The "No Sleep Till Brooklyn" Tour 2017
 

Hey, San Fran, LA and NYC, I'd love to see you out. Here it is,

The “No Sleep Till Brooklyn” Tour 2017

9/28 Fresno, CA. Remix Reading Series. 8pm. Tokyo Gardens 8 PM, Tokyo Gardens, 1711 Fulton St.

10/17 San Francisco, CA. The Bindery Presents, 7:30 pm, The Bindery, 1727 Haight St, with Zoe Brezsny: https://www.facebook.com/events/109114696457153/

10/19 Fresno, CA. Fresno State Reading Series, 6pm.

10/29 Los Angeles, CA. Windows Series, 4pm. A. G. Geiger Fine Art Books, 502 Chung King Ct. $10.

11/5 San Francisco, CA. Bazaar Writers Salon, 6pm. Bazaar Café, 5927 California St.

11/8 New York, NY. At the Inkwell Series, 7pm. KGB Bar, 85 E 4th St.

12/10 New York, NY. Dead Rabbits Reading Series, 8pm. DTUT, 91st St and 2nd Ave.

Looks like an awesome tour. I wish I were in NYC to see it.

Any chance you'll make it up to the Boston area?

Love to add a stop in Boston. Any series you would recommend, Andrew? I don't know the scene.

Congratulations, Aaron. Sounds awesome. Any video or audio forthcoming eventually from the readings?

I hope to have a video trailer for the book soon, and I will link to footage of the readings after they take place. Trust me--I'm not shy.

Congratulations, Aaron, it sounds great!

In Boston, if in doubt, you might reach out to the Grolier Poetry Bookshop in Harvard Square:

Grolier Poetry Book Shop Front Page
www.grolierpoetrybookshop.org/

I bought William McGonagall's Collected Poems there.

Cheers,
John

Sadly, I can't say I "know the scene" well either. I've never really given a reading, and haven't had the chance to go to many outside of a few places and college venues you probably have to book long in advance.

John's recommendation is a good one; I've been to a reading at Brookline Booksmith as well that was good. I have a friend who does readings about town, and I'll let you know when she gets back to me.

A consequence of having a "belle" as my wife (see posts # 9 & 10 here) and married daughters is that scheduling is hard to foresee. I am familiar with the most scarlet KGB venue (let's all sing about the Volga boatmen now), though not yet with the other uptown. I will hope for the best.

Any chance you're swinging by the sleepy market town of Leek in Staffordshire? If so, I'll definitely pencil it in, weather permitting. We don't really have a 'scene', though we do have scenery. And we don't have a poetry bookshop where people give readings, but we do have an Oxfam shop where people have been known to mumble in tongues.

Seriously though, good luck with it...;)

Thank you, John and Andrew S., I will check out the bookstores you suggest. Yes, Boston. It’s time. I have only read there once, I believe for the New England Poetry Society. I will scope out poetry venues and try to set something up for early 2018.

Allen, I would love to see you at the KGB. We could talk Sappho in any one of the four dark corners of the bar. It’s something about the wood in that room—it resonates well with my voice. I would love to meet your belle as well.

Mark, I would love to read in Leek. A quick search has revealed that it is on the charmingly named river Churnet near the mysterioso Blackshaw moor (where the “Hound of the Baskervilles” is set?). Yes, a European tour. I’ll see what I can do. Best,

Aaron

I will try to get to the At the Inkwell reading.

But you are definitely flying over the fly-over states!

RM

Rick, I would love to see you there. Yes, there's only so much money to spend on travel so we're doing major metros. I am trying to set up a gig in Youngstown, Ohio (but don't tell Ohio that New Yorkers consider it flyover! I've been there--a proud state).

What state is round on the sides and high in the middle?

Ohio.

Get it?

One friend got back to me and suggested Porter Square Books might be an avenue. I've been to prose readings there, though it had slipped my mind since I haven't been there in years.

He also suggested that you check out MassPoetry.org

Will do, Andrew. Hmn. Porter Square--one of the famous squares of Boston. Thank you.

Another thought: perhaps the Powwows would set you up in Newburyport for a reading, which isn't too far north, and could make an easy double-dip.

Aaron, I'm consulting with my extraordinary spouse, Maryellen, and it's really likely we can do the KGB, corners or not. Maybe I'll bring a flashlight, as I recall the light away from the podium isn't strong. We might scope out DTUT beforehand too, and make it a possibility for me, at least -- if you haven't used up all your best material at the KGB. As for Sappho, we (I and thou) could fruitfully puzzle at which parent she lost while very young (according to Ovid). On δεδυκε, I'd want to agree to disagree (if we disagree) like the gentlemen we are, and together storm the walls of Troy after imbibing.

Aaron, you'd be more than welcome, Leek is a lovely place despite my flippancy. Alas, I'm pretty sure Hound of the Baskervilles was Dartmoor, down in the south of the country. And we can't claim Cathy and Heathcliff either, who were further north. But our moors are great moors. We have the best moors. (Sorry, I 'Trumped out' for a second. Been reading another thread...)

Some other Boston-based suggestions sent along to me:

Brookline Poetry Series, one sunday a month at Brookline Public Library
Trident Bookstore & Cafe Downtown
Porter Square Books
Brookline Booksmith
Wellesley Booksmith
Newtonville Books
The Coop
Groliers

Some of these overlap, obviously, with other suggestions, but I just cut and pasted her thoughts.

Thanks to you and your friend for the list, Andrew. I will solicit all those venues. Boston 2018!

Aaron, I don't think my wife can come. Sorry.

Sorry to hear that, Allen.

Aaron,

In my response to Nausheen, I posted her tour. She's got a number of Boston venues (Cambridge, Rozzie, etc.) that you might consider looking into.

All this is to say, I hope you can make it to Boston.

Thank you very much. I will check out Nausheen's tour. I am working on setting up some Boston dates for 2018.

Thanks,

Aaron

Hope you're getting packed houses. Looking forward to the European tour...

Thank you, Gregory. I read at the Players Club last night--I had the pleasure of hanging out with Spherians Claudia Gary and Allen Tice. Tonight the Commie Lit Bar the KGB!

Aaron, you blew my silent run. Oh well, it's all right with me.