When:
April 6, 2023 @ 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm
2023-04-06T20:00:00-04:00
2023-04-06T21:30:00-04:00
Where:
The Bishop Bar
123 S Walnut

PICKPOCKET BOOKS PRESENTS

A NIGHT OF POETRY AND MUSIC

Entrance Fee   $5
Pickpocket Books and the Writers Guild at Bloomington present a night of poetry and music at The Bishop on Thursday 4/6 at 8PM.
This event is to celebrate the publication of Matt Hart’s book FAMILIAR!
w/ readings by Tony Brewer, Matt Hart, Hiromi Yoshida, and Rose Zinnia and music by Busman’s Holiday and NEVERNEW.
TONY BREWER is a poet and live sound effects artist from Bloomington, Indiana. He is executive director of the spoken word stage at the 4th Street Arts Festival and he frequently collaborates with experimental audio collective Urban Deer. He and appears on the albums Paris Suite and Six Realms and his books include Hot Type Cold Read, Homunculus, Pity for Sale, and psithurism. More at tonybrewer71.blogspot.com.
MATT HART is the author of FAMILIAR (Pickpocket Books 2023) and nine other books of poems. Additionally, his poems, reviews, and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in numerous print and online journals, including American Poetry Review, Big Bell, Conduit, jubilat, Kenyon Review, Lungfull!, and POETRY, among others. He was a co-founder and the editor-in-chief of Forklift, Ohio: A Journal of Poetry, Cooking & Light Industrial Safety from 1993-2019. Currently, he lives in Cincinnati where he teaches at the Art Academy of Cincinnati, co-edits the journal Sôrdəd and plays in the band NEVERNEW: http://www.nevernew.net.
One of Bloomington’s finest and most outspoken poets, HIROMI YOSHIDA is the author of four poetry chapbooks. Her poems have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and numerous other awards. Hiromi was a crucial contributor to the underground Bloomington music scene, supporting bands by directing lighting schemes, and kicking away empty PBR cans toward remote basement corners during shows.
ROSE ZINNIA lives in Cleveland, Ohio and is the recipient of the 2022 Ninth Letter Literary Award in Poetry (selected by Anthony Cody), the 2022 Vera Meyer Strube Poetry Award from the Academy of American Poets, & the 2021 Kraft-Kinsey Award/Residency from the Kinsey Institute. She has an MFA from Indiana University and is a graduate of the 2021 Tin House Summer Workshop in Fiction.
BUSMAN’S HOLIDAY is a band of brothers hailing from Bloomington, Indiana, devoted to exploring the boundless possibilities of the human voice. On their inventive, giddily experimental third album, the aptly titled Good Songs, Lewis and Addison Rogers sculpt their lines rather than simply sing them, deploying an arsenal of techniques and tricks to deliver lyrics about loneliness and connection and joy and fulfillment. “In the late ‘60s and early ‘70s, there was this revolution of people like the Beach Boys and the Beatles using their voices in the strangest ways,” says Lewis (the taller of the pair, with a John Prine style-moustache that gives him the look of a gunslinger). “We’re trying to pick up on that. You can have a million synthesizers, but the human voice can do something wilder and weirder than all that equipment.”
NEVERNEW is a Cincinnati based postpunk/indie rock band that makes high energy melodic racket + noise. The band consists of Matt Hart (formerly of Lookout Records! band Squirtgun) on guitar and vocals, Eric Appleby on bass, and Pete Janidlo on drums. The band formed in Muncie, IN in 1993. In 1995, they relocated to Cincinnati and played together, touring regionally, until 2000. Along the way, they released several cassette-only Eps, a split 7” with the band Lazy, and a full-length CD. In 2017, NEVERNEW reunited. In the intervening years Hart had become a poet with ten published collections of poetry and a professor of Creative Writing at the Art Academy of Cincinnati. Appleby and Janidlo both worked in the IT and tech industry. The three also kept playing in bands—Hart and Appleby in the poetry noise band TRAVEL and Janidlo and Appleby in Cinci power-pop stalwarts 7 Speed Vortex. The band name NEVERNEW came to them in a snowstorm or a hail of bullets. It depends on who you ask. Probably, one of them just misheard something. For fans of IPAs, poetry, philosophy, and possibility—maybe also Archers of Loaf, Gang of Four, Hüsker Dü, and Mission of Burma.
A NIGHT OF POETRY AND MUSIC
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