Wednesday April 1 @ 7 pm

The Scarab Club

 217 E. Farnsworth @ John R., Detroit

Born in Evanston, Illinois, Robinson is a graduate of Yale College. In 1974, he published the one‐shot poetry magazine Streets and Roads, where for the first time work by such poets as Barrett Watten, Ron Silliman, Rae Armantrout, and Bob Perelman appeared alongside that of  Alan Bernheimer, Steve Benson, Carla Harryman and Merrill Gilfillan. In the 1970s and 1980s, he performed with San Francisco Poets Theater, produced “In the American Tree: New Writing by Poets,” a weekly radio program of live readings and interviews on KPFA radio in Berkeley with Lyn Hejinian, and curated the Tassajara Bakery poetry reading series Tom Mandel.

He has published seventeen books of poetry, including, The Crave (2002 Atelos) and most recently an anthology of his work entitled The Messianic Trees: Selected 1976-2003 Poems  (2008 Adventures in Poetry). His work has also appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines.

The event is co-sponsored by Springfed Arts: Metro Detroit Writers. Admission is free.

For more information please call (313) 831-1250.

The Woodward Line poetry series has changed locations and now takes place at the Scarab Club* (217 E. Farnsworth at John  R. in Detroit). The series is still held on Wednesdays @ 7 pm. For more information please call (313) 831-1250.

Upcoming events:

April 1: Kit Robinson

May 20: Bill Harris, Lynn Crawford and James LaCroix*

June 17:Ted Pearson, Tyrone Williams and Carla Harryman

*The May 20 show takes place at the Museum of Contemporary Art-Detroit (MOCAD) @ 4454 Woodward, Detroit.

Friday, January 30th, at the Detroit Artists Market (4719 Woodward @ Forest)

7pm   Free Admission

white print inc (poets collective)  is proud to announce the release of it’s 2nd title, Kim D Hunter’s The Edge of the Time Zone, along with the 2nd issue of Listen-  an experimental zine dedicated to emerging unknown and more established poets, as well as the re-release of Being.Still by Jhon Clark.

Reading from their selections of the debut of Listen will be:

Mirinda Fleenary, Audra Kubat, James La Croix

Reading from the new issue will be:

Scott Farrow, David Sands, Anita Schmaltz and Carly Sachs (read by James Hart III)

Snacks, juice, cheap beer and wine will be available for donation (or not) as well as white print inc’s releases will all be displayed and on sale.

PLEASE SUPPORT LOCAL POETS AND THIS PROJECT!

We will head over to Motor City Brewing Works around 10 pm after the reading

The Woodward Line, formerly Poetry at the Zeitgeist, has functioned as Detroit’s only independent nationally visible venue.  Its focus fluctuates between new avant-garde work, to the well established post-modern language school.  Submissions for the ‘09-10 season will be accepted until the end of Sept. ‘09.

white print inc  1229 Hubbard   Detroit, MI   48209

-James Hart III, editor.

The first issue of Listen features works from the following authors:

Jhon Clark

Mirinda Fleenary

James Hart III

James La Croix

Audra Kubat

some exerpts:

Jhon Clark

dirty-working-hands do and don’t, now.

the news punctured my love line

a hole appeared

and when both eyes opened, they rained

melting everything

left

placed that one, hand over eye

i saw

an irreplaceable friend, again and again   

Mirinda Fleenary

Ache beautiful.

Flicker Flowers.

Life passes, yes -

Fast and sorrowfully

And the celestial clockworks spin

Above our slowly proceeding vehicle

But for this moment

Briefly -

we are all passengers    

James Hart III

the substitution 

foot holds

small bone

notes,

pond eyes

eyes glass black

backwards

1

polarized?

find your depth.

James La Croix

April’s greening orchard

beds Eve’s apples

bleeding

peels gilt of morning

steals gold rings

rolls them gone.    

Audra Kubat

A cold breath

Comes, a freezer burn

Chrysalis

A lung

Fragile

Fracture

Blue with constriction

The clasped fingers

Turn

Fist to ice…

This month’s notebook, 08-20-08 the untitled clear notebook, seems to be dealing with semblances and assemblances of poems that over-crowd as images and disassemble with the variation of line-breaks, and placement.

James Hart III

Listen, an il-local zine, a quarterly publication,

is white print inc’s new addition.

its focus is to feature our upcoming authors’ work, amongst other unknown, rising, and established poets.

“Listen” will also invite experimental song writers to submit songs or poems that work on the page,We would like to reinvent the idea of “poetry”!

723

the pitch of the world around us

she says, rest some

turn it off

like my im-pulses

were a radio

we should tune

walking outside

my house moves

on two legs

there’s a goat

and birds singing

for their supper

the world I live in

a field of stars

shooting a current

into the earth

raising worms

a song before we’re all eaten

a gift

this

acoustic pilgrimage

helps me sleep

holds me

and keeps me, awake

enough

to listen

if my sole creative act

were that

Being. Still, by Jhon Clark incompasses new literary forms that we here at white print inc are looking forward to be representing both locally and around the country from new writers. At Clarks’ release poets  Nandi Comer, Kim Hunter, and I read to celebrate the opening of this new avante-garde press.