Entertainments

Cadmium Text Series

2011-10-31T19:27:00.000-07:00

Saturday, November 19, 2011
2pm

The Gallery at R&F Handmade Paints
84 Ten Broeck Avenue
Kingston, NY 12401

w/
Matthew Klane
Kimberly Lyons

&
in the gallery at R&F:
Cat Crotchett's "Strange Currencies"

A $5 donation is suggested.
For directions please visit R&F’s website.

Storm King

2011-09-02T12:28:00.001-07:00

Puget Sound

2011-07-23T16:28:00.000-07:00

Mercy Hospital

2011-07-21T09:26:00.000-07:00

Balloons

2011-07-19T08:39:00.000-07:00

"tink and Scuba"

2011-07-17T22:33:00.000-07:00

"Sophisticated Fuugitive"

2011-07-15T07:37:00.000-07:00

Yes!

2011-07-15T07:24:00.000-07:00

I am now, w/ James Belflower, the co-curator of the Yes! Reading Series in Albany, NY. Send word my way if you're coming thru town.

Washington Park

2011-07-06T16:58:00.000-07:00

new news

2011-02-26T19:27:00.000-08:00

new pubs:

Secret Caves in word for / word #17
from Isle of Wight in Taiga: Issue A

readings upcoming:

March 26th: Red Rover, Chicago w/ Adam Roberts
March 27th: Myopic Books, Chicago
April 20th: Talk Art, Iowa City
June 28th: If Not for Kidnap, Portland

old news

2010-06-22T17:00:00.000-07:00

Friend Delighting the Eloquent in word for / word #15
from Sons and Followers in Absent Magazine #4
from Secret Caves in January's Everyday Genius
Unquiet Youth in Harp & Altar #7

Micheal Peters reviews B in word for / word #15
Deb Poe reviews B in Jacket #40

flim forum press presents aaaaaaaaaalice

Iowa City

2009-08-31T11:16:00.001-07:00

Sons and Followers

2009-06-01T08:37:00.000-07:00

1 of 100 copies

13 lyrics, 2 teaching tools (8.5" x 5.5")
side-stapled
$10

Downpayment
The Plains of Abraham
Dandelions
Sons and Followers
Born Again, Monday Morn
Buy Low, Sell High
Livestock
Beecher's Bible
Exegesis
The Book of Matthew
Bleeding Kansas
The Wrath of the Path
Judgment Day

Teaching Tools: The Olden Days
Teaching Tools: The Golden Rule

To order, send $10 to:
Matthew Klane
32 Joelson Court
Albany, NY 12209

Checks payable to:
Matthew Klane

To query:
klane@flimforum.com

Pete's Big Poetry Series

2009-04-29T05:53:00.000-07:00

Pete's Big Poetry Series
@ Pete's Candy Store
Friday, May 1st
709 Lorimer Street
Brooklyn, NY
7pm

w/ Jared White, Carrie Hunter, & Matthew Klane

Jared White was born in Boston and has lived in Brooklyn for about eight years, near two big bridges. His poems have appeared in previous issues of Barrow Street, Cannibal, Coconut, Harp & Altar, and Word For/Word, among other journals. A chapbook of poems entitled Yellowcake will appear in the upcoming chapbook collection, Narwhal, from Cannibal Books. He maintains an occasional blog, No No Yes No Yes, at jaredswhite.blogspot.com.

Carrie Hunter's chapbook Vorticells was published by Cy Gist Press, and an e-/chapbook Kine(sta)sis was published by Dusie. The Unicorns will be coming out as a chapbook in the Dusie Chapbook Kollectiv year 3, and she has another chapbook forthcoming through House Press' Arrow as Aarow series. She has been published online in Turntable & Blue Light, Dusie, Parcel, and Sous Rature, and in print in Small Town XII, Try! magazine, and Eleven Eleven. She received her MFA/MA in the now defunct Poetics program at New College of California, edits ypolita press, and lives in San Francisco.

Matthew Klane is co-editor/founder of Flim Forum Press, publisher of the anthologies Oh One Arrow (2007) and A Sing Economy (2008). His book is B_____ Meditations from Stockport Flats Press (2008). His latest chapbooks include Friend Delighting the Eloquent, Sorrow Songs, and The- Associated Press. Also see: The Meister-Reich Experiments, a sprawling hypertext, online at www.housepress.org. He currently lives and writes in Albany, NY.

ABOUT THE CURATOR: Sommer Browning writes poems, draws comix and catalogs books in New York City. She has a chapbook of poems, Vale Tudo, with horse less press. Her poems can be found in Forklift, Ohio, word for/word, The New York Quarterly and elsewhere. Visit her online at Asthma Chronicles.

Directions: Take the G to Metropolitan or the L to Lorimer.

Two Readings

2009-04-06T07:08:00.000-07:00

Matthew Klane @ Inescapable Rhythms
Wednesday, April 8
7pm

The Alchemy Juice Bar
201 New Britain Ave
Hartford, CT

The Deep Moat Reading Series
Saturday, April 11
8pm

w/
Heather Christle
Matthew Klane
& Claire Donato

The Pierre Menard Gallery
10 Arrow St.
Cambridge, MA

SOON

2009-03-24T17:18:00.000-07:00

I'm reading in Ithaca, home of Stockport Flats, this Saturday night, March 28th, 6pm, at the Bookery II (DeWitt Mall, 215 N Cayuga St.), courtesy of SOON Productions. I'll be joined on the bill by Cornell poet Avery Slater.

Weekend in Buffalo

2009-03-16T05:59:00.001-07:00

Small Press Poetry Fest
Friday, March 20

Sugar City
19 Wadsworth Street
Buffalo, NY
7:00-12:00

Just Buffalo's Small Press Poetry reading series will host a celebration of small press poetry activity in Buffalo and beyond in advance of the Buffalo Small Press Book Fair. The presses involved are Slack Buddha, House Press, Flim Forum, Lil' Norton, Punch Press, Blazevox, Broke Magazine, Little Scratch Pad, and Bookthug.

Reading for Flim Forum Press, in the 8:00-8:30 slot, will be: Adam Golaski, Jaye Bartell, Jessica Smith, Eric Gelsinger, and Tawrin Baker.

And then...

The 3rd Annual 2009
Buffalo Small Press Book Fair
Saturday, March 21

Karpeles Manuscript Museum
453 Porter Avenue
Buffalo, NY
12pm-6pm

The Buffalo Small Press Book Fair is a regional one day event that brings booksellers, authors, bookmakers, zinesters, small presses, artists, poets, and other cultural workers (and enthusiasts) together in a venue where they can share ideas, showcase their art, and peddle their wares.

Remember this event is FREE and open to the public!

And then...

Electric City Music
Saturday, March 21

Neitzsche's
248 Allen Street
9pm
$3

w/
Line Fatigue (chicago, il)
Eric Unger (chicago, il)
Mock Syringa
Giant Science
Oak Orchard Swamp

Handmade/Homemade

2009-03-05T18:45:00.001-08:00

I have some work in the upcoming exhibit, Handmade/Homemade, curated by Deb Poe and Kate Schapira. I'll also be participating in two readings connected to the event, one at the University of Rhode Island, and the other at Pace University. Here's the info:

@ URI

Wednesday, March 11th
6 pm
URI Feinstein Providence Campus
80 Washington Street
Shepard Building
Under the south stairs

w/
Matthew Klane
Lori Anderson Moseman
Kate Schapira
Janaka Stucky

@ Pace

Thursday, March 12th
6pm
Pace University Westchester
Mortola Library
861 Bedford Road
Pleasantville, NY

w/
Anne Gorrick
Kate Greenstreet
Brenda Iijima
Matthew Klane
Dorothea Lasky
Jill Magi
Lori Anderson Moseman
Kate Schapira

The Exhibit

This mini-exhibition includes handmade, homemade and letterpress chapbooks, one-of-a-kind editions and broadsides. The exhibit takes place the entire month of March in the Mortola Library at Pace University and in the Shepard Building at URI. Participating artists include:

Jennifer Borges Foster
Anne Gorrick
Kate & Max Greenstreet
Jen Hofer
Brenda Iijima
Dorothea Lasky
Matthew Klane
Jill Magi
Lori Anderson Moseman
Kate Schapira
Jessica Smith
Janaka Stucky

Poetry Project / Unnameable Books

2009-02-22T08:39:00.001-08:00

Flim Forum Press + PEACE EVENTS
present

aaaaaaaaaaalice @ Unnameable Books
Saturday, February 28th, 8pm
456 Bergen Street
Brooklyn

Jennifer Karmin (with guest readers Tisa Bryant, Jennifer Firestone, and a few surprises) performing selections from her text-sound composition aaaaaaaaaaalice. There will also be readings by Flim Forum Press editors Matthew Klane and Adam Golaski.

Jennifer Karmin curates the Red Rover Series and is a founding member of the public art group Anti Gravity Surprise. Her multidisciplinary projects have been presented nationally at festivals, artist-run spaces, community centers, and on city streets. She teaches creative writing to immigrants at Truman College and works as a Poet-in-Residence for the Chicago Public Schools. Recent poems are published in Cannot Exist, MoonLit, Otoliths, and the anthologies Come Together: Imagine Peace (Bottom Dog Press), Not A Muse (Haven Books), and The City Visible: Chicago Poetry for the New Century (Cracked Slab Books).

Adam Golaski has some new work in Little Red Leaves, Torpedo, The Lifted Brow, and an anthology of horror stories called Exotic Gothic II. His story "They Look Like Little Girls" won the Supernatural Tales readers' poll--$35! Some of his translation of Sir Gawain & the Green Knight--called "Green"--will be reprinted in the next Drunken Boat "Mistranslation" feature. He edits Flim Forum Press books with Matthew Klane. Adam's review of There Are Birds, by John Taggart, appeared in the January issue of Open Letters Monthly, and has been receiving some very nice attention. His daughter Elizabeth can recite most of the alphabet, loves the letter "W," and is learning how to jump.

Matthew Klane is co-editor/founder of Flim Forum Press, publisher of the anthologies Oh One Arrow (2007) and A Sing Economy (2008). His book is B_____ Meditations from Stockport Flats Press (2008). His latest chapbooks include Friend Delighting the Eloquent, Sorrow Songs, and The- Associated Press. Also see: The Meister-Reich Experiments, a sprawling hypertext, online at www.housepress.org. He currently lives and writes in Albany, NY.

A Sing Economy @ The Poetry Project
Friday, February 27th, 10pm
131 E. 10th Street
NYC
$8 / $7 students & seniors / $5 members

w/
Jennifer Karmin
Thom Donovan
Jessica Smith
Matthew Klane
John Cotter
Adam Golaski
Kate Schapira
Stepanie Strickland
Eric Gelsinger
Deborah Poe

AWP Chicago

2009-02-06T06:52:00.000-08:00

Flim, Coach House, TinFish

AWP Off-Site Event
Thursday February 12th
Links Hall
3435 N. Sheffield, #207
6:30-11:30pm

Flim Forum Press will join Coach House Books and TinFish Press @ AWP afterhours in Chicago. The Flim section of the evening will be 9:30-10:30, and feature readings from Brandon Shimoda, Barrett Gordon, Laura Sims, Harold Abramowitz, Amanda Ackerman, Mathew Timmons, Matthew Klane, and Deborah Poe. The event will conclude w/ a tag team reading open to all.

$5
Drop in anytime. Last entry 10:30pm.

Links Hall will also be hosting AWP events on Friday, February 13th (Red Rover Experiment #26: A Small Press Showcase) and Saturday, February 14th (Performance Ventures).

See you in Chicago!

Metroland

2009-01-23T06:49:00.000-08:00

In this week's Metroland, Josh Potter profiles Albany's small press scene, using our January events @ UAG as brackets, and it's replete w/ comment from the editors. Check it out!

Small Press Poetry @ UAG

2009-01-11T22:30:00.001-08:00

SMALL PRESS POETRY @ UAG
Saturday, January 17th

UAG Gallery
247 Lark Street
2-5pm

The January show "New Beginnings" continues at the Upstate Artists Guild (UAG) Gallery with a poetry reading featuring poets of the Albany Small Press.

Across poetics, aesthetics, and institutional status, contributing presses will include: Flim Forum Press, Fence Books, A.P.D. Press, Anchorite Press, and Albany Poets.

w/ featured readers: Pierre Joris, Rebecca Wolff, Anthony Bernini, Eric Gelsinger, Colie Collen, Thom Francis, and more.

Free to the public. For more information, call (518) 426-3501, or email: klane@flimforum.com.

Small Press Poetry @ UAG

2008-12-28T02:29:00.000-08:00

SMALL PRESS POETRY @ UAG
First Friday, January 2nd

247 Lark Street
6-9pm

The Upstate Artists Guild (UAG) Gallery, as part of their January “New Beginnings” show, will be hosting a Publisher’s Open House for many of the poetry small presses producing books in Albany, NY.

Across poetics, aesthetics, and institutional status, contributing presses will include: Flim Forum Press, Fence Books, A.P.D. Press, Anchorite Press, and Albany Poets.

This will be an opportunity for interested gallery-goers to engage with some of the independent, underground, and/or experimental writing and publishing happening here in Albany today.

The show opens on First Friday, January 2nd, and will last throughout the month. Free to the public. For more information, call (518) 426-3501, or email: klane@flimforum.com.

B

2008-12-04T20:20:00.000-08:00

ISBN 978-0-9819267-2-8
80 pages, 8x9
$16

Specimen Days
re Republic
World Series
Explore Tomorrow Today

Ordering/information
@ Stockport Flats

B_rookline B_ooksmith

2008-11-17T10:44:00.001-08:00

An Evening with Open Letters Monthly
w/ Nicolás Wey Gómez, Matthew Klane, and editor Steve Donoghue

Monday November 24th
7pm
Brookline Booksmith
279 Harvard Street

Open Letters Monthly is a Boston-based online literary journal dedicated to uncompromising criticism and cutting-edge creative writing. Join editor Steve Donoghue and contributors Nicolás Wey Gómez and Matthew Klane for a night of poetry, fiction, and more.

Copies of B will be for sale.

Don't become deaf to the birds in your head

2008-11-16T18:58:00.001-08:00

Do as the old storms tell you

Hooter / Timmy Lionheart
by Eric Gelsinger

...

It's certainly not necessary,
But maybe you'd appreciate and enjoy
Something like an email correspondence

Not just any email correspondence:
An email correspondence
With your self when dreaming.

..

Buy Now or Buy Later

B

2008-11-15T12:08:00.000-08:00

B_____ Meditations
by Matthew Klane
Stockport Flats Press

ISBN 978-0-9819267-2-8
80 pages, 8x9
$16

Specimen Days
re Republic
World Series
Explore Tomorrow Today

Ordering/information
@ Stockport Flats

Flim on Facebook

2008-11-10T10:52:00.000-08:00

Flim Forum Press is now on Facebook - fans take note.

30/30

2008-11-09T20:16:00.000-08:00

I'll be reading from Secret Caves this Wednesday night, alongside the 30/30 All-Stars, the brave troops who poem-ed a day all thru October, in preparation for this New Morning.

Wednesday, November 12th
8pm
The Cantab Lounge
738 Massachusetts Ave
Cambridge, MA

The All-Stars will continue to celebrate, w/ the Jeff Robinson trio, but sans me...

Sunday, November 16th
9pm
The Lizard Lounge
1667 Massachusetts Ave
Cambridge, MA

a flood plain | a mud mess | a press

2008-10-31T12:51:00.000-07:00

Stockport Flats | Meander Scar | Witness Post

Vote Rose Brandon

2008-10-30T20:43:00.000-07:00

1-52

2008-10-29T12:12:00.001-07:00

B_____ Meditations

by Matthew Klane
November 2008
from Stockport Flats

Specimen Days
re Republic
World Series
Explore Tomorrow Today

The Alps

2008-10-17T08:10:00.000-07:00

by Brandon Shimoda

ISBN 978-0-9790888-2-7
144 pages, 7x9
$14 (+ $2 shipping & handling)

or:

Send a check for $16 to:

Flim Forum Press
PO Box 549
Slingerlands, NY 12159

Query: klane at flimforum dot com

"Part elegy, part celebration, Brandon Shimoda’s debut interweaves glimpses of individual lives, fragments of revolution and war, and a bird’s-eye view of the waxing and waning of generations in mapping profound issues of identity and history. Viewed through the lens of his particular family history, Shimoda stations The Alps in an eerily beautiful yet threatening landscape, one entangled, inextricably, with the brutality of human existence. By turns playful, detached, and deeply emotional, the myriad voices of The Alps resonate with a spare and violent beauty."

—Laura Sims

"There are the Alps, standing impossibly high and shining like pieces of the Moon grafted onto Earth. They pour their substance down into the valleys, rewriting the human landscape with passages of ice. The words of Brandon Shimoda’s The Alps also seem to arrive in this way, transfixed by cold cascades of glacial time. Human narratives embedded here are carried great distances across the white space of the page. And while Shimoda’s poetic glaciers may have the power to grind words themselves to rubble, they also serve as windows (symbolized by the empty frames of one section) into a meaning beyond words. Here, frozen records of the past––personal memories, along with the traces of ancestors both literary and familial––are fractured and reassembled according to an ‘unknown intermixture of laws’ (in the words of the British physicist Tyndall, describing glacial structure). Shimoda (citing Tyndall) looks toward the ‘order and beauty’ hidden behind the ‘utter confusion’ of the Real."

—Andrew Joron

"Brandon Shimoda’s The Alps is an exploration across modes of perception and through them, primarily the visual and the intuitive, which encompasses the feeling-out of experience (whether one’s own or others’) as memory, invention, collage, bricolage. A formally interdisciplinary text, The Alps expands the borders around forms of identity and, in one section, confronts the breakdown of language as the medium constitutive of identity.

Shimoda’s is a welcome voice among a new generation, one saturated by images and so compelled, at times, to creatively, renewingly engage and remake them."

—Lisa Fishman

"A scattering, a drowning, a droning, a hoofing; a bombing, a sinking, a plugging, a mapping; a feasting, a birthing, a stitching, a sewing, The Alps is an avalanche inventory ceremony. Part Maximus, part Cremaster, The Alps proceeds across a 'cropping continent"' variously sounding, muffling, digesting, and smoking out histories and voices 'eroding nation-blankness sort of.' If it is true that '[…] there is/no witness//to vanquish/language from the books you know,' The Alps, in its omnivorous, flesh-eating pursuit, invites us at least to banquet with it, to be among the 'self-fertilized/guests, among ghosts' in its vast and nomadic recalibrations performs a dazzling new archeology."

—Anthony Hawley

Valentine's 10/7

2008-09-29T11:59:00.000-07:00

ALBANY POETS PRESENTS
in association w/ Flim Forum + Les Figues Press

Tuesday, October 7th
Valentine's
17 New Scotland Avenue
8pm

featuring

Vanessa Place
Matthew Klane

Vanessa Place is a writer and lawyer, and co-director of Les Figues Press. She is the author of Dies: A Sentence (Les Figues Press), a
50,000-word, one-sentence novella; the post-conceptual novel La Medusa (Fiction Collective 2), and the forthcoming Notes on Conceptualisms (Ugly Duckling Presse), in collaboration with appropriation poet Robert Fitterman, and a nonfiction book, The Guilt Project: Rape and Morality (Other Press). Other work has appeared in other publications, including Western Humanities Review, Northwest Review, Insert Fold Magazine, Greetings #10, 4th Street: A Poetry Bimonthly, Contemporary Literary Criticism, Bookforum, and theextraroom (Ger.). Her collaboration with artist/performer Lamya Regragui will debut at Cent Quatre in Paris/Los Angeles in 2009, and she is collaborating with conceptual artist Stephanie Taylor on the film “Murderous Square Dance at the Spiral Jetty.” Place is a co-founder of Les Figures Press, described by critic Terry Castle as “an elegant vessel for experimental American writing of an extraordinarily assured and ingenious sort.”

Matthew Klane is co-editor and founder of flim forum press, publisher of the experimental poetry anthologies Oh One Arrow and A Sing Economy. His book, B____ Meditations, is forthcoming, this fall, from Stockport Flats Press. His recent chapbooks include Sorrow Songs, Friend Delighting the Eloquent, and The-Associated Press. Also: The Meister-Reich Experiments, an evolving hypertext, online at House Press. Other recent work can be found in The New Chief Tongue and online at Open Letters Monthly and Otoliths. He currently lives and writes in Albany, New York.

$3 suggested donation

ALBANY POETS PRESENTS is Albany Poets’ monthly open mic for poetry, spoken word, and music.

FLIM FORUM PRESS, founded in 2005, is an independent press that provides SPACE to emerging poets working in a variety of experimental modes.

MK Ultra

2008-09-24T13:37:00.001-07:00

HIGHWATERMARK SALO[O]N
Volume 2 Number 1

art by Beat Keerl
poems by Matthew Klane
songs by Doug Rogers

An excerpt from
MK Ultra
by Matthew Klane

To order
or query Highwatermark Salo[o]n

Sorrow Songs

2008-09-15T11:28:00.001-07:00

1 of 100 copies

12 divided plates (8.5"x7")
side-stapled
$10

The Gospel of Loss
Brass Tax
Thurgood Marshall's Grief Insurgency
In on a Ship into Charleston
Reading Ezekiel
Justice
Mall of the Ottomans
Mulatto Kibbutz
The Slums
Deconstruction and Reconstruction
Reading Solomon
Rock Bottom

To order, send $10 to:
Matthew Klane
Flim Forum Press
PO Box 549
Slingerlands, NY 12159

Checks payable to:
Matthew Klane

To query:
klane@flimforum.com

Friend Delighting the Eloquent

2008-09-15T11:18:00.000-07:00

1 of 100 copies

80 poems on
14 plates (8.5"x7")
5 indices
side-stapled w/ dust jacket
$14

"The space element is the basis
for all evolution and dissolution"

Dalai Lama (1391-1474/5)
Dalai Lama (1475-1542)
Dalai Lama (1543-1588)
Dalai Lama (1589-1617)
Dalai Lama (1617-1682)
Dalai Lama (1683-1706)
Dalai Lama (1708-1757)
Dalai Lama (1758-1804)
Dalai Lama (1805/6-1815)
Dalai Lama (1816-1837)
Dalai Lama (1838-1855/6)
Dalai Lama (1856-1875)
Dalai Lama (1876-1933
Dalai Lama (1935-

To order, send $14 to:
Matthew Klane
Flim Forum Press
PO Box 549
Slingerlands, NY 12159

Checks payable to:
Matthew Klane

5 special editions available,
on translucent paper
$50

To query:
klane@flimforum.com

The- Associated Press

2008-09-15T11:08:00.000-07:00

1 of 50 copies
2nd printing

8 plates (8.5"x8.5")
on brown paper
in a brown paper envelope
$10

The- Murdered Nuns
Sex is the- Subtext
The- Other Nicaragua
Shock and Awe
Zones of Control
The- West is History
Erratic Dispatches
The- Fourfold

To order, send $10 to:
Matthew Klane
Flim Forum Press
PO Box 549
Slingerlands, NY 12159

Checks payable to:
Matthew Klane

To query:
klane@flimforum.com

Entertainments

Cadmium Text Series

Storm King

Puget Sound

Mercy Hospital

Balloons

"tink and Scuba"

"Sophisticated Fuugitive"

Yes!

Washington Park

new news

old news

Iowa City

Sons and Followers

Pete's Big Poetry Series

Two Readings

SOON

Weekend in Buffalo

Handmade/Homemade

Poetry Project / Unnameable Books

AWP Chicago

Metroland

Small Press Poetry @ UAG

Small Press Poetry @ UAG

B

B_____rookline B_____ooksmith

Don't become deaf to the birds in your head

B

Flim on Facebook

30/30

a flood plain | a mud mess | a press

Vote Rose Brandon

1-52

The Alps

Valentine's 10/7

MK Ultra

Sorrow Songs

Friend Delighting the Eloquent

The- Associated Press

B_rookline B_ooksmith