death hums
death hums publishes smart poetry.
death hums hosts a reading series at Webster Hall, presented by The QAS.
upcoming events:
the QAS presents a special death hums:
matthew zingg + eric amling /4.22.12. / the balcony lounge @ webster hall / 6 PM /
$5
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The Low-down:
death hums presents zingg + amling via The QAS
4.22.12
6 PM (sharp)
The Balcony Lounge @ Webster Hall
$5 cover
this event is part of The QAS, so there will be many hours of various performances, plus visual art & DRINKS. don’t miss out.
The Readers:
Matthew Zingg’s work appears in The Awl, Cider Press Review, The Rumpus, The Madison Review and Opium Magazine among others. He received his MFA in poetry from Adelphi University and is a co-founding member of the writers collective, fourteen-forty-one
Eric Amling is a writer and artist from Brooklyn, NY. His work can be found or forthcoming in the publications TRNSFR, Barrelhouse, The Rattling Wall and The Minus Times. His chapbook Didn’t Suspect the Forcefield will be released in the summer of 2012.
i hope i can live up to this
Look, we know—poetry readings are usually snoozefests. At best they’re like shitty stand-up shows where you aren’t allowed to heckle the comic, and at worst you feel like you’re eavesdropping on a support group for “semi-attractive 20-somethings with a grab bag of emotional problems.” The traditional reasons to go to a poetry reading are as follows:
1. You are fucking/want to fuck someone who’s reading.
But sometimes, albeit rarely, there’s a reading worth going to, and tonight there is such a thing: Death Hums, a brand-new literary magazine, is hosting a reading at Webster Hall’s balcony lounge featuring Alex Dimitrov and Lonely Christopher, both of whom are excellent writers who also happen to be good at saying the words they write. In addition, you get a free drink for showing up, and Amy Silbergeld, editor-in-chief of Death Hums, will probably be shitfaced and yelling insults at people at some point, which is it’s own kind of poetry.
Webster Hall
125 East 11th St.
7 PM
New York
How to Rid Yourself of a Dan
A dan is a dangerous mechanical toy bird that pecks
when you look at it. Place it at your feet and it will climb
the length of your knees for a good close stabbing of your eyes and goodness
gracious, let it in your house and expect every doorjamb
to be green white and dirtied as a goat post. A dan is an insignificant
weevil, one that burrows into ears, fatigues your listening
and gives you heebie jeebies and willies. A small dan
is not as threatening as a large dan but put a small dan
and a large dan together in one tank and holy moly,
their eyes will bulge like rhinoceros eyes, their bellies
will puff like an adder’s throat and if you don‘t separate them in time
you will have several motes and spores of dan. For safekeeping,
place all dans in a rusted coffee can, stew in the yard
with brackish rainwater for nine months and one day,
the dans may just change their off-tune by leaping out with apologies
and eulogies for their old selves. What’s best, however,
is to drive your dan out into the farthest kingdom-come
and watch from a telescope as he tangles in briars and weeds.
-Christie Ann Reynolds, courtesy of La Petite Zine
Intrigued? Come to the next Webster Hall reading to hear more!
(Posted by: Becca)
To meet the man of the afore-linked-to hour, be sure to join us for the next death hums reading on Monday, 3.19.12 at the Balcony Lounge at Webster Hall. The event starts at 7 PM (sharp), is completely FREE, and will feature readings by Dimitrov, Andrew Durbin, Lonely Christopher, Christie Ann Reynolds, and a special guest. Get excited. Pass it on.
To hear more of Durbin’s work, join us for the next installment of death hums on Monday, 3.19.12, where he will be reading alongside Alex Dimitrov, Christie Ann Reynolds, Lonely Christopher, and a special guest. Always at the Balcony Lounge at Webster Hall in NYC. Always at 7 PM, sharp. Always free.
Spread the word.
Don’t miss Lonely Christopher at the next edition of death hums this coming Monday, 3.19.12, where he will be reading alongside Christie Ann Reynolds, Alex Dimitrov, Andrew Durbin, and a special guest. The event starts at 7, and (as always) it is completely FREE.
Pass it on.
Want a sneak peek of what the next edition of death hums might bring? Check out the official trailer for Christie Ann Reynolds’ book “Revenge Poems” & if you like what you hear & see, be sure to join us this coming Monday, 3.19.12, at 7 PM at the Balcony Lounge at Webster Hall in NYC for a reading featuring Reynolds, Andrew Durbin, Alex Dimitrov, Lonely Christopher, and a special guest. As always, the event is FREE, so spread the word.
P.S.,
Like what you read? Don’t forget to join us at the Balcony Lounge at Webster Hall on 3.19.12 at 7 PM sharp for the next death hums reading featuring Andrew Durbin, Lonely Christopher, Christie Ann Reynolds, Alex Dimitrov & a special guest.
around this town are awkward architects
who wept into the earth and built a bridge
on sand and the grace of a kind lady
from “Magic Bridge” by Lonely Christopher.
Read the full poem in The Brooklyn Rail here:
http://brooklynrail.org/2010/10/poetry/magic-bridge
P.S.,
Like what you read? Don’t forget to join us at the Balcony Lounge at Webster Hall on 3.19.12 at 7 PM sharp for the next death hums reading featuring Andrew Durbin, Lonely Christopher, Christie Ann Reynolds, Alex Dimitrov & a special guest.
