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Sunday, November 29 at 5:30pm
Poets Wear Prada Poets Wear Prada PWP Author KAREN NEUBERG (DETAILED STILL, 2010) will be reading this Sunday in NYC. Phoenix Reading Series @ Bengal Curry in NYC, Sunday November 29, 2009. CINDY SOSTCHEN-HOCHMAN will also be featured.
Time:5:30PM Sunday, November 29th
Location:Bengal Curry 65 West Broadway NYC (1 1⁄2 blocks below Chambers St)
Poets Wear Prada PWP Author KAREN NEUBERG (DETAILED STILL, 2010) will be reading this Sunday in NYC. Phoenix Reading Series @ Bengal Curry, November 29, 2009 Three Great Poets Open Mic follows @Bengal Curry 65 West Broadway Take the 1, 2, 3, A, C, or E trains to Chambers Street (1 1⁄2 blocks below Chambers St) $3 Donation + Food/Soft Drink Purchase
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Phoenix Series Co-Host GEORGE SPENCER whose 1st chapbook Obscene Richness of Our Times will be released from PWP this winter is featured at The Green Pavillion Poetry Event this Wednesday in Brooklyn! Joining him is JOSHUA MEANDER, host/publisher of Nomad's Choir.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING ! ! ! (a time of sharing - and that m...eans the poetry too!)
Wed., Nov. 25, 7:00-9:30
The Green Pavilion Poetry Event
4307 18th Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11218-5616
(BTW E 2nd St/Seton Pl & McDonald Ave)
718.435.4722
(F train to 18th Ave. station. Last car coming from Manh, right staircase to street. You will be only about 1/2 block away from rest., same block you will be standing on.)
Join Us. Come read your poetry under the chandeliers!
One of the longest running poetry venues in the NYC area.
Let's welcome our features for the evening:
We are looking forward to these two wonderful poets:
Host of the long running poetry venue Nomad's Choir
*** JOSHUA MEANDER ***
Host of the Phoenix Reading Series
*** GEORGE SPENCER ***
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o p e n r e a d i n g
$5.00 min toward rest. (an inexpensive & diverse menu, dinner with your poetry.)
$3.00 suggested donation toward reading
Your hosts: Evie Ivy, Sol Rubin & Cindy Sostchen-Hochman will be helping out!
Note:
The Green Pavilion Poetry Event anthology: "Dinner with the Muse"
The Anthology of the Green Pavilion Poetry Event, Ra Rays Press, $14.95, book store price. Copies available at a lower rate at reading to contributors and non-contributors. The book event on June 21 at the Perch Cafe, was a wonderful event and the one on September 19 at Smalls Jazz Club was sensational. The book is avail. at St. Marks Book Store. (It makes a great Holiday present for those who love to read.)
Bio Notes:
GEORGE SPENCER lives in Ecuador half the year, started the first poetry slam there. Obscene Richness of Our Times, will be published in 2009 by PWP Press. He co-produces Thin Air Poetry Cable Show, co-hosts the Phoenix Reading Series and ABC No Rio Poetry Series. Recent poems are in Adirondack Review, Spinozablue, Fieralingue (Italy) and Retort (Australia).
JOSHUA MEANDER a romantic poet is the host and publisher of Nomad's Choir poetry journal. He has been navigating both responsibilities for 20 years. He strives to build an ever- expanding community of poets. When he attends an open mic. his eyes and ears focus on new talent and the gems of poetry from the regulars on the circuit. His work is musical, dramatic, and sometimes interactive.
Come Read Your Poetry Under the Chandeliers!
Time:7:00PM Wednesday, November 25th
Location:The Green Pavilion Restaurant 4307 18th Ave Brooklyn (Take the F train to 18th Avenue)
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PWP author JOHN J TRAUSE (Seriously Serial, 2007) reads Tue 11/17 8-10PM Tasty Coco Cafe 291 Bloomfield Ave Caldwell NJ 973.364.1734 Open Mic Host Rick Mullin #33 DeCamp bus from Port Authority in NYC, south terminal at 40th St., stopping at the front door of the bistro (Roseland Ave. stop) every hour. Both directions....
Dear Family & Friends,
Please come out and join me for my feature at Tasty Coco on TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2009, 8 – 10 p. m. in the new poetry reading series, Poetry at Tasty Coco, hosted by Rick Mullin. This is a wonderful new series and a great venue. For more details go ask Alice and see the flyer attached to this message as a Word document.
Tasty Coco Cafe
291 Bloomfield Ave
Caldwell, NJ 07006
(973) 364-1734
PLEASE SEE RICK MULLIN’S ANNOUNCEMENT BELOW FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND A TASTY CLIP OF LAST MONTH’S FEATURE:
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Friends,
I am excited about the second reading in the Poetry at Tasty Coco series, which will take place on Tuesday, November 17, 8 P.M., at Tasty Coco Bistro, 291 Bloomfield Avenue in Caldwell, NJ . Please see the attached flyer.
Don Zirilli, gave a wonderful performance at our inaugural reading in October. Here is a short part of it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEnwfVvcY
And I am very pleased to announce that our feature for November is New Jersey poet John J. Trause:
JOHN J. TRAUSE (Wood-Ridge, N. J.) Director of the Wood-Ridge Memorial Library. His chapbook of poetry Seriously Serial is published by Poets Wear Prada, Hoboken , N. J. His translations, poetry, and visual work appear or are forthcoming in Sensations Magazine, Cover (New York, N.Y.), The Rift, The Troubadour, Global City Review, Xavier Review, The Alternative News, Parse (Alchemy), Radix, Now Culture, The Rutherford Red Wheelbarrow Poets Anthology, Off the Coast, TAU-USA, Maintenant, The Journal of New Jersey Poets, Lips, Xcp: Cross Cultural Poetics, Offerta Speciale, Plainsongs, U. S. 1 Worksheets, Conclave, Sulphur River Review, the on-line journals Sidereality, Pedestal Magazine, Ditch, and Otoliths, and the artists' periodical Crossings, published by the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition. His chapbook Latter-Day Litany (Éditions élastiques, 1996) in its performance version (Latter-Day Litany & Other Pseudo-Hagiographica) has been staged Off-Off Broadway and elsewhere by Daniel P. Quinn since 1998. Mr. Trause was a participant in the City Lights Books 50th Anniversary celebration and reading (East Coast celebration) at the Poetry Project, St. Mark’s Church, NYC, at which he interpreted work from Frank O’Hara’s Lunch Poems (1964) and shared the stage with Steven Van Zandt, Anne Waldman, and Karen Finley. In 2005 and again in 2006 Mr. Trause was chosen along with Jerome Rothenberg to participate in the Visible Word exhibition and poetry reading (Stevens Institute, Hoboken, N. J.), which paired poets and visual artists. In 2005 he co-founded the William Carlos Williams Poetry Cooperative in Rutherford, N. J., where he serves as programmer and host. For the sake of art Mr. Trause hung naked for one whole month in the summer of 2007 on the Art Wall of the Bowery Poetry Club. At various times in his life he has been mistaken for being a priest, a policeman, a pimp, and a pornographer. He is none of these.
The venue is ideal, and the poetry is wonderful. We need you there to make the night complete. There will be an open mic for poetry. And there will be the number 33 DeCamp bus from Port Authority in NYC, south terminal at 40th St., stopping at the front door of the bistro (Roseland Ave. stop) every hour. Both directions.
Thank you,
Rick Mullin
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Love & Peace,
JOHN
Time:8:00PM Tuesday, November 17th
Location:Tasty Coco Cafe 291 Bloomfield Ave Caldwell NJ 973.364.1734
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PWP Author MICHAEL MONTLACK (THE SLIP, 2010) & editor of MY DIVA will be reading this Sunday in NYC.
Phoenix Reading Series @ Bengal Curry, November 15, 2009
Three Great Poets
Open Mic follows
Bengal Curry
65 West Broadway
Take the 1, 2, 3, A, C, or E trains to Chambers Street
1 1⁄2 blocks below Chambers St
$3 + Food/S...oft Drink Purchase
This Sunday is going to be another great experience at Phoenix Reading/Open Mic @ Bengal Curry. We will have three very different poets. If you love poetry you will not want to miss it. If you love Indian food, including the best naan in NYC, you will not want to miss it. If you love both you will be in Nirvana.
Below are the bios of the features:
Connie Meng was born in Sichuan Province, China, moved to Chicago at
age 4, grew up in upstate New York, went to college in Philadelphia,
and is a recent transplant in New York City. In 2007, she won the
College Alumni Poetry Prize at the University of Pennsylvania. Of her
poems, Laura Kasischke says, "At the same time that Meng's poems seem
very new to me, the work reminds me too of the best of Louise Glück --
these moments of intensity followed by a subtle shrug. She has an
astonishingly sophisticated sense of the lyric poem and all it might
contain." Connie has been writing poetry since age 10 and is currently
working on her first book of poems. Her poetry has appeared in
Peregrine.
Michael Montlack splits his time between New York City, where he is professor of English at Berkeley College, and San Francisco. He has published two chapbooks of poetry, Girls, Girls, Girls and Cover Charge. He's the editor of My Diva: 65 Gay Men on the Women who Inspire Them, an anthology inspired by his love for Stevie Nicks.
Long time downtown poet, Mindy Levokove, has participated in various CLWN WR poetry readings, featured at Saturn Series, co-ordinated Poetry in the Garden and has done spoken work/performance at ABC No Rio, CBGB and the Bowery Poetry Club.
3 Great Poets!
Time:5:30PM Sunday, November 15th
Location:Bengal Curry, 65 West Broadway, NYC (1 1⁄2 blocks below Chambers St)
Poets Wear Prada PATRICIA CARRAGON (Cupcake Chronicles, 2010) joins PWP Alumni JEE LEONG KOH (Payday Loans, 2007), SUSAN MAURER (Raptor Rapsody, 2007) & host PETER CHELNIK (Paradise Highway, 2007) this Sunday November 15 at Peter Chelnik's Prairie Fire Jazz Poetry Reading & Open Mic. $5. Open Mic Sign-up 5:45PM.
Time:5:30PM Sunday, November 15th
Location:American Theatre of Actors 314 W 54th St (8th & 9th Aves) NYC
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PWP Author JOEL ALLEGRETTI (THRUM, forthcoming from PWP 2010) is one of the poets who will be participating this Sunday afternoon in A Tribute to Daniel Berrigan, S.J.
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A Tribute to Daniel Berrigan, S.J. “[Berrigan] deserves a place of honor on this century's highest shelf.” - Boston Post
Reading in tribute to Fath...er Berrigan: Joel Allegretti, Steve Brouwer, Michael Crosby, Gordon Gilbert, Deirdre Mahoney, and Peter Martin
Poet, playwright, and biographer Daniel Berrigan, S.J., is an internationally renowned peace activist, a member of the Catonsville Nine and the Plowshares Eight. He was twice nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. He is also a recipient of the Lamont Poetry Prize, the Thomas Merton Award, the Pax Christi USA Pope Paul VI Teacher of Peace Award, and the Pacem in Terris Peace and Freedom Award. He has taught religious studies and theology in various universities and has been a contributing editor to Sojourners, a magazine of faith, politics, and culture.
Sunday Best Reading Series
Spoken-word performances by fiction writers, poets, dramatists, and memoir writers
The Lounge at Hudson View Gardens
116 Pinehurst Avenue @ 183rd Street
#C-42
New York, NY 10034
212-568-9628
Host Patricia Eakins, 212-923-7800 x1342
212-928-4227
Take the A train to 181 St./Ft.Washington Ave. (Pinehurst is one block west of Ft. Washington)
Sunday, November 8th at 4:00 p.m.
Suggested donation of $7 includes one free drink and free snacks
Reception after to meet the writers
Time:4:00PM Sunday, November 8th
Location:The Lounge, Hudson View Gardens, Pinehurst Avenue and 183rd Street
Poets Wear Prada MICHAEL MONTLACK kicks off the Atlanta Queer Literary Festival with "My Diva" Anthology Reading @ Outwrite 7:30-8:30PM Outwrite Bookstore 991 Piedmont Ave NE Atlanta Georgia
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PWP Author AUSTIN ALEXIS reads tonight 11/05 at Kiva Cafe in NYC at 8PM! kiva cafe, 139 Reade Street, New York, NY 10013 (btw Greenwich and Hudson Streets)
Our featured guest readers are:
MD has been on the local poetry scene for over a decade. His work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. And he has read.../performed in countries such as Peru and Russia.
Randall Horton is the author of The Definition of Place, and the The Lingua Franca of Ninth Street, both fromMain Street Rag. Randall is the co-editor of Fingernails Across the Chalkboard Poetry and Prose on HIV/AIDs from the Black Diaspora (Third World Press, 2007). Randall also has a MFA in poetry from Chicago State University and a PhD in English/Creative Writing from SUNY Albany. He teaches at the University of New Haven.
Howard Pflanzer is a playwright, lyricist, poet and director. On the Border, his play about the last night on earth of Walter Benjamin had its world premiere at the Medicine Show Theatre Ensemble in November of 2007, where it was the winner of the Jump-Start new play competition. In 2008 he was a collaborating writer on Pleasures of Peace, also at Medicine Show. The Terrorist, was presented (US premiere: 2006) by the Unofficial New York Yale Cabaret (UNYYC) at the Westbank Café, Laurie Beechman Theatre, NYC. He recently lectured on Jerzy Grotowski, Judith Malina and Alternative Theatre in the U.S. at the Malta International Theatre Festival in Poznan Poland. He was a Fulbright Scholar in theatre (2003) in India where he directed the world premiere of The Terrorist at the National Center for the Performing Arts (NCPA) in Mumbai. He has an MFA from the Yale School of Drama in Playwriting and Dramatic Literature. He was the winner of a 2001 New Play Commission from the National Foundation for Jewish Culture for Jersey Nights at Medicine Show, a NYFA Playwriting Fellowship, two ASCAP Awards, a Puffin Foundation grant and co-winner of an NEA Media Arts grant for the opera, Dream Beach (with Michael Sahl). His plays and musicals have been performed at La MaMa ETC, (The House of Nancy Dunn with Steve Weisberg and Andy Craft), Playwrights Horizons, Symphony Space, Medicine Show, Kraine Theater (Cocaine Dreams), the Living Theatre (UFO Story and Strindberg's Dream) and Dixon Place and broadcast over WNYC and WBAI FM.. His work has appeared in The Quarterly, The Drama Review (TDR), New York Theatre Review (anthology). Theatre2k.com, Cover, And Then, Home Planet News and Downtown Brooklyn and in the poetry anthologies, Off the Cuffs and Long Island Sounds.
Micah Zevin is a Librarian in the Queens Library system and currently resides with his wife, Holly Eaton, a playwright in the Bronx. Micah has most recently published poems in the online journals Chicken Pinata and namecalling.org. He also has written reviews of literary journals and books for the literary website www.newpages.com. You can check out Micah's poems in print and video form at his blog: www.somarspoetry.blogspot.com. Micah is a member of the new comedy troupe The Offensive Line.
Austin Alexis has been published in Barrow Street, The Pedestal Magazine, The Journal, Red River Review, the anthologies Off the Cuffs (Soft Skull Press), And We the Creatures (Dream Horse Press) and in the Poets Wear Prada chapbook series. He has been a resident fellow at the Millay Colony for the Arts and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and received a Bread Loaf Writers' Conference Scholarship. He has taught at Empire State College, Long Island University (Brooklyn Campus) and elsewhere.
Kim Foote has a MFA from Chicago State University. She won the PALF fiction prize.
Ilka Scobie writes for Italian travel magazines and has taught as a writer-in-residence for 20 years. She is co-editor of Live magazine and has had poems in numerous journals.
$3.00 mini sandwiches
$5.00 bottled beer
$5.00 wine by the glass
kiva cafe is continually looking for poets, authors, screenplay writers, actors to read at our Thursday Night Reading Series event.
If you, or anyone you know are interested, please contact me or forward this email to them.
We hope to see you at our new first and third, Thursday Night Reading series!
All the best!
Beebe
kiva cafe
Visit us at www.kivacafe.com
Email: kiva.cafe2@verizon.net
Call: 212-587-1198
Time:8:00PM Thursday, November 5th
Location:kiva cafe, 139 Reade St. (Greenwich & Hudson Sts) NYC
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Kevin Wisher reviews THE SLIP, a new chapbook by Michael Montlack from Poets Wear Prada. http://flordelconcreto.blogspot.com/2009
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Walking wearily into the house, the work day now over with a fervent wish to merely relax and recharge, I poured a cup of some well deserved coffee before taking my position on the long worn sofa. Black ...
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This Sunday is going to be another great experience at Phoenix Reading/Open Mic @ Bengal Curry. We will have three very different poets. If you love poetry you will not want to miss it. If you love Indian food, including the best naan in NYC, you will not want to miss it. If you love both you will be in Nirvana.
Belo...w are the bios of the features:
David Elsasser is a host of the Monday night Saturn Reading, one of Manhattan's longest running poetry open mics. His chapbook, Last Call, a generational journal, was recently published by Poet's Wear Prada Press.
Elise Buchman spent much of her life as a mime-clown, training with Marcel Marceau in Paris. Subsequently she came to New York and got an MA and MFA from The City College of New York, and now teaches writing. She writes both for children and poetry for adults. Her first book of children's poems is forthcoming this fall from Publish America and also forthcoming this fall from Seven Stories Press is a book she translated called Fidel
Lily Georgick is a lover of Greek mythology and nature, has traveled extensively in Greece and has climbed Mt. Olympus. She has 4 chapbooks outstanding and edits the annual poetry anthology published by Greenwich House. She is an English writing tutor at La Guardia Community College.
Hosted by Michael Graves & George Spencer
3 Great Poets!
Time:5:30PM Sunday, November 1st
Location:65 West Broadway, NYC (1 1⁄2 blocks below Chambers St )
