Cup & Pen showcases a different small press, literary journal, magazine, zine or comic book for a night of self-curated readings and exhibition

Cup & Pen is growing! Added to the Cup & Pen Small Press Reading Series, are a number of book and writer-related events that you won’t want to miss! Find them here, alongside the listings for Cup & Pen.

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WEDNESDAY, September 23, 8:00pm – Diane Schenker Relation/Couch/Dreaming Reading & Release
248 Mercer St. between W.3rd St. & W.4th St.

A night of readings from Diane Schenker’s chapbook release Relation/Couch/Dreaming, along with a celebration of chapbooks and emerging poets.
Relation/Couch/Dreaming

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WEDNESDAY, January 13, 8pm, D.W. Lichtenberg The Ancient Book of Hip Reading
1 Bleecker St. & Bowery
D.W. Lichtenberg will be reading from his new book, The Ancient Book of Hip, winner of the 2009 Michael Rubin Chapbook Award. The Ancient Book of Hip is an exploration into the phenomenon of hip. It is a case study, a documentation, a journaling, and a bunch of poems.

D.W. Lichtenberg

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strong> WEDNESDAY, October 29, 8pm – Cup & Pen presents Welcome Table Press Launch featuring Three Genres in the Rain
@ 248 Mercer St.

readings by
Marcia F. Brown, poet
(author of Home to Roost and The Way Women Walk, winner, Sheltering Pines Press Chapbook Competition)

Kim Dana Kupperman, nonfiction
(founder, Welcome Table Press; Best American Essayist 2006)

Penelope Schwartz Robinson, nonfiction
(author of Slippery Men, winner of the 2007 New Rivers Press Stonecoast Book Prize)

Jim Sprouse, fiction
(novelist)

Special guest: Dustin Beall Smith, nonfiction,
(author of Key Grip. A Memoir of Endless Consequences, winner of the 2007 Bakeless Prize in Nonfiction).

This reading will benefit Welcome Table Press, a nonprofit independent dedicated to publishing and celebrating the essay, in all its forms.

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SUNDAY, October 26, 7:30pm – Rant Rhapsody: An Evening of Literary Non Fiction
@ 1 Bleecker St. (& Bowery)
“The Election and Everything Else”

featuring
Stephen Duncombe (Dream)
Nadia Davids (Playwright)
Doug Cordell (Commentator, Marketplace)
Jason Flores-Williams (The Last Stand of Mr. America)

Hosted by Brooklyn Rail editor Theodore Hamm
The Brooklyn Rail

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strong> SUNDAY, September 28, 7:30pm – Rant Rhapsody: An Evening of Literary Non Fiction presented by The Brooklyn Rail.
@ 1 Bleecker St. (& Bowery)

“Public City, Private Eyes”

featuring
Alex Goldmark (NPR, Good Magazine)
Jason Wachtelhausen (AdBusters, Brooklyn Rail)
Tim Doody (Brevity, Best Gay Erotica 2006)
Kurt Opprecht (How to Rule the World for Fun and
Profit)

Hosted by Mark Read, Rant Rhapsody creator

The Brooklyn Rail

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SATURDAY, September 27, 2-5pm – The Reading Salon
@ 1 Bleecker St.
The Reading Salon will create a brief collaborative literary community of reading and response. Tables and chairs will represent both familiar and never-seen-before genres of literature as guests browse through short reading samples leaving critiques and responses for the next guest to read and contribute further.
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SATURDAY, August 23, 7-9pm – Melissa Bastian’s Anywhere I Lay My Head zine release
@ 1 Bleecker & Bowery
“Anywhere I lay my head” recounts author Melissa Bastian’s experience with Hurricane Katrina and the ways in which she rebuilt her life and dealt with the ramifications of the disaster. The artist will be present for the full extent of the event to answer questions and discuss the work,
and will be doing a short reading at 8pm. Paintings and photographs of the New Orleans area will be on display that correlate with the context of the work. Also on display will be personal items such as Ms. Bastian’s scrap book of newspaper clippings and her photographs from her first visits back to the city. The event has been intentionally scheduled to fall just six days before the third anniversary of Katrina; the artist hopes to remind people of the storm and to bring attention to the fact that while enormous progress has been made, many people and parts of the city are still struggling. 25% of any revenue generated from zine or artwork sales will be donated to the Common Ground Collective in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans.
Melissa Bastian
Common Ground Collective

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WEDNESDAY, July 9th, 8-10pm Haiku Not Bombs a Booklyn book release party

Booklyn Artist Alliance is excited to announce the publication of Haiku Not Bombs, the latest edition of the Another Booklyn Chapbook series, a letterpressed and otherwise hand-generated book. Please join Booklyn and Collectivo Haiku authors for a book release party including readings, wine, and general brilliance.

readings by:
Tom Gilroy
Jim McKay
Shin Yu Pai
Patrick So

Booklyn

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WEDNESDAY, June 18th, 8-10pm Sarah Kipp & Robyn Citizen

Performance artist Sarah Kipp performs and tells stories about faces at the window with projections. Robyn Citizen lectures on gender in horror movies and curates a screening of the Chinese horror movie Gaau ji (Dumplings) (2004)
Sarah Kipp

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WEDNESDAY, May 28th, 8-10pm Lame House Press

Lame House Press irregularly publishes chapbooks by emerging poets.

readings by:
Arlo Quint
Dustin Williamson
Gabriella Torres
Franklin Bruno

Lame House Press

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WEDNESDAY, May 14th, 8-10pm World War 3 Illustrated

World War 3 Illustrated is a labor of love, run by a collective of artists working with the unified goal of creating a home for political comics, graphics and stories.

readings by:
Rebecca Migdal
James Romberger
Sabrina Jones
Tom Keoug
FlyMac Mcgill
World War 3 Illustrated
World War 3 Illustrated myspace

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WEDNESDAY, February 13, 8-10pm – Small Beer Press

Cup and Pen Small Press Reading Series
presents
Small Beer Press
with readings by
Carol Emshwiller
Ellen Kushner
Veronica Schanoes
Delia Sherman

Born from the skull of the zine world and suckeled at the teet of indy book stores, Small Beer Press/ Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet descends from Massachusettes like an avenging angel of willing and risky writing. These are the books that you pick up in the bookstore based and their cover, the books that you then read with mounting love and horror and these are the people that claim “This is what we like: a cold beer in summer, hot tea in winter, good books all year round”. These are the good people. Come for an evening of readings by Carol Emshwiller, Ellen Kushner, Veronica Schanoes and Delia Sherman and gingerly emceed by Rebecca Alvarez.

Small Beer Press

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WEDNESDAY, January 30, 8-10pm – The Language Foundry

Cup and Pen Small Press Reading Series
presents
The Language Foundry

With readings by
Bill Lavender (New Orleans)
j.s.makkos (Cleveland)
Kate Sopko (Cleveland)
Mat Timmons (Los Angeles)
Carmen Tracey (Cleveland)

Celebrate a seminal reading in the Cup and Pen series as well the opening of the Give & Take Think Library by bringing your books to donate and enjoying a free spot of wine with a stable of brain-engorging writers from the Language Foundry. The Language Foundry, a performance space in Cleveland, makes the lover’s promise to bring you “quality programming, forward thinking, & tactile language projects.” Readings by Bill Lavender (New Orleans), Language Foundry organizer and writer j.s.makkos (Cleveland), Kate Sopko (Cleveland), Mat Timmons (Los Angeles) and Carmen Tracey (Cleveland) and emceed by the shamefully effusive Rebecca Alvarez.

Poets from the Language Foundry

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WEDNESDAY, January 9, 8-10pm – Urban Molecule Magazine
Urban Molecule

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Wednesday December 12, 2007

Cup and Pen Small Press Reading Series
presents
Calamari Press

With readings by
Alexandra Chasin,
Robert Lopez
and
Eva Talmadge

Cup and Pen puts Calamari Press back under the looking machine and pulls up the rorschachian images presented by their language-driven magazine sleepingfish. New Pages lit review claims “This is a journal where the swish of the cat’s tail might be appreciated for its metonymical qualities before the cat suddenly leaps off the balcony and into a cloud.” Readings by Alexandra Chasin, Robert Lopez and Eva Talmadge are prescribed by those who care and want to see you reconnect with your inner beauty-maker.

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Wednesday November 7th, 2007

Cup and Pen Small Press Reading Series
presents
Calamari Press
With readings by
Michael Peters
and
Be Blank Consort

November is celebrate-your-local-experimental-poetry-hero and we’re showing solidarity by inviting the soul-saving Be Blank Consort to perform solo readings of text poetry as well as group performances of collaborative sound and visual poetry. The night is lead by core members John M. Bennett, K.S. Ernst, Scott Helmes, Sheila E. Murphy, and Michael Peters. This not-to-be-missed performance will be followed by the you’d-have-to-not-be a fan-of-multi-media-specatcularness-to-miss-this performance by Michael Peters reading from the Vaast Bin (Calamari, 2007).

http://www.calamaripress.com
http://sleepingfish.net

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Wednesday October 10th, 2007

Cup and Pen Small Press Reading Series
presents
the Barnard Zine Library: a One-Two Zine Reading and Zine Making Event Combination
(and we saved you ringside seats)~

Leaning into the romantic chill of a new fall, we are more than amped to announce that the Barnard Zine Library will be making literary smores overs the flame of our passion! Join us for a one two combination where you’re smacked down with a collection of women zinsters reading from their work and helped up again with a zine making event (materials provided)! Readings by Sabrina Chapadjiev, Cliterature, Jennie Rose Halperin, So, you’re a Freshman? Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love college, (Think’s own!) Besty Housten, You Should Know, and Tya Kagamas i am the city. No one walks away without an ear full of opinions and a hand sticky with gluestick. Expertly curated by zine librarians Halle Kiefer and Jenna Freedman and dutifully emceed by Rebecca Alvarez.

http://barnardzines.livejournal.com

If you missed Barnard’s exciting zine reading and zine making workshop
http://barnardzines.livejournal.com/17695.html here is your chance to at least see what everyone was wearing http://flickr.com/photos/jennafreedman/tags/cupandpen

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Saturday, September 8th 2007

Cup and Pen Small Press Reading Series
presents
The Cup and Pen Small Small Press Fair, 2007

Readings from Belladonna Books, Litmus Press, Booklyn Artist Alliance, Sona Books, Ballyhoo Stories, Hotel St. George Press, The Lowbrow Reader and Heeb Magazine may not only give you a varied look at some of the most exciting writing and work coming out of independent presses today, it may just save your soul. Respectfully emceed by Rebecca Alvarez.
2:10pm- 2:30pm Belladonna Books
2:40pm- 3:00pm Litmus Press
3:10pm- 3:30pm Booklyn Artist Alliance
3:40pm- 4:00pm Sona Books
4:10pm- 4:30pm Ballyhoo Stories
4:40pm- 5:00pm Hotel St. George Press
5:10pm- 5:30pm The Lowbrow Reader
5:40pm- 6:00pm Heeb Magazine

www.thinkcoffeenyc.com
www.belladonnabooks.blogspot .com
www.litmuspress.org
www.booklyn.org
www. sonaweb.net
www.ballyhoostories.com
www.hotelstgeorgepress.com
www.lowbrowreader.com
www.heebmagazine.com