SUMMER BREAK 2011- HAPPY SOLSTICE

BUS The M22 runs along Chambers between North End Ave and the Lower East Side. The M20 travels from the Upper West Side and the southern tip of Battery Park City to North End Ave. The Downtown Connection, a free Lower Manhattan shuttle bus, travels to North End Ave from South Street Seaport and from Broadway along Murray Street; for more information, visit: www.downtownny.com

FERRY Monday through Friday, ferry riders from New Jersey can travel via NY Waterway and disembark at the Port Authority Ferry Terminal at the World Financial Center and walk north to River Terrace.

My Review for Susan Maurer’s Maerchen in the June Issue of Gently Read Literature

Posted on June 2, 2011 by Patricia Carragon

My Review for Susan Maurer’s Maerchen in the June Issue of Gently Read Literature

Maerchen, Susan H. Maurer, Maverick Duck Press, 2008

Mythology, colored by Druid shamans, inspired Susan H. Maurer to document her poetic journey, Maerchen. Like a Celtic design, Maurer’s thirteen poems weave the past into the 21st Century. Her fascination with Celtic history began in the basement of the Jefferson Market Library in Greenwich Village, New York, where she read about the Celts and Druids in The Encyclopedia of Religion. Although the facts of this edition of The Encyclopedia of Religion were questionable according to a revised edition, learning about the myths and poetic traditions sent Maurer on her Celtic quest. (Read more at http://gentlyread.wordpress.com/2011/06/01/through-celtic-eyes-patricia-carragon-on-susan-maurers-maerchen/)

Please also check out Susan Maurer’s Poetry Thin Air Interview on Youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp0RVTsRsYo

Poetry Thin Air Interview – Susan Maurer

www.youtube.com

Revised Schedule For Saturday’s Brownstone Poets

Posted on June 2, 2011 by Patricia Carragon

REVISED SCHEDULE
Poetry Grows in Brooklyn Heights

The Brownstone Poets presents:

Tammy Nuzzo-Morgan

Saturday, June 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

For more directions:

http://www.hopstop.com/

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

Curated by Patricia Carragon email: pattiekake@earthlink.net

pcarragon@gmail.com

http://brownstonepoets.blogspot.com/

https://patriciacarragon8.wordpress.com/

http://myspace.com/pattiekake8

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

BIO:

Tammy Nuzzo-Morgan, the appointed Suffolk County Poet Laureate for 2009 – 2011, is the founder and president of The North Sea Poetry Scene, Inc. and The North Sea Poetry Scene Press. She was nominated for Pulitzer Prize in 2006 for her book, Let Me Tell You Something. She is listed in Poets & Writers. She is also the editor of Long Island Sounds Anthology, the host of TNSPS’s Arts Forum TV Show on CH. 20 on Cablevision in Riverhead, N.Y. and the Lead Poetry Jurist for the East End Arts Council, Riverhead, N.Y. Her four chapbooks are The Bitter, The Sweet, One Woman’s Voice, Let Me Tell You Something and For Michael. Tammy’s fifth chapbook is Life’s a Beach. She hosts a reading in Patchogue.

Patricia Carragon's Blog: Words Give Me the Will to Write

Monthly Archives: June 2011

SUMMER BREAK 2011- HAPPY SOLSTICE

OPEN-MIC READING at Park Plaza Restaurant, Tomorrow, 6/4

The Brownstone Poets 2011 Anthology at Poets House

My Review for Susan Maurer’s Maerchen in the June Issue of Gently Read Literature

Revised Schedule For Saturday’s Brownstone Poets