THE ENCLAVE

We Don't use this anymore

2009-02-11T09:18:00.000-08:00

Hey there,

How's it going? Just a friendly note to say that if you would like to find out more about The Enclave please go to: www.myspace.com/enclavianmatter

Thanks,

Sisyphus P. Franklyn

The Enclave

THE ENCLAVE XVII: THE FESTIVAL OF MOVIE STAR TEARS

2008-11-13T09:51:00.000-08:00

FEATURING: LYNNE POTTS & JARED HOHL

Saturday, November 22th @ 4 PM
Kenny's Castaways, 157 Bleecker Street, 212-979-9762
For updates and more info go to: www.myspace.com/enclavianmatter
Free and open to the public

LYNNE POTTS has been Poetry Editor of the Columbia Journal and is presently Poetry Editor at AGNI. Her work has appeared in journals including the Paris Review, Nimrod, Hayden's Ferry Review, and many others. She won the HD Poetry Prize from the Bowery Poetry in 2004 and the Backward City Poetry Prize in 2007. She was awarded a fellowship to the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in 2007. Lynne has read at Poets House, Columbia University, Ear Shot, 440 Gallery in Brooklyn, and Cornelia Street Café as well as on WKCR, New York as a featured poet.

JARED HOHL is from Donnellson, Iowa.His fiction has appeared in the anthology The Apocalypse Reader and in the journals The Agriculture Reader and The Washington Square Review.

“Let’s go out together,” La Maga said. “Look, Rocamadour is asleep, he’ll be quiet until it’s time for his bottle. We’ve got two hours, let’s go to that cafe in the Arab quarter, that sad little cafe where we feel so good.” But Oliveira wanted to go out alone. Slowly he began to extract his legs from La Maga’s embrace. He stroked her head, he ran his fingers around her neck, he kissed the back of it, he kissed her behind an ear, listening to her cry as her hair hung down over her face. “No blackmail,” he thought. “Let’s cry face to face, but not with that cheap sob you pick up from the movies.” He raised her face up, he made her look at him.”

Know where this quote comes from? Come to Kenny's on the 22nd and find out. You're invited in. Come. Be a part of the Enclave.
Coordinated by The Enclave. For more info email: enclavianmatter@gmail.com

UPCOMING EVENT: THE ENCLAVE XV: THE FESTIVAL OF THE MESS

2008-09-16T12:54:00.000-07:00

FEATURING MOLLY ROSEN & DORTHEA LASKY

Saturday, September 27th @ 4 PM
Kenny's Castaways, 157 Bleecker Street, 212-979-9762

MOLLY ROSEN's novel "She's Dead I'm Not I'm Yours" will be published by Grove/Black Cat in the Fall of '09.

DOROTHEA LASKY is the author of AWE (Wave Books, 2007). Currently, she studies creativity at the University of Pennsylvania.

"What I am saying does not mean that there will henceforth be no form in art. It only means that there will be a new form, and that this form will be of such a type that it admits the chaos and does not try to say that the chaos is really something else. The forms and the chaos remain separate. The later is not reduced to the former. That is why the form itself becomes a preoccupation, because it exists as a problem separate form the material it accommodates. To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now."

Know where this quote comes from? Come to Kenny's on the 27th and find out. You're invited in. Come. Be a part of the Enclave.

MOLLY ROSEN, DOROTHEA LASKY & OTHERS READ SEPTEMBER 27th

2008-09-09T14:00:00.000-07:00

The Enclave is pleased to announce that our reading scheduled for Saturday September 27^th will feature MOLLY ROSEN & DOROTHEA LASKY. The reading will occur at Kenny’s Castaways (157 Bleecker Street) at 3:30 PM. The event is free and open to the public. Please see the writers’ bios below:

MOLLY ROSEN’s novel "She's Dead I'm Not I'm Yours" will be published by Grove/Black Cat in the Fall of '09

DOROTHEA LASKY is the author of AWE (Wave Books, 2007). Currently, she studies creativity at the University of Pennsylvania.

OTHERS TBA SHORTLY

We're Back

2008-09-02T11:08:00.001-07:00

Have you missed us? Well we've missed you. The good news is we just got off the road yesterday and are planning out a fall roster that should be one of our most impressive ones ever. We will announce our writers shortly, but right now our tentative dates are 9/27, 10/25, 11/22, & 12/13. Check back here for a finalized shortly. Also if anyone out there in cyberspace has a writer in mind who you're dying to see, drop us a line @ enclavianmatter@gmail.com and we'll see if we can't make that happen. Hope everyone had a groovy summer. We'll be back in touch soon.

Best regards,
Sisyphus P. Franklin
The Enclave Writers' Association

UPCOMING READING: THE ENCLAVE XIV: THE FESTIVAL OF FAMED FABLES

2008-05-21T14:08:00.003-07:00

FEATURING: FRANK SHERLOCK, YEW LEONG LEE & BRANDON HOLMQUEST

Saturday, May 31st 3:30 PM
Kenny's Castaways, 157 Bleecker Street, 212-979-9762
For updates and more info go to: www.myspace.com/enclavianmatter
Free and open to the public

FRANK SHERLOCK is the co-author of the newly released Ready-to-Eat Individual with Brett Evans. Publisher Bill Lavender says, "In New Orleans, USA, during the Year 1 A.K. (After Katrina), Frank Sherlock & Brett Evans sifted through the ration fossils to put words where the food used to be. The latest development resulted in a poem that is a State-of-the-City and post-apocalyptic journal, sealed by a retort pouch and blocked from future contamination. The resulting taste and texture are much more realistic and natural than those normal dehydrated and freeze dried histories."

YEW LEONG LEE is a Singaporean writer currently living in the States. He has an MFA in Creative Writing from the New School. His novella, "Gross Domestic Happiness," won the 2003 James Assatly Memorial Prize for Fiction at Brown University. His nonfiction has appeared in the Lives column of The New York Times Magazine, his fiction in the Spring 2008 issue of H.O.W. Journal and Chaise Magazine, and his poetry in Journeys: Words, Home, and Nation: An anthology of Singapore Poetry.

BRANDON HOLMQUEST is the editor of the literary translations journal Calque. He lives in New York City.

“And I shall resemble the wretches famed in fable, crushed beneath the weight of their wish to come true. And I even feel a strange desire come over me, the desire to know what I am doing, and why. So near the goal I set myself in my young days and which prevented me from living. And on the threshold of being no more I succeed in being another. Very pretty.” - ???????

Know where this quote comes from? Come to Kenny's on the 31st and find out. You’re invited in. Come. Be a part of the Enclave.

UPCOMING READING: THE ENCLAVE XIV: THE FESTIVAL OF FAMED FABLES

2008-05-21T14:08:00.001-07:00

May Line Up Announced!!!

2008-05-14T09:01:00.001-07:00

Hey folks,

So now everything is official. Our next reading is scheduled for Saturday MAy 31st and will feature FRANK SHERLOCK, YEW LEONG LEE & BRANDON HOLMQUEST. It will be held at Kenny's (157 Bleecker Street) at 3:30 PM. Check out some of the stellar bios below:

FRANK SHERLOCK is the co-author of the newly released Ready-to-Eat Individual with Brett Evans. Publisher Bill Lavender says, "In New Orleans, USA, during the Year 1 A.K. (After Katrina), Frank Sherlock & Brett Evans sifted through the ration fossils to put words where the food used to be. The latest development resulted in a poem that is a State-of-the-City and post-apocalyptic journal, sealed by a retort pouch and blocked from future contamination. The resulting taste and texture are much more realistic and natural than those normal dehydrated and freeze dried histories."

YEW LEONG LEE is a Singaporean writer currently living in the States. He has an MFA in Creative Writing from the New School. His novella, "Gross Domestic Happiness," won the 2003 James Assatly Memorial Prize for Fiction at Brown University. His nonfiction has appeared in the Lives column of The New York Times Magazine, his fiction in the Spring 2008 issue of H.O.W. Journal and Chaise Magazine, and his poetry in Journeys: Words, Home, and Nation: An anthology of Singapore Poetry.

BRANDON HOLMQUEST is the editor of the literary translations journal Calque. He lives in New York City.

UPCOMING READING: THE ENCLAVE XIII: THE FESTIVAL OF NEVER

2008-04-16T08:42:00.000-07:00

FEATURING: CLAY McLEOD CHAPMAN, BRIAN FRANK & MATTHEW BURGESS

Saturday, April 26th 3:30 PM
Kenny's Castaways, 157 Bleecker Street, 212-979-9762
For updates and more info go to: www.myspace.com/enclavianmatter
Free and open to the public

“The dreamers dream from the neck up, their bodies securely strapped to the electric chair. To imagine a new world is to live it daily, each thought, each glance, each step, each gesture killing and recreating, death always a step in advance. To spit on the past is not enough. To proclaim the future is not enough. One must act as if the past were dead and the future unrealized. One must act as if the next step were the last, which it is. Each step forward is the last, and with it a world dies, one’s self included. We are here of the earth never to end, the past never ceasing, the future never beginning, the present never ending. The never-never world which we hold in our hands and see and yet is not ourselves. We are that which is never concluded, never shaped to be recognized, all there is and yet not the whole, the parts so much greater than the whole that only God the mathematician can figure out...” - ?????

Know where this quote comes from? Come to Kenny's on the 26th and find out. You’re invited in. Come. Be a part of the Enclave.

CLAY McLEOD CHAPMAN is the creator of the Pumpkin Pie Show, a rigorous storytelling session backed by its own live soundtrack. He is the author of rest area, a collection of short stories, and miss corpus, a novel. Chapman is currently working on the book for a new musical with Grammy award winning musician Bruce Hornsby, titled SCKBSTD – as well as HOSTAGE SONG, a new indie-rock musical with Obie-award winning musician Kyle Jarrow, that is currently being preformed at the Kraine Theater in the East Village.

BRIAN FRANK was born in 1973 in Detroit. As a teenager he was a skateboarder in Nashville. From ages 18 to 23 he lived as a Hare Krishna monk in India and abroad. He later attended Parsons School of Design. Taking inspiration from dressing the deities of Krishna Frank founded and designed for an award winning womens’ ready-to-wear company. He is writing his first book, a memoir that discusses the transition from a punk rock adolescence to monastic life returning to western culture as a fashion designer. Frank currently lives in New York City.

MATTHEW BURGESS veered from a career in musical theater in 1987 after a pitchy performance of the Scarecrow’s “If I Only Had a Brain” at Our Lady Queen of Angels school. He has studied at University of Virginia, Naropa University, and Brooklyn College, where he received a MacArthur Scholarship and an MFA in Poetry in 2001. His poems have appeared in various journals and magazines, including Lungfull!l, Hanging Loose, and Big City Lit, and he’s published three chapbooks: Liftoff (2002), Yeah You (2005), and most recently, a series of photographs and poems titled Day After Labor Day (2007). Matthew has taught creative writing and literature at Brooklyn College for over eight years, and he also works for Teachers & Writers Collaborative as a poet-in-residence in New York City public schools. He is currently pursuing his PhD in English at the CUNY Graduate Center, proving to himself that he has a brain after all. He sings when no one’s around.

Coordinated by The Enclave Writers Association

April Line-UP Announced!!

2008-04-04T13:45:00.000-07:00

Hey folks, so our next reading will be held at Kenny's on Saturday April 26th @ 3:30 PM featuring Clay McLeod Chapman, Brian Frank, Matthew Burgess & others TBA. So save the date and take a look at some of the stellar bios below!

CLAY McLEOD CHAPMAN is the creator of the Pumpkin Pie Show, a rigorous storytelling session backed by its own live soundtrack. He is the author of rest area, a collection of short stories, and miss corpus, a novel. Chapman is currently working on the book for a new musical with Grammy award winning musician Bruce Hornsby, titled SCKBSTD – as well as HOSTAGE SONG, a new indie-rock musical with Obie-award winning musician Kyle Jarrow, that is currently being preformed at the Kraine Theater in the East Village.

BRIAN FRANK was born in 1973 in Detroit. As a teenager he was a skateboarder in Nashville. From ages 18 to 23 he lived as a Hare Krishna monk in India and abroad. He later attended Parsons School of Design. Taking inspiration from dressing the deities of Krishna Frank founded and designed for an award winning womens’ ready-to-wear company. He is writing his first book, a memoir that discusses the transition from a punk rock adolescence to monastic life returning to western culture as a fashion designer. Frank currently lives in New York City.

MATTHEW BURGESS received his MFA in poetry at Brooklyn College where he now teaches literature and creative writing. He is the author of a chapbook titled "Liftoff" (Blue Language Press, 2002) and another one on the way this spring titled "Yeah You." His poems have appeared in Hanging Loose, Lungfull, The Brooklyn Review and elsewhere.

Enclave co-founder James Freed on NPR this Saturday @ 1PM

2008-04-03T10:16:00.002-07:00

Well NPR as in Neighborhood Public Radio, not National Public Radio.

So what exactly is the difference?

Neighborhood Public Radio is a traveling band of guerrilla broadcasters who bring the power of the airways to the people. Originating from pockets all over the country this spring the Whitney Museum of American Art has decided to put this artist collective up in a make shift pirate radio station housed in a former shoe store as part of the current Whitney Biennial.
This Saturday April 5 at 1 PM Jim will present a version of his short story A Melodrama Composed for my Father on the Occasion of his Birthday that he has edited into a radio play at the NPR studio located at 941 Madison Avenue.

The concept? Composed of arguing voices, the piece is about a writer and his attempt to compose a melodrama - aka the gun in the drawer story.

The renegade actors troupe Amalgamation Extreme will also participate, along with perhaps some musicians as well.

So if you’re around stop on by the studio and say hello. If you can’t make it but happen to be around Madison between 73rd and 76th, flip on your radio to 91.9 FM. Otherwise online goto www.neighborhoodpublicradio.org and pick up the live stream. Note, if you don’t have a live stream player on your computer you may need to download one for free. Go to: http://www.winamp.com

News Flash: Enclave Anniversary a HUGE success

2008-04-03T10:16:00.001-07:00

With such a successful year behind us expectations were riding high on Saturday. But with a bill featuring four highly talented writers, all from the collective Cafe Nueva York, is it any wonder that the event was a blockbuster as usual?

Things got rolling Friday night with a visual collaboration on Kenny’s front windows featuring a painting by Magali Lara and a poem by Carmen Boullosa. The result was an energetic statement that both artists illuminated further following its creation in interviews. While due to an unforeseen window washing misunderstanding the mural was erased before the reading, a video of the artists composing and speaking about their work will be posted shortly.

On Saturday the Sangria was flowing freely at Kenny’s. Things got off to a great start with Bolivian poet Eduardo Mitre’s poems. Then Naief Yehya continued the momentum with a hilarious story examining the economical potential of death rights. After a short break Jose Prieto and his translator read a section of his novel Nocturnal Butterflies of the Russian Empire, a beautiful tale of love, and well smuggling. Then acclaimed Mexican novelist, poet and playwright Carmen Boullosa took the stage and enchanted the crowd with a lively reading of her ghost story exploring poetic flatulence.

Afterward the crowd stumbled and stared as The Hot Magic rocked out, droning through a set list of psychedelic jams to the packed house.

Pictures of the event are already up so take a look at what you missed. Audio clips of the performances will follow shortly.

The next Enclave will be held Saturday April 26th @ 3:30PM and feature writers Clay McLeod Chapman, Brian Frank, Matthew Burgess & others. More info to come shortly.

2008-03-27T12:50:00.001-07:00

Party with The Enclave on Sat. March 29th @3:30PM

2008-03-19T12:08:00.000-07:00

THE ENCLAVE XII: ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY PARTY

The Enclave celebrates a year of innovative writing with a reading featuring: Carmen Boullosa, Naief Yehya, Eduardo Mitre, Jose Manuel Prieto & musical guests The Hot Magic

Saturday, March 29th 3:30 PM
Kenny's Castaways, 157 Bleecker Street, 212-979-9762
For updates and more info go to: www.myspace.com/enclavianmatter
Free and open to the public
*Free Sangria(until it runs out) and drink specials

“He had meant to shut his eyes. But, when the train came in sight, he kept them wide open, bunched himself together, and held his breath though his mouth was gaping...With a rattle and a roar the light bore down on him, and the roar swelled to such a din as he had never heard in his life before, so tremendous that he almost fancied he was dead already...” - ?????

Know where this quote comes from? Come to Kenny's on the 29th and find out. You’re invited in. Come. Be a part of the Enclave.

Carmen Boullosa is one of México's leading novelists, poets and playwrights. She has won several literary awards including the Anna Seghers in Berlin, the Liberatur in Frankfurt and the prestigious Premio Xavier Villaurrutia in Mexico. Boullosa has been a Guggenheim Fellow, a Fellow of the New York Public Library´s Center for Scholars and Writers and a Distinguished Visitor at Columbia University and Georgetown University, among others. She has published twelve novels, among them La otra mano de Lepanto (published by Siruela, in Spain, and by Fondo de Cultura Económica, in Mexico). Her latest book, The Perfect Novel (a science-fiction novel set in Brooklyn), was published this year by Alfaguara in Mexico. Along with Salman Rushdie, in 2000 she founded the Mexico City House for Persecuted Writers in Mexico City. She is currently a Distinguished Lecturer at City College, New York.

Naief Yehya was born in Mexico City. A novelist, journalist and cultural critic, Yehya has written for numerous magazines and newspapers in Mexico and published several works of fiction and nonfiction such as the novel Obras sanitarias (Sanitary Works, 1992), The Transformed Body. Cyborgs and our Technological Heritage in the Real World and Science Fiction (2001), War and Propaganda: Mass Media and the Myth of War in the US (2003), and, Pornografía: sexo mediatizado y pánico moral (Pornography: Mediated Sex and Moral Panic (2004). He has lived in Brooklyn since 1992.

Eduardo Mitre, a poet born in Bolivia, has published his books of poetry, Morada, Mirabilia, Desde tu cuerpo, Razón ardiente, Ferviente humo, Elegía a una muchacha y Línea de otoño, among others, in some of the most renowned Spanish poetry houses (Visor, Pretextos, Vuelta). He is also author of several books on Latin American poetry, among them Huidobro, hambre de espacio y sed de cielo. His most recent book is El paraguas de Manhattan (Manhattan´s Umbrella). He has been a professor at Columbia University, Dartmouth College and Universidad Católica Boliviana. Currently he teaches at St. John's University.

José Manuel Prieto was born in Havana, Cuba. He is the author of several works of fiction and nonfiction including the international acclaimed Livadia (which was published in English in 2001 as Nocturnal Butterflies of the Russian Empire), Enciclopedia de una vida en Rusia, El Tartamudo y la rusa (short stories), and most recently Rex(a novel), among others. Prieto's work has been translated to many languages with an exceptional critical reception. He has been a Fellow at The New York Public Library's Center for Scholars and Writers and has received a Guggenheim Fellowship. Prieto has taught at the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económica (CIDE) in Mexico City and is currently a Visiting Professor at Cornell University.

The Hot Magic is a psychedelic electro band from Baltimore Maryland.
Their website is: www.myspace.com/thehotmagic.

Coordinated by The Enclave Writers Association

The Enclave Announces Line Up for 1 year Anniversary Party on Saturday March 29th @ 3:30 pm

2008-03-06T09:14:00.000-08:00

So it’s hard to believe, but an entire year has gone by. To celebrate we decided to throw a rager. In addition to booking a lineup featuring some of the most innovative writing around (which in March will be some of the members of the writers collective Cafe Nueva York ), we also booked the psychedelic electro band The Hot Magic and worked out some righteous drink specials with Kenny’s including $2 PBRs and free sangria directly after the reading. So be sure to circle Saturday March 29th on your calendar, as this is not an event to be missed. Take a look at the bios of the stellar writers who will read their work below:

Carmen Boullosa is one of México's leading novelists, poets and playwrights. She has won several literary awards including the Anna Seghers in Berlin, the Liberatur in Frankfurt and the prestigious Premio Xavier Villaurrutia in Mexico. Boullosa has been a Guggenheim Fellow, a Fellow of the New York Public Library´s Center for Scholars and Writers and a Distinguished Visitor at Columbia University and Georgetown University, among others. She has published twelve novels, among them La otra mano de Lepanto (published by Siruela, in Spain, and by Fondo de Cultura Económica, in Mexico). Her latest book, The Perfect Novel (a science-fiction novel set in Brooklyn), was published this year by Alfaguara in Mexico. Along with Salman Rushdie, in 2000 she founded the Mexico City House for Persecuted Writers in Mexico City. She is currently a Distinguished Lecturer at City College, New York.

Naief Yehya was born in Mexico City. A novelist, journalist and cultural critic, Yehya has written for numerous magazines and newspapers in Mexico and published several works of fiction and nonfiction such as the novel Obras sanitarias (Sanitary Works, 1992), The Transformed Body. Cyborgs and our Technological Heritage in the Real World and Science Fiction (2001), War and Propaganda: Mass Media and the Myth of War in the US (2003), and, Pornografía: sexo mediatizado y pánico moral (Pornography: Mediated Sex and Moral Panic (2004). He has lived in Brooklyn since 1992.

Eduardo Mitre, a poet born in Bolivia, has published his books of poetry, Morada, Mirabilia, Desde tu cuerpo, Razón ardiente, Ferviente humo, Elegía a una muchacha y Línea de otoño, among others in some of the most renowned Spanish poetry houses (Visor, Pretextos, Vuelta). He is also author of several books on Latin American poetry, among them Huidobro, hambre de espacio y sed de cielo. His most recent book is El paraguas de Manhattan (Manhattan´s Umbrella). He has been professor at Columbia University, Dartmouth College and Universidad Católica Boliviana. Currently he teaches at St. John's University.

José Manuel Prieto was born in Havana, Cuba. He is the author of several works of fiction and nonfiction including the international acclaimed Livadia (which was published in English in 2001 as Nocturnal Butterflies of the Russian Empire), Enciclopedia de una vida en Rusia, El Tartamudo y la rusa (short stories), and most recently Rex(a novel), among others. Prieto’s work has been translated to many languages with an exceptional critical reception. He has been a Fellow at The New York Public Library's Center for Scholars and Writers and has received a Guggenheim Fellowship. Prieto has taught at the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económica (CIDE) in Mexico City and is currently a Visiting Professor at Cornell University.

The Hot Magic is a psychedelic electro band from Baltimore Maryland. Their website is: www.myspace.com/thehotmagic.

Cafe Nueva York is a collective of writers who live in New York and produce literary works in Spanish. Part of a lengthy tradition of Spanish speaking New Yorkers, notably Lorca and Marti, they aim to resurrect this rich cultural heritage and enhance the visibility of the flourishing Spanish literary movement of the present through establishing an ambience of critical sociability like that found in the literary coffee-houses characteristic of Spanish-speaking countries dedicated to convoking the Spanish voices of this city.

As always, the event will take place at Kenny’s Castaways (157 Bleeker Street) and is free and open to the public. So plan on being there: Saturday March 29th @ 3:30 PM. More details will follow shortly, but in the meantime feel free to drop us a line @ enclavianmatter@gmail.com should you have any questions.

Douglas A. Martin, Nick Burd, and Others Read Sat Feb. 23rd @ 4PM

2008-02-08T14:48:00.001-08:00

Festival of The Earth in my Mouth
Saturday February 23, 2008 4 pm
Kenny's Castaways
157 Bleecker Street

Greenwich Village, New York

"My mouth is filled with earth... My mouth is filled with you, with your mouth. Your tightly closed lips, pressing hard, biting into mine... I swallow foamy saliva; I chew clumps of dirt crawling with worms that knot in my throat and push against the roof of my mouth... My mouth caves in, contorted, lacerated by gnawing, devouring teeth. My nose grows spongy. My eyeballs liquefy. My hair burns a single bright blaze..." - ????

Know where this quote comes from? Come to Kenny's on the 23rd and find out.

The Readers:

DOUGLAS A. MARTIN is the author most recently of a poetry collection, In the Time of Assignments, just out from Soft Skull Press. His prose works include Branwell, a novel of the Bronte brother (Soft Skull 2005), They Change the Subject, a book of stories (University of Wisconsin 2005), and Your Body Figured, an experimental narrative forthcoming this September from Nightboat Books. Outline of My Lover, Martin's first novel, was an International Book of the Year in the Times Literary Supplement and adapted in part by the Forsythe Company for their multimedia ballet and live film "Kammer/Kammer." "The Day Outlying," his essay on the autobiographical and fiction, is included in the collection Biting the Error: Writers Explore Narrative (Coach House Books). Raised in Georgia, he now lives in Brooklyn. He teaches writing at The New School University and in the Low-Residency MFA Writing Program at Goddard College.

NICK BURD received his MFA from the New School and currently works for PEN American Center, the world's oldest human rights organization. His essay "Afterlife" appeared in Generation What?: Dispatches from the Quarter-Life Crisis (Speck Press). His first novel THE VAST FIELDS OF ORDINARY is forthcoming from Dial Books. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.

DAN CAYER works for the NYC Teaching Fellows in Brooklyn. He was recently an intern on the WNYC program, "Radio Rookies," and helped produce several teenagers' stories from the Staten Island workshop. He writes fiction and this is his first reading in New York.

E.N. Clave gets Arrested in Mexico

2008-02-08T07:51:00.000-08:00

So apparently E. N. Clave has managed to get himself arrested down in Mexico. We're not really sure what the deal is, but apparently it has something to do with him trying to get out of a ticket for running a red light somewhere outside of Puebla. We've dispatched our corespondent P.S. Nasty to get to the bottom of this. So stay tuned, as we will be posting the entire story shortly.

E.N. Clave grows restless in NYC again and heads to Mexico in search of new talent for the Enclave

2008-01-29T08:30:00.000-08:00

Hey everyone, we just received the following post from Enclave co-founder Eddie Clave, who has apparently jumped in his van again and headed south with his friend B to find new talent for our upcoming readings this spring. Check out his report:

Hey everybody back in NYC:

Just a quick note to let you know that I'm still alive down here, some 3000 miles south of New York. Today is my final morning in Mexico City before we head south to Oaxaca most likely, though as yesterday we were going to try to rip it straight to the jungle and see about a rumor of a young and gifted psychedelic poet who allegedly resides near Palenque, you never know where we will end up tonight - a testament to the rules of the road perhaps.

I've been in DF though since Monday now and have really dug it. I could easily spend another month here, though I should say that this is all I have really seen of Mexico so far - my wish is that things will get even better the farther I travel south.

To recap a bit: after crossing the boarder on Sunday into Nuevo Laredo we had dinner with some of B's friends and rolled 2 hours south to Monterrey. We didn't get in until late and rolled out early. Originally we intended to take the pan am highway to DF, but once we realized those roads are shit, we headed west toward Saltillo and caught highway 59 south and on a whim (at a rest stop B did a bunch of push ups to rec him up and wanted to see if he could rip it the entire way) we rolled straight to DF in about 8 hours going about 90 the entire way (the Mexican toll roads are a wonderful thing).

After arriving we caught dinner with some of B's friends (where we stayed), and turned in to recuperate from the road. We spent most of the next day exploring DF - everywhere from the centro zolcalo and student neighborhoods to less flattering places like the strip on san pablo where prostitutes of all ages gather in broad daylight along with cops. It's really a trip being here. This city contains all sorts of people coexisting side by side. Of course there are regular incidents, (people get beaten and robbed in the libre cabs everyday), but for the most part it seemed that everyone sort of just minds their own business and is pretty relaxed. Pretty much everything I have ever heard about exploring DF has been wrong.

Yesterday we explored the pyramids north of town, Teotihuacan, where we climbed the temple of the sun, the 3rd highest pyramid in the world. Pretty amazing to be on the sight. Afterward we stopped by this bar, The Red Fly, in the Roma neighborhood for lunch. While we only intended to stay for an hour to eat and maybe walk around the area, before we knew it we had befriended our waiter and the owner and ended up talking and drinking with them both for hours – eventually we even ended up going to one of their friend’s apartments to commemorate the experience of meeting each other by all getting tattoos. I got the enclave logo across my chest and B got a mermaid on his thigh. Overall I must say our last night in DF was pretty bad ass - again an instance I think emblematic of the kindness and openness of most of the Mexicans I'm meeting down here.

To top things off, we had the luck to meet this old guy Jaun who allegedly used to steal books with Roberto Bolano in DF back in the early 70s. We actually met him in a bookstore after getting the ink done where we were unsuccessfully trying to steal books for the road, as the ink had exhausted most of our travel funds. Jaun instantly recognized our inexperience and offered his services as a distraction in order to facilitate our escape. Needless to say the operation was a success. As we had no money to thank him with, B suggested he hop in the van with us. We didn't need to ask Jaun twice. He promptly accepted as it seems that a sort of consortium of vigilante bookstore owners has been forming against him recently, so the time away wouldn’t do him any harm.

Anyway after we worked out the details, B and I headed back to his friend’s place and hit the hay. Now in just a few moments we are off to pick up Jaun and rip it through the mountains further south. I have heard some really great things about a young novelist in Oaxaca who goes by only the name of Nestor. Hopefully we will have a good internet connection there and I will be able to post again shortly. Hope everyone is freezing their asses off in NYC. If things keep going as they are going I’m never coming back.

Best regards,

Edward Nathaniel Clave

THE ENCLAVE X: FESTIVAL of FLORAL DISCOURSE

2007-11-30T09:16:00.000-08:00

featuring...

WAYNE KOESTENBAUM
ROBERT POLITO
JESSE DORRIS

The Enclave proudly kicks off its 2008 program with a bang...Come for an afternoon/evening of excellent fiction, poetry, and general festivities...

Saturday
January 26, 2008
4 - 6 pm
Kenny's Castaways
157 Bleecker Street
Greenwich Village, New York

The Readers...

WAYNE KOESTENBAUM has published five books of poetry: Best-Selling Jewish Porn Films, Model Homes, The Milk of Inquiry, Rhapsodies of a Repeat Offender, and Ode to Anna Moffo and Other Poems. He has also published a novel, Moira Orfei in Aigues-Mortes, and five books of nonfiction: Andy Warhol, Cleavage, Jackie Under My Skin, The Queen's Throat (a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist), and Double Talk. His newest book, Hotel Theory, a hybrid of fiction and nonfiction, was published by Soft Skull Press in 2007. He a Distinguished Professor of English at the CUNY Graduate Center, and currently also a Visiting Professor in the painting department of the Yale School of Art.

ROBERT POLITO's forthcoming new book of poems is called Hollywood & God. His other books include Doubles and Savage Art:a Biography of Jom Thompson , which received the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography. He directs the Graduate Writing Program at the New School.

JESSE DORRIS' writing has appeared in Out, Black Book, The Brooklyn Rail, The Salt Silver Review, and the anthologies New York Sex Stories and Latin Lovers. He co-edited the anthology Besame Mucho with Jamie Manrique. He received an MFA from the New School, and is currently at work on a novel.

He believed in suggestion, in the technique of surprise and in victory being irrevocable if one succeeded in frightening the adversary with appearance; he deformed himslef with patches of falsies, he'd arise before the gaping opponents with two nose or with an elephant trunk, red like a pimento, hanging from his forehead like a spring. Want to know where this quote comes from? Join us at the next THE ENCLAVE: FESTIVAL of FLORAL DISCOURSE to find out...

THE ENCLAVE IX: THE FESTIVAL OF GHOST-CHILDREN

2007-11-27T10:03:00.000-08:00

Featuring: Gerald Hansen, Jon McMillan & Others

Saturday, December 15th 3:30 PM
Kenny's Castaways, 157 Bleecker Street, 212-979-9762
For updates and more info email: enclavianmatter@gmail.com
Free and open to the public

"So the ghost-children marched down the valley and fell into the abyss. Their passage was brief. And their ghost-song or its echo, which is almost to say the echo of nothingness, went on marching, I could hear it marching on at the same pace, the pace of courage and generosity. A barely audible song, a song of war and love, because although the children were clearly marching to war, the way they marched recalled the superb, theatrical attitudes of love."

Know where this quote comes from? Come to Kenny's on the 17th and find out. It's a rare opportunity to hear some of the east coast's most innovative writers on the cutting edge. Come. Be a part of The Enclave.

GERALD HANSEN is the author of the novel An Embarrassment of Riches. He lived for years in his mother's hometown of Derry, Northern Ireland and attended Dublin City University. As a Navy brat, he grew up in California, Thailand, London, Iceland and Germany. He now lives in New York City. His website is: www.geraldhansen.vpweb.com.

JON McMILLAN graduated from the MFA program at the New School University, where he won the Chapbook contest for fiction. His work has appeared in the magazines Dirt and Five Points, and on the music blog stereogum.com. His story "Born on Fire" was selected as one of the "100 Distinguished Stories of 2005" in the Best American Short Stories 2006 anthology. He is currently at work on a novel.

ALBERT CHEN covers major league baseball for Sports Illustrated and SI.com. A graduate of Yale College, he has lived in Nebraska, Maryland, and New York City. He is currently at work on his first novel.

MIKE SANDERSON is a writer who has lived in Brooklyn before it was hip. He has many ideas.

STACEY ROBINSON grew up in a farming community in Antarctica during the great Depression where she subsisted on a macrobiotic diet of mustard seeds, seals and blubber. Her hobbies include falconry, sex toy distribution, and whittling. When she isn't using her free time to mend the ozone layer or clean oil slicked baby seals, she writes.

Coordinated by The Enclave Writers Association

THE ENCLAVE VIII: THE FESTIVAL OF BLACK TARANTULA – IN MEMORIAM

2007-11-06T08:20:00.000-08:00

FEATURING: POROCHISTA KHAKPOUR, VICTORIA REDEL, MELVIN JULES BUKIET & MARCO RAFALA

Saturday, November 17th 4 PM
Kenny’s Castaways, 157 Bleecker Street, 212-979-9762
Free and open to the public

“I remember the corpses stood up before me...The corpses say:"You were born beautiful rich and smart you little creep and beauty wealth and intelligence just brought you to deterrence, secretion, to reject you...You came from a good family even though your real father was a murderer and your mother was crazy. Even being a creep won't save you. Tonight you're going to be ours." They babble tenderly to me.”

Know where this quote comes from? Come to Kenny’s on the 17th and find out. It’s a rare opportunity to hear some of the east coast’s most innovative writers on the cutting edge. Come. Be a part of the enclave.

POROCHISTA KHAKPOUR is the author of the novel Sons and Other Flammable Objects, which was a New York Times "Editor's Choice" and Chicago Tribune "Fall's Best." She attended Sarah Lawrence College and the Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminars MA program, where she was awarded the Elliot Coleman Fellowship. Her writing has appeared in the Chicago Reader, The Village Voice, nymag.com, Paper, Nylon, Gear, Alef, spin.com, Flaunt, Bidoun, and nerve.com, among others. She currently lives in New York City. She teaches at Hofstra University. Her website is: porochistakhakpour.blogspot.com

VICTORIA REDEL is the author of two books of poetry and three books of fiction. Her latest novel is The Border of Truth. Her novel Loverboy was awarded the 2001 S. Mariella Gable Novel Award and the 2002 Forward Silver Literary Fiction Prize and was chosen in 2001 as a Los Angeles Times Best Book. Her most recent collection of poems, Swoon was a finalist for the James Laughlin Award. Her work has appeared in numerous magazines and journals including O the Oprah magazine, Redbook, Bomb, More and NOON. She teaches at Sarah Lawrence College. Her website is: www.victoriaredel.com

MELVIN JULES BUKIET is the author of seven books of fiction, most recently the novel Strange Fire and the collection A Faker's Dozen. He has also edited three anthologies. He teaches at Sarah Lawrence College.

MARCO RAFALA's fiction has appeared in the Bellevue Literary Review. As a musician, he has opened for The Psychedelic Furs, The The, and The Fixx, and has contributed to the Nine Inch Nails tribute album, "Recovered in Nails" on Cleopatra Records. A graduate of the New School MFA Creative Writing Program, he works for the CUNY Research Foundation and the Ghana Literacy Project. He is a founding member of the Guerrilla Lit Reading Series. He lives in Brooklyn and is currently at work on his first novel. Check out Guerrilla Lit: guerrillalit.blogspot.com

Coordinated by The Enclave Writers Association
For more info email enclavianmatter@gmail.com

Porochista Khakpour, Victoria Redel & Melvin Jules Bukiet Read in November!

2007-11-02T14:02:00.001-07:00

The Enclave is pleased to announce that we have booked Porochista Khakpour, Victoria Redel and Melvin Jules Bukiet for our next reading scheduled for Saturday November 17th 4-7 at Kenny’s Castaways. If you haven’t read Ms. Khakpour's debut novel Sons and Other Flammable Objects, you should check it out. The same goes for Ms. Redel's and Mr. Bukiet's books. Take a look the writers' bios and websites below:

Porochista Khakpour attended Sarah Lawrence College and the Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminars MA program, where she was awarded the Elliot Coleman Fellowship. Her writing has appeared in the Chicago Reader, The Village Voice, nymag.com, Paper, Nylon, Gear, Alef, Raygun, spin.com, Flaunt, Bikini, Bidoun, and nerve.com, among others. Her debut novel, Sons and Other Flammable Objects, was a New York Times "Editor's Choice" and Chicago Tribune "Fall's Best." She currently lives in New York City.

http://porochistakhakpour.blogspot.com

Victoria Redel is the author of two books of poetry and three books of fiction. Her latest novel is The Border of Truth. Her novel Loverboy was awarded the 2001 S. Mariella Gable Novel Award and the 2002 Forward Silver Literary Fiction Prize and was chosen in 2001 as a Los Angeles Times Best Book. Her most recent collection of poems, Swoon was a finalist for the James Laughlin Award. Her work has appeared in numerous magazines and journals including O the Oprah magazine, Redbook, Bomb, More and NOON. She teaches at Sarah Lawrence College.

http://www.victoriaredel.com

Melvin Jules Bukiet is the author of seven books of fiction, most recently the novel Strange Fire and the collection A Faker's Dozen. He has also edited three anthologies. He teaches at Sarah Lawrence College.

Stay tuned. The rest of the line up will be posted shortly along with pictures from our October reading.

THE ENCLAVE VII: THE FESTIVAL OF ELSEWHERE

2007-10-16T20:58:00.002-07:00

THE ENCLAVE VII: THE FESTIVAL OF ELSEWHERE

Saturday, October 27th 4-6 PM
Kenny’s Castaways, 157 Bleecker Street, 212-979-9762

“This summer the roses are blue; the wood is of glass. The earth, draped in its verdant cloak, makes as little impression upon me as a ghost. It is living and ceasing to live which are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.”

Know where this quote comes from? Come to Kenny’s on the 27th and find out. It’s a rare opportunity to hear some of the east coast’s most innovative writers on the cutting edge. Come. Be a part of the enclave.

Featuring: DALE PECK & MOLLY ROSEN

DALE PECK is the author of the novels Martin and John, The Law of Enclosures, and Now It's Time to Say Goodbye; the memoir-cum-novel What We Lost; a book of literary criticism, Hatchet Jobs; and two children's books, Drift House and The Lost Cities. In 2008 and 2009 he will publish Body Surfing, a metaphysical thriller, Sprout, a young adult novel, and The Garden of Lost and Found, a novel for adults, and, if he finishes it on time, Twelve Caesars, his first collection of short stories. His fiction and essays have appeared in the New York Times, the New York Observer, Out, the New Republic, the Atlantic Monthly, the London Review of Books, Bookforum, BOMB, Tin House, Granta, and the Threepenny Review. The winner of two O. Henry Awards, a Pushcart Prize, and a Guggenheim Fellowship, he currently teaches in the Graduate Writing Program of The New School, where Molly Rosen once asked him why he never wrote a novel instead of hating on everyone else's.

MOLLY ROSEN was the Fiction Editor and Staff Writer of ym magazine and the Beauty and Style editor of Nylon. Her fiction, essays, interviews and features have appeared in Tokion, Alef, Jane, Maxim, TheBlowup, Elle Girl, and she has appeared as a pop culture expert on NPR and VH1. She studied English and Semiotics at Brown and received an MFA from The New School. She recently finished her first novel GOLD.

Free and open to the public (though donations are encouraged)
Coordinated by The Enclave Writers Association
For more information email enclavianmatter@gmail.com

The Enclave Finalizes October Line up: Dale Peck & Molly Rosen

2007-10-08T11:43:00.000-07:00

The Enclave is pleased to announce that our reading scheduled for Saturday October 27th will feature Dale Peck, along with Molly Rosen. The reading will occur at Kenny’s Castaways (157 Bleecker Street) from 4-6 PM. The event is free and open to the public. Please see Mr. Peck’s and Ms. Rosen’s bios below:

Born on Long Island, a graduate of Drew University, author of the novels Martin and John and The Law of Enclosures, he also co-wrote the screenplay for the latter. His latest novel is Now It's Time to Say Goodbye. His short fiction has appeared in Artforum, Bookforum, BOMB, London Review of Books, The New Republic, New York Times, and The Village Voice. Peck was also The New Republic’s renown literary critic for many years, and published an anthology of his reviews, Hatchet Jobs: Writings on Contemporary Fictions was published in 2004. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1995.

Molly Rosen is the former Fiction Editor and Staff Writer of ym magazine and the Beauty and Style editor of Nylon. She's written for Ellegirl, Maxim, Tokion, Alef, Jane, TheBlowup and has appeared as a pop culture expert on NPR and VH1. She studied English and Semiotics at Brown and recieved an MFA from The New School. She recently finished her first novel GOLD.

The Brooklyn Books of Wonder article is a must read in the current issue of The American Scholar

2007-10-08T11:38:00.000-07:00

The Enclave would like to announce its endorsement of this excellent look into Brooklyn, books, angst and wonder. Take a look at the link below:

http://www.theamericanscholar.org/au07/wonder-bukiet.html

The Enclave announces its line up for October: Dale Peck and a surprise guest!

2007-09-28T08:37:00.000-07:00

This just in: On Saturday October 27 The Enclave will host another reading at Kenny's featuring Dale Peck and a surprise guest. Be sure to mark it on your calendars now, as it is not an event to be missed. See Mr. Peck's bio below:

Born on Long Island, a graduate of Drew University, author of the novels Martin and John and The Law of Enclosures, he also co-wrote the screenplay for the latter. His latest novel is Now It's Time to Say Goodbye. His short fiction has appeared in Artforum, Bookforum, BOMB, London Review of Books, The New Republic, New York Times, and the Village Voice. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1995.

THE ENCLAVE VI: THE FESTIVAL OF BLIND WHITE GUT-LICKING RAGE

2007-09-22T09:16:00.001-07:00

"When I think of this city where I was born and raised, this Manhattan that Whitman sang of, a blind, white rage licks my guts. New York! The white prisons, the sidewalks swarming with maggots, the breadlines, the opium joints that are built like palaces, the kikes that are there, the lepers, the thugs, and above all, the ennui, the monotony of faces, streets, legs, houses, skyscrapers, meals, posters, jobs, crimes, loves. A whole city erected over a hollow pit of nothingness. Meaningless. Absolutely meaningless. And Forty-second Street! The top of the world, they call it. Where's the bottom then?"

Know where this quote comes from? Come to Kenny's on the 29th and find out. It's a rare opportunity to hear some of the east coast's newest writers on the cutting edge. Come. Be a part of the enclave.

Saturday, September 29th 3:30-6:30 PM
Kenny's Castaways, 157 Bleecker Street, 212-979-9762

Featuring:
JARED HOHL is from Donnellson, Iowa. His fiction has appeared in the anthology The Apocalypse Reader (Thunder's MouthPress) and is forthcoming in The Agriculture Reader and in Dutch translation in the Belgian literary magazine Deus Ex Machina.

STEVEN KARL received his MFA from the New School and lives in Brooklyn. He has poems, reviews, and articles in
or forthcoming from Sawbuck, Knock, Real Poetik, Teachers & Writers Magazine, Lit online and
Coldfrontmag.com.

SCOTT GEIGER's fiction has appeared in LCRW, Conjunctions, and the 2007 Pushcart Prize anthology. Otherwise, he's a member of Architecture Research Office.

JAMES FREED's writing has appeared in The New York Times. Originally he is from Philadelphia, but now he lives in Queens where he teaches writing at LaGuardia Community College. He is a founding member of The Enclave.

Free and open to the public (though donations are encouraged)
Coordinated by The Enclave Writers Association
For more information contact The Enclave: enclavianmatter@gmail.com

THE ENCLAVE RETURNS

2007-09-22T09:07:00.000-07:00

Hey everyone,

So the Enclave is ready to kick off our fall season next week. Our reading is the opening weekend as Kenny's 2 week 40th anniversary extravaganza. Keep checking www.kennyscastaways.net for more details. There are already some great bands booked Friday and Saturday and also more coming up the following weekend. So consider altering your plans and moving into Kenny's for a few nights of rocknroll/intellectual discourse. We'll certainly all be there.

Also The Enclave is currently looking for readers to fill a number of slots we have open for the fall. My apologies to those who have emailed us queries, whom we haven't gotten back to. Just been really busy recently. If you are interested in reading come on by the 29th and introduce yourself. Bring an excerpt of your work too. Or if you absolutely can't make it you can email us a sample as well.

Anyway, check us out on the 29th. We're really psyched to be off the road and back on track. Hope to see you all at this much anticipated kick -off festivity.

Regards,

The Enclave Writers Association

THE ENCLAVE VI: THE FESTIVAL OF BLIND WHITE GUT-LICKING RAGE

2007-09-22T08:58:00.001-07:00

COMING SOON