Tonight- June 3rd

Special Guest Emma Gomis will be playing at the reading tonight. She’s in town for a short time from Portland, Oregon and has talent which soars far beyond the average the eighteen year old musician/poet.

NEWS: After All We Only Listened To The Refrigerator Hum…, the first book of published poetry by Emily Owens will be having its release party on Wednesday, June 25th at the Burnt Toast, beginning at eight p.m. – special guests will soon be announced.

NEXT WEEK: Micheal Jones, Local Poet will be featuring at An Untitled Piece Open Poetry and Acoustics- June 10th- 7:30 pm- Mark it on your calenders folks, you don’t want to miss this!

May 27th

Thanks to all those who came out tonight despite the rainy cold of an outdoor reading! Your perseverance and dedication to the your local, as well as personal art is something greatly admired!

Tonight- I have just realized that Baobob Tree Press DOES have a website….which is exactly: Right Here

Next Weeks Featured Poet is Emily Owens, local poet and host of An Untitled Piece Poetry- in light of her June-to-be-published book of poems- who will be published by none other than Baobob Tree Press- she’ll be reading some of the poems from the upcoming “After All We Only Ever Listened to The Refrigerator Hum” as well some new poems.

And, for all of you looking for something to do on Wednesday- The Great Jack Collom will be featuring at the Burnt Toast Reading May 28th (tomorrow) at 8:30 PM- on the hill….directly across the street from The Sink.

Misprint on Daily Camera Event Listing….

To those whom are here by referral from The Daily Camera, I apologize that the location seems to be misprinted as the Tri Elk Lodge– the readings are in fact held at the Trident Cafe (940 Pearl Street) On West Pearl just right off of Ninth Street- I’m hoping to get the misprint fixed as soon as possible and apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you.

Life On Mars?

Well Ladies and Gentleman, the unmanned spaceship that took off to Mars today- landed…safely. Which was NASA’s big concern. I’m really excited about it, I know its not quite Neil Armstrong landing on the moon, but my particular generation wasn’t around for that one. So I suppose this is the closest we can get to that particular phenomenon at this time. True- it was unmanned- but still….awesome.

Anyways. Just wanted to inform all who may have possibly missed it.

TUESDAY NIGHT: LEROI JONES NIGHT-

See ya there!

Upcoming Up.

JUNE 27th:

FEATURING: The Great Leroi Jones, who now goes by the name of Amiri Baraka…

If you haven’t picked up a book of his yet, I highly suggest you do that now.

(a limited amount of reading material will be available, we’ll have The Dead Lecturer and Tales with us, so if you feel like participating in reading some Leroi Jones between local poets please feel free to bring some of his work.

JUNE 3rd: Your host, Emily Owens who is soon to be publishing her first book by way of Baobob Tree Press.  She’ll be reading a mix of new poems as well as those in the upcoming chap book.

June 10th features Local Poet Micheal Jones. You don’t want to  miss this. He’s brilliant.

And tomorrow, of course, is the long awaited Tribute To Charles Bukowski-

Reading material will be available (though I really wish i had a projection screen, a laptop and the ability to show Bukowski reading his own poems) Available Texts at the reading will be: Sometimes You Get So Alone It Just Makes Sense, Sifting Through the Madness To Find the Line, The Word, The Way, Tales of Ordinary Madness, and Pleasures of the Damned. You’re more than welcome to bring your own, or read out of these if you so choose.

We’re currently taking requests for features, be it you as a local poet, or a most usually dead and well versed poet- if you have any suggestions please send them along.

Nex-t We/ek.

Next Week’s Featured Dead Poet: (May 20th)

Charles Bukowski!

Unclassical Symphony:

The cat murdered

in the middle of the street

tire-crushed

now it is nothing

and neither are

we

as

we look away.

The Double Obituary…

To start this article, I would like to state that I do want to start this article. Or rather, I do not want reason to start this article… Unfortunately the new “Boulder Way” is just going on..and on. Persevering and quickly conquering… Two bookstores this month have fallen to defeat by the hike in rents, or the simple fact of the matter that everyone flocks to Borders these days to find all the New York Times Bestsellers and leave the obscure, older, and unknown behind…

Our friends, High Crimes Mystery Bookstore, and the soon to be closing Happenstance Books & Curiosities have been sadly defeated by the mentality which has somehow ingrained itself into our small society. High Tech Business Forbes magazines are everywhere, and we watch as the institutions, or newer oddities die out and become lost in the sands of ridiculously view obstructing buildings packed to the nines with expensive housing and corporate play things.

High Crimes Mystery Bookstore, has graced the West End of Pearl Street for as long as I can remember, focusing on a genre of a popular past, and consistently holding Author Meet & Greets, something to remind us that Nancy Drew is still alive in each one of us, that instead of watching Law & Order for six hours straight we could still exercise our vocabulary and pick up a beautifully dark and mysterious piece of fiction to get lost in. They officially closed their doors to the public on March 15th, and are now online: Here, no longer gracing the landscape of 9th and Pearl, but instead succumbing to the Amazon-Barnes & Noble-speed the world has propelled into…

Which is the exact same thing that is about to happen to the rustic, collaged, beautiful store of Oddities, Happenstance. On May 31st, the young but reminiscent bookstore will be shutting it’s doors, emptying it’s shelves and entering the online world of Antiquarian Books, no longer gracing us with it’s mismatched presence, bricks, and great worlds made inside of Wine Boxes. If you have the chance to, I highly suggest taking the few dollars you have in your pocket and immediately visiting them before you can no longer do so. The shelves are covered in various old magazines, fiction, classics, rare, and out of print books (including the first edition boxed “Coney Island Of The Mind”) poetry, postcards, clippings and oddities you wouldn’t be able to find anywhere else. They’re located at 1831 Pearl Street, just down the street from where Penny Lane once was. They are currently having a moving sale, which will continue until the last day, with large discounts and certain buy one get one frees’. If you can, please, please do.

Rest In Peace my friends. We’re all trying to stop the pattern, and I only pray this plague won’t spread to the few Independent Bookstores that still grace our presences.

Trout. All Trout.

In light of the fact that tomorrow evening is Richard Brautigan Night, and being your host I will confess that he happens to be my single favorite author- I shall post a poem in dedication-

“Sometimes, you’re walking in a stream of trout

and you try really hard to see other things

but all you can see are trout,

I give up.

I will never be happy.”

NEXT WEEKS FEATURE is local poet Max Taylor, proud new creator of B.O.R.B. Magazine which you may have seen floating about Boulder recently- with poems sounding something like a beatnik pirate met slam poetry and created an eco-concious, in love chainsmoker, attempting to quit smoking while all the while wondering what the whole crazy planet spins for- or around…Max is also currently commandeering Cafe Babu events and the interiors of the shoppe itself. Come check him out on the 13th, Tuesday Night, as part of An Untitled Piece…

In other news: Calling to all musicians in Boulder- The beloved Robb’s Music Store is soon moving to a different location, soon to be 30th street, and are currently having an incredible sale on all their merchandise- so if you happen to need to restring your guitars, buy new picks, or pick up the drum set your mother never let you have- now is the time. I suggest you go before they become difficult to get to by foot.

And…the last tidbit of information for the night… The Sandbox Poets Press, a small magazine put out for and by An Untitled Piece Poets is delayed by a week due to your host living a busy life with a small wallet- sorry for anyone who was biting their fingernails in anticipation- it’ll be one more week and a couple more trips to the copy store.

See you all tomorrow night for a trout reading with Richard Brautigan.

Reading material will be available and please, don’t bring any dead fish. Just poems, instruments, voices and ears.

Next up on the poetry roster:
Richard Brautigan Night! May 6th!

*Reading Material will be available for your browsing or on stage reading pleasure.

ALSO: Sandbox Poets Publication—will have its first official publication (hopefully) arriving this Tuesday- it’s a small zine with An Untitled Piece’s upcoming events, baobob tree press releases, poems, drawings and other good stuff for you and the world around you.

News:

The season is off to a great start so far, with new faces arriving and more music than previously performed. I can’t help but give a large thanks to Mike Smith, Mark Inman, Trident Cafe, Rob Geisen and Olatundji for all their help.

NEXT WEEKS FEATURE: ROB GEISEN, you may know him as the co-founder of the BURNT TOAST poetry readings as well as the editor of Illiterate Magazine, a great poet notorious for his stabs at heartbreak and passion for zombies. He’s releasing a book this Friday, “Avenge Me”, as part of the Get In The Car, Helen series at Albums Bistro on The Hill at eight o’clock p.m. Ten Dollars gets you a book, an audio CD of his poetry as well as the viewing of live music and intangible things such as joy, fun, and in-explanatory laughter.

Below, you can see what he looks like holding an onion.

IN OTHER NEWS: B.O.R.B. (band of rogue bandits) will now be available at the readings, it is a new semi-monthly zine put out by local poet Max Taylor. It features poems, tips of eco-friendly living (such as bicycles instead of all the oil your cars consume), recommended poetry readings and events in the area and has lovely sewn sides and is well crafted with love. Right now, its growing- thus free, and may soon be 25 cents. I highly recommend picking one up and flipping through it. There’s nothing quite like a dose of boulder from a true Boulderite who isn’t completely lost in the world of italian bicycle racing hot yoga mountain climbing health-o-centric living, but instead, a lover of local art and the community creation and appreciation of its possibilities and exposure.

LINE UP

Rob Geisen- April 29th

Richard Brautigan- May 6th

Max Taylor- May 13th

Charles Bukowski- May 20th

Leroi Jones- May 27th