Happy National Poetry Month from Brownstone Poets!
Join the celebration on Saturday, April 27 at 2 pm ET
for these fabulous featured poets:
Cornelius Eady
Sarah Sarai
Plus a limited open mic. Your $5 contribution keeps our annual anthology in print. Hosted by Patricia Carragon, our Brooklyn girl and Editor-in-Chief.
Please follow the directions below, completing both steps at least two days before the reading to avoid delays entering the meeting room. Note the order of the open mic follows the order of signup. Sign up early to read early in the program. Last-minute signup means you will read at the end of the program. (Note that your contribution is not refundable.)
Please follow these instructions:
Step 1: Make your $5 contribution: https://bit.ly/3bkqFmO
(Note that your contribution is not refundable.)
Step 2: Register in advance for this meeting:
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 April reading.
For your convenience, here is the link to our Facebook event page:
https://www.facebook.com/events/3661184087484052
Cornelius Eady
Poet and cofounder of Cave Canem, Cornelius is the author of several collections of poetry, including Hardheaded Weather (G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 2008); Brutal Imagination (G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 2001), which was a finalist for the 2001 National Book Award in Poetry; The Gathering of My Name (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1991), which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize; and Victims of the Latest Dance Craze (Ommation Press, 1986), which was chosen by Louise Glück, Charles Simic, and Philip Booth for the 1985 Lamont Poetry Selection of The Academy of American Poets. Eady’s honors include the Prairie Schooner Strousse Award, a Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Award, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Rockefeller Foundation. In 2023, he received the Pegasus Award for Service in Poetry, alongside Derricotte. Eady is currently a professor of English and John C, Hodges Chair of Excellence at the University of TN-Knoxville.
Sarah Sarai
Sarah Sarai’s latest collection, Bright-Eyed (Poets Wear Prada), is a version of her family’s move from New York to Los Angeles—the San Fernando Valley, the Crenshaw District, Echo Park; with a time out for San Francisco, where she lived in the Haight with a Bach fanatic and escapee from a Russian prisoner-of-war camp. She is a past recipient of an NEH Fellowship (funding a six-week seminar at Kenyon College); and grants in poetry, fiction, and editorship from both the Seattle and King County Arts Commissions. Her poems are in numerous journals including Threepenny Review, BostonReview, Southampton Review, and Barrow Street. She is currently finalizing her short story collection, It’s People; her novellas: Lucy Needs Work: A Vote for Ross Perot and The Meriweather Treasure; and her novel The To-Do List Manifesto. She’s lived in N.Y.C. for over twenty years, wondering where she really belongs.
Bruce E. Whitacre
Bruce E. Whitacre’s Good Housekeeping,April 2024 from Poets Wear Prada, is a BookLife Reviews Editors Pick. The Elk in the Glade: The World of Pioneer and Painter Jennie Hicks, was also a BookLife Reviews Editors Pick and placed 2nd in Contemporary Poetry at The BookFest Spring 2023. His crown sonnet about the culture of violence won the Nebraska Poetry Society’s 2023 Open Poetry Contest. His poem “Garuda in Forest Park” is part of the 2024 edition of the Queensbound.com project matching poems with subway stops. His poems have appeared in many anthologies and over thirty-five journals. “Leave Meeting” was a sample poem in Diane Lockward’s craft book, The Strategic Poet, Terrapin Books, 2021. He has been nominated for Pushcart and Best of the Net. A Nebraska native and a former theatre executive, he lives with his husband in Queens, NY. More info at www.brucewhitacre.com.
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