov (pax americana Editor-in-chief)
is reading at KGB Bar (85 East 4th Street, NYC) this Wednesday, April 22nd @ 7:00pm. Also featuring Brandon Johnson, Matt Everett, and Minju Pak.

http://kgbbar.com/calendar/events/book_launch_for_jamie_cat_callans_french_women_dont_sleep_alone/

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B.C. Edwards (pax americana Prose Editor)
is reading at Opium's Literary Death Match at Pianos in the Lower East Side (158 Ludlow Street, NYC) this Thursday, April 23rd @ 7:30pm. Doors open @ 6:30pm. The lineup also features Heidi Julavits, Cheryl Wagner, and Amy Lawless. With hosts Todd Zuniga and Erin Hosier. Guest judges include Scott Adsit (30 Rock), Richard Lawson (Gawker) and Anna deVries (Scribner).

http://www.literarydeathmatch.com/Literary_Death_Match/LDM.htm

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Greg Santos (pax americana Poetry Editor)
is reading at 169 Bar in the Lower East Side (169 East Broadway, NYC) this upcoming Sunday, April 26th @ 6:30pm. Other readers might include Noah Grossman, Yun Wei, Tim Carroll, Rosie Misdary, and B.C. Edwards (yup, that's our pax americana Prose Editor again!).

http://www.169barnyc.com

Greg is also reading at the Yale McDougal Center (McDougal Center, Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York Street, New Haven, Connecticut) on Monday, April 27th @ 6:00pm. Also featuring New Haven Writers Mark Oppenhiemer, Brian Slattery, Alison Moncrief, Pang-Mei Natasha Chang, Dan Casey, and Bennett Lovett-Graff.

http://www.yale.edu/graduateschool/mcdougal/

Oulipo in New York Toons

Jean-Jacques Poucel, Yale associate French professor and chief organizer of the recent Oulipo in New York festivities was kind enough to send me a link to some pretty rad sketches of the Oulipians by T. Motley from the New School event I attended at the beginning of the month. I think it captured their essence pretty well, no? See more sketches here.

More:

-Here's a lame review from Artforum (the journalist can't seem to get anyone's name straight!) of the otherwise entertaining evening.

-Jacques Roubaud reading some of his work here.

-Oulipo in Drunken Boat.

Oulipo in New York

Although this may be April Fool's Day, this is no joke. At last, The New School, Yale, and Columbia join forces to create an unholy union of, um, Oulipo literary goodness:

The Oulipo, Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle, is a collective of writers and mathematicians founded in 1960 by François Le Lionnais and Raymond Queneau. Since its creation, the Oulipo group explores alternative ways of writing fiction and poetry, by using patterns and constraints often inspired from mathematical models, but always in a playful spirit. Its members include Marcel Bénabou, Anne Garréta, Hervé Le Tellier, Ian Monk, Jacques Roubaud, and American author Harry Mathews, all of whom will be in New York for three days of readings, lectures, writing workshops and book signings.

Some events include:

April 1st, 7-8:30pm

Oulipo reading followed by book signings, in English

The New School, Tishman Auditorium, 66 W 12th Street, NYC - More Info

April 2nd, 12-2pm

Oulip, Nouveaux Sentiers, Nouveaux Chantiers, a roundtable discussion in French

Maison Française of Columbia University, Broadway at West 116th Street, NYC - More info

Cosponsored by the Poet's House, the French Embassy, Columbia University, Yale University, and the New School Writing Program. Oulipo in New York is being held from April 1-4, 2009 at several venues throughout New York City. All events are free and open to the public. For more information on this and other events, please visit www.frenchculture.org.

Poet Takes Vow of Silence

Stavros Lambrakis, a poet friend of mine has decided to take a vow of silence and record his experience on a blog. I bumped into Stavros the other day in New York and I really couldn't figure out why he wasn't saying anything - cause normally he's a pretty chatty cat.

Here's some press on his experiment.

And click here to read about Stavros's philosophy of silence in his own words.

Poetry Brothel Pics

Here are some pics from the December 13th Poetry Brothel: