Baran challenges the reader to rethink the way in which we view, create, represent and recreate human experience through various mediums. The reading experience is strangely voyeuristic in that Baran provides a kind of heuristic glimpse into these different aesthetic experiences. You’ll feel as though you are peeking-in on a mind tangling and untangling the complexities of a performance by Jan Bas Ader, a poem by Wallace Stevens, or a video installation by Eija-Liisa Ahtila. Baran seems equally adept investigating a film like The Good, the Bad and the Ugly as she is at exploring Specters of Marx by Derrida. The book will be available this summer from this website, SPD, Amazon, or for order at your local bookstore. Check back for date of publication and availability. In the meantime, for a glimpse of Baran’s work, click here: Remains to be Used_SAMPLE.

Reading & Broadside Exhibition Celebrating 25 Years of Zone 3

Featured Readers: Blas Falconer, Barry Kitterman, Amy Wright, Phyllis Gobbell, Jeff Hardin, Malcolm Glass, David Till

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Reception: 5:30 PM / Readings: 6 PM / Book Signing: 7 PM

@the Clarksville / Montgomery County Public Library, 350 Pageant Lane, Suite 501, Carksville, Tennessee

If you are in the NYC area next week, please join us for a reading with Catherine Meng and Aaron Tieger:

POETRY PROJECT CALENDAR

Monday, April 26^th, 2010

8pm

Catherine Meng is the author of the poetry collection Tonight’s the Night (Apostrophe Books) and three chapbooks, 15 Poems in Sets of 5 (Anchorite Press), Dokument (Perichord Press), and Lost Notebook w/ Letters to Deer (Dusie Kollectiv). She currently resides in Berkeley and works at a restaurant. Along with Lauren Levin and Jared Stanley she co-edits the poetry journal Mrs. Maybe.

Aaron  Tieger is most recently the author of Secret Donut (Pressed Wafer, 2009). His many chapbooks include Recently Clouds (with Jess Mynes), The Collected Typos of Aaron Tieger, Necco Face (with Jess Mynes and Michael Carr), and Anxiety Chant. He is the publisher of Petrichord Books. He lives in Cambridge, MA.

Possess Nothing Event at Plus Gallery, AWP 2010

Thanks to everyone who visited the Apostrophe Books table at AWP and/or came by Plus Gallery on Saturday night for Possess Nothing. And thanks to all the other editors from Action Books, Black Ocean, Slope, and Tarpaulin Sky for helping put on a fabulous event. It was standing room only and more — sorry for those of you who couldn’t find a seat or any space at all. We have a few video links from Ivar Zeile (Plus Gallery owner) and other links including an article on the event from a publication in Telluride, CO. Have a look:

Article from Susan Viebrock:

http://www.tellurideinside.com/2010/04/telluride-insideand-out-denver-night-out-on-the-town.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwDwKhp39K4

Possess Nothing: a small press event

“There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.”
– John Cage

A small press event featuring writers from Action Books, Apostrophe Books, Black Ocean, Slope Editions and Tarpaulin Sky Press.

Date & time: Saturday, April 10th, 7:00 PM

Location: Plus Gallery, located at 2501 Larimer Street, directly east of the Benjamin Moore Paint Factory Lofts and five blocks north of Lodo

Action Books: Lara Glenum, Sandy Florian, Abraham Smith
Apostrophe Books: Johannes Goransson, Jessica Baran, Amy Wright, Paul Foster Johnson
Black Ocean: Zachary Schomburg, Julie Doxsee, Joe Hall
Slope Editions: Lucy Ives, Crystal Curry
Tarpaulin Sky Press: Gordon Massman, Shelly Taylor

More info: www.apostrophebooks.org and www.plusgallery.com/events/

"When Does Something Qualify as Being Alive?" by Denver artist, Andy Miller, one of the many artists represented by Plus Gallery.

AWP 2010 in Denver, CO is fast approaching. In addition to a table in the Bookfair, Apostrophe Books will be hosting a reading that includes several fabulous independent publishers:

Action Books, Black Ocean, Slope Editions and Tarpaulin Sky Press

Date & time: Saturday, April 10th, 7:00 PM

Location: Plus Gallery, located at 2501 Larimer Street, directly east of the Benjamin Moore Paint Factory Lofts and five blocks north of Lodo. This is a great venue — Plus was recently named “Art Space of the year” by the Denver Post in 2009: www.plusgallery.com.

Readers will include  Johannes Göransson, Zachary Schomburg, Lucy Ives,  Joe Hall, Paul Foster Johnson, Crystal Curry, Julie Doxsee, and many others….We’ll update this list as various writers confirm.

Johannes Göransson’s A New Quarantine Will Take My Place is once again available for purchase. A shipment of new books just arrived from the printer and can be ordered directly from us if you click here: Quarantine. They will be available from Amazon and SPD shortly.

Earshot Reading in New York

November 6 // 7:30 PM

Readers: Janaka Stucky, Johannes Goransson, Kimberly King Parsons, Kit Kalnay, Helen Rubinstein

Rose Live Music

345 Grand Street (b/w Havemeyer & Marcy)

Brooklyn, NY 11211 (718) 599-0069