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VIDEO: Birds, LLC poets in Brooklyn

Monday, March 28th, 2011

Below you will find our video coverage of the The January 28 installment of the Stain of Poetry Reading Series featuring Birds, LLC poets. Video coverage by DJ Dolack features Dan Boehl, Sommer Browning, Emily Pettit, Steven Karl, Justin Marks, Christie Ann Reynolds, Sampson Starkweather and Chris Tonelli.

Birds, LLC is an independent poetry press based out of Austin, Minneapolis, New York, and Raleigh. The January reading was held in part to celebrate the release of two new titles, Sommer Browning’s Either Way I’m Celebrating and Dan Boehl’s The Kings of the F**king Sea, with images by Jonathan Marshall.

Video filmed and edited by DJ Dolack. (Watch it in HD!)


‘Birds’ east coast invasion

Monday, January 24th, 2011

Birds, LLC, an independent poetry press based out of Austin, Minneapolis, New York, and Raleigh, will flock to Brooklyn’s Stain of Poetry series this Friday to celebrate the release of  new books by Sommer Browning and Dan Boehl.

Birds, LLC specializes in fostering a close working relationship between author and editor. Last year, it released debut books by Elisa Gabbert and Chris Tonelli. Both books were mentioned on many 2010 best-of lists.

Both new books are debuts: Sommer Browning‘s Either Way I’m Celebrating and Dan Boehl‘s The Kings of the F**king Sea with images by Jonathan Marshall.

The ‘Birds’ folk also have two readings scheduled at AWP:

H_NGM_N, Lowbrow, Birds, LLC Wednesday, February 2, 9 pm at Duffy’s Irish Pub.  Dan Boehl, Sommer Browning, Adam Fell, Matt Hart, MC Hyland, Brad Liening, Matt Mauch, Alexis Oregera, and Emily Pettit (whose book is forthcoming later in the year from Birds, LLC).

Wide Night reading, Friday, February 4, 6:30 pm at the Wonderland Ballroom.  Birds, LLC joins forces with Bateau, Brave Men, Factory Hollow, Flying Guillotine, Immaculate Disciples, Minutes, and Pilot presses.

-steven karl