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.

Home Planet News Online Issue #10

Thank you Frank Murphy for your years of service in making Home Planet News Online possible. Issue #10 is truly spectacular!

Proud to be on the editorial team with:
Linda Lerner
David Gershator
Phillis Gershator
Lehman Weichsellbaum
Matthew Paris
Jackie Coleman-Fried
Cheryl A. Rice
Amy Barone

Hispanic Editor:
Myrna Nieves

Computer Editor
Frank Murphy

Best Intern Ever
Emma Brumberger 

Banner cover image by
Bebe Barkan

Click on the link below to read the issue:

https://homeplanetnews.com/

https://homeplanetnews.com/

Congratulations to all the contributors below

Featured Poets

• Austin Alexis
• Myrna Nieves

Featured Artist

• Jadina Lilien

Lehman Weichselbaum: Hot Mike

Mathew Paris: The Blog Bog

Essays

Fiction

Reviews

Artwork

Plays

Non-Fiction

Memoirs

Poets

P.1      Chuck Joy

P.2     Victoria Twomey

P.3      Edward Lee

P.4      John J. Ronan

P.5      Frederick Pollack

P.6      Nadja Moore

P.7       Thomas D. Jones

P.8       Carol Hamilton

P.9       Patricia Walsh

P.10     Kenneth Pobo

P.11      Vicki Iorio

P.12     Charles Rammelkamp

P.13      Diane Webster

P.14      Pete Mladinic

P.15      Linda Lerner

P.16      Ian Ganassi    

P.17      George Snedeker

P.18      Catherine A. Coundjeris

P.19       John Gray

P.20      Richard Dinges, Jr.

p.21       Barry Wallenstein

P.22      Diane Sahms-Guarnieri

P.23       Carl Scharwath

P.24       Thomas Piekarski

P.25       Michael La Bombarda

P.26       Susana H. Case

P.27       Michael Lee Johnson

P.28       Davidson Garrett

P.29       George Wallace

P.30        Jake Sheff

P.31        Megha Sood

P.32        Frank Murphy

P.32        Emma Brumberger 

P.33        Tony Dawson

P.34       Laura Carter

P.35       James B. Nicola

P.36      Carrie Magness Radna

P.37       Rich Murphy

P.38       Art Gatti

P.39       Joseph Farley

P.40      Stephen Mead

P.41       Amy Barone

P.42       Ken Gosse

P.43        Philip Kobylarz

P.44       Christina E. Petrides

P.45        Howard Pflanzer

P.46       Mark Young

P.47       Deborah-Zenha Adams 

P.48       Duane Anderson

P.49       Alan Catlin

P.50       Susan Weiman

P.51        Eve Packer

P.52       Patricia Carragon

P.53        Jonathan B. Ferrini

P. 54       Bob Heman

P. 55       Magdalena Gómez

P. 56       Drew Marshall

P. 57        Paul Smith

P. 58        Philip Newton

P. 59         Ian C Smith

P. 60         R. Bremner

P. 61         Matt Morris

P.62          Evie Ivy

Poets

P. 63         Ivan de Monbrison

P.64          G E Reutter

P.65          Christopher Hirschmann Brandt

P.66          Lisa Bond

P.67           Gary P. English

P.68           Thaddeus Rutkowski

P.69           Karen Neuberg

P.70            Mark Zuss

P.71             Dominik Slusarczyk

P.72            George Guida

P. 73           Bill Yarrow

P.74           Alexander Perez

P.75            Elizabeth Morse

P.76            Guna Moran

P.77            Rosemary Drescher

P.78            Roger Santiváñez

P.79             Jacqueline Coleman-Fried

P.80             Linda Kleinbub

P.81              George Held

P.82             Sam Friedman

P.83              Joanie HF Zosike

P.84             Deborah H. Doolittle

P.85             John Martino

P.86             Pastora Hernández

P.87             Frank De Canio

P.88             Paweł Markiewicz

P.88             S.F. Wright

P.89             Patrick Hammer

P.90             Robert Daseler

P.91              Donald Gardner

P.92             Margaret R. Sáraco

P.93              Roberta Gould

P.94              G.S. de Būrca 

P.95               Luis Antonio Rodríguez (Laro)

P.96               Teresa Costa

P.97                Gerald Wagoner

P.98                Mathew Paris

P.99                 Maid Corbic

P. 100              Diana Conchado

P.101                Carol Alexander

P.102                Janet Restino

P.103                David E. Howerton

P.104                Doug Holder

P.104                Gabrielle David

P.105                Clara Burghelea

P.106                 Jacqueline Coleman-Fried

P.107                 Robert Mueller

P.108                 Darko R. Suvin

P.109                  George Freek

P.110                   Casey Killingsworth

P.111                    Livio Farallo

P.112                   Marie Anzalone

P.113                    Inmaculada Lara-Bonilla

P.114                   Beatriz Saavedra Gastélum

P.115                    Holly Day

P.116                    Michael Manerowski

P.117                     Jacqueline Herranz-Brooks

P.118                     Tawn Parent

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

@leighanne625 @patriciacarragon @bookclubbar #eastvillagewordsmiths #evwordsmiths #literarysalon #poetryreading #black #poetrycommunity #poetsandwriters #authors #literaryevent #literaryevening #wordsmiths #bookstore #eastvillage #nyc

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.

More Publication News for 2022

Jerry Jazz Musician, Tuesday, October 4, 2022

Some happy news on this grim and cold day. Thank you so much Joe Maita for publishing “All the Way,” in Jerry Jazz Musician.

https://jerryjazzmusician.com/all-the-way-a-poem-inspired-by-billie-holiday-by-patricia-carragon/

Jerry Jazz Musician, Tuesday, December 9, 2022

What a nice surprise that “I’ve Got You Under My Skin” is part of Two poets…inspired by Sinatra:

Two poets…inspired by Sinatra

Jerry Jazz Musician A Collection of Jazz Poetry — Fall/Winter, 2022-23 Edition, December 16, 2022

Thank you Joe Maita for accepting “Smoke Gets In Your Eyes” and “The Blues Haiku” in the Fall/ Winter edition of Jerry Jazz Musician. Kudos to Russell DuPont Ronald P. Bremner Phil Linz Amy Barone Geer Austin Moe Seager Carrie Magness Radna Marilyn Mohr

A Collection of Jazz Poetry — Fall/Winter, 2022-23 Edition

The Red Wheelbarrow #15 Anthology

Thank you The Red Wheelbarrow Poets Gang of Six:

Moira OBrien Frank Rubino Arthur Russell Claudia Serea Anton Yakovlev Don Zirilli for publishing my pantoum, “Tomorrow Is My Turn” in The Red Wheelbarrow 15 anthology. Kudos to my friends, Roxanne HoffmanRonald P. BremnerAustin AlexisAmy BaroneMark F FogartyDavidson GarrettPatrick Thomas HammerBarbara HallChristopher BogartRon KolmDon KriegerSusanna Lorber LeeErmira MitreZorida MohammedRick MullinDimitri ReyesClaudia SereaArthur RussellAnton YakovlevDon ZirilliDanny ShotFrank RubinoJennifer Poteet John Jay Trause George Wallace etc.

The Avocet Summer and Fall editions

Thank you Charles, Vivian, and Valerie Portolano and Editor Emeritis, Peter Leverich

for publishing these haiku:

in the Summer Issue:

Monarch butterflies

find wisteria refuge

from attentive cats

Saturday sunshine

escape to Coney Island

hot sand in sneakers

cicadas return

serenade this quiet street

crickets sing-a-long

in the Fall issue:

harvest moon

summer’s hot breath

refuses to leave

racoon climbs tree

squirrels in danger

acorns bounce off cars

early October

like the temperature

I wait for change

leaves crunch

melodies meander

into the mist

CCNY’s Poetry In Performance 50th Anniversary Issue 2022

Thank you Pamela LaskinGregory CrosbyBarry Wallenstein for publishing my haiku series, “Babyn Yar in Tears”in CCNY’s Poetry in Performance 50th Anniversary Anthology.

Congrats to Pamela LaskinGregory CrosbyBarry WallensteinRobert GibbonsMaryam S Alikhani Estha Weiner Charles J. ButlerJan Castro

Bob HolmanSteven Koenig Richard Levine Ellen LytleRichard Jeffrey Newman Alicia Ostriker Eve PackerThaddeus Rutkowski Ilka Scobie Sparrow X. CarterJeff Wright

‘Spillwords Halloween’ #SpillwordsHalloween – Thursday, October 27, 2022

Thank you Dagmara K. of Spillwords for posting my Halloween Catku:

Halloween Catku II

Brevitas 19 2022, Anthology of the Short Poem

Happy to share my work in Brevitas anthology. Thx Brevitas team Amy Barone Esther Cohen Flash Rosenberg Steve Zeitlin Ron Kolm Carolyn Wells.

Mankh’s Haiku Calendar 2023

Thank you Mankh for the honor of publishing my haiku and photo. Kudos to the following contributors:

    2023 Haiku Calendar (Allbook Books)

Nancy Abraham, Greg Alexander, Bill Batcher, Dean Blehert, Cliff Bleidner, Elena Botts,
v.j.calone (Vincent J. Calone), Paula Camacho, Chris Clendenin, Jeanne Clendenin,
Dr. Nicole Noles Collins, Lynn Cooper, Betsey Dickerson, A.i. Firefly, Adam D. Fisher,
Lynn M. Fornuff, David Fox, tiokasin ghosthorse, Nowick Gray, Geneva L. Hagar,
Barbara Harris, Mankh (Walter E. Harris III), Patrice Hasbrook, Linda Marie Hilton,
J Holgado, Bill Kenney, Maria Manobianco, Sheila Mardenfeld, Roberta A. McQueen,
Linda Ranieri Melodia, A. Molotkov, Onan Musoy, Pir, Seth Pollock, Evan Pritchard,
Tony Quagliano, James Thomas Romano, Narges Rothermel, Laura Ruby, Will Ryder,
Robert Savino, Stuart Schaeffer, Lisa M. Scuderi-Burkimsher, Barbara Segal, Patti Tana,
Anne Marie Tognella, J R (Judy) Turek, JR Vork, Margarette Wahl, Kay J. Wight,
Max Wilbert, Dakota Yazzie, Jack Zaffos

Bear Creek Haiku, #185 November 2022

Thank you Ayaz Daryl Nielsen of Bear Creek Haiku. Kudos to James Penha and Mary Jo Balistreri.

Bear Creek Haiku Blogspot December 18, 2022

Thank you Ayaz Daryl Nielsen of Bear Creek Haiku for publishing my haiku. Kudos to Kelley Jean White’s Hannah, Mo, and Sassy!, Cathy Porter, John McDonald, Sarah Mahina Calvello, Picasso, Peggy Dugan French, and t. kilgore splake!

https://bearcreekhaiku.blogspot.com/2022/12/poets-patricia-carragon-kelley-jean.html

Bear Creak Haiku , #186, December 2022

Thank you Ayaz Daryl Nielsen of Bear Creek Haiku for publishing my haiku. Kudos to Mary Jo Balistreri

When Women Speak Poetry Anthology: Volume 1 Paperback – November 22, 2022

Honored to have my poems, “I Fall in Love Too Easily” and “Smooth Operator,” in this new anthology edited by Ameerah Shabazz.-Bilal. Shout outs to Ameerah Shabazz.-Bilal, Roxanne Hoffman, Carrie Magness Radna, Julie Bolt, Crystal Davis, Megha Sood, Susan Justiniano, Talena Lachelle Queen, Amy Barone, Hilary Sideris Dorothy Friedman August, Lindsay Holeman, et al.

Oddball Magazine The Christmas Wars, December 21, 2022

Excited that my “Un-Christmas Kittyku” is part of Oddball Magazine’s The Christmas Wars for December 21, 2022. Thank you Chad Parenteau and Jason Wright.

Poem by Patricia Carragon

Libretto Magazine, Issue 8, December 30, 2022

Thank you editors for publishing my poem, “I Got You Under My Skin,” in Libretto Issue 8, Departure.

I’VE GOT YOU UNDER MY SKIN |PATRICIA CARRAGON