tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56366540841764117662024-03-13T08:32:16.937-07:00If Not For Kidnap - A Portland, Oregon Poetry ConcernDonald Dunbarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13682300926934742351noreply@blogger.comBlogger46125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5636654084176411766.post-63852735057687343732013-03-20T16:00:00.004-07:002013-04-29T15:33:06.306-07:00New Site: ifnotforkidnap.com<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Donald Dunbarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13682300926934742351noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5636654084176411766.post-25309509894452087172013-02-15T23:30:00.001-08:002013-02-15T23:30:20.407-08:00Saturday, June 23rd: Travis Meyer, Monica Storss, Hobie Anthony, & Brumes<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;">Join us for the next IF NOT FOR KIDNAP! Featuring three local poets MONICA STORSS, TRAVIS MEYER, HOBIE ANTHONY, and musical guest BRUMES at Recess Gallery (</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 16px;">1127 SE 10TH)</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;">. This event is free and all are welcome!</span><br />
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Donald Dunbarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13682300926934742351noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5636654084176411766.post-209839949470332202012-11-26T11:36:00.002-08:002012-11-26T11:36:22.712-08:00Saturday, December 1st: Kyle Crawford, Adrian Kien, Megan Williams, & Daphne Stanford + Romcom<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">Kidnap is hosting 4 poets from Boise, your new, very own sister-poet city (invention, or truth?) c/o Boise's own version of Kidnap, Ghosts & Projectors (check 'em out)!!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">Kyle Crawford, Adrian Kien, Megan Williams, and Daphne Stanford, plus musical guest Romcom!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">Like always, all are welcome. Please come and introduce yourself, and listen, and meet poets from not-here, and talk, and listen some more. We are pleased to have you. </span><br />
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<br />Adrian Kien grew up in Elko, NV and Missoula, MT. He received his MFA at Boise State University. He is the author of the forthcoming, The Caress is a Letter of Instruction (Slope Editions). He is also the author of Look Up, a collaboration with the artist, Kelly Packer, The Caress is a Letter of Instruction (Strange Machine chapbook winner, 2011), An Anatomy Lesson, translations of Christian Prigent (Free Poetry, 2010) and Who is There (Blazevox, 2008). When not teaching or writing, he enjoys exploring the Idaho backcountry looking for deer and cow bones for his wife to paint.<br /><br />Kyle Crawford is but a fisherman from the Great Fucking Plains.<br />(or, if you’d prefer a clearer bio from a previous reading: Kyle Crawford was born and raised in a small town in rural Nebraska. He attended college in Lincoln, Nebraska at the University of Nebraska. While Kyle didn’t grow up in Lincoln, he certainly grew up there. A founder of SP CE, a writing studio in Lincoln, Kyle headed west to create poems within the confines of the open spaces of his childhood in a completely new context–Boise, Idaho.)<br /><br />Daphne Stanford has lived in Carpinteria, Portland, Iowa City, Riggins, Boise, and Eugene. She currently reads poetry over the airwaves, Sundays, on KRBX 89.9 FM, Caldwell/Boise. Her poems can be found atThe Monarch Review, Lingerpost, and Caesura (forthcoming). She holds a BA in English from Reed College and an MFA from the University of Oregon.<br /><br />Megan Williams writes, farms, and waits tables in Boise, Idaho, where she curates GHOSTS & PROJECTORS. a poetry reading series. Her poetry has recently been a bridesmaid for the “Discovery”/ Boston Review prize and the Center for Book Arts chapbook contest, has actually appeared in journals such as Tin House, PANK, and Vinyl Poetry, among others.<br /><br />Romcom is Cole Browning of Prescription Pills and Wampire.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.soundcloud.com%2Fromcom-2&h=HAQECeyIQ&s=1" rel="nofollow nofollow" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: initial;" target="_blank">http://www.soundcloud.com/<wbr></wbr><span class="word_break" style="display: inline-block;"></span>romcom-2</a><br /><a href="http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.romcom1.bandcamp.com%2F&h=dAQG97SjF&s=1" rel="nofollow nofollow" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: initial;" target="_blank">http://<wbr></wbr><span class="word_break" style="display: inline-block;"></span>www.romcom1.bandcamp.com/</a></div>
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Donald Dunbarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13682300926934742351noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5636654084176411766.post-88454676873831036542012-09-25T01:29:00.000-07:002012-09-25T01:29:47.956-07:00Tuesday, October 2nd: Dan Magers, Farrah Field, and Jarred White, with music by import/import<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 14px;">Take note, lovers: </span><br />
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As always, this event is free and open to everyone, but we will have a donation box set up to help us fund the new space. Come prepared to fall in love with the authors' books, our brand spanking new tote bags, and drinks!<br /><br />Doors open at 7:30, and we'll start the readings at 8. We are so excited to see you!<br /><br />Farrah Field is the author of Rising (Four Way Books, 2009) and the chapbook Parents (Immaculate Disciples Press, 2011). Her poems and essays have appeared in many publications including Sixth Finch, Ploughshares, Harp & Altar, Lit, Typo, La Petite Zine, and Drunken Boat. Two of her poems were selected by Kevin Young for The Best American Poetry 2011. Her essays and reviews have appeared in Harp & Altar and Coldfront. She lives in Brooklyn where she co-hosts an event series called Yardmeter Editions. She occasionally blogs at adultish.blogspot.com and is co-owner of Berl’s Brooklyn Poetry Shop.<br /><br /><br />Dan Magers is co‐founder and co‐editor of Sink Review, an online poetry journal as well as founder<br />and editor of Immaculate Disciples Press, a handmade chapbook press focused on poetry and visual<br />arts collaborations. He grew up in Kansas City, Missouri and now lives in Brooklyn, New York.<br /><br />Jared White lives in Brooklyn where he co-directs Yardmeter Editions and runs Berl's Brooklyn Poetry Shop with Farrah Field. His chapbook, Yellowcake, was in the hand-sewn anthology Narwhal from Cannibal Books in 2009. His poems, essays and multimedia pieces have also recently appeared in Coconut, Flying Object's It's My Decision, Harp & Altar, La Petite Zine, No, Dear,Sink Review, Esque, and We Are So Happy To Know Something.<br /><br />import/import started as a solo recording project conducted in a series of bedrooms and basements. The compositional focus of the project centers around woodwinds, keys, and textural experimentation. import/import's first EP, interface lakes, will be released by The Real Future Recording Company on September 27, and the band's follow-up and third record are in the works.</div>
Donald Dunbarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13682300926934742351noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5636654084176411766.post-25667358667188431372012-08-28T16:33:00.003-07:002012-08-30T11:08:55.053-07:00Saturday, September 1st: Cookout & Community Poetry Experiment & DANCE PARTY<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;">IF NOT FOR KIDNAP''s glorious mutation begins in earnest this Saturday! Please come join us for the last event at the house--a late summer grilling and community poetry experiment!</span><br />
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Donald Dunbarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13682300926934742351noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5636654084176411766.post-29732541200898737312012-08-13T13:15:00.002-07:002012-08-13T13:15:32.311-07:00Thursday, August 16th: K. Silem Mohammad, Elizabeth J. Colen, Aaron Teel; music by Nick Caceres<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: left;">This month: IF NOT FOR KIDNAP makes you feel, perhaps, a little too good. Three bomb poets, one great musical act, and a chance at ecstatic communion with the void.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: left;">You're welcome. Ain't no thing. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: left;">If you've got 'em, bring:</span><br />
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Drinks or food to share<br />Cash for books or the donation jar<br />Excellent friends<br /><br />If not, just bring your beautiful self<br /><br />/<br /><br />K. Silem Mohammad is the author of the poetry collections The Front, Breathalyzer, Deer Head Nation, and A Thousand Devils. He is the editor of Abraham Lincoln, a magazine of poetry, and the faculty editor of West Wind Review at Southern Oregon University.<br /><br />Elizabeth J. Colen is the author of poetry collections Money for Sunsets and Waiting Up for the End of the World: Conspiracies, as well as flash fiction collection Dear Mother Monster, Dear Daughter Mistake. Other things you should know: she has had plastic surgery, once got stabbed before a Dead Milkmen show, is related to two dead presidents, has no interest in pie or potatoes, but likes porn, pawn shops, pools and power plays, and once pinched enough money from a large corporation to be considered a level-three felon.<br /><br />Aaron Teel is the author of Shampoo Horns, winner of the Sixth Annual Rose Metal Press Short Short Chapbook Contest. His work has appeared in Tin House, Smokelong Quarterly, Monkeybicycle, Matter Press, Brevity Magazine, North Texas Review, Side B Magazine and Art Prostitute, among others.<br /><br />Nick Caceres has been writing and performing folk music in his home town of Portland oregon since he was 15. He released a number of albums including Hours Of Life in 2006, then went on to form Gratitillium, which released an album locally on Tender Loving Empire records as well as a self release, touring the west coast in 2010. He's since turned back to his folk music and has plans for a full length, self produced release here in Portland before he intends to travel again to share and pursue his art.</div>
Donald Dunbarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13682300926934742351noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5636654084176411766.post-33762357446934744572012-07-20T16:36:00.003-07:002012-08-30T11:11:30.966-07:00Thursday, July 26th: Cindy St. John & Parker Tettleton, music by Chanticleer Tru<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Portland has totes obvs had soooo a better summer than the rest of the country, grinning and drinking Pabst while everyone else has been sweating their hair out. Let's keep that going!</span><br />
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Don Mee Choi lives in Seattle and is author of <i>The Morning News is Exciting</i> (Action Books, 2010). She has translated numerous books by Kim Hyesoon, most recently <i>All the Grabage of the World, Unite!</i> (Action Books, 2011) and <i>Princess Abandoned: essays</i> (Tinfish, 2012)</div>
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Jennifer Bartlett is the author of <i>Derivative of the Moving Image</i> and <i>(a) lullaby without any music</i>. She is co-editor with Michael Northen and Sheila Black of <i>Beauty is a Verb: The New Disability Poets</i>. Her individual poems have a appeared in New American Writing, Denver Quarterly, Peaches and Bats, and the c_L newsletter, amongst others. She is currently researching a biography on Larry Eigner, a memoir titled "My Body is the Marginalia," and recently compiled an Electronic Poetry Center page for the late Mary Rising Higgins. She lives in Brooklyn with the writer Jim Stewart, their son Jeffrey, and many many animals.</div>
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Jennifer Denrow lives in Denver. She wrote <i>California</i> (Four Way Books, 2011).<br />
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Jeff Diteman (cello) and Ryan Spangler (keys) have twenty tasty fingers between them. Their music is heavily influenced by transcendental ping-pong, snails, Dmitri Shostakovich, and mitosis. They have previously performed as The Yielded You and in the Penumbra String Trio.</div>Donald Dunbarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13682300926934742351noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5636654084176411766.post-36623259494035458942012-05-25T15:09:00.000-07:002012-05-25T15:09:14.763-07:00Wednesday, May 30th: Sid Miller, Michael Heald, and The Old Chagrin<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: left;">What would May be without Kidnap? </span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: left;">Just another nonsense pseudo-summer month!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: left;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: left;">Please join us on Wednesday, May 30th for semi-tropical words by local demi-gods Sid Miller and Michael Heald, and half-shark-alligator half-man melodies by The Old Chagrin!</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: left;"><br /></span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: left;"><br /></span><br />
<span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: left;">As always, please bring anyone you love, any drinks or food you might want to share, and any extra cash you've got lying around for books or the donation jar. Let's all remember May for what it was: kinda a cock-tease, sorta a blast, and for sure an excellent month to be using your ears!</span><br />
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<span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: left;">Sid Miller's two books of poetry are Nixon on the Piano and Dot-to-Dot, Oregon. He is the editor of Burnside Review and director of Crow Arts Manor. In ancient Chinese mythology it is believed that his twin boys sprang forth directly from his testis.</span><br />
<span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: left;"><br /></span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: left;">Michael Heald is the publisher of Perfect Day Publishing. His book THIS IS PART OF SOMETHING BIGGER CALLED SMALL will be out this year.</span><br />
<span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: left;"><br /></span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: left;">The Old Chagrin use instruments to generate sounds, which, when taken together, produce feelings of euphoria in listeners.</span><br />Donald Dunbarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13682300926934742351noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5636654084176411766.post-56028004700570549482012-04-18T23:26:00.001-07:002012-04-18T23:28:12.953-07:00Tuesday, April 24th: Kidnap's Third Anniversary! Donald Dunbar, Jamalieh Haley, Kira Clark, and some crazy poets chorus!<span ><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Join us next Tuesday as IF NOT FOR KIDNAP celebrates its third year of survival!</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Will we continue to elude the authorities?</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Will poetry finally be freed from its awful cage?</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Will it be revealed we've all been framed for a crime we didn't commit, forced to carve out a lif</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">e on the road, seeking justice for ourselves and others?<br /><br />These answers and more, 7:30! Please bring beer and excellent people, money for the donation jar, and anything else you think fitting.<br /><br />Your hosts, Donald and Jamalieh, will be providing much of the entertainment. Don't worry. We know what we're doing.<br /><br />There will be a chorus of your favorite local poets.<br /><br />Also<br /><br />Kira Clark will make music for us. Kira is uncomfortable and makes morose pop.</span></span>Donald Dunbarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13682300926934742351noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5636654084176411766.post-51155538574088240372012-03-07T15:16:00.002-08:002012-03-07T15:19:26.625-08:00Tuesday, March 13th: Poets Eileen Myles & Rachel Springer, Music by Diagonal People<span ><span style="font-weight: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">We are off schedule again, but that only mean we have incredible authors whose talent is far more precious than routine! Come over Tuesday night at 7:30 and hear Eileen Myles, Rachel Springer, and musical guest Diagonal People!</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-weight: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Please bring drinks to share, cash for the donation</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "> jar (and/or to buy Eileen Myles books), and any awesome person you know!<br /><br /><b>EILEEN MYLES</b> was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, educated in catholic schools, graduated from U. Mass (Boston) in 1971, and moved to New York City in 1974 to be a poet. Snowflake/different streets, her new double volume (of poems) will be out this spring from Wave Books. Eileen’s Inferno: a poet's novel (2010) which details a female writer’s coming of age was described by John Ashbery as “zingingly funny and melancholy.” Alison Bechdel called Inferno “this shimmering document.” Her more than twenty publications include Sorry Tree (2007), Cool for You (2000), Skies (2001) Not Me (1991), and Chelsea Girls (1994). The Importance of Being Iceland: Travel Essays in Art (2009) received a Warhol/Creative Capital art writing grant in 2007. In 2010 Eileen received the Shelley Prize for her poetry. She writes about books, art and culture for a wide variety of publications including Art Forum, Book Forum, and Parkett and she blogs on Art in America and Harriet’s sites. She’s teaching in Columbia’s graduate program this spring. Please visit her at <a href="http://eileenmyles.com" style="font-weight: normal; ">eileenmyles.com</a>.<br /><br /><b>RACHEL SPRINGER</b> is a poet and statistician who lives in Portland, OR. Her poems have appeared in >kill author, elimae, and failbetter.com. Her poems are the "jerking between flesh and mannequin."<br /><br />New music, improvised music. Cracked pencil lead on score paper mixes with spontaneous composition to present sounds organized in unfamiliar ways. <b>DIAGONAL PEOPLE</b> values the bizarre, under appreciated, the experimental and the esoteric. We find inspiration in the new (Terry Riley, Ruth Crawford Seeger, George Crumb), the hip (Henry Threadgill, John Zorn, William Basinski), and the crusty (Gregorian chant, Bach). What you hear now is a freeze frame of forward movement- a single image from our picture show. We're not quite sure how the picture show ends. </span></span>Donald Dunbarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13682300926934742351noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5636654084176411766.post-1158006997118167172012-02-16T16:14:00.001-08:002012-02-16T16:15:56.643-08:00Tuesday, February 21st: James Yeary, Hannah Pass, and music by Jacki Penny<span ><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Dear Friend,</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">You're invited to come experience the magic of Kidnap, or the joy of Kidnap, or the l-o-v-e of Kidnap, with dope poet James Yeary, sick fictionist Hannah Pass, and ghost guitar player Jacki Penny!</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">The evening will begin at 7:30, and your head will certainly</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "> be blown by 8:22.<br /><br />Please bring anyone you like, and please bring drinks or snacks to share, money for the donation jar, and<br /><br />y'all,<br /><br />bring your smiling gorgeous self.<br /><br />:<br /><br />James Yeary is a poet whose work has occasionally spilled into sculpture and performance. His whitewashing of Ezra Pound's The Cantos transformed the 800-page epic into a spaced-out meditation on an another man's algorithm, other men's politics, and all of our silence. It broke the spine. James edits the small press c_L, which issues nice chapbooks on nice paper, a monthly newsletter of international poetry on not-so-nice paper, and, recently, a set of greeting cards with full-color illustrations of Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons. For the Spare Room reading series he has organized a marathon reading of Charles Olson's The Maximus Poems and a festival of poetry for multiple voices. His collaboration with visual artist Nate Orton in the my day zine series has taken him halfway to the coast in ten-mile stretches.<br /><br />Hannah Pass grew up in central Wisconsin. Her stories have been nominated for DZANC Best of the Web 2011 and StorySouth Million Writers Award. Her writing has appeared in Caketrain, The Collagist, Poor Claudia and Nano Fiction among other places. She is a Nonfiction Editor at Silk Road Review and an assistant for the Tin House Writer's Workshop. She lives on a volcano, in southeast Portland.<br /><br />Jacki Penny is not a stage name. It's a real name. There is nothing hidden. Just person and guitar. No smoke. No mirrors. Music about a life outside of the confines of now. Music that is timeless but not tired. There is an intimacy that keeps you at a distance. There is a familiarity that cannot be placed. Sit in your car on a clear winter day and thought about everything you have ever previously thought of. Do it. Think about the last time you were really happy. Think about the last time you watched When Harry Met Sally. Think about the last time you let someone down. Think about every mistake you have made. Think about everything that led up to you thinking about this. Think about what this paragraph is actually about. Oh yeah. That's Jacki Penny.</span></span>Donald Dunbarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13682300926934742351noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5636654084176411766.post-57217998752446287272012-01-14T14:17:00.000-08:002012-01-14T14:33:00.790-08:00FRIDAY January 20th: KIDNAP PARTY: Kevin Sampsell, Bryan Coffelt, Chloe Caldwell, and Edward Mullany; Music by The We Shared MilkPlease join us, in conjunction with Crow Arts Manor and Future Tense Books, for the <div><br /></div><div><span >Lindbergh Baby of If Not For Kidnap!</span><br /><br />We've got four all-star readers, killer music, and more booze than should probably be in one place. Some of this booze is donated by <a href="http://www.crowmanor.org/">Crow Arts Manor</a>, in honor of their classics book drive:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.crowmanor.org/">Crow Arts Manor</a> literary library will be open to the public starting late this January. So far they've received generous donations of current titles from presses across the country, but are still trying to fill in the classics. <b>If you bring 2 or more books to Kidnap of either poetry, short fiction, or literary criticism, they will give you a $15 discount on any of their future classes.</b> If you only bring one, you get a high-five from the person of your choosing!<br /><br />As for the entertainment, local hero writers KEVIN SAMPSELL and BRYAN COFFELT are joined by out-of-town champs CHLOE CALDWELL and EDWARD MULLANY and those irrepressible rockers THE WE SHARED MILK.<br /><br />***<br /><br />When not editing and publishing books (with Bryan Coffelt!) for <a href="http://www.futuretensebooks.com/">Future Tense Books</a> or working at Powell's, <b>KEVIN SAMPSELL</b> writes fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. A Pushcart Prize nominee for 2011, Sampsell's latest work appears in Best Sex Writing 2012, Everyday Genius, The Rumpus, Housefire, Prism Index, and the anthology, Nouns of Assemblage. He is the author the story collection, Creamy Bullets and the memoir, A Common Pornography.<br /><br /><b>CHLOE CALDWELL</b> is a non-fiction writer living in upstate New York. Her first book of essays: Legs Get Led Astray, will be released by<a href="http://www.futuretensebooks.com/"> Future Tense Books</a> in April of 2012. She writes a column for The Faster Times called “Love & Music.” Her essays have appeared in The Rumpus, Vol 1. Brooklyn and Mr. Beller's Neighborhood. She is forthcoming in The Nervous Breakdown and The New York Times.<br /><br /><b>BRYAN COFFELT</b> is assistant editor & designer for <a href="http://www.futuretensebooks.com/">Future Tense Books</a>. His poetry and fiction has appeared in elimae, Shampoo, Opium Magazine, and The West Wind Review. He is really into doom metal right now.<br /><br /><b>EDWARD MULLANY</b> grew up in Australia and in the American Midwest. His first book, If I Falter at the Gallows, was released by <a href="http://publishinggenius.com/">Publishing Genius</a> in October 2011. His writing has appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, New Ohio Review, Tampa Review and other journals. He's a recipient of a Barthelme Memorial Fellowship in poetry.<br /><br />what the press is saying about <b><a href="http://www.facebook.com/thewesharedmilk?sk=info">THE WE SHARED MILK </a></b><br />"...in firm command of a sound that has elements of hazed-out '70s and slack-jawed '90s, but sounds entirely up to date." -Portland Mercury<br />"When they put their sound down on tape, The We Shared Milk sound as if they’ve taken a couple of hits and eaten a couple sleeves of Oreos. .. Live, these guys are all power and energy." -Rose City Live<br /><br />***<br /><br />Doors open at 7:30, bring anyone you like (seriously, if you don't like 'em, don't bring 'em), and if you're able, bring books to donate to Crow Arts Manor, money for the donation jar, snacks or refreshments to share, and your own gorgeous face.</div>Donald Dunbarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13682300926934742351noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5636654084176411766.post-74184259030059629042011-12-12T20:02:00.000-08:002011-12-12T20:04:13.918-08:00No Kidnap DecemberSee you Friday, January 20th for a special Kidnap Party. 2012: Let's take it to the limit?<div><br /></div><div>xo,</div><div>D & J</div>Donald Dunbarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13682300926934742351noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5636654084176411766.post-21003735587565019092011-11-23T18:57:00.000-08:002011-11-23T18:59:38.655-08:00Tuesday, November 29th: Diana Salier, Amy Temple Harper, and Wolf in the DreamcatcherCome down off your food binge with Amy and Diana! Forget about your hideous relatives with Wolf in the Dreamcatcher! Finally: the perfect proof that allows you to exist in the fine balance of relaxation and stimulation. Bring drinks, food, etc., etc., etc.. Doors are open<span class="text_exposed_hide">...</span><span class="text_exposed_show"> at 7:30, everyone is welcome.<br /><br /> Please note! If you like chapbooks--and who doesn't like chapbooks?--two brand-new, just-released, sure-to-be-classic chapbooks will be available for purchase from Amy & Diana.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Amy Temple Harper</span> was born in S. Korea and found on the street. She was brought to an orphanage in Seoul and adopted to the United States. She substitute teaches grades K-12 for the Portland Public School District. She is also a chef and a mother. She writes poetry, fiction, and is currently working on a memoir. Her first publication is titled “Cramped Uptown,” due for release in November, 2011.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Diana Salier</span> is a musician and person who writes. Her first chapbook WIKIPEDIA SAYS IT WILL PASS was released on Deadly Chaps Press in September 2011. She's a graduate of NYU's creative writing program, and her work has appeared or is forthoming in Every Day Genius, Nap Magazine, Red Lightbulbs, 3:AM Magazine, Housefire, and Kill Author, among other places. She's currently working on a full-length collection called Letters From Robots. She grew up in a house in Los Angeles and now lives in an apartment in San Francisco. She is wearing striped pajamas.<br /><br /> Stan Gentle, the man behind <span style="font-weight: bold;">Wolf in the Dreamcatcher</span>, claims to be the failed commercial copywriter who got tired of trying to make a difference. He now busies himself composing one-minute songs about the mysterious abduction of poop, lost to the ages Elvis movies, and what he calls The Vegan Betrayal. The songs are at once anthem and corrosive to the synapses, a mix of mostly English words and a pretty convincing synthesizer. Recently, WITDC has garnered critical acclaim on websites like Friendster and publications like Light Metal Age. Live shows have been called “gamey and raw”, prompting tastemakers like Norma Lyon to give a nod. “It’s more a new trope than a gimmick. It might even be a meme. Anyway, it doesn’t suck.”</span>Donald Dunbarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13682300926934742351noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5636654084176411766.post-7361996974732697132011-10-20T15:15:00.000-07:002011-10-20T15:20:37.483-07:00Tuesday October 25th: Robert Alan Wendeborn, Karen Wood Hepner, and musical guest Special Head!Beat-boxing (!), throat singing (!), rad short poems (!), Lord of the Rings (!). Doors open at 7:30, music starts at 8, and plenty of deliverance: <br /><br />Robert Alan Wendeborn is the editor of Extended Play, a short magazine of long literature and writes for Uncanny Valley, a literature and pop-culture blog/magazine/press. He has had poems and reviews published in PANK, > kill author, and The Collagist. Most recently, he has been featured in the Portland Mercury blog for his Lord of the Rings themed haiku, "Legolas, rub me/on my soft Baggins with your/long Bombadildo." If you want to know more about him, or his writing, you should give him a thorough googling.<br /><br />Karen Wood Hepner writes songs, poems, and marketing blurbs. Mostly her poems are very short because she is always short on time. But it turns out short poems are the raddest kind! She is also raising teenage boys and has that marketing blurb job. She's a pretty busy lady.<br /><br />Special Head is a one man band from Tucson Arizona. Special Head performs live looping of throat singing, beat boxing, bass, xylophone, pan flute. Then he sings or raps comedic lyrics over the beats and melodies he has created. Some of his songs are serious and tackle issues of global consciousness. Others are simply hilarious.Jamalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04969809347787380587noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5636654084176411766.post-19970742461490078012011-09-22T12:23:00.000-07:002011-09-22T12:34:52.660-07:00Tuesday September 27th: Maryrose Larkin, Amanda Huckins, and musical guest Animal EyesTwo poets and a band. That's right: we give you continuity, structure, and (most importantly) heuristicality. Within this format you will get two women of discrete topology, and a band in temporal flux. Come on--let's compare our own exciting lives with the exciting life we all create at Kidnap at 7:30.<br /><br />Maryrose Larkin lives in Portland, Ore. where she works as a donor researcher. She is the author of Inverse (nine muses books, 2006), Whimsy Daybook 2007 (FLASH+CARD, 2006), The Book of Ocean (i.e. press, 2007), DARC (FLASH+CARD, 2009), The Name of this Intersection is Frost (Shearsman Books, 2010), and Marrowing (Airfoil, 2011).<br />Maryrose is one of the organizers of Spare Room, a Portland-based writing collective, and is co-editor, with Sarah Mangold, of FLASH+CARD, a chapbook and ephemera poetry press. She is currently working on "Twenty Questions for Five Masters" a play for Language Master and voice.<br />http://peepshowpoetry.blogspot.com/2010/07/blog-post_29.html<br />http://www.littleredleaves.com/LRL4/4home.html<br />http://www.notellmotel.org/poem_single.php?id=609_0_1_0<br /><br />Amanda Huckins is a poet who lives partially plunged into the ground of Portland, Oregon. Another poet said of her: "I feel like [Amanda is] the Hubble telescope and some, like, space rock flew into [her] f*cking up all [her] sensors but uhh, [she is] still collecting data and the data is damaged in such a way that it is actually much more interesting and uhh you know, useful than the previous data but it's also difficult to read/understand". It may sound like she’s mentally incapacitated, but she most likely is not. Either way, she letterpressed and sewed together a chapbook called Contorted Stone, and she regularly engages in passive and/or immediate collaborations using Google Docs. <br /><br />Animal Eyes is a Portland, Oregon band. They’re in the process of recording their first album. There are songs about what it’s like to be leaving home at the beginning of a new century, only a few years before the world is supposed to end, about growing older and realizing how important it is to learn from our collective past, to have a collective past, to have family, and about living in cycles with the earth; to be born, to live, and to rest in the ground when we’re done. <br />www.animaleyesband.comJamalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04969809347787380587noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5636654084176411766.post-58749870003722711702011-08-23T23:18:00.001-07:002011-08-25T12:38:31.193-07:00Tuesday August 30th: Anis Mojgani, Riley Michael Parker, and musical guest Curious HandsHappy August everyone! This Tuesday is your chance to get your idea of language messed up and all hot and bothered. This is good for you. The alpha state of your brain will thank you the next day while trying to brainstorm at work. Plus, it's proven that entering this state induces relaxation and healing. Sound good? Good. Because, Anis Mojgani and Riley Michael Parker are ready to do this for you.
<br />Come at 7:30 to mingle and pitch in to the drink fund if you would like to partake!
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<br />A former resident of Portland’s Writers-In-The-Schools program, <span style="font-weight:bold;">Anis Mojgani</span> is both a two-time national poetry slam and an international poetry slam champion. He is the author of two poetry collections: Over the Anvil We Stretch, and The Feather Room, which was recently nominated for the National Book Award. His work has appeared in Rattle, The Legendary, Radius, as well as on HBO and NPR. Originally from New Orleans, Anis currently lives with his wife in a small house on the Eastside of Austin TX.
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<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Riley Michael Parker</span> is the head editor at HOUSEFIRE, publisher of NOUNS OF ASSEMBLAGE. He wrote OUR BELOVED 26TH, with a new novel out October called A PLAGUE OF WOLVES AND WOMEN, dresses all in black white and red, self-proclamating "fucks like a champ", owns a cat, directed JUNIOR PROM (short film), lived in Las Vegas, lived in Oklahoma, never went to college, owns a coffin, has never been to Mexico.
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<br />http://www.bananastandmedia.com/releases/album/curious_hands_live_from_the_banana_standJamalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04969809347787380587noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5636654084176411766.post-59712910195695836182011-08-10T13:14:00.000-07:002011-08-10T13:17:15.102-07:00Kidnap Especial: Monday, August 15th in Director Park: Emily Kendal Frey, Ethan Saul Bull, & James GendronIf Not For Kidnap, in coordination with Director Park and Multnomah Arts Center Literary Arts Program, presents an out-of-doors performance of poesy, exactly perfect for your summer inclinations. <div>
<br /></div><div>PLEASE NOTE: This does not take place at Kidnap House. Rather, at Director Park downtown!
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<br />This next MONDAY, we have for you:
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<br />Ethan Saul Bull - Author of <i>Inside Narratives</i>, revolutionary, and master of the human heart.
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<br />Emily Kendal Frey - Author of <i>The Grief Performance</i>, <i>Frances, The New Planet</i>, & <i>Airport</i>, shaman, and all-around word reciter exciter.
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<br />James Gendron - Author of <i>Money Poems</i>, kickboxing champion, and regular boxing champion.
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<br />The event is free, and afterwards you may play in the fountain.
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<br />It may be chilly, because this is summer in Portland.
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<br />[Special props go to David Abel, who coordinates the DPR series, Alicia and Spencer at Director Park, and Michael Walsh at MAC, for making the readings possible]
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<br />[Also, the following Monday (8/22) same time same place, hear Robert Mittenthal from Seattle, Donato Mancini from Vancouver BC, and Louis Cabri from Ottawa.]</div>Donald Dunbarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13682300926934742351noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5636654084176411766.post-3709485533948246562011-07-21T23:20:00.000-07:002011-07-21T23:50:33.704-07:00Tuesday, July 26th: Lindsay Hill, Paul Longo, and musical guest GratilliumIf you show up at 7:30 Tuesday night to If Not For Kidnap you will hear BEAUTIFUL MUSIC, BEAUTIFUL POETRY, and see BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE. Plus, FEEL BEAUTIFUL by being part of aural illustration. <br /><br />There is a donation jar to help the readers out, and provide you with delicious things. The donation jar also accepts delicious things. All are welcome--come and say "hi"!<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Lindsay Hill</span> was born in San Francisco and is a graduate of Bard College. His most recently published books are: The Empty Quarter and Contango (both from Singing Horse Press, San Diego). Recent work has appeared in Peaches & Bats, New American Writing, and Peep/Show poetry online: peepshowpoetry.blogspot.com/. Lindsay lives in<br />Portland with his wife, the painter Nita Hill.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Paul Longo</span> lives in Portland, where he’s learning to say “I got it all in the world,” and to keep plants alive. At work he develops medical devices that stop lethal bleeding. After work he and his friends are collaborating on the perfect compliment. He has degrees in poetry and engineering, and was once co-editor of the Sonora Review. His poems have appeared in Best New Poets and a few other places.<br /><br />Gratitillium was formed in 2008 by Portland folk artist Nick Caceres. After recording makeshift songs on just his macbook with a built in mic, Caceres released this 'creation' as a full length debut under the name Gratitillium Vol 1, on local indie favorite Tender Loving Empire records. A band was etched around the initial album, and after a series of local shows at venues from the Green House to the Doug Fir and everything in between, Gratitillium was ready to hit the road in 2010 on a west coast tour, after releasing the EP/middle album, of full band versions of six songs off of the initial full length. The album was titled Wild Alive, Vol 1.5 and was a self release, with a release show held at the Holocene with guests Pancake Breakfast and Tiger House in april 2010.<br />Gratitillium then toured the west coast in early fall, 2010, playing with bands/friends such as:<br />The Hosannas<br />Yeah Great Fine<br />Jared Mees and the Grown Children<br />The Walkmen<br />Monarques<br />Fa Fa Fa<br />and many more talented acts...<br /><a href="http://www.myspace.com/gratitillium"></a><br /><a href="http://http://www.myspace.com/gratitillium"></a>Jamalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04969809347787380587noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5636654084176411766.post-40717168937710503792011-06-22T16:00:00.000-07:002011-06-27T14:53:13.564-07:00Tuesday, June28th: Matthew Klane, Lisa Ciccarello, and Drew Grow<div><span class="Apple-style-span">Time again for KIDNAP!</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></div><div>Hello! Come 'round 'round 7:33 this next Tuesday for an all-new all-nude review! Poet Matthew Klane is visiting our lovely city, and we have Lisa Ciccarello, Drew Grow, and you all to welcome him! Please wear clothes!</div><div><br /></div><div>Will you bring some beer to share or some cash for the donation jar? Want to buy a book by someone in the room? Want to hawk yours? Please make sure to introduce yourselves to people until you're sure we've all met!</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">/</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><b>Matthew Klane</b> is editor and co-founder of <a href="http://flimforum.com/flim%20forum.html">Flim Forum Press</a>. His book is <a href="http://www.stockportflats.org/meditations.htm">B_____ Meditations</a> (Stockport Flats, 2008). Recent work can be found in Taiga, muthafucka, Harp & Altar, and Word For/Word. He currently lives and writes<span><span> </span></span>in Iowa City.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span">/</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><b>Lisa Ciccarello</b> is the author of two chapbooks: <a href="http://issuu.com/andrewlundwall/docs/lisaciccarello-atnight">At night</a> (Scantily Clad Press, 2009) & At night, the dead (Blood Pudding Press, 2009). Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Glitterpony, elimae, Anti-, Poor Claudia, Saltgrass, H_NGM_N & Corduroy Mtn., among others. Her [stunning] photography can be found at <a href="http://likebeenhoundingme.tumblr.com/">like been hounding me how you can't imagine</a> and her blog <a href="http://punchinglittlebirdsintheface.blogspot.com/">Punching Little Birds in the Face</a> has recently been updated with a early summer mixtape. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><br />/<br /><br />Across the globe, there are hundreds of young men and women who have taken up acoustic guitars, inspired by the grand folk and country tradition, and set about put their sleeve-worn hearts into musical form. But the result is often feather light and wispy and all too easily forgotten amid the din of the modern age.<br /><br />Not so with the music of <b><a href="http://drewgrowandthepastorswives.bandcamp.com/">Drew Grow and the Pastors Wives</a></b>.<br /><br />The music on the band's self-titled LP (released on their own Amigo/Amiga label) shares the influence of many current indie artists, but carries with much more meat and gristle to chew on. It feels like it was molded after a long life of ups and downs, all set a soundtrack of the curlicued songwriting of Bob Dylan, the drowsy despair of Bill Callahan/Smog, and a thick stack of dusty Motown and Stax 45s. </span></div><div></div>Donald Dunbarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13682300926934742351noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5636654084176411766.post-46689052174447671492011-05-22T23:58:00.000-07:002011-05-23T00:42:35.117-07:00Tuesday, May 31st: Matty Byloos, Carrie Seitzinger, & tunes by Timmy Straw<span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><div style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>Kidnap in the Spring (<i>forreal!!</i>)</b></span></span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span">Please join us around 7:30 pm on May 31st for delight. </span></span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span">Portland culture warriors Matty Byloos and Carrie Seitzinger team up with Timmy Straw (whose music would give Mazzy Star the chills) to bring you this delight.</span></span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">As always, everyone is welcome! We'll have some beer on hand, but we rely on y'all to help keep people hydrated through the end of the evening. Donations of cash, beer, wine, food, etc. are fantastic, and please bring things to sell, promote, or proselytize. </span></span></span></span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>/</b></span></span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><b style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">Matty Byloos</b><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">'s first collection of short stories, </span></span><i style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">Don't Smell the Floss</i><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">, was published in 2009 by Write Bloody Books. His work has been published on or in: We Who Are About to Die, The Nervous Breakdown, The Fanzine, Orion Magazine, Pop Serial, Sparkle and Blink, The Portland Review, Everyday Genius, Housefire, among others. He is the editor and publisher of </span></span><a href="http://www.smalldoggiesmagazine.com/" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">Smalldoggies Magazine</a><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">, and co-hosts (along with Carrie Seitzinger) the Smalldoggies Reading Series in Portland, OR, where he lives and works.</span></span></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span">/<br /><br /></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>Carrie Seitzinger</b> has been featured at poetry venues since 2003. Her first book of poetry, <i style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">The Dots Don’t Connect</i>, was self-published in 2004. She currently lives in Portland, Oregon, where she is the Poetry Editor for <a href="http://www.smalldoggiesmagazine.com/">Smalldoggies Magazine</a> and co-hosts the Smalldoggies Reading Series PDX, a monthly reading series featuring both writers and musicians. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in <i style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Poor Claudia</i>,<i>Housefire, </i> <i style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Smalldoggies Magazine</i>, <i style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Sparkle and Blink, The Portland Review</i>, <i style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Mosaic</i>, <i style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Cobalt Poets</i>, and have been recorded for podcasts.<p></p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; ">/</p></span><b>Timmy Straw</b> lived for a long time in East Los Angeles, was born in Oregon, and was brought up by the music of Bela Bartok, Doc Watson, Frederic Chopin, Nirvana, Goodie Mob, Biggie Smalls, church hymns, Sam Cooke, Nine Inch Nails and Lil Wayne. She’s toured around America and Europe with Emily Wells, Carla Bozulich, and most recently with The Nite Kite Revival (Buddy Wakefield, Derrick Brown and Anis Mojgani). Learn more about <a href="http://www.myspace.com/timmystraw">Timmy Straw</a> and sample music on MySpace Music now.</span></div></div>Donald Dunbarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13682300926934742351noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5636654084176411766.post-7782996477063032232011-04-23T10:49:00.001-07:002011-04-23T11:22:02.850-07:00Tuesday April 26th: Literary Mixtape Two Year Anniversary, with musical guest Damon Boucher!Welcome to our grand night of INFK’s TWO-YEAR ANNIVERSARY celebration!<br /><br />Tuesday night we’ll be DJing the literary cannon for you. Both Donald and Jamalieh have composed astonishing fragments of literary genius from far to near, old to new. So come and sit on our chairs, lie on our couches, languish in the greatest stories ever told. Our musical guest, Damon Boucher, will join us in the usual two-part fashion (impromptu dance post-party always welcome). Remember to bring whatever you want to eat or drink. Celebration.<br /><br />Just in case you don't know: Donald and Jamalieh co-founded If Not For Kidnap poetry series. They are both professors of English. Also, each of their first manuscripts are "almost finished".<br /><br />Donald Dunbar vive en la casa a donde vasa venir. El es muy alto y rubio y muy poderoso. Escucha a sus palabras tranquilas para estar comodo. Puedes tocar al espalda de el, pero cuesta diez dolares. El no sabe como hablar en espanol, pero tu sabes tambien. Esta es una mentira. Si, el sabe como hablar en espanol. No, esta es una mentira.<br /><br />Jamalieh Haley has been reading, and, thus, accumulating a mix of literature to read to you since she was three. She also reads professionally to people through a microphone, pre-amp, and channeled through various compressors. Through this medium she is the voice of several champion cheer-leading teams, including the California All Stars, for which she says ridiculous phrases like “Are you ready? Well buckle up. This will be the ride of a lifetime” and “You better duck—these bullets are flying high”. She can also train your horse while reciting Yeates.<br /><br />Damon Boucher says, "Fuck it. You'll love my music. That said, I just finished my first LP, Superfag. You'll listen to it and from then on your wet dreams will be haunted with me. That's what you need to know about me." <a href="http://damonboucher.bandcamp.com/">http://damonboucher.bandcamp.com/</a><br /><br />There you have it, folks. All are welcome. We are very friendly. Please bring a few dollars to contribute to the donation jar to help cover our costs of beverages. Thanks!<br /><br />J & DJamalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04969809347787380587noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5636654084176411766.post-45154355212420183292011-03-23T13:15:00.000-07:002011-03-23T13:45:10.038-07:00Tuesday, March 29th: A. Minetta Gould & Amber Nelson, w/music by The Tumblers AcousticNew study: Kidnap helps you forget Winter.<br />This just in: Kidnap is happening in March.<br />Video: Kidnap lies to you about video.<br /><br />Please join us Tuesday, March 29th at 7:30 pm for the perfect evening! Poets Amber Nelson (Seattle) and A. Minetta Gould (Boise) stop by on their West Coast Adventure to read to us their excellent words, and local faves The Tumblers loan out two of their number to serenade us with dulcet tones. <br /><br />As always, everyone is welcome. Please bring friends, drinks to share, flyers to hand out, books and ephemera to sell, and/or cash for the donation jar. Or just bring your face, because we all like looking at it!<br /><br />/<br /><br />AMBER NELSON lives in Seattle where she spends copious amounts of time watching Kung Fu. She is the co-founder and poetry editor of alice blue. Her second chapbook, Diary of When Being With Friends Feels Like Watching TV, is available from Slash Pine Press.<br /><br />/<br /><br />A. MINETTA GOULD was raised in the mittens by a beautician. She edits the online journal Lonesome Fowl and is the Associate Editor for Black Ocean. She has recent work published in Columbia Poetry Review, Unsaid, and New Orleans Review. Another chapbook, Dutch Baby Combo and The Boys are Talking about Restless at Five Points, will be available from Spooky Girlfriend Press.<br /><br />/<br /><br />TYLER GASTON and DEAN GORMAN are 2/5 of The Tumblers, Portland's infamous and beloved country outfit. They are the band's primary songwriters and are looking forward to their first-ever acoustic show. Tyler promises to dress appropriately this time...Donald Dunbarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13682300926934742351noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5636654084176411766.post-48360086693697964672011-02-19T14:06:00.000-08:002011-02-19T19:02:04.867-08:00Tuesday February 22nd: Zachary Scott Hamilton, David Cooke, and musical guest Siren and the SeaLike always, If Not For Kidnap is here for you with two new poets you probably will want to get to know, and music that will get to know you. (Isn't that what everybody wants?) Bring drink to share, or maybe throw some money in for beer. Bring extra cash you've got laying around in case anyone's hawking anything. Bring something to hawk. Or just show up with your lovely self.<br /><br />Zachary Scott Hamilton is the author of Fourteen Zines, including HAIR LAND which won the Zine of the month award on WWW.IPRC.org. He lives in a condemned house on the outskirts of Portland, Oregon with his Cat, Spekter who he writes poems to.<br />Zachary has published work in these places: Sein und werden (being and becoming), Karawane (or the temporary death of the brutist), Otiliths (a journal of many e-things) Ignavia Press (issue 4.1), And The batShat E-zine) (issue 1// pg 8.)<br /><br /><br /><br />DAVID COOKE was raised Catholic in Oakland, California, and now lives in Portland, Oregon. His debut poem Edges won the Ruth Stone Poetry Prize and was nominated for a 2010 Pushcart Prize. His work appears in Flatmancrooked, Hunger Mountain, A River & Sound Review, Heavy Hands Ink and in performances at the Blackbird Wine Shop, The Press Club, Show and Tell Gallery, Stonehenge Studio, and KBOO’s Talking Earth. He is also known as The Lawn Guy throughout Portland and Lake Oswego for his lawn maintenance business. Much of his current work is included in his forthcoming chapbook, Discretion.<br /><br />Siren and the Sea is an ensemble that currently consists of three musicians—Manny Stewart on accordion, Cristina Cano vocals, guitar and keyboard, and Scott Belleri on violin. Their influences are diverse, including klezmer, show tunes, indie and folk. They are BEAUTIFUL!<br /><br />See you at 7:30!Jamalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04969809347787380587noreply@blogger.com0