Pocket Myths

Another year, still on hiatus.

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Check us out at this year's Juniper Festival, if you're in Western Mass on April 15 -16.

You can also find Pocket Myths at Flying Object, the new small press bookstore and letterpress collective in Hadley MA.

Visit us at the 2010 Juniper Festival in Amherst

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Okay, yes, it's been a long hiatus. Dionysus (Pocket Myths #5) is coming, but not yet. In the meantime, visit us at 2010 Juniper Festival Book Fair at UMass.

When: April 24 & 25, 2009
Where: UMass Fine Arts Center Lobby

Friday April 24
6 pm: Independent Press Fair Opening Reception, part of Amherst’s 250th anniversary celebration, co-sponsored by the Fine Arts Center
8 pm: Anne Halley Memorial Reading by Marilyn Hacker with Amy Leach

Saturday April 25
12:30 pm: Fair Re-opens
1 pm: Address: The New American Renaissance by Eric Lorberer, Founding Editor, Rain Taxi Review of Books
1:30 pm: Editors Roundtable moderated by Eric Lorberer with: Lucy Corin, FC2; Christian Hawkey, jubilat; David Lenson, Massachusetts Review; Ethan Paquin, Slope; Ellen Doré Watson, Massachusetts Review & Alice James Books
3:00 pm: Reading by Christian Hawkey, Thomas Glave & Deck of Cards poetry performance staged by Missoula Oblongata
8 pm: Reading: Yusef Komunyakaa, Lucy Corin & lê thi diem thúy

All events take place in the Fine Arts Center Lobby and University Gallery.
Free and open to the public.

Calls for Submissions

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We're looking for writing, art, and web-based multimedia work for two forthcoming Pocket Myths publications. See here for details.

Listen to this!

2007-11-17T16:21:00.001-05:00

Now you can hear Emily Abendroth, Justin Audia, Julia Bloch, CAConrad, and Ryan Eckes perform their work from THE ODYSSEY as well as other special treats. Yes, they did read in alphabetical order. Also, listen for a sweet musical interlude by Carolina Maugheri and special guest Jack Grauer.

Thanks, Kelly Writers House! You rule!

215 Festival - October 4-7th

2007-09-18T13:10:00.000-05:00

Hey! So we're going to be a part of the awesome 215 Festival. Check back for details!

Pocket Myths on Live from the Writers House - September 24th!

2007-09-18T13:09:00.000-05:00

Kelly Writers House is doing a LIVE radio show featuring Pocket Myths writers CAConrad, Julia Bloch, Ryan Eckes, Emily Abendroth, and Justin Audia.

Where: Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk (on the Penn campus)
When: Monday September 24th, 7pm
Plus: Music!
Free! Also you can listen to the show on WXPN FM (88.5).

Bernadine at Moles Not Molar - September 21!

2007-09-18T12:57:00.000-05:00

The Moles Not Molar Reading Series

NUZZLES ITS LAPIDARIAN NOZZLE ON TO THE DAPPLED AUTUMNAL ESPLANADE

Friday, September 21
7:30 pm
at Nexus Gallery
located inside The Crane Arts Building at 1400 N. American St.
(two blocks north of Girard Ave. between 2nd & 3rd streets)

Featuring SUEYEUN JULIETTE LEE (Poet; Philadelphia)
JILL MAGI (Poet; Brooklyn)
BERNADINE MELLIS (Filmmaker; Massachusetts)

SUEYEUN JULIETTE LEE grew up three miles from the CIA. Her work has appeared in journals such as MiPoesias, Glitterpony, 26, and Chain. Her first book. That Gorgeous Feeling, will be out next spring from Coconut Books. She also edits Corollary Press, a small chapbook series devoted to new work by writers of color.

JILL MAGI is the author of Threads (Futurepoem), a hybrid book of poetry, prose, and collage, Torchwood (Shearsman, forthcoming in early 2008), and the chapbook Cadastral Map (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs). Her visual work, essays, poems, and prose have appeared in HOW2, The Tiny, The New Review of Literature, Aufgabe, Jacket, anthologized in Fiction from the Brooklyn Rail, as well as in the forthcoming books Letters to Poets: Conversations on Poetry, Politics, and Community (Saturnalia Press), the )((eco (lang)(uage(reader)) (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs), and the 2008 Anthology of Younger Poets (Outside Voices). Jill’s visual work has been exhibited at the International Meeting of Visual Poetry, the Brooklyn Arts Council Gallery, and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Open Studios 2007. She lives in Brooklyn, teaches at The Eugene Lang College and Goddard College, and runs Sona Books, a community-based chapbook press.

Her father's role as lead attorney in Earth First! activist Judi Bari's civil case against the FBI prompted BERNADINE MELLIS to make The Forest for the Trees, her first documentary. Bernadine also directed The Odyssey, a collaborative adaptation of Homer's 24-chapter epic, made up of 24 shorts by 24 different mostly queer/trans/lady filmmakers. Her short experimental films include Born and Farm-In-The-City, a collaboration with sound artist EE Miller. Bernadine currently lives in Massachusetts, where she is teaching in the Film Studies department at Mt. Holyoke College for the year. She is on the Programming Committee of Philadelphia's Black Lily Film & Music Festival showcasing work solicited from an international, multi-racial, multi-cultural pool of women directors and producers.

The goal of Moles Not Molar is to put writers and artists pursuing exciting, innovative and experimental textual projects into contact and dialogue with each other and their diverse audiences, creating exposure and engagement across regional and generic lines. Please come out to our event this month and also look out for upcoming engagements in October, November, and beyond.

Hey Boston! See you May 16th, okay?

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Please come join us in Boston with special musical guest Ryder Cooley.

May 16, 2007 - 8:00 pm
The Brattle Theatre
40 Brattle Street, Harvard Square
Cambridge, MA
Cost: $10

We're bringing the road show to Boston's Brattle Theatre, thanks to Truth Serum productions.

Book/DVD sets available at the show for only $20!

Great Big Show in Philly on May 13th!

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Please join us for an evening of film and performance and snacks!

Performers include Emily Abendroth, Justin Audia, CAConrad, Ryan Eckes, Laura Jaramillo, Miranda Mellis, Frances Richard, and Jen Welch!

Sunday May 13th - 6:30 pm - Free!!
The Rotunda
4014 Walnut Street

Book/DVD sets available at the show for a mere $20!

We'll be in Western Mass on April 20th! Where will you be?

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Hey Western Mass friends!
Please come see us this Friday night at Hampshire College for a night of film and performance. It's free!

Friday April 20th - 7pm
West Lecture Hall, Franklin Patterson Hall
Hampshire College, Amherst MA

With Andrea Lawlor and Bernadine Mellis, and contributors EE Miller, Xylor Jane, Kara Lynch, and Jo Kent/Katz.

Book/DVD sets available at all shows for a mere $20!

An Epic Night of Film and Readings in SF - March 10, 2007

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Come celebrate the release of Pocket Myths #4, THE ODYSSEY, with a screening and reading!

Films by Bill Basquin, Eileen Myles, Gretchen Hildebran, EE Miller, Dori Midnight, Kara Hearn, Miriam Klein Stahl, Paula Cronan, Juliana Snapper, Laurie Weeks, Corinna Press, Rebecca Lee, and many more!

Performances by Ida Acton, Amanda Davidson, Judith Jordan, Robin Coste Lewis, Miranda Mellis, Christian Nagler, sara seinberg, and David West.

THE ODYSSEY is a film and book collaboration curated by Bernadine Mellis and Andrea Lawlor, featuring work by mostly queer, trans, and women artists, retelling Homer's ancient epic of the aftermath of war. Almost half of the 75 contributors are from the Bay Area.

When: Saturday, March 10, 7pm
Where: Cellspace, 2050 Bryant Street (between 18th & 19th)
Admission: $10
Light fare generously provided by Rainbow Grocery and others!

Contributors Update

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Steve (Lotos Eaters) Dolph just published the first issue of Calque, a journal of translation he co-edits with Brandon Holmquest.

Also new this week, Miranda (Kalypso, Book 15) Mellis's The Revisionist from Calamari Press.

ODYSSEY at the MIX 11.12.06

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Along with MIX NYC, we are having a big reading/screening/performance/party to celebrate the release and premiere of our epic collaboration (see full list of contributors below!), THE ODYSSEY: book & dvd extravaganza.

When: November 12, 8pm
Where: 3LD Art & Technology Center, 80 Greenwich Street, Theater #1 (R or 1 to Rector, 2 3 4 5 to Wall Street, J M Z to Broad, A C to Fulton)
Admission: $12
More about the festival: www.mixnyc.org
Detailed directions: http://www.3leggeddog.org/3LD/find.htm

***The first 24 people to arrive will receive a FREE COPY of THE ODYSSEY.***
***You can also buy THE ODYSSEY at the event for $20.***

It's the closing night of the MIX experimental film festival! This will be the world premiere of the film, and many of the filmmakers will be in attendance. We'll have readings from the book by writers including Emily Abendroth, Ida Acton, Ari Banias, Julia Bloch, Xylor Jane, Laura Jaramillo, Andrea Lawlor, Robin Lewis, Kara Lynch, Delia Mellis, Ariana Reines, Frances Richard, and Jen Welch.

Musical guests include Ryder Cooley with Gretchen Hildebran, Sara Jaffe, and Red Heart the Ticker.

Plus free food and drinks!!

THE ODYSSEY: Coming Soon!

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Pocket Myths #4, THE ODYSSEY is coming!

THE ODYSSEY, a collaboration between writer Andrea Lawlor and filmmaker Bernadine Mellis, and designed by Courtney Dailey, comprises a book and an accompanying film on DVD. The book functions as a dramatis personae of Homer's Odyssey, with each character represented by stories, poetry, or visual art by cutting edge writers and artists working in and between multiple genres. The film consists of 24 continuous shorts (in media ranging from stop-motion animation to live action, from abstract video art to found footage) telling the complete story of Homer’s 24-chapter epic.

Contributors include: Emily Abendroth, Ida Dewey Acton, Justin Audia, Ari Banias, Bill Basquin, Julia Bloch, Lizzy Bonaventura, Popahna Brandes, CAConrad, Shayne Case, Anita Chao, Jason Coyle, Paula Cronan, Cybele, Courtney Dailey, Amanda Davidson, Steve Dolph, Ryan Eckes, Tonya Foster, Cathy Halley, Kara Hearn, Gretchen Hildebran, Michael Hyde, Xylor Jane, Laura Jaramillo, Laska Jimsen, Judith Jordan, Andrea Lawlor, Jennifer Lee, Rebecca Lee, Robin Coste Lewis, Kara Lynch, Laura Mays, Mary McDermott, Bernadine Mellis, Delia Mellis, Miranda F. Mellis, Dori Midnight, EE Miller, Megan Milks, Lamby Morreale, Eileen Myles, Christian Nagler, Maggie Nelson, Signe Mae Olson, Miranda Pierce, Mendal Polish, Corinna Press, Ariana Reines, Irit Reinheimer, Frances Richard, Rachel Robbins, Sara Seinberg, Davina Semo, Juliana Snapper, Miriam Klein Stahl, Senseney Lea Stokes, Zoe Strauss, Samuael Topiary, Laurie Weeks, Jen Welch, David West, and Rebecca Yaffe.

Orpheus rocks NYC --> May 18 2006

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Pocket Myths Zine Series Presents:

Orpheus Zine/CD Release Party
Thursday, May 18th
Galapagos Art Space
Doors open at 7 / show at 7:30

The event will include readings and musical performances by :
Ari Banias, Greta Byrum, Cathy Halley, Sara Jaffe, Andrea Lawlor, Robin Coste Lewis, EE Miller, My Invisible, Eileen Myles, Cynthia Nelson, Cat Tyc

MP3s from Pocket Myths regular Cynthia Nelson

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Cynthia Nelson's work appears in both Cupid + Psyche and Orpheus. If you've heard the "The Wheel Stood Still" on the Orpheus CD, you should check out more of her music. If you haven't heard "The Wheel Stood Still," you should, obviously.

Homemade Map is now available for perusal and/or purchase on a new cooperative artists' website I started with two friends, nonstopco-op. You can simply buy CDs and receive them in the mail, or you can purchase a subscription which allows you to download 2 albums of music (plus more to come later this year) and receive CDs in the mail at cost if you so desire. Older CDs are also available, as is music by my co-op partners, Andrew Kaffer (formerly of Kissing Book) and Rocketship (Dusty Reske). Each artist has free MP3s that you can sample.

Buy a CD!

ORPHEUS CD/Zine Release Party! San Francisco! November 5th!

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Radar Reading Series and the Pocket Myths Zine Series Presents:

Orpheus CD/Zine Release Party, Saturday November 5, 2005, Edinburgh Castle, 950 Geary St.
Doors open at 7 / show at 8. Free Admission! Buy a zine!

The event will include reading and musical performance by:
Sara Jaffe, Andrea Lawlor, Robin Lewis, Bernadine Mellis, EE Miller, Eileen Myles, Cynthia Nelson, Juliana Snapper, Cat Tyc, Laurie Weeks, David West, and Carmen White. Also, appearances by contributing artists: Corinna Press, Blake Riley, Miriam Klein Stahl, Lena Wolff! And more!

More about Edinburgh Castle at www.castlenews.com.