May Publication News

 

 

 

 


Happy to announce that I am in Levure littéraire no. 9, a lovely international literary and art e-zine from France.  Kudos to Evie Ivy and Diane and Bernard Block for also being included.  A big thank you to Erika Dagnino for her tireless work in helping to get this beautiful journal together.  Bravo!

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Please check out 


SMALL DREAMS


PICTURE OF LIFE


EMPTINESS


IF A WOMAN—NONET


COMING HOME


SEX AND THE SINGLE POET


Check them out at:
http://levurelitteraire.com/patricia-carragon/

 


  For Evie Ivy

http://levurelitteraire.com/evie-ivy/


For Diane Block

http://levurelitteraire.com/diane-block/

 

For Bernard Block

http://levurelitteraire.com/bernard-block-29/

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BROWNSTONE POETS 2014 ANTHOLOGY

 

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The Brownstone Poets 2014 Anthology is Here!


A labor of love finally happens.


Thanks to my editorial staff (Cindy Hochman, Brenda J. Gannam, and Karen Neuberg) for their tireless teamwork in making this project happen.
Inside this issue:  
A spread dedicated to Ken Siegelman  
A spread dedicated to Special Guest Poet, George Held
Plenty of photos to delight from contributors Brenda J. Gannam, Karen Neuberg, Linda Lerner, Richard Fein, Tina Chan, Carmel Curtis, and Patricia Carragon

 

Poetry from the following contributors who were either featured or supported the series last year:

 

 

ALAN BRAVERMAN                                                                      

aLICE B. TALKLESS                                                                               

ANDREW KAUFMAN                                                                         

ANTHONY VIGORITO                                                                        

AUSTIN ALEXIS                                                                                    

BARBARA SCHWARTZ                                                                     

BERNARD BLOCK                                                                                   

BILL PYLES                                                                                                

BOB HART                                                                                               

BOB HEMAN                                                                                    

BOB QUATRONE                                                                                    

BONI JOI                                                                                              

BRENDA J. GANNAM                                                                       

BRUCE WEBER                                                                                   

CHAD PARENTEAU                                                                       

CINDY HOCHMAN                                                                        

CYNTHIA ATKINS                                                                                   

CYNTHIA TORONTO                                                                       

DAVID ELSASSER                                                                                   

DAVID FRANCIS                                                                                  

DIANE BLOCK                                                                                  

EDI HOLLEY                                                                                    

E.J. ANTONIO                                                                                    

ELLIOT ABOSH                                                                                   

ELYZSABETH AHNE                                                                       

ERIKA DAGNINO                                                                                  

ERNEST K. WOODLEY                                                                      

EVE PACKER                                                                                   

EVIE IVY                                                                                              

FRANK SIMONE

GEORGE H. NORTHRUP                                                                                  

GEORGE SPENCER                                                                      

GORDON GILBERT, JR.  

GREGORY CROSBY                                                             

HELEN PETERSON                                                                      

JAMES ARTHUR                                                                      

JOANNE PAGANO WEBER                                                              

JOEL ALLEGRETTI                                                                                    

JOHN TODRAS                                                            

JOSEPH CHARLES REBIS, JR.

JOSHUA MEANDER                                                                                                                                                         

KAREN NEUBERG                                                                     

KAL ROULSTON

KATRINKA MOORE                                                                       

KRISTIN ROBIE
LINDA LERNER                                                                                  

LINDA ROTHSTEIN                                                                        

MARIA CHISOLM                                                                                  

MARILYN THOMAS-KING                                                          

MARY ASKIN-JENCSIK                                                                       

MAX NEMEROVSKY                                                                       

MIREYA PÉREZ                                                                                    

NICHOLAS JOHNSON                                                                       

NOEL DAVID COHEN                                                                         

PATRICIA CARRAGON                                                                         

PATRICIA EAKINS
PTR KOZLOWSKI                                                                                   

RICHARD FEIN                                                                                     

RON KOLM
RON PRICE
ROSALIE CALABRESE                                                                        

SARAH SARAI                                                                                    

TOM OLESZCZUK                                                                        

ZEV TORRES

                                                                        

 

        

 

I only have a few comp copies to hand out to the contributors due to a broken printer and my upcoming move out of Flushing.  I will be finishing the job shortly after I unpack. Copies will be sold at readings and elsewhere sometime in the summer/fall.  Price to come.
 

Copies are at Poets House for the 22nd Annual Showcase. 

Date and Time: 

Thursday, June 26, 2014 (6 P.M.)

Event Location: 

Kray Hall

Admission: 

Free and open to the public

Please come to Poets House and enjoy the beauty and emotion that is poetry.  It is an honor to have the Brownstone Poets 2014 Anthology displayed at Poets House.

Poets House 10 River Terrace New York, NY 10282 
(212) 431-7920
http://poetshouse.org/


Poets House Directions

SUBWAY Take the 1, 2, 3, A or C lines to Chambers Street Station. Walk west along Chambers and take a left at River Terrace. 


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.

UPDATE FOR BROWNSTONE POETS AT CAFE DADA, TUESDAY, MAY 20TH:

Sorry to report that Eamon Loingsigh won’t be able to attend, but  David McLoghlin and John J. Trause will be at Café Dada on Tuesday, May 20 at 7:30 p.m.  Enjoy the Old World ambiance in Park Slope that’s near several subways.  Feast on French-Hungarian cuisine and delectable pastries.  Relax with some wine or beer, a cup of coffee or tea while listening to great poetry. There’s an open mic as well. Poetry does grow in Park Slope, Brooklyn.

Brownstone Poets presents:

David McLoghlin

John J. Trause

 

Tuesday, May 20, 2013

Starts at 7:30 p.m. – sign up  at 7:15 p.m.

Café Dada

57 Seventh Avenue (at the corner of Lincoln Place)
Park Slope, Brooklyn, NY 11217
718-622-2800

Subways:

2 or 3 to Grand Army Plaza
B or Q to Seventh Avenue
F or G to Seventh Avenue (9th Street)
R to Union Street, plus a bit of a walk.

http://www.hopstop.com/

$4 donation + food/drink – Open-Mic

Curated by Patricia Carragon

pcarragon@gmail.com

brownstonepoets.blogspot.com

patriciacarragon8.wordpress.com/

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

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David McLoghlin, a poet from Ireland, lives in Windsor Terrace since 2012.  He is an M.F.A. candidate at NYU’s Creative Writing Program. His first collection, Waiting For Saint Brendan, was published by Salmon Poetry in 2012.  http://www.salmonpoetry.com/details.php?ID=266&a=227. David’s work is forthcoming in the United States in Harper’s Ferry, Spoon River Poetry Review, Natural Bridge, Black Lawrence Press, and has been published in the USA by the Hopkins Review, Eire-Ireland, Prick of the Spindle, and has appeared in journals of note in Ireland. He has previously read at McNally Jackson, Franklin Park Reading Series, Freerange Nonfiction, Earshot, as well as in venues in Spain, Ireland, and elsewhere in the United States.

 

 

 

 

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John J. Trause, Director of Oradell Public Library, is the author of Eye Candy for Andy (Finishing Line Press, 2013); Inside Out, Upside Down, and Round and Round (Nirala, 2012); Seriously Serial (Poets Wear Prada, rev. ed. 2014); and Latter-Day Litany (Éditions élastiques, 1996), the latter staged Off-Off Broadway. His translations, poetry, and visual work appear internationally in many journals and anthologies, including the artists’ periodical Crossings, the Dada journal Maintenant, and the avant-garde journal Offerta Speciale.  Founder of the William Carlos Williams Poetry Cooperative in Rutherford, N. J. and former curator of its monthly reading series, he was nominated for the Pushcart Prize (2009 – 2011, 2013).

Demetrius Daniel and Bill Pyles, Saturday, June 7 at Park Plaza Restaurant, Sat. June 7 at 2:30 p.m.

Brownstone Poets presents Demetrius Daniel and Bill Pyles, Saturday, June 7 at Park Plaza Restaurant in historic Brooklyn Heights. Enjoy the varied menu at this affordable family-run diner while listening to great poetry. Poetry grows in Brooklyn Heights and there’s an open mic as well.

 

Brownstone Poets presents:

Demetrius Daniel and Bill Pyles

Saturday, June 7 at 2:30 p.m.

Park Plaza Restaurant

220 Cadman Plaza West near Clark St.and Pineapple Walk

Brooklyn, NY 11201 – 718 – 596 – 5900

Subways:

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

4 or  to 5 Borough Hall

For more directions:

http://www.hopstop.com/

$4 Donation – plus Food/Drink – Open-Mic

Curated by Patricia Carragon

pcarragon@gmail.com

 

brownstonepoets.blogspot.com/

patriciacarragon8.wordpress.com/

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

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 Bill Pyles grew up on the farm in Michigan. He started writing verse before he was ten.  Love overpowered him in his early school “daze.” He has a BA and two MAs.  He has taught school for 30 years.  He’s been on the poetry circuit since “way back when” and has published his poems “here and there” in newspapers, magazines, and the poetry circuit presses. Bill has printed three booklets, Boxing, Tissues of Lives, and Under the Influence. He is now working on Flint Farmer’s Market Romance.  

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Poet, musician Demetrius Daniel from Kensington, Georgia, has been a Washington Heights resident since 1990. He began reading poetry in 1996 at Nuyorican Poet’s Cafe. He received mention in a NY Times article (3/20/09), “Where Boundaries Are Melting, a Place to Celebrate Differences.” He has a CD, “Word’s Speak.” Publication credits include Nomad’s Choir Poetry, Brownstone Poets Anthology 2009, and The Cartier Street Review. A featured trombonist on Fred Arcoleo’s CD, “Seeds,” his concept, “Tromboetry” infuses  poetry with trombone riffs Demetrius performs regularly  at “Word Up” bookstore and Nomad’s Choir. A Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance member, he formed and leads the NYC Brass Brothers Band.