A Reading Celebrating New Titles from Off the Park Press & Black Square Editions @ (Le) Poisson Rouge | michael leong's poetry blog

A Reading Celebrating New Titles from Off the Park Press & Black Square Editions @ (Le) Poisson Rouge

On Sunday, I’ll be reading from my new book with Off the Park authors Ronna Lebo and Boni Joi in the West Village. It should be a very fun event.

Reading to Celebrate New Titles by Off the Park Press & Black Square Editions:

Ronna Lebo’s PROLAPSE, Michael Leong’s Cutting Time with a Knife and Boni Joi’s Before During or After Rainstorms

Sunday, December 2nd, 6:00pm-8pm FREE

(Le) Poisson Rouge

Ronna Lebo, Michael Leong and Boni Joi

158 Bleecker Street

New York, NY 10012

Take the ACE, BDFM to West 4th St. Books will be available for the special price of $10.

~ by Michael Leong on November 30, 2012.

Posted in Cutting Time with a Knife
Tags: Black Square Editions, Boni Joi, Off the Park Press, Ronna Lebo

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About:

Michael Leong

Michael Leong’s poetry career began in the sixth grade when he won his first poetry prize in Mr. Harrison’s class for a haiku about a snake. Since then, he has received degrees in English and Creative Writing from Dartmouth College, Sarah Lawrence College, and Rutgers University. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Hotel Amerika, Interim, jubilat, Lana Turner, Marginalia, Opium Magazine, Pindeldyboz, Tin House, Verse Daily, and The &Now Awards 2: The Best Innovative Writing (Lake Forest College Press, 2013). He is the author of two volumes of poetry, e.s.p. (Silenced Press, 2009) and Cutting Time with a Knife (Black Square Editions, 2012), as well as a translation of the Chilean poet Estela Lamat, I, the Worst of All (BlazeVOX [books], 2009). He currently lives in New York City.

Contact: michael.c.leong@gmail.com

Books:

*Cutting Time with a Knife* (Black Square Editions, 2012)

["Leong’s glowing hieroglyphs show that the poetic Word emerges––as irony from iron––from the whirled atoms of the World itself. Indeed, Leong redefines the space-time of the page as a furnace of pure imagination, where the cadaver of modernist poetics is smelted with black humor...” -Andrew Joron]

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*e.s.p.* (Silenced Press, 2009)

[“smart, witty poems that are deceptively philosophical!” -Eileen Tabios]

["Leong goes his own way: Open to trying out all kinds of modes and methods, he is beholden to no one." -John Yau]

["He’s got a wonderful sense of humor, combined with a magician’s ease and the biggest wand in three counties." -Kevin Killian]

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*I, the Worst of All* (blazeVOX [books], 2009) by Estela Lamat, translated by Michael Leong

["Leong's translation of Lamat's book...should be read." -Johannes Göransson, Exoskeleton]

[“Recalling the poetry of Ginsberg, Lamat knows how to set words free.” -Handbook of Latin American Studies]

Chapbooks:

*Words on Edge* (Plan B Press, 2012)

["This is work that rubs the found language of the web up against the language of the everyday world. Many of the forms are precise, inventive, and informed." -Rob Fitterman]

*THE PHILOSOPHY OF DECOMPOSITION / RE-COMPOSITION AS EXPLANATION* (Delete Press, 2011)

["A more felicitous and compelling commingling of voices/texts would be hard to imagine. This is mash-up done with a surgeon’s skill." -Evie Shockley]

*The Hoax of Contagion* (Naissance, 2010)

["Michael Leong puts the oooh! into Oulipo in this constraint-based suite of pieces." -Naissance]

*Midnight's Marsupium* (The Knives Forks and Spoons Press, 2010)

[Editor’s Pick of 2010, Stride Magazine]

*The Great Archivist's / Cloudy Quotient: Experiments with N+7* (Beard of Bees Press, 2010)

["...what particularly satisfies about Leong's book is that the 'cover version' poems he produces, almost without exception, are really kind of beautiful and interesting in their own right, and go way beyond wacky or quirky into something rather pleasing and oddly profound." -Chris Goode]

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