Reading Monday, 1/28: Cornelia St Cafe

MONDAY 28-JAN-2008 at 6PM

Downstairs at Cornelia Street


Emcee: ROXANNE HOFFMAN (POETS WEAR PRADA)

The Cornelia Street Café
29 Cornelia St. (bet. Bleecker & West 4th St.)
$7 cover includes one house drink
info/directions: http://corneliastreetcafe.com/

About the Featured Poets:

Carol Novack is a former criminal defense/
constitutional lawyer, an occasional instructor in
lyrical fiction writing, and the publisher of Mad
Hatters' Review . She's also a former grant recipient
and the author of a chapbook of poetry, a play, and
several collaborative projects. A chapbook of fictions
will be published this year by Poets Wear Prada Press.
Recent writings in print may or will be found in
journals including American Letters & Commentary,
Fiction International, First Intensity, Gargoyle,
Journal of Experimental Fiction, LIT, Notre Dame
Review, and in the anthology, Online Writings The Best
of the First Years as well as online at Diagram,
5_trope, Del Sol Review, Milk, and Otoliths. She has
a CD, INVENTIONS I: Fictions, Fusions & Poems.

LARISSA SHMAILO has been published in Fulcrum,
Rattapallax, Drunken Boat, Big Bridge, Naropa's We,
and many other publications (please see
www.myspace.com/thenonetworld for a complete listing).
Her CD, The No-Net World, has been heard on radio
stations and the Internet around the world. Larissa
translated the Russian Futurist opera Victory over the
Sun by A. Kruchenych; a DVD of the original
English-language production is part of the collection
of the New York Museum of Modern Art. She recently
contributed translations to the anthology Contemporary
Russian Poetry to be published by Dalkey Archive
Press. She is a director of TWiN Poetry, an informal
collective of 7,000 audio poets, and public
coordinator for Fulcrum Annual. Her chapbook, A Cure
for Suicide will be available from Cervena Barva Press
in 2008.

DOUGLAS GOETSCH is the author of six collections of
poetry, most recently YOUR WHOLE LIFE, winner of the
2007 Slipstream Prize. His work has appeared in
Poetry, The Iowa Review, The American Scholar,
Ploughshares, online at PoetryDaily and Garison
Keillor's The Writer's Almanac, on the air at NPR, and
in numerous anthologies. After 21 years he has
recently resigned from teaching high school in New
York City. Goetsch now writes full time and is
founding editor of Jane Street Press.

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POETS WEAR PRADA
C/O Roxanne Hoffman
533 Bloomfield Street
2nd Floor
Hoboken, NJ 07030
http://poetswearpradanj.home.att.net

POETS WEAR PRADA is a small press based in Hoboken, New Jersey
devoted to introducing new authors through limited edition, high-
quality chaplets, primarily of poetry

'New press, great authors, a publisher who is one miracle short of
sainthood.' - Angelo Verga, Poetry Curator of The Cornelia Street Cafe

'Poets Wear Prada is a poetry publishing house with excellent poets
and affordable books with beautiful covers. Have you had your poetry
today?' - Meredith Sue Willis, Books for Readers

'Stylistically, these beautifully designed and produced chaplets bear
their own distinctive signature. - Linda Lerner, Small Press Review"

Proud Member of the Council of Literary Magazines & Presses

Mad Hatters' Review Weekend Extravaganza is Fast Approaching!

I've been working nearly round the clock to get the info out. Mainly about the fundraiser, as I'd kinda like to keep the e-mag going. But I don't want people to forget about our KGB series reading.

Thanks to photographer, new friend Joel Simpson, we have a lovely visual flyer for the event. Now here's the updated info, including our new DISCOUNTED TICKET PRICE! Hope to see everyone who loves the Hatters soon!

EXTRA! EXTRA! SAVE THE DATE: SUNDAY, JUNE 10TH!

The Mad Hatters will present their first FUNDRAISING EXTRAVAGANZA at The Gallery Bar, 5 – 11 + PM120 Orchard Street, The Lower East Side, NYC The event will begin at 5 pm. Gallery Bar (http://www.gallerybarnyc.com) is located at 120 Orchard Street, near the corner of Delancey St. ("F" train to Delancey).

Tickets for purchase online cost $15 and will be available through June 9th via PayPal (Address PayPal payments to madhattersreview@yahoo.com), or $20 at the door; some kind of proof of dire hardship may earn supplicants a discount.

The event will benefit the Mad Hatters' Review and its local programs promoting innovative art and literature. Mad Hatters' Review is a unique online multimedia magazine featuring edgy, experimental, gutsy, thematically broad, psychologically and philosophically sophisticated writings, music, and art. The magazine specializes in collaborative ventures, bringing writers together with artists and composers to create a full sensory reading experience. Poetry, fiction, non-fiction, dramatic pieces and experimental whatnots are displayed adjacent to images of original artwork and accompanied by musical compositions or authors' recorded recitations.

The extravaganza will include READINGS BY OFFBEAT PROSE WRITERS & POETS; A SHOWING OF EXPERIMENTAL ANIMATIONS; AVANT-GARDEY IMPROVISATIONAL MUSIC; DANCING TO LIVE MUSIC (SWING, WORLD, 60'S ROCK, REGGAE, CALYPSO, ETC.; PERFORMANCESW BY TWO FABULOUS COMEDIANS; A LATE SHOW OPEN MIC; and A SILENT AUCTION OF BOOKS, JOURNALS, AND ARTWORKS DONATED BY MAD HATTER CONTRIBUTORS & FANS. AND AND AND: $4 MAD HATTER FACOCTAILS & FREE EDIBLES.

Please see http://www.madhattersreview.com/events.shtml#june10 for details!

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PLEASE ALSO NOTE THAT OUR NEXT POETRY, PROSE & ANYTHING GOES READING SERIES AT THE KGB BAR will take place on FRIDAY, JUNE 8th, 7-9pm: featuring SISSY BOYD, DEBRA DI BLASI, VANESSA PLACE & A READING OF EXCERPTS FROM A PLAY CAROL NOVACK. Details are available at: http://www.madhattersreview.com/events.shtml#june8.

Questions? Contact Carol Novack (Publisher/Editor) andAmy Bucciferro (PR Director) at madhattersreview@gmail.com Subject Line: Fundraiser

SAVE THE DATES! JUNE 8TH & JUNE 10TH!

MAD HATTERS' REVIEW FUNDRAISER COMING UP!
THE INFAMOUS MAD HATTERS' MAELSTROM OF 2007

The time has come, the kumquat said. What is time? the lettuce asked, shredding its head. Kumquat may, it's time to pre-announce our forthcoming MAD HATTERS' REVIEW FUNDRAISER, an EXTRAVAGANZA non pareil, indeed, an unbridled, maximalistical offering of readings/performances, live music, dancing, animated art, photo slideshows, mini-movies, discounted mad hatter facoctails, edible horbits, and a silent auction. The venue: a gallery by day, den of iniquity by night, located in the Lower Eastside, NYC: http://www.gallerybarnyc.com . The time? Oh, don't be so exacting, spat the Caterpillar --- it's temporarily set for 5 strokes past noon till all hours to be determined by the stamina and aesthetic lust of those in attendance. How about the day? asked Alice, rolling her enfant terrible blues. Day? What is a day but the preamble to a night? Well, if you insist: Sunday, June 10th, year of global warming 2007. So MARK YOUR CALENDARS. Details about who's doing what will emerge in time.

In order to survive and expand, alas, we need currency. As usual, a print anthology of text and visuals is a possibility, and some payment for contributors and staff, another. But for now, I'll be happy to raise sufficient funds to keep us going gloriously for another year or two or three or four (until a tsunami claims New York). The journal has grown and succeeded way beyond its founding mothers' and fathers' expectations (thanks to our gifted staff and volunteers); we mad hatters believe that it's a unique, trend-setting force, an example of what an online multimedia journal of expansive, manic vision and quality can do.

**** We are seeking books from authors of published works, CDS/DVDS from musicians/composers and filmmakers, and other donations to be sold at our silent auction. For visual artists, the costs of print/duplication production and shipping/posting will be reimbursed by Management, and artists are invited to set their minimum "cap" of proceeds, so (if requested), we may refund some of the proceeds (we will possibly have a form).

Collaborative multimedia artists ORIN BUCK and JOEL SIMPSON are on board, as well as DEBRA DI BLASI, author of the already famous new book, The Jiri Chronicles and Other Fictions, and our Guest Editor for Issue 8.

Please note that this second weekend in June is hereby designated THE INFAMOUS MAD HATTERS' MAELSTROM OF 2007. We'll be offering our series reading on June 8^th, which will include a reading by VANESSA PLACE, author of the novel DIES: A SENTENCE, an apt title for a publication by a criminal appeals lawyer. And by the way, the novel consists of only one sentence (but with punctuation). An excerpt may be found at the KGB Bar Lit Review's website. Two actor friends will read an excerpt or excerpts from my play HAM & HEN, SISSY BOYD will read one of her very short plays, & DEBRA DI BLASI will read whatever she wishes.

Stay in tune for details!

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