ISSUE 7 Visual Exhibition
Featuring work by ISSUE Magazine’s contributing artists:
Phoebe Gloeckner, Richard Kern, Mark Lyon, Bradley McCallum & Jacqueline Tarry, Denis Piel, Jack Pierson and Kehinde Wiley.
October 1st through the 30th
OCTOBER 18
ANTHONY COLEMAN’S PROFESSIONALES
Presenting their newest material slated for an upcoming album!
For several years, composer/pianist Anthony Coleman, bassist Brad Jones and drummer Roberto Rodriguez traveled the world as the rhythm section for Marc Ribot’s Los Cubanos Postizos. But now they have wandered off to slightly more dangerous, unknown territory. However, all this time working as a rhythm section has contributed to a muscularity that allows them to leap over arcane and ambiguous hurdles. Friends of the Spaghetti Western may appreciate the fact that they like to consider themselves the Lee Van Cleef, Strother Martin, and Tomas Milian of new music.
OCTOBER 24
ELLIOTT SHARP – THOMAS DIMUZIO
Electroacoustic solos and duos
Don’t miss two true sonic gurus in action!
OCTOBER 29
RATTAPALLAX Launch Party
Hosted by Flavia Rocha & Edwin Torres to celebrate the recent issue 10 of Rattapallax, a journal of contemporary international writing.
Poets reading their work will include:
Meena Alexander was born in Allahabad, India. Her book of poems,Illiterate Heart, won a 2002 PEN Open Book Award. A new collection, Raw Silk, (Triquarterly Books/ Northwestern University Press) is forthcoming in spring 2004.
Thaddeus Rutkowski’s novel, Roughhouse (Kaya), was a finalist for the Members’ Choice of the Asian Book Awards. His poems have been anthologized in The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry and Sweet Jesus: Poems About the Ultimate Icon.
Philip Nikolayev’s two collections of poems are Artery Lumen (Barbara Matteau Editions: Cambridge, MA 1996) and Dusk Raga (The Writers Workshop: Calcutta, 1998). He recently won the Verse Press prize for Monkey Time.
Samuel Menashe served as an infantryman in World War II. His first book, The Many Named Beloved, was published in London by Victor Gollancz, Ltd., in 1961; Collected Poems was published in 1986 by The National Poetry Foundation, University of Maine; and The Niche Narrows: New and Selected Poems was published in 2000 by Talisman House.
Meg Kearney is associate director of the National Book Foundation. Her collection, An Unkindness of Ravens, was published in 2001 by BOA Editions. She directs the Verse Circus reading series in New York City.
Jeet Thayil and Bombay Down (Indian musicians) Jeet Thayil’s third collection of poems, English, a co-publication by Penguin India and Rattapallax, is forthcoming in January 2003. He lives in New York City, where he works as an editor and writer.
Matvei Yankelevich is founding-editor of Ugly Duckling Presse, where he edits the Eastern European Poets Series and co-edits the poetry magazine 6×6.
Elaine Sexton’s first book of poems, Sleuth, was published earlier this year by New Issues (Western Michigan University). Her recent poems appear in American Poetry Review, The Christian Science Monitor, and Women’s Review of Books.
Nancy Mercado is the author of It Concerns The Madness. Her most recently anthologized work appears in From Totems to Hip-Hop: A Multicultural Anthology of Poetry Across the Americas, 1900-2002 edited by Ishmael Reed.
Eugene Ostashevsky’s translations of the Oberiuty, Russian absurdist poets of the 1930s, won the Wytter Bynner Poetry Translation Fellowship. His latest chapbook, The Off-Centaur, was published by The Germ magazine.
Derek Beres is the managing editor of Global Rhythm, music editor for Rattapallax, and freelance contributor for The Village Voice, Urb, Trace, Relix, and Blue.
Second2Last They are a team of four artists who fuse rhythm, vocal percussion, hip-hop, funk, reggae, jazz and blues into new forms of poetic and musical expression. The group is Johny Lashley, Bade Francis, Brian Polite and Aisha Bell.
OCTOBER 31
STEVEN PARRINO’S “The No Texts” Book launch
Plus an implosive Halloween performance by Electrophilia
Since the late 1970s, Steven Parrino has been exploring “The Death of Painting” through a number of signature gestures, most notably his mis-stretching of the monochrome canvas. While Parrino’s aesthetic is directly related to the nihilism and aggression of No Wave, Punk Rock, and B-movies, it has also been heavily influenced by such varied artists as Frank Stella and Andy Warhol.
With The No Texts (Abaton Book Company), Parrino presents an apocalyptic wonderland of despair, compassion and humorous hopelessness. His writings and commentary from 1979 – 2003 (among them “Blow Job,” “False-Face Tries To Annihilate The World” and “Toward Expanding The Post-Modern”) chart a highly opinionated course through his own artistic productions, be they visual or musical.
Started in 1997 as a solo project to create a resistant and uncompromised music, Electrophilia is now a duo, with Steven Parrino on bass guitar and Jutta Koether on synthesizer