The 19th Annual Brevitas Festival of the Short Poem HYBRID Event featuring poets LIVE & VIRTUALLY Sunday, November 6, 2022 • 1:30 – 4:30 pm The Bowery Poetry Club (aka Duane Park)
308 Bowery (between Bleecker & Houston), New York, NY 10012
Poet-members Jim Pignetti and Steve Zeitlin (founder of City Lore) launched Brevitas when they invited a small circle of poet-friends to email original, short poems (14 lines max) to each other on the 1 st and 15 th of each month. Now in its nineteenth year, this community has grown to over 50 poets, and a dynamic incubator of new work. This annual festival is a performance plus book party for the release of the 2022 Brevitas 19 Anthology of the Short Poem featuring a selection of each member-poet’s selections from the year’s exchange. Flash Rosenberg will host. Poems will be projected. Words will gush with pith, piety, and playfulness. Books will be signed.
Plus a limited open mic. Your $5 contribution keeps our annual anthology in print and pays our features. Hosted by Patricia Carragon, our Brooklyn girl and Editor-in-Chief.
Step 3: After making your contribution and completing your registration, you will receive a confidential confirmation email containing your unique link to join the event.
Looking forward to seeing you at our October reading!
For your convenience, here is the link to our Facebook event page:
Amy Barone’s new poetry collection, Defying Extinction, was published by Broadstone Books in 2022. New York Quarterly Books released her collection, We Became Summer, in 2018. She wrote chapbooks, Kamikaze Dance (Finishing Line Press) and Views from the Driveway (Foothills Publishing.) Her poetry has appeared in Local Knowledge, New Verse News, Paterson Literary Review, Sensitive Skin, and Standpoint (UK), among other publications. Barone spent five years as Italian correspondent for Women’s Wear Daily and Advertising Age. She belongs to the Poetry Society of America and the brevitas online poetry community. From Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, she lives in New York City.
Susana H. Case
Susana H. Case is the author of eight books of poetry, most recently The Damage Done (Broadstone Books, 2022). Dead Shark on the N Train (Broadstone Books, 2020) won a Pinnacle Book Award for Best Poetry Book and a NYC Big Book Award Distinguished Favorite and was a Finalist for the Eric Hoffer Book Award. She is also the author of five chapbooks. Her first collection, The Scottish Café (Slapering Hol Press) was re-released in a dual-language English-Polish version, Kawiarnia Szkocka (Opole University Press). Her work has also been translated into Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese. Case’s poems have appeared in CALYX, Catamaran, The Cortland Review, Portland Review, Rattle, RHINO, upstreet, and many other journals. She is a co-editor of Slapering Hol Press.(www.susanahcase.com).
Margo Taft Stever
Margo Taft Stever’s three full-length poetry collections are The End of Horses, Broadstone Books, 2022; Cracked Piano (CavanKerry Press, 2019), shortlisted and honorable mention for the 2021 Eric Hoffer Award Grand Prize, which was one of three winners of the 2022 Pinnacle Achievement Book Award in Poetry; and Frozen Spring, 2002 Mid-List Press First Series Award for Poetry. Her latest of four chapbooks is Ghost Moose (Kattywompus Press, 2019). Her poems have appeared in literary magazines including Verse Daily, Plant-HumanQuarterly, Cincinnati Review, Rattapallax, upstreet, Salamander, West Branch, Poet Lore, Blackbird, Poem-A-Day, poets.org, Academy of American Poets, and Prairie Schooner. She is founder of the Hudson Valley Writers Center and founding and current co-editor of Slapering Hol Press.www.margotaftstever.com.
Plus a limited open mic. Your $5 contribution keeps our annual anthology in print and pays our features. Hosted by Patricia Carragon, our Brooklyn girl and Editor-in-Chief.
Step 3: After making your contribution and completing your registration, you will receive a confidential confirmation email containing your unique link to join the event.
Looking forward to seeing you at our October reading!
For your convenience, here is the link to our Facebook event page:
Amy Barone’s new poetry collection, Defying Extinction, was published by Broadstone Books in 2022. New York Quarterly Books released her collection, We Became Summer, in 2018. She wrote chapbooks, Kamikaze Dance (Finishing Line Press) and Views from the Driveway (Foothills Publishing.) Her poetry has appeared in Local Knowledge, New Verse News, Paterson Literary Review, Sensitive Skin, and Standpoint (UK), among other publications. Barone spent five years as Italian correspondent for Women’s Wear Daily and Advertising Age. She belongs to the Poetry Society of America and the brevitas online poetry community. From Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, she lives in New York City.
Susana H. Case
Susana H. Case is the author of eight books of poetry, most recently The Damage Done (Broadstone Books, 2022). Dead Shark on the N Train (Broadstone Books, 2020) won a Pinnacle Book Award for Best Poetry Book and a NYC Big Book Award Distinguished Favorite and was a Finalist for the Eric Hoffer Book Award. She is also the author of five chapbooks. Her first collection, The Scottish Café (Slapering Hol Press) was re-released in a dual-language English-Polish version, Kawiarnia Szkocka (Opole University Press). Her work has also been translated into Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese. Case’s poems have appeared in CALYX, Catamaran, The Cortland Review, Portland Review, Rattle, RHINO, upstreet, and many other journals. She is a co-editor of Slapering Hol Press.(www.susanahcase.com).
Margo Taft Stever
Margo Taft Stever’s three full-length poetry collections are The End of Horses, Broadstone Books, 2022; Cracked Piano (CavanKerry Press, 2019), shortlisted and honorable mention for the 2021 Eric Hoffer Award Grand Prize, which was one of three winners of the 2022 Pinnacle Achievement Book Award in Poetry; and Frozen Spring, 2002 Mid-List Press First Series Award for Poetry. Her latest of four chapbooks is Ghost Moose (Kattywompus Press, 2019). Her poems have appeared in literary magazines including Verse Daily, Plant-HumanQuarterly, Cincinnati Review, Rattapallax, upstreet, Salamander, West Branch, Poet Lore, Blackbird, Poem-A-Day, poets.org, Academy of American Poets, and Prairie Schooner. She is founder of the Hudson Valley Writers Center and founding and current co-editor of Slapering Hol Press.www.margotaftstever.com.
Plus a limited open mic. Your $5 contribution keeps our annual anthology in print and pays our features. Hosted by Patricia Carragon, our Brooklyn girl and Editor-in-Chief.
Step 3: After making your contribution and completing your registration, you will receive a confidential confirmation email containing your unique link to join the event.
Looking forward to seeing you at our October reading!
For your convenience, here is the link to our Facebook event page:
Amy Barone’s new poetry collection, Defying Extinction, was published by Broadstone Books in 2022. New York Quarterly Books released her collection, We Became Summer, in 2018. She wrote chapbooks, Kamikaze Dance (Finishing Line Press) and Views from the Driveway (Foothills Publishing.) Her poetry has appeared in Local Knowledge, New Verse News, Paterson Literary Review, Sensitive Skin, and Standpoint (UK), among other publications. Barone spent five years as Italian correspondent for Women’s Wear Daily and Advertising Age. She belongs to the Poetry Society of America and the brevitas online poetry community. From Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, she lives in New York City.
Susana H. Case
Susana H. Case is the author of eight books of poetry, most recently The Damage Done (Broadstone Books, 2022). Dead Shark on the N Train (Broadstone Books, 2020) won a Pinnacle Book Award for Best Poetry Book and a NYC Big Book Award Distinguished Favorite and was a Finalist for the Eric Hoffer Book Award. She is also the author of five chapbooks. Her first collection, The Scottish Café (Slapering Hol Press) was re-released in a dual-language English-Polish version, Kawiarnia Szkocka (Opole University Press). Her work has also been translated into Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese. Case’s poems have appeared in CALYX, Catamaran, The Cortland Review, Portland Review, Rattle, RHINO, upstreet, and many other journals. She is a co-editor of Slapering Hol Press.(www.susanahcase.com).
Margo Taft Stever
Margo Taft Stever’s three full-length poetry collections are The End of Horses, Broadstone Books, 2022; Cracked Piano (CavanKerry Press, 2019), shortlisted and honorable mention for the 2021 Eric Hoffer Award Grand Prize, which was one of three winners of the 2022 Pinnacle Achievement Book Award in Poetry; and Frozen Spring, 2002 Mid-List Press First Series Award for Poetry. Her latest of four chapbooks is Ghost Moose (Kattywompus Press, 2019). Her poems have appeared in literary magazines including Verse Daily, Plant-HumanQuarterly, Cincinnati Review, Rattapallax, upstreet, Salamander, West Branch, Poet Lore, Blackbird, Poem-A-Day, poets.org, Academy of American Poets, and Prairie Schooner. She is founder of the Hudson Valley Writers Center and founding and current co-editor of Slapering Hol Press.www.margotaftstever.com.
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