Leslie Prosterman and Nathan A.Versace Hit Brooklyn

Good News!

The Park Plaza Restaurant is ready for The Brownstone Poets and . . .

Poetry Grows Again in Brooklyn Heights

The Brownstone Poets presents:

Leslie Prosterman and Nathan A. Versace

Saturday, November 3 at 2:30 p.m.

at the newly renovated Park Plaza Restaurant

220 Cadman Plaza West near Clark St.and Pineapple Walk

Brooklyn, NY 11201 - 718 – 596 – 5900

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 email:

pcarragon@gmail.com

http://brownstonepoets.blogspot.com/

http://patriciacarragon8.wordpress.com/

http://myspace.com/pattiekake8

http://en-gb.facebook.com/people/Brownstone-Poets/541314712

BIOS:

Leslie Prosterman has recently published her first poetry book, Snapshots and Dances, with Garden District Press (New Orleans, 2011). Her poetry has appeared in several collections and publications, including The Folklore Muse (Utah State University Press) and First Literary Review-East, and will be published in From Somewhere to Nowhere: The End of the American Dream (forthcoming, Spring 2013). She has been a featured reader/performer at the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, West Tisbury Library, at the George Mason University Fall for the Book Festival, and at Nora Laudani’s Vaudeville Nights in Vineyard Haven. In December the Erika Thimey Dance and Theater Company will present a dance concert created around Snapshots and Dances, at which Prosterman will also perform and read. A cultural activist in the conservation of grassroots culture and civil society, she is also a sometime student of trapeze. It is probably also evident that in a former life she was an academic, but that will pass.

Nathan A. Versace was born in Rochester, New York and spent his childhood surrounded by cows. In his Senior Year in high school, he ran a campaign of distortion and lies and won as Student Senate Chairman. He attended SUNY Geneseo where he was Editor of the school literary journal, The Experimentalist, a publication that he dedicated to avoiding the truth at all cost. His first published poem was about a large breasted woman in Volition based in San Francisco in 1984. His poetry and prose has since been published in about 50 publications nationwide including New York Press and New York Newsday. Wrote a column for Downtown/The Aquarian on East Village life called The Downtown Diaries from 1994-1997. While driving a cab in 1992, he met Norman Mailer who later granted him an interview a few months before his death. He is currently an employee of The Brooklyn Eagle where he contributes words, photography, and advertising dollars. He has an easy life, can afford to take the subway at will.

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Jack E. Cooper and Mindy Matijasevic at Cafe Dada

Poetry Grows In Park Slope

The Brownstone Poets Presents:

Jack E. Cooper and Mindy Matijasevic

Tuesday, October 16

Starts at 7p.m. – Sign up at 6:45 p.m.

Café Dada

57 Seventh Ave. (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/beverage - Open-Mic

Curated by Patricia Carragon

pcarragon@gmail.com

http://brownstonepoets.blogspot.com/

http://patriciacarragon8.wordpress.com/

http://myspace.com/pattiekake8

http://en-gb.facebook.com/people/Brownstone-Poets/541314712

Bios:

John Jack Jackie (Edward) Cooper loved hopscotch, especially, when quite young; loosely configured lines, in particular, which he doted on carving himself from the pavement with chalk. Choosing the stone, its incalculable toss and anarchic landing, problematical constraint on advance, and, of course, attempting anything—standing on one leg—all, contributed to the challenge experience has induced scarce reason for him since, now quite older, to abandon strategy. He translated Wax Women, poems in French, published in Paris in 1985, to which the legendary Gotham Book Mart in New York dedicated full-window display. Ten, previewing his “aphorithms,” recently appeared. Click.

Mindy Matijasevic writes poetry, prose, and her original stand-up comedy material. She is listed with Poets & Writers. Her work has appeared in numerous print and on-line publications. Mindy shares her evenings at poetry readings in her blog Get Your Poem On at http://getyourpoemon.wordpress.com/ where she hopes you will drop by often. Additionally, she is part of seven women, who work in comedy in some capacity, who make up She So Funny. Mindy Matijasevic is your Tuesday "She" where she shares true stories, sometimes humorous, sometimes not, but always intriguing. http://www.shesofunny.org/2012/08/my-penis-free-era.html?spref=fb Feel free to make contact at either blog or on Facebook.

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Mark Fogarty and Timothy Gager at Park Plaza

Good News!

The Park Plaza Restaurant will be ready for The Brownstone Poets and . . .

Poetry Will Grow Again in Brooklyn Heights

The Brownstone Poets presents:

Mark Fogarty and Timothy Gager

Saturday, October 6 at 2:30 p.m.

at the newly renovated Park Plaza Restaurant

220 Cadman Plaza West near Clark St.and Pineapple Walk

Brooklyn, NY 11201 - 718 – 596 – 5900

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 email:

pcarragon@gmail.com

http://brownstonepoets.blogspot.com/

http://patriciacarragon8.wordpress.com/

http://myspace.com/pattiekake8

http://en-gb.facebook.com/people/Brownstone-Poets/541314712

BIOS:

Mark Fogarty is a poet, journalist, and musician from Rutherford, NJ. He emcees the Red Wheelbarrow Poets reading series and is also managing editor of The Rutherford Red Wheelbarrow, a yearly anthology. He is the author of two books of poetry, Myshkin’s Blues and Peninsula, both from White Chickens Press.

Timothy Gager is the author of eight books of short fiction and poetry. His ninth Anti-Social Network (Red Neck Press) is due out very soon. He has hosted the successful Dire Literary Series in Cambridge, Massachusetts every month for the past eleven years and is the co-founder of the Somerville News Writers Festival.

His work has appeared over 250 times on-line and in print since 2007 and has also appeared on National Public Radio. Nine have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize.

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Publications and Book Reviews

I'm behind on a lot of stuff since my move to Flushing and dealing with health issues with my mom, so here it goes:

1-Baby Bump is up on Sketchbook’s Haiku Thread for May/June Editor’s Choice:

along with poems from John Daleiden and others.

http://poetrywriting.org/Sketchbook7-3MayJun2012-42/Sketchbook_7-3_MayJune_2012-42_Choices_Bernard_Gieske_Wedding_Threads.htm

2-MÖBIUS, The Poetry Magazine accepted my poem Network for the 30th Anniversary issue.

3-First Literary Review-East posted Open Space for the September 2012 issue along with poems from Bob Heman, Lyn Lifshin, Ann Shalaski, Ed Stever, Maria Jacketti, Charles Pierre, BJ Muirhead, Linda Simone, Edi Holley, Michael Ceraolo, Sharon Anderson, Bill Glose, George Held, Mary Orovan, Eve Packer, Hope Koppelman, Angelo Verga, and Erika Dagnino.

www.rulrul.4mg.com

4-My book reviews for Jason Schneiderman’s Striking Surface and Juanita Torrence-Thompson’s Talking With Stanley Kunitz are up on Gently Read Literature’s Summer Edition. Wonderful books worth checking out!

http://issuu.com/gentlyreadlit/docs/gently_read_literature_summer_2012/1

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The Unbearables vs. The Feminists in Low-Cut Blouses Reading Sat, 9/29

The Unbearables vs. The Feminists in Low-Cut Blouses Reading

Saturday, September 29, 2012 from 7 to 10 p.m.

100,000 Poets for Change featuring Madeline Artenberg, Stephanie Berger, Bernard Block, Stephen Boyer, Lee Ann Brown, Patricia Carragon, Steve Dalachinsky, Bonny Finberg, Rob Hardin, Bob Holman, Patricia Spears Jones, Ron Kolm, Tsaurah Litzky, Elizabeth Macklin, Jane Ormerod, Yuko Otomo, Annie Pluto, Jill Rapaport, Audrey Roth, Thad Rutkowski, Sarah Sarai, Tom Savage, Susan Scutti, Larissa Shmailo, Sparrow, Carl Watson, Carol Wierzbicki, Chavisa Woods, Susan Yung, and Jordan Zinovich

A Gathering of The Tribes

285 East 3rd St, 2nd Floor (between Ave C & D) New York, New York 10009

Phone (212) 674-3778 Email

info@tribes.org Website

http://www.tribes.org/ Subway: F train to 2nd Ave

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Amber Atiya, Stephen Bluestone and Robert Gibbons at Cafe Dada

Poetry Grows In Park Slope

The Brownstone Poets Presents:

Amber Atiya, Stephen Bluestone and Robert Gibbons

Tuesday, September 18

Starts at 7p.m. – Sign up at 6:45 p.m.

Café Dada

57 Seventh Ave. (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/beverage - Open-Mic

Curated by Patricia Carragon

pcarragon@gmail.com

http://brownstonepoets.blogspot.com/

http://patriciacarragon8.wordpress.com/

http://myspace.com/pattiekake8

http://en-gb.facebook.com/people/Brownstone-Poets/541314712

Bios:

Amber Atiya is an electrifying presence in the New York poetry scene, with an intense body of work that slices fresh emotional grooves on stage and page. Her work has appeared in Tribes Magazine, Drunken Boat, and Coloring Book, an anthology of multicultural writers. She was a participant in the 2012 Poets House Emerging Poets Residency Program and is a member of a women's writing group, currently celebrating it's tenth-year anniversary. Stephen Bluestone was born in New York City. His earlier volume The Laughing Monkeys of Gravity was nominated for the National Book Award in Poetry. The Flagrant Dead, his latest book, also nominated for the National Book Award, has been called “original and beautiful” by Gerald Stern. Louis Simpson has called the same volume “delightful and astonishing.” Stephen Bluestone has won The Greensboro Review Poetry Prize, The Thomas Merton Prize, two Hopwood Prizes, and second prize in the Robert Penn Warren Competition, in addition to an NEH Award, a Pushcart Prizes Special Mention, and other awards.

Robert Gibbons moved to New York City in the summer of 2007 in search of his muse-Langston Hughes. Robert has featured in New York, Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Florida. Moreover, Robert has been published in Uphook Press, Three Rooms Press, Stain Sheets, The Brownstone Poets Anthology, Dinner with the Muse, Cartier Street Review, Nomad’s Choir, Palm Beach Post, and recently was produced on CD called Brain Ampin through Hydrogen Jukebox, a poetry series produced through the Cornelia Street Café. Additionally, Robert has taken classes with Cave Canem and the 92Y and has studied under master poets such as: Cornelius Eady, Marilyn Nelson, KImiko Hahn, Nathalie Handal, and Linda Susan Jackson.

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CANCELLATION OF THE SEPTEMBER BROOKLYN HTS READING

THE BROWNSTONE POETS BROOKLYN HEIGHTS READING FOR SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 IS CANCELLED!

THE PARK PLAZA RESTAURANT IS CURRENTLY CLOSED FOR RENOVATION AND HOPEFULLY WILL REOPEN SOON.

STAY TUNE FOR DETAILS . . .

WE HOPE TO BE BACK IN THE HEIGHTS FOR THE OCTOBER 6TH READING!

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Pattie does Go Cat Go on Monday 8/13

Brownstone Poets' Patricia Carragon joins Peter Chelnik at Gracie's Corner Diner on Monday, August 13 at 6:45 p.m.

Admission is FREE!

OPEN-MIC!

Go Cat Go Poetry Reading Series

Hosted by Peter Chelnik

Gracie’s Corner Diner

352 E 86th St (between 1st Ave & 2nd Ave) New York, NY 10028 Neighborhoods: Yorkville, Upper East Side

(212) 737-8505

http://graciescornerdinernyc.com

Patricia Carragon

Patricia Carragon is a New York City writer and poet. Her publications include Best Poem, BigCityLit, CLWN WR, Chantarelle’s Notebook, Clockwise Cat, Danse Macabre, Ditch Poetry, Inertia, Long Island Quarterly, Lips, MÖBIUS, The Poetry Magazine, Marymark Press, Maintenant, Mad Hatters’ Review, The Toronto Quarterly, Six-Word Memoirs, and more. She is the author of Journey to the Center of My Mind (Rogue Scholars Press, 2005) and Urban Haiku and More (Fierce Grace Press, 2010). Her latest book, The Cupcake Chronicles is forthcoming later this year from Poets Wear Prada. 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. For more information, please check out her Web sites at http://brownstonepoets.blogspot.com and at http://patriciacarragon8.wordpress.com/.

Peter Chelnik

Peter Chelnik's books include Railroad Heart, East Coast Line, Manhattan Wilderness, Eternity Road and Wildflower Serenade. He has had seven plays produced Off-Off-Broadway. These dramatic works include Street Rag, Prairie Fire, Parking Lot, Moving Target, Scarsdale Station and Tremont Vortex. Peter has also written Trick Bag, a novel of the 1960's. And yes, he does believe "the word will set you free." His latest book is STRAWBERRY HARMONY New Poems (Little Sky Press, March 2010).

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Susan Maurer and David Messineo at Cafe Dada

ues, 8/21 at 7 p.m.

Poetry Grows In Park Slope

The Brownstone Poets Presents:

Susan Maurer and David Messineo

Tuesday, August 21

Starts at 7p.m. – Sign up at 6:45 p.m.

Café Dada

57 Seventh Ave. (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/beverage - Open-Mic

Curated by Patricia Carragon

pcarragon@gmail.com

http://brownstonepoets.blogspot.com/

http://patriciacarragon8.wordpress.com/

http://myspace.com/pattiekake8

http://en-gb.facebook.com/people/Brownstone-Poets/541314712

Bios:

Susan Maurer’s forthcoming poetry collection Josephine Butler, is to be published by Phoenix Press International (Les Édition Phoenix). This unique press has bases in France, Senegal, Canada, and the U.S. Sylvie Kandé, one of the editors, was her excellent editor. (Sylvie has just had her second book published in French by Gallimard). Susan is a publication junkie and loves to give readings. See her read on You Tube (on Poetry Thin Air).

David Messineo, Publisher and Poetry Editor of Sensations Magazine (www.sensationsmag.com), comes to Brooklyn as part of his "2012 Informal Tour" for his 120-page hardcover book, Formal ($20), featuring his structured/formal poetry. Expect a diverse 15-minute set to include ekphrastic verse; a rondeau redouble; the sonnet, sestina, pantoum, and villanelle; and range topically from paintings, to Queen Elizabeth I, to politics and contemporary issues, many from a liberal perspective. David uses full proceeds from his book sales to help finance the publication and publish other poems, so consider helping him out with a purchase, as he attempts to have his publication break even financially without government grant funding at the close of its award-winning 25-year run.

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Red Barrow Poets John Barrale, Zorida Mohammed and Tony Puma Come to Brooklyn

Poetry Grows in Brooklyn Heights

The Brownstone Poets presents: The Red Barrow Poets: John Barrale, Zorida Mohammed and Tony Puma

Saturday, August 4 at 2:30 p.m.

Park Plaza Restaurant

220 Cadman Plaza West near Clark St.and Pineapple Walk

Brooklyn, NY 11201 - 718 – 596 – 5900

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 email:

pcarragon@gmail.com

http://brownstonepoets.blogspot.com/

http://patriciacarragon8.wordpress.com/

http://myspace.com/pattiekake8

http://en-gb.facebook.com/people/Brownstone-Poets/541314712

BIOS:

John Barrale’s poetry has been published in a many literary magazines including the Red Wheel Barrow Poets’ Anthologies (Volumes I - IV, Poetalk, The Lullwater Review, California Quarterly, Tiger’s Eye Journal, Paterson Literary Review, and The William and Mary Review. John has lived in NJ since 1978, and enjoys reading his work in a wide variety of venues throughout the metropolitan area.

Zorida Mohammed was born in Trinidad and immigrated to America at age 18. She is a social worker in Bergen County, NJ. Zorida won the New Jersey State Council on the Arts Grant for Poetry in 1991-92. Her poems have been published in Folio, Fulcrum # 6 and # 7, Phoebe, The Caribbean Writer, Poem, The Oyez Review, Compass Rose, The Dirty Goat, The Spoon River Review, The Atlanta Review, and The Distillery. She has also been published in The Red Wheelbarrow for the past four years. Zorida is an active member of The Red Wheelbarrow Poets and reads frequently in Bergen County, NJ, and in New York City.

Tony Puma’s career in sales/marketing/advertising, and public relations have influenced his poetry style, being less abstract and more to-the-point. Tony has degrees from New York University and Fairleigh Dickinson University. He is a member of various poetry groups including: Italian-American Writers Assn., Red Wheelbarrow Poets, Sussex NJ Writers Roundtable, Poets House (NYC), South Mountain Poets, and the Hudson Valley ‘Poets-on-the-Loose’. His view of life is through the prism of poetry; seeing, hearing, and feeling, trying to capture emotions and relate to them via words. His poems have been featured in a variety of publications. Visit his blog at: tonypoetica.blogspot.com.

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