Innately Diamond Mouth Surprise knew they had been several in the trial life (la vie essayée). Only through the accounts of others had Diamond Mouth Surprise come to know of their unity. “On the thread of our history as told by the others, year by year,” he told the changelings, “we end up resembling ourselves.” Diamond Mouth Surprise leaned against the cenotaph drinking turquoise milk, the milk of solitude, the happiness of poets. “We gather all our beings around the unity of our name.” Gather, you beings, you Diamond Mouth Surprise. Words and music and a late, dark night of dancing.
30 MAUJER STREET 2C BROOKLYN
November Twelfth
doors at 8 | show at 9
FREE
beers 2 US dollars
John Coletti is the author of Mum Halo (Rust Buckle Books 2010), Same Enemy Rainbow (fewer & further 2008), and Physical Kind (Yo-Yo-Labs 2005). He recently served as editor of The Poetry Project Newsletter and co-edits Open 24 Hours Press with Greg Fuchs.
Jess Arndt was born and raised in Washington State. She writes long and short stories and has most recently been published in Put A Egg On It (Vol.2) and RANDY artzine (forthcoming). She was a 2010 NYFA fellow for fiction, is a co-editor of the newly spawned New Herring Press, and teaches all species of writing at Rutgers University.
Gem Trails is the nom de plume of Trevor (Woodsman/Fire Talk Records) A solo excursion into the nuanced underbelly of psychic reality. The sounds are a visceral journey into the nether world where subtle fragments of life are rendered in slow-motion, only to be dissected, observed, and preserved for future citizens.
Sondra Sun-Odeon is a Brooklyn-based singer, composer, and multi-instrumentalist. She is the voice and half the songwriting force behind dark-neofolk-psych-rock band Silver Summit, whose first release was on Language of Stone/Drag City. An upcoming solo release includes collaborations with Helena Espvall (of Espers), Leyna Marika Papach (Carla Bouzalich, JG Thirlwell’s Manorexia), and percussion by Ben McConnell (Beach House, Brightblack Morning Light, Marissa Nadler).
