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Upcoming Readings for 2008:


Saturday, May 31, 4pm
The Segue Series
@ Bowery Poetry Club
Rotando beds language

Sunday, June 15, 6pm
Freddy's Bar & Backroom
Rotando and Powers
take on Decepticons

Sunday, June 29, 6pm
Cornelia Street Cafe
Rotando as solid smoke book release partay

About the Press:

 

UpSet is an open and supportive space for artists who offer new visions in written language. The press produces mainly first books and newly revised editions of exceptional out of print books. Founded in 2000 by a group of NY-based poets, the press conducts regular poetry workshops and readings around the city.

 

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The Comeback's Exoskeleton by Matthew Rotando

Incorporating the density of Spanish surrealism and a sprawling Whitmanesque line, this amazing first book finds Rotando engaged in a poetic biathlon that draws equally from maximal and minimal traditions. There are tight, economical poems, free verse forms derived from the sonnet, poems leaping about the page, but my favorites are the wonderful prose poems tumbling over and under themselves toward gnomish statements that feel both didactic and self-parodying.

-Tim Peterson, Since I Moved In

Theater of War by Nicholas Powers

In this detournement of political statements like the U.S. National Security Strategy Report, a reader will inquire when is "the truth" blurred; conversely, when does Powers' alternative reading come painfully close to the real? The author's hard-hitting, farcical longer-form poems might have constituted a part one, dissolving into the more empathetic, injured fragments. But his choreographed admixture embodies how emotions come. Anger interspersed with hurt; a loudly reinterpreted official voice, broken by still louder whispers.

-Bruna Mori, Derive

S.P.A.W.N. (Sunset Park Art & Writing Newsletter) began in 1997 as a nonprofit, noncommercial, biannual publication with the intent to make more known the unknown makers of poetry and creators of art based in Brooklyn...

Forthcoming:

Born Palestinian, Born Black (New Edition)
by Suheir Hammad

Spring 2009

 

My Ethnik Dreamworld
by Cihan Kaan

Winter 2009

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