Tonight is BBXVII with Lynn Xu, Joshua Edwards, and Farnoosh Fathi representing Canarium Books strong. It’ll be my second missed Bad Blood, and this one stings. I’m a fan. Please go in my stead. Take notes for me. Keep Drew and Joseph in check. Tell them tonight my heart is at ADX/PDX.
Come to ADX for a Bad Blood to help Octopus Books and Poor Claudia celebrate the official release of two of our newest books: Ben Mirov’s Hider Roser (Octopus Books) and Elaine Kahn’s A Voluptuous Dream During an Eclipse (Poor Claudia). Ben and Elaine will be reading poems with Rebecca Farivar, author of Correct Animal (Octopus Books), and Brian Foley, author of The Constitution (Black Ocean, forthcoming).
And we’ll let you sip on some Gigantic Beer if you remember to put some coin in the har har jar. Mingle is at 7:30. Tingle is at 8.
It’s official: Portland’s own, Gigantic Brewing, is now the proud sponsor of the Bad Blood Reading Series. We’re excited for you to check out their beer at the next reading on January 10, at ADX, with Ben Mirov, Rebecca Farivar, Brian Foley, and Elaine Kahn (more info on that to come). And if you can’t wait until January to learn about Gigantic, you can come to the Publication Fair on Sunday, where we’ll be sitting on a case. And, of course, you can always check them out on your own. Here’s a bit more info about its brewers, Van Havig and Ben Love.
Let’s do Bad Blood again. This Thursday night. You in? BBXIV. At ADX. This time, Christopher Martin, Mary Austin Speaker, and Portland’s own Sarah Bartlett.
Read a recent poem by Sarah Bartlett in iO Poetry , and a poem by Mary Austin-Speaker in the Boston Review , and watch a multimedia exerpt from Christopher Martin’s book, Becoming Weather, at Coffee House Press.
BBXIII. Christopher DeWeese, Heather Christle, Francesca Chabrier. August 23rd. 7pm. ADX. PDX, ORE.