Black Ocean on tour this weekend!
Monday, November 2, 2009 at 11:13AM 
11/6 Friday: Janaka Stucky & Johannes Goransson at the EARSHOT Reading Series in Brooklyn.
11/7 Saturday: Janaka Stucky & Chris Tonelli at the Yes, Reading! series in Albany.
11/8 Sunday: Janaka Stucky & Chris Tonelli at Paige Ackerson-Kiely's house in Vermont. Don't you wish you were invited?
11/9 Monday: Janaka Stucky & Chris Tonelli at the Slope Editions Reading Series in Turner Falls, MA.
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Janaka Stucky is practicing the perfection of effort while working on silent relationships with knives, whiskey and pugilism. He is also the Publisher of Black Ocean and its literary magazine, Handsome. Some of his poems have appeared in Cannibal, Denver Quarterly, Fence, Free Verse, No Tell Motel, North American Review, Redivider and VOLT. His chapbook, “Your Name Is The Only Freedom,” is available from Brave Men Press.
Johannes Göransson was born in Sweden, but has lived around the US for several years. He is the author of: Dear Ra (Starcherone, 2008), Pilot (Fairy Tale Review Press, 2008) and A New Quarantine Will Take My Place (Apostrophe Books, 2007)—and the chapbook Majakovskij en tragedy (Dos Press, 2008). He is also the translator of: Collobert Orbital by Johan Jonsson, Gingerbread Monuments by Victor Johansson & Klara Kallstrom, Remainland: Selected Poems by Aase Berg and Ideals Clearance by Henry Parland. He is the co-editor of Action Books and the online journal Action, Yes.
Chris Tonelli is the author of four chapbooks, and his first full-length collection, The Trees Around, is forthcoming from Birds, LLC. Chris co-curates The So and So Series and teaches at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, where he lives with his wife Allison.
Reader Comments (4)
I totally wish I was invited to Paige Ackerson Kiely's house. I hear she is making Glogg. I hear that her glogg contains magisterial sadness. It should be a perfect counterpoint to your joyful reading. Bummer I don't know her well enough to score an invite. If you guys know how I might get in touch with her, outside of reading pathetic texts that chronicle faux journeys to the far reaches of the Kara Sea, let me know.
I punched a guy in Brooklyn and haven't been back since. But, if you could put me in touch with Paige Ackerson-Kiely, I might be able to make that reading.
Albany rawks. You guys are going to do a bang up job there. But, unfortunately, I'm going to be closer to Vermont that weekend, so if you could provide Paige Ackerson-Kiely's address, I'd love to hear your work! Bring Johannes!
All: I'm sorry I didn't read these until I got back from tour. It was very fun up in Vermont, and Chris & I plan to fill in the details on this blog soon. Sorry we missed you!