Coe & Childers at CSM 3/8
 

Carmine Street Metrics presents
a reading and launch (with open mic)
hosted by Anton Yakovlev

Sunday, March 8 from 3 - 5 pm
at Otto's Shrunken Head Tiki Bar
at 538 E. 14 Street (between A & B), NYC

Terese Coe's poems and translations have appeared in The Threepenny Review, Poetry, New American Writing, Ploughshares, Alaska Quarterly Review, The Cincinnati Review, The Huffington Post, Poetry Review, the TLS, Agenda, New Walk Magazine, Orbis, The Stinging Fly, and many other publications. Anthologies like Irresistible Sonnets and Grace Notes also include her poems, and one poem, "More" was heli-dropped across London in the 2012 London Olympics Rain of Poems. She is the co-founder of Carmine St. Metrics. This reading marks the launch of her new book "Shot Silk."

Christopher Childers taught Latin and Greek for nine years at St. Andrew’s School in Delaware (where the Dead Poets’ Society was filmed!) before leaving in 2014 to pursue an MFA in Poetry at Johns Hopkins University. He has poems, essays, and translations published or forthcoming from Agni, PN Review, Parnassus, Literary Imagination, and elsewhere, and has been a finalist for the Ruth Lilly Fellowship from Poetry magazine. He is currently at work on a translation, under contract with Penguin Classics, of Greek and Latin Lyric Poetry from Archilochus to Martial.

I am really sorry not to be able to attend this reading. Three of my favorites, Terese, Chris and Anton.... Best wishes for a lively reading and an appreciative audience.

Another missed chance to meet Terese! (Met the inestimable Chris at West Chester.)

It sounds great. Too bad it's so far from me.

Good luck all!
Charlotte

Wendy, thanks for the notice!

Cathy and Charlotte, I too wish you could be there! Charlotte, one day we will be on the same coast at the same time...I hope!

Also, Wendy Sloan has graciously agreed to provide an introduction, and there will be an Open Mic, as always with CSM.

bump time!

I just received Terese's new collection, Shot Silk. Such beautiful poems and translations! I urge everyone who can to attend the reading and to buy her book.

Thanks, Cathy.

I've read the book, too, and ... it's very good. I'm honored that Terese has asked me to introduce her at the reading.

Come one, come all, to Otto's tomorrow for two truly terrific poets, and translators, Terese & Chris.

Just saw these messages~~ thank you so much, Cathy and Wendy! I'm delighted you have enjoyed them...you're very kind.

Without a doubt one of the best CSMs ever, from the first open mic reader to the last. Of course, both features were tremendous. And we were way over the fire code attendance-wise.

My heart breaks when I think of people who weren't there.

Rick

Thank you so much for that encomium, Rick! It was good to see you there.

I missed some people too, but was overjoyed with the crowd. I didn't even know a dear friend from our undergraduate days was coming (she was in town from Missouri, which I didn't know), so when she walked in the door of Otto's, I was floored! She's the friend who was in the "Emergency Room" poem at New Verse News. She said she'd emailed me but maybe it was one of those gmail things where everything gets bundled up and one is hidden. Whatevs.

We couldn't really have fit another soul in that room, so don't let your heart break...

Chris Childers was a thing to behold, and I mean that in the best possible sense. Adept satirist, one of the best I've heard in the metrical crowd. My kids and one of their partners and my granddaughter all came, so I had to sweeten the poem choices so as not to frighten the 7-year-old with any horrific subjects (like Mary Stuart). It was her first poetry reading, and she held up bravely for a while. Chris C. knew they would have to cut out early to make sure the child didn't get antsy. So I read first, which worked out well.

Anton and Wendy were extraordinarily courteous and kind, and a lot of the open mic crowd were fine too.

Since John and Gail made some recent generous comments about *Shot Silk* on "Words for light verse" in Drills, please note that the discount copies (first batch only) will be gone within two weeks, I'd say. If you prefer the lower price and/or a signature, contact me by pm or by email. After that the price will go back to normal, which is $17. I don't mind cheques from the UK either, bc my bank takes them without a blink or a service charge--but the US mail rate to UK for this is $7.90...otherwise there's amazon.com of course!

But you won't get a signature from Amazon, now will you?

I don't think so, John, unless there's an in-house forger there.

Sphereans, I have less than 10 copies available from me at the discount price, and after it will have to revert to the list price. Email or pm me if you'd like one!

Performance video
 

Just now ready, here's a video of Wendy Sloan's kind CSM introduction and my reading of one of my translations from the French of Pierre de Ronsard, "Ode to Jacques de Rubampré" on March 8, 2015:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlWEXey-67A