Brownstone Poets

Shows

• Tue

  Jun 18

  Cafe Dada
  Brooklyn, NY, US | 7:00pm
  Cafe Dada
  Brooklyn, NY, US

  Tue Jun 18 7:00pm
  

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  Brownstone Poets presents Andrew Kaufman and Katrinka Moore on Tuesday, June 18 at 7 p.m. at Café Dada. Enjoy the Old World ambiance in Park Slope that’s near several subways. Feast on French-Hungarian cuisine and delectable pastries. Relax with some wine or beer, a cup of coffee or tea while listening to great poetry. There’s an open mic as well. Poetry does grow in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Brownstone Poets presents: Andrew Kaufman and Katrinka Moore Tuesday, June 18, 2013 Starts at 7 p.m. – Sign up at 6:45 p.m. Café Dada 57 Seventh Avenue (at the corner of Lincoln Place) Park Slope, Brooklyn, NY 11217 718-622-2800 Subways: 2 or 3 to Grand Army Plaza B or Q to Seventh Avenue F or G to Seventh Avenue (9th Street) R to Union Street, plus a bit of a walk. http://www.hopstop.com/ $4 donation + food/drink - Open-Mic Curated by Patricia Carragon pcarragon@gmail.com brownstonepoets.blogspot.com http://patriciacarragon8.wordpress.com/ http://myspace.com/pattiekake8 http://en-gb.facebook.com/people/Brownstone-Poets/541314712 BIOS: Andrew Kaufman grew up near NYC, graduated from Oberlin College, earned his MFA in poetry writing from Brooklyn College, and his MA and Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Toronto. His Cinnamon Bay Sonnets won the Center for Book Arts chapbook competition, and was followed by Earth's Ends, winner of the Pearl Poetry Award. He is the recipient of an NEA award and two Pushcart poetry nominations, and his poems have appeared in numerous journals. He has also published critical work on William Blake, and written for New York Newsday and The Detroit News. His latest book of poems is Both Sides of the Niger (Spuyten Duyvel Press, 2013). The Cinnamon Bay Poems (Rain Mountain Press) is forthcoming in 2014. He lives in New York City and currently teaches literature at SUNY Purchase. Katrinka Moore started out as a choreographer and dancer, made a brief foray into performance art, ended up writing poetry, then ventured into making visual poems and collages as well. Recent work appears in MungBeing, Otoliths, and First Literary Review-East. Katrinka is the author of Thief (BlazeVOX, 2009) and This is Not a Story, which won the New Women’s Voices Prize and was published by Finishing Line Press in 2003. She is currently sending out a minimalist epic, Numa, about a shape-shifting creature.

• Mon

  Jun 17

  D.B.A.
  New York, NY, US | 8:00pm
  D.B.A.
  New York, NY, US

  Mon Jun 17 8:00pm
  

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  We Three Productions Reading Series at D.B.A. Mon, June 17 at 8 p.m. Monday, June 17 at 8 p.m. We Three Productions Reading Series Presents: Patricia Carragon, Boni Joi, and Lisa Faith Phillips at D.B.A. 41 1st Ave. East Village, NYC-10003 (212) 475-5097 telreadings@gmail.com FREE ADMISSION Take the F Train to Second Ave. B, D, 6 Train to Bway/Lafayette for more direction info: www.hopstop.com/ LISA FAITH PHILLIPS Lisa Faith Phillips is a playwright and a comedian and has been participating artist at theatres in New York, London, Barcelona and Findlay, Ohio. Lisa's musical-comedy self-help lecture Savvy Secrets of Successful Mistresses will open the East to Edinburg Festival at 59E59 Theatres here in NYC July 9-11. Then she will take her one-woman show All-Nude College-Girl Revue or how I made it through the LSE to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival August 19-24. 2013. Find out more at Savvy Secrets.com. Lisa is Director of Digital Strategy and Development at Hachette Book Group. Boni joi Boni Joi has an MFA from Columbia University. Her poems have appeared in Arabella, Long Shot, Boog City Reader, Drivers Side Air Bag, Big Hammer, Mind Gorilla, Lungfull and the Brooklyn Rail. She is also a rotating member of the show mortified and featured on NPR. Her first book of poetry, "Before, During and After was published in 2012. Boni lives with her husband, musical chef, Tobi Joi in Brooklyn. PATRICIA CARRAGON Patricia Carragon is a New York City writer and poet. Her publications include Avocet, Best Poem, BigCityLit, CLWN WR, Chantarelle’s Notebook, Clockwise Cat, Danse Macabre, Ditch Poetry, First Literary Review-East, Inertia, Lips, MÖBIUS, The Poetry Magazine, Marymark Press, Maintenant, Mad Hatters’ Review, The Mom Egg, New Verse News, The Long Island Quarterly, The Toronto Quarterly, Word Salad, and more. She is the author of Journey to the Center of My Mind (Rogue Scholars Press). She is a member of Brevitas, a group dedicated to short poems. She hosts and curates the Brooklyn-based Brownstone Poets and is the editor-in-chief of the annual anthology. Her latest book is Urban Haiku and More (Fierce Grace Press, 2010). For more information, please check out her Web sites at http://brownstonepoets.blogspot.com and at http://patriciacarragon8.wordpress.com/.

• Sat

  Jun 1

  Park Plaza Restaurant
  Brooklyn, NY, US | 2:30pm
  Park Plaza Restaurant
  Brooklyn, NY, US

  Sat Jun 01 2:30pm
  

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  Ron Kolm, Eve Packer, and Ron Price Bring Downtown Mahattan to Downtown Brooklyn Brownstone Poets presents Ron Kolm, Eve Packer, and Ron Price on Saturday, June 1 at 2:30 p.m.. at the newly renovated Park Plaza Restaurant in historic Brooklyn Heights. Enjoy the varied menu at this affordable family-run diner while listening to great poetry. Poetry grows in Brooklyn Heights and there's an open mic as well. Brownstone Poets presents: Ron Kolm, Eve Packer, and Ron Price Saturday, June 1 at 2:30 p.m. 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, 4, 5 or R to Court Street, Borough Hall For more directions: http://www.hopstop.com/ $4 Donation – plus Food/Drink - Open-Mic Curated by Patricia Carragon pcarragon@gmail.com brownstonepoets.blogspot.com/ patriciacarragon8.wordpress.com/ myspace.com/pattiekake8 facebook.com/people/Brownstone-Poets/541314712 Bios: Ron Kolm is a member of the Unbearables, and an editor of several of their anthologies; most recently, The Unbearables’ Big Book of Sex! Ron is a contributing editor of Sensitive Skin magazine and a senior editor of the Evergreen Review. He is the author of The Plastic Factory and, with Jim Feast, the novel Neo Phobe. He's had work recently published in Jeff Wright's Live Mag!, and Steve Cannon's Gathering of the Tribes. Ron's papers were purchased by the New York University library, where they've been catalogued in the Fales Collection as part of the Downtown Writers Group. Eve Packer is a Bronx-born poet/performer who appears solo, with music, in dance and theater. She has published three poetry books--Skulls Head Samba, PLAYLAND: POEMS 1994-2004, and NEW NAILS, all from Fly By Night Press--has four poetry/jazz CDs. She has one son, one daughter in law, and one grandson. Eve Packer lives downtown and swims daily. Ron Price has published in, among others, The American Poetry Review, Poetry, and Zone 3. He is the author of Surviving Brothers, a chapbook, and A Crucible for the Left Hand. A Small Song Called Ash from the Fire was nominated for a National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. A True Account of the Failure of Bodies to Adequately Burn, a chapbook, came out a few weeks ago.

• Thu

  May 30

  The Cornelia Street Cafe
  New York, NY, US | 6:00pm
  The Cornelia Street Cafe
  New York, NY, US

  Thu May 30 6:00pm
  

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  THE FOUR HORSEMEN RIDE AGAIN AT THE CORNELIA STREET CAFÉ THE FOUR HORSEMEN RIDE AGAIN AT THE CORNELIA STREET CAFÉ THURSDAY, MAY 30 FROM 6P.M. TO 8 P.M. BOB QUATRONE, HOST $8 ADMISSION GIVES YOU A DRINK READERS: VIVIANA GRELL RON KOLM LARISSA SHMAILO EVE PACKER ROBERT GIBBONS BONI JOI RONNA LEBO GORDON GILBERT JR CYNTHIA TORONTO EVIE IVY PATRICIA CARRAGON JANE ORMEROD GEORGE WALLACE The Cornelia Street Café 29 Cornelia Street New York, NY 10014 Phone: 212.989.9319 BY SUBWAY A, B, C, D, E, F, and M to West 4th St. or 1 to Christopher St.-Sheridan Square. WWW.HOPSTOP.COM/

• Tue

  May 14

  Cafe Dada
  Brooklyn, NY, US | 8:00pm
  Cafe Dada
  Brooklyn, NY, US

  Tue May 14 8:00pm
  

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  Brownstone Poets presents Bob Quatrone and Cynthia Toronto on Tuesday, May 14 at 7 p.m. at Café Dada. Enjoy the Old World ambiance in Park Slope that’s near several subways. Feast on French-Hungarian cuisine and delectable pastries. Relax with some wine or beer, a cup of coffee or tea while listening to great poetry. There’s an open mic as well. Poetry does grow in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Brownstone Poets presents: Bob Quatrone and Cynthia Toronto Tuesday, May 14, 2013 Starts at 7 p.m. – Sign up at 6:45 p.m. Café Dada 57 Seventh Avenue (at the corner of Lincoln Place) Park Slope, Brooklyn, NY 11217 718-622-2800 Subways: 2 or 3 to Grand Army Plaza B or Q to Seventh Avenue F or G to Seventh Avenue (9th Street) R to Union Street, plus a bit of a walk. http://www.hopstop.com/ $4 donation + food/drink - Open-Mic Curated by Patricia Carragon pcarragon@gmail.com brownstonepoets.blogspot.com http://patriciacarragon8.wordpress.com/ http://myspace.com/pattiekake8 http://en-gb.facebook.com/people/Brownstone-Poets/541314712 BIOS: Bob Quatrone graduated from Columbia College in 1965 and was Woodrow Wilson Fellow in 1967. He served as Program Host and Director for the Walt Whitman Poetry Society during the mid-1980's. He was a featured poet for the St. Mark's Poetry Project in 1997. He currently hosts The 4 Horsemen Reading at The Cornelia Street Cafe in New York City and lives in New Jersey. Cynthia Toronto is recognized as a forerunner of cutting-edge spoken word performance. Since the early ’80s she’s pioneered a form combining elements of poetry, music, theater and media portraying unique glimpses of urban life or any subject relevant to humans. She has penned eight books of poetry, including work in several anthologies, most recently Token Entry: New York City Subway Poems by Smalls Books and Three Room Press’ Maintenant 5 & 6, Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing & Art, and currently teaches acting and speech at City College of NewYork and Hostos Community College.