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Tourist Trap 6: Henriksen & Shimoda

Monday, October 3rd, 2011

Tourist Trap, NYC is a web video series that follows touring poets to some of New York’s top tourist destinations, as well as lesser known bars, reading venues and unheralded back streets. Each episode features one or two poets as they explore the city and discuss their work, how urban landscapes influence their writing, the history or importance of landmark they’ve chosen to visit, as well as anything they might deem relevant along the way. Each episode culminates with a short reading at their destination of choice.

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Tourist Trap, NYC is produced by Eye For An Iris Press and Coldfront. Email ttrapnyc@gmail.com for more information.

Watch previous episodes here.

 

 

Matthew Henriksen is the author of Ordinary Sun (Black Ocean, 2011) and edits the online poetry magazine Typo and lives in the Arkansas Ozarks.

 

Along with The Girl Without Arms (Black Ocean, 2011), Brandon Shimoda is the author of O Bon (Litmus Press, 2011), The Alps (Flim Forum, 2008), and other solo and collaborative books of various sizes and shapes. He was born in Southern California.

 

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Tourist Trap 5: Sommer Browning

Monday, June 6th, 2011

Tourist Trap, NYC is a web video series that follows touring poets to some of New York’s top tourist destinations, as well as lesser known bars, reading venues and unheralded back streets. Each episode features one or two poets as they explore the city and discuss their work, how urban landscapes influence their writing, the history or importance of landmark they’ve chosen to visit, as well as anything they might deem relevant along the way. Each episode culminates with a short reading at their destination of choice. Author photo by Shelton Walsmith.

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Sommer Browning writes poems, draws comics and tells jokes. She is the author of Either Way I’m Celebrating (Birds, LLC, 2011), a collection of poems and comics, and three chapbooks, most recently THE BOWLING (Greying Ghost, 2010) with Brandon Shimoda. Her poems and drawings have appeared in The New York Quarterly, Typo, Octopus, past simple, Free Verse, The Stranger and other places. With Julia Cohen she curates The Bad Shadow Affair, a reading series in Denver.

Tourist Trap, NYC is produced by Eye For An Iris Press and Coldfront. Email ttrapnyc@gmail.com for more information.

Next Episode: Matt Henriksen & Brandon Shimoda. Stay tuned!

Watch previous episodes here.

 

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Tourist Trap 4: Christopher Salerno

Monday, April 25th, 2011

Tourist Trap, NYC is a web video series that follows touring poets to some of New York’s top tourist destinations, as well as lesser known bars, reading venues and unheralded back streets. Each episode features one or two poets as they explore the city and discuss their work, how urban landscapes influence their writing, the history or importance of landmark they’ve chosen to visit, as well as anything they might deem relevant along the way. Each episode culminates with a short reading at their destination of choice.

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Christopher Salerno’s books include Minimum Heroic (Mississippi Review Poetry Series, 2010), and Whirligig (Spuyten Duyvil Publishing House, 2006). A chapbook, ATM is available from Horse Less Press. New or recent poems can be found in Boston Review, Denver Quarterly, Colorado Review, Jubilat, Jacket, American Letters and Commentary, Laurel Review, and others. He is currently an Assistant Professor of English at William Paterson University in New Jersey, and is managing editor of a new journal, Map Literary. He lives in Bridgewater, NJ and Cary, NC. 

Tourist Trap, NYC is produced by Eye For An Iris Press and Coldfront. Email ttrapnyc@gmail.com for more information.

Next Episode: Sommer Browning. Stay tuned!

Watch previous episodes here.

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Tourist Trap 3: Kate Greenstreet

Thursday, January 20th, 2011



Tourist Trap, NYC is a web video series that follows touring poets to some of New York’s top tourist destinations, as well as lesser known bars, reading venues and unheralded back streets. Each episode features one or two poets as they explore the city, discuss their work, how urban landscapes influence their writing, the history or importance of landmark they’ve chosen to visit, as well as any conversations they might deem relevant along the way. Each episode culminates with a short reading at their destination of choice.

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Kate Greenstreet’s  The Last 4 Things (Ahsahta Press, 2009) comes with a DVD containing two short films based on the two sections of the book. Ahsahta published her case sensitive in 2006. Her fifth chapbook, CALLED, will be published by Delete Press this spring. Recent work can be found in Chicago Review, Boston Review, Volt, Fence, Cannibal and other journals. Some of her video poems can be seen here.

Learn more about Walter De Maria’s New York Earth Room here. From the Dia Art Foundation Web site: “The New York Earth Room, 1977, is the third Earth Room sculpture executed by the artist, the first being in Munich, Germany in 1968. The second was installed at the Hessisches Landesmuseum in Darmstadt, Germany in 1974. The first two works no longer exist.

The New York Earth Room has been on long-term view to the public since 1980. This work was commissioned and is maintained by Dia Art Foundation.”

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Tourist Trap, NYC is produced by Eye For An Iris Press and Coldfront. Email ttrapnyc@gmail.com for more information.

Next Episode: Christopher Salerno. Stay tuned!

Watch previous episodes here.

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Tourist Trap 2: Hart & Pritts

Monday, November 15th, 2010

Tourist Trap, NYC is a web video series that follows touring poets to some of New York’s top tourist destinations, as well as lesser known bars, reading venues and unheralded back streets. Each episode features one or two poets as they explore the city, discuss their work, how urban landscapes influence their writing, the history or importance of landmark they’ve chosen to visit, as well as any conversations they might deem relevant along the way. Each episode culminates with a short reading at their destination of choice.

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Matt Hart is the author of Wolf Face (H_NGM_N Books 2010) and Who’s Who Vivid (Slope Editions, 2006) and the editor of Forklift, Ohio: A Journal of Poetry, Cooking, and Light Industial Safety. His work has appeared in The Canary, Ploughshares, Harvard Review, Diagram, H_NGM_N, and Typo. He lives in Cincinnati, where he teaches at the Art Academy of Cincinnati.

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Nate Pritts is the author of four full-length books of poems – most recently Big Bright Sun (BlazeVOX, 2010) & The Wonderfull Yeare (Cooper Dillon Books, 2009), as well as several chapbooks. His poetry & prose have been published widely, both online & in print, in journals such as The Southern Review, Black Warrior Review, Columbia Poetry Review, DIAGRAM, Rain Taxi Review of Books, Octopus, & Forklift, Ohio among many others.  Nate has his MFA in Poetry from Warren Wilson College (‘00) & his PhD in British Romanticism from the University of Louisiana, Lafayette (‘03). He is the founder & principal editor of H_NGM_N & H_NGM_N BKS.

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Tourist Trap, NYC is produced by Eye For An Iris Press and Coldfront. Email ttrapnyc@gmail.com for more information.

Next Episode: Kate Greenstreet. Stay tuned!

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Tourist Trap 1: Julie Doxsee

Sunday, September 26th, 2010

Tourist Trap, NYC is a web video series that follows touring poets to some of New York’s top tourist destinations, as well as lesser known bars, reading venues and unheralded back streets. Each episode will feature one or two poets as they explore the city, discuss their work, how urban landscapes influence their writing, the history or importance of landmark they’ve chosen to visit, as well as any art/literature related conversations they might deem relevant along the way. Each episode will culminate with a short, 1-2 poem reading at their destination of choice.

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Julie Doxsee holds a PhD from the University of Denver and is the author of Objects for a Fog Death (Black Ocean 2010) and Undersleep (Octopus Books 2008). She teaches creative writing, literature, and academic writing at Koc University in Istanbul, Turkey, where she lives on the European side of the Bosphorus.

Email ttrapnyc@gmail.com for more information.

Tourist Trap, NYC is produced by Eye For An Iris Press and Coldfront.

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