REMINDER:Dorothy Cantwell Pamela L. Laskin Arden Levine Bob McNeil at Park Plaza Restaurant Saturday, September 29 at 2:30 p.m.
Dorothy Cantwell Pamela L. Laskin Arden Levine Bob McNeil at Park Plaza Restaurant Saturday, September 29 at 2:30 p.m.
REMINDER
Poetry Grows in Brooklyn Heights 2018
Brownstone Poets Still Inspiring Brooklyn Since 2005
We’re Celebrating our 13th Year!
Brownstone Poets presents
Saturday, September 29 at 2:30 p.m.
dc2 Best bio pix 2 Levine Author Pic (SF) Bob McNeil
Dorothy Cantwell
Pamela L. Laskin
Arden Levine
Bob McNeil
@ 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/230528834472438/
BIOS:
A playwright, poet, and an actress, Dorothy Cantwell was a part of the NYC experimental theater scene in the 1980’s, and worked with many of the great downtown theater artists, in venues ranging from the Performing Garage to Broadway. Dorothy returns to the stage occasionally, most recently in a Retrospective of Jeff Weiss’ Work at the Kitchen.
She has been a featured poet in the Great Weather for Media Sunday reading series at the Parkside Lounge, Viviana Duncan’s Stark Reality, and in Su Polo’s Saturn Series. She is grateful to Patricia Carragon for the opportunity to read with Brownstone Poets.
Pamela L. Laskin is a lecturer in the English Department at City College, where she directs the Poetry Outreach Center. Several of her children’s and poetry books have been published, and Ronit and Jamil, A Palestinian/Israeli Romeo and Juliet in verse was published by Harper Collins in 2017, and was named among the thirty-five books to have on your radar for 2017. Bea, a picture book, was a finalist for the Katherine Paterson Prize for Children’s Fiction, and Homer the Little Stray Cat, was named among the best of the indie presses for picture books. Ronit and Jamil is a 2018 Sydney Taylor notable book. She teaches graduate and undergraduate children’s writing.
Follow her: twitter@RonitandJamil and follow her blog: http://PamelaLaskin.blogspot.com/
Arden Levine’s poems have most recently appeared in The Offing, No Dear, Permafrost, River Styx, Spillway, and Little Patuxent Review, and have been featured by AGNI, The Missouri Review, Ted Kooser’s American Life in Poetry, and NPR’s Radiolab. Arden holds a Master of Public Administration from NYU, and her daily work focuses on the development and preservation of affordable urban housing and neighborhoods. A Washington, DC native, Arden lives in Brooklyn, NY.
Bob McNeil is the author of Verses of Realness. Hal Sirowitz, Queens Poet Laureate, described the book as “A fantastic trip through the mind of a poet who doesn’t flinch at the truth.” Furthermore, Bob was published in The Shout It Out Anthology, Brine Rights: Stanzas and Clauses for the Causes (Volume 1), Not My President, San Francisco Peace and Hope, and The Self-Portrait Poetry Collection, etc.
Bob wants his poetry to be a fortress against despotic politics. After years of being a professional illustrator, spoken word artist and writer, he still wants his work to express one cause—justice.
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15th Annual Brevitas Festival of the Short Poem
15th Annual Brevitas Festival of the Short Poem
Sunday, November 4 from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Bowery Poetry Club 308 Bowery, New York, New York 10012
Proud to be part of this event:
Brevitas is a community of invited poets who email one or two original, short poems (14 lines max) to each other on the 1st and 15th of each month – to nurture new work and invite constructive feedback.
This Festival is the once-a-year splurge when we publicly gather to perform and project our favorite poems of the year, plus celebrate publication of the 2018 Brevitas Anthology of the Short Poem.
Featured poets include Bowery Poetry Club founder Bob Holman, Queens Poets Laureate Maria Lisella and Hal Sirowitz, City Lore Founder Steve Zeitlin, Sparrow, Ron Kolm, Steve Luttrell, Richard Storm, Patricia Carragon, John J. Trause, Dorothy Friedman August, Jeff Wright and over FORTY more dynamic and diverse poet-members. Poet-member Gil Fagiani will be specially honored in memoriam. Poet-member/cartoonist Flash Rosenberg will host. Followed by a brief Open Mic.
Cofounders Steve Zeitlin and Jim Pignetti launched brevitas 15 years ago for cozy circle of poet friends. The group has ebulliently expanded and evolved into a powerful incubator of new poetry.
https://www.facebook.com/events/250025052384862/
Subways:
F to Second Avenue
Check the MTA Weekender website for never-ending screw-ups:
http://web.mta.info/weekender.html
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Reminder: the Blocks, Schwartz, Moore, Neuberg
Reminder:
Bernard and Diane Block, G.E. Schwartz, Katrinka Moore, and Karen Neuberg
Five fabulous poets, Bernard and Diane Block, G.E. Schwartz, Katrinka Moore, and Karen Neuberg will feature for Brownstone Poets on Saturday, October 27 at 2:30 p.m. at Park Plaza Restaurant in historic Brooklyn Heights. Poetry grows in Brooklyn Heights, and there's an open mic as well. Come enjoy an afternoon of poetry and delicious food at this cozy family-owned restaurant.
Park Plaza Restaurant
220 Cadman Plaza West near Clark St. and Pineapple Walk
Brooklyn, NY 11201
718 - 596 - 5900
FACEBOOK EVENT:
https://www.facebook.com/events/328594701207317/
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
Bios
Bernard Block, born and raised in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, studied with the poet Colette Inez and earned his living as a caseworker for the Bureau of Child Welfare, NYC. He has featured at all the major poetry venues in NYC and in Philadelphia, Columbia, SC and Laugharne, South Wales. Benard hosts the Series "From Whitman to Ginsberg" at Cornelia St. Café (21 editions!) 38 poems are published in the on-line European literary journal, Levure Littéraire #8, #9 and #12. His poetry book Am I My Brother's Keeper?, released by Dark Light Publishing, is available on Amazon and from the author: disviolin@yahoo.com.
Diane Block is a professional violinist who studied at the Manhattan School of Music, with a Master's Degree in Violin Performance. At MSM she developed a passion for the art of poetry which, for her, is intimately connected to classical music. Diane has featured her poetry at all the major venues in NYC and Long Island and in Philadelphia and Laugharne, South Wales. Her poems are published In the prestigious European literary journal Levure Littéraire No. 9 and numerous anthologies. Diane and cellist Terry Batts comprise the violin/cello Duo Gemini Journey. Check out her YouTube channel.
Katrinka Moore's latest book is Wayfarers, published by Pelekinesis in 2018. As in her previous works, Numa and Thief, she combines poetry and visual art. Her chapbook, This is Not a Story, won the New Women's Voices prize. Recent work appears in Stillwater Review, Otoliths, Woven Tale, First Literary Review-East and Leaping Clear and in the anthologyWeaving the Terrain: 100-Word Southwestern Poems. https://katrinkamoore.weebly.com/ (https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fkatrinkamoor...)
Karen Neuberg is the author of three chapbooks, Detailed Still (Poets Wear Prada) and Myself Taking Stage (Finishing Line Press), and the elephants are asking (Glass Lyre Press). Her poems and collages appear in numerous journals including Canary, Forage, New Verse News, Poets for Living Waters, and S/tick and anthologies including First Water: The Best of Pirene's Fountain, A Slant of Light: Contemporary Women Writers of the Hudson Valley, and Words Fly Away: Poems for Fukushima. She's a multiple Pushcart and a Best-of-the-Net nominee, holds an MFA from The New School, and is associate editor of the online poetry journal First Literary Review East. She lives in Brooklyn.
G. E. Schwartz, author of Only Others Are: Poems (Legible Press), World (Furniture Press), Thanking In Tongues (Hank's Loose Gravel Press), and the forthcoming Murmurations (Wheeler Hill), writes to explore all our varied emotions of life--of love, longing, and loss; memory, sacrifice, and desire; struggle, joy and resolve.
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October Carragon Events
WOMEN’S LITERARY WORKSHOP
Thursday, October 11, 2018 | 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm PEN America588 Broadway, Suite 303, New York, NY 10012212-334-1660https://pen.org/ Women’s Literary WorkshopJoin the PEN America Women’s Literary Workshop for its annual reception and celebration of participants’ work in poetry, prose, and playwriting. Now in its 25th year, the PEN America Women’s Literary Workshop is a peer group that provides opportunities for women writers to share their work. All readers and writers, regardless of gender, are welcome to join in this celebration of their work.
OPEN MIC FOR POETS SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14 FROM 2 P.M. TO 4 P.M. 0Login to comment DESCRIPTION Featured reader Patricia Carragon hosts the Brooklyn-based Brownstone Poets and is the editor-in-chief of its annual anthology. She is an active member of brevitas, PEN Women’s Literary Workshop, Women Writers in Bloom, and Tamarind. She is an executive editor for Home Planet News Online. Ms. Carragon lives in Brooklyn and works in Queens. Queens Central Library 89-11 Merrick Boulevard Jamaica, NY 11432 (718) 990-0700 Guest poet Patricia Carragon Free admission http://www.queenslibrary.org/event/open-mic-for-poets F train to 169th Street
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Bernard and Diane Block, G.E. Schwartz, Katrinka Moore, and Karen Neuberg
Bernard and Diane Block, G.E. Schwartz, Katrinka Moore, and Karen Neuberg
Five fabulous poets, Bernard and Diane Block, G.E. Schwartz, Katrinka Moore, and Karen Neuberg will feature for Brownstone Poets on Saturday, October 27 at 2:30 p.m. at Park Plaza Restaurant in historic Brooklyn Heights. Poetry grows in Brooklyn Heights, and there’s an open mic as well. Come enjoy an afternoon of poetry and delicious food at this cozy family-owned restaurant.Park Plaza Restaurant 220 Cadman Plaza West near Clark St. and Pineapple Walk
Brooklyn, NY 11201
718 – 596 – 5900
FACEBOOK EVENT: https://www.facebook.com/events/328594701207317/
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
Bios
Bernard Block, born and raised in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, studied with the poet Colette Inez and earned his living as a caseworker for the Bureau of Child Welfare, NYC. He has featured at all the major poetry venues in NYC and in Philadelphia, Columbia, SC and Laugharne, South Wales. Benard hosts the Series “From Whitman to Ginsberg” at Cornelia St. Café (21 editions!) 38 poems are published in the on-line European literary journal, Levure Littéraire #8, #9 and #12. His poetry book Am I My Brother’s Keeper?, released by Dark Light Publishing, is available on Amazon and from the author: disviolin@yahoo.com.
Diane Block is a professional violinist who studied at the Manhattan School of Music, with a Master’s Degree in Violin Performance. At MSM she developed a passion for the art of poetry which, for her, is intimately connected to classical music. Diane has featured her poetry at all the major venues in NYC and Long Island and in Philadelphia and Laugharne, South Wales. Her poems are published In the prestigious European literary journal Levure Littéraire No. 9 and numerous anthologies. Diane and cellist Terry Batts comprise the violin/cello Duo Gemini Journey. Check out her YouTube channel.
Katrinka Moore’s latest book is Wayfarers, published by Pelekinesis in 2018. As in her previous works, Numa and Thief, she combines poetry and visual art. Her chapbook, This is Not a Story, won the New Women’s Voices prize. Recent work appears in Stillwater Review, Otoliths, Woven Tale, First Literary Review-East and Leaping Clear and in the anthologyWeaving the Terrain: 100-Word Southwestern Poems. https://katrinkamoore.weebly.com/ (https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fkatrinkamoor…)
Karen Neuberg is the author of three chapbooks, Detailed Still (Poets Wear Prada) and Myself Taking Stage (Finishing Line Press), and the elephants are asking (Glass Lyre Press). Her poems and collages appear in numerous journals including Canary, Forage, New Verse News, Poets for Living Waters, and S/tick and anthologies including First Water: The Best of Pirene’s Fountain, A Slant of Light: Contemporary Women Writers of the Hudson Valley, and Words Fly Away: Poems for Fukushima. She’s a multiple Pushcart and a Best-of-the-Net nominee, holds an MFA from The New School, and is associate editor of the online poetry journal First Literary Review East. She lives in Brooklyn.
G. E. Schwartz, author of Only Others Are: Poems (Legible Press), World (Furniture Press), Thanking In Tongues (Hank’s Loose Gravel Press), and the forthcoming Murmurations (Wheeler Hill), writes to explore all our varied emotions of life–of love, longing, and loss; memory, sacrifice, and desire; struggle, joy and resolve.
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Second Brownstone Poets 2018 Anthology Book Event
Second Brownstone Poets 2018 Anthology Book Event A Celebration of Poetry and Prose Saturday, September 22 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
New York Public Library – Mulberry Street Branch 10 Jersey Street (b/w Mulberry St. and Lafayette St. New York, NY 10012 212 – 966 -3424
Free Admission— LIMITED OPEN MIC
FACEBOOK EVENT: https://www.facebook.com/events/300714243816090/
SUBWAYS: D, F to Bway/ Lafayette St. 4, 6 to Bleecker St. --> N, R, W to Prince St.
Free Admission— OPEN MIC
author copy $8 and additional copies $10 each
non-author copies $12 each
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Dorothy Cantwell Pamela L. Laskin Arden Levine Bob McNeil
REMINDER:Dorothy Cantwell Pamela L. Laskin Arden Levine Bob McNeil at Park Plaza Restaurant Saturday, September 29 at 2:30 p.m. Dorothy Cantwell Pamela L. Laskin Arden Levine Bob McNeil at Park Plaza Restaurant Saturday, September 29 at 2:30 p.m. REMINDER
Poetry Grows in Brooklyn Heights 2018
Brownstone Poets Still Inspiring Brooklyn Since 2005
We’re Celebrating our 13th Year!
Brownstone Poets presents
Saturday, September 29 at 2:30 p.m.
dc2 Best bio pix 2 Levine Author Pic (SF) Bob McNeil Dorothy Cantwell Pamela L. Laskin Arden Levine Bob McNeil
@ 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/230528834472438/
BIOS:
A playwright, poet, and an actress, Dorothy Cantwell was a part of the NYC experimental theater scene in the 1980’s, and worked with many of the great downtown theater artists, in venues ranging from the Performing Garage to Broadway. Dorothy returns to the stage occasionally, most recently in a Retrospective of Jeff Weiss’ Work at the Kitchen.
She has been a featured poet in the Great Weather for Media Sunday reading series at the Parkside Lounge, Viviana Duncan’s Stark Reality, and in Su Polo’s Saturn Series. She is grateful to Patricia Carragon for the opportunity to read with Brownstone Poets.
Pamela L. Laskin is a lecturer in the English Department at City College, where she directs the Poetry Outreach Center. Several of her children’s and poetry books have been published, and Ronit and Jamil, A Palestinian/Israeli Romeo and Juliet in verse was published by Harper Collins in 2017, and was named among the thirty-five books to have on your radar for 2017. Bea, a picture book, was a finalist for the Katherine Paterson Prize for Children’s Fiction, and Homer the Little Stray Cat, was named among the best of the indie presses for picture books. Ronit and Jamil is a 2018 Sydney Taylor notable book. She teaches graduate and undergraduate children’s writing.
Follow her: twitter@RonitandJamil and follow her blog: http://PamelaLaskin.blogspot.com/
Arden Levine’s poems have most recently appeared in The Offing, No Dear, Permafrost, River Styx, Spillway, and Little Patuxent Review, and have been featured by AGNI, The Missouri Review, Ted Kooser’s American Life in Poetry, and NPR’s Radiolab. Arden holds a Master of Public Administration from NYU, and her daily work focuses on the development and preservation of affordable urban housing and neighborhoods. A Washington, DC native, Arden lives in Brooklyn, NY.
Bob McNeil is the author of Verses of Realness. Hal Sirowitz, Queens Poet Laureate, described the book as “A fantastic trip through the mind of a poet who doesn’t flinch at the truth.” Furthermore, Bob was published in The Shout It Out Anthology, Brine Rights: Stanzas and Clauses for the Causes (Volume 1), Not My President, San Francisco Peace and Hope, and The Self-Portrait Poetry Collection, etc.
Bob wants his poetry to be a fortress against despotic politics. After years of being a professional illustrator, spoken word artist and writer, he still wants his work to express one cause—justice.
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Upcoming Carragon Events
UPCOMING CARRAGON EVENTS
Thursday, September 27 at Bluestockings Bookstore
192 Allen Street, NYC - 10002
7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
With Maureen Brady
Hosted by Vittoria Repetto
Open mic ( for women & trans only) – sign-up at 7 p.m. – 8 minute limit
Bring your poetry, your prose, your songs, and your spoken word. $10 suggested donation
F train to Second Ave.
FACEBOOK EVENT :
https://www.facebook.com/events/283225419069835/
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Monday, October 1 at Saturn Series Reading at
Barlovento 430 Third Avenue at corner of East 30th Street, NYC Train: 6 to 33rd Street, walk East
7:30 p.m.
With Juanita Torrence Thompson and Elleraine Lockie
Hosted by Su Polo
Open mic sign-up at 7:15 p.m. $3 donation, plus food or beverage
6 train to 28th Street
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Open Mic for Poets
Sunday, October 14 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Queens Central Library
89-11 Merrick Boulevard
Jamaica, NY 11432
(718) 990-0700
Guest poet Patricia Carragon
Free admission
http://www.queenslibrary.org/event/open-mic-for-poets
F train to 169th Street
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Sunday, November 18 at the Great Weather for MEDIA Sunday Reading Series
at The Parkside Lounge
317 E. Houston Street, NYC 10002
Hosted by George Wallace
4 p.m. to 6 p.m.
2 drink minimum (they do have coffee and sodas) $3 suggested donation. Open mic list closes at 4:45
F train to Second Avenue
More details to come on co-feature (s) . . .
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Sunday, December 16 at Voices of Poetry at the Montauk Club
25 8th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11217
With Cathy Gigante-Brown, Heather Corbally Bryant, Gillian Cummings, Terence Degnan, Devon Moore,
1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Hosted by Neil Silberblatt and Harvey Soss
Free Admission - No Open
2, 3 to Grand Army Plaza
G to Seventh Avenue
***Check with the MTA Weekender for all service changes
http://web.mta.info/weekender.html
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Brooklyn Book Festival
Poets Wear Prada will be at this year's Brooklyn Book Festival Sunday, September 16th from 10 a.m to 6 p.m.
We're right by Brooklyn Borough Hall (209 Joralemon St at Court St, Brooklyn, NY 11201). Walk into the park and you will find us at booth #627. Meet and greet the publisher and our authors! It's a great day for book lovers and readers of all ages!
Poetry and Fiction by George Held, Daniela Gioseffi, Patricia Carragon, Iris N. Schwartz, Diane Stiglich, Michael T. Young, Jack Cooper, Rosalie Calabrese, Betti Kahn. Dan Simpson, Jee Leong Koh, Chocolate Waters, Maria Lisella, Carol Wierzbicki, Cyndi Dawson, Austin Alexis, Tantra Zawadi, Geer Austin, Hilary Sideris, Michael Montlack, Laura Vookles, Richard Marx Weinraub, Karen Neuberg, Efrayim Levenson, Gene Auprey, Brant Lyon, Icegayle Johnson, Mary Orovan, Simon Perchik, Jason Morphew, Erik La Prade, John J. Trause, Joel Allegretti, Robert Kramer, Sheryl H. Simler, Susan Maurer, and more. Have you had your poetry -- and fiction -- today? Get your brain fuel from Poets Wear Prada.
http://www.brooklynbookfestival.org/
Get your copy of "The Cupcake Chronicles" at both #627. I will be there.
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Dorothy Cantwell Pamela L. Laskin Arden Levine Bob McNeil at Park Plaza
Dorothy Cantwell Pamela L. Laskin Arden Levine Bob McNeil at Park Plaza Restaurant Saturday, September 29 at 2:30 p.m.
Poetry Grows in Brooklyn Heights 2018
Brownstone Poets Still Inspiring Brooklyn Since 2005
We're Celebrating our 13th Year!
Brownstone Poets presents
Saturday, September 29 at 2:30 p.m.
Dorothy Cantwell Pamela L. Laskin Arden Levine Bob McNeil
@ 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/230528834472438/
BIOS:
A playwright, poet, and an actress, Dorothy Cantwell was a part of the NYC experimental theater scene in the 1980’s, and worked with many of the great downtown theater artists, in venues ranging from the Performing Garage to Broadway. Dorothy returns to the stage occasionally, most recently in a Retrospective of Jeff Weiss’ Work at the Kitchen. She has been a featured poet in the Great Weather for Media Sunday reading series at the Parkside Lounge, Viviana Duncan’s Stark Reality, and in Su Polo’s Saturn Series. She is grateful to Patricia Carragon for the opportunity to read with Brownstone Poets.
Pamela L. Laskin is a lecturer in the English Department at City College, where she directs the Poetry Outreach Center. Several of her children’s and poetry books have been published, and Ronit and Jamil, A Palestinian/Israeli Romeo and Juliet in verse was published by Harper Collins in 2017, and was named among the thirty-five books to have on your radar for 2017. Bea, a picture book, was a finalist for the Katherine Paterson Prize for Children’s Fiction, and Homer the Little Stray Cat, was named among the best of the indie presses for picture books. Ronit and Jamil is a 2018 Sydney Taylor notable book. She teaches graduate and undergraduate children’s writing. Follow her: twitter@RonitandJamil and follow her blog: http://PamelaLaskin.blogspot.com/
Arden Levine’s poems have most recently appeared in The Offing, No Dear, Permafrost, River Styx, Spillway, and Little Patuxent Review, and have been featured by AGNI, The Missouri Review, Ted Kooser's American Life in Poetry, and NPR’s Radiolab. Arden holds a Master of Public Administration from NYU, and her daily work focuses on the development and preservation of affordable urban housing and neighborhoods. A Washington, DC native, Arden lives in Brooklyn, NY.
Bob McNeil is the author of Verses of Realness. Hal Sirowitz, Queens Poet Laureate, described the book as “A fantastic trip through the mind of a poet who doesn't flinch at the truth.” Furthermore, Bob was published in The Shout It Out Anthology, Brine Rights: Stanzas and Clauses for the Causes (Volume 1), Not My President, San Francisco Peace and Hope, and The Self-Portrait Poetry Collection, etc. Bob wants his poetry to be a fortress against despotic politics. After years of being a professional illustrator, spoken word artist and writer, he still wants his work to express one cause—justice.
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Summer Publications
1- Thank you Ayaz Daryl Nielsen, Tama, and Frosty for publishing “The 4-Dimensional Man in the June 24, 2018 edition of Bear Creek Haiku.
Check it out here:
https://bearcreekhaiku.blogspot.com/2018/06/poetsartists-ian-mullins-karen-oleary.html
Cheers to the following poets and artists:
Ian Mullins, Karen O’Leary, pl. wick, Ed Markowski, Toma Rosen, Carl Mayfield, Suparna Ghash, t. kilgore splake, Julie A. Dickson, Kelly Sauvage Angel, Sandra María Esteves, and, Teresinka Pereira! —————————————————————————-
2- I’m honored to have my “Immigration Haiku” in the June 24, 2018 edition of The New Verse News. Thank you, James Penha.
https://newversenews.blogspot.com/2018/06/immigration-haiku.html
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Happy that Charles Portlolano accepted my summer haiku for The Avocet, A Journal of Nature Poetry, Summer 2018. Kudos to Gordon Gilbert.
my haiku:
the thirsty cat drinks
from a courtyard puddle
sees his reflection
temperature rises
yowling cats by the bush
feral heatwave
sweat on my brow
seeking relief
from a distant cloud
human mosaics
more diverse
than beach umbrellas
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