Photo Credit: Ira Joel Haber
Hey Kids,
Pattie is in Oddball Magazine,
Check out my poem in the April 29, 2015 edition
Lost Weekend Via The Coney Island Bound D Train
(for David Francis)
dedicated to Brooklyn and #DavidFrancis
Thx Chad Parenteau and Jason Wright
http://oddballmagazine.com/…/…/29/poem-by-patricia-carragon/
Phoenix Reading Series
Sunday, May 24 from 6:30 to 8 p.m.
Peter Blaxill, Rosalie Calabrese,
Patricia Carragon
Left Bank Books
17 Eighth Avenue near West 12th Street,
Greenwich Village, NY 10023
212-924-5638
Hosted by Michael Graves
$5 contribution.
Open Mic
Subways:
A, C, D, E, F to 14th St. 1 to 14 St.
The Brownstone Poets 2015 Anthology
is Here and at Poets House!
| (collage cover design by Bob Heman) |
Thanks to my editorial staff (Cindy Hochman, Amy Barone, Brenda J. Gannam, and Karen Neuberg) for their tireless teamwork in making this project happen. Couldn’t do CreateSpace this year, but once I purchase a new MacBook, I will definitely check this out for next year’s issue with DuEwa Frazier’s guidance.
Alessandra Francesca
Amy Barone
Anoek Van Praag
Austin Alexis
Babette Albin
Baron James Ashanti
Bernard Block
Bill Pyles
Bob Heman
Brenda J. Gannam
Cindy Hochman
David B. Austell
David McLoghlin
Demetrius Daniel
Diane Block
DuEwa Frazier
Edi Holley
Elliot Abosh
Elyzsabeth Ahne
Erica Mapp
Erika Dagnino
Ernest K. Woodley
Evie Ivy
Gordon Gilbert
James McMenamin
Jane Ormerod
Jay Chollick
John A. Todras
John J. Trause
Joseph Charles Rebis Jr.
Karen Neuberg
Linda Lerner
Linda Rothstein
Lorraine Conlin
Madeline Artenberg
Mary Askin-Jencsik
Mireya Pérez
Noel David Cohen
Patricia Carragon
Patricia Spears Jones
Phillip Giambri
Ptr Kozlowski
Richard Fein
Richard Loranger
Ron Kolm
Rosalie Calabrese
Su Polo
Susan H. Maurer
Tina Chan
William Seaton
Yuyutsu RD Sharma
Zev Torres
Copies will be sold at the Brownstone Poets Readings and elsewhere later this Spring.
$7 at the Brownstone Poets Readings.
$8 outside the Brownstone Poets Readings.
Bookstore news to come!
Anthology readings to come in the Fall.
*Will be mailing copies to contributors who still didn’t get their comp copies for 2013 and 2014 later in May. Sorry to be behind due to my crazy hours at my former job, heavy duty foot surgery and recovery, and a bad winter.
Some good news: Starting in May, I will be doing temp work. 🙂
Come see the Brownstone Poets Anthology and other awesome publications at the Annual Showcase at Poets House.
Date and Time:
June 25, 2015 (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 2015 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.
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More Avocet News
Hi Poets and Friends
Pleased to have more Avocet news to share (I’m behind on listing due to my heavy schedule of the Brownstone anthology publishing and other matters):
1- The Weekly Avocet #115, February 25, 2015
I share space with George Held, Joan Vullo Obergh, Karla Linn Merrifield, Leslie Mills, Linda Taylor, Maggie Westland, Mac Greene, Charles Portolano.
against blue-gray sky
featherlike branches
wait for snow
2- The Weekly Avocet #122, April 15, 2015
I share space with Judy Wucherer, Irene Frick, Joan Kantor, Ellen Pickus, Joan Higuchi, Karla Linn Merrifield, Jean Moody, Charles Portolano.
outside Brooklyn homes
silent roars from stone lions
April winds growl and hiss
3- The Avocet A Journal of Nature Poetry, Spring 2015
I share space with Tom Oleszczuk, Bill Carpenter, Carol A. Amato, Mac Greene, Michael Stone, Peter Leverich, M.C. Little, Charles Portolano, and more.
March morning
-bright sky
-winter breeze
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behind iron gates
an ornamental cat rests
casting its shadow
on a garden rock
nearby houses protected
by concrete lions
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outside my window
oak trees too distant
to get personal
Brownstone Poets presents Davidson Garrett, George Held, and Claudia Serea, Saturday, May 2 at 2:30 p.m. 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:
Davidson Garrett
George Held
Claudia Serea
Saturday, May 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
Subways:
Take the A or C to High Street, 2 or 3 to Clark Street
R to Court Street
4 or to 5 Borough Hall
For more directions:
$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
BIOS:
Davidson Garrett trained for the theatre at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and graduated from The City College of New York. He is the author of the poetry and prose collection, King Lear of the Taxi and two chapbooks, To Tell the Truth I Wanted to be Kitty Carlisle and Other Poems, and Southern Low Protestant Departure. In June 2014, he was awarded 1st Place in Juanita Torrence-Thompson International Poetry Contest sponsored by Amulet Poetry Magazine. His spoken word play, Conspiracy Theory: The Mysterious Death of Dorothy Kilgallen, was published in 2015 by the performance arts journal Nerve Lantern.
George Held publishes regularly both online and in print, in such journals as Confrontation, Notre Dame Review, String Poet, and Xanadu. His work has been included in three dozen anthologies and has received 8 Pushcart Prize nominations, and Garrison Keillor read one of George’s poems on A Writer’s Almanac. His recent books include Neighbors 3: The Water Critters (2015), animal poems for children, illustrated by Joung Un Kim, and Culling: New & Selected Nature Poems (2014), which Kirkus Reviews calls “strong . . . a closely observed collection on nature and environmentalism.”
Claudia Serea is a Romanian-born poet who immigrated to the U.S. in 1995. Her poems and translations have appeared in New Letters, 5 a.m., Meridian, Word Riot, Apple Valley Review, and many others. A four-time Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee, she is the author of Angels & Beasts (Phoenicia Publishing, Canada, 2012), The System (Cold Hub Press, New Zealand, 2012), A Dirt Road Hangs From the Sky (8th Publishing, Canada, 2013), To Part Is to Die a Little (Cervena Barva Press, forthcoming), and Nothing Important Happened Today (Boradstone Books, forthcoming). Serea co-hosts The Williams Readings poetry series in Rutherford, NJ, and is the co-founder and translations editor of The National Translation Month. More at cserea.tumblr.co.
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