Reading from forth. Books @ IF NOT FOR KIDNAP POETRY SERIES, Portland

Tuesday, November 24th at 7:30 or so: David Wolach, Jen Coleman, Ashley D'Avignon Goodwin and Kenny Anderson

Who: poets David Wolach and Jen Coleman, visual artist Ashley d'Avignon Goodwin and musician Kenny Anderson
When: Tuesday, November 24th at 7:30
Where: 3968 SE Mall St., Upper Floors
Etc.: Bring food or drink to share, or maybe throw some money in for beer. Bring extra cash you've got laying around in case anyone's hawking anything. Bring something to hawk. Or just show up with your lovely self.

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Also of note, Reb Livingston of No Tell Motel is running the annual Best Poetry of 2009 Holiday list up at the No Tell Motel blog.  I'm not one for holidays or "Best Of" anything, but this is a different beast.  It's a way to highlight myriad independent press titles, using the holidays as a way to give exposure to poets & presses that do not normally get such a bump.  Let's face it, the poetry book rarely sells.  And No Tell's list does a good amount of lifting here.  The Wheelhouse/David Wolach list goes up Weds.  It was very difficult to pick works, so I decided to list books that a) I love, that b) came out in 2009, and that c) have not yet been represented on the site and that have a good chance of not getting on the site otherwise.  So many great books, such as the new books by Ana Bozicevic and Rachel Levitsky, just to name a couple, are up there now.  Here's ours:

--Rob Halpern, Disaster Suites (Palm Press)
--David Buuck, The Shunt (Palm Press)
--Erica Kaufman, Censory Impulse (Factory School)
--Jane Srague, The Port of Los Angeles (Chax Press)
--Jules Boykoff, Hegemonic Love Potion (Edge Books)
--Carla Harryman, Adorno's Noise (Essay Press)
--multiple authors, kari edwards NO GENDER: Reflections on the Life & Work of kari edwards (Belladonna Books/Litmus Press)
--Uche Nduka, Eel on Reef (Black Goat)
--CA Conrad, The Book of Frank (Chax Press)
--CJ Martin, WIW?3 (Delete Press)
--K. Lorraine Graham, Terminal Humming (Edge Books)
--Mark Wallace, Felonies of Illusion (Edge Books)