The 2021 Newark Porchfest, Saturday, September 25
Patricia Carragon, Robert Gibbons, Prince A McNally, Talena Lachelle Queen, and Tantra Zawadi will be performing on the portico at:
533 Ridge Street
Newark, NJ
2:00-3:00 pm
This event is Free and Open to the Public!
Thank you, Marsha McGowan, for hosting us!
Celebrate Women’s History Month
Friday, March 26th, from 7 P.M. – 9 :30 P.M.
Hosted by Dorothy Friedman August
Featured Readers:
Patricia Carragon, Lydia Cortes, Lee Ann Brown,
Bertha Rogers, Robert Gibbons, Roxanne Hoffman, Ron Kolm,
Susan Sherman, Joanie Fritz Zosike, Larissa Shmailo,
Yuko Otomo, Cynthia Frantz
Dorothy Friedman is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: Women’s History Month Reading
Time: Mar 26, 2021 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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BROOKLYN POETRY SLAM,
SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 2020 AT 6 P.M.
Saturday, January 2 at 6 p.m. on ZOOM!
Enjoy a night of inspirational, emotional and thought provoking poetry while supporting Rob Ramos our grassroots, progressive candidate for Brooklyn Borough President.
Featuring: Patricia Carragon Linda Lerner Prince A. McNally Robert Anthony Gibbons Roxanne Hoffman Freida Jones
PLEASE COME, IT’S A FREE EVENT!
Suggested Contribution: $20
RSVP for link and/or join host committee at: Robramos4brooklyn@gmail.com
Contribute at:https://www.nycvotes.org/campaigns/robertramosjr
ZOOM LINK:
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Meeting ID: 897 1336 3407
Check out our FACEBOOK EVENT:
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Host Committee: Patricia Carragon, Cindy Scavella, Bridget Cevellos, Natalia Vogel, Zoila Guiza, Theresa Brissett, Lakisha Keitt, and more.
www.robramos4bk.com
BIOS:
Prince McNally
A rising voice on the NYC poetry scene, Prince A. McNally’s work has appeared in Dissident Voice, TUCK Magazine, Leaves of Ink, The Blue Mountain Review, and Jerry Jazz Musician just to name a few as well as several anthologies here and abroad. Recently nominated for Best of the Net, he’s working on his first poetry collection for 2021.
Robert Anthony Gibbons
Robert Anthony Gibbons is a performance poet living in Brooklyn. He has several collections of his work anthologized and published. His most recent work, Flight, is published by (Poets wear Prada, 2019) You can connect to him at robertgibbons54@gmail.com
Roxanne Hoffman
Roxanne Hoffman runs the small literary press Poets Wear Prada with Jack Cooper. Her elegiac poem “In Loving Memory,” illustrated by Edward Odwitt, was released as a chapbook in 2011. Their second collaboration, The Little Entomologist, was published in 2018.
Patricia Carragon
Patricia Carragon’slatest books from Poets Wear Prada are Meowku and The Cupcake Chronicles. Her debut novel, Angel Fire, is from Alien Buddha Press. Patricia hosts the Brooklyn-based Brownstone Poets and is the editor-in-chief of its annual anthology.
Linda Lerner
Linda Lerner, author of 17 collections including Takes Guts and Years Sometimes and Yes, the Ducks Were Real from NYQ Books (2011& 2015).When Death is a Red Balloon, her most recent collection (Lummox Press, Nov. 20019.) Taking the F train, forthcoming from NYQ books.
Freida Jones
Playwright/poet, Freida Jones is the author of Music Masquerades as Honey in My Hands, dedicated to African-American jazz legacy. In 2020, The Midnight Ride was her tribute to the Bronx. Recent plays: Music Masquerades in Harlem and Lucky Strikes Legacy.
SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 2020 AT 6 P.M.
BROOKLYN POETRY SLAM,
SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 2020 AT 6 P.M. ON ZOOM!
Saturday, January 2 at 6 p.m.
Enjoy a night of inspirational, emotional and thought provoking poetry while supporting Rob Ramos our grassroots, progressive candidate for Brooklyn Borough President.
Featuring: Patricia Carragon Linda Lerner Prince A. McNally Robert Anthony Gibbons Roxanne Hoffman Freida Jones
Suggested Contribution: $20
RSVP for link and/or join host committee at: Robramos4brooklyn@gmail.com
Contribute at: https://www.nycvotes.org/campaigns/robertramosjr
ZOOM LINK:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89713363407
Meeting ID: 897 1336 3407
Check out our FACEBOOK EVENT:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1194114214347597/
Host Committee: Patricia Carragon, Cindy Scavella, Bridget Cevellos, Natalia Vogel, Zoila Guiza, Theresa Brissett, Lakisha Keitt, and more.
www.robramos4bk.com
Join my publisher Roxanne Hoffman of Poets Wear Prada and other PWP authors at The LGBT Community Center
Continue celebrating National Coming Out Day
Party with us on Saturday. October 12!
Join PWP from noon to 6 p.m. for the Rainbow Book Festival at The LGBT Community Center located at 208 W 13th St, New York, NY 10011.
http://www.poetswearprada.com/
Check out the PWP authors:
Austin Alexis, Geer Austin, Patricia Carragon, Jack Cooper, Robert Gibbons, Jee Leong Koh, Michael Montlack, Chocolate Waters,
Richard Marx Weinrub
Get your copy of “The Cupcake Chronicles” and “Meowku” at the fair or order online:
THE CUPCAKE CHRONICLES
Purchase Links:
poetswearprada.com
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MEOWKU
CHOICES AND MONSTERS: A READING
Friday, February 8 from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.
Unnameable Books
600 Vanderbilt Avenue,
Brooklyn, NY 11238
Facebook event:
https://www.facebook.com/events/243143126614304/
We will read on the themes of choice and/or the dream of reason produces monsters (from the Goya painting) or the end of monsters (via Beckett),
followed by work of our own poets/performers:
Sparrow, Eve Packer, Violet Snow, Robert Gibbons, Jason R. Gallagher, Stella Padnos, Federica Pantana, Patricia Carragon, Carol Wierzbicki, Danny Shot, Kim Brandon, Lehman Weichselbaum, Ron Kolm, Austin Alexis, Tsaurah Litzky, Stephen Paul Miller, Nicole Costa
short Open Free event
curated by Eve Packer
HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM BROWNSTONE POETS!
Mark your calendar for Three Powerful Poets to Ring in another year for poetry at Park Plaza Restaurant!
Three powerful poets Cornelius Eady, Robert Gibbons, and JP Howard will feature for Brownstone Poets on Saturday, January 26 at 2:30 p.m. at Park Plaza Restaurant in historic Brooklyn Heights. Poetry grows in Brooklyn Heights, and there’s an open mic as well. Come enjoy an afternoon of poetry and delicious food at this cozy family-owned restaurant.
CORNELIUS EADY
ROBERT GIBBONS
JP HOWARD
Park Plaza Restaurant
220 Cadman Plaza West near Clark St. and Pineapple Walk
Brooklyn, NY 11201
718 – 596 – 5900
FACEBOOK EVENT:
https://www.facebook.com/events/2199597443431909/
Subways:
Take the A or C to High Street, 2 or 3 to Clark Street
$5 Donation – plus Food/Drink – Open-Mic
Curated by Patricia Carragon
Bios
Cornelius Eady is the author of Hardheaded Weather (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2008); Brutal Imagination (2001), which was a finalist for the 2001 National Book Award in Poetry; The Gathering of My Name (1991), which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize; BOOM BOOM BOOM (1988); Victims of the Latest Dance Craze (1985), which was chosen by Louise Glück, Charles Simic, and Philip Booth for the 1985 Lamont Poetry Selection of The Academy of American Poets. In 1996, Eady and poet Toi Derricote founded Cave Canem, a nonprofit organization serving black poets and acting as a safe space for intellectual engagement and critical debate. In 2016, she and Eady accepted the National Book Foundation’s Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community on behalf of Cave Canem. He has collaborated with jazz composer Deidre Murray in the production of several works of musical theater, including You Don’t Miss Your Water; Running Man, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama in 1999
Robert Gibbons graduated from the English Department at City College in the Spring of 2018. He won the Robert Dejur Prize for Poetry. He has attended the Disquiet Festival in Lisbon, Portugal in the Summer of 2017 and the Norman Mailer Residency in 2016. He has been published in Killer Whale, Suisun Valley Review, Turtle Island Review, and so many that it is difficult to enumerate. His first collection of verse, Close to the Tree, was published in 2012 by Three Rooms Press.
JP Howard’s debut poetry collection, SAY/MIRROR (The Operating System), was a 2016 Lambda Literary finalist. She is also the author of bury your love poems here(Belladonna*). JP is a 2019 featured author in Lambda Literary’s LGBTQ Writers in Schools program. JP curates Women Writers in Bloom Poetry Salon and has received fellowships and grants from Cave Canem, VONA, Lambda, Astraea and Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC). Her poetry and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Academy of American Poets,Anomaly, Apogee Journal, The Feminist Wire, Split this Rock, Muzzle Magazine, and The Best American Poetry Blog. JP holds a BA from Barnard College, an MFA in Creative Writing from The City College of New York and a JD from Brooklyn Law School. Visit JP online at:http://www.jp-howard.com.
No reading for December
Happy Holidays from Brownstone Poets
May the season bring peace of mind, joy, and hope.
Come back on Saturday, January 26, 2018 at 2:30 p.m.
to hear
Juliet P. Howard, Cornelius Eady, Robert Gibbons
at Park Plaza Restaurant
220 Cadman Plaza West
Brooklyn, NY 11201
First snowfalling
on the half-finished bridge
Matsuo Bashō
@ Park Plaza Restaurant
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Take the A or C to High Street, 2 or 3 to Clark Street
R to Court Street
For more directions:
Please check the MTA’s “The Weekender” for all transit updates.http://web.mta.info/weekender.html
$5 Donation – plus Food/Drink – Open-Mic
Curated by Patricia Carragon
pcarragon@gmail.com
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Photo credit: Wednesday Kim
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@ Park Plaza Restaurant
220 Cadman Plaza West near Clark St.and Pineapple Walk
Brooklyn, NY 11201
R to Court Street
Please check the MTA’s “The Weekender” for all transit updates.http://web.mta.info/weekender.html
$5 Donation – plus Food/Drink – Open-Mic
Curated by Patricia Carragon
pcarragon@gmail.com
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Photo credit: Wednesday Kim
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