JOELLE HANN & FRANCES RICHARD

Come to an evening poetry reading and exchange organized by Joelle Hann and Frances Richard at Pete's Candy Store in Williamsburg.

Everyone in attendance the night of the poem swap will receive at least one item of free poetry, assigned randomly at the door. A short program of readings and music will be punctuated by the opportunity to exchange your poem/poetry object for another (wait for the signal!). Any surplus will circulate in the room by gratis cigar-girl concession, and a complete list of all distributed material will be offered as a virtual anthology. To close the event, the audience will construct a collaborative poem, orchestrated by Kristin Prevallet and members of the band One Ring Zero.

"Potentially a lot of art is waste, wasted labor, wasted intellection, and
of course mountains and mountains of stuff gets made--so give it away. All of our assembled stuff will hang on a wall for a pristine moment ... Then the wreckers, the viewers, the community will start taking it down. Like a name bobbing somewhere in a family. The people who came to the show will distribute the art."

-Eileen Myles, from the catalogue essay to Sal Randolph's "Free Show,"
October 1999, Provincetown, MA

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Swap your poems and support the gift economy of poetry. Send printed, recorded, Xeroxed, painted, published, bound, pressed, burned, collaged, handwritten, three-dimensional, and otherwise-assembled poetry. You may send any amount, but please make it self-contained, for example: a single sheet with a poem on it, a book, a chapbook, a journal, a broadside, a CD, a cassette. The material may be yours or someone else's, living or dead. Not acceptable: your entire unbound manuscript, all of Sappho's verses photocopied and stapled, etc.


Submission Guidelines:

* Email submissions to: frances@angel.net Please enter "Poem Swap" in the
subject heading.

* Mail submissions to: Poem Swap, c/o Frances Richard, 236 Grand St.
Brooklyn, NY 11211.

* Include your name, address, email, telephone number, and a short
biographical note.

* For further information: visit www.freebiennial.org or www.waxpoetic.org.

* Please forward this invitation to anyone who might wish to participate.

HOW TO LOCATE

26 April, 2002. 7:30 pm, Pete's Candy Store, 709 Lorimer St, Brooklyn, L or G train to Metropolitan/Lorimer.