2 Bloofy events this week!

Friday night, Danielle Pafunda comes to NYC to read at Earshot in Brooklyn. If you've never been to Earshot, it's a treat. Always a good crowd, always a great energy. Nicole rocks it. Mobile Libris will be on hand to sell the very first copies of My Zorba available in NYC.


Friday, April 25 at 8:00 PM
in Brooklyn, NY

Danielle Pafunda reads for the Earshot Series

Danielle Pafunda (My Zorba, Pretty Young Thing)
Michael Quattrone (Rhinoceroses)
Adina Schoem (Sarah Lawrence College)
Emily Wolahan (Columbia University)
Lisa A. Locascio (New York University)

Lucky Cat
245 Grand Street
(Between Driggs & Roebling)
Brooklyn, NY
$5 includes a drink

The following night, Shanna Compton makes outrageous noises in the Flarf Festival with the Drew Gardner Orchestra, featuring Katie Degentesh, Brandon Downing, Rob Fitterman, Benjamin Friedlander, Drew Gardner, Nada Gordon, Mitch Highfill, Rodney Koeneke, Michael Magee, Sharon Mesmer, K. Silem Mohammad, Mel Nichols, Eiríkur Örn Nor∂dahl, Kim Rosenfield, James Sherry, Rod Smith, Christina Strong, Gary Sullivan & the Saw Lady. (More festival info here.)

SATURDAY, APR 26, 6:00 P.M.
BOWERY POETRY CLUB
308 BOWERY
$8, a Segue reading to benefit Bowery Arts & Sciences

It's going to look something like this

1 rental car
2 planes
3 poets
10 cities
1742 miles of skyway
2700 miles of highway

We've all committed to the NaPoWriMo challenge, and will be posting our poems here during the tour, along with photos and reading reports, and hopefully some interviews with friends we meet along the way.

Now available in the Bloof store: My Zorba by Danielle Pafunda

Get it here.

Powell's, Amazon, and other retailers to follow in about a month.

Or, if you catch us on the booktour, we'll have early copies too.

Dear Tilly, Dear Hermes,*

Enclosed, please find Zorba's lamb shank. Please find a coveted booklet.
A prerequisite. In the future, when you shadow, please find a subtle
distinction between street and theater.

I craze the window in her butchered sedan. I leverage her documents,
spilling from the console. Figure these. Repeat.

From My Zorba by Danielle Pafunda (Bloof Books, April 2008)

We scrambled. We made it.

A limited number of advance copies will be available to reviewers at AWP. (Details/schedule to come.)

Catalog page is in the works too. We can't wait to see this pink in person.

Danielle Pafunda on Verse Daily today!

I Am Talking Dirty to You Like You are the Only One in the Room

Don't you just love that title?

We're working on Danielle's next book, My Zorba, right now, to be released by Bloof in April 2008.

A Pafunda a day...

Danielle Pafunda (My Zorba, forthcoming from Bloof in the spring) is the feature of the week over at the always seductive No Tell Motel, with a new poem each day through Friday.

For additional insight into Danielle's luxe grotesquerie, she points helpfully to this essay in Action, Yes.

Didi Menedez also recently interviewed Danielle for Women of the Web.