The Lovely Nowhere 2 + The Burial of the Count

I hope hope hope I'm not too tired to go to this next week:

La MaMa Theater's Poetry Electric Presents

The Lovely Nowhere 2:
New Works by Filipino American Poets

Charles Valle
Patrick Rosal
Lara Stapleton
Sarah Gambito
Joseph O. Legaspi
Jessica Nepomuceno O'Connell
Oliver de la Paz

June 7th
8pm
La MaMa Club
74 East 4th St. (between 2nd & 3rd Aves.)
212-475-7710
$5

BUT I definitely want to go to this tomorrow night:

The Burial of the Count
Friday, June 3, 7:00-9:00 p.m.
Le Rosier Café
Free and open to the public.

The reading celebrates the publication of The Burial of the Count
of Orgaz & Other Poems (Exact Change, 2004), the most
substantial translation into English to date of Picasso's poetry.
For a period of 25 years, beginning in 1935, Picasso engaged
in a form of radical experimental writing that is now coming to
be recognized as a major literary breakthrough--not only a
reflection of his own time but a beacon for the present. In his
characteristic and prolific way, he was, as Michel Leiris
described him, "an insatiable player with words... [who, like]
James Joyce ... in his Finnegans Wake,... displayed an equal
capacity to promote language as a real thing (one might say)
...and to use it with as much dazzling liberty." Seen in this
light, the poems invite new and surprising readings of Picasso's
visual work.

Jerome Rothenberg and Pierre Joris, coeditors and principal
translators of The Burial of the Count of Orgaz, will be joined
in this reading by a number of the volume's guest translators:
Carlos Blackburn (reading for Paul Blackburn), Ricardo Nirenberg,
Diane Rothenberg, Jason Weiss, and Mark Weiss.