Reminder: Brownstone Poets on Zoom: Robert Anthony Gibbons, Felicia Sherelle, Felicia Cade, Sat, March 25 at 2 p.m. EST

You’re invited to Brownstone Poets, the last Saturday of the month,

Saturday, March 25 from 2 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. EST

for our next installment of Brownstone Poets with our rockstar features:

Robert Anthony Gibbons

Felicia Sherelle

Felicia Cade 

$5 ticket purchase and advance registration required.

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.

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:

https://bit.ly/3hnpy8D

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.

Visit our FB event page at https://fb.me/e/2mW4wt096 or DM @herbf533 or @patriciacarragon for the how tos. Please sign up early to secure a first come first serve slot at our open.

Looking forward to seeing you at our reading!

Bios:

Robert Anthony Gibbons has been nominated for a Pushcart for his poem, “ a self-taught genius” by great weather for MEDIA, Robert has been published in hundreds of literary magazines and in several notable anthologies. Recent publication credits include Killens Review, Tribes, Involuntary Magazine, Peregrine, Expound, Promethean, Turtle Island Quarterly, Killer Whale, and Suisun Valley Review, Voices of Lefferts and the Bronx Memoir Project: Vol. 2 published by the Bronx Council of the Arts, Inner Child Press. Robert’s first collection, Close to the Tree published by Three Rooms Press, 2012, and his chapbook, Flight, published by Poets Wear Prada in 2019. His latest is a collaboration between Brooklyn-based artist Amy Williams, titled, Some Little Words (2022). It is a collection of erasure and ekphrastic poems in tribute to Zora Neale Hurston.

Felicia Sherelle is an author, poet, workshop leader, and writing and publishing consultant. She is founder of Felicia IN Print, providing services like editing, ghostwriting, and blogging. She is the Communications Officer for Arts Reforming Communities, a not for profit dedicated to transforming neighborhoods through the arts. She is the Vice President of Word Seed Inc., a literary arts organization dedicated to fusing all things community and all things WORDs, through youth programs, poetry workshops and features, and its annual production of the Paterson Poetry Festival. Felicia is a performance poet, featuring high energy and diverse topic poetry through Passaic County Community College’s TAPP program. She utilizes her background in child advocacy for interactive youth poetry workshops, as well as school culture and climate workshops for students, and professional development for staff.

Felicia Cade, international poet, author, and activist, was born and raised in Long Beach, Ca. Felicia has been named one of LA County’s most prominent poets and grown a city-wide reputation as “The voice of the movement.” She recently moved to New York after touring in England and has quickly become a hometown favorite. Felicia has a powerful stage presence, and her words are both captivating and thought-provoking.

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Rockstar Writers, Bruce Whitacre, Patricia Carragon, Roxanne Hoffman at First Floor Walk Up Reading, Monday, March 13 at 6:30 p.m.

Come see three rockstar writers:

Bruce Whitacre

Patricia Carragon

Roxanne Hoffman

Monday, March 13^th, 6:30 PM

First Floor Walk Up Presents Readings of
Poetry and Prose at
P&T Knitwear Books and Cafe
180 Orchard St. (between Houston and Stanton)
F Train to 2nd Ave Station

FREE

Hosted by Wayne Kral

Link to Facebook event:

https://facebook.com/events/s/first-floor-walk-up-presents-r/758763338856307/

Bios:

Patricia Carragon

Patricia Carragon’s most recent publications include Arriving at a Shoreline Anthology (great weather for MEDIA, 2022), Bear Creek Haiku, Beat Generation Anthology 2022, Clockwise Cat, I Wanna Be Loved by You: Poems on Marilyn Monroe, Jerry Jazz Musician, Moonstone Press, Out Loud, an LGBTQA Literary Arts Anthology (Red or Green Books), The Rutherford Red Wheelbarrow anthology, When Women Speak Poetry Anthology, Vol. 1, et al. Her debut novel, Angel Fire, is from Alien Buddha Press. Her books from Poets Wear Prada are Meowku and The Cupcake Chronicles. She hosts Brownstone Poets and is the editor-in-chief of its annual anthology. She is presently working on a jazz poetry manuscript, as well as a new novel.

Roxanne Hoffman

Roxanne Hoffman (non-binary) runs the independent literary press Poets Wear Prada with Jack Cooper, and is the Zoom meister for the Brownstone Poets monthly reading series. Her words can be found in cyberspace (The Performance Poetry Preservation Project, Scarlet Literary Magazine, and HIV: Here & Now); set to music (David Morneau’s Love Songs); on the silver screen (2005 indie flick Love and the Vampire); and in print (The Bandana Republic: A Literary Anthology by Gang Members and Their Affiliates and, most recently, NYC from the Inside: NYC Through the Eyes of the Poets Who Live Here and Out Loud: An LGBT Literary Art Anthology). Her elegiac poem “In Loving Memory,” illustrated by Edward Odwitt, was released as a chapbook in 2011; their second collaboration, The Little Entomologist, in 2018. Current projects include a new poetry collection riffing Alfred Hitchcock — she’s about halfway through completing over fifty abecedarian poems, one for each of the famed director’s films. Roxanne also has been coaching other writers in honing their craft and self-marketing skills for successful publication, via weekly Zoom sessions, since 2020.

Bruce E. Whitacre

The Elk in the Glade: The World of Pioneer and Painter Jennie Hicks, from Crown Rock Media, is a 2022 Publishers Weekly Editors Pick. His Good Housekeeping will be out in 2023 from Poets Wear Prada. His poems have appeared in Big City Lit, RFD, North of Oxford, Poets Wear Prada’s The Rainbow Project (nominated for Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net), and World Literature Today. His work is included in the anthologies American Graveyard, Brownstone Poets 2021 and 2022, I Wanna be Loved by You: Poems on Marilyn Monroe, and The Wonders of Winter, as well as The Strategic Poet. More at www.brucewhitacre.com.

For information on reading contact Wayne Kral at bopstreet@gmail.com

Brownstone Poets on Zoom: Robert Anthony Gibbons, Felicia Sherelle, Felicia Cade, Sat, March 25 at 2 p.m. EST

You’re invited to Brownstone Poets, the last Saturday of the month,

Saturday, March 25 from 2 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. EST

for our next installment of Brownstone Poets with our rockstar features:

Robert Anthony Gibbons

Felicia Sherelle

Felicia Cade 

$5 ticket purchase and advance registration required.

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.

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:

https://bit.ly/3hnpy8D

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.

Visit our FB event page at https://fb.me/e/2mW4wt096 or DM @herbf533 or @patriciacarragon for the how tos. Please sign up early to secure a first come first serve slot at our open.

Looking forward to seeing you at our February reading!

Bios:

Robert Anthony Gibbons has been nominated for a Pushcart for his poem, “ a self-taught genius” by great weather for MEDIA, Robert has been published in hundreds of literary magazines and in several notable anthologies. Recent publication credits include Killens Review, Tribes, Involuntary Magazine, Peregrine, Expound, Promethean, Turtle Island Quarterly, Killer Whale, and Suisun Valley Review, Voices of Lefferts and the Bronx Memoir Project: Vol. 2 published by the Bronx Council of the Arts, Inner Child Press. Robert’s first collection, Close to the Tree published by Three Rooms Press, 2012, and his chapbook, Flight, published by Poets Wear Prada in 2019. His latest is a collaboration between Brooklyn-based artist Amy Williams, titled, Some Little Words (2022). It is a collection of erasure and ekphrastic poems in tribute to Zora Neale Hurston.

Felicia Sherelle is an author, poet, workshop leader, and writing and publishing consultant. She is founder of Felicia IN Print, providing services like editing, ghostwriting, and blogging. She is the Communications Officer for Arts Reforming Communities, a not for profit dedicated to transforming neighborhoods through the arts. She is the Vice President of Word Seed Inc., a literary arts organization dedicated to fusing all things community and all things WORDs, through youth programs, poetry workshops and features, and its annual production of the Paterson Poetry Festival. Felicia is a performance poet, featuring high energy and diverse topic poetry through Passaic County Community College’s TAPP program. She utilizes her background in child advocacy for interactive youth poetry workshops, as well as school culture and climate workshops for students, and professional development for staff.

Felicia Cade, international poet, author, and activist, was born and raised in Long Beach, Ca. Felicia has been named one of LA County’s most prominent poets and grown a city-wide reputation as “The voice of the movement.” She recently moved to New York after touring in England and has quickly become a hometown favorite. Felicia has a powerful stage presence, and her words are both captivating and thought-provoking.

Reminder: Brownstone Poets on Zoom: Buttered Roll, Kim Brandon, Prince A. McNally, Saturday, February 25 at 2 p.m. EST

You’re invited to Brownstone Poets, the last Saturday of the month,

Saturday, February 25 from 2 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. EST

for our next installment of Brownstone Poets with our rockstar features:

Buttered Roll

Kim Brandon

Prince A.McNally

$5 ticket purchase and advance registration required.

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.

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:

https://bit.ly/3hnpy8D

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.

Visit our FB event page at https://fb.me/e/2mW4wt096 or DM @herbf533 or @patriciacarragon for the how tos. Please sign up early to secure a first come first serve slot at our open.

Looking forward to seeing you at our February reading!

Bios:

Buttered Roll (he/his/him) is a self-taught poet, painter, performer, and not-so-complex carbohydrate who resides in Hoboken, NJ. “Exile in Orange,” Buttered Roll’s first solo visual art show, took place at SMUSH Gallery, from March 2021 through May 2021. https://www.smushgallery.com/exileinorange. Buttered Roll released his first book Quarantine: Solo, in August 2020. Buttered Roll’s poetry has been published in Soup Can Magazine, The Esthetic Apostle, and Breadcrumbs Magazine. Buttered Roll has been a featured reader at Pine Barrens Jam, great weather for MEDIA, WAYE reading series, and Backroom Broadsides. Buttered Roll’s second book, Disjecta Dismembra, was self-published on September 22, 2022.

Kim Brandon is a poet, artist, activist, and storyteller. Her work has been included in stage performances, anthologies, and journals. This year, her work was included in Peregrine’s Black Poets Speak collection. She is a 2021 Brooklyn Poets’ Poet of the Week and a VONA alumnus. She has attended Wild Seed retreats and Cave Canem Writers workshops. She is the founder of Brooklyn Society Writers group and the host of writing workshops for people of color. This year her work centers on the revolutionary power of Black love. She is hoping to publish her first poetry collection Red Honey in 2023.

Prince A. McNally is a widely published teaching poet and spoken word artist, who facilitates workshops for kids in crisis through schools and outreach programs, utilizing poetry and creative writing as a means of expression and self-discovery. His poems have appeared in numerous literary publications and anthologies, such as Boog City, Spill Words, Tuck Magazine, Dissident Voice, Jerry Jazz Musician, and The Blue Mountain Review, to name a few. He is a recipient of a Poets and Writer’s Grant and has been nominated for Best of the Net and Pushcart Poetry Prize. He currently resides in Brooklyn, N.Y.

Brownstone Poets on Zoom: Buttered Roll, Kim Brandon, Prince A. McNally, Saturday, February 25 at 2 p.m. EST

You’re invited to Brownstone Poets, the last Saturday of the month,

Saturday, February 25 from 2 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. EST

for our next installment of Brownstone Poets with our rockstar features:

Buttered Roll

Kim Brandon

Prince A.McNally

$5 ticket purchase and advance registration required.

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.

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:

https://bit.ly/3hnpy8D

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. https://fb.me/e/2yAD2iU8S

Visit our FB event page at https://fb.me/e/2mW4wt096 or DM @herbf533 or @patriciacarragon for the how tos. Please sign up early to secure a first come first serve slot at our open.

Looking forward to seeing you at our February reading!

Bios:

Buttered Roll (he/his/him) is a self-taught poet, painter, performer, and not-so-complex carbohydrate who resides in Hoboken, NJ. “Exile in Orange,” Buttered Roll’s first solo visual art show, took place at SMUSH Gallery, from March 2021 through May 2021. https://www.smushgallery.com/exileinorange. Buttered Roll released his first book Quarantine: Solo, in August 2020. Buttered Roll’s poetry has been published in Soup Can Magazine, The Esthetic Apostle, and Breadcrumbs Magazine. Buttered Roll has been a featured reader at Pine Barrens Jam, great weather for MEDIA, WAYE reading series, and Backroom Broadsides. Buttered Roll’s second book, Disjecta Dismembra, was self-published on September 22, 2022.

Kim Brandon is a poet, artist, activist, and storyteller. Her work has been included in stage performances, anthologies, and journals. This year, her work was included in Peregrine’s Black Poets Speak collection. She is a 2021 Brooklyn Poets’ Poet of the Week and a VONA alumnus. She has attended Wild Seed retreats and Cave Canem Writers workshops. She is the founder of Brooklyn Society Writers group and the host of writing workshops for people of color. This year her work centers on the revolutionary power of Black love. She is hoping to publish her first poetry collection Red Honey in 2023.

Prince A. McNally is a widely published teaching poet and spoken word artist, who facilitates workshops for kids in crisis through schools and outreach programs, utilizing poetry and creative writing as a means of expression and self-discovery. His poems have appeared in numerous literary publications and anthologies, such as Boog City, Spill Words, Tuck Magazine, Dissident Voice, Jerry Jazz Musician, and The Blue Mountain Review, to name a few. He is a recipient of a Poets and Writer’s Grant and has been nominated for Best of the Net and Pushcart Poetry Prize. He currently resides in Brooklyn, N.Y.

Patricia Carragon and Roxanne Hoffman live and in person for at the next installment of The East Village Wordsmiths Literary Salon, Tuesday, January 24 at 8 p.m.

Join Patricia Carragon and Roxanne Hoffman live and in person for at the next installment of The East Village Wordsmiths Literary Salon, this coming Tuesday, January 24th, from 8PM to 9PM at Book Club, “the boozy bookstore” in NYC.

Book Club at 197 E 3rd St, New York, NY 10009

This months theme is BLACK.

Hosted by Leigh Anne O’Conner.

FREE Admission

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Reminder: Brownstone Poets on Zoom: Ketriana Yvonne, Christine Weimer, and DFaye Anderson, Sat, January 28 from 2 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. EST

Brownstone Poets on Zoom welcomes another year of poetry:

Saturday, January 28 from 2 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. EST

Our January features are:

Ketriana Yvonnne

Christine Weimer

DFaye Anderson

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.

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:

https://bit.ly/3hnpy8D

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. https://fb.me/e/2yAD2iU8S

Looking forward to seeing you at our January reading!

For your convenience, here is the link to our Facebook event page:

Bios:

Ketriana Yvonne is a poet and author of Sequin Soul Poetry from the Spirit. She is the host and producer of the Brooklyn Free Speech, First Amendment Award Winning Show The Ketriana Yvonne Show. Ketriana Yvonne has featured for the Ft Green Park Conservancy Fundraiser “The Fling” and the Ft. Greene Park  Conservancy Poetry Festival. She is a Ft. Greene Member of the Intergenerational Community Arts Council and served as panelist for the 2022 Brooklyn Arts Council Music Grants. Ketriana featured for The Share with the Myrtle Ave Partnership and has been featured on podcasts and BRIC TV. She was the winner of the 2019 TrulyBrooklyn.com contest. “Dear Brooklyn,” which has become her signature poem. She is a member of the Society of Old Brooklynites. She writes as Spiritwriter on Allpoetry.com.com and was featured in their anthology Circular Whispers. She has led virtual poetry workshops for New York Writers Coalition and her own  group “The Sequin Soul Spirit Writing Group” and hosts Janeswalk.org virtual writing workshops. Ketriana Yvonne is a poet writing for change and to be an inspiration to the world. She is Ketrianabelove on Twitter and Instagram.

Christine Weimer is an award-winning author, publisher, creative copywriter, and spoken-word artist from Queens, New York. She is honing all the guts and glory of motherhood while promoting and supporting women writers as the Editor-in-Chief of Our Galaxy Publishing.

Christine is the author of three poetry collections; Tainted Lionheart, which won the Gold Medal Poetry Award for Readers’ Favorite 2021, I Got to Know Nature, and Claiming the Throne. Her most recent work is published in The Order of Us and Venus Rising anthologies and Sunflower Station Press literary magazine. She is also the Publishing Advisor for Gearing Towards Engineering Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting the importance of STEM education to today’s youth.

Born in Bronzeville, Chicago, DFaye Anderson now calls Brooklyn home. A theater artist, former educator, and filmmaker, she earned an MFA in Creative Writing from CUNY and has performed her poetry and short fiction in parks, bars, schools, theaters, and parlors across New York State. The PotLuck Poets, a collective she formed in 2019, met the challenge of isolation from COVID by presenting free shows via Zoom. She is an AUDELCO nominee in directing, and her work is published in the anthology NOMMO: A Literary Legacy of Black Chicago (1967-1987) and MERGE Literary magazine.

Brownstone Poets on Zoom: Ketriana Yvonne, Christine Weimer, and DFaye Anderson, Sat, January 28 from 2 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. EST

Brownstone Poets on Zoom welcomes another year of poetry:

Saturday, January 28 from 2 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. EST

Our January features are:

Ketriana Yvonnne

Christine Weimer

DFaye Anderson

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.

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:

https://bit.ly/3hnpy8D

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. https://fb.me/e/2yAD2iU8S

Looking forward to seeing you at our January reading!

For your convenience, here is the link to our Facebook event page:

Bios:

Ketriana Yvonne is a poet and author of Sequin Soul Poetry from the Spirit. She is the host and producer of the Brooklyn Free Speech, First Amendment Award Winning Show The Ketriana Yvonne Show. Ketriana Yvonne has featured for the Ft Green Park Conservancy Fundraiser “The Fling” and the Ft. Greene Park  Conservancy Poetry Festival. She is a Ft. Greene Member of the Intergenerational Community Arts Council and served as panelist for the 2022 Brooklyn Arts Council Music Grants. Ketriana featured for The Share with the Myrtle Ave Partnership and has been featured on podcasts and BRIC TV. She was the winner of the 2019 TrulyBrooklyn.com contest. “Dear Brooklyn,” which has become her signature poem. She is a member of the Society of Old Brooklynites. She writes as Spiritwriter on Allpoetry.com.com and was featured in their anthology Circular Whispers. She has led virtual poetry workshops for New York Writers Coalition and her own  group “The Sequin Soul Spirit Writing Group” and hosts Janeswalk.org virtual writing workshops. Ketriana Yvonne is a poet writing for change and to be an inspiration to the world. She is Ketrianabelove on Twitter and Instagram.

Christine Weimer is an award-winning author, publisher, creative copywriter, and spoken-word artist from Queens, New York. She is honing all the guts and glory of motherhood while promoting and supporting women writers as the Editor-in-Chief of Our Galaxy Publishing.

Christine is the author of three poetry collections; Tainted Lionheart, which won the Gold Medal Poetry Award for Readers’ Favorite 2021, I Got to Know Nature, and Claiming the Throne. Her most recent work is published in The Order of Us and Venus Rising anthologies and Sunflower Station Press literary magazine. She is also the Publishing Advisor for Gearing Towards Engineering Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting the importance of STEM education to today’s youth.

Born in Bronzeville, Chicago, DFaye Anderson now calls Brooklyn home. A theater artist, former educator, and filmmaker, she earned an MFA in Creative Writing from CUNY and has performed her poetry and short fiction in parks, bars, schools, theaters, and parlors across New York State. The PotLuck Poets, a collective she formed in 2019, met the challenge of isolation from COVID by presenting free shows via Zoom. She is an AUDELCO nominee in directing, and her work is published in the anthology NOMMO: A Literary Legacy of Black Chicago (1967-1987) and MERGE Literary magazine.

Lit Balm: The Clockwise Cat Show Presented by Alison Ross, Saturday January 7 at 5 p.m. EST on Zoom

Lit Balm: An interactive Livestream Reading Series on Zoom

Saturday, January 7 at 5 p.m. EST

https://us04web.zoom.us/j/461603228

The January 7, 2023 episode of Lit Balm will be the Clockwise Cat show, presented by editor Alison Ross. It will feature Marie Lecrivain, Karen Neuberg, Patricia Carragon, Giorgia Pavlidou, Heller Levinson, and John Olson. As always, we’ll begin with poems from our hosts and end with an open mic.

Hosted by Marc Vincenz, Cassandra Atherton, Jonathan Penton

Reminder: Brownstone Poets 2022 Anthology Celebration on Zoom, Sat, December 3 at 2 p.m.

Reminder: Brownstone Poets 2022 Anthology Celebration on Zoom

Saturday, December 3, 2022

2 P.M. to 4:30 P.M. EST

Our spotlight features are:

Megha Sood

Zev Torres

Harvey Soss

Mireya Pérez-Bustillo

David Dephy

Bruce E. Whitacre

Crystal Crusti Davis

Steven Koenig

Jeff Cottrill

Ken Holland

Jack Cooper

Rescue Poetix

$5 Donation

Plus a limited open mic

Hosted by Patricia Carragon

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.

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:
https://bit.ly/3hnpy8D

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 December reading! For your convenience here is the link to our Facebook event page:
https://fb.me/e/1h85uKJcS 

Since 2005, Brownstone Poets has been inspiring poetry in Brooklyn. We strive to be a unique and diverse community, welcoming various literary styles and forms. Our reading series is expanding via Zoom, reaching out to new voices across the U.S. and the world. We would like to thank this year’s 59 reader-contributors, as well as our loyal attendees. Without their love and commitment, our reading series and this anthology would not have been possible. We’re honored to have the Himalayan poet Yuyutsu Sharma as our poet-in- residence and Maria Lisella as this year’s guest poet. This collection of poetry, infused with Brooklyn imagery, is our contribution to the vibrant spirit found in the Borough of Kings.

Bios:

Megha Sood is a Pushcart-nominated poet, author, editor, and blogger; a poetry editor at MookyChick (UK), Life and Legends (USA), Brownstone Poets (2022); a partner in “Life in Quarantine,” Stanford University, USA, 2020, a National Level Winner and Recipient of 2020 Poet Fellowship (Martha’s Institute of Creative Writing). Website https://meghasworldsite.wordpress.com/.

Zev Torres’s poetry has appeared in numerous publications including the Rainbow Project, Otherwise Engaged, NYC From the Inside, and Brownstone Poets’ 2010-2021 Anthologies. “Left Unsaid,” is the third poem in a trilogy following Another Side of the Story (Kitchen Sink Magazine (2021) and Rites of Passage (Maintenant 15 (2021).

Harvey Soss has been writing for several years now and won Writer’s Diget poetry prize awards in 2015, 2017, 2018, and 2019. Poems of his have been published in conjunction with the University of Canberra’s Vice-Chancellor’s International Poetry Prize (2016), Shabda Press’ Nuclear Impact anthology and elsewhere here and abroad.

Mireya Perez-Bustillo’s poetry searches for that “other voice” expressed through entrapment and oppression. Her work appears in Revista del Hada, Caribbean Review, Americas Review, Diosas en Bronce: Anthology of Colombian Women Writers, and IRP Voices, among others.

David Dephy, a Georgian/American award-winning poet named as A Literature Luminary by Bowery Poetry, The Stellar Poet by Voices of Poetry, The Incomparable Poet by Statorec, A Brilliant Grace by Headline Poetry & Press, and An Extremely Unique Poetic Voice by Cultural Daily. He lives and works in New York.

Bruce E. Whitacre’s work has been published in American Journal of Poetry, Poets Wear Prada, and World Literature Today, among others. His poems are included in The Strategic Poet by Diane Lockward, and the anthologies Brownstone Poets 2021 and I Want to be Loved by You: Poems on Marilyn Monroe.

Crystal Crustl Davis is a multidisciplinary, mixed media artist, freelance writer, and social media marketer. Born and raised in Jersey City, NJ she is the creator at Crystal Letters, and Co-Founder of OpenRoad Poetry. Her work is inspired by nature, color, and craft through art and writing. www.crystalletters.com. IG: @crystallettersofficial.

Steven Koenig is a Brooklyn-born and bred poet, educator, music journalist, and activist. His poems have appeared in Brooklyn Day of the Poet, Poetry in Performance, Sensations, and Diseased Pariah News. His music writing has appeared in LaFolia.com, Perfect Sound Forever, AllAboutJazz.com, and Signal to Noise.

Jeff Cottrill is a novelist, poet, journalist, and spoken-word artist based in Toronto. He has headlined in countless literary series throughout Canada, the U.K. and the U.S. Jeff has authored four chapbooks and recorded three CDs, and his debut novel, Hate Story, is available from Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

Ken Holland, an award-winning poet, has been nominated three times for the Pushcart Prize, and has had work widely published in such journals as Rattle, Tulane Review, Southwest Review, North Dakota Quarterly, and Tar River, as well as several anthologies. He lives and breathes in Fishkill, New York. www.kenhollandpoet.com.

Jack Cooperr is the creator of These Are Aphorithms (http://aphorithms.blogspot.com). His work has appeared widely, in print and online, including Brownstone Poets 2013 and 2021. “Slouching Toward Bushwick,” a collection of his Brooklyn poems, is forthcoming soon from Poets Wear Prada. He lives in Paris.

Rescue Poetix aka Susan Justiniano, is the first Puerto Rican woman Poet Laureate of Jersey City, N.J. As a globally published and performing poet, she has over fifty original poems set to music under her professional artist brand RescuePoetix™. She is an arts advocate deeply involved in the arts community.