[...events...]
>Sat, May 10, 7:30
Willoughby and Baltic art space (195 G Elm Street, Somerville MA; T: Red Line, Davis Square)
"Solutionizing Our Love"
Free and open to the public.
Writer/performer Jeff Stern , musician Michael Murray, and Ethan
Gilsdorf in a multi-media, reading/performance with words, live music,
powerpoint presentations and booze, music (again) and socializing (and
possibly dancing when it's all said and done) --- an extravaganza of
love and heartbreak we like to call:
"Solutionizing Our Love: a State of Romantic Affairs in 3 Acts";
free but donations (to offset expenses).
link to the evening's program here
>Thurs
May 15, 2008, 7-9pm
Beat Night
Press Room
77 Daniel St
Portmouth NH
Gilsdorf
is the featured poet, featuring music by the Larry Simon Quintet, accompanied
by featured readers. Followed by Open Mic. 3rd Thursday of every month,
7-9pm.
>Sunday, June 1, 2008
7:30pm
Lizard Lounge
1667 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA
Featured poet
Poet and performer Ethan Gilsdorf is the featured poet at the
Lizard Lounge Poetry Jam. Ethan will be reading a lively set of poems,
backed by the jamming sounds of the Jeff Robinson Trio. The night
begins with an open Poetry Slam starting at 7:30pm, then the Featured
Poet and finally an Open Mic accompanied by the Jeff Robinson Trio. $5
cover and you must be 21 to enter the venue. Sultry red lights,
intimate tables, and wooden church pews give this small room one of the
best ambiances in town. More info: http://poetryjam.org/
Link to my 2007 feature here.
from a poem:
Past Events:
>Friday, Dec 14 at
7pm
Willoughby
and Baltic art space (195 G Elm Street, Somerville MA; T: Red Line, Davis
Square)
Free and open to the public.
Journalist and poet Ethan Gilsdorf and novelist Ted Weesner, Jr., both
2007 recipients of Artist Fellowships from the Somerville Arts Council,
read from their works.
Weesner will be reading an excerpt from the novel he's presently working
on, "Left Prague For Good." Gilsdorf's book-in-progress is a
memoir/travelogue called "Escape Artists: One Man's Quest to Find
Reality Among Role Playing Freaks, Online Gaming Geeks, Fandom Addicts,
World-Builders and Other Dwellers of Imaginary Realms."
More info: Willoughby and Baltic, 617-501-0197,
http://willoughbybaltic.squarespace.com/
>Four Stories Boston Fall '07 Opening Night!
Monday, September 10, 2007 7-9pm (Music starts @ 6)
The Enormous Room
567 Massachusetts Ave
Central Square, Cambridge
Admittance free and open to the public
LINK to audio clip here
The
evening's theme: Emails from the Edge: 21st Century Tales of Far-Away
Places
Featuring:
* Ethan Gilsdorf, travel writer, poet, journalist and essayist with work
in The New York Times, National Geographic Traveler, The Washington Post,
Boston Globe and Fodor’s; poems in Poetry, The Southern Review,Exquisite
Corpse, and anthologies Future Welcome, Short Fuse and Outsiders; and
teacher at Boston's Grub Street. More @ www.ethangilsdorf.com
* Michelle Hoover, a Best New American Voices author and winner of Pen-New
England's Emerging Writer Award
* Roland Kelts, Lecturer at the University of Tokyo; co-editor of the
New York-based literary journal A Public Space; author of JapanAmerica;
and writer with work in Zoetrope, Playboy, Doubletake, Salon, The Village
Voice, Newsday, Cosmopolitan, Vogue and The Japan Times
* Tracy Slater, Four Stories Boston and Four Stories Japan founder; teacher
of writing and literature at Boston University; and author of essays and
reviews from The Chronicle Review, Post Road, Kansai Time Out, Asahi Weekly,
and more
Plus the sizzlin' Michael Borum as guest DJ!
Sunday, May 13, 2007
Lizard
Lounge Poetry Jam
begins at 7:30 ...
1667
Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA
First there's an open poetry slam, then Ethan will be the featured poet,
and the evening ends with an open mike (read your poem backed by the amazing
Jeff Robinson Trio). Come show your support!
more info: http://poetryjam.org/
Ethan at the Lizard Lounge May 13, 2007
Wednesday,March
28, 2007
Winter Student/Instructor Showcase
7pm – 9pm
Location: Grub HQ, 160 Boylston Street Free!
Join
Grub students from the winter term, plus two of our award-winning instructors
Ethan Gilsdorf and Christin Geall as they read (for 5 minutes each) from
recent work. You'll hear great fiction, non-fiction, poetry and screenwriting.
Free beer and snacks provided. Sign-ups begin at 7pm; readings soon thereafter.
Ethan Gilsdorf and William Orem
Friday, October 20, 2006
7:30pm
Depot Square Gallery, Lexington, Mass.
Two local, award-winning writers --- Somerville resident Ethan Gilsdorf
and William Orem of Waltham --- will read from their work at Lexington's
Depot Square Gallery on Friday, October 20, 2006 at 7:30pm. The event
is free and open to the public (donations welcome). A reception will follow
the event. The Depot Square Gallery is located at 1837 Massachusetts Avenue,
Lexington, Massachusetts. For more information, call 781-863-1597, go
to www.depotsquaregallery.com.
>download
poster here<
Thursday, September
21
5:00 PM
Wheaton College, Norton Massachusetts
May Room, Mary Lyon Hall
Sponsored by the Dale Rogers Marshall Visiting Artists Program Endowed
Fund within the Evelyn Danzig Haas '39 Visiting Artists Program. More
info: http://www.wheatoncollege.edu/arts/ or contact Betsy Cronin 508-286-3644,
bcronin@wheatonma.edu.
>Sunday,
April 9, 2006
Lizard Lounge Poetry Jam
1667 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA
http://www.poetryjam.com/
Ethan will be the featured poet. The
Lizard Lounge Poetry Jam is every Sunday, with a Poetry Slam starting
at 7:30pm and a featured poet and open mic accompanined by the jeff robinson
trio starting at 9:00pm. $5 cover and you must be 21 to enter the venue.
The Lizard Lounge: Sultry red
lights, intimate tables, and wooden church pews give this small room one
of the hippest ambiances in town.
http://lizardloungeclub.com/main.html
>Wednesday
July 20, 2005
7:30 pm
Powow River Poets Reading Series
Newburyport
Art Association Gallery, 65 Water Street, Newburyport
http://www.newburyportart.org/pages/poetry_readings.html
>Friday,
February 18, 2005
8pm
Blackbird Books & Cafe
221
Main St Nashua, NH 03060, info: 603-880-0110
Featured reader in this monthly series.
>Wednesday, February
2, 2005
7pm
Poetry Hoot, Cafe Espresso
800
Islington Plaza
Portsmouth, NH
One of two (I think) featured readers at this monthly series. More info:
http://www.pplp.org/HootNight.htm
>Friday, November 19,
2004
8pm
Blackbird Books & Cafe
221 Main St Nashua, NH 03060, info: 603-880-0110
A short feature as part of a special group reading for the November/Thanksgiving
season.
>Thursday, November
18, 2004
7pm
Beat Night
with Larry Simon
& Groove Bacteria (funky groove quartet)
Press Room, 77 Daniel St., Portsmouth, NH
431-5186
>Thursday, October
28, 2004
7pm
RiverRun Books
7 Commercial Alley Portsmouth, New Hampshire
One of two or more featured readers.
>Wednesday, October
20, 2004
6:30pm
RATTAPALLAX READING at Jefferson Market
Library (NYPL)
Michelle
Noteboom, Jennifer K. Dick, Ethan Gilsdorf & Julie Carr.
Jefferson Market Library, 425 Avenue of the Americas [at 10th St.], NYC.
Free.
http://www.rattapallax.com/reading_102004.htm
http://www.nypl.org/branch/local/man/jmr.cfm
Michelle Noteboom originally hails from Michigan but has lived in Paris
since 1991. Her poetry has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Boston
Review, Verse, Fence, Aufgabe, Salt Hill, Diner and the Short Fuse anthology.
Jennifer K Dick , BA from Mount Holyoke, MFA Colorado State & PhD candidate
at La Soprbonne Nouvelle in Paris; Florescence just came out from University
of Georgia Press' Contemporary Poetry Series. Julie Carr lives in Oakland,
California where she is a pursuing a Ph.D. in English Literature from
UC Berkeley. Her book MEAD: An Epithalamion is forthcoming from UC Georgia
Press in the Fall.
>Sunday, October 17, 2004
7pm
Myopic Books Poetry Series
1564 N. Milwaukee Ave Chicago, IL 60622
info: 773.862.4882, http://www.myopicbookstore.com/poetry.html,
or contact Chuck Stebelton eyeple@earthlink.net
Reading with Suzanne Buffam, whose first collection of poems will be published
in Spring 2005 by Anansi Press. Her work has appeared in a number of journals
in Canada and the U.S., including Poetry, The Colorado Review, Prairie
Schooner, and Books in Canada. She is currently a visiting lecturer in
the Poetry program at Columbia College Chicago.
Wednesday, September
1, 2004
8pm
Poetry Idiots series
Amelie
Frank and Ethan Gilsdorf
The Ugly Mug Caffé
261 North Glassell Ave, Orange, CA
$2.00 cover charge or one drink minimum
http://www.poetryidiots.com/
>Tuesday August
31, 2004
9pm
Cobalt Poets
Open
reading plus featured reader Ethan Gilsdorf
Colbalt Cafe
22047 Sherman Way
Canoga Park, CA
One
drink minimum. Sign up for
the open reading before 9:00 pm.
http://poetrysuperhighway.com/cobalt/
(download the poster
(PDF) here)
>Monday, June 28, 2004, 8 pm,
Shakespeare and Company,
37 rue de la Bûcherie, 5th, Paris. Free.
Award-wining American Poets Ethan Gilsdorf and Neil Shepard (author of
"I'm Here Because I Lost My Way") read from their work.
Neil Shepard has published two books of poetry:
Scavenging the Country for a Heartbeat (First Book Award winner, Mid-List
Press, 1993) and I'm Here Because I Lost My Way (Mid-List, 1998). His
poems appear in many magazines, among them American Voice, Boulevard,
Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, New England Review, North American
Review, Paris Review, Ploughshares, Shenandoah, Southern Review, and Triquarterly.
He founded the Writing Program at the Vermont Studio Center and directed
it for many years. He is the Editor of the literary magazine Green Mountains
Review and teaches in the creative writing program at Johnson State College
in Vermont.
>Wednesday, 5 May, 2004
Poetry reading and discussion in English:
Barbara Beck --- Ethan Gilsdorf --- Heather Hartley
19h. Free.
Red Wheelbarrow bookstore, 22 rue St-Paul, 4th, Paris, M° St-Paul, tel:
01 48 04 75 08
In conjunction with Cecilia Woloch's Paris Poetry workshop, award-winning
poets Barbara Beck, Ethan Gilsdorf and Heather Hartley read their poems.
Poet and translator Beck's work appears in The Literary Review and Van
Gogh's Ear. Freelance writer and poet Gilsdorf has been published in Poetry
and The Southern Review. The Paris Editor of Tin House Magazine, poet
Hartley has published in Kalliope and the Mississippi Review. Beck and
Hartley also edit the Paris-based literary magazine Upstairs at Duroc.
The reading will be followed by a discussion on the literary life of expatriate
poets.
Reading: Upstairs at Duroc
Le Caveau des Oubliettes, 52 rue Galande, 5th, Paris. M° St. Michel.
Wed, April 7, 6:45pm. Free.
Down in the cool medieval cave of this
club, the upstart literary magazine Upstairs at Duroc hosts a poetry/prose
reading with visiting and resident Anglophone poets Geoffrey Cruickshank-Hagenbuckle,
Ethan Gilsdorf and Hai-Dang Phan, and prose writer Joanne Proulx.
HAPPENING : CELEBRATE
THE YEAR OF THE MONKEY!
Sunday, 1 February 2004, doors open 5pm, poetry
begins at 8pm
Address:
7, boulevard des Capucines (métro : Opéra).
Admission
Free.
Curator PIA COPPER, TIENS BON À TES RÊVES,
THE KILOMETER ZERO PROJECT, and VAN GOGH’S EAR invite you to celebrate
the Chinese New Year with a major poetry reading (in The Forbidden Room)
by Chinese prize-winning poet MA DESHENG, and scintillating performances
by such talents as JENNIFER DICK, ETHAN GILSDORF, MARGO BERDESHEVSKY,
BUSTER BURK, SARAH PETLIN, THOMAS THORPE, AMY HOLLOWELL, IAN AYRES, and
renowned Chinese performance artist CHEN HONG HANG.
But this is only one great part of the HAPPENING where you’ll also discover
the latest in Chinese art; take part in Haiku mastery and inventiveness
(a haiku workshop lead by Ethan Gilsdorf)-- perhaps a slam among the cherry
blossoms!; see the performance "Paradise of the Silkworm" and be amazed
with the installation "Tears of the fish", as well as participate in the
open-mike and be at the crossroads of where you, Paris, China, the World,
they and we are. You've got to see how to swing in the barrel of Monkeys
with dee-jay STEPHEN LAVIERS spinning on, with the Chinese astrology bringing
forth destiny -- are you a Monkey?, a Dragon?, a Horse or a Rat? And other
things you'll simply have to check out because you're not there if you're
not there.
Art: Chine-Chine!!!!! Commissaire | Curator Pia Copper:
> Jiang Dahai -- travail de calligraphie | calligraphy works
> Chan Wai Mu -- L'être humain gigantesque en papier | sculptures of
the Giant Human Paper form
> Xiao Fan -- oeuvres de la série « Cent Fleurs » | works from the
series "100 Flowers"
> Yi Chu Chen -- latex vegetables | légumes en latex
> Li Tianbing -- oeuvres contemporaines, les formes fluides (peintures
à l'huile) | contemporary works, Fluid Forms (oil painting)
> Gong Yan -- oeuvres contemporaines et installation video « Les larmes
du poisson » | immediate work and video installation "Tears of Fish"
> Tong Lu -- paysages Chinois, « Femme à la tête d'homme » | Chinese
landscapes, "Woman with a man's head"
> Thi-Thanh -- lumières carrées | block lights
> Yang Chang Ling -- installation video « bonbon girl » et photos «
Voyages » | video installation "bonbon girl" and "Voyages" photos
> Kloe Rudolf -- photo et video « Shangai est une femme » | photo and
video "Shanghai is a woman"
For more info:
http://www.kilometerzero.org
& http://www.frenchcx.com/frenchcxn.press.html.
January 2004
Live Poets Society
Mon Jan 19, 8pm, Highlander Pub, 8 rue Nevers 75006 PARIS
With poets James Emmanuel and Christopher Twigg. 5 euro cover (I think).
more info: John Kliphan 01 43 70 62 05
November 2003
Van Gogh's Ear reading
Wed Nov 19, 2003, 19h
The American Library, 10 r Géneral Camou 75007 Paris
10 poets participate in "a marathon reading for both ears" intended to
promote the first two issues of the Paris literary magazine Van Gogh's
Ear. More info: Dana Bottazzo: dana.yfc@club-internet.fr. or http://www.frenchcx.com/frenchcxn.press.html
Other recent readings: The Fall 2003 East-coast tour!
Home: A NY Literary Festival sponsored by Time Out NY
Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 6pm
Street Café, 29 Cornelia Street, New York NY. Off West 4th Street and
6th Ave.
The blurb says: Poets from other countries living and working in New York
City. Featured readers include Robert Minhinnick (editor of Poetry Wales);
Pascale Petit (editor of Poetry London); Isabelle Balot is a French poet
working for the United Nations; and Ethan Gilsdorf from Paris where he
is renowned poet & reviewer and winner of the Hobblestock Peace Poetry
Competition. More info: http://www.rattapallax.com/readings.htm
or http://www.timeoutny.com/litfest2003/
RAMP
Wed, Nov 5, 2003, 7 pm
Exner Block lobby gallery of the Rockingham Arts & Museum Project, 9 Canal
Street, Bellows Falls, Vermont
more info: tel/fax: (802) 463-3252, e-mail: ramp@sover.net, www.ramp-vt.org
Beat Night
Thurs, Oct 16, 2003, 7-8pm
Press Room, 77 Daniel St., Portsmouth, New Hampshire
431-5186
Larry Simon (the organizer of this spoken word and music series) has agreed
to squeeze me in for a short reading. Accompanied by Larry's quintet Groove
Bacteria. More info: GrooveBacteria@comcast.net
Stone Soup Poets at Out of the Blue Gallery
Monday Oct 20, 2003, 8pm
106 Prospect Street, Cambridge, MA
sign up for open mike at 7:45, open mike begins 8:00pm, featured readers
at 9pm, $3-$4 at the door. I'll be a featured reader (20 minutes or so).
This is possibly the oldest running poetry reading series in Boston, now
going on some 30 plus years. Hosted by Jack Powers. More info: Felipe
Victor Martinez CozmicOrangePres@aol.com.
The Georgian House Restaurant
Sun, Oct 26, 2003, 6-7pm
Alexandria, Ontario
more info 613-525-5177
David Kelleher will be playing guitar and Ethan Gilsdorf will read. Wine
and cheese and hors d'oeuvres. Thanks, Dad and Susan!