Thank you David Kirschenbaum and Ron Kolm for having me perform for Welcome to Boog City 15.5 Arts Festival on YouTube back on February 21.
Kudos to Amy Barone, Peter Bushyeager, Matthew Hupert, Meghan Grupposo, Francine Witte.
Enjoy!
Reminder: Brownstone Poets 2021 Anthology Celebration
Saturday, November 27, 2021
2 P.M. to 4:30 P.M.
Our November features are:
Susana H, Case
Jack Cooper
Ron Kolm
Bruce Whittacre
David Dephy
Mireya Perez
Jeff Cottrill
Zev Torres
Yuyutsu Sharma
Austin Alexis
$5 Donation
Plus a limited open mic
Hosted by Patricia Carragon
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 43 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 Yuko Otomo 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.
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 to read early in the program. Last-minute signup means you will read at the end of the program. 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 November reading! For your convenience here is the link to our Facebook event page:
https://fb.me/e/1h85uKJcS
Brownstone Poets 2021 Anthology Celebration
Saturday, November 27, 2021
2 P.M. to 4:30 P.M.
Our November features are:
Susana H, Case
Jack Cooper
Ron Kolm
Bruce Whittacre
David Dephy
Mireya Perez
Jeff Cottrill
Zev Torres
Yuyutsu Sharma
Austin Alexis
$5 Donation
Plus a limited open mic
Hosted by Patricia Carragon
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 43 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 Yuko Otomo 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.
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 to read early in the program. Last-minute signup means you will read at the end of the program. 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 November reading! For your convenience here is the link to our Facebook event page:
https://fb.me/e/1h85uKJcS
Join us at the brevitas 18th Annual Festival of the Short Poem on Sunday, November 14, at 4pm
Virtual Program with open mic at end (one poem 14 lines maximum)
Register on Eventbrite:https://www.eventbrite.com/…/the-brevitas-poetry…
Hosted by Flash Rosenberg w/50+ poets, including Ron Kolm, Patricia Carragon, Maria Lisella, co-founder Steve Zeitlin, Austin Alexis Amy Barone, and more.
Happy National Poetry Month!
Michael Graves is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting with Ron Kohm, Amy Barone, Patricia Carragon.
Please join us to hear these amazing writers and share your work at the open mic.
$5
Hosted by Michael Graves
Topic: Michael Graves’ Zoom Meeting
Time: Apr 11, 2021 06:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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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)
Join Zoom Meeting
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Thank you Ron Kolm for inviting me to read your wonderful poems.Congrats again on your new book. What I wrote in the blurb came from my heart.
Sunday, August 4 from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.
The Parkside Lounge317 East Houston StreetNYC 10002
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/912061109170803/
Great Weather for Media is pleased to host a celebration of “Welcome To The Barbecue,” a new book of poems by Ron Kolm. In addition to Ron, reading from the book will be Amy Barone, Patricia Carragon, Thaddeus Rutkowski, and reading host Francine Witte.
RON KOLM is a contributing editor of Sensitive Skin magazine, and the author of Divine Comedy, A Change in the Weather and Welcome to the Barbecue. He’s had work in Maintenant, Local Knowledge, Live Mag! and The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry. Ron’s papers are archived in the NYU library.
GWforM host George Wallace
Open Mic 2 drink (alc/non) minimum, $3 in the can to support the cause. You know the drill.
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
Reminder:
Poetry Grows in Brooklyn Heights 2018
Brownstone Poets Still Inspiring Brooklyn Since 2005
Brownstone Poets presents
Saturday, June 23 at 2:30 p.m.
Alex Cigale
Joe Elliot
Jim Feast
Ron Kolm
Francine Witte
@ Park Plaza Restaurant
220 Cadman Plaza West near Clark St.and Pineapple Walk
Brooklyn, NY 11201
718 – 596 – 5900
Subways:
Take the A or C to High Street, 2 or 3 to Clark Street
R to Court Street
4 or to 5 Borough Hall
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
FACEBOOK EVENT:
https://www.facebook.com/events/176212063218049/
BIOS:
Alex Cigale’s first book, Russian Absurd: Daniil Kharms, Selected Writings, came out in the Northwestern World Classics series in 2017. He was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Literary Translation in 2015. His own poems in English and translations of Russian poetry have appeared in such journals as The Harvard Review, Modern Poetry in Translation, World Literature Today, and Words Without Borders. He recently edited the Russian issues of theAtlanta Review and Trafika Europe. An Assistant Professor at the American University of Central Asia from 2011 to 2013, he is currently a Lecturer in Russian Literature and Language at CUNY-Queens College.
Joe Elliot is the author of numerous chapbooks, including: You Gotta Go In It’s the Big Game, Poems to be Centered on Much Much Larger Pieces of Paper, 15 Clanking Radiators, 14 Knots, Reduced, Half Gross (a collaboration with artist John Koos), and Object Lesson (a collaboration with artist Rich O’Russa). His long poem, 101 Designs for the World Trade Center, was published by Faux Press as an e-book in 2003. Collections of his work include Opposable Thumb (subpress, 2006), Homework (Lunar Chandelier, 2010), and Idea for a B Movie (Free Scholars Press, 2016). Joe teaches English at Edward R. Murrow High School, and lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Anne Noonan, and their three sons.
Jim Feast is one of the editors of the Unbearables latest anthology. His murder mystery Long Day, Counting Tomorrowappeared in 2017.
Ron Kolm is a co-editor of From Somewhere to Nowhere: The End of the American Dream and a contributing editor of Sensitive Skin. He is the author of Divine Comedy, Suburban Ambush, Duke & Jill, Night Shift and A Change in the Weather. He’s had work in Flapperhouse, Great Weather for Media, Live Mag!, the Resist Much / Obey Little: Inaugural Poems to the Resistance anthology, Maintenant, The Opiate, Local Knowledge, the Brownstone Poets Anthology and the Outlaw Bible of American Poetry. Ron’s papers are archived in the Fales Library at NYU.
Francine Witte is the author of four poetry chapbooks and two flash fiction chapbooks. Her full-length poetry collection, Café Crazy, has recently been published by Kelsay Books. She is reviewer, blogger, and photographer. She is a former English teacher. She lives in NYC.
Poetry Grows in Brooklyn Heights 2018
Brownstone Poets Still Inspiring Brooklyn Since 2005
Brownstone Poets presents
Saturday, June 23 at 2:30 p.m.
Alex Cigale
Joe Elliot
Jim Feast
Ron Kolm
Francine Witte
@ Park Plaza Restaurant
220 Cadman Plaza West near Clark St.and Pineapple Walk
Brooklyn, NY 11201
718 – 596 – 5900
Subways:
Take the A or C to High Street, 2 or 3 to Clark Street
R to Court Street
4 or to 5 Borough Hall
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
FACEBOOK EVENT:
https://www.facebook.com/events/176212063218049/
BIOS:
Alex Cigale’s first book, Russian Absurd: Daniil Kharms, Selected Writings, came out in the Northwestern World Classics series in 2017. He was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Literary Translation in 2015. His own poems in English and translations of Russian poetry have appeared in such journals as The Harvard Review, Modern Poetry in Translation, World Literature Today, and Words Without Borders. He recently edited the Russian issues of theAtlanta Review and Trafika Europe. An Assistant Professor at the American University of Central Asia from 2011 to 2013, he is currently a Lecturer in Russian Literature and Language at CUNY-Queens College.
Joe Elliot is the author of numerous chapbooks, including: You Gotta Go In It’s the Big Game, Poems to be Centered on Much Much Larger Pieces of Paper, 15 Clanking Radiators, 14 Knots, Reduced, Half Gross (a collaboration with artist John Koos), and Object Lesson (a collaboration with artist Rich O’Russa). His long poem, 101 Designs for the World Trade Center, was published by Faux Press as an e-book in 2003. Collections of his work include Opposable Thumb (subpress, 2006), Homework (Lunar Chandelier, 2010), and Idea for a B Movie (Free Scholars Press, 2016). Joe teaches English at Edward R. Murrow High School, and lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Anne Noonan, and their three sons.
Jim Feast is one of the editors of the Unbearables latest anthology. His murder mystery Long Day, Counting Tomorrowappeared in 2017.
Ron Kolm is a co-editor of From Somewhere to Nowhere: The End of the American Dream and a contributing editor of Sensitive Skin. He is the author of Divine Comedy, Suburban Ambush, Duke & Jill, Night Shift and A Change in the Weather. He’s had work in Flapperhouse, Great Weather for Media, Live Mag!, the Resist Much / Obey Little: Inaugural Poems to the Resistance anthology, Maintenant, The Opiate, Local Knowledge, the Brownstone Poets Anthology and the Outlaw Bible of American Poetry. Ron’s papers are archived in the Fales Library at NYU.
Francine Witte is the author of four poetry chapbooks and two flash fiction chapbooks. Her full-length poetry collection, Café Crazy, has recently been published by Kelsay Books. She is reviewer, blogger, and photographer. She is a former English teacher. She lives in NYC.
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