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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Poets Wear Prada will be at this year's 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.

Join us and our authors at booth #627. 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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Second and Third Brownstone Poets 2018 Anthology Book Events:

Second and Third Brownstone Poets 2018 Anthology Book Events:

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

Third Brownstone Poets 2018 Anthology Book Event A Celebration of Poetry and Prose Saturday, December 15 from 2:30 p.m. to 4:30ish p.m.

Jefferson Market Library NYPL 425 Ave. of the Americas, New York, NY 10011

(212) 243-4334

Subways: A, C, E, D, F to West 4th Street

1 to Christopher St./ Sheridan Sq. L to 6th Ave. N, R to 8th Ave

Free Admission— OPEN MIC

author copy $8 and additional copies $10 each

non-author copies $12 each

Brownstone Poets has been inspiring poetry in Brooklyn since 2005. We strive to be unique and diverse, and we welcome a multitude of styles and forms. We would like to thank this year’s sixty-eight reader-contributors listed below, as well as our loyal attendees. Without their love for, and dedication to, our reading series, this anthology would not have been possible.

We are proud to have the Himalayan poet Yuyutsu RD Sharma as our poet in residence. We would also like to honor this year’s guest poet JP Howard,

This collection of poetry, infused with Brooklyn imagery, is our contribution to the vibrant creative spirit in the borough of Kings.

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Jennifer Juneau Ellen Pober Rittberg Marguerite Maria Rivas

REMINDER:

Poetry Grows in Brooklyn Heights 2018

Brownstone Poets Still Inspiring Brooklyn Since 2005

We're Celebrating our 13th Year!

Brownstone Poets presents

Saturday, August 25 at 2:30 p.m.

Jennifer Juneau Ellen Pober Rittberg Marguerite Maria Rivas

@ 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/2086162384978800/?active_tab=about

BIOS:

--> Jennifer Juneau is the author of the poetry collection More Than Moon (due out next month by Is A Rose Press) and the novel ÜberChef USA (due out October by Spork Press.) Her work has been nominated for two Pushcart Prizes, the Million Writers award, and a Sundress Best of the Net and has appeared in the Café Review, Cimarron Review, Cincinnati Review, Columbia Journal, Evergreen Review, GWFM Anthology, Live Mag! Pank, Seattle Review, Sensitive Skin Magazine, Verse Daily, and elsewhere. She lives in Brooklyn where she is hard at work on her second novel and poetry collection.

--> Ellen Pober Rittberg’s poetry and fiction have been published in online journals includingBrooklyn Quarterly, Long Island Quarterly, Santa Fe Writers Project, and several anthologies including Persian Sugar in English Tea vol. 1 and Songs of Seasoned Women. Her book of poetry, Consider the Constellations, was published in 2009. The winner of several journalism awards, she also wrote several plays, which were performed off off Broadway and at festivals. By day, she is an attorney.

--> Marguerite Maria Rivas is a poet and essayist whose work has been published in numerous journals and anthologies including The America’s Review, Waterways, The Mas Tequila Review, Mom Egg, Waterways, and Quarterday Review, among others. Rivas has received grants and awards from the NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs, City University of New York, and A Room of Her Own Foundation. She is the author of a chapbook poems as well as a full-length volume, Tell No One. She is an associate professor at Borough of Manhattan Community College, where she teaches writing and literature.

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Juneau, Rittberg, and Rivas Sat Aug 25

Jennifer Juneau Ellen Pober Rittberg Marguerite Maria Rivas at Park Plaza Restaurant, Sat, Aug 25 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, August 25 at 2:30 p.m.

Jennifer Juneau Ellen Pober Rittberg Marguerite Maria Rivas

@ 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/2086162384978800/?active_tab=about

BIOS:

Jennifer Juneau is the author of the poetry collection More Than Moon (due out next month by Is A Rose Press) and the novel ÜberChef USA (due out October by Spork Press.) Her work has been nominated for two Pushcart Prizes, the Million Writers award, and a Sundress Best of the Net and has appeared in the Café Review, Cimarron Review, Cincinnati Review, Columbia Journal, Evergreen Review, GWFM Anthology, Live Mag! Pank, Seattle Review, Sensitive Skin Magazine, Verse Daily, and elsewhere. She lives in Brooklyn where she is hard at work on her second novel and poetry collection.

Ellen Pober Rittberg’s poetry and fiction have been published in online journals including Brooklyn Quarterly, Long Island Quarterly, Santa Fe Writers Project, and several anthologies including Persian Sugar in English Tea vol. 1 and Songs of Seasoned Women. Her book of poetry, Consider the Constellations, was published in 2009. The winner of several journalism awards, she also wrote several plays, which were performed off off Broadway and at festivals. By day, she is an attorney.

Marguerite Maria Rivas is a poet and essayist whose work has been published in numerous journals and anthologies including The America’s Review, Waterways, The Mas Tequila Review, Mom Egg, Waterways, and Quarterday Review, among others. Rivas has received grants and awards from the NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs, City University of New York, and A Room of Her Own Foundation. She is the author of a chapbook poems as well as a full-length volume, Tell No One. She is an associate professor at Borough of Manhattan Community College, where she teaches writing and literature.

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Heath Brougher Heller Levinson Cindy Hochman Mary Newell Alison Ross

REMINDER:

Heath Brougher Heller Levinson Cindy Hochman Mary Newell Alison Ross at Park Plaza Restaurant, Sat, July 28 at 2:30 p.m.

Poetry Grows in Brooklyn Heights 2018

Brownstone Poets Still Inspiring Brooklyn Since 2005

Brownstone Poets presents

Saturday, July 28 at 2:30 p.m.

Heath Brougher Heller Levinson Cindy Hochman Mary Newell Alison Ross

@ 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/1741637185916262/

BIOS:

HeathBrougher is the co-poetry editor for Into the Void Magazine, winner of the 2017 and 2018 Saboteur Award for Best Magazine. His work has been nominated multiple times for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net Award. Although he's been writing his entire life, he didn't begin to submit his "life's work" for publication until 4 years ago. Since then, he's been published in over 450 different journals and has had his work translated into 9 other languages. His most recent book is To Burn in Torturous Algorithms.

Heller Levinson's books include LinquaQuake (Black Widow Press, 2018), Another Line (Watermark Literary Press, 1990), Bad Boy Poems (Bombshelter Press, 1993), Pulled Apart (Third Lung Press, 1989), Smelling Mary (Howling Dog Press, 2008), ToxiCity: Poems of the Coconut Vulva (Howling Dog Press, 2005), and more. Levinson's poems and writings have appeared in hundreds of journals and literary outlets around the world. A growing body of essays and articles about Levinson's Hinge Theory in both the literary and art world attests to the fascination and importance people are attaching to his developing and expanding theory of poetics. He lives in New York where he studies animal behavior.

Cindy Hochman is the president (and only employee) of "100 Proof" Copyediting Services. She is the editor-in-chief of the online poetry journal First Literary Review-East and a book reviewer for Clockwise Cat and Pedestal magazine, and one of her reviews was accepted for publication in American Book Review. Cindy has been published here and abroad, including Canada and Turkey. Her latest chapbook is Habeas Corpus (Glass Lyre Press).

Mary Newell lives in the lower Hudson Valley. Her poems were published in Dispatches from the Poetry Wars,BlazeVox, Spoon River Poetry Review, Hopper Literary Magazine, Earth’s Daughters, Written River, About Place, etc. She has also written reviews and essays, including “Shades of Melancholy” in Melancholia: Hinge as Innominate Limina, by Will Alexander, Heller Levinson, and Mary Newell. Dr. Newell (MA Columbia, BA Berkeley) received a doctorate from Fordham University in American Literature and the Environment. She has taught literature and writing at the college level.

Clockwise Cat publisher and editor, Alison Ross, pioneered the genre of Zen-Surrealism and uses that as her guiding aesthetic. She also practices the tenets of Zen-Surrealist Socialism. Alison believes that “poetic intuition” knifes through the murk of the mundane and mutates mediocrity into a Utopia of the Dynamic. Recently, Alison was a featured poet at Surreal Poetics. In addition, she has three chapbooks - two from Fowlpox Press and one from dancing girl press – and has published reviews and editorials in various publications, includingFive2One, Fear of Monkeys, and Pop Matters.

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Heath Brougher Heller Levinson Cindy Hochman Mary Newell Alison Ross

Poetry Grows in Brooklyn Heights 2018

Brownstone Poets Still Inspiring Brooklyn Since 2005

Brownstone Poets presents

Saturday, July 28 at 2:30 p.m.

Heath Brougher Heller Levinson Cindy Hochman Mary Newell Alison Ross

@ 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/1741637185916262/

BIOS:

HeathBrougher is the co-poetry editor for Into the Void Magazine, winner of the 2017 and 2018 Saboteur Award for Best Magazine. His work has been nominated multiple times for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net Award. Although he's been writing his entire life, he didn't begin to submit his "life's work" for publication until 4 years ago. Since then, he's been published in over 450 different journals and has had his work translated into 9 other languages. His most recent book is To Burn in Torturous Algorithms.

Heller Levinson's books include LinquaQuake (Black Widow Press, 2018), Another Line (Watermark Literary Press, 1990), Bad Boy Poems (Bombshelter Press, 1993), Pulled Apart (Third Lung Press, 1989), Smelling Mary (Howling Dog Press, 2008), ToxiCity: Poems of the Coconut Vulva (Howling Dog Press, 2005), and more. Levinson's poems and writings have appeared in hundreds of journals and literary outlets around the world. A growing body of essays and articles about Levinson's Hinge Theory in both the literary and art world attests to the fascination and importance people are attaching to his developing and expanding theory of poetics. He lives in New York where he studies animal behavior.

Cindy Hochman is the president (and only employee) of "100 Proof" Copyediting Services. She is the editor-in-chief of the online poetry journal First Literary Review-East and a book reviewer for Clockwise Cat and Pedestal magazine, and one of her reviews was accepted for publication in American Book Review. Cindy has been published here and abroad, including Canada and Turkey. Her latest chapbook is Habeas Corpus (Glass Lyre Press).

Mary Newell lives in the lower Hudson Valley. Her poems were published in Dispatches from the Poetry Wars,BlazeVox, Spoon River Poetry Review, Hopper Literary Magazine, Earth’s Daughters, Written River, About Place, etc.  She has also written reviews and essays, including “Shades of Melancholy” in Melancholia: Hinge as Innominate Limina, by Will Alexander, Heller Levinson, and Mary Newell. Dr. Newell (MA Columbia, BA Berkeley) received a doctorate from Fordham University in American Literature and the Environment. She has taught literature and writing at the college level.

Clockwise Cat publisher and editor, Alison Ross, pioneered the genre of Zen-Surrealism and uses that as her guiding aesthetic. She also practices the tenets of Zen-Surrealist Socialism. Alison believes that “poetic intuition” knifes through the murk of the mundane and mutates mediocrity into a Utopia of the Dynamic. Recently, Alison was a featured poet at Surreal Poetics. In addition, she has three chapbooks - two from Fowlpox Press and one from dancing girl press – and has published reviews and editorials in various publications, including Five2One, Fear of Monkeys, and Pop Matters.

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The 26th Annual Poets House Showcase

The 26th Annual Poets House Showcase

TheThe Brownstone Poets 2018 Anthology will be on display at Poets House from June 28 through August 18 at Elizabeth Kray Hall

https://www.poetshouse.org/programs-and-events/readings-and-conversations-ph-showcase/26th-annual-poets-house-showcase-opening

Opening Reception and Reading

June 28, 2018 6:00PM to 8:00P Elizabeth Kray Hall Free and Open to the Public RECEPTION: 6:00 – 7:00PM READING: 7:00 – 8:00PM Glimpse the freshest crop of new poetry. After browsing the exhibition, listen to poets Kaveh Akbar(Calling a Wolf a Wolf, Alice James Books), Tarfia Faizullah (Registers of Illuminated Villages, Graywolf). and Brenda Hillman (Extra Hidden Life, among the Days, Wesleyan) read from their new books, which are included in the Showcase. LOCATION Poets House is located at Ten River Terrace (at Murray Street) New York, NY 10282 212-431-7920 212-431-8131 (fax) info@poetshouse.org

On Saturday April 21, the Poets House Library will be open from 11am to 2pm. HOURS Free and open to the public

Library & Reading Room Hours: Tuesday–Friday, 11:00am–7:00pm, Saturday, 11:00am–6:00pm

Children's Room Hours: Thursday–Saturday, 11:00am–5:00pm DIRECTIONS TO POETS HOUSE By Subway: Take the 1, 2, 3, A or C lines to Chambers Street Station. Walk west along Chambers Street all the way to the end (Rockefeller Park, along the Hudson River). Turn left and walk along River Terrace two blocks - Poets House is at the corner of Murray and River Terrace

BY BUS: The M22 runs along Chambers between North End Avenue and the Lower East Side. The M20 travels from the Upper West Side and the southern tip of Battery Park City to North End Ave.

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Reminder: First Brownstone Poets 2018 Anthology Reading

First Brownstone Poets 2018 Anthology Book Event A Celebration of Poetry and Prose from Poets from Brownstone Poets Reading Series Held in Brooklyn Heights Saturday, June 16 at 2:30 p.m. Park Plaza Restaurant 220 Cadman Plaza West Brooklyn Hts., NY 11201 718-596-5900 Free Admission— OPEN MIC author copy $8 and additional copies $10 each non-author copies $12 each SUBWAYS: 2, 3 to Clark St. A, C to High St. 4, 5 to Borough Hall Brownstone Poets has been inspiring poetry in Brooklyn since 2005. We strive to be unique and diverse, and we welcome a multitude of styles and forms. We would like to thank this year’s sixty-eight reader-contributors listed below, as well as our loyal attendees. Without their love for, and dedication to, our reading series, this anthology would not have been possible. We are proud to have the Himalayan poet Yuyutsu RD Sharma as our poet in residence. We would also like to honor this year’s guest poet JP Howard, This collection of poetry, infused with Brooklyn imagery, is our contribution to the vibrant creative spirit in the borough of Kings. Planning on events in Manhattan.

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