NIGHT OF 1,000 MISTAKES:
THE ANNUAL LUNGFULL GALA RELEASE BACCHANAL
RAUCOUS AUCTION + READING SATURNALIA

SATURDAY 18 MAY 2012 6:00PM

ZINC BAR
82 W 3rd Street NYC

THE AUCTION CATALOG

Why would I lie? It will be the most wonderful night of your life, perhaps of all life on the planet. There’s a voice in your head whispering this message: Transmute the ringer you’ve been through this year to three-part delight at a revelatory reading/party/auction. You deserve to be at the throwdown for LUNGFULL! magazine. To celebrate the annual anthology of terrible mistakes with a night of even worse ones — the kind of messy disasters that are the swiftest route to sweet jouissance. But of all the terrible mistakes that night, the only one you should not make is failing to come.

LUNGFULL! magazine is the only compilation of contemporary poetry that prints rough drafts alongside final versions so you see the creative process as it happens. And assuming mistakes will continue to happen, the cover is 100% waterproof — perfect for reading while inebriated or in the shower or both. Energized by the efforts of over eighty people, this issue is as intellectually rigorous, aesthetically adventurous, and wildly experimental as it is amusing. The energy many endeavors devote to branding and commodification, we give over to entwining a host of emerging and established writers across myriad literary traditions. www.lungfull.org/event has a great deal more information.

DIRECTIONS: Subway ACEBDF to W 4th Street, NR to 8th Street. Commandeered drone from Afghanistan to downtown Manhattan. Student Debt from NYU. Hazy gambol from drinking earlier. Stroller from Park Slope. Stupid facial hair from Bushwick. Boosted car from Newark. Totally not illegal Fnug Wha bus from other cities. Russian meteor from Space. Pomegranate from hell. DeLorean from 1985.

$10-20 sliding scale admission. $20 gets you in plus a copy of the new issue.
All funds raised go towards the humungous printer bill. It is awe-inspiring.

 

Here's what's in store when you come to LUNGFULL! MAGAZINE’S NIGHT OF 1,000 MISTAKES on Saturday May 18 at 6:00pm…

1. READING SATURNALIA Hosted by Brendan Lorber Many of these contributors will be on hand to read a little and strip away all the impossibilities your mind has clung to lo these many years. It’ll be the opposite of a bedtime story in that you will never feel more awake. In this issue POEMS & ROUGH DRAFTS BY: Thurston Moore • Annie Paradis • Sampson Starkweather • Bianca Stone • Thomas Devaney • Amy Matterer • Tony Iantosca • Whit Griffin • Camilo Roldan • Christine Tierney • Conor Bracken • Dale Cottingham • David Perry • Dudley Laufman • Eric Ellingsen • Erica Kaufman • Hezikia Jhonas • Jean Mccullum • Jennifer Mackenzie • John Myers • Karyna Mcglynn • Laura Henriksen • Maribeth Theroux • Matt Longabucco • Melissa Broder • MG Moscato • Peter Longofono • Phil Estes

WORLD NEWS REPORTS FROM: Pierre Joris / Sorrentinostan • C.E. Putnam / Singapore • Dmitry Golynko / Russia • Megan M. Garr & Jane Lewty / Amsterdam • Tim Atkins / The United Kingdom • Željko Mitic’ / Niš • Serbia • Lauren Ireland / Seattle, WA • Alli Warren / Oakland, CA • Allison Cobb & Sam Lohmann / Portland, OR • Sarah Fox & John Colburn / Twin Cities, MN • Shafer Hall / Houston, TX • Nathan Hoks / Chicago, IL • Dana Ward / Cincinnati, OH • John Most / Virginia • Todd Colby / Cobble Hill • Brooklyn • Anahit Gulian / Maryland • Sparrow / Phoenicia, NY • Greg Purcell & Ish Klein / Amherst, MA

VISUAL ART: David Jansheski • Lesley Oldaker • Michael Schall • Tracey McTague • Roy Hofer

Anselm Hollo: A Remembrance by Laird Hunt and Eleni Sikelianos

Exploration / Acrostic: a puzzle by Jennifer Robinson

and THE ECSTACY OF DECEIT: an investigation by Brendan Lorber

 

2. RAUCOUS AUCTION

Barked by Todd Colby. Items presented by Tracey McTague. The equatorial heat version of a chilly silent auction or the demure goings-on at Sotheby's — people will be leaping from their seats, yelling at each other when the bidding heats up. Yelling terrible, terrible things in languages that do not yet exist. (And then after, buying each other a drink named for the dirty things they just called each other.) We accept credit cards, especially stolen ones.

 

3. INSURRECTIONIST RELEASE GALA Hosted by the Lungfull Editorial Action Go Team. Meet the thoughtforms who make the magazine and do terrible things to them, just as they have done to poetry. Meet the contributors and offer your condolences on having been printed by Lungfull. Impair your judgment through whatever means seem most applicable and permit yourself to speak/act on wild impulse. It will be intimate and expansive / untoward and proper / half end-of-the-world half start-of-a-new-one / goodnight moon meets hello kitty / a midnight picnic on interstate 10's refinery alley / as if a million voices cried out in terror and then — it turns out Alderon was just fine / like if the Coen & Zucker Brothers had kids with the Andrews & Kardashian sisters and nobody could tell whose were whose but you had to play MFK with them all for realz / It will put to shame all prurient experiences you have ever has and demolish all the old vice/virtue dualities.

Instrumental in the dismantling of contemporary poetry via LUNGFULL! MAGAZINE 21 were these people:Editor & Publisher: Brendan Lorber
Editorial Board: Edmund Berrigan, Todd Colby, Molly Dorozenski, Brandon Downing, Jessica Fiorini, Shafer Hall, Lauren Ireland, Mariana Ruiz, Edwin Torres
Consigliere: Tracey Mctague
Rockers: Anahit Gulian, Mariette Lamson
Interns: Katie Yee, Alistaire Lucas
Faulty Advisor: Matt Longabucco
Editors Emeritii: Anselm Berrigan, Brenda Coultas, Thomas Devaney, Wanda Phipps, Julie Reid

LUNGFULL! is funded in part by a generous grant from the New York State Council on the Arts and receives logistical support from the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses, and from Fractured Atlas.

 

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