Event: Dovetail Down The House LAUNCH PARTY!




Saturday, Nov. 5th at 7pm
at
Brickbat Books:
Kallie Fallandays'
Dovetail Down The House
Book Launch

Dovetail Down The House LAUNCH PARTY!
http://burnsidereview.org/dovetail-down-the-house/

Kallie Falandays will be reading from her new book of poetry, "Dovetail Down The House"

Also reading will be:
Andres Cerpa
Colin Schmidt
Evan Gill Smith
Ariel Yelen

Praise for DOVETAIL DOWN THE HOUSE:
Dovetail Down the House
By Kallie Falandays
“I like the arrogant flick of love in these words. Tactile, muscled, and angry with desire, these poems reach for you. If you’re alone at the end of this book it’s because you dove from love’s edge and you have chosen your loneliness.”
—Emily Kendal Frey

“Techno-savvy though she is, Kallie Falandays loves paper (references to it frame Dovetail Down the House) but often it’s not poems on paper that remind me of her so much, but artwork: the fantastical, perspective-reorienting work of, say, Escher and Chagall. And from that intriguingly parallel universe, Falandays casts her eye back on our own, investigating the highs and lows of fever-heat passion so intensely, she could blister the wall paint off an Escher house and set Chagall’s winged goats and upside-down cows to dancing their hooves off. Watch out! ‘The wind./Coming to eat you.'”
—Albert Goldbarth

“This book tells me that letters on a page are the ghostly dust of one’s own body, ‘the opposite side of [one’s] skin.’ On these pages, an ocean bleeds its rain. On these pages, ‘we wolf the burn.’ When we flip one particular page’s table over, we can naughtily and hauntingly and sadly rub its legs. Dovetail Down the House is an essay on grief (in poems) and a haunted-house-opera (even though the book inquires about ‘the opposite of opera’) and a making of a lovely-as-lips body out of text, a zombie lover/a window in the mouth. Kallie Falandays writes, ‘Your face was dripping in my head all morning’ and I think that this is the most perfect articulation of grief and sadness and weight. And like Falandays, I deeply feel ‘the sadness of not being able to be nothing’ even as I revel in material reality: doorknobs and vampire movies and bedsheets and how ‘everyone everywhere is twirling their hair.'”
—Olivia Cronk

Event: Lyuba Yakimchuk




This Saturday, Oct 29th
at 7pm
at
Brickbat Books:
Lyuba Yakimchuk
(Ukraine, author of Apricots of Donbas)



Lyuba Yakimchuk, a Ukrainian poet, screenwriter and journalist, was born in Pervomaisk, Luhansk oblast, Ukraine. She is the author of several full-length poetry collections, including Like FASHION and Apricots of Donbas, and the film script for The Building of the Word.

Ms. Yakimchuk has received many literary awards, including the International Slavic Poetic Award, the Bohdan-Ihor Antonych Prize and the Smoloskyp Prize, three of Ukraine’s most prestigious awards for young poets. She is the winner of the International Literary Contest "Coronation of the Word". Her poems have appeared in journals in Ukraine, USA, Sweden, Germany, Poland, Israel, Lithuania, and Belarus. Her poems have been translated into English, Swedish, German, French, Polish, Hebrew, Slovak, Lithuanian, Slovenian, Belarusian and Russian, and her essays into English and Swedish.

She performs in a musical and poetic duet with the Ukrainian double bass player Mark Tokar; their projects include Apricots of Donbas and Women, Smoke, and Dangerous Things. Her poetry has been performed by the singer Mariana Sadovska (Cologne) and improvised by vocalist Olesya Zdorovetska (Dublin).

Lyuba Yakimchuk also works as a cultural manager. She organized the "Semenko Year" project (2012) dedicated to the Ukrainian futurist writer Mykahil’ Semenko, and was curator for the literary programs Cultural Forum "Donkult" (2015, Lviv) and Cultural Forum “GaliciaKult” (2016, Kharkiv).

She lives in Kyiv. 


Readings will be in both Ukrainian and English.

Related Links:

http://www.wordswithoutborders.org/contributor/lyuba-yakimchuk

http://harriman.columbia.edu/event/contemporary-ukrainian-literature-series-decomposition-lyuba-yakimchuk

http://starylev.com.ua/abrykosy-donbasu

https://abrykosy-donbasu.bandcamp.com/

Event: Mule Salon Poetry Tour with Justin Boening, Sarah Blake, Steven Kleinman & Elizabeth Scanlon



Friday, September 23rd at 7pm
at
Brickbat Books:
Mule Salon Poetry Tour


Enthusiasts of Philadelphia!

Meet up with Justin Boening as he moseys across the country in his VW Van (aka the Mule), reading from his debut, 'Not on the Last Day, but on the Very Last.'

In Philly, Boening joins raucous fellow thieves Sarah Blake, Steven Kleinman, and Elizabeth Scanlon, for a night of clarified confusion and wonderment!

Refreshments will be joining too!

7pm
Brickbat Books
709 S 4th St
Philadelphia, PA 19147

SARAH BLAKE is the author of Mr. West, an unauthorized lyric biography of Kanye West, out with Wesleyan University Press. Named After Death, her first chapbook, is forthcoming from Banango Editions with an illustrated companion workbook. Her poems have appeared in The Kenyon Review, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Threepenny Review, and many others. She was awarded an NEA Literature Fellowship for poetry in 2013. She lives outside of Philadelphia with her husband and son.

JUSTIN BOENING is the winner of the National Poetry Series for his debut collection, Not on the Last Day, but on the Very Last. He is also a recipient of a Discovery/Boston Review Poetry Prize, a Bucknell University Stadler Fellowship, and a Poetry Society of America National Chapbook Fellowship for his chapbook, Self-Portrait as Missing Person. Boening’s poems have appeared in Boston Review, Copper Nickel, Kenyon Review Online, Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly, and Narrative Magazine, among others. He’s a co-founding editor of Horsethief Books.

STEVEN KLEINMAN’s work has appeared in Devil’s Lake, The Collagist, Horsethief, and Hidden City Review. He lives in Philadelphia where he is a founding member of the Philadelphia Poetry Collaboration. He teaches at Drexel University and the Community College of Philadelphia and is the assistant editor at Saturnalia Books.

ELIZABETH SCANLON is the author of two chapbooks: The Brain Is Not the United States/The Brain Is the Ocean (The Head & The Hand Press, 2016) and Odd Regard (Ixnay Press, 2013). Her poems, for which she has received a Pushcart Prize, have appeared in many magazines including Boston Review, Ploughshares, Colorado Review, Crazyhorse, Poetry London, and others. She is the Editor of The American Poetry Review and lives in Philadelphia.

The Air Is On!



The a/c is on all day, 11am to 7pm, Tuesday thru Sunday.

Brickbat Closed July 3rd & 4th!



Brickbat will be closed Sunday, July 3rd & Monday July 4th. We will reopen Tuesday, July 5th at 11am.
Happy holiday!

Event: C Joynes & Jesse Sparhawk



This Tuesday, June 28 at 8 pm

at

Brickbat Books

C Joynes  & Jesse Sparhawk



 

C Joynes (solo guitar) / Jesse Sparkhawk (solo harp)

Facebook Event Link

(by Donation)

C Joynes

First US tour for elusive British guitarist, June 2016

C Joynes is one of the UK’s most inventive and highly regarded solo guitarists. Over the last 10 years he has recorded a string of acclaimed albums exploring the fault-lines between traditional music, field-recordings from around the world, free improv and lo-fi experimentalism. His most recent album, ‘Split Electric’ (2016), a collaboration with Nick Jonah Davis, finds him blending the brittle ringing tones of electric folk with overdriven garage blues throw-downs and lumbering muddy-booted psychedelia. This is his first US tour.

“An inheritor to Davy Graham; a lone operator prone to unexpected collaborations, with a repertoire that crosses continents and timezones with consummate ease, and dashed off with a phenomenal, yet lightly applied technique.” ROB YOUNG, THE WIRE

“As much Conlon Nancarrow and Ali Farka Toure as Blind Lemon Jefferson, the compositional mind at work here can take apparently disparate threads of modernism and ethnic tradition and treat them as though they were all archaic blues styles learnt from dusty 78s.” BRUCE RUSSELL, THE WIRE

“His epigrammatic re-castings and re-readings of widely-travelled folk melodies and rhythms from a variety of traditions suggest shared memories that might be intensely universal while seeming strangely out of reach.” KEVIN MACNEIL BROWN, DUSTED MAGAZINE


Audio

https://soundcloud.com/cwkjoynes1/triennale-new-peasant-shirt


Video

Electric: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWDbO40_a00

Acoustic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrlklaghCnM


Weblinks

http://cjoynes.tumblr.com/

http://cjoynes.bandcamp.com/

https://www.facebook.com/pages/C-Joynes/267434943288582


 
 
Jesse Sparhawk

Jesse Sparhawk is a multiinstrumentalist, composer, and improviser whose instruments include harp, guitar, and electric bass. His harp study began at the age of 10 with then recently retired principal harpist of the New York Philharmonic, Myor Rosen, as well as with the head of the harp department of Eastman School of Music, Kathleen Bride. Sparhawk has over 40 recording credits to his name performing various instruments with many solo performers and groups, is a regular member of the psych/folk group Fern Knight, and has recorded and performed with acclaimed producer Tony Visconti.

jessesparhawk.bandcamp.com/
 
 
 
 
 

Event: This Thursday: Ian Svenonius presents "Censorship Now!!!"



Thursday, June 16th
at 8pm
at 
Brickbat:
Ian Svenonius!

Facebook Event Link

Indie rock legend, author and raconteur Ian F Svenonius (Nation of Ulysses, Make-Up, Chain and the Gang) will be holding forth at Brickbat Books.

Copies of his third and latest book, "Censorship Now!!!" will be available for sale. Stop by and say "yeh"


Event: Tonight, Shawn Kilroy





Tonight, Friday, June 10th
at 7pm
at
Brickbat Books:
Shawn Kilroy

Brickbat is hosting Philly's own streetwise art-pop troubadour, Shawn Kilroy, who has a great new solo project, Al Pinocchio's Men. Join us for this excellent performance!

Facebook Event Link

June Events

Thursday, June 2,  at 7 pm 

OXFORD COMA: Poetry Is Dead {Nihilism}

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Oxford Coma is a new reading series based in Philadelphia. This inaugural installation's theme is NIHILISM... The bleak, the black, the melancholy and misanthropic, and other splendors of emptiness. All are welcome...or whatever.

Poetry is dead. And we have killed it. There is no value to what has come before us but what value we've assigned to it for ourselves, and for the world. For our world was born out of judgement and cynicism. For our universe is a vast and vacuous void. And poetry is just as empty as that void, and just as beautiful, and just as dark. Our words mean nothing. Let's make it count.

Featuring readings by:

$Ø...or donation

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Friday, June 3 at 6 pm

Meghan Turbitt and Beth Heinly comic book signing

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Philadelphia Sketchbook, by Meghan Turbitt
meghanturbitt.tumblr.com

Camp, a horor comic by Beth Heinly
the30clockbook.tumblr.com


 

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Friday, June 10 at 7 pm

Shawn Kilroy: in-store performance

Facebook Event Link

Brickbat is hosting Philly's own streetwise art-pop troubadour, Shawn Kilroy, who has a great new solo project, All Pinocchio's Men. Join us for this excellent performance!



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Thursday, June 16 at 8 pm

Ian Svenonius presents "Censorship Now!!!"

Facebook Event Link

Indie rock legend, author and raconteur Ian F Svenonius (Nation of Ulysses, Make-Up, Chain and the Gang) will be holding forth at Brickbat Books.

Copies of his third and latest book, "Censorship Now!!!" will be available for sale. Stop by and say "yeh"




 
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Tuesday, June 28 at 8 pm

C Joynes (solo guitar) / Jesse Sparkhawk (solo harp)

Facebook Event Link

Donation

C Joynes

First US tour for elusive British guitarist, June 2016

C Joynes is one of the UK’s most inventive and highly regarded solo guitarists. Over the last 10 years he has recorded a string of acclaimed albums exploring the fault-lines between traditional music, field-recordings from around the world, free improv and lo-fi experimentalism. His most recent album, ‘Split Electric’ (2016), a collaboration with Nick Jonah Davis, finds him blending the brittle ringing tones of electric folk with overdriven garage blues throw-downs and lumbering muddy-booted psychedelia. This is his first US tour.

“An inheritor to Davy Graham; a lone operator prone to unexpected collaborations, with a repertoire that crosses continents and timezones with consummate ease, and dashed off with a phenomenal, yet lightly applied technique.” ROB YOUNG, THE WIRE

“As much Conlon Nancarrow and Ali Farka Toure as Blind Lemon Jefferson, the compositional mind at work here can take apparently disparate threads of modernism and ethnic tradition and treat them as though they were all archaic blues styles learnt from dusty 78s.” BRUCE RUSSELL, THE WIRE

“His epigrammatic re-castings and re-readings of widely-travelled folk melodies and rhythms from a variety of traditions suggest shared memories that might be intensely universal while seeming strangely out of reach.” KEVIN MACNEIL BROWN, DUSTED MAGAZINE


Audio

https://soundcloud.com/cwkjoynes1/triennale-new-peasant-shirt


Video

Electric: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWDbO40_a00

Acoustic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrlklaghCnM


Weblinks

http://cjoynes.tumblr.com/

http://cjoynes.bandcamp.com/

https://www.facebook.com/pages/C-Joynes/267434943288582




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Jesse Sparhawk

Jesse Sparhawk is a multiinstrumentalist, composer, and improviser whose instruments include harp, guitar, and electric bass. His harp study began at the age of 10 with then recently retired principal harpist of the New York Philharmonic, Myor Rosen, as well as with the head of the harp department of Eastman School of Music, Kathleen Bride. Sparhawk has over 40 recording credits to his name performing various instruments with many solo performers and groups, is a regular member of the psych/folk group Fern Knight, and has recorded and performed with acclaimed producer Tony Visconti.

jessesparhawk.bandcamp.com/


Event: Tompkin's Squares's Josh Rosenthal & Chris Forsyth






Thursday, April 7th , 6:30PM
at
Brickbat Books:
Tompkin's Square's Josh Rosenthal 
Reads from his book
A Record Store Of The Mind
with special guest
Chris Forsyth 

"One of the most thoroughly enjoyable, informative, wise and good-hearted books ever written about music and the industry"
-- MOJO * * * * 4 STARS 
"What pulls its disparate elements together is the accommodating warmth and wit of his writing and the wealth of great stories he has to tell"
-- UNCUT 8/10
"Josh Rosenthal is a record man's record man. He is also a musician's record man. He is in the line of Samuel Charters and Harry Smith. In this age where we have access to everything and know the value of nothing, musicians need people like Josh to hear them when no one else can."   
- T Bone Burnett
Grammy-nominated producer and Tompkins Square label founder Josh Rosenthal presents his first book, The Record Store of the Mind. Part memoir, part "music criticism," the author ruminates over unsung musical heroes, reflects on thirty years of toil and fandom in the music business, and shamelessly lists some of the LPs in his record collection. Crackling with insightful untold stories, The Record Store of the Mind will surely delight and inspire passionate music lovers ... especially those who have spent way too many hours in record stores.
Celebrating ten years in 2015, Rosenthal's San Francisco-based independent record label Tompkins Square has received seven Grammy nominations and wide acclaim for its diverse catalog of new and archival recordings.


Chris Forsyth

Chris Forsyth is a lauded guitarist and composer whose work assimilates art-rock textures with vernacular American influences.  Long active in underground circles, he’s recently released a string of acclaimed records of widescreen guitar rock, and in 2013, he assembled The Solar Motel Band, who have quickly developed a reputation as an incredible live act, provoking ecstatic comparisons to visionary artists such as Television, The Grateful Dead, Popul Vuh, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, and Richard Thompson.