Events



Literary Death Match + Painted Bride = Philly May 26

Literary Death Match is pairing with Painted Bride Quarterly to make its City of Brotherly Love debut. The night’s readers include  Leonard Gontarek (author of Van Morrison Can’t Find His Feet), Sarah Rose Etter (author of Tongue Party), Steve Volk (author of the soon-to-release Fringe-ology) and First Person Arts Story Slam’s hand-picked contender, Angel Hogan. They’ll be judged by Liz Spikol (editor-in-chief of

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We Ate Whale

Rediscovered—and somewhat incomplete—video of Tao Lin reading poetry at our Luna Park launch event back in January 2008, at a now closed Brooklyn Korean restaurant. Tin Pan was the musical act. They kicked ass. Tao Lin Reads at Luna Park Launch from Luna Park on Vimeo.

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Armchair Shotgun @ Greenlight Bookstore

This past Friday Armchair/Shotgun’s editors premiered their second issue at Greenlight Bookstore in Brooklyn. It was an intimate reading, with poetry and fiction from contributors to the first two issues including Nate House, Alanna Bailey, and Zach White. (I might add here that our editor Travis Kurowski had a lovely short story in the first

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Journal Porn

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Building the Literary Robot

Another lit mag panel to attend this coming AWP Conference, Friday February 4th, 4:30-5:45pm: Building the Literary Robot: The Lit Journal as New Media. (James Engelhardt from Prairie Schooner, Scott Lindenbaum from Electric Literature, Jurgen Fauth from Fictionaut, Zach Dodson from featherproof books, Zachary Schomburg from Octopus Magazine & Books, Travis Kurowski from Luna Park) Lit

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Beyond Times New Roman

Join Versal, 1913, Ninth Letter, Lumberyard, 6×6, and Luna Park as we discuss “Beyond Times New Roman: The Literary Journal as Object” Thursday February 3 at 4:30PM at the 2011 AWP Conference in Washington D.C.

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InDigest 1207 NYC

InDigest continued its reading series “1207″ the other night at the KGB Bar.  Dustin Nelson founded the quarterly online mag two years ago and has crafted a solid website that plays host to a variety of voices in the arts. InDigest’s analog manifestation is the reading series, which encourages presenters to read something from their own

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