Reminder: 9/18/08 U*Space Gallery Reading

Doors open at 7:00 pm Performances start at 7:30 pm "FREE" To The Public

U*Space Gallery Reading

U*Space Gallery
439 Edgewood Avenue SE Atlanta, Georgia 30312

9/18/08 ~ 7:30pm

Dustin Brookshire, Genevieve Lyons, & Greg Gimpelevich!



Dustin Brookshire is the founder and editor of Limp Wrist Magazine, which he is proud to promote as an e-zine with queer sensibility. His work has appeared in numerous online journals, including SubtleTea, ToasterMag, and Atlanta Rainbow Muse. Additionally, Dustin has won awards from two state poetry societies. Besides putting words on the page to create poems, he likes to put words on the page to create awareness of issues regarding our elected officials. He's proud that in 2007 his blog made it the floor of Georgia Senate and his call for action resulted in an invitation to the Governor's office.


Genevieve Lyons made her stage debut at the tender age of eight when she appeared in Mrs. Anderson's second grade class production of "Only You Can Prevent Forest Fires." She was The Fire. She thinks the most heart-rending thing ever written might be the spider scene in "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep." Her favorite insect is the ant, and she wants to visit Antarctica.


Greg Gimpelevich is a 23-year-old, Ukrainian-born Atlanta transplant living in the bitchin' party-town known as Marietta. Having become a graduate, he does nothing relating to his degree. In light of this, he has been disowned by his parents and from the Jewish nation for not having become a doctor and/or lawyer. Although he enjoys writing "Saved By The Bell" fan-fiction in his spare time, riddled with the sort of teenage angst you may find symptomatic of a 14-year-old boy with an unquenchable thirst to see Kelly Kapauski in a two-piece string bikini, he now works as a photographer.

Savannah Yesterday

OK.

It is way too early for me to write in detail about the day drip to Savannah, the work, and reading; however, I have to say I had a great deal of much needed fun yesterday. The workshop was great and the coffee house was FULL for the reading.

I'm certain the Savannah trip is the window I wrote about yesterday.

MondoDisappointment

Well, I was supposed to be part of the MondoHomo reading this Sunday; however, I have decided not to join some of my fellow poets who happen to be friends. This reading has been thrown together in a matter of weeks, and it is quite disappointing. We received information on our location within one week of the reading. Then the organizer sent a flier to the featured poets yesterday.... yes, a flier on Wednesday to promote an event on Sunday. However, this isn't any Sunday. This is the Sunday of Memorial Day weekend and the Decatur Arts Festival. Unacceptable.

I refuse to have my name attached to something that people claim to care deeply about but only give half effort to make it a reality.

MondoHomo has great potential; however, great potential won't be achieved without organization.

Key West Lit Seminar Open Mic

While at the Key West Literary Seminar, I participated in an open mic. uVu Channel 2 taped a number of the seminar participants and put us online. Click here to see me read a poem by Denise Duhamel and two of my own-- "HIV Barbie" and "Missing Names."

Besides this being my first time having a public recording of me reading, this was my first time being censored. In "Missing Names" the work cocksucker is muted out. What's that about? I say slut and whore....... but cocksucker is muted. Twisted!

If you watch, I hope you enjoy.

Brief Overview of Poetry Night

I think the poetry evening at Outwrite was a success! It was great to see all of the usuals: Collin, Lisa, and Rupert. Franklin Abbott hosted and started off the reading. Then he introduced me-- I started off with three villanelles then read a mix of old and new work. I debuted four new poems and two of the new were brand spanking new. The brand spanking new poems were "Building 412 (1/1/04)" and "The Georgia Baptist Convention Requests a Day of Rain Prayer on 11/4/07." "Building 412 (1/1/04)" is inspired by the AJC's series A HIDDEN SHAME: Death in Georgia's Mental Hospitals, and I am currently working and mapping out other poems on the series. The other new poems were "Wreckage" and "Ivory"... both come from the last section of my chapbook DISORDERS.

Karen Head was absolutely amazing. I loved all of her work, and I am hoping she will submit to Limpwrist because I would be honored to include her in the first issue. Karen read a poem about a breast cancer survivor; I think I'll ask if I can post it in blog. The poem was moving in many ways, but it made me think of two friends who have battled breast cancer. She closed her reading with a dream poem, and in the dream Dolly Parton is her aunt. I was giddy. I plan to ask Karen if I can reprint it in Limpwrist.

I thoroughly enjoyed myself. Remember, support Outwrite because Outwrite supports its community and audience.

Tomorrow Night!

Time: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 8:00 PM

Location: Outwrite Bookstore & Coffeehouse

Phone: 404-607-0082

Title of Event: Poetry Night with Franklin Abbott & Friends

Outwrite hosts the popular Poetry Night with readings by Atlanta poet and host for the evening Franklin Abbott and invited guests. This November edition features poets Dustin Brookshire and Karen Head.

Dustin Brookshire is a poet, activist, eternal student, and part time naughty boy living in Atlanta. Dustin has had work published in numerous online journals, won awards from sate poetry societies, and had his blog recognized on the Senate floor in the Georgia General Assembly.

Karen Head author of Sassing (WordTech Press, forthcoming) and Shadow Boxes (All Nations Press, 2003), will be joining us at Outwrite for our popular poetry night. Karen's poetry has appeared in a number of journals and anthologies. As a scholar of contemporary American Poetry, she has begun to explore the connections between traditional text-based poetry and digitally- enhanced poetry, an exploration that involves her in a number of projects being conducted in the Wesley Center for New Media at Georgia Tech. Her digital poetry was featured at the E-Poetry 2007 festival in Paris.

11/13/07 --- Save the Date

Karen Head
and
Dustin Brookshire

OUTWRITE
TUESDAY EVENING
NOVEMBER 13TH
8 PM
HOSTED BY
FRANKLIN ABBOTT

Karen Head is the author of Sassing
and Shadow Boxing.
Her digital poetry was featured
at the E-Poetry 2007 Festival in Paris.
She teaches at Georgia Tech.

Dustin Brookshire is a poet, activist
eternal student and part time naughty boy.
His chapbook, Disorders,
is in search of a publisher.
His online magazine, LIMPWRIST,
is on the verge of launching issue 1.
Find him at
www.dbrookshire.blogspot.com

OUTWRITE BOOKSTORE AND COFFEEHOUSE
is located at 10th and Piedmont
www.outwritebooks.com
404-607-0082

THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO ALL.
COMING UP IN 2008
Jim Elledge
author of A History of My Tattoo



www.atlantarainbowmuse.com
www.theninthmuse.com

(stolen from Franklin's email)

Mark Your Calendar -- 11/13/07

In his quarterly reading series at Outwrite, Franklin Abbott, is featuring me and poet Karen Head on Tuesday, November 13, 2007. I plan to read new work and talk about the chapbook, DISORDERS.

Save the dates for the FirstAtlanta GLBTQ Literary Festival. Click here for my blog entry with the dates, times, and line up. Don't forget, I'm scheduled to read on Saturday.