By way of Jesse this photo; from right to left: Maya Glass, Shizumi Corman, Youichi Glass (munching on Candy), Cid Corman, Jerome Rothenberg and Diane Rothenberg.

Which serves as an appropriate introduction for an upcoming Ahadada Event that we are all very excited about here. Ahadada’s goin’ to Califoria! Venice, to read at Beyond Baroque.

“It’s a place where you can experience both nationally renowned and outrageous emerging art all at the same time.” And that about sums up the evening that Ahadada has in store for you!

17 December 2005, Saturday - 7:30 PM

AHADADA BOOKS Presents

Join the writers and poets of Ahadada Books, which in 1999 began publishing broadsides, chapbooks, and more, from the US, Canada, and Japan. JESSE GLASS has been anthologized most recently in Visiting Walt (Iowa); a selected poems is forthcoming from West House. CATHERINE DALY’s books include has Locket (Tupelo) and DaDaDa (Salt) and an upcoming Ahadada chapbook. BRUNA MORI’s New York cityscape poems, with ink paintings by Matthew Kinney, is forthcoming from Meritage. She’s appeared in Fence, ZYZZYVA, Trepan, and has a chapbook forthcoming from Ahadada. DANIEL SENDECKI’s Strange Currencies came out from Ahadada in 2003. He is working on a long poem inspired by George Oppen’s “Of Being Numerous.” JEROME ROTHENBERG is author of over seventy books of poetry including Poems for the Game of Silence, Poland/1931, A Seneca Journal, Vienna Blood, That Dada Strain, New Selected Poems 1970-1985, Khurbn, and recently, A Paradise of Poets and A Book of Witness (all New Directions), as well as a forthcoming chapbook from Ahadada.

17 December 2005, Saturday - 9:00 PM

CID CORMAN TRIBUTE and MEMORIAL

The legendary poet, translator, and editor CID CORMAN (b. 1924) passed away on March 12, 2004. Join JEROME ROTHENBERG and Ahadada Press in a tribute to this key figure in American poetry of the second half of the 20th century. Corman published more than 100 books and pamphlets and edited the influential literary journal Origin, among others. In 1990, his two vol. selected poems OF ran to some 1500 poems; Volume 3 appeared in 1998. With Ahadada authors. Bring Corman correspondence, books, or magazines from which to read and share and celebrate. All welcome. Proceeds from this event will be donated to Cid’s wife, Shizumi, and be used to defray the cost of a plot and memorial for Cid.

What’s Beyond Baroque you ask? Straight from the guide book you all love to hate, the Lonely Planet, and rated the #2 attraction in Venice, (after the beach, of course) comes the following passage:

“Dark glasses and turtlenecks may have gone out of fashion, but the beat lives on at this funky place. It’s been the center for literary arts in Venice since 1968. Here, word is spoken, read, displayed and sung. It’s a place where you can experience both nationally renowned and outrageous emerging art all at the same time. The well-crammed bookstore sells cheap books by local artists as well as all of the classics. Free writing workshops are offered throughout the week as well.”