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The Cohen Brothers - IRA & IRA July 2004

Ira Cohen

Greetings from Ira Cohen, wild man, friend, poet, et al., to all friends of Fish Drum.


WORD/PLAY 2004-5:
MEDIDINE SHOW'S 21st ANNUAL READING SERIES
Readings hosted by Suzi Winson

Dec 12 sun 3:00 pm: Poets read Philip Whalen's work
Feb 27 sun 3:00 pm: Anne Valley-Fox and Gretchen Mattox
Mar 20 sun 3:00 pm: Bill Berkson and Ron Padgett
Apr 24 sun 3:00 pm: Joanne Kyger and Michael Rothenberg

poetry $6.
champagne $0.

@ Medicine Show
549 West 52nd st. (bet. 10th & 11th ), 3rd fl
for more information call 212.262.4216 NYC 10019



Word/Play Poetry Lineages:
PASSING THE FLAME

Medicine Show's 20th Annual Reading Series, Co-produced by Fish Drum Inc.
2004 schedule in progress (14 readings in all TBA):
Feb 22 sun 4:00 pm:Gerald Stern, Anne Marie Macari
Apr 04 sun 4:00 pm: Ira Cohen, John Brandi
Apr 21 wed 7:30 pm: Timothy Liu, David Shapiro
May 02 sun 7:30 pm: Stephanie Strickland, Cynthia Lawson
May 23 sun 4:00 pm: Doug Anderson, Nellie Reifler
June 01 tue 7:30 pm:Michael Rothenberg, David Meltzer
June 06 sun 4:00 pm: Simon Perchik, Edward Butscher, Susan Tepper
June 8 tues 7:30 pm:Grace Paley, Gale Jackson
July 14 tues 7:30 pm: Jack Collom, Simon Pettet
July 27 tues 7:30 pm:J.J. Blickstein, Louise Landes Levi, Tom Devaney

$ 6. cover, Season passes $ 40. For more information call 1.212.262.4216
Medicine Show Theatre, 549 West 52nd St. (10th/11th), 3rd Floor, NYC 10019>

Suzi Winson presents:
FISH DRUM MAGAZINE ALL-STARS

More Poetry at Gunpoint from Santa Fe and beyond:
Michael Rothenberg, Miriam Sagan, Anne Valley-Fox, Tom Ireland, John Brandi
7:30 Wednesday April 30th, 2003

WORD/PLAY
Medicine Show's 19th Annual Reading Series Artistic excellence in a a theatre setting

Medicine Show 549 West 52nd St. (bet 10th and 11th) 3rd Floor
NYC 10019 212.262.4216 THOMAS ZUMMER: BRAIN DEAD DOG
A graphic novel or "Bande Dessinée" - it will be published by Fish Drum Inc. October 8th 2000, The Zinc Bar
SUNDAY NIGHT READING SERIES
THE PARIS JOURNALS reading with Michael Rothenberg and editrix Suzi Winson ANNE VALLEY-FOX'S CHAPBOOK OF POEMS.
Fish Drum Magazine Volume #15, is still available. NYC - March 10-12 2000:
ISSUE ZERO: THE LITERARY MAGAZINE CONFERENCE
Editors from over 30 journals met to discuss their own magazines & the larger issues facing writing communities in general. Suzi Winson and Fish Drum was there in zebra stripes discussing literature. Did you miss us?

Saturday, March 11 2000, 4:00 pm, Double Happiness, 173 Mott (at Broome), $4
Fence, Ixnay, Read Me, Log, Chain, Fish Drum, Tool A Magazine
THE LADY IN STRIPES:
Michael Rothenberg answered the call to a community shower town crier kind of party gathering lit zines of all stripes, cyber/mimeo/stapled/bound, we could sense the weavings of the antitradition small press tradition into the Web that is us now, at Issue Zero: The Literary Magazine Conference in New York March 10-12. Hosted by Brendan Lorber & Douglas Rothschild, editors from over 30 journals met in New York to discuss their journals & the larger issues facing writing communities in general. The Zinc Bar, Sunday night reading series, October 8th, 2000
THE PARIS JOURNALS READING:
Michael Rothenberg and editrix Suzi Winson New York March 10-12 2000
ISSUE ZERO: THE LITERARY MAGAZINE CONFERENCE

Editors from over 30 journals met to discuss their own magazines & the larger issues facing writing communities in general. Suzi Winson and Fish Drum was there in zebra stripes discussing literature. Did you miss us?

Saturday, March 11 2000, 4:00 pm
Double Happiness
173 Mott (at Broome), $4
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