Pete(r) C(herches) NYC Reading Redux, June 25

Pete C · June-13th-2006, 08:43 AM

Peter Cherches & Holly Anderson

read new and seasoned work

Sunday, June 25, 4 PM

$6

@ The Bowery Poetry Club

308 Bowery, New York, NY 10012
212.614.0505

foot of First Street, between Houston & Bleecker
across the street from CBGB
(F train to Second Ave, or 6 train to Bleecker)

Full bar & cafe!

Peter Cherches is the author of two volumes of short prose: Condensed Book and Between a Dream and a Cup of Coffee. His work has recently appeared in the anthologies Poetry 180 and Guys Write for Guys Read. His fiction and short prose work has been featured in a wide range of magazines and journals, including Harper’s, Semiotext(e), Transatlantic Review, Fiction International, and Between C & D. Throughout the ‘80s he was active on the downtown performance scene, appearing at such venues as La Mama, The Performing Garage, The Mudd Club and CBGB, solo as well as with musical collaborators Elliott Sharp and Lee Feldman. From 1977 to 1982 he was editor of the legendary downtown arts journal Zone. Peter Cherches blogs on food and travel at http://petercherches.blogspot.com

Holly Anderson’s literary artist’s books Lily Lou & Sheherezade are in numerous collections, including MOMA, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Victoria & Albert Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Houghton Library at Harvard, and the Alexandria Library in Egypt. Her lyrics have been recorded by Mission of Burma, Consonant, Chris Brokaw, Rhys Chatham, & Lisa B. Burns. She was a Pushcart Prize nominee for “Some Mesostics Re: Hairs Rojo in Espana.” She lives in NYC and Bovina, New York.
. . . Lisa B. Burns will sing some of the songs from an ongoing collaboration with Holly called New Randy. Lisa has recorded for MCA (Lisa Burns) and Atlantic Records (Velveteen). “Lisa sings with a touching resonance centered round her gritty Americana voice.” – Phil Manzanera (Roxy Music). Hear New Randy tracks at http://www.myspace.com/newrandy or www.newrandy.com

Pete and Holly are featured copiously in the forthcoming anthology, Up Is Up, but So Is Down: New York's Downtown Literary Scene, 1974-1992

http://www.nyupress.org/books/Up_Is_...s_id-4834.html

rollhead · June-13th-2006, 09:20 AM

Pete,

Thanks for the heads-up on this. Can't make this reading, but hope to make another.

Good luck!

Uli · June-13th-2006, 09:42 AM

Go Pete! Go Pete!

I missed Togo's first goool, just to post my support for your good work!

clinthopson · June-13th-2006, 11:20 AM

That's our Pete!

rollhead · June-13th-2006, 11:38 AM

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Originally Posted by Pete C

Pete and Holly are featured copiously in the forthcoming anthology, Up Is Up, but So Is Down: New York's Downtown Literary Scene, 1974-1992

I have had dreams about being featured copiously. I think. At least it sounded and felt like it.

Ron Thorne · June-14th-2006, 01:11 AM

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Nothing like a failed poet calling a New York Times journalist "lazy."

Must be nice to have "failed" in such a recognized, current way.

All the best to you and Holly, Pete.

steve(thelil) · June-15th-2006, 08:28 AM

I'll try to make it. I own and enjoyed Pete's "Condensed Book"

(Pete. You have my permission to read from any of the boner threads, if things aren't going well enough for the high brow folks at the reading.)

Brian Olewnick · June-26th-2006, 02:04 PM

So?

Pete C · June-26th-2006, 02:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Brian Olewnick

So?

It went great, but it wasn't the same without you. A fellow wordplayer of yours did show up, as did Bluenoter & Dallachinsky, but, alas, no thelil.

bluenoter · June-26th-2006, 02:24 PM

So it was well attended (I'd say) and marvelous super! I also thoroughly enjoyed Pete's billmate Holly Anderson--though Lisa Burns, the singer-songwriter who performed some songs based on Holly's poems, not so much.

(I just happened to be in New York at the right time. I expect to be "communicado" and back at JC again soon.)

Brian Olewnick · June-26th-2006, 02:47 PM

Rita, wish I could've made it--the hell with Cherhces, it would've been nice to see you.

Who was the wordplayer?

Pete C · June-26th-2006, 03:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Brian Olewnick

Who was the wordplayer?

Beth Dunn. You don't seem to know each other.

Brian Olewnick · June-26th-2006, 03:27 PM

nuh-uh. I see she finished 301st this past year. Hmmm...I'll have to decide whether or not to deign to speak to her next time...

walto · June-26th-2006, 04:40 PM

Humph! Rita caught your reading in NYC. but she wouldn't even go down the street to have dinner with me (and Vince, and Monte, and Fred K., and Gordon). Double Humph.

Pete C · June-27th-2006, 08:16 AM

Just a genre clarification...Because I write short prose that is often considered prose poetry, and have been in poetry anthologies & websites, some people call me a poet, but I never call myself one. My writing comes out of various prose traditions, and is little influenced by verse of any sort, and other than a few pantoums I've never published any verse.

Ron Thorne · June-28th-2006, 04:13 AM

How nice to see a bluenoter post after all this time! Communicado is a good thing.

I wouldn't take her appearance in NYC vs. her non-appearance in D.C. personally, Walto. Not that you are, of course.

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Just a genre clarification...

Genre clarification is often essential, no matter the subject.