This coming Saturday P4C co-conspirator Gina Abelkop will be hosting a release party/reading for Rohin Guha’s chapbook Relief Work, the newest release from Birds of Lace. Please come by for cupcakes, literature & giveaways! More information on Relief Work can be found at the Birds of Lace website.

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POPSICKLE 2010 unites Brooklyn’s literary curators for a two-day festival of readings, performances and screenings. The festival will take place on Saturday July 24th from 3-8 PM & Sunday July 25th 1-5 PM at Bushwick’s beloved MARKET HOTEL | 957 Broadway | Brooklyn.

FEATURING: Alaina Stamatis, Anna Fitzgerald, Ben Fama, Brett Price & Dani Leventhal, Carter Edwards, Dan Magers, Eddie Hopely, Emily Pettit, Evan Burton, Gina Abelkop, Jamie Peck, James Copeland, Jordan Michael Iannucci, Joshua Mehigan, Lauren Russell, Leigh Stein, Marc Nasdor, Michael Barron, Natalie Lyalin, Nicole Trigg, Paige Taggart, Parker Phillips, Timothy Donnelly and more!

visit popsicklefestival.blogspot.com for the schedule & more info

xox

Read an interview with P4C co-founder/co-curator Jody Jock at East Village Boys:

http://www.eastvillageboys.com/2010/06/28/jody-jock-nice-collective-series-02/

xo

Wednesday, July 7th 2010
San Francisco Public Library / Main Branch
Latino Reading Room / Basement Level
6:00pm / Free

Mica Sigourney’s writing can be perused in our first issue, “Initiation,” as well as at dancinglikemymother.blogspot.com.

xo

Read an interview with P4C co-founder Brother Bramm at East Village Boys:

http://www.eastvillageboys.com/2010/06/18/brother-bramm-nice-collective-series-01/

xo

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P4C contributors have also been up to a few things since our last issue:

-Poet and editor Juliet Cook will soon be publishing the next new Blood Pudding Press chapbook, called ANGEL FACE TRAILER, including darkly delicious poems by Juliet Cook herself accompanied by hideously yummy Italian translations by Letizia Merello. For more information about Blood Pudding Press, poetry, and more, visit http://julietcook.weebly.com.  To consider submitting to the dark feathers of her Thirteen Myna Birds, visit http://13myna.blogspot.com to find out how.

-Scooter Laforge has a new line of t-shirts and underwear being sold through Patricia Field.

-Amanda Kirkhuff is now living and working in New York City, and can be contacted through licartists.org

-P4C co-conspirator Gina Abelkop’s press Birds of Lace recently released the 7th issue of Finery, which features work from several P4C contributors:  music from Elan Dia, Rhani Remedes and Ben Wacks (Gay Orphans) band Bangs of Hunger, as well as written work by Juliet Cook, Sergio Ortiz and Michelle Wolfie Rodriguez. Birds of Lace also recently released Christine Vi-Van Nguyen’s chapbook Blood and Jasmine When I Dreamed Her; all BOL titles can be perused & purchased at birdsoflace.etsy.com.