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.

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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.

The 19 th Annual Brevitas Festival of the Short Poem

I will be reading virtually:

The 19th Annual Brevitas Festival of the Short Poem
HYBRID Event featuring poets LIVE & VIRTUALLY
Sunday, November 6, 2022 • 1:30 – 4:30 pm
The Bowery Poetry Club (aka Duane Park)

308 Bowery (between Bleecker & Houston), New York, NY 10012

Poet-members Jim Pignetti and Steve Zeitlin (founder of City Lore) launched Brevitas when they invited a small circle of poet-friends to email original, short poems (14 lines max) to each other on the 1 st and 15 th of each month. Now in its nineteenth year, this community has grown to over 50 poets, and a dynamic incubator of new work. This annual festival is a performance plus book party for the release of the 2022 Brevitas 19 Anthology of the Short Poem featuring a selection of each member-poet’s selections from the year’s exchange. Flash Rosenberg will host. Poems will be projected. Words will gush with pith, piety, and playfulness. Books will be signed.

The Poetry Club Joins 1000 Poets for Change

Saturday, September 17, 2022 at 4 p.m. on Zoom

On September 17, 2022, Saturday, at 4 P.M. E.S.T. on Zoom, Noreen Snyder is hosting 100 Thousand Poets for Change 2022 with Maxwanette A Poetess as her co-host. .

The topics are justice, peace, and sustainability.

I will be joining them before 5:30 EST

contact Noreen Snyder for the Zoom Link on Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/NoreenAnnSnyder

Brownstone Poets on Zoom Alexandra van de Kamp, Thomas Fucaloro, Mario José Pagán Morales, Saturday, July 30 from 2 p.m. to 4:30 p.m EST

Brownstone Poets on Zoom

Saturday, July 30, 2022

from 2 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. EST on Zoom

Alexandra van de Kamp

Thomas Fucaloro

Mario José Pagán Morales

Plus a limited open mic

$5

Hosted by Patricia Carragon

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.

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 July reading! For your convenience, here is the link to our Facebook event page:
https://fb.me/e/1a24ntQy8

Bios:

Alexandra van de Kamp is the Executive Director for Gemini Ink, San Antonio’s Writing Arts Center (www.geminiink.org). A native New Yorker, she has now lived in San Antonio, TX for seven years. Her most recent books of poems are Kiss/Hierarchy (Rain Mountain Press 2016) and The Park of Upside-Down Chairs (CW Books 2010). Her third book, Ricochet Script, will be published by from Next Page Press (https://nextpage-press.com) on April 1, 2022. She has also published several chapbooks, including A Liquid Bird Inside the Night (Red Glass Books 2015) and Dear Jean Seberg (2011), which won the 2010 Burnside Review Chapbook Contest. Her poems have been published in journals nationwide, such as The Cincinnati Review, The Texas Observer, Denver Quarterly, Great Weather for MEDIA, Washington Square, Sweet: A Literary Confection, and Tahoma Literary Review. Find out more about her work here: http://alexandravandekamppoet.com.

Thomas Fucaloro The winner of a performance grant from the Staten Island Council of the Arts and the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, Thomas Fucaloro has been on six national slam teams. He holds an MFA in creative writing from the New School and is a co-founding editor of Great Weather for Media and NYSAI press. He is an adjunct professor at Wagner College and BMCC where he teaches world lit and advanced creative writing. Thomas has released 2 full lengths: It Starts From the Belly and Blooms and Inheriting Craziness is a Soft Halo of Light by Three Rooms Press. He also has 3 chapbooks: Mistakes Disguised as Stars (Tired Hearts Press), Depression Cupcakes (Yes, Poetry) and There is Always Tomorrow (Mad Gleam Press). His new Chapbook The Only Gardening I Do is When I Give Up by Finishing Line Press will be out in August. 

Mario José Pagán Morales is a Nuyorican poet and cultural worker born in Ponce, Puerto Rico, and raised in the South Bronx. His work is anthologized in The BreakBeat Poets, Volume 4: LatiNEXT (Haymarket Books, 2020), Birds Fall Silent in the Mechanical Sea (great weather for MEDIA, 2019), and in the 2019 “The Performance of Breath” edition of The Acentos Review (edited by Peggy Robles-Alvarado and Lupe Méndez). Pagán is a founding member of the Títere Poets. In addition, he is a Pushcart Prize nominee and co-founder of the La Esquina open mic.

SOS SURVIVING SUICIDE @ A WONDROUS PLACE – TURNER CONTEMPORARY Friday, September 3 from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.

SOS SURVIVING SUICIDE @ A WONDROUS PLACE – TURNER CONTEMPORARY  

Friday, September 3 from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Hosted by Turner Contemporary

Free Event

Honored to be part of this event. 

I will be zooming from Brooklyn:
Event by Stretch Outsider Art GalleryTurner ContemporaryDuration: 3 hrPublic  · Anyone on or off FacebookAS PART OF THE ARTS COUNCIL ENGLAND SUPPORTED PROJECT ‘A WONDROUS PLACE’ – A special evening of stories and readings from the new Anthology – ‘SOS SURVIVING SUICIDE’- Live readings alongside projected zooming of poets from across 4 continents. A very special evening to be held in Margates most celebrated arts venues ‘TURNER CONTEMPORARY FOYLE ROOM’ Places are limited to just 80! So get in quick or be disappointed… Confirmed live readers are ; Dean Stalham, Raw by Nature, Luke Sullivan, Pat Havemercy, Suzanne French, Carlotta Allum, Madeleine White, Sophie Cameron, and Banu Ercon – Zooming in on the big screen will be Yuyutsu Sharma and friends- live from Nepal!!!!! Ireland and The USA!!!

Tim Tomlinson/USA
James Ragan/USA
Anne Casey/Ireland
Judith Mok/Ireland
Karen Corinne Herceg/USA
Megha Sood/India/USA
Yogesh Patel/UK
Timothy Gager/USA
Patricia Carragon /USA
Carrie Magness Radna/USA

FACEBOOK  EVENT:
https://www.facebook.com/events/412291240216419/?ref=newsfeed

Poetry at Turner

Friday, 3 September⋅6:30 – 9:30pmLocation:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85890295607?pwd=Q2ZEcEtEdWxjSTlkMVFvdkx4RVFEZz09Description:Carlotta Allum (on Andrew Kidger’s account) is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85890295607?pwd=Q2ZEcEtEdWxjSTlkMVFvdkx4RVFEZz09

Meeting ID: 858 9029 5607 Passcode: 373707

BROOKLYN POETRY SLAM for Rob Ramos, Sat, Jan. 2 at 6 p.m. on Zoom

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

Brownstone Poets with Yuyutsu Sharma, Bertha Rogers, Carrie Magness Radna Sat, 12/12 from 2 p.m.to 4 p.m. EST New York City

Brownstone Poets is back on ZOOM

Saturday, December 12 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. EST

Yuyutsu Sharma, Bertha Rogers, 

Carrie Magness Radna

Please follow directions below to prevent last minute traffic on the day of the reading:We’re back! On ZOOM. Our December features are Yuyutsu Sharma, Bertha Rogers, and Carrie Magness Radna. Plus a limited open mic. Your $5 contributions keeps our annual anthology in print and pays our features. Hosted by Patricia Carragon, our Brooklyn girl and Editor-in-Chief.Step 1: Make your $5 donation: https://rb.gy/utlbolStep 2: Register in advance for this meeting: https://rb.gy/9hxvyhStep 3: After making your donation and registering, you will receive a confidential confirmation email containing your unique link to join the event.Looking forward to seeing you at our December reading!

Facebook Event:
https://www.facebook.com/events/296341978268709

BIOS:

Yuyutsu SharmaWorld-renowned Himalayan poet and translator, Yuyutsu Sharma has published ten poetry collections including, The Second Buddha Walk, A Blizzard in my Bones: New York Poems, Quaking Cantos: Nepal Earthquake Poems, Nepal Trilogy, Space Cake, Amsterdam and Annapurna Poems. Half the year, he travels and reads all over the world and conducts Creative Writing workshops at various universities in North America and Europe but goes trekking in the Himalayas when back home. Currently, Yuyutsu Sharma is a visiting poet at Columbia University and edits, Pratik: A Quarterly Magazine of Contemporary Writing.

Bertha Rogers

Bertha Rogers’s poems have been published in journals and anthologies; and in several collections, among them Wild, Again (Salmon, 2019); Heart Turned Back (Salmon, 2011); and Sleeper, You Wake (Mellen, 1991). Her translation of Beowulf was published in 2000, and her translation and illuminations of the riddle-poems in the thousand-year-old Anglo-Saxon Exeter Book were published as Uncommon Creatures in 2019. She co-founded Bright Hill Press & Literary Center of the Catskills in 1992; although retired, she still teaches literary workshops and edits poetry collections for the Center. She lives on a mountain in New York’s western Catskills.

Carrie Magness Radna

Carrie Magness Radna is an audiovisual cataloger at the New York Public Library, a choral singer and a poet who loves traveling. Her poems have previously appeared in The Oracular Tree, Muddy River Poetry Review, Poetry Super Highway, Home Planet News, Cajun Mutt Press, Walt’s Corner, Alien Buddha Press, Jerry Jazz Musician and First Literary Review-East. Her first poetry collection, Hurricanes never apologize (Luchador Press) was published in December 2019. Her upcoming poetry collection In the blue hour (Nirala Publications), will be published in 2021. Born in Norman, Oklahoma, she now lives with her husband in Manhattan, New York. 

https://carriemagnessradna.com

REMINDER:Brownstone Poets with Sarah Sarai, Geer Austin and Matthew Hupert

 REMINDER:

Brownstone Poets with Sarah Sarai, Geer Austin and Matthew Hupert

Sunday, October 11 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.

We’re back! On ZOOM. 
Our October features are Matthew Hupert, Sarah Sarai, and Geer Austin. Plus a limited open mic. Your $5 contributions keeps our annual anthology in print and pays our features. Hosted by Patricia Carragon, our Brooklyn girl and Editor-in-Chief.

Facebook event:https://www.facebook.com/events/740114453235028?active_tab=about

Step 1: Make your $5 donation: https://rb.gy/utlbolStep 2: Register in advance for this meeting: https://rb.gy/wtz3ewStep 3: After making your donation and registering, you will receive a confidential confirmation email containing your unique link to join the event.
Bios:

Sarah Sarai is poet and independent editor in New York. She is also a squirrel enthusiast and volunteers teaching etiquette to pigeons. Sarah has published two full-length poetry collections, That Strapless Bra in Heaven (Kelsay Books) and The Future Is Happy (BlazeVOX[books]), as well as the chapbooks Geographies of Soul and Taffeta (Indolent Books), Emily Dickinson’s Coconut Face (Dusie), The Risen Barbie (Dusie) and others. Her short stories have been published in many journals, as have her poems. Born in a former speakeasy on Long Island (N.Y.), raised in the sleeze of Paul Thomas Anderson’s San Fernando Valley, Ms. Sarai holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College.

Geer Austin is the author of Cloverleaf (Poets Wear Prada Press). His poetry appears in Poet Lore, Manhattanville Review, Big Bridge, Plenitude, Boog City, and other journals, and in Lovejets: queer male poets on 200 years of Walt Whitman, and other anthologies. He lives in New York City.

Matthew Hupert, from New York City, is the founder of NeuroNautic Institute and Press. He has 2 full length collections, Ism is a Retrovirus (Three Rooms Press-2011) and Secular Pantheism (NeuroNautic Press-2019) plus several chapbooks. He’s appeared in Midstream Magazine, Maintenant DaDa journal, and Sonnets: 150 Contemporary Sonnets (2005) et.al. Matthew hosts the annual NY poets reading, Night in the Naked City, and the Monthly series NeuroNautic Institute Presents.

Brownstone Poets with Sarah Sarai, Geer Austin and Matthew Hupert, Sunday, Oct 11 from 2pm to 4pm

Brownstone Poets with Sarah Sarai, Geer Austin and Matthew Hupert

Sunday, October 11 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
We’re back! On ZOOM. 
Our October features are Matthew Hupert, Sarah Sarai, and Geer Austin. Plus a limited open mic. Your $5 contributions keeps our annual anthology in print and pays our features. Hosted by Patricia Carragon, our Brooklyn girl and Editor-in-Chief.

Step 1: Make your $5 donation: https://rb.gy/utlbol

Step 2: Register in advance for this meeting: https://rb.gy/wtz3ew

Step 3: After making your donation and registering, you will receive a confidential confirmation email containing your unique link to join the event.

Bios:

Sarah Sarai is poet and independent editor in New York. She is also a squirrel enthusiast and volunteers teaching etiquette to pigeons. Sarah has published two full-length poetry collections, That Strapless Bra in Heaven (Kelsay Books) and The Future Is Happy (BlazeVOX[books]), as well as the chapbooks Geographies of Soul and Taffeta (Indolent Books), Emily Dickinson’s Coconut Face (Dusie), The Risen Barbie (Dusie) and others. Her short stories have been published in many journals, as have her poems. Born in a former speakeasy on Long Island (N.Y.), raised in the sleeze of Paul Thomas Anderson’s San Fernando Valley, Ms. Sarai holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College.

Geer Austin is the author of Cloverleaf (Poets Wear Prada Press). His poetry appears in Poet Lore, Manhattanville Review, Big Bridge, Plenitude, Boog City, and other journals, and in Lovejets: queer male poets on 200 years of Walt Whitman, and other anthologies. He lives in New York City.

Matthew Hupert, from New York City, is the founder of NeuroNautic Institute and Press. He has 2 full length collections, Ism is a Retrovirus (Three Rooms Press-2011) and Secular Pantheism (NeuroNautic Press-2019) plus several chapbooks. He’s appeared in Midstream Magazine, Maintenant DaDa journal, and Sonnets: 150 Contemporary Sonnets (2005) et.al. Matthew hosts the annual NY poets reading, Night in the Naked City, and the Monthly series NeuroNautic Institute Presents.