Jerome Rothenberg celebrates the release of three new books:

Michael McClure celebrates two recent books:

Michael McClure is a poet, playwright, songwriter, and novelist. As one of those who read at the legendary 6 Gallery reading, he is considered one of the movers and shakers of the Beat Generation. He is the author of numerous books, his most recent two being a selected poems called Of Indigo and Saffron, brilliantly edited by poet Leslie Scalapino, and a collection of poetry called Mysteriosos and Other Poems. He has collaborated with several artists and musicians including Terry Riley, their collaborative CD is I Like Your Eyes Liberty, and Ray Manzarek of The Doors, with whom a new CD is in the works, Live from San Francisco.

Jerome Rothenberg is an internationally known American poet, translator, editor, and anthologist who is noted for his work in ethnopeotics and poetry performance. He has published over seventy books of poetry, translation, and assemblage. He is the founder of Hawk's Well Press and the magazines Poems from the Floating World and some/thing (the latter with David Antin.) He has taught at the State University of New York and University of California, San Diego. He recently published volume three of Poems for the Millennium, co-edited with Jeffrey C. Robinson as a nineteenth-century prequel to the first two volumes in the series.

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MICHAEL McCLURE: Reading & Signing
Thursday, February 24, 2011, 7:00 pm

DIESEL BOOKSTORE
5433 College Avenue, Oakland, CA 94618
510-653-9965
Get more details on Diesel Bookstore's website.

Michael McClure will be reading from - and signing - the newly-published book, Of Indigo and Saffron: New and Selected Poems.

Poet MICHAEL McCLURE
in Vancouver, BC - Friday, February 11, 2011

Michael McClure will be making two appearances on Friday, February 11, 2011:

2:00pm
Screening of new documentary film,
Abstract Alchemist of Flesh, presented by McClure
Room 7200
WAC Bennett Library
8888 University Drive
Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6

8:00pm*
Reading from his works (Introduced by George Stanley)
Room 1700 (Labatt’s Hall)
SFU Vancouver - Harbour Centre
515 West Hastings Street
Vancouver, BC V6B 5K3

These events are presented by SFU Library and SFU English Department and co-sponsored by West Coast Line Magazine and The Capilano Review
GRAHHR!

* Events are free but seating is limited to the evening reading. Please RSVP to library@sfu.ca for the 8pm reading.

For more information contact: Tony Power at 778.782.6676 or power@sfu.ca www.lib.sfu.ca/special/

MICHAEL McCLURE
Reading in Victoria, BC, February 8-9, 2011

MICHAEL McCLURE
Reading at MOE'S BOOKS

Download the flyer for this event.

Michael McClure will be reading from the newly-published book, Of Indigo and Saffron: New and Selected Poems. Read more about the book here.

Michael McClure
Reading at City Lights Bookstore

Michael McClure will be reading from the newly-published book, Of Indigo and Saffron: New and Selected Poems. For more about the book, click here.

Mysteriosos Reviews

Poet and critic Barbara Berman's review, "Like Mercury Over a Wall of Garnets," appears at The Rumpus.

The Beat Studies Association recently published Tom Pynn's review of Mysteriosos.

Upcoming Events in the UK

On July 3rd there will be screenings of the Michael McClure bio documentary Abstract Alchemist, a film about Gary Snyder and another about Frank O'Hara, all by Colin Still. Michael McClure will introduce the films.

On July 8th, Michael McClure will give a reading in London at the London Review Book Shop, where the film Abstract Alchemist will also be presented.

Wednesday, May 19th

Pre-reading reception at 7pm, reading at 7:30
Moe's Books
2476 Telegraph Avenue
Berkeley (510) 849-2087

At the age of 22 Michael McClure gave his first poetry reading at the legendary Six Gallery event in San Francisco, where Allen Ginsberg first read Howl . Today McClure is more active than ever, writing and performing his poetry at festivals, and colleges and clubs across the country.

McClure reads with an actor's command and a singer's timing, his impact "transports audiences to a very different and intriguing place." He has given hundreds of reading in venues as varied as the Fillmore Ballroom, Yale University, Stanford, The National Biodiversity Conference at the Smithsonian, and the Library of Congress. His audiences have ranged from an intimate dozen at a tiny Maui bookstore, to tens of thousands at San Francisco's Human Be-in in San Francisco, and to multitudes at Airlift Africa. One of the poet's readings was to, and with, four lions at the San Francisco Zoo -- a film of it is is sometimes shown on TV. McClure's world-wide performances include Rome; Paris; Tokyo; Lawrence, Kansas, London, a bull ring in Mexico City, The Whitney Museum, and a steam room in Nairobi for a group of African businessmen.

Mysteriosos Readings & Events

The first reading of Michael McClure's new poetry collection, Mysteriosos, will take place for the Grolier Poetry Bookshop at the Pierre Menard Art Gallery in Harvard Square on Sunday, April 11.

The second event will be a performance with Ray Manzarek at the Jazzmouth Festival in Portsmouth, New Hampshire on Saturday, April 24. Ray and Michael will present Mysteriosos and Michael will do signings.

City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco will host a reading and a book party for Mysteriosos on May 4.

Two weeks later, date not set at this moment, Moe's Books in Berkeley will have a reading and party for Mysteriosos.

An Evening of Romantic Poetry
with
Michael McClure, Jerome Rothenberg, Leslie Scalapino

In the spirit of an experimental and visionary romanticism that links closely with the experimental modernisms of where we are right now, McClure, Rothenberg and Scalapino will read from and discuss the works of acknowledged Romantics and postromantics like Blake, Shelley, Goethe, Hugo, Whitman, Dickinson, and Rimbaud, as well as poems of their own in the newest and oldest of romantic traditions.

The reading will also include works outside of conventional literatures and national boundaries, sound poems and non-sense poems, prose poems and visual poems, journal poems and fragment poems, outsider poems and aboriginal poems, shouted poems and whispered poems. The evening will let new ideas fly from the poems, the audience, and the readers.

Michael McClure's next two books are Of Indigo and Saffron from UC Press, and Mysteriosos and other poems from New Directions. McClure performed on December 8th with The Charles Lloyd Quartet in Los Angeles at Disney Hall.

Jerome Rothenberg is the author of over seventy books of his own poetry (thirteen from New Directions) and major assemblages of experimental and traditional poetry such as Technicians of the Sacred and Poems for the Millennium, the third volume of which is a no-holds barred anthology of romantic and postromantic poetry.

Leslie Scalapino is the author of thirty books of poetry, fiction, essays, and poem-plays, the most recent being: Day Ocean State of Stars' Night published by Green Integer; and It's go in horizontal, Selected Poems 1974-2006 published by UC Press, Berkeley, 2007.

DEER BOY

The event will feature a reading at 7 pm by Michael McClure of his poem, "Deer Boy," composed especially for this publication.

Please don't miss the chance to encounter this handsome book, to meet the artists behind the project, and to hear a Bay Area literary icon read one of his most evocative works.

Rena Bransten Gallery is located at 77 Geary St in San Francisco (click for map) and can be reached at (415) 982-3292 or at renabranstengallery.com.

For more information about the book, please consult Magnolia's press release.

FRIDAY, September 25, 2009
8:40pm – "Curses and Sermons" — An acid cowboy flick by London director Nic Saunders, based on Michael McClure’s poem about Jean Harlow and Billy the Kid, starring Philip Bulcock and Kasia Halpin.

SATURDAY, September 26, 2009
8:00pm - "Cracked Goddess" — A lyrical trip among the sculptures of Amy Evans McClure with a poem by Michael McClure and music by Terry Riley. Directed by Colin Still / Optic Nerve, London

Hope to see you there. The director of Curses and Sermons is flying in from London for this screening.

Books Inc. at Opera Plaza is pleased to announce a book launch event and reading for Poems for The Millennium, Volume 3: The University of California Book of Romantic and Postromantic Poetry edited by Jerome Rothenberg and Jeffrey C. Robinson.

Like its two twentieth-century predecessors, Poems for the Millennium, volumes 1 and 2, this gathering sets forth a globally decentered approach to the poetry of the preceding century from an experimental and visionary perspective.

Joining Rothenberg and Robinson in the reading and performance are six major Bay Area poets:

Books Inc. is located at Opera Plaza, 601 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco. You can reach them by telephone at 415.776.1111 or through the Books Inc. website.