Long Island Quarterly News

Hey Poets and Friends,

Great to see that the Fall/Winter 2011 Issue of the Long Island Quarterly is up.

My piece, “Scheduled Departures,” is in it.  Check it out at:

http://www.poetrybay.com/liquarterly/liqwinter11/PatriciaCarragon.html

Thank you George Wallace for doing a grand job. 

Kudos to the other contributors:

Ed Stevers	Apollo And Cassandra
Ellen Pickus	Household Accidents
Peter Dugan	Voter Blues
Richard Bronson	Octet For Piccolino And Strings
Alan Semerdjian	Seconds After
Patricia Carragon	Scheduled Departures
Maxine McKenzie-Materowski	(untitled)
Jackie Moss	The Dying That Brings Life
Muriel Harris Weinstein	To Marc Chagall, Who’s Not Afraid Of Whip-lash
Barbara Hoffman	Yellow
Erik Furher	Underworld
Al Ortolani	Old Mr. Ramsey Recalls His Fear of Snakes
Kathaleen Donnelly	Television
Faith Lieberman	Votive
James Bernstein	To My Father
Evelyn Kandel	Reluctant Beginning
Meghan Hunter	Fishing Lessons
Djelloul Marbrook	Air Tea With Dolores
Linda Benninghoff	Dreams Of  The Earth
Tammy Nuzzo Morgan	The White House Hotel
Edward G Luhrs	The Last Thylacine In Captivity
Nancy Keating	Piecing The Quilt
Dd Spungin	My Outside Cats Have Disappeared
Lisa James	Evolving
Barbara Reiher Meyers	Queen Of Chaos Castle
Steven Schmidt	Link
Linda Opyr	In The Moon Of The Blue Owl
Tony Policano	Tinker Bell’s Day Job
Gladys Henderson	Calls Of The Gull
David B Axelrod	A History of Speed

Carragon in Nomad’s Choir Spring Edition

 

Joshua Meander’s poetry journal, NOMAD’S CHOIR, has published “Haircut” in the Spring 2012 Vol. 20 Issue 2 along with such wonderful writers:

Bill Pyles, Sheryl H. Simler, Maria Chisolm, Robert Parody, Frank DeCanio, Marilyn Thomas-King, Matthew Anish, Daniel Z.Chen, Joan Kitcher-White, Tina Chan, John Clinton, Mike Perkins, Lyn Lifshin, and several more.

Get a free copy at Nomad’s Choir at 

Nomad’s Choir Open Mic

Time: every 2nd Saturday of the month at 4 p.m.

Location: 353 West 48 Street between 8 Ave. and 9 Ave

$3 admission

Hosted by Joshua Meander

 

Brownstone Poets 2012 Anthology News

A Labor of Love is Now A Celebration of Love–

the Love of Poetry and Prose. 

 

The
Brownstone Poets 2012 Anthology Book Event

A Celebration
of Poetry in Brooklyn

Sunday, June
24

7 p.m. to
8:30 p.m.

BookCourt

 

 

163 Court
Street

Cobble Hill,
Brooklyn, NY 11201   Phone # (718)
875-3677

http://www.bookcourt.org/

http://www.hopstop.com/search

Take the F or
G to Bergen St., R to Court St.,4 or 5 to Borough Hall

Hosted & Curated by Patricia
Carragon

Admission is Free!

Sorry, this will be not be an open mic event!

The anthologies will sell for $8 at BookCourt.

Copies of the anthologies are with Poets House for the 20th Annual Showcase on Saturday, June 30.  Details to come . . .  

Congrats
to the contributors (the features from last year and the poets who
came to support the Brownstone Poets venues) and the Guest Poet who will be getting their
comp copy.

We are so happy to have in this issue:

Our First Guest Poet:


GEORGE WALLACE

George
Wallace is a regular on the NYC poetry scene, who tours the US and Europe to
read, lecture, and conduct workshops. Writer in Residence at the Walt Whitman
Birthplace, he’s author of 22 chapbooks in the US, UK, Italy, and Greece.  Recent appearances: US: Woody Guthrie
Festival (Okemah, OK); Mabel Dodge Luhan House (Taos, NM); Church of Beethoven
(Albuquerque, NM); Beyond Baroque (Los Angeles, CA); the John Steinbeck Center
(Salinas, CA); Beat Museum (San Francisco, CA); and Lowell Celebrates Kerouac
Festival (Lowell, MA). UK: Robert Burns Centre (Dumfries, Scotland); the Dylan
Thomas Centre (Swansea, Wales); Citizen 32 (Manchester, England); John Ruskin’s
Brantwood (Cumbria, England).

Here’s the current List of Contributors who will come to read and the list is still growing:

AMY HOLMAN

AUSTIN ALEXIS

BERNARD BLOCK

BOB HEMAN

CINDY HOCHMAN

DEAN KOSTOS

DONNA HUNT

ELIZABETH HARRINGTON

ELLIOT ABOSH

EVIE IVY

GAIL FISHMAN GERWIN

IRIS BERMAN

JAMES MCMENAMIN

JOSEPH CHARLES REBIS, JR.

KATHRYN M. FAZIO

LAURA BOSS

LINDA LERNER

MARY ASKIN-JENCSIK

MATTHEW ANISH

MINDY LEVOKOVE

MIREYA PEREZ

PATRICIA CARRAGON

PETER MARRA

RICHARD FEIN

TANTRA-ZAWADI

TINA CHAN

VALERIE CONTI

VELEZ MOORE

VICKI IORIO

ZEV SHANKEN

ZEV TORRES

Al Ortolani and Vincent Quartroche at the Linger Cafe and Lounge Tuesday 6/19 at 7 p.m.

Patricia Carragon Has A Jewish Memoir

Just heard that my six-word memoir, “I’d prefer more gelt than guilt,” has been published in Smith Magazine’s Six-word Memoirs on Jewish Life. 

For more details on the book, go to the link below:

http://www.smithmag.net/books/

G.P.A., Donald Lev and Linda Lerner at Park Plaza Restaurant, Sat, June 2 at 2:30 p.m.

Poetry Grows in Brooklyn Heights

The Brownstone Poets presents:

G.P.A., Donald Lev and Linda Lerner

Saturday, June 2 at 2:30 p.m.

Park Plaza Restaurant

220 Cadman Plaza West near Clark St.and Pineapple Walk

Brooklyn, NY 11201 – 718 – 596 – 5900

Take the A or C to High Street, 2 or 3 to Clark Street,

4, 5 or R to Court Street, Borough Hall

For more directions:

http://www.hopstop.com/

$3 Donation – plus Food/Drink – Open-Mic

Curated by Patricia Carragon email:

pcarragon@gmail.com

http://brownstonepoets.blogspot.com/

http://patriciacarragon8.wordpress.com/

http://myspace.com/pattiekake8

http://en-gb.facebook.com/people/Brownstone-Poets/541314712

BIOS:

 

 

G.P.A.
is a Poet and Author from the south
side of Chicago. He has written three books of Poetry, The Confessional
Heart of a Man, The Book of 24 Orgasms,
and The Mind of a Poetic Unsub. He is
the 2012 winner of the Black Essence Award for Poetry and Charity and is
currently nominated for Poet of the Year. Currently, he is finishing a
children’s book of Poetry entitled Remembrances of a Black Boy. 

Donald
Lev continues to publish Home Planet
News, the newsprint literary review he
and his late wife, the poet Enid Dame founded in 1979. The latest collections
of his poetry are The Darkness Above: Selected Poems 1968-2002 (Red Hill, 2008), a chapbook, Only Wings (Presa, 2010), and A Very Funny Fellow (NYQ Books, 2012).

 

Linda
Lerner was born and educated in New
York City; New York Quarterly Books published her most recent collection, Takes
Guts & Years Sometimes June 2011.
 http://www.nyqbooks.org/title/takesgutsandyearssometimes. She’s previously published thirteen collections of
poetry several of which were Small Press Reviews’ Picks). she’s been nominated twice for a pushcart prize. In
1995 she and Andrew Gettler began Poets  on the Line, (http://www.echony.com/~poets)
the first poetry anthology on the Net for which she received two grants. She’s
been published in hundreds of journals, several anthologies and has read widely
across the U.S. 

 

 

The Brownstone Poets 2012 Anthology Book Event, Sunday June 24

A Labor of Love is Now A Celebration of Love–

the Love of Poetry and Prose. 

 

The

Brownstone Poets 2012 Anthology Book Event

A Celebration

of Poetry in Brooklyn

Sunday, June 24

7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

BookCourt

163 CourtStreet

Cobble Hill,

Brooklyn, NY 11201  

Phone # (718) 875-3677

http://www.bookcourt.org/

http://www.hopstop.com/search

Take the F or
G to Bergen St., R to Court St.,4 or 5 to Borough Hall

Hosted & Curated

by Patricia Carragon

List of readers, plus the cost of the anthologies at BookCourt to come. . .

Will bring copies to Poets House for the Annual Showcase.  Details to come . . .  

Congrats
to the contributors (the features from last year and the poets who
came to support the Brownstone Poets venues) and the Guest Poet who will be getting their
comp copy.In this issue:

Our Guest Poet:

GEORGE WALLACE

 

A Special Tribute to Hart Crane

The List of Contributors:

AMY HOLMAN

AUSTIN ALEXIS

BARBARA HANTMAN

BERNARD BLOCK

BOB HEMAN

BRANT LYON

BRENDA J. GANNAM

CAROLYN OTA

CINDY HOCHMAN

DAVID LAWTON

DEAN KOSTOS

DEBORAH HAUSER

DONNA HUNT

DUBBLEX

ELIZABETH HARRINGTON

ELLIOT ABOSH

ELYZSABETH AHNE

ERNEST KYLE WOODLEY

EVIE IVY

G.E. SCHWARTZ

GAIL FISHMAN GERWIN

GEORGE SPENCER

GREGORY VINCENT ST. THOMASINO

IRIS BERMAN

JACOB VICTORINE

JAMES MCMENAMIN

JEFFREY CYPHERS WRIGHT

JOHN A. TODRAS

JOSEPH CHARLES REBIS, JR.

JOY LEFTOW

JUDY KAMILHOR

KAREN NEUBERG

KATHERINE A. HOGAN

KATHRYN M. FAZIO

LAURA BOSS

LINDA CARTER BROWN

LINDA LERNER

LINDA ROTHSTEIN

MARY ASKIN-JENCSIK

MATTHEW ANISH

MAX NEMEROVSKY

MINDY LEVOKOVE

MIREYA PEREZ

MOLLY PEACOCK

PATRICIA CARRAGON

PETER MARRA

RICHARD FEIN

RICHARD MARX WEINRAUB

SHONDA BUCHANAN

SWETA SRIVASTAVA VIKRAM

TANTRA-ZAWADI

TINA CHAN

TOM OLESZCZUK

VALERIE CONTI

VELEZ MOORE

VICKI IORIO

VIRGINIA CRAWFORD

YUYUTSU RD SHARMA

ZEV SHANKEN

ZEV TORRES

Philip Beitchman and Michael Schwartz at Linger Cafe and Lounge Tues, May 15

Poetry Grows In Boerum Hill

The Brownstone Poets Presents:

Philip Beitchman and Michael Schwartz

Tuesday, May 15

Starts at 7p.m. – Sign up at 6:45 p.m.

The Linger Café and Lounge

533 Atlantic Ave. (between 3rd and 4th Avenues)

Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, NY 11217
(347) 689-4813Take the N, R, or D to Atlantic Avenue/Pacific Street
2, 3, 4, 5, B, or Q to Atlantic Avenue
F to Jay Street and change for the R at Metro Tech and get off at Avenue/Pacific Street
G to Hoyt-Schermerhorn and walk along Hoyt Street to Atlantic Avenue

http://www.hopstop.com/

$3 donation + food/drink (wine and beer available) – Open-Mic

Curated by Patricia Carragon

pcarragon@gmail.com

http://brownstonepoets.blogspot.com/

http://patriciacarragon8.wordpress.com/

http://myspace.com/pattiekake8

http://en-gb.facebook.com/people/Brownstone-Poets/541314712

Bios:

A scholar, translator and teacher, Philip Beitchman, born in 1939, published four monographs in the humanities: I Am A Process With No Subject (University Press of Florida, 1988); Alchemy of the Word: Cabala of the Renaissance (SUNY Press, 1998); The View From Nowhere: Essays in Mysticism, Literature and Philosophy (University Press of America, 2001); and translated many others, including works by Jean Baudrillard (Simulations, Fatal Strategies), Paul Virilio (Aesthetics of Disappearance) and Robert Redeker (Depression and Philosophy).  His recent publications are the Theatre of Naturalism: Disappearing Act (Peter Lang, 2011) and Getting Back, his first book of poetry (2011, Lulu).

Michael Schwartz is an artist of the page, stage, and screen, and is also a college professor.  Among the awards he’s won for his writing, was the Interpreting Brooklyn grant from the Brooklyn Historical Society, for his poems, short stories, monologues, and songs.  One of his poems will be published in the upcoming Spiny Babbler, an anthology book of New York poets.  Schwartz has been performing his work on a continuing tour throughout the land often on the sand at the edge of the sea.

Pattie’s Birthday at The New York Poetry Forum Sat, May 12 at 2 p.m.

Pattie’s having a birthday and come celebrate with her 

@ The New York Poetry Forum

Saturday, May 12, 2012 at 2 p.m.

© http://werenotmommyblogs.blogspot.com/2012/04/happy-birthday-katie.html
Lecture by George H. Northrup. 

Poetry by Juanita Torrence-Thompson, Patricia Carragon, 

 Jay Chollick, and Anthony Taylor. 

Also classical music.

NY Poetry Forum, Soldier’s Sailors, Marines building

 
283 Lexington Avenue between 36 & 37 Streets, NYC – 10016 

2nd floor 
Open Mic 

http://www.hopstop.com/search

$3 for Members, $4 for Non-members 

Hosted by Daniel Fernandez

Subway

6 to 33rd street

Some Photos Taken at the First Brownstone Poets Reading at the Linger Cafe and Lounge

Pictures from the new “Brownstones” venue at the Linger Cafe and Lounge (http://lingercafelounge.com/) held back on Tuesday, February 21.   Due to two previous cancellations, we finally were able to have Amy Leigh Cutler and Ronnie Norpel deliver their “Girl Power” performances for the Brownstone Poets.  It was a BIG WOW OF A SHOW!

So please mark your calendars for the third Tuesday of the month and come to Brooklyn for great poetry, food, and fun.

The Linger Cafe and Lounge is located near Downtown Brooklyn and is convenient to subways.


The Linger Cafe and Lounge
533 Atlantic Ave.
Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, NY 11217

SUBWAYS:

N, R, D to Atlantic/Pacific

2, 3, 4, 5, B, Q to Atlantic
G to Hoyt-Schermerhorn
F to Jay/transfer to R

Ronnie Norpel, Patricia Carragon, and Amy Leigh Cutler

Ronnie’s display of “Girl Power”

Amy’s take on “Girl Power”

  

 

Jessica Pichardo, the Mistress of Culinary Delights

Zev Torres and Tina Chan sofa it up

Karen Neuberg, one of the Brownstone Poets editors, reads

Room with a view

Amy with Thomas Fucaloro

John A. Todras reads

Zev in action

Richard Fein listens

Bob Heman informs

Brant Lyon captivates

Ernest K. Woodley inspires

Pattie has wine

Editors, Brenda J. Gannam and Karen Neuberg show off the 2012 Brownstone Poets Anthology

Tina and Pattie smile for the camera