Brownstone Poets on Zoom: James C. Ellerbe, Gerald Wagoner, Barry Wallenstein, Sat, June 24 at 2 p.m. ET

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

Saturday, June 24 from 2 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. ET

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

James C. Ellerbe

Gerald Wagoner

Barry Wallenstein

Plus 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 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.

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

https://fb.me/e/1gBwu2fG6

Bios:

James C. Ellerbe has appeared on BET’s Buy The Book and a non-taped edition of the world-renowned Showtime at the Apollo showcase in which he and other poets helped promote the first spoken word event at a venue called Poetic Battles. He represented the New Jersey team for this event. He also performed at the Kola Note (Site of Montreal, Canada Jazz festival), Elizabeth High School, Rutgers University, NJIT, Fairleigh Dickinson University, and Sarah Lawrence College, and appeared on WLIB Radio NYC. James was also a finalist for the 2017 Indie Author Legacy Award for Poet of the Year and featured author at the BCCLS BooksNJ 2015 and 2017 Book Festivals at Paramus Library in Paramus, NJ. He also wrote and co-produced his three-act play, A Dream Preserved. Beyond the Event Horizon is his first book of poetry (2015). Pulsar is his first spoken word album released by Not Enough Words LLC (2018).

Gerald Wagoner is the author of A Month of Someday, (Indolent Books, 2023) and When Nothing Wild Remains, (forthcoming, Broadstone Books, September 2023). His childhood was divided between Eastern Oregon and Montana, where he was raised under the doctrine of benign neglect. 2018: Visiting Poet Residency Brooklyn Navy Yard.  2019. Gowanus Dredgers Boathouse, On The Tides of Time, with painter Robert Gould, 2021—2023, Curator and Host of, A Persistence of Cormorants, a summer outdoors reading series. April 2023, Poets Afloat, resident poet, Waterfront Barge Museum. Selected Publications:  Beltway Quarterly, BigCityLit, Blue Mountain Review, Cathexis Northwest Press, Night Heron Barks, Ocotillo Review, Right Hand Pointing, Misfits, Maryland Literary Review. Ed: BA Creative Writing, U of Montana 1970, MFA Sculpture SUNY Albany. Gerald currently lives in Brooklyn, NY.

Barry Wallenstein is the author of eleven collections of poetry, the most recent being It’s About Time (New York Quarterly Books, 2022]) A special interest is his presentation of poetry readings in collaboration with jazz.  He has made twelve recordings of his poetry with jazz, including: Lisbon Sunset (2018) and Lisbon Sunrise (2022). Barry is Emeritus Professor of Literature at the City University of New York and an editor at American Book Review and advisory editor of BigCityLit. Since retiring from CUNY, he’s been part of the faculty at the Center for Learning and Living, a continuing ed program for seniors.

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Reminder: Brownstone Poets on Zoom: Carrie Magness Radna, Cindy Hochman, Amanda Russell, Sat, May 27 at 2 p.m. EST

Reminder:

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

Saturday, May 27 from 2 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. EST

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

Carrie Magness Radna

Cindy Hochman

Amanda Russell

Plus 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 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.

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 May edition ! For your convenience here is the link to our Facebook event page: https://fb.me/e/v8bUozrL

Bios:

Carrie Magness Radna

Born in Norman, Oklahoma, Carrie Magness Radnais an archival audiovisual cataloger at the New York Public Library, a singer, a lyricist-songwriter and a poet who loves to travel (when it’s safe). She won the Third Place Prize for “Pink (a Ghazal)” in the 91st annual Writer’s Digest Writer’s Competition (Rhyming Poetry). She’s currently an Associate Editor of Brownstone Poets Anthology (2022-2023) and was nominated for the 2022 Pushcart Prize. Her fifth book, Shooting Myself in the Dark, was published by Cajun Mutt Press in January 2023.

Cindy Hochman

Cindy Hochman is the president of “100 Proof” Copyediting Services and the editor-in-chief of the online poetry journal First Literary Review-East. She has been on the book review staff of Pedestal Magazine, and has written reviews for American Book Review, Clockwise Cat, Home Planet News, et al. Her poetry has been widely published and translated into Turkish and Italian. Most recently, she has had poems in two Australian anthologies, Alcatraz and Play. She is the author of five chapbooks: Wednesday’s Child (Bear House Press); The Carcinogenic Bride (Thin Air Media); Habeas Corpus (Glass Lyre Press); The Number 5 Is Always Suspect, a book of collaborations with Bob Heman (Presa Press);and her latest chapbook, Telling You Everything (Unleash Press). Cindy resides in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, where she writes, edits, meditates, learns tai chi, and studies the Russian language.

Amanda Russell

Amanda Russell is a poet and stay-at-home mom. Her chapbook, Barren Years, was published by Finishing Line Press (2019). Her poems are forthcoming or have appeared in The Jarnal, EcoTheo Review, South Florida Poetry Journal and the anthology Mightier: poets for social justice. For more information, please visit https://poetrussell.wordpress.com/.

Brownstone Poets on Zoom: Carrie Magness Radna, Cindy Hochman, Amanda Russell, Sat, May 27 at 2 p.m. EST

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

Saturday, May 27 from 2 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. EST

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

Carrie Magness Radna

Cindy Hochman

Amanda Russell

Plus 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 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.

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 May edition ! For your convenience here is the link to our Facebook event page: https://fb.me/e/v8bUozrL

Bios:

Carrie Magness Radna

Born in Norman, Oklahoma, Carrie Magness Radnais an archival audiovisual cataloger at the New York Public Library, a singer, a lyricist-songwriter and a poet who loves to travel (when it’s safe). She won the Third Place Prize for “Pink (a Ghazal)” in the 91st annual Writer’s Digest Writer’s Competition (Rhyming Poetry). She’s currently an Associate Editor of Brownstone Poets Anthology (2022-2023) and was nominated for the 2022 Pushcart Prize. Her fifth book, Shooting Myself in the Dark, was published by Cajun Mutt Press in January 2023.

Cindy Hochman

Cindy Hochman is the president of “100 Proof” Copyediting Services and the editor-in-chief of the online poetry journal First Literary Review-East. She has been on the book review staff of Pedestal Magazine, and has written reviews for American Book Review, Clockwise Cat, Home Planet News, et al. Her poetry has been widely published and translated into Turkish and Italian. Most recently, she has had poems in two Australian anthologies, Alcatraz and Play. She is the author of five chapbooks: Wednesday’s Child (Bear House Press); The Carcinogenic Bride (Thin Air Media); Habeas Corpus (Glass Lyre Press); The Number 5 Is Always Suspect, a book of collaborations with Bob Heman (Presa Press);and her latest chapbook, Telling You Everything (Unleash Press). Cindy resides in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, where she writes, edits, meditates, learns tai chi, and studies the Russian language.

Amanda Russell

Amanda Russell is a poet and stay-at-home mom. Her chapbook, Barren Years, was published by Finishing Line Press (2019). Her poems are forthcoming or have appeared in The Jarnal, EcoTheo Review, South Florida Poetry Journal and the anthology Mightier: poets for social justice. For more information, please visit https://poetrussell.wordpress.com/.

Reminder: Brownstone Poets on Zoom: Stephanie Laterza, Giulio Magrini, Regina YC Garcia, Sat, April 29 at 2 p.m. EST

Reminder:

Brownstone Poets on Zoom: Stephanie Laterza, Giulio Magrini, Regina YC Garcia, Sat, April 29 at 2 p.m. EST

Happy National Poetry Month!

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

Saturday, April 29 from 2 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. EST

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

Stephanie Laterza

Giulio Magrini

Regina YC Garcia

Plus 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 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.

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 April edition ! For your convenience here is the link to our Facebook event page:

https://fb.me/e/3tdrv90zK

Bios:

Stephanie Laterza is the author of the poetry chapbook, The Psyche Trials (Finishing Line Press, 2019) and a SU-CASA 2018 award recipient from the Brooklyn Arts Council. Stephanie’swork has been featured in LÉphémère Review, Anti-Heroin Chic, A Gathering of the Tribes,Newtown Literary, Literary Mama, Akashic Books, Ovunque Siamo, Raising Mothers, theanthologies Mightier: Poets for Social Justice, Latina Outsiders Remaking Latina Identity,Brownstone Poets (2020), San Francisco Peace and Hope, I Wanna Be Loved By You: Poems on Marilyn Monroe, and elsewhere. Stephanie’s social justice-focused poetry collection, Verás, isforthcoming from Broadstone Books (2023). Follow Stephanie: Instagram @stef3rd.

Giulio Magrini is the author of The Color of Dirt, which represents his poetry and flash fiction from the 1970’s to 2022. He prefers to perform his work and writes with that in mind. He has conducted poetry workshops in prisons, drug and alcohol rehabs, alternative high schools, using poetry therapy to help those in need. As Magrini tells us, “We have put our hands in the dirt and sanctified each other.” He has recently been asked to create a writing workshop at a local library near his home.

Regina YC Garcia is an award-winning Poet, Language Artist, and English Professor. She graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill with a BA in Speech Communication with a Concentration in the Oral Interpretation of Literature, as well as East Carolina University where she received an MAEd with a Graduate Certificate in Multicultural and Transnational Literature. Her work appears in the South Florida Poetry Journal, Up the Staircase Quarterly, The AutoEthnographer, The Amistad, Main Street Rag, New Note Poetry and others. Her work has also been featured in an Emmy winning episode of Muse, as well as in the 2022 Sacred 9 Project of Tulane University. Her book, The Firetalker’s Daughter from Finishing Line Press was released in March 2023.

Brownstone Poets on Zoom: Stephanie Laterza, Giulio Magrini, Regina YC Garcia, Sat, April 29 at 2 p.m. EST

Happy National Poetry Month!

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

Saturday, April 29 from 2 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. EST

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

Stephanie Laterza

Giulio Magrini

Regina YC Garcia

Plus 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 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.

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 April edition ! For your convenience here is the link to our Facebook event page:

https://fb.me/e/3tdrv90zK

Bios:

Stephanie Laterza is the author of the poetry chapbook, The Psyche Trials (Finishing Line Press, 2019) and a SU-CASA 2018 award recipient from the Brooklyn Arts Council. Stephanie’swork has been featured in LÉphémère Review, Anti-Heroin Chic, A Gathering of the Tribes,Newtown Literary, Literary Mama, Akashic Books, Ovunque Siamo, Raising Mothers, theanthologies Mightier: Poets for Social Justice, Latina Outsiders Remaking Latina Identity,Brownstone Poets (2020), San Francisco Peace and Hope, I Wanna Be Loved By You: Poems on Marilyn Monroe, and elsewhere. Stephanie’s social justice-focused poetry collection, Verás, isforthcoming from Broadstone Books (2023). Follow Stephanie: Instagram @stef3rd.

Giulio Magrini is the author of The Color of Dirt, which represents his poetry and flash fiction from the 1970’s to 2022. He prefers to perform his work and writes with that in mind. He has conducted poetry workshops in prisons, drug and alcohol rehabs, alternative high schools, using poetry therapy to help those in need. As Magrini tells us, “We have put our hands in the dirt and sanctified each other.” He has recently been asked to create a writing workshop at a local library near his home.

Regina YC Garcia is an award-winning Poet, Language Artist, and English Professor. She graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill with a BA in Speech Communication with a Concentration in the Oral Interpretation of Literature, as well as East Carolina University where she received an MAEd with a Graduate Certificate in Multicultural and Transnational Literature. Her work appears in the South Florida Poetry Journal, Up the Staircase Quarterly, The AutoEthnographer, The Amistad, Main Street Rag, New Note Poetry and others. Her work has also been featured in an Emmy winning episode of Muse, as well as in the 2022 Sacred 9 Project of Tulane University. Her book, The Firetalker’s Daughter from Finishing Line Press was released in March 2023.

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.

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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