Thursday, March 27, 2008
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Party with The Enclave on Sat. March 29th @3:30PM
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 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
Thursday, March 6, 2008
The Enclave Announces Line Up for 1 year Anniversary Party on Saturday March 29th @ 3:30 pm
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.
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.
Friday, February 8, 2008
Douglas A. Martin, Nick Burd, and Others Read Sat Feb. 23rd @ 4PM
Festival of The Earth in my Mouth
Saturday February 23, 2008 4 pm
Kenny's Castaways
157 Bleecker Street
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
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.
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
E.N. Clave grows restless in NYC again and heads to Mexico in search of new talent for the Enclave
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
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
Friday, November 30, 2007
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...
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