Please join us for the Royal Oak Salon summer finale! It has been quite a summer, my god. And to think it will continue, and in such style! Royal Oak Salon 4 will be all poetry all the time–a sort of homecoming. They are poets, these lovers, and they will leave you with a sense of yourself, if not themselves. Please join us, we love you.

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Brian Kalkbrenner was born in Las Vegas.

Caitlin Grace McDonnell has received fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center, Yaddo, Blue Mountain Center and The New York Times Foundation. Her poems have appeared in numerous online and text journals and a chapbook of her poems, Dreaming the Tree was published by belladonna books in 2004.

Adam Tobin owns and operates Unnameable Books, a new & used bookstore in central Brooklyn. His ODE TO PUMPSIE GREEN AND STRETCH PHILLIPS is available from horse less press. He occasionally blogs at adamtobin.blogspot.com.

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The Royal Oak Salon is a reading series in Williamsburg dedicated to the summertime, maybe more.

Tuesday, August 28th, 8:30pm until the foosball tourney commences
The Royal Oak
594 Union Avenue, at N. 11th Street
Always Free

L train to Bedford Avenue, North to N. 11th Street, East to Union Avenue

CapGun2 is borne unto the world:

Featuring the work of

Lynn Xu

Damian Weber

Anna McDonald

Bronwen Tate

Andrew Zornoza

Rodolfo Hinostroza (trans. Harris Feinsod)

Sam Adams

Eric Gelsinger

Lisa Flaherty

Joshua Edwards

Jackie Delamatre

Jackie Clark

Tao Lin

Will Hubbard

Rachel B. Glaser

Jaye Bartell

Tuesday, July 24th, 8:30 p.m.
The Royal Oak
594 Union Avenue, at N. 11th Street

L train to Bedford Avenue, North to N. 11th Street, East to Union Avenue

Snap up your issue of CapGun 2 now.

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Jaye Bartell will read poetry and art musings.

Eric Gelsinger will read poetry and parables.

Damian Weber will read poetry and whatever he damn well chooses.

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Scott Puccio‘s short film “I AM IN LOVE” will be screened to much acclaim in his unfortunate absence.

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Alex Provan will make sure you hear every song you want to dance to and only a few you don’t but it will be OK cuz you got your baby right there by your side.

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The Royal Oak Salon is a reading series in Williamsburg dedicated to the summertime.

Tuesday, July 24th, 8:30pm until when you have to go to bed
The Royal Oak
594 Union Avenue, at N. 11th Street

L train to Bedford Avenue, North to N. 11th Street, East to Union Avenue

Royal Oak Salon #2 will feature candles, air-conditioning, three superb writers, and no songs afterwards.

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TAO LIN will read poetry.

JED LIPINSKI will read fiction.

ANNA MCDONALD will read poetry.

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The Royal Oak Salon is a reading series in Williamsburg dedicated to the summertime.

FRIDAY June 29th, 8pm until 10pm
The Royal Oak
594 Union Avenue, at N. 11th Street

L train to Bedford Avenue, North to N. 11th Street, East to Union Avenue

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TAO LIN is the author of EEEEE EEE EEEE, BED, a novel and a story-collection published last month by Melville House. Tao is also the author of a poetry-collection, YOU ARE A LITTLE BIT HAPPIER THAN I AM, published by Action Books. His site is READER OF DEPRESSING BOOKS.

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JED LIPINSKI writes for the New York Press, The Brooklyn Rail, the International Journal of Men’s Health, and the International Journal of Neuropsychiatric Medicine, for which he has written such articles as: “Thoughts on the Documentaries of Werner Herzog,” “Body Ideals in Young Samoan Men: A Comparison With Men in North America and Europe”, and “High Prenatal Homocysteine Levels Found to Pose Risk for Schizophrenia.” He graduated from NYU’s MFA program in May.

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ANNA MCDONALD had several jobs that sounded cool but she didn’t think so. Now she is only a poet and journalist from Gainesville, Georgia. Her writing has appeared in the Virginia Quarterly Review, The New York Post, and Atlanta Magazine.

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EUDIAMONISM (n.) – This is solely a technical term and has no popular equivalent.

Tuesday, May 22, 2007

8pm till 10pm

The Royal Oak

594 Union Ave, at N. 11th St.

Williamsburg, L train to Bedford Ave.

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Fiction by Jackie Delamatre and Alex Carnevale, poetry by Joshua Edwards.

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Alex Carnevale is a recent graduate from the MFA program at The New School. His work has appeared in horseless press review, Sports Illustrated, and otoliths. He is managing editor of CapGun, a literary journal based in Brooklyn, and the creative force behind This Recording, an arts and culture webzine.

Jackie Delamatre is a tour guide at the Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Museum, where she is also co-authoring a book on the intersection of teaching and art. She is an arts journalist recently published in New York Press, as well as an MFA candidate at New York University. If all else fails, her only surviving novel will be published by Evident Merit Press and distributed in paper bags so it can be read anonymously on the subway, accompanied by a forty.

Joshua Edwards publishes and co-edits The Canary, Canarium, and Canarium Books. His poems appear/are forthcoming in Vanitas, Slate, Colorado Review, Practice, and elsewhere. He’ll be spending next year in Oaxaca, Mexico on a Fulbright.