THE ENCLAVE X: FESTIVAL of FLORAL DISCOURSE

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

Featuring: Gerald Hansen, Jon McMillan & Others

Saturday, December 15th 3:30 PM
Kenny's Castaways, 157 Bleecker Street, 212-979-9762
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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.

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

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


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

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.