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Here is a streaming video of the wonderful night at Butler Library!

Direct Link to the reading media page CLICK HERE:

The Rooftop Poetry Club Presents

Book release party for: Not So Fast Robespierre By Geoffrey Gatza

Featuring readers:
Richard Owens
Mike Sikkema
Geoffrey Gatza

Book release party for: Not So Fast Robespierre By Geoffrey Gatza
http://www.lulu.com/content/1767006

In Not so Fast Robespierre, Buffalo’s Johnny Appleseed of publishing lays out a public and private map of Buffalo’s (and his personal) community. With his selected Western New York School and personal support system in place, he moves onto “The Book of Life”, which, as always, proceeds disaster as Gatza battles through—rightly or wrongly—the “Cataclysm 535″ —Kevin Thurston

First 35 through the door receive free collector’s edition poem – Fantasia Lights

7 pm Wednesday, July 9 2008
Rooftop Garden, Butler Library

Buffalo State College, 1300 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY
http://www.buffalostate.edu/library/rooftop/

The Rooftop Poetry Club was established in June 2005 to provide a creative venue for writers of the Buffalo State College community. Through poetry readings, open-mike events, workshops, and campus wide poetry projects, the club has proven itself an invaluable forum for the campus writing community and an asset to the entire college.

The layout of Butler Library is unique in that it contains a second-floor center courtyard called the “Rooftop Garden.” Those of you who are unfamiliar with rooftop gardens may not appreciate the poetic nature of such a space. But if you’ve ever sat up on a roof— away from the world, yet smack dab in the middle of it all—you can surely see how one might be drawn to read, write, and think in such a space. The rooftop garden is a perfect meeting place for the Rooftop Poetry Club. Simply walk up the center steps of the library to the second floor and look to your left– you’ll see the door leading you out to the rooftop.

Happy Birthday Ringo!

Love, Geoffrey

To commemorate the new Poetry USA logo I put together a nice little handmade poem box for the occasion! Inside a Nat Sherman’s Fantasia Lights cigarette box is a broadside poem Fantasia Lights.

The poem is from the Kenmore series, Vol. 1 under the section, A King In New York. The title of this section is taken from the Charlie Chaplin movie, and deals with my recent whirlwind trip to NYC for AWP.

Since this is a limited series and not everyone can get one, here is a PDF of the poem
Download poem here:

http://www.geoffreygatza.com/fl.pdf

How to get the limited edition in your hand?

Come to my reading is July 9th at the Roof Top poetry series at Buffalo State. OR send me an email and we’ll see what we can’t do!

Lisa Forrest - To The Eves

ArtsBeat: On poet Lisa Forrest’s “To The Eaves” http://buffalonews.typepad.com/artsbeat/2008/06/on-poet-lisa-fo.html

http://www.blazevox.org/bk-lf.htm

Buy it here :

at Amazon.com

Montserrat Review’s Best of Summer 2008

Among other great titles, Grace choose:

When I Said Goodbye by DiDi Menendez. c2008.
BlazeVOX Books. 67 pgs. ISBN: 9781934289860.

http://www.themontserratreview.com/BestoSummer2008.html

http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6564566.html?rssid=192

Jacket 35 reviews are on fire!

http://jacketmagazine.com/35/index.shtml

Jeffrey Side: «Carrier of The Seed» reviewed by Pam Brown

Ted Pelton: «Malcolm & Jack: and other famous American criminals», reviewed by Matthew Hotham

Ruth Lepson and Walter Crump: «Morphology», reviewed by John Mercuri Dooley

Poet, publisher, and tireless wordsmith aficianado extraoidinaire, Geoffrey Gatza, joins us for a wonderful reading. 1 Hour 30 Minutes

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/the-jane-crown-show/2008/05/23/
the-joe-milford-poetry-show-hosts-poet-geoffrey-gatza

I was lucky enough to have been asked to come on Joe’s radio show last night. It is a reading and interview about my poetry and about BlazeVOX [books]. Great fun and rousing conversation! Reading from Kenmore, Sherlock Holmes poems and Not So Fast Robespierre!

From Chris Daniels

dear friends -

my father passed away on may 12 at 7:24 PM

he went peacefully and painlessly, surrounded by his family and a few old friends

we’ll miss him so much

his website will be maintained for at least as long as i live - please visit http://www.thegatesofparadise.com to see what kind of artist, what kind of person he was

yours always,
chris

- - - - - -

I met David for the first and only time at the ePoetry 2001 conference in Buffalo. I fell in love with him instantly. He embodied poetry! He argued or the heart and soul of the poem to be maintained within a room filled with young computer poets who wanted to, as Thurston puts it, see how high the box will jump. It was a real moment for me, excitingly alive with possibility!

Other will tell his story better and I hope you get a chance to look in on his work. He uses a concrete style which opens into larger ideas which open to other ideas which lead to others. These are his gates to understanding his work and it is a wonderful read.

I will miss you David and will never forget you or your art!

Love, Geoffrey

Check out the review of Secondary Sound by Justin Sirios
in the journal JMWW:

http://jmww.150m.com/Sirois.html

http://www.blazevox.org/bk-js.htm

Boog City presents

d.a. levy lives: celebrating the renegade press

Paper Kite Press
(Kingston, Penn.)

Tues. May 27, 6:00 p.m. sharp, free

ACA Galleries
529 W. 20th St., 5th Flr.
NYC

Event will be hosted by
Paper Kite Press editors
Jennifer Hill-Kaucher and Dan Waber

Featuring readings from

Joel Chace
Craig Czury
Barbara DeCesare
Andrea Talarico
Jim Warner

with music from

Alan Semerdjian

There will be wine, cheese, and crackers, too.

Curated and with an introduction by Boog City editor David Kirschenbaum