steve dalachinsky, Yuko Otomo, and Nina Karacosta

steve dalachinsky, Yuko Otomo, and Nina Karacosta
NEW VENUE NEW VENUE NEW VENUE
downstairs at Carr’s Pub, 1 rue du Mont Thabor, M Tuileries
7:30pm, 15th February 2011

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steve dalachinsky is from Brooklyn, New York. His work has appeared extensively in journals on & o&#fb00; line, in many chapbooks, books, and CDs. Yuko Otomo is a bilingual (Japanese & English) poet & a visual artist (in pursuit of Pure Abstraction). Nina Karacosta is an actor and poet, who will launch her new chapbook at Poets Live.

steve dalachinsky was born in 1946, Brooklyn, New York. His work has appeared extensively in journals on & o&#fb00; line including; Big Bridge, Milk, Unlikely Stories, Xpressed, Ratapallax, Evergreen Review, Long Shot, Alpha Beat Soup, Xtant, Blue Beat Jacket, N.Y. Arts Magazine, 88 and Lost and Found Times. He is included in such anthologies as Beat Indeed, The Haiku Moment, Up is Up But So is Down: NYU Downtown Literary Anthology, the Unbearables anthologies: Help Yourself, The Worse Book I Ever Read and the forthcoming Big Book of Sex (of which he is a co-editor) and the esteemed Outlaw Bible of American Poetry. He has written liner notes for the CDs of many artists including Anthony Braxton, Charles Gayle, James “Blood” Ulmer, Rashied Ali, Roy Campbell, Matthew Shipp and Roscoe Mitchell.

His 1999 CD, Incomplete Direction (Knitting Factory Records), a collection of his poetry read in collaboration with various musicians, such as William Parker, Matthew Shipp, Daniel Carter, Sabir Mateen, Thurston Moore (SonicYouth), Vernon Reid (Living Colour) has garnered much praise. His most recent chapbooks include Musicology (Editions Pioche, Paris 2005), Trial and Error in Paris (Loudmouth Collective 2003), Lautreamont’s Laments (Furniture Press 2005), In Glorious Black and White (Ugly Duckling Presse 2005), St. Lucie (King of Mice Press 2005), Are We Not MEN & Fake Book (2 books of collage - 8 Page Press 2005), Dream Book (Avantcular Press 2005), Christ Amongst the Fishes (A book of collages, Oilcan Press 2009), Insomnia Poems (Propaganda Press 2009), Invasion of the Animal People (Propaganda Press 2010) & the Mantis :the collected poems for Cecil Taylor 1966-2009 (Iniquity Press 2010).

His books include A Superintendent’s Eyes (Hozomeen Press 2000) and PEN Oakland National Book Award winning book The Final Nite (complete notes from a Charles Gayle Notebook, Ugly Duckling Presse 2006) & Reaching into the Unknown (A collaboration book project with a photographer Jacques Bisceglia, RogueArt 2009). His latest CD is Phenomena of Interference, a collaboration with pianist Matthew Shipp (Hopscotch Records 2005). He has read throughout the N.Y. area, the U.S., Japan and Europe, including France and Germany. He writes for the Brooklyn Rail as a contributing writer. He is active in the mail-art circuit & has shown his collages in Poets’ Collages shows etc.

Yuko Otomo, of Japanese origin, is a bilingual (Japanese & English) poet & a visual artist (in pursuit of Pure Abstraction). She also writes haiku, art criticism & essays. She has read in St. Mark’s Poetry Project, Tribes, Bowery Poetry Club, ABC No Rio, La Mama, NY Public Library, Knitting Factory, the Living Theatre, etc & in Japan, France & Germany. Her publication includes “Small Poems”, “The Hand of The Poet” (both from Ugly Duckling Presse) & “A Sunday A&#fb05;ernoon on the Isle of Museum” (Propaganda Press) & “Fragile” (Sisyphus Press). She exhibited her art work at Court House Gallery @ Anthology Film Archives & Vision Festival, etc..

Nina Karacosta is an actor and poet. Born in Athens, Greece she moved to London in 1993, to New York City in 1995 and later to Paris in 2009, which she now considers home. She has degrees in Physics from the University of Patras Greece and in Theater from Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatics Arts in London. Since 2003 she has studied with many exuberant living poets (Ann Waldman, Alice Notely , Marge Piercy, Simon Pettet, Sparrow ) at the Poetry Project and the Poets House in New York. She has performed her work at the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church, the Cornelia St. Café, Bowery Poetry Club, with the Ollin Imagination theatre collective etc. She has also been involved in performance using text, voice and sound. She performed for a couple of years with the avant-garde chorus Vox Risk Holler addressing anti-war issues lead by performance artist Lynn Book. Work of hers has appeared in Pomegranate Seeds: An Anthology of Greek-American Poetry, Best of Stain Anthology, Surreal-zine, The Melancholy Dane, The Smoking book, Ditch, Upstairs at Duroc. She will be launched her new chapbook at Poets Live.

NOTE THE CHANGE OF VENUE, to Carr’s Pub & Restaurant, 1 rue du Mont-Thabor, M Tuileries.