Mental Marginalia Poetry Reading Series

Posted on by

When: Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Where: West, 379 Union Ave (@ Hope St.)

            Brooklyn, New York

 

Inaugural reading of a brand new poetry series! Line breaks on the rocks. Stanzas on draft. “Supposedly the Universe” folded and stapled.

Featuring: Amanda J. Bradley, Kelly Bourdet, Kevin Shea, Amanda Smeltz, Lizzy McDaniel, Dave McNamara, Alex Norelli, Seth Graves, Christian Ochoa, Jaclyn Lovell, Allison Power, Jeff T. Johnson, Chris Hughes.

Hosted by Alex Crowley & Mark Gurarie

Best American Poetry Blog

Posted on by

I’m delighted to have a poem on the Best American Poetry blog:
https://blog.bestamericanpoetry.com/the_best_american_poetry/2011/01/upon-reading-berrymans-sonnets-by-amanada-j-bradley.html

Here’s the poem:

“Upon Reading Berryman’s Sonnets”

What so sexy in a sonnet lurks?
Is it between the lines as legs or sheets
hide wonders lovers clamber to repeat,
or is it the tradition that it works?
Does language force the mental tongue embark
on crevices and larks that tempt to heat
the flush and pulse of skin that suffers sweet,
such lush and ample games of toward remark?

If you, my dear, would love me half as well,
your touch incline me to such ecstasies
as when I read the pain in what you write,
I would not rise from bed to answer hell,
nor salvage purity on bended knees,
and so, mindfuck me – please – through torrid night.

— Amanda J. Bradley

Join us at the Night Owl Reading Series

Posted on by

Introducing the Night Owl Reading Series, a poetry salon featuring current and former New School MFA students, Ashleigh Allen, David Blasco, Kevin Shea, Jaclyn Lovell, Ray DeJesus, Christian Ochoa, Jeff T. Johnson, Amanda J. Bradley, Seth Graves, Justin Davis, Mark Gurarie and more…

This Friday, September the 10th, 8pm at the Night Owl, 170 N. 4th St. in Williamsburg (off of the Bedford L train). No cover. Drinks available at the bar.