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Brownstone Poets is back on ZOOM!

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/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. Posted by Brown-stone Poets at 12:35 PM No comments: Labels: Brownstone Poets, Geer Austin, Limited Open Mic, Literary Event, Matthew Hupert, Patricia Carragon, Poetry, Sarah Sarai, Zoom meeting

Brownstone Poets is back on ZOOM!

Brownstone Poets with Sarah Sarai, Geer Austin and Matthew Hupert, Sunday, October 11 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.

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.

Late Aug - Sept Publications

Jerry Jazz Musician, Collection of Jazz Poetry, Summer 2020 Edition, August 24, 2020

Happy that my two poems, The Very Thought of You and All I Could Do is Cry are in the summer edition of Jerry Jazz Musician. Thank you Joseph Maita for this honor. Pleased to be with these writers:

Alan Yount, Anggo Genorga, Arlene Corwin, Aurora M. Lewis, Bob Walters, Carrie Magness Radna, Charles Joseph Albert, Christopher D. Sims, CJ Muchhala, D.R. James, David Dephy, David Sweet, Ed Ruzicka, Ed Werstein, Edward Sheehy, emory jones, Erren Kelly, Felicia Chernesky, Freddington, Geoff Polk, Jerrice Baptiste, John Grey, John Stupp, Julianne Di Nenna, K. Roberts, Michael L. Newell, Michael Vander Does, Millicent Borges Accardi, Moe Seager, Phil Linz, Phyllis Wax, Prince McNally, R. Bremner, Robert Nisbet, Roger Singer, Ron Kolm, Russell Dupont, Scott Silsbe, Susandale, Susie Gharib, Terrance Underwood, warren goodson, William Minor

Click below and enjoy:

https://jerryjazzmusician.com/2020/08/a-collection-of-jazz-poetry-summer-2020-edition/

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Bear Creek Haiku Blogspot, Thursday, August 27, 2020

Much gratitude to Ayaz Daryl Nielsen and his kitty crew for publishing my Catku. Shout outs to Tomas Tranströmer, Teresinka Pereira, Miriam Sagan, Rachael Lkins, Eva Limbach, Linda Amos, r soos, t kilgore splake, Chris "Cricket" Faiers

click below to read:

https://bearcreekhaiku.blogspot.com/2020/08/poets-tomas-transtromer-teresinka.html

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Bear Creek Haiku Blogspot, Sunday, August 30, 2020

Pleased to be in Bear Creek Haiku again. Thank you, Ayaz Daryl Nielsen. You are the cat's MEOW!

Kudos to Jo Balistreri, Sarah Mahina Calvello, Carl Mayfield, James B Peters, Judith Partin-Nielsen, t kilgore slake, and Antonio Machado!

https://bearcreekhaiku.blogspot.com/2020/08/poets-brooklyns-patricia-carragon-jo.html

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Paterson Literary Review, Issue #48 2020

Thank you Maria Gillan for publishing "Dance With Me," in the latest Paterson Review. Kudos to Amy Barone, John Amen, Laura Boss, Ted Jonathan, Linda Lerner, Ronald P. Bremner, Thaddeus Rutkowski, Amanda J. Bradley, et al.

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Poetry in Performance #48, Annual Spring Poetry Festival, the City College of New York, May 1, 2020 (e-book)

Thank you and kudos to Pamela Laskin and Gregory Crosby for publishing “Send Me an Angel” in Poetry In Performance 48 and kudos to Jeff Wright Alicia Ostriker Ilka Scobie Barry Wallenstein Molly Peacock Keisha Keisha-Gaye Anderson Steven Koenig JP Howard Ellen Lytle Eve Packer Richard Levine et al and to the NYC students in this issue.

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The Weekly Avocet #407, September 20, 2020 and Jerry Jazz Musician, September 23, 2020

Thank you Charles Portolano of the Avocet and Joe Maita from Jerry Jazz Musician for publishing "September Song."

Read the poem here on Jerry Jazz Musician:

https://jerryjazzmusician.com/2020/09/september-song-a-poem-by-patricia-carragon/

Brownstone Poets is back on ZOOM!

Brownstone Poets with Sarah Sarai, Geer Austin and Matthew Hupert, Sunday, October 11 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.

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.

July - August Publication News Part 4

North of Oxford-The Pandemic Issue #6

Pleased to be in North of Oxford's Pandemic Poetry Series #6, Tuesday August 11, 2020. Thank you G. Emil Reutter for publishing my pandemic poems "the trapper and the furrier" and "send me an angel." A shout out to Megha Sood, Jane Spoken Word, and others.

reutterhttps://northofoxford.wordpress.com/2020/08/11/north-of-oxford-the-pandemic-issue-6/

Life in Quarantine:

Witnessing Global Pandemic Project Organization August 2020

Thank you Megha Sood for publishing my 5 COVID-19 poems, the trapper and the furrier, send me an angel,

Tenderly, Moonlight Serenade, and Having A Party. So honored to be with David Dephy, Susana H. Case, and Megha Sood.

http://liqproject.org/patricia-carragon/

July - August Publication News Part 3

Nomination for Sundress Publications Annual Best of the Net Anthology.

Thank you Marie C Lecrivain for nominating my fiction piece, "What Will Happen Next:" Congrats to all nominees.

Dear Al-Khemia Poetica Contributors:

If you're receiving this email, it means your work has been selected, and nominated for Sundress Publications Annual Best of the Net Anthology.

I have, according to the submission guidelines, provided them with an email address for contact purposes. Sometime after 09/30/20, the winners and finalists will be announced. You will, if you make the cut, be contacted by the judge(s) of this contest. Winners' work will be included in an online anthology.

Below is the list of nominees for 2020. Good luck, and thank you for providing my publication with quality literature.

Marie C Lecrivain marie.lecrivain.pd@gmail.com publisher/curator Al-Khemia Poetica List of Nominees

Creative Nonfiction

1) Judy Baratt’s “Me and Eleanor”

http://alkhemiapoetica.blogspot.com/2020/03/sunday-march-8-2020-national-womens.html Publication date: 03/08/20

2) Lisa Marguerite Mora's “The Year I Left My Mother

https://alkhemiapoetica.blogspot.com/2020/03/tuesday-march-10-2020-national-womens.html Publication date: 03/10/20

Fiction

1) Patricia Carragon’s “What Happens Next”

https://alkhemiapoetica.blogspot.com/2020/03/tuesday-march-24-2020-national-womens.html Publication Date: 03/24/20 2) Lynne Bronstein’s “Not Going to Happen”

https://alkhemiapoetica.blogspot.com/2020/03/saturday-march-7-2020-national-womens.html Publication date: 03/07/20 Poetry

1) Ann Tweedy’s “Face Value”

https://alkhemiapoetica.blogspot.com/2020/03/thursday-march-26-2020-national-womens.html Publication Date: 03/26/20

2) Viola Weinberg Spencer’s “For Better or Worse”

https://alkhemiapoetica.blogspot.com/2020/03/saturday-march-21-2020-national-womens.html Publication Date: 03/21/20

3) Puma Perl’s “The Taste of Rebellion”

https://alkhemiapoetica.blogspot.com/2020/03/sunday-march-1-2020-national-womens.html Publication Date: 03/01/20

4) Jack G Bowman’s “Impeachment Proceedings”

https://alkhemiapoetica.blogspot.com/2019/12/two-poems-by-jack-g-bowman-after.html Publication Date: 12/12/19

5) Afric McGlinchy’s “Going Silent”

https://alkhemiapoetica.blogspot.com/2020/03/wednesday-march-25-2020-national-womens.html Publication Date: 03/25/20

6) Gabriella Garafolo’s “ ‘Cause This is What a Blue Wave Looks Like”

https://alkhemiapoetica.blogspot.com/2020/03/saturday-march-14-2020-national-womens.html Publication Date: 03/14/20

July - August Publication News Part 2

The Alien Buddha Contracts COVID-19, June 2020

Thank you Red Focks for publishing "Moonlight Serenade." Kudos to Carrie Magness Radna and Megha Sood, Red Focks, et al.

https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/jeremy-blizard-and-kashiana-singh-and-heidi-blakeslee-and-carman-benoit/the-alien-buddha-contracts-covid-19/paperback/product-69pmm7.html

Moonlight Serenade

Charlie was in bed, tubes attached to his body, listened to cartoons on a nineteen-inch screen, thought of Sophia, his “Belle of Flatbush.”

When la luna was full, Charlie used to sing Moonlight Serenade outside Sophia’s gate. They’d slow-dance to Glenn Miller’s rendition. He’d relax his rhythm, hold Sophia closer, recall how safe she felt. Her soft brown curls would drape on his shoulder— her smoky eyes— stelle colorate, tinted stars over a make-believe Brooklyn sky.

His protective hold couldn’t save her from breast cancer twenty years ago, their two sons from Viet Nam’s death call, or their daughter from her husband’s fists. A massive stroke took Sonny, his last living friend. His relatives were either dead or couldn’t care less.

Charlie was in bed, tubes attached to his body, alone—except for routine visits from the nursing home staff, wondered if Sophia would be there for him when he leaves for the morgue. He hummed Moonlight Serenade, but a dry cough cut his tune short. Sadness, age, and high fever drained his cognition and will to live. His memory was of the past, not the present.

He prayed for Death’s visit— Death would wear a white coat, walk past the rooms, make decisions on who’s to come and who’s to stay. But Death forgot about him— perhaps Death’s eyesight was fading when he came by last week, took Hector instead. Tina, his favorite nurse, no longer visited him— was in critical condition due to a new virus going around.

He closed his eyes, saw Glenn Miller and his band perform Moonlight Serenade at the Waldorf Astoria. Everything was in Technicolor. Sophia, radiant and youthful, rose from her table. She came closer, her smoky eyes— stelle colorate, tinted stars over a make-believe Brooklyn sky.

By the entrance, a man in a white coat checked his clipboard, greeted Charlie with a smile and opened the gate.

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Bluepepper Blogspot, Sunday, August 2, 2020

Pleased to be in this wonderful online journal, Bluepepper. A big thank you to Justin Lowe. I see Karen Neuberg is in it as well.

https://bluepepper.blogspot.com/2020/08/new-poetry-by-patricia-carragon.html

July - August Publication News Part 1

The Weekly Avocet #396 Newsletter, July 5, 2020

Thank you Charles, Vivian, and Valerie Portolano.

redheaded tulips sashay down garden catwalks

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masks on beaches pandemic pollution rises with the tide

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at Coney Island seagulls hold their own parade mermaids in lockdown

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an empty beach except for wind sand in sandals

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Brooklyn sunshine girls on fire escape social distancing

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the orangutan defends ancestral forests greed defeats nature

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vesper moon wears crescent smile crickets chant

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Bear Creek Haiku Blogspot, Friday, July 10, 2020

Much gratitude to Ayaz Daryl Nielsen and his kitty crew for publishing my Catku. Shout outs to Miriam Sagan, Anthony Ward, Peggy Dugan French (a Friday poem), t. kilgore splake, Billy Antonio, Judith Partin-Nielsen, Cathy Porter, and, Teresinka Pereira!

click below to read:

https://bearcreekhaiku.blogspot.com/2020/07/poets-miriam-sagan-anthony-ward-peggy.html

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Bear Creek Haiku Blogspot, Wednesday, July 15, 2020

Pleased to be in Bear Creek Haiku again. Thank you, Ayaz Daryl Nielsen. You are the cat's MEOW!

Kudos to Janet Ruth Heller, Boyd Bauman, Linda Fuchs, Don Wentworth, John McDonald, Jack Kerouac, Chris Faiers, and Kelly Jean White.

https://bearcreekhaiku.blogspot.com/2020/07/poets-janet-ruth-heller-boyd-bauman.html ~~~~~~~~~

Bear Creek Haiku Blogspot, Tuesday, July 21, 2020

Thanks again, Ayaz Daryl Nielsen and kudos to Robert Hirschfeld, William Wordsworth, Dennis Rhodes, Angelee Deodhar, t kilgore splake, Peggy Dugan French, John McDonald, Charles Bukowski, Judith Partin-Nielsen, r soos, and, Tomas Tranströmer

https://bearcreekhaiku.blogspot.com/2020/07/poets-robert-hirschfeld-william.html ~~~~~~~~

Bear Creek Haiku Issue #165, August 2020

Thanks again, Ayaz Daryl Nielsen and kudos to pl wick, Paula Yup, Robert Hirschfield, Linda Fuchs, Judith Patin-Nielsen, Miriam Sagan, Jane Stuart, Dennis Rhodes, Cathy Porter, Janet Ruth Heller, John McDonald, t kilgore splake, Rachel Ikins, and more.

by the tulip patch a momma cat hides her kittens

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nocturnal love nest outside my building kitty hookers in heat ~~~~~~~~~~

outdoor litter box kittens spread fertilizer rose bushes thrive ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Poet's Art, Issue #65, July 2020

Thank you, David Fox for Publishing "Misty" and "El Cóndor Pasa." Congrats to writers Gene Olsen, Julie Spencer, Robert E. L. Nesbitt, Joanne Tolson, Linda Amos, Ginny Cope, Arthur Morris, David Fox, pl. wick, Michael Crayton Powell, and more.

Misty

From her perch above the human drama, Misty, the cream-colored cat, washed her paws clean. She knew her way around her master’s apartment. Her kitten days, faded like the album cover by the turntable.

Ella Fitzgerald sang the cat’s namesake’s song. Seduction for her master’s friend, still irritable on the chaise lounge. Whenever mad, she’d kick off her pumps— her right foot would cross her left.

After another glass of Chardonnay, she asked about his thousand violins and why his hello no longer sounded sweet?

He poured himself another glass of wine, lost in words that lost their meaning. She took her hat and gloves, said a swift goodbye. The cat ran to the closed door, encircled her master’s legs. His eyes, too misty to notice.

El Cóndor Pasa (sung by Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel)

Wild like the condor, he followed the distant flute. Strands of hair, negro azulado, blew across his face. His horse left ghosts on the Peruvian playa.

I walked on broken shells, hummed the saddest song, El Cóndor Pasa. I became the hammer, not the nail. the sparrow, not the snail, the forest, not the street, the swan wanting to sail away.

The song forgot about my necklace, Andalusian beads inside two hoofprints. Strands of hair, marrón rojizo, blew across my face. The ghosts on the playa, the sand beneath my feet, found peace in the twilight tide.

Lockdown Poetry Open Mic #8

Hello Lockdowners:

THIS IS NOT A ZOOM EVENT! Any questions, please message me

https://www.facebook.com/events/719863448856876/

Saturday, September 12 from our new time, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. This will give people a chance to attend Zoom readings, etc.

One poem per person. Post your poem in the comment portion of the discussion thread of the event that will be started by me at 7 p.m. Introduce yourself when you post. I hope my Internet will be working.

Let's continue to support the community and share. Feel free to post your music as well. Love and respect. We will get through this together! Namaste!

If you want to be part of this reading but can't attend, please let me know. I will post your poem for you.

Your Host, Patricia Carragon

Lockdown Poetry Open Mic #7

ello Lockdowners:

THIS IS NOT A ZOOM EVENT!

Saturday, August 8 from our new time, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. This will give people a chance to attend Zoom readings, etc.

One poem per person. Post your poem in the comment portion of the discussion thread of the event that will be started by me at 7 p.m. Introduce yourself when you post. I hope my Internet will be working.

Let's continue to support the community and share. Feel free to post your music as well. Love and respect. We will get through this together! Namaste!

If you want to be part of this reading but can't attend, please let me know. I will post your poem for you.

Your Host, Patricia Carragon

https://www.facebook.com/events/577952702919013/?notif_t=plan_user_associated&notif_id=1594519451403802