April Publication News:
Sensitive Skin Magazine has posted my poem, “Dog-Daze of Summer” on April 2, 2017 for National Poetry Month. Thank you Bernard Meisler and Ron Kolm.
Read it at:
https://sensitiveskinmagazine.com/dog-daze-of-summer-patricia-carragon/
Thank You Rick Lupert of Poetry Super Highway for including my senryu for the 19th annual Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day). This means a lot to me.
Virginia Mariposa Dale and Ron Kolm are also in this issue.
Read it at:
“Little Machines Fill Their Sky” by Bob Heman
First Brownstone Poets 2017 Anthology Book Event
A Celebration of Poetry and Prose from Poets from Brownstone Poets Reading Series Held in Brooklyn Heights
The list of readers from this anthology is growing, as well as the excitement!
Barbara Rosenthal
Bob Heman
Brenda J. Gannam
Cindy Hochman
Daniela Gioseffi
Erica Mapp
Francine Witte
Gabriel Don
James McMenamin
Karen Neuberg
Noel David Cohen
Olivia Wu
Patricia Carragon
Robert Gibbons
Rosalie Calabrese
Sarah Sarai
Steve Dalachinsky
Tina Chan
Yoko Otomo
Zev Torres
Saturday, May 20 at 2:30 p.m.
Park Plaza Restaurant
220 Cadman Plaza West
Brooklyn Hts., NY 11201
718-596-5900
Free Admission— OPEN MIC
SUBWAYS: 2, 3 to Clark St. A, C to High St. 4, 5 to Borough Hall
For more directions:
Please check the MTA’s “The Weekender” for all transit updates.
Brownstone Poets has been inspiring poetry in Brooklyn since 2005. We strive to be unique and diverse, and we welcome a multitude of styles and forms. We would like to thank this year’s sixty-four reader-contributors listed below, as well as our loyal attendees. Without their love for, and dedication to, our reading series, this anthology would not have been possible.
We are proud to have the Himalayan poet Yuyutsu RD Sharma as our poet in residence. We would also like to honor this year’s guest poet, Bruce Weber, and pay tribute to our fellow poets Bill Pyles and Frank Simone, who recently passed away.
This collection of poetry, infused with Brooklyn imagery, is our contribution to the vibrant creative spirit in the borough of Kings.
Planning on the Second Event at the Brooklyn Public Library in Park Slope for September. Stay tuned . . .
Dear Contributors:
you can read at both events if you like. You can read either from the anthology or both. At Park Plaza Restaurant, you can read for three to five minutes, depending on the attendance. Remember, time at the library must be kept to three minutes or less. For those contributors who have never rec’d their comp copy, you can pick it up at any Brownstone Poets reading, etc.
Additional books on sale at the readings for $12
You can order additional books
on Amazon.com for $17.99
Kindle edition for $6.99
A Gentle Reminder
Several friends will be joining Ms. Gioseffi, reading selections from her new book and their own work:
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A poetry reading and meet-and-greet in Brooklyn featuring 15 NYC-based writers against the War on Drugs and its destructive effects on our bodies, our minds and our communities, and honoring Voices Of Community Activists & Leaders (VOCAL-NY), a wonderful grassroots organization committed to empower and help people affected by HIV/AIDS, the drug war and mass incarceration with advocacy and direct services, including needle exchange services and counseling.
Proceeds from ticket sales all go to VOCAL-NY. Get your tickets NOW here at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/verses-against-drug-war-reading-for-vocal-and-harm-reduction-tickets-32398364380 before they are out. If space permits, tickets will also be sold at the door.
Before, between and after sets we would encourage all to meet, talk, engage, and facilitate collaboration with VOCAL staff, the poets, and all others involved. It is our intention to use this event as a vehicle for greater things to come that would unite passionate people towards a common goal.
Plus, food and drinks will be available.
FACEBOOK INVITE:
https://www.facebook.com/events/771470923015678/
Lineup:
Part 1
Eytan Stern Weber
Joanna Valente
Craig Kite
Christoph Carr
Jessica Reidy
Heath Antonio
Special feature: Jawanza James Williams from VOCAL-NY
Part 2
Thomas Fucaloro
Lisa Marie Basile
Brian Sheffield
Yael Baron
Patricia Carragon
Ashley Young
Melissa Hunter Gurney
Dallas Athent
For Immediate Release:
Finishing Line Press Announces the Publication of
INNOCENCE by Patricia Carragon
Georgetown, KY — April 7, 2017 — Finishing Line Press is pleased to announce the publication of Innocence, a new collection of twenty-five poems by Patricia Carragon. Innocence is about how reality burns the “cookie-cutter” expectations of childhood and the “success stories” of adulthood. In several poems, reality is the extension of unescapable nightmares—the ones that hit you in the gut. But reality is also the source for inspiration, humor, hope, dignity, and joy. Ms. Carragon’s words understand the complexities of struggle—words that many of her readers could relate to.
Patricia Carragon has the resilience to overcome obstacles—a fighter who bounces back before the ten count. Amy Barone, author of “Kamikaze Dance”(Finishing Line Press), says, “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.” Cindy Hochman, Editor-in-chief of First Literary Review-East, sums it up: “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.” And lastly, Karen Neuberg, author of “Myself Taking Stage” (Finishing Line Press) and “Detailed Still”(Poets Wear Prada), says, “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.”
Brooklyn writer Patricia Carragon loves cupcakes, chocolate, cats, and haiku. As a child, she’d write and illustrate a make-believe newspaper. However, she wasn’t encouraged to write until the early ’90s when she wrote witty pitches for her Brunch ’n Fun social activities at St. Bartholomew’s Church. One friend encouraged her to explore her literary muse. Another friend said that her eulogy for Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis had poetic resonance.
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.
INNOCENCE can be ordered online at www.finishinglinepress.com or www.amazon.com
$14.99 retail, 44 pages, Finishing Line Press (March 3, 2017)
ISBN-10: 1635341523, ISBN-13: 978-163534152, First Edition
About Finishing Line Press
Finishing Line Press (www.finishinglinepress.com) is an award-winning small press publisher based in Georgetown, Kentucky, USA, which has provided an optimal outlet for poets since 1993.
CONTACTS:
Christen Kincaid, Senior Editor
Finishing Line Press
Phone: 859-514-8966
flpbookstore@aol.com
Finishingbooks@aol.com
Patricia Carragon
pcarragon@gmail.com
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Press Release on PRLOG.COM:
Poetry Grows in Brooklyn Heights 2017
Brownstone Poets Inspiring Brooklyn Since 2005
Brownstone Poets presents Chocolate Waters and Chavisa Woods Saturday, May 6 at 2:30 p.m. at Park Plaza Restaurant in Brooklyn Heights and there’s an open mic as well.
Saturday, May 6
at 2:30 p.m
Chocolate Waters
Chavisa Woods
@ 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/1909877345891126/?active_tab=about
pcarragon@gmail.com
brownstonepoets.blogspot.com/
patriciacarragon8.wordpress.com/
en-gb.facebook.com/people/Brownstone-Poets/541314712
Bios:
Chocolate Waters is a continuously evolving radical feminist poet and celebrant of the new power of the feminine. She began performing her work in the mid ’70s and has toured throughout the U.S. and parts of Canada. Her first three books of poetry are considered classics of the Second Wave, and her latest book, I Was A Closet Woman will be out later this year. She is currently conducting workshops for women on finding the unique truth and beauty in our poetry. Please see what she’s up to at ChocolateWaters.com and friend her on Facebook (she needs more friends!).
Chavisa Woods is the author of three books of fiction: The Albino Album, Love Does Not Make Me Gentle or Kind, and Things to Do when You’re Goth in the Country, which is forthcoming from Seven Stories Press in May, 2017, of which Booklist said, “ This Book is tight, intelligent, and important, and sure to secure Woods a seat in the pantheon of critical twenty-first-century voices.”
Woods has appeared at such notable venues as The Whitney Museum, City Lights Bookstore, Town Hall Seattle, The Brecht Forum, The Cervantes Institute, St. Mark’s Poetry Project, and others. She was the recipient of the 2013 Cobalt Prize for fiction, a finalist (second nomination) for the 2013 Lambda Literary Award for fiction, and a recipient of the Jerome Foundation award for emerging writers in 2009.
Several friends will be joining Ms. Gioseffi, reading selections from her new book and their own work:
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More Publication News:
I’m in The Weekly Avocet #222 for March 15, 2017
the cat enjoys fresh snowfall
but the squirrel hides
under the a/c
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as the kettle boils
snowflakes slide down
the kitchen window
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yellow snow
at the trunk of the tree
doggie’s m.o.
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Kudos to Avocet Poets:
Mike Rydock, Theresa A. Cancro, Ishika Goel, Charlene Babb Knadle, Cristina M. R. Norcross, Emily Harel, Carolyn Clark, Joe Cottonwood, Michael J. Brinkac, Torie Cooper, Charles Portolano
Patricia Carragon's Blog: Words Give Me the Will to Write 