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STARS ARE SYMBOLS | www.StarsAreSymbols.org
GALLERY SHOW & READING EXHIBITION on WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7TH

6:00 pm – 7:30 pm: Drink To Support Contemporary Literature!
Great Divide Beer will start flowing at 6 pm. All proceeds will be donated to several literary journals who call Colorado home.

7:30 pm – 9:30 pm: Stars are Symbols (Unofficial) AWP Off-site Reading!
Featuring galleried new work by the following writers (an asterisk indicates the author will be giving a live reading): Emily Anderson, Nicolette Bond*, Daniel Borzutsky*, David Bowen*, Matthew Cooperman*, Carina Gia Farrero, John Gallaher*, Mary Hamilton, Brendan Healy, Shawn Huelle*, Adam D Jameson, Charles Malone*, Rico Moore*, Drew Nolte, Adi Nott, Jenifer Park, Caryl Pagel, Adam Peterson*, Bin Ramke, Dylan Scholinski, Susan Tepper*, Michelle Taransky, G. C. Waldrep, Janelle Welsh*, Jake Adam York*.

Also featuring the research artifacts and derivations by the following scientists: Athanasios Petridis, Greg Ver Steeg, Sarah Ragan, Mark Piper, Derek Lamb, Jamie Lomax, Azure Avery, Christian Fritz, Alan Calder, M. Leila Mays, John Debes, Jonathan Sowder, and Charles Nelson.

The Other Side Arts Gallery
1644 Platte Street
Denver, Colorado 80202-1124

EVEN IF YOU CAN’T MAKE THE APRIL 7TH EVENT, PLEASE DROP BY TO SEE STARS ARE SYMBOLS DURING OPEN GALLERY HOURS: TUESDAY – SATURDAY, NOON to 5 PM, APRIL 2 – APRIL 30.

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Lost Roads Press + Horse Less Press Reading
Thursday April 8
@ the Denver MCA
1485 Delgany Street

Doors open at 6:30, readings begin at 7 p.m.

Help us celebrate the re-issue of Frank Stanford’s Conditions Uncertain and Likely to Pass Away and the arrival of New Pony: A Horse Less Anthology.

With readings by:
C.D. Wright Forrest Gander Adam Clay Matthew Henriksen Cynthia Arrieu-King Sommer Browning Julia Cohen Bruce Covey Nate Slawson Jennifer Denrow Eric Baus Andrea Rexilius Shawn Huelle Jess Wigent Sarah Bartlett Joseph Wood Jen Tynes & Susan Scarlata

Come out and support independent, contemporary literature!

New Pony: A Horse Less Anthology is now available for purchase from Horse Less Press!

It is chock full of good writing by wonderful people like Erik Anderson, Cynthia Arrieu-King & Kristi Maxwell, Sarah Bartlett & Emily Kendal Frey, Eric Baus & Seth Perlow, Sommer Browning & Brandon Shimoda, Adam Clay, Gary L. McDowell, and Brandon Shimoda, Julia Cohen & Mathias Svalina, Thomas Cook & Nate Slawson, Bruce Covey & Terita Heath-Wlaz, MTC Cronin & Peter Boyle, Mark DeCarteret, DZ Delgado & Sandy Florian, Jennifer K. Dick, Camille Dungy & Ravi Shankar, Annie Finch & Erika Howsare, Shawn Huelle & Jess Wigent, Kirk Keen, The Pines, Seth Perlow & Catherine Theis, Dani Rado, Andrea Rexilius & Susan Scarlata, Kate Schapira, Paul Siegell, Justin Taylor & Bill Hayward, and William Walsh.

It also features a cover designed by me!

Buy a copy today and support independent publishing, as well as experimental, meaningful, and fun writing!

 

(There will also be a celebratory reading on April 8 at the MCA Denver! More on that soon!)

1. a text (“Under such an agreement, play proceeds, and a faintly flawed ennui comes to be.”)

2. a song (“Disneyland is a perfect model of all entangled orders of simulacra”)

3. a short film (“They said there was no maker. They said we were the maker.”)

I would love it if you came.

You should come.

Despite his twentieth-century notoriety, Tutankhamen is considered a minor king. I think Frank Sinatra was buried with a tootsie roll, a roll of quarters, other New Jersey artifacts. I keep telling Rohini they should put a change machine in the laundry room. It’s 2008 and I’m 29 years old.

According to Sartre the activity of consciousness is a constant reappraisal of the past in the light of a projected future. In this sense, fiction is revealed as the most popular form of immortality. I don’t think I’m going to explain this any further.

Link: http://rememberedmapsatartlab.wordpress.com/

See you there!

The romantic novel can manifest the continuity of forms of the poetic absolute—and it can give individuality to this absolute—because it has discovered the absolutely dissolving power of prose. Prose signified, for the romantics, the potential for indefinite encompassment that defies all conceptual thought and all systematic construction of the absolute. The romantics found this signification in the following manner. In the first, ordinary sense, prose refers to speech without poetic meter, speech close to ordinary speech, ungebundene Rede. However, as Gasché comments, “in addition to its proper meaning, prose has a figural, improper meaning, namely prosaic, plain, ordinary, sober. Furthermore, this improper meaning cannot properly be distinguished from the proper. But it is this very lack of differentiation, this ambiguity of meaning, that predestines prose to become the comprehensible manifestation of the Absolute.”
—Piotr Parlej, The Romantic Theory of the Novel, pp32-3

Where should I keep a heart? I have forgotten that I have one. Certainly it is sad, but how should I find it proper to feel sorrow? One feels sorrow only when one has lost money, or when one’s new hat does not fit well, or when one’s holdings on the stock exchange drop, and even then one has to ask if that is sorrow or not, and on closer inspection it is not, it is only a fleeting regret, which vanishes like the wind. It is, no, how can I put it now—it is marvelously strange to have no feelings in this way, not to know at all what an emotion is. Feelings which concern one’s own person, everyone has these, and they are at root despicable ones, presumptuous ones if they relate to humanity as a whole. But feelings for particular people? Of course, one sometimes would like to ask oneself about this, one feels something like a slight longing to become a good, compliant person, but when could one manage it? Perhaps at seven in the morning, or some other time? Already on Friday, and right through the Saturday following, I am wondering what to do on Sunday, since on Sunday something always has to be done. —Robert Walser, “Helbling’s Story”