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Annual Jewish Spoken Word (and more) Evening
Annual Jewish Spoken Word (and more) Evening: A matzoh-ball soup of poetry, fiction, humor and song
Friday, July 19th, 2013
at The Cornelia Street Café
29 Cornelia St., Greenwich Village, NY 10014, (betw. Bleecker & W. 4th Sts.)
6–8:00 P.M. (doors open ~5:45 PM, sign up for limited open-mic)
Host: Madeline Artenberg
$8 admission includes a free drink
Subway: A/B/C/D/E/F/M to West Fourth St. #1 to Christopher St.
For more Travel Info:
Featured Performers:
Poetry:
Madeline Artenberg Patricia Carragon GabrielLevicky Tsaurah Litzky Carol Schoen Sheryl H. Simler Miriam Stanley
Fiction:
Ken Wishnia Steve Wishnia
Song:
Sheryl H. Simler
Humor: Lots of it!
Venue Contact: www.corneliastreetcafe.com, 212-989-9319,
Event Contact: Madeline Artenberg, madderpoet@erols.com
Bios:
Madeline Artenberg’s poetry has appeared in many print and online publications, such as Vernacular and Rattle. She won Lyric Recovery and Poetry Forum prizes and was semi-finalist in the 2005 contest of Margie, The American Journal of Poetry. In 2006, Rogue Scholars Press published Awakened: poems by Madeline Artenberg and poems by Iris N. Schwartz. The play, The Old In-and-Out, based on Madeline’s poetry and Karen Hildebrand’s, directed by Kat Georges, garnered raves in June, 2013.
Patricia Carragon’s publication credits include Best Poem, BigCityLit, CLWN WR, Clockwise Cat, Danse Macabre, Inertia, Möbius,ThePoetryMagazine, Lips, Marymark Press, Mad Hatters’ Review, The Toronto Quarterly, and others. She curates the Brooklyn-based Brownstone Poets and edits its annual anthology. Her latest book is Urban Haiku and More (Fierce Grace Press, 2010).
Gabriel Ariel Levicky was born in the former Czechoslovakia to Holocaust survivors. Inspired by American Beats and music, he embarked on a search, publishing his first book of poetry. In 1979, he escaped to the US. In 1982, he ran poetry readings in San Francisco, got involved with a Beat magazine, Beatitude, and published his second book of poetry, The Unknown Poetry # 2. His poetry collection, B(lack) & W(hite) Wet Paint Poems, was published by Xlibris. He is also author of a farce/lampoon (as Emir Gabpashaberger, the founder and destroyer of Jews For Jihad, orgasmization).
Tsaurah Litzky is an internationally published multi-faceted writer who writes novels, plays, poetry, erotica and commentary. However, poetry is her heart. Her second major collection, Cleaning The Duck , was published by Bowery Books. Audible Book has recently acquired her memoir, Flasher, and a second memoir, Harborview is in the works.
Carol Schoen began writing poetry at the age of 82 and has been chugging along happily ever since, occasionally even getting some poems
Sheryl Helene Simler is an actively-featured, prize-winning poet from NYC. Her work has been widely-published, including a chapbook entitled Parenthesis, put out by Poets Wear Prada, and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Sheryl is also a singer-songwriter, a monologist, an artist and has acted in community-theater groups.
Miriam Stanley has been published in several anthologies and in many online and printed journals. She has two books published: Get Over It and Not to Be Believed. (Rogue Scholars Press). She has performed in Israel and the United States.
Kenneth Wishnia’s novels have been nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award, the Anthony and Macavity Awards, and made “Best of the Year” lists at the Washington Post, Library Journal, and The Jewish Press. His novel The Fifth Servant won a Premio Letterario awarded by the Italian chapter of the Women’s International Zionist Organization. He teaches writing, literature and other deviant forms of thought at Suffolk Community College on Long Island.
Steven Wishnia is a journalist, novelist, and bass player. He is the author of three books, most recently the novel When the Drumming Stops (Manic D Press). His essay/memoir “Wie Bist Die Gewesen Vor Punk-Rock?” is in Jews: A People’s History of the Lower East Side, Vol. 2.
Brownstone Poets Taking the Summer Off
We Are Taking the Summer Off
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Hi Poets and Friends,
Brownstone Poets is taking a Summer hiatus during July and August. But the readings will be back in September.
September 7, 2013: George H. Northrup and Tom Oleszczuk at Park Plaza Restaurant
September 17, 2013: Gregory Crosby and Sarah Sarai at Cafe Dada
(FYI: the Cafe Dada reading will start at 7:30 p.m.with the sign up at 7:15. The open mic will have a 3-minute limit)
Regarding the Brownstone Poets 2013 Anthology Reading:
Will keep you posted on the upcoming anthology reading. Please stay tuned . . .
Yours in Poetry,
Pattie oxox
Poets House Showcase Thursday, June 27 at 6 p.m.
FYI
Attention Brownstone Poets 2013 Anthology Contributors:
I will be bringing several comp copies of the Brownstone Poets 2013 Anthologies to hand out at the showcase opening.
Poets House 21st Anniversary Showcase Opening: Thursday, June 27 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
I’m happy to announce that The Brownstone Poets 2013 Anthology is to be showcased at Poets House.
Please come to Poets House and enjoy the beauty and emotion that is poetry.
Thursday, June 27, 2013 – 6:00 P.M. to 8:00 P.M.
Event Location: Kray Hall
Admission: Free
Opening on Thursday, June 27, 2013, this year’s Showcase will be on view through August 3rd, a free exhibition featuring all of the new poetry books and poetry-related texts published in the United States in the past year from over 650 U.S. publishers—commercial, university, independent, small and micro-presses.
On view: through August 3 during regular library hours
Admission Free
Poets House 10 River Terrace – New York, NY 10282
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.
We Three Productions Reading Series at D.B.A. Mon, June 17 at 8 p.m.
We Three Productions Reading Series at D.B.A. Mon, June 17 at 8 p.m.
Monday, June 17 at 8 p.m.
We Three Productions Reading Series Presents:
Patricia Carragon, Boni Joi, and Lisa Faith Phillips
at
D.B.A.
41 1st Ave.
East Village, NYC-10003
(212) 475-5097
We Three Productions Reading Series at D.B.A. Mon, June 17 at 8 p.m.
Monday, June 17 at 8 p.m.
We Three Productions Reading Series Presents:
Patricia Carragon, Boni Joi, and Lisa Faith Phillips
at
D.B.A.
41 1st Ave.
East Village, NYC-10003
(212) 475-5097
FREE ADMISSION
Take the F Train to Second Ave. B, D, 6 Train to Bway/Lafayette
for more direction info:
LISA FAITH PHILLIPS
Lisa Faith Phillips is a playwright and a comedian and has been participating artist at theatres in New York, London, Barcelona and Findlay, Ohio. Lisa’s musical-comedy self-help lecture Savvy Secrets of Successful Mistresses will open the East to Edinburg Festival at 59E59 Theatres here in NYC July 9-11. Then she will take her one-woman show All-Nude College-Girl Revue or how I made it through the LSE to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival August 19-24. 2013. Find out more at Savvy Secrets.com.
Lisa is Director of Digital Strategy and Development at Hachette Book Group.
Boni joi
Boni Joi has an MFA from Columbia University. Her poems have appeared in Arabella, Long Shot, Boog City Reader, Drivers Side Air Bag, Big Hammer, Mind Gorilla, Lungfull and the Brooklyn Rail. She is also a rotating member of the show mortified and featured on NPR.
Her first book of poetry, “Before, During and After was published in 2012. Boni lives with her husband, musical chef, Tobi Joi in Brooklyn.
PATRICIA CARRAGON
Patricia Carragon is a New York City writer and poet. Her publications include Avocet, Best Poem, BigCityLit, CLWN WR, Chantarelle’s Notebook, Clockwise Cat, Danse Macabre, Ditch Poetry, First Literary Review-East, Inertia, Lips, MÖBIUS, The Poetry Magazine, Marymark Press, Maintenant, Mad Hatters’ Review, The Mom Egg, New Verse News, The Long Island Quarterly, The Toronto Quarterly, Word Salad, and more. She is the author of Journey to the Center of My Mind (Rogue Scholars Press). She is a member of Brevitas, a group dedicated to short poems. She hosts and curates the Brooklyn-based Brownstone Poets and is the editor-in-chief of the annual anthology. Her latest book is Urban Haiku and More (Fierce Grace Press, 2010). For more information, please check out her Web sites at http://brownstonepoets.blogspot.com and at https://patriciacarragon8.wordpress.com/.
Poets House 21st Annual Showcase
Poets House 21st Anniversary Showcase Opening: Thursday, June 27 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
I’m happy to announce that The Brownstone Poets 2013 Anthology is to be showcased at Poets House.
Please come to Poets House and enjoy the beauty and emotion that is poetry.
Thursday, June 27, 2013 – 6:00 P.M. to 8:00 P.M.
Event Location: Kray Hall
Admission: Free
Opening on Thursday, June 27, 2013, this year’s Showcase will be on view through August 3rd, a free exhibition featuring all of the new poetry books and poetry-related texts published in the United States in the past year from over 650 U.S. publishers—commercial, university, independent, small and micro-presses.
On view: through August 3 during regular library hours
Admission Free
Poets House 10 River Terrace – New York, NY 10282
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.
April/May Publication News
Apri/ May Publication News
Hi Poets and Friends,
Sorry to be late on this newsletter, but my poem, “Dance For the Dawn,” is on the Summer Gazebo Readings Blog for April 17
http://summergazeboreadings.blogspot.com/2013/04/patricia-carragon.html
My “Redheaded Tulips” haiku is on The Weekly Avocet #24 along with other nature poems from Helen Peterson, Charles Portolano, Mary Jo Balistreri, and more.
Cheers,
Pattie
Andrew Kaufman and Katrinka Moore at Cafe Dada Tuesday, June 18 at 7 p.m.
Brownstone Poets presents Andrew Kaufman and Katrinka Moore on Tuesday, June 18 at 7 p.m. at Café Dada. Enjoy the Old World ambiance in Park Slope that’s near several subways. Feast on French-Hungarian cuisine and delectable pastries. Relax with some wine or beer, a cup of coffee or tea while listening to great poetry. There’s an open mic as well. Poetry does grow in Park Slope, Brooklyn.
Brownstone Poets presents:
Andrew Kaufman and Katrinka Moore
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Starts at 7 p.m. – Sign up at 6:45 p.m.
Café Dada
57 Seventh Avenue (at the corner of Lincoln Place)
Park Slope, Brooklyn, NY 11217
718-622-2800
Subways:
2 or 3 to Grand Army Plaza
B or Q to Seventh Avenue
F or G to Seventh Avenue (9th Street)
R to Union Street, plus a bit of a walk.
$4 donation + food/drink – Open-Mic
Curated by Patricia Carragon
pcarragon@gmail.com
brownstonepoets.blogspot.com
Andrew Kaufman grew up near NYC, graduated from Oberlin College, earned his MFA in poetry writing from Brooklyn College, and his MA and Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Toronto. His Cinnamon Bay Sonnets won the Center for Book Arts chapbook competition, and was followed by Earth’s Ends, winner of the Pearl Poetry Award. He is the recipient of an NEA award and two Pushcart poetry nominations, and his poems have appeared in numerous journals. He has also published critical work on William Blake, and written for New York Newsday and The Detroit News. His latest book of poems is Both Sides of the Niger (Spuyten Duyvel Press, 2013). The Cinnamon Bay Poems (Rain Mountain Press) is forthcoming in 2014. He lives in New York City and currently teaches literature at SUNY Purchase.
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Katrinka Moore started out as a choreographer and dancer, made a brief foray into performance art, ended up writing poetry, then ventured into making visual poems and collages as well. Recent work appears in MungBeing, Otoliths, and First Literary Review-East. Katrinka is the author of Thief (BlazeVOX, 2009) and This is Not a Story, which won the New Women’s Voices Prize and was published by Finishing Line Press in 2003. She is currently sending out a minimalist epic, Numa, about a shape-shifting creature.
The Brownstone Poets 2013 Anthology
The Brownstone Poets 2013 Anthology is a reality!
Thanks to my editorial staff (Cindy Hochman, Brenda J. Gannam, and Karen Neuberg) for their tireless teamwork in making this project happen.
Inside this issue:
A spread dedicated to Marianne Moore
A spread dedicated to Special Guest Poet, D. Nurkse
Special memorial spreads to honor Brant Lyon, Iris Berman, and Elizabeth Harrington
Over a dozen photos to delight
Poetry from the following contributors:
AMBER ATIYA
amy leigh cutler
Austin Alexis
bernard block
BOB HEMAN
BRENDA J. GANNAM
CAROL WIERZBICKI
CAROLYN OTA
charles j. butler
CINDY HOCHMAN
claudia serea
cynthia toronto
DAVID MESSINEO
diane block
DONALD LEV
donna hunt
ELLIOT ABOSH
ELYZSABETH AHNE
ERNEST K. WOODLEY
EVIE IVY
george held
gordon gilbert, jr.
G.P.A.
hassanal abdullah
JACK E. COOPER
JAMES MCMENAMIN
John Barrale
JOHN A. TODRAS
JOSEPH C. REBIS, JR.
KAREN NEUBERG
KATHRYN M. FAZIO
keisha-gaye anderson
larissa shmailo
leigh harrison
LESLIE PROSTERMAN
LINDA LERNER
LINDA ROTHSTEIN
MARK FOGARTY
MARY ASKIN-JENCSIK
Max Nemerovsky
MICHAEL SCHWARTZ
MICHAEL T. YOUNG
MICHELLE CADETT
MINDY MATIJASEVIC
MIREYA PÉREZ
NATHAN A. VERSACE
Noel DAVID Cohen
PATRICIA CARRAGON
Philip Beitchman
PUMA PERL
RICHARD FEIN
RICHARD LEVINE
ROBERT GIBBONS
ronnie norpel
STEPHEN BLUESTONE
SUSAN KOLODNY
SUSAN MAURER
TIMOTHY GAGER
TINA CHAN
Tony Puma
tsaurah litzky
VALERIE CONTI
velez moore
yuko otomo
ZEV TORRES
Zorida Mohammed
I have just delivered the anthology to Poets House for the annual showcase reading coming up on Thursday, June 27th. Details to come . . .
I have already brought a few comp copies to the recent Cafe Dada reading.
I plan to see the people at BookCourt about selling the anthology copies and to schedule the annual anthology reading for either September or October. Cost information to come for BookCourt and at the readings.
Stay tuned . . .
Ron Kolm, Eve Packer, and Ron Price Bring Downtown Manhattan to Downtown Brooklyn
Brownstone Poets presents Ron Kolm, Eve Packer, and Ron Price on Saturday, June 1 at 2:30 p.m.. at the newly renovated 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:
Ron Kolm, Eve Packer, and Ron Price
Saturday, June 1 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,
4, 5 or R to Court Street, Borough Hall
For more directions:
$4 Donation – plus Food/Drink – Open-Mic
Curated by Patricia Carragon
pcarragon@gmail.com
patriciacarragon8.wordpress.com/
facebook.com/people/Brownstone-Poets/541314712
BIOS:
Ron Kolm is a member of the Unbearables, and an editor of several of their anthologies; most recently, The Unbearables Big Book of Sex! Ron is a contributing editor of Sensitive Skin magazine and a senior editor of the Evergreen Review. He is the author of The Plastic Factory and, with Jim Feast, the novel Neo Phobe. He’s had work recently published in Jeff Wright’s Live Mag!, and Steve Cannon’s Gathering of the Tribes. Ron’s papers were purchased by the New York University library, where they’ve been catalogued in the Fales Collection as part of the Downtown Writers Group.
Eve Packer is a Bronx-born poet/performer who appears solo, with music, in dance and theater. She has published three poetry books—Skulls Head Samba, PLAYLAND: POEMS 1994-2004, and NEW NAILS, all from Fly By Night Press—has four poetry/jazz CDs. She has one son, one daughter in law, and one grandson. Eve Packer lives downtown and swims daily.
Ron Price has published in, among others, The American Poetry Review, Poetry, and Zone 3. He is the author of Surviving Brothers, a chapbook, and A Crucible for the Left Hand. A Small Song Called Ash from the Fire was nominated for a National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. A True Account of the Failure of Bodies to Adequately Burn, a chapbook, came out a few weeks ago.
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