Reminder: Queens Spectacular 3 Tina Chan, Linda Kleinbub, James McMenamin, Susan Weiman

Reminder:

Queens Spectacular 3 at Park Plaza Restaurant

Happy Holidays from Brownstone Poets

 

We are ringing in 2017

 

 

 

 

Saturday, January 7, 2017 at 2:30 p.m. at Park Plaza Restaurant

in historic Brooklyn Heights. Poetry grows in Brooklyn Heights and there’s an open mic as well.

 

 

Saturday, January 7, 2017 at 2:30 p.m


QUEENS SPECTACULAR 3:

 

Tina Chan

Linda Kleinbub

James McMenamin

Susan Weiman

 

 

@ 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 HallFor more directions:

Please check the MTA’s “The Weekender” for all transit updates.

http://web.mta.info/weekender.html


$5 Donation – plus Food/Drink – Open-MicCurated by Patricia Carragon

 

 

FACEBOOK INVITE:

 

https://www.facebook.com/events/1145421192222604/

 

 

 

pcarragon@gmail.com

brownstonepoets.blogspot.com/

patriciacarragon8.wordpress.com/

 

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

 

Bios:

 

 

Tina Chan made her poetry debut in 2009 and has been fortunate to be selected as a feature performer at open-mics.  She has been published in: Alternative New Year’s Poetry Extravaganza Anthology 2016 and 2015; Brownstone Poets Anthology 2016; 2015, 2013, 2012; Nomad’s Choir Poetry Magazine Summer 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012; and Big City Lit Fall 2011. She is a lively spoken word poet whose writing style is a poetic puzzle.  For life’s challenges her mother stated many times:  “when you fall down stand up – stand stronger.” Tina is a full-time civil service employee and part-time poet and Yelper.

 

 

Linda Kleinbub is a volunteer at Girls Write Now. During her lifetime she has been a database programmer, Cub Scout Cubmaster, and mentor. She appeared on the reality TV show 10 Years Younger. She received her MLS from Queens College and her MFA from The New School. Her work has appeared in The New York Observer, The Brooklyn Rail, Yahoo! Beauty, Front Porch Commons, Grabbing the Apple: An Anthology of New York Woman Poets, First Literary Review-East,forthcoming in The Nassau County Poet Laureate Society Anthology 2016 and The Best American Poetry Blog. She is a painter and organic gardener.

 

 

James McMenamin is a familiar face on the poetry scene, as he is celebrating his twentieith year (2017) of reading at open mike venues in N.Y.C. A Queens native, he’s been published in various journals, including Brownstones Poets, Brevitas, Nomad’s Choir, Performance Poets, and others. For the past handful of years, he’s taught writing for new immigrants at Queens Library. Some of his students were selected for publication through NYU’s Literacy review program, as well as Symphony Space. 

 

 

Susan Weiman, writes literary nonfiction, poetry and vignettes. Her work has been published in First Literary Review-East, POST(blank), Citylore.org, run-to-the- roundhouse nellie, Riverside Poets Anthology, Parkside Collective, and formerly on the Home Magazine blog where she wrote about art. Susan is an artist, jewelry maker, and iPhone photographer. She resides in Long Island City.  http://scwnynotebook.blogspot.com

 

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Happy Holidays from Brownstone Poets

Happy Holidays from Brownstone Poets

 

May the season bring peace of mind, joy, and hope.

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by Matsuo Bashō

Winter solitude–

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the sound of wind.

 

 

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2017 Haiku Calendar: with brush calligraphy, photos, and art edited by Mankh (Walter E. Harris), Allbook Books

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Nancy Abraham

Gary Barton

Cliff Bleidner

Elena Botts

Paula Camacho

John P. Cardone

Patricia Carragon

Ghada Chehade

Chris Clendenin

Jeanne Clendenin

Pat Clowery

steve dalachinsky

Betsey Dickerson

Carmela Dolce

Adam D. Fisher

Lynn M. Fornuff

David Fox

Tiokasin Ghosthorse

Geraldine Green

Barbara Harris

Mankh (Walter E. Harris III)

Derek Van Henderiks

Hannah Hildebolt

Linda Marie Hilton

Julio Holgado

Jim Kacian

Bill Kenney

Pola Lanzaro

Maria Manobianco

Sheila Mardenfeld

Roberta A. McQueen

Linda Ranieri Melodia

A. Molotkov

MariJo Moore

Onan Musoy

Christopher A. Nicola

Christine Noguera

Yuko Otomo

Kaveri Patel

Russ Perry

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Tony Quagliano

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Bev Robertson

Narges Rothermel

Will Ryder

Robert Savino

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Keith Simmons

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What they’re saying about Innocence:

Distinguished by subtle story-telling and a deft use of words and metaphor, the poems in Patricia Carragon’s new collection, Innocence, speak to the heart and soul. Vivid backdrops include a Parisian café, the circus, a windswept city day, Coney Island, and a bar full of bird-like characters. Color and nature star in many of the poignant poems that draw on elusive love and the setback of time. The poems’ heroine rarely frets, but accepts conflict and missed connections with grace. Readers will delight in Patricia Carragon’s poems brimming with irony, imagination, and ordinary life gone amok.

—Amy Barone

Author and poet of “Kamikaze Dance”(Finishing Line Press)

With a palette full of confessional colors, and the urgency of Lady Macbeth wailing ‘Out, damned spot,’ Patricia Carragon speaks truth to childhood in a voice that is at once shocking and resonant. While the title of her book is Innocence, these lines are anything but benign. There is, however, a vital remnant of a happy fairytale that survives in Carragon’s poems: the M-A-G-I-C she sprinkles into each and every one of them, reminding us to hold fast to those treasures that give us permission to live happily ever after.

— Cindy Hochman

Editor-in-chief, First Literary Review-East

Patricia Carragon writes with acute sensibility, grace, and pith. She juggles scenes from her life and makes visible what the ‘wind has erased’. Made to feel unworthy and outcast as a child, her self-expression was admonished, and she was forced to keep within the lines. This is a beautiful book of poems about the power of imagination and a resilient spirit that has risen like a phoenix from the ashes of innocence to gift us all with her creative magic.

–– Karen Neuberg

Author, “Myself Taking Stage” (Finishing Line Press)

and “Detailed Still” (Poets Wear Prada)

Who is Patricia Carragon?

Ms. Carragon is an avid writer of short stories, prose, and poetry. Her first book of poems is Journey to the Center of My Mind (Rogue Scholars Press, 2005), followed by Urban Haiku and More (Fierce Grace Press, 2010). The Cupcake Chronicles is forthcoming from Poets Wear Prada. Her publication credits include Allbook Books, The Avocet, BigCityLit, Bear Creek Haiku, Boog City, CLWN WR, Clockwise Cat, Danse Macabre, Drunk Monkeys, Home Planet News, Inertia, Lips, Levure littéraire, Long Island Quarterly, Mad Hatters’ Review, Maintenant, The Mom Egg, Panoply, poeticdiversity, Tribe Magazine, The Toronto Quarterly, Word Salad, Yellow Chair Review, and others. She is a member of brevitas, a group fiercely dedicated to short poems, and is a member of Pen Women’s Literary Workshop and Tamarind. She is one of the Executive Editors for Home Planet News Online.

Ms. Carragon hosts the Brooklyn-based Brownstone Poets and is the editor-in-chief of its annual anthology. Since August 2005, Brownstone Poets still continues to be a safe haven for the written and spoken word. It is an open mic reading held usually on first Saturdays with two or three guest readers.

Queens Spectacular 3 at Park Plaza Restaurant

Happy Holidays from Brownstone Poets

 

We are ringing in 2017

 

 

 

 

Saturday, January 7, 2017 at 2:30 p.m. at Park Plaza Restaurant

in historic Brooklyn Heights. Poetry grows in Brooklyn Heights and there’s an open mic as well.

 

 

Saturday, January 7, 2017 at 2:30 p.m


QUEENS SPECTACULAR 3:

 

Tina Chan

Linda Kleinbub

James McMenamin

Susan Weinman

 

 

@ 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:

Please check the MTA’s “The Weekender” for all transit updates.

http://web.mta.info/weekender.html


$5 Donation – plus Food/Drink – Open-Mic

Curated by Patricia Carragon

 

 

FACEBOOK INVITE:

 

https://www.facebook.com/events/1145421192222604/

 

 

pcarragon@gmail.com

brownstonepoets.blogspot.com/

patriciacarragon8.wordpress.com/

 

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

 

Bios:

 

 

 

 

Tina Chan made her poetry debut in 2009 and has been fortunate to be selected as a feature performer at open-mics.  She has been published in: Alternative New Year’s Poetry Extravaganza Anthology 2016 and 2015; Brownstone Poets Anthology 2016; 2015, 2013, 2012; Nomad’s Choir Poetry Magazine Summer 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012; and Big City Lit Fall 2011. She is a lively spoken word poet whose writing style is a poetic puzzle.  For life’s challenges her mother stated many times:  “when you fall down stand up – stand stronger.” Tina is a full-time civil service employee and part-time poet and Yelper.

Linda Kleinbub is a volunteer at Girls Write Now. During her lifetime she has been a database programmer, Cub Scout Cubmaster, and mentor. She appeared on the reality TV show 10 Years Younger. She received her MLS from Queens College and her MFA from The New School. Her work has appeared in The New York Observer, The Brooklyn Rail, Yahoo! Beauty, Front Porch Commons, Grabbing the Apple: An Anthology of New York Woman Poets, First Literary Review-East,forthcoming in The Nassau County Poet Laureate Society Anthology 2016 and The Best American Poetry Blog. She is a painter and organic gardener.

James McMenamin is a familiar face on the poetry scene, as he is celebrating his twentieith year (2017) of reading at open mike venues in N.Y.C. A Queens native, he’s been published in various journals, including Brownstones Poets, Brevitas, Nomad’s Choir, Performance Poets, and others. For the past handful of years, he’s taught writing for new immigrants at Queens Library. Some of his students were selected for publication through NYU’s Literacy review program, as well as Symphony Space. 

 

 

Susan Weiman, writes literary nonfiction, poetry and vignettes. Her work has been published in First Literary Review-East, POST(blank), Citylore.org, run-to-the- roundhouse nellie, Riverside Poets Anthology, Parkside Collective, and formerly on the Home Magazine blog where she wrote about art. Susan is an artist, jewelry maker, and iPhone photographer. She resides in Long Island City.  http://scwnynotebook.blogspot.com