Clawing at the Lit Crawl

Hi Friends,

I'm reading poetry and/or fiction during Lit Crawl! Don't go to the Treasure Island Music Festival; go to this:

Creature Features Lit Crawl Reading
Saturday, Oct. 13
6:00 - 7:00 pm
The Women’s Building (Auditorium), 3543 18th St., San Francisco, CA
(Blurb: Five young writers from Octopus Books (Portland, Denver, and Chicago), and Ugly Duckling Presse Collective (Brooklyn), two of the hottest independent publishers around. Featuring Micah Ballard, Julien Poirier, Rebecca Farivar, Ben Mirov, and Claire Becker.)

Inaccurate biographical information and more details here:

http://litcrawl.org/sf/events/small-press-distributions-creature-features/

Google maps link: CLICK. 

Printed matter for sale. Audio content for free!

Love,
Claire

Hello The Midwest

Monsters of Poetry
Carmen Maria Machado, Brad Liening, Lily Brown, and Claire Becker
Friday, October 7, 2011, 7:30 PM
The Project Lodge
817 E. Johnson, Madison, Wisconsin

Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Lily Brown & Claire Becker
Saturday, October 8, 2011
brunch reading...somewhere
Please email for details.

Bonk!
Lily Brown, Claire Becker, with music by Marco Jimenez
Saturday, October 8, 2011, 6PM (doors at 5:30)
Racine Arts Council
316 6th St, Racine, Wisconsin

Good Evening Reading Series
Stephen Danos, Claire Becker, Lily Brown
Sunday, October 9, 2011, 3:30 PM (also my half birthday)
Three Peas Art Lounge
75 E 16th St, Chicago, Illinois

I wrore a poem called "I Feel Like Seeing the Moon"

and I didn't see the moon, and the poem is on the internet: Everyday Genius

My book reviewed in detail in Open Letters Monthly

This guy is good: Jeff Alessandrelli, All the Questions, a review of Claire Becker's Where We Think It Should Go.

I'm reading at Stain of Poetry Series

Claire Becker * Jason Bredle * Cynthia King * Nate Pritts * Bill Rasmovicz * Paige Taggart

7 PM on April 29th @ Goodbye Blue Monday – Bushwick, Brooklyn

Click the links for details!

See you soon NYC.

Love,

Claire

Reading at SF State & downtown SF March 24th

I’ll be giving two poetry readings on Thursday, March 24, 2011 for The Poetry Center at San Francisco State.  Please consider attending. Details below; both readings are free.

Thursday MAR 24: Jennifer Martenson (Providence, RI) and Claire Becker (San Francisco)

3:30 pm @ the Poetry Center, Humanities Building, Rm. 512, SFSU

1600 Holloway Ave., San Francisco, CA 94132

7:30 pm @ The Green Arcade Bookstore

1680 Market St. (at Gough), San Francisco, CA 94102

When I'm reading in D.C. during AWP this weekend if I make it there over the snow.

Two readings on the same night.  Maybe I'll see some of you there!

Reading #1

1913 * Action Books  * Letter Machine Editions * Octopus Books
Friday, February 4
4:00pm - 6:00pm

at Comet Ping Pong
5037 Connecticut Avenue
Washington, DC
www.cometpingpong.com

Please join us for a reading AWP OFF-SITE reading celebrating the release of new books from Action Books, Letter Machine Editions, and Octopus Books, as well as the new issue of 1913 a journal of forms.

Action: Lara Glenum, Abe Smith
Letter Machine Editions: Juliana Leslie, Farid Matuk, Sawako Nakayasu

Octopus: Cynthia Arrieu-King, Claire Becker

1913: Julie Carr, Joe Hall, Jeff T. Johnson, Kathleen Ossip,
Ric Royer, Ronaldo Wilson

For more info visit http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=171785542864436

 READING #2

Switchback Books, Coconut Books and Horse Less Press Reading
On the heated rooftop! Plus, come early and catch the Lame House/Binge Press reading at 6:00!

Friday, February 4
7:00pm - 9:30pm

Madam's Organ
madamsorgan.com
2461 18th Street, NW
Washington, DC

- Becca Klaver
- Brian Foley
- Bruce Covey
- Cathy Park Hong
- Christopher Salerno
- Claire Becker
- Daniela Olszewska
- Gina Myers
- Jennifer Tamayo
- Jen Tynes
- Marisa Crawford
- Natalie Lyalin

For more information, visit the Facebook Event page: http://www.facebook.com/events/create.php?eid=119112604822644

American Poet

"Get Inner, Get You":  Norma Cole writes about my work in American Poet Magazine's Emerging Poet Series, Fall 2010, Volume 39.   It's made out of paper.  Really cool.  Issue also includes Cornelius Eady on Camille Rankine and Campbell McGrath on Jason Myers.  Plus other great people on other great stuff. 

Live Blogging from Off the Shelf Books

Merced, California! iPad country, America!

Thanks Nick and Lorin! This bookstore just opened and it's lovely especially the floor and books and ipads and snacks.

Here we are in Off the Shelf Books in Merced, Ca; this is an excellent space full of a skull and many new yorker magazines... Jared stanley is an amazing audience member and host! (-LB)

Thanks Lily & Cindy & students who got extra credit. :))))))::::::;(

Now to look for meteors and banned drinks.

Love,
Claire

my book is here on the internet

My book is now available for looking at on the SPD website.  Not sure when it will be there physically.  But take a look.
There are going to be TWO colors! The one pictured and the secret other one.
Also check out the Readings sidebar!  Some great readings coming up in California in November.

love,
Claire

a poem from kansas

Flint sparkling on its hill
low clearance
wind currents
around the curve,
fort, Big Red One.

For You & You

For You


Move the old
to always
like a beard

see this chin
to see again.
You wait

while I
eat my
breakfast and coffee.

In one hundred days
morning
I could ignore you.

A poem would come
it would
be here again

like white hairs
falling to
white emptiness.



For You & You


I became self-sufficient,
no you or you
scaring me

just the waking
up, stirring
in the bed,

waking my dog up
to see the deer.
Then you

were okay with me,
okay.
I hadn’t

upset
one I loved
like a tiger-striped dog.

Because I couldn’t
know, didn’t
know, did know.

I miss you,
call you in the car.
I don’t know the advice.