Berl's on a west coast walkabout

We are taking a couple of weeks away from Brooklyn in support of Farrah's new book from Four Way Books, WOLF AND PILOT! We are away at the beginning of October, now a few days into a tour of the west coast, featuring stops in Boise, Portland, San Francisco and Los Angeles. We will be traveling with Dan Magers, whose great book PARTYKNIFE has been a big seller for us at Berl's and which we recommend highly. Here's our calendar for the whole tour - we will be back in Brooklyn at the Flea by the middle of October.

Sept 30--reading for Ghosts and Projectors, 7pm

featuring Jared White, Dan Magers, Farrah Field and Kyle Crawford
The Crux, 1022 W Main Street, Boise ID

October 2--reading for If Not For Kidnap, 7:30pm

featuring Farrah Field, Jared White and Dan Magers with musical guest import/importRecess Gallery, 1127 SE 10th Avenue Portland, OR

October 5--reading at Studio One Reading Series, 7:30pm

featuring Dan Magers, Farrah Field and Jared White
Studio One Art Center, 365 45th Street  Oakland CA

Oct 6--radio appearance on Poet as Radio, KUSF

with Jared White, Farrah Field and Dan Magers

Poet as Radio airs Saturday from 9-10am in San Francisco, CA

Oct 8--poetry talk and teatime at CalArts with the CalArts Poetry collective, 4pm

featuring Dan Magers, Farrah Field and Jared White
CalArts campus (Langley Hall), 24700 McBean Parkway, Valencia CA

Oct 9--reading at the Pop Hop bookstore, 7pm

featuring Jared White, Farrah Field, Dan Magers and Michelle Detorie

5002 York Boulevard, Los Angeles (Highland Park) CA

New arrivals at Berl's

Berl's is back from a short trip out of town with a bunch of new books and chapbooks! We will be out Saturday 7/28 at the Brooklyn Flea all day, 10am-5pm as always. We are so happy to be able to feature many new titles from Rescue Press, Nightboat Books, H_NGM_N Books, Convulsive Editions, Horse Less Press, Magic Helicopter Books, Lowbrow Books and others, plus a hanging display of the first two series of Least Weasel chapbooks from Propolis Press, a gorgeous set of handmade books with delicately multi-colored letterpress covers. More soon about all the new fantastic poetry we have in stock.... Hope to see you at the Flea!

One more week away...

Berl's Brooklyn Poetry Shop is in travel mode right now and will not be at the Brooklyn Flea today 7/21. Sorry! We will be back in Brooklyn for some good summer poetry at the Flea on 7/28 and 8/4 in Fort Greene (weather permitting - sounds like there have been some crazy rainstorms there so please check on this page or Facebook if there's a question). We'll have lots of great new chapbooks so please come visit us when we're back!

Suspended in Greatness

Lately at the Flea we have been carefully hanging books so that you can see them. Last week we featured books by the press Mindmade Books, edited by Guy Bennet. Mindmade books makes beautiful chapbooks and it was so lovely to see them all displayed together. We especially enjoyed hanging up Franklin Bruno's MF/MA and Chelsey Minnis's Foxina.

Next week we will display chapbooks from the Belladonna* Collaborative. Among many titles, we will have Bhanu Kapil's (a poem essay, or precursor: NOTES: for a novel: Ban en Banlieues) hanging against the summer sky. We will also have Latasha N. Nevada Diggs's Manuel is destroying my bathroom..., which is a selection from her forthcoming book, My Life as a Boy, soon to be published by Belladonna. Come out and peruse these wonderful chapbooks!

Book Trailer: Partyknife by Dan Magers

Check out the book trailer for Partyknife by Dan Magers, published by Birds, LLC. Berl's has been selling Partyknife at various locations, most commonly at the Brooklyn Flea. Check us out on Facebook or on the side bar of this blog to see where we're going to be selling poetry next. Come get your copy of Partyknife! And if you can't make it to the Brooklyn Flea, send us an email and we'll ride our bikes to your house.

Special appearance (with bowling)!

Berl's Brooklyn Poetry Shop will be making a one-night special pop-up appearance tonight at Local X Local, an event at Brooklyn Bowl co-hosted by Brooklyn Brewery (which is right around the corner) and featuring live bands such as Javelin. The event will start at 6pm with the music beginning at 8pm; there will be dinner, drinks, bowling obviously, and maybe a photo booth. The last time we saw Javelin play, it was in the downstairs lobby at the Whitney Museum, very head-bopping and fun. We haven't been out with Berl's in Williamsburg since last summer so this will be a sweet return to the neighborhood. In keeping with the local Brooklyn community theme, we are bringing almost exclusively poets and presses from Brooklyn (or at least local to NYC). We'll have lots of great stuff out and we hope you'll stop by!

Starting this weekend, we'll be out all month and beyond every Saturday at the Brooklyn Flea in Fort Greene - Lafayette Ave at Vanderbilt Ave. Lots of new books from our visits to AWP Chicago, SPD in California, and the NY Chapbook Festival, so we hope you can come see! We're now working with some great new presses like Strange Machine and Good Morning Menagerie from Boise Idaho, Sand Paper Press from Key West FL, and SpringGun Press in Denver CO. We will have their work out for sure this weekend and looking forward. And lots more besides!

Give Handmade Give Poetry

Berl's is happy to announce that we'll be making a special appearance at the fantastic 3rd Ward Handmade Holiday Craft Fair. We go to this holiday market every year and it is one of my favorite places to buy unique, handcrafted presents. It is one day only, December 10th, and we really recommend stopping by.

Handmade Holiday Craft Fair

195 Morgan Avenue, Williamsburg

December 10th

12-6 p.m.

We will be selling mainly chapbooks, as this is a handmade market. Stop by to see our collection of beautiful hand-sewn and letterpress books.

Need a gift suggestion? I definitely recommend books by Paravion Press. They've made exquisite, limited editions of Walt Whitman's Crossing Brooklyn Ferry, Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark, and many others. Each book is about the size of a postcard and has a bookmark and envelope, ready to be sent in the mail. They come to us all the way from Cyprus and we are so happy to carry these beautiful books.