Saturday, July 25, 2009

Stolen Camera = Beat Night Videos

At July's Beat Night, some punk kids named Heidi and Beau stole my camera and forced it to watch them do poetry. Ok, maybe that's only half true but the StonePigeon.com video section has been updated with four videos from these two great poets from one hell of a night at The Press Room. I didn't know the poem titles, so I just called them whatever I wanted. I'm sure they'll correct me later!

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Videos are here, not dressed in brown

Videos from last night's Stone Pigeon are up, right here on StonePigeon.com under "Video". We've got videos of features Kim Triedman, Mike Nelson, a BONUS video of Mike Nelson covering a poem by Ryan McLellan, and one by Ed Pacht, the only audience member brave enough to consent to recording during the open mic. Or maybe everyone else just forgot to ask? What do I look like? A scientist?

Anyway, check out the videos. Quite a good show at the ol' solid bird last night.

Monday, July 6, 2009

July 13th Stone Pigeon!

Monday the 13th of July is fast-approaching, and The Stone Pigeon is once again coming back to Breaking New Grounds, Portsmouth at 7pm... and we guarantee to deliver!

Kim Triedman
’s first poetry collection – "bathe in it or sleep" – was named winner of the 2008 Main Street Rag Chapbook Competition and semi-finalist for the 2008 Black River Chapbook Competition. In the past year, she has also been named finalist for the 2007 Philbrick Poetry Award, finalist for the James Jones First Novel Fellowship, and, most recently, semifinalist for the 2008 Parthenon Prize for Fiction. She’s recently been nominated for the anthology “Best New Poets 2009.” Her poems have been published widely in literary journals and anthologies here and abroad.

Mike Nelson is a poet, father, former Asian woman, and heckle-fodder for most of us poetry jerks every time he so engagingly embraces the stage. He is the author of two books of poetry, "The One in the Middle" and "Sometimes at Night", which is alternatively known as "The One with the Kitty", which foreshadows a potential future omnibus collection of his greatest works, called "The One in the Middle of a Kitty". Some say he enjoys wearing the color brown. Other say he is forced to wear muted tones, lest he capture all attention of every room he enters. He likes hugs and huevos rancheros.