The Brownstone Poets 2010 Anthology Reading
will be held at BookCourt
Monday, September 13 at 7 P.M.
Limited Open Mic – Free Admission
BookCourt
163 Court Street
Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, NY 11201
Phone # (718) 875-3677
http://www.bookcourt.org/
Take the F or G to Bergen St., R to Court St.,4 or 5 to Borough Hall
Poetry Grows in Ft. Greene
The Brownstone Poets presents:
KAT GEORGES
Tuesday, September 21 at Tillies of Brooklyn
Starts at 7p.m. – Sign up at 6:45p.m. – We must be out by 9p.m.
Tillies of Brooklyn
248 DeKalb Ave. (corner of Vanderbilt and DeKalb)
Brooklyn, NY 11205 Phone # (718) 783-6140
Take the J, R or Q trains to DeKalb Avenue, the C to Lafayette, the G to Clinton/Washington
2, 3, 4, 5 to Nevins St.
$3 Donation – plus Food/Drink – Limited Open Mic – one poem (3-minute limit)
Curated by Patricia Carragon email: pattiekake@earthlink.net
http://brownstonepoets.blogspot.com/ https://patriciacarragon8.wordpress.com/ http://myspace.com/pattiekake8 http://en-gb.facebook.com/people/Brownstone-Poets/541314712
Bios:
Janice Brabaw is the critically acclaimed author of two collections of poetry – Universe, Disturbed and Tongue for Folie. She is the editor of The Best of Stain anthologies and was the host of the Stained Glass Confessional and An Echo, A Stain reading series. Janice has performed at The Bowery Poetry Club, Otto’s Shrunken Head, The Inspired Word, Soule Series, and the Library Lounge series at Telephone Bar. Her work has appeared in Poesis, smoke, Violent Femininity – A Journal of Female Poets, The Toronto Quarterly, Ophelia Street, The Record, and The Cartier Street Review.
Poet, playwright and director Kat Georges wrote and directed 15 plays during her 10-year tenure as artistic director of San Francisco’s Marilyn Monroe Memorial Theater, including SCUM: The Valerie Solanas Story, Paglia in Persona (a deconstruction of Camille Paglia), and Art was Here (inspired by Dada founder Arthur Cravan). Her poetry appears in The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry (Thunder’s Mouth Press) and The Verdict is In (Manic D Press, also editor). Kat has three collections of her poetry, Punk Rock Journal, Maiden Claiming and Slow Dance at 120 Beats a Minute (all Three Rooms Press). In New York since 2003, she has directed numerous Off-Broadway plays, including most recently Jack Kerouac: Catholic and Twitter Theater, both written by award- winning playwright Larry Myers, and Sarah’s Choice, by Peter Carlaftes. For more information, visit http://threeroomspress.blogspot.com/
Poetry Grows in Brooklyn Heights
The Brownstone Poets presents:
GEORGE DICKERSON
RICHARD LEVINE
CARL ROSENSTOCK
Saturday, September 4 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
$3 Donation – plus Food/Drink – Open Mic
Curated by Patricia Carragon email: pattiekake@earthlink.net
http://brownstonepoets.blogspot.com/ https://patriciacarragon8.wordpress.com/ http://myspace.com/pattiekake8 http://en-gb.facebook.com/people/Brownstone-Poets/541314712
Bios:
George Dickerson’s poetry has been published in The New Yorker, Mademoiselle, Nadada, Pivot, Medicinal Purposes Literary Review, Rattapallax and other publications, and are collected in George Dickerson: Selected Poems 1959-1999 (Rattapallax Press, New York, 2000). His short fiction has appeared in The Best American Short Stories of 1963 and 1966, Penthouse and Rattapallax. He has written novels, screenplays and plays, including his one-man drama, “A Few Useless Mementos for Sale” which has been produced on stage in New York and Hollywood. George is founding editor-in-chief of the literary journal, Rattapallax, and has been on the staff of The New Yorker, and was Managing Editor of Cavalier, and Contributing Editor of Time, in which he published more than 200 articles and reviews. George’s acting career on stage and screen includes Blue Velvet and After Dark, My Sweet.
Richard Levine is the author of That Country’s Soul, (Finishing Line Press, 2010), A Language Full of Wars and Songs (Pollack Press, 2004), and Snapshots from a Battle (Headwaters Press/BigCityLit 2001). An as yet unpublished manuscript has been finalist or semi-finalist for Ohio State Press/The Journal Poetry Book Award and the University of Arkansas Press Miller Williams Poetry Prize. A recently retired public school teacher, he is learning to steward a forest and dirt.
Carl Rosenstock was born in Albany, New York, and grew up on a farm near there. He received a B.A. in Asian History from Union College, and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Vermont College. He lives and works on the westernmost end of Long Island, in Brooklyn, New York. His work has appeared in various magazines and anthologies; he helped curate the Village Reading Series, and then curated the Night-&-Day Reading Series; and he is on the editorial board of Memoir (and).
I’m happy to announce that two haiku from my new book, “Urban Haiku and More,” (Fierce Grace Press, 2010) will be in the 2011 Haiku Calendar published by http://www.allbook-books.com
The poems are:
gentle snowfall
beauty comes before
the slush
the year ends
a prayer for peace
at midnight
Featured poems by:
Geri Barton, Clif Bleidner, Paula Camacho, Edgar Carlson, Patricia Carragon, Steve Dalachinsky, Robert Epstein, Stacey Gunnard, Mankh (Walter E. Harris III), Patrice Hasbrook, Han Henderiks, Bill Kenney, Alan Lebow, Maria Manobianco, Sheila Mardenfeld, A. Molotkov, George H. Northrup, Russ Perry, Russell Salamon, Keith Simmons, Bob Stone, Patti Tana, J R Turek, Jamie White, Kay J. Wight, Ginger Williams, Bill Zavatsky.
For more information, contact:
Saturday, September 18 Pedestal Event Hosted by John Amen
KGB Bar
85 East 4th Street near 2nd Avenue
New York, NY 10003-8904
(212) 505-3360
Subway: 6 train to Astor Pl-8th St
The event will start at 7PM
Admission is FREE!
Set 1:
1. Jackie Sheeler
2. Gerald McCarthy
3. Chavisa Woods
4. Raymond Hammond
5. Patricia Carragon
6. George Wallace
10-15 minute break
Set 2:
1. Alan Semerdjian
2. Juanita Torrence-Thompson
3. Christine Boyka Kluge
4. Ted Jonathan
5. Yolanda Coulaz
6. Su Polo
Come Comrades and enjoy!!!
Check out the KGB web site at:
Patricia Carragon's Blog: Words Give Me the Will to Write 
