GHOSTS & PROJECTORS presents: KATE GREENSTREET
Posted: March 28, 2013 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a comment »GHOSTS & PROJECTORS. a poetry reading series.
presents Kate Greenstreet, Chris Caruso, Hannah Rodabaugh, and Ashley Barr.
Saturday, April 6th at 7pm at the Banquet Room of Solid Bar and Grill, 405 8th St #100, Boise, ID 83702.
There will be no charge for admission but a $2 donation to the series is strongly encouraged.
Kate Greenstreet’s new book Young Tambling is just out from Ahsahta Press. Her previous books are case sensitive and The Last 4 Things, also with Ahsahta. Her poetry can be found in Colorado Review, Boston Review, Volt, Fence, Chicago Review, and other journals.
Chris Caruso was born and raised in New Jersey and has come to expect questions about the Mafia, requests to say coffee and to fist bump. He earned a BA in English from the University of Colorado at Boulder where he began to write poetry in earnest. This led him to study for a Year at the University of East Anglia in England, earn a MFA from Rutgers, Newark and then to pursue a second MFA at Boise State University. He just recently finished a chapbook which he submitting for publication and is currently working on a project that explores the theme of anxiety.
Hannah Rodabaugh received her MA in English from Miami University (Miami of Ohio) in 2008, and she received her MFA from Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School in 2010. Her work was included in Flim Forum Press’ anthology: A Sing Economy (2008). Her work was also featured in Five Oxford Poets a documentary about women’s experimental writing that premiered at the Cambridge Women’s Poetry Festival at Cambridge University (2006). Recently, her work has been published in Defenestration, Used Furniture Review, and Palimpsest. She currently lives in Boise, ID where she is working on two book-length projects.
Ashley Barr is on the verge of graduating from the College of Idaho with a BA. She hopes to enter an MFA program in the coming year. When she is not obsessing about the future, she interns for GHOSTS&PROJECTORS. a poetry reading series and writes poems.
GHOSTS & PROJECTORS is sponsored by Boise State University, The Idaho Commission on the Arts, and poetry lovers across the Treasure Valley.
GHOSTS & PROJECTORS presents: MFA Students from Missoula, MT (!!)
Posted: March 15, 2013 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: boise, boise poetry, Hyde Park Books, Missoula, poetry, University of Montana MFA Leave a comment »
GHOSTS & PROJECTORS. a poetry reading series. presents:
Colin Post, Rachel Finkelstein, Sean Cleary, Lauren de Paepe, Jack McCrone, Phil Schaefer, and Myrrah Dubey.
Saturday, March 30th
7PM
Hyde Park Books
(1507 N 13th St, Boise, ID 83702.)
There will be no charge for admission but a $2 donation to the series is strongly encouraged.
GHOSTS & PROJECTORS Reading with Feng Sun Chen and Charles Gabel, August 1, 2012
Posted: July 24, 2012 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: boise, boise poetry, Charles Gabel, Feng Sun Chen, Ghosts & Projectors 1 Comment »GHOSTS & PROJECTORS. a poetry reading series.
presents
FENG SUN CHEN
with
CHARLES GABEL
Wednesday, August 1st
7pm
the front lawn of the Cabin
801 South Capitol Boulevard Boise, ID 83702
(208) 331-8000
There will be no charge for admission but a $2 donation to the series is strongly encouraged.
FENG SUN CHEN’S first book is “Butcher’s Tree” from Black Ocean. She is also the author of chapbooks “Ugly Fish”, “blud” and “Paul Thek”. Recent poems appear on her blog, in Conduit, Kill Author, Claudius App, Radioactive Moat and other places. She is currently a graduate assistant and MFA student at the University of Minnesota.
CHARLES GABEL is the author of the poetry chapbook Pastoral, out from Strange Machine Books; his poems can also be found online in Alice Blue Review and 751 Magazine. Charles was born in Cincinnati, and he studied Classical Civilization at Loyola University Chicago and Poetry at Boise State.
GHOSTS & PROJECTORS is a poetry reading series curated by poet Megan Williams that brings together the page, slam, experimental, lyrical, cowboy, etc poets that all live in Idaho yet never seem to be invited to the same readings, connects community-based audiences with a broad range of established and local poets, and connects local and non-local poets by giving them the opportunity to share the stage.
GHOSTS & PROJECTORS presents: a reading with Daphne Gottlieb!
Posted: March 14, 2012 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: boise poetry, Cheryl Maddalena, Daphne Gottlieb, Ghosts & Projectors, poetry reading Leave a comment »GHOSTS & PROJECTORS. a poetry reading series.
presents
DAPHNE GOTTLIEB
with
CHERYL MADDALENA
7pm
Hyde Park Books in Hyde Park (note the location change! This is a good thing– BYOBooze!)
Daphne Gottlieb will be visiting from San Francisco as the final GHOSTS & PROJECTORS guest reader for this season.
There will be no charge for admission but a $2 donation to the series is strongly encouraged. Daphne Gottlieb and Cheryl Maddalena’s books will be available to purchase from Hyde Park Books.
San Francisco-based Performance Poet Daphne Gottlieb stitches together the ivory tower and the gutter just using her tongue. She is the author and editor of nine books, most recently the poetry book 15 Ways to Stay Alive. She is the author of the poetry books Kissing Dead Girls, Final Girl, Why Things Burn and Pelt, and as the graphic novel Jokes and the Unconscious with artist Diane DiMassa.
Cheryl Maddalena is a mother, psychologist, arts organizer, and lapsed engineer who has been performing poetry for more than ten years. She has graced the National Poetry Slam Finals stage both as a poet (2004) and as a backup singer (2009), and has been National Haiku Champion as well. Cheryl’s work has been called “hilarious,” “heartfelt,” and “brutal” – but not all at the same time.
GHOSTS & PROJECTORS is a poetry reading series curated by poet Megan Williams that brings together the page, slam, experimental, lyrical, cowboy, etc poets that all live in Idaho yet never seem to be invited to the same readings, connects community-based audiences with a broad range of established and local poets, and connects local and non-local poets by giving them the opportunity to share the stage.
Hyde Park Books is an independently owned and operated new and used bookstore that has delivered mystery, intrigue, and intellectual delight to Boise’s North End neighborhood for twenty-seven years.
GHOSTS & PROJECTORS is made possible by generous funding from the Boise City Department of Arts & History and Boise State University’s Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing Program.
GHOSTS & PROJECTORS presents: a reading with Cathy Park Hong!
Posted: January 25, 2012 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: boise poetry, Cathy Park Hong, Ghosts & Projectors, Merin Tigert, poetry reading Leave a comment »GHOSTS & PROJECTORS. a poetry reading.
in conjunction with HYDE PARK BOOKS
presents
CATHY PARK HONG
with MERIN TIGERT
24 February 2012
7pm
Sun Ray Cafe
This reading will be hosted by Megan Williams. Cathy Park Hong’s Dance Dance Revolution will be available for purchase at Hyde Park Books. Refreshments will be available for a donation & all other donations will be happily accepted!
(GHOSTS & PROJECTORS is sponsored by the Boise City Department of Arts & History, the Boise State University MFA Writing Program, & poetry fans like you!)
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Cathy Park Hong is the author of Translating Mo’um and Dance Dance Revolution and has won a Pushcart Prize and the Barnard Women Poets Prize. She lives in New York and teaches at Sarah Lawrence College.
Merin Tigert, Idaho native, burlesque performer, and long time fanatic of the practical use of ancient weaponry, received her MFA in Poetry from BSU in 2011. Merin’s first book of poetry “The Grotesque Menagerie” is currently seeking a publisher willing to work with a manuscript focused on cannibalism, spousal murder, and taboo sexual practices. Both are cheerfully pessimistic about finding such a publisher.
GHOSTS & PROJECTORS presents: a poetry reading with CA Conrad!
Posted: October 18, 2011 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: boise poetry, CA Conrad, Ghosts & Projectors, poetry, poetry reading, Torin Jensen Leave a comment »
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GHOSTS & PROJECTORS. a poetry reading.
in conjunction with HYDE PARK BOOKS presents CA CONRAD with TORIN JENSEN 18 November 2011 7pm Sun Ray Cafe This reading will be hosted by Megan Williams. CA Conrad’s books will be available for purchase. Refreshments will be available for a donation & all other donations will be happily accepted! (GHOSTS & PROJECTORS is sponsored by the Boise City Department of Arts & History, the Boise State University MFA Writing Program, & poetry fans like you!) * CAConrad is the son of white trash asphyxiation, his childhood included selling cut flowers along the highway for his mother and helping her shoplift. He is the author of several books of poetry, and he is a recipient of a 2011 Pew Fellowship in the Arts for poetry. |
GHOSTS & PROJECTORS. a poetry reading. manly edition.
Posted: September 17, 2011 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: boise, boise poetry, Ghosts & Projectors, Ken Rodgers, poetry reading, Zach Vesper Leave a comment »GHOSTS & PROJECTORS. a poetry reading.
(& chapbook release party for Zach Vesper’s ONLY ONE BEAST)
14 October 2011
7pm
Hyde Park Books
FEATURING:
Ken Rodgers
&
Zach Vesper
This reading will be hosted by poet Megan Williams. Zach’s chapbook, ONLY ONE BEAST, will be available from Goodmorning Menagerie. Refreshments will be available for a donation.


