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7PM TONIGHT @brooklynmuseum - Join musician Iggy Pop and artist Jeremy Deller as they riff on Deller's 'Iggy Pop Life Class,' the male nude in art, and masculinity in rock. Moderated by poet Tom Healy. Image here, reproduced from the book by @henipublishing – show opens tomorrow. More on artbook.com. #iggypop #jeremydeller #tomhealy #iggypoplifeclass #iggypopnude @jeremydeller @biggypop @iggypopofficial #artbook #artbookdap #lifedrawing IGGY POP LIFE CLASS - organized by @jeremydeller – opens tomorrow @brooklynmuseum – or hear Pop and Deller in conversation with Tom Healy tonight at 7PM at the museum! See the results of the one-day nude life-drawing class @nycacademyofart starring #iggypop More on artbook.com. Book from @henipublishing #iggypop #jeremydeller #iggypoplifeclass #iggypopnude @jeremydeller @biggypop @iggypopofficial #artbook #artbookdap #lifedrawing IGGY POP LIFE CLASS drawing by Kinley Pleteau from the class and exhibition organized by @jeremydeller – opens tomorrow @brooklynmuseum Pop and Deller will appear in conversation with Tom Healey tonight at the museum, 7PM. @nycacademyofart starring #iggypop More on artbook.com. Book from @henipublishing #iggypop #jeremydeller #iggypoplifeclass #iggypopnude @jeremydeller @biggypop @iggypopofficial #artbook #artbookdap #lifedrawing

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Tom Healy Reading and Getting a Tattoo Tonight March 17 at Bowery Poetry Club

Tonight, March 17, at 6:30 pm, Tom Healy (What The Right Hand Knows) will be giving a reading and getting a tattoo at an event tonight at the Bowery Poetry Club (308 Bowery) in NYC. 

What The Right Hand Knows is available from Four Way Books. 

[fourwaybooks]

What's Happening Next Week?

On Monday, March 17, at 6:30 pm, Tom Healy (What The Right Hand Knows) will be reading and receiving a tattoo at the Bowery Poetry Club (308 Bowery) in NYC. 

On Tuesday, March 18, at 7 pm, Rob Schlegel (January Machine) will be reading with Serena Chopra and Jeff Alessendrelli at Counterpath (613 22nd Street) in Denver, CO.

On Wednesday, March 19, at 8 pm, Patrick Ryan Frank (How The Losers Love What's Lost) will be reading at a Thornton Reading in the Sydnor Performance Hall at Lynchburg College (1501 Lakeside Drive) in Lynchburg, VA.

On Sunday, March 23, at 12 pm, Rob Schlegel (January Machine) will be reading at a Mimosa Reading with Michael Earl Craig and Emily Kendall Frey for the Treefort Music Fest 2014 at Sesquishop (1008 Main Street) in Boise, ID. 

What The Right Hand Knows, January Machine and How The Losers Love What's Lost are all available from Four Way Books. 

[fourwaybooks]

TWO Readings Tonight w/ FWB Authors in NY

Tonight, September 23, at 7 pm, Tom Healy (What the Right Hand Knows) will be reading with David Shapiro for the KGB Monday Night Poetry Series at 85 East 4th Street in NYC. 

At 8 pm tonight, September 23, Alex Dimitrov (Begging for It) will be reading at Skidmore College at the Surrey Williamson Inn at 815 North Broadway in Saratoga Springs, NY. 

      Both What the Right Hand Knows and Begging for It are available from Four Way Books. 

[fourwaybooks]

What's Happening Next Week?

This Monday, September 23, at 7 pm, Tom Healy (What the Right Hand Knows) will be reading with David Shapiro at KGB Monday Night Poetry Series on 85 East 4th Street in NYC.

Also this Monday, September 23, at 8 pm, Alex Dimitrov (Begging for It) will be reading at Skidmore College in the Surrey Williamson Inn on 815 North Broadway, in Saratoga Springs, NY. 

Both Begging for It and What the Right Hand Knows are available from Four Way Books. 

[thevulgar]

A POSSUM ENTERING THE ARGUMENT | Tom Healy

We’re talking about

when we met

and you say

it was easier

to fall for me thinking

(I’ll remember

this pause)

it was likely I’d be

dead by now.

Talking. Falling.

Thinking. Waiting . . .

Have I

undone

what you’ve tried to do?

You say no.

You say the surprise

of still being

is something

being built—

the machine of our living,

this saltwork of luck,

stylish, safe,

comfortable and

unintended.

Meanwhile, I haven’t

had the opportunity

to tell you, but

our lovely little dog

has just killed

a possum.

Maybe it’s unfair,

a possum entering

the argument here.

But I lay it down

before us:

because an ugly

dying  possum

played dead

and didn’t run,

its dubious cunning

was brought to an end

outside our door

by our brutal, beautiful

and very pleased

little dog.

So how do I say

that this is not

about death or sadness

or even whether

you really

first loved me

waiting, thinking

I’d be

dying young?

It’s just that

standing there

a few minutes ago

holding a dead possum

by its repellent

bony tail,

I was struck by how

eerily pleased I was

to be a spectator

to teeth, spit,

agony and claw,

feeling full of purpose,

thinking how different

in our adversaries

we are from possums.

We try love—

the fist of words,

their opening hand.

And whether we play

dead or alive,

our pain, the slow

circulation of happiness,

our salt and work,

the stubborn questions

we endlessly

give names to

haunt us with choice.

[tomjhealy]

This are pages from my artist book project, it was my own take on, The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka. Its a concertina book using thin card.

[tomjhealy]

This is some work I did for a social awareness project. I was primarily looking at the affects of desertification in Africa.