I am happy to be part of Maintenant 6 and one of the many featured readers at the Fifth Annual NYC Dada Poetry and Art Salon.
From Three Rooms Press:
Three Rooms Press and Son of a Pony present:
The Fifth Annual NYC Dada Poetry and Art Salon
Friday, March 16
Doors open at 5:45. Admission is $7
Cornelia Street Cafe
29 Cornelia Street (between Bleecker and
W. 4th St.)
Subways: E, A, C, F, M, D to West 4th Street
1 to Christopher Street
Featured Dada performers include:
--NY Dada's JOANIE FRITZ ZOSIKE and
LOIS KAGAN MINGUS
--Dada Daddy PETER CARLAFTES
--Romanian Dada descendent VALERY OISTEANU
--Underground Comic Book Artist MIKE DIANA
with CITY SCUM SHOT
--LA Dada's CYNTHIA TORONTO
--NJ Dada's JOHN J. TRAUSE
--and surprise guests
It's back! And better than ever: The fifth annual Dada Poetry and Art Salon, with Dada hostess KAT GEORGES! This year's theme: Declare Art on War!
Wear your favorite Dada fashion, thrill to the excitement of the strangest, most hard-hitting Dada performances ever, and enjoy Dada-inspired poetry read LIVE! from the latest edition of Maintenant: A Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing and Art* (Three Rooms Press, 130 pages, 2012).
Featured guest poets include Dada superstar boxer/poet Arthur Cravan, brought back to life for this special event. Plus Live Dada Twitter, and performances by underground comic book artist Mike Diana with Steven Retchard, NY Dada's Joanie Hieger Zosike & Lois Kagan Mingus, NJ Dada's John J. Trause, Romanian Dada descendent Valery Oisteanu, LA Dada's Cynthia Toronto, Dada Daddy Peter Carlaftes, and surprise guests!
Plus: new videos, book giveaways and more. The first 20 people will receive a free copy of the hot-off-the-press Maintenant 6: A Journal of Contemporary Dada Literature and Art (inspired by Arthur Cravan‘s early 20th Century Maintenant ’zine--the first ’zine EVER!).
Doors open at 5:45. Admission is $7 which includes (naturally) a free drink! Cornelia Street Cafe is at 29 Cornelia Street, in the West Village, between W. 4th Street at Bleecker (http://corneliastreecafe.com).
Reservations and additional information: threeroomspress@mac.com
Maintenant 6: A Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing and Art is the fifth edition of an annual collection of contemporary Dada work inspired by Dada instigator and Three Rooms Press spiritual advisor Arthur Cravan. This issue, edited by Peter Carlaftes and Kat Georges, includes bold poetry, cutting-edge visual art, essays and word art from Neo-Dadaists worldwide, including: Roger Conover, Mina Loy, Jerome Rothenberg, Giovanni Fontana, Fork Burke, Paolo Pelosini, Constantin Xenakis, Vittore Baroni, George Wallace, Scott Wannberg, Duska Vrhovac, Bart Verburg, Mike Mollett and more than 100 other artists. Color cover, with interior black and white text and images. It is now archived in the MOMA library.
The original Dada movement peaked from 1916-1922, primarily involved visual arts, literature—poetry, art manifestoes, art theory—theatre, and graphic design, and concentrated its anti-war politics through a rejection of the prevailing standards in art through anti-art cultural works. Its purpose was to ridicule what its participants considered to be the meaninglessness of the modern world. In addition to being anti-war, dada was also anti-bourgeois and anarchist in nature.
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Poetry, The Marriage of Love: Bernard and Diane Block at Park Plaza Restaurant
Poetry Grows in Brooklyn Heights
The Brownstone Poets presents: Bernard and Diane Block
Saturday, May 5 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/
$3 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:
Bernard Block’s poems have appeared in the NY Quarterly, the Minnesota Review and the Colorado Review. He has published four chapbooks: Quest; Prometheus Returns; Portraits; and To Music. Born and raised in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, he attended Cornell University and Brooklyn College. Hitch-hiked out to California in 1965 and lived in the Haight-Ashbury through 1967. Gave poetry readings at the I and Thou Coffee Shop, City Lights Bookstore and Golden Gate Park. He returned to NYC and studied with the poet Colette Inez in the mid '70s. Read at Speakeasy, Emilie Glen’s, Henry St. Settlement and The New School. Recently he has read at Nightingale’s, Cornelia St. Café, The Bowery Poetry Club, Brownstone Poets, Green Pavilion, Phoenix, SOB’s, TOMI Jazz (a Japanese jazz club), Penny’s, StringPoet and Molloy College. He is presently organizing his many recent poems into thematic collections for future publications.
Diane Block is a professional classical violinist who received her training at the Manhattan School of Music, with a Master’s Degree in Violin Performance in 1980. It was there, at MSM, that she developed an interest in Romantic and Modern Poetry. This interest was shared by close musician friends at monthly musical and poetry salons. Diane has free-lanced as section violinist in the metropolitan area for the last 30 years. She is in her 24th year as Orchestra Director in the Farmingdale School District on Long Island. She also maintains a private violin studio in her home. Diane met her husband, poet Bernard Block, at the poet Emilie Glen’s home in 1982 and has been connected to the NY Poetry world ever since. Originally she read other people’s poetry (and still does) but it was Bernie who encouraged her to write her own. There is an intimate link between classical music and poetry. One seems to flow out of the other and her experience of both art forms feels very much the same.
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Pattie's Birthday at the New York Poetry Forum
Happy Birthday to Patricia Carragon at The New York Poetry Forum Pattie's having a birthday and come celebrate with her @ The New York Poetry Forum Saturday, May 12, 2012 at 2 p.m.
© http://werenotmommyblogs.blogspot.com/2012/04/happy-birthday-katie.html Lecture by George H. Northrup.
Poetry by Juanita Torrence-Thompson, Patricia Carragon, Jay Chollick, and Anthony Taylor.
Also classical music.
NY Poetry Forum, Soldier's Sailors, Marines building 283 Lexington Avenue between 36 & 37 Streets, NYC - 10016 2nd floor Open Mic
http://www.hopstop.com/search $3 for Members, $4 for Non-members
Hosted by Daniel Fernandez
Subway
6 to 33rd street
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Philip Beitchman and Michael Schwartz at Linger Cafe
Poetry Grows In Boerum Hill
The Brownstone Poets Presents:
Philip Beitchman and Michael Schwartz
Tuesday, May 15
Starts at 7p.m. – Sign up at 6:45 p.m.
The Linger Café and Lounge
533 Atlantic Ave. (between 3rd and 4th Avenues) Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, NY 11217 (347) 689-4813
Take the N, R, or D to Atlantic Avenue/Pacific Street 2, 3, 4, 5, B, or Q to Atlantic Avenue F to Jay Street and change for the R at Metro Tech and get off at Avenue/Pacific Street G to Hoyt-Schermerhorn and walk along Hoyt Street to Atlantic Avenue
http://www.hopstop.com/
$3 donation + food/drink (wine and beer available) - Open-Mic
Curated by Patricia Carragon
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Token Entry Book Release Sun 4/15 at 4 p.m.
I will be one of the readers who will be celebrating the release of TOKEN ENTRY: New York Subway Poems (2012, Smalls Press, Gerry LaFemina, editor) along with many of the contributor poets. There will be a viewing of some of the Subway Series poem movies, and of course, the variety of Manitoba's good drinks. So come on down and party!
Manitoba's
99 Avenue B, New York, NY 10009
The release party is from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.
(212) 982-2511
http://www.manitobas.com
Subways:
L to 1st Avenue
F to 2nd Avenue
Congrats to the following contributors:
Cheryl Dumesnil
Tom C Hunley
Sebastian Matthews
David Wojahn
C.K. Williams
George Guida
George Wallace
Meredith Trede
Michael Waters
Hilary Sideris
Allen C. Fischer
Richard Fein
Marie-Elizabeth Mali
Alicia Ostriker
Anita Ytuarte Oelkers
Phillip Fried
Alessandra Lynch
Joseph O. Legaspi
Amy Lemmon
Rachel Zucker
Cynthia Toronto
Suzanne Parker
Illene Starger
Chase Twichell
Anne Pierson Wiese
Melinda Thomsen
Stephan Massimilla
Maria Terrone
Quitman Marshall
Stefanie Lipsey
Colette Inez
Aaron Smith
Ravi Shankar
Sybil Kollar
Myron Ernst
Maureen Seaton
Lee Kostrinsky
Susana H. Case
J. Allyn Rosser
Carl Rosenstock
Patrick Philips
Miranda Field
Elaine Sexton
Denise Duhamel
Daniela Gioseffi
Jeffrey McDaniel
Judy Kamilhior
Rosalie Calabrese
Phillip Dacey
Michele Battiste
George Held
Timothy Liu
Andrey Gritsman
Malena Morling
Joey Nicoletti
Monique Ferrell
Christine Timm
Frank Murphy
Vivian Shipley
Allison Joseph
Natalie Safir
Patricia Carragon
John Brehm
Edward Hirsch
Carly Sachs
Laura McCollough
Richard Levine
Joel Allegretti
Dean Kostos
Amy Holman
Billy Collins
Hayan Charara
Angelo Verga
Charles Bernstein
Sharon Balter
Rhina P. Espaillat
Cornelius Eady
Elizabeth Dolan
L.S. Asekoff
Jared Smith
Claude McKay
Paul Blackburn
Muriel Rukeyser
Grace Paley
Hart Crane
Langston Hughes
Maxwell Bodenheim
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The Brownstone Poets 2012 Anthology is Here!
The Brownstone Poets 2012 Anthology is Here!
A labor of love brought together with the help of my team of assistant editors, Cindy Hochman, Brenda J. Gannam, and Karen Neuberg. Kudos to all three! Without their help and guidance, this anthology would not have been possible.
Copies will be sold at the readings for $6.
Stay tuned for the Annual Brownstone Poets Anthology Reading. Details to come . . .
Will bring copies to Poets House for the Annual Showcase. Details to come . . .
Congrats to the contributors (the features from last year and the poets who came to support the Brownstone Poets venues), who will be getting their comp copy, plus . . .
Our Guest Poet:
GEORGE WALLACE
List of Contributors:
AMY HOLMAN AUSTIN ALEXIS BARBARA HANTMAN BERNARD BLOCK BOB HEMAN BRANT LYON BRENDA J. GANNAM CAROLYN OTA CINDY HOCHMAN DAVID LAWTON DEAN KOSTOS DEBORAH HAUSER DONNA HUNT DUBBLEX ELIZABETH HARRINGTON ELLIOT ABOSH ELYZSABETH AHNE ERNEST KYLE WOODLEY EVIE IVY G.E. SCHWARTZ GAIL FISHMAN GERWIN GEORGE SPENCER GREGORY VINCENT ST. THOMASINO IRIS BERMAN JACOB VICTORINE JAMES MCMENAMIN JEFFREY CYPHERS WRIGHT JOHN A. TODRAS JOSEPH CHARLES REBIS, JR. JOY LEFTOW JUDY KAMILHOR KAREN NEUBERG KATHERINE A. HOGAN KATHRYN M. FAZIO LAURA BOSS LINDA CARTER BROWN LINDA LERNER LINDA ROTHSTEIN MARY ASKIN-JENCSIK MATTHEW ANISH MAX NEMEROVSKY MINDY LEVOKOVE MIREYA PEREZ MOLLY PEACOCK PATRICIA CARRAGON PETER MARRA RICHARD FEIN RICHARD MARX WEINRAUB SHONDA BUCHANAN SWETA SRIVASTAVA VIKRAM TANTRA-ZAWADI TINA CHAN TOM OLESZCZUK VALERIE CONTI VELEZ MOORE VICKI IORIO VIRGINIA CRAWFORD YUYUTSU RD SHARMA ZEV SHANKEN ZEV TORRES
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Back To Jack
Back to Jack
Yippie Museum Café 9 Bleecker Street (near the Bowery)
(subway: B,D,F,M, downtown 6 to Broadway/Lafayette)
http://www.hopstop.com/
Monday, March 26th, 2012 6:30 – 9 pm
A celebration of the writings of Jack Kerouac
Host – Gordon Gilbert
(no open mic)
$3 suggested donation
Readers
Peter Martin, Demetrius Daniel,Patricia Carragon,
Robin Small-McCarthy, Russ Green, Linda Lerner,
Clare Ultimo, Madeline Artenberg, Orion 0.62,
Efrayim Levenson, Pete Dolack, Rob “Guru” Jones,
Peter Chelnik, Robert Agnoli, Richard Fein,
Roxanne Hoffman, Kim Kalest, Michael Reiss,
Farid Bitar, Zev Torres, Austin Alexis
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Happy Passover and Happy Easter from The Brownstone Poets
Happy Passover (Pesach) and Happy Easter From The Brownstone Poets!
There will be no reading on Saturday, April 4 at the Park Plaza Restaurant 220 Cadman Plaza West in beautiful Brooklyn Heights.
But please come back on Saturday, May 5 for the poetic couple, Bernard and Diane Block.
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Poetry, The Marriage of Love: Bernard and Diane Block at Park Plaza Restaurant
Poetry Grows in Brooklyn Heights
The Brownstone Poets presents: Bernard and Diane Block
Saturday, May 5 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/
$3 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:
Bernard Block’s poems have appeared in the NY Quarterly, the Minnesota Review and the Colorado Review. He has published four chapbooks: Quest; Prometheus Returns; Portraits; and To Music. Born and raised in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, he attended Cornell University and Brooklyn College. Hitch-hiked out to California in 1965 and lived in the Haight-Ashbury through 1967. Gave poetry readings at the I and Thou Coffee Shop, City Lights Bookstore and Golden Gate Park. He returned to NYC and studied with the poet Colette Inez in the mid '70s. Read at Speakeasy, Emilie Glen’s, Henry St. Settlement and The New School. Recently he has read at Nightingale’s, Cornelia St. Café, The Bowery Poetry Club, Brownstone Poets, Green Pavilion, Phoenix, SOB’s, TOMI Jazz (a Japanese jazz club), Penny’s, StringPoet and Molloy College. He is presently organizing his many recent poems into thematic collections for future publications.
Diane Block is a professional classical violinist who received her training at the Manhattan School of Music, with a Master’s Degree in Violin Performance in 1980. It was there, at MSM, that she developed an interest in Romantic and Modern Poetry. This interest was shared by close musician friends at monthly musical and poetry salons. Diane has free-lanced as section violinist in the metropolitan area for the last 30 years. She is in her 24th year as Orchestra Director in the Farmingdale School District on Long Island. She also maintains a private violin studio in her home. Diane met her husband, poet Bernard Block, at the poet Emilie Glen’s home in 1982 and has been connected to the NY Poetry world ever since. Originally she read other people’s poetry (and still does) but it was Bernie who encouraged her to write her own. There is an intimate link between classical music and poetry. One seems to flow out of the other and her experience of both art forms feels very much the same.
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Yuko Otomo and Larissa Shmailo at Linger Cafe and Lounge
Poetry Grows In Boerum Hill
The Brownstone Poets Presents: Yuko Otomo and Larissa Shmailo
Tuesday, April 17
Starts at 7p.m. – Sign up at 6:45 p.m.
At Our New Venue,
The Linger Café and Lounge
533 Atlantic Ave. (between 3rd and 4th Avenues) Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, NY 11217 (347) 689-4813
Take the N, R, or D to Atlantic Avenue/Pacific Street 2, 3, 4, 5, B, or Q to Atlantic Avenue F to Jay Street and change for the R at Metro Tech and get off at Avenue/Pacific Street G to Hoyt-Schermerhorn and walk along Hoyt Street to Atlantic Avenue
http://www.hopstop.com/
$3 donation + food/drink (wine and beer available) 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:
Yuko Otomo is a bilingual (Japanese and English) poet and a visual artist of Japanese origin. She also writes haiku, art criticism, and essays. She has read in Poetry Project at St. Mark’s, Tribes, Bowery Poetry Club, ABC No Rio, La Mama, NY Public Library, the Stone, Queens Museum, PS1, the Living Theatre, Knitting Factory, etc., and in Japan, France, and Germany. Her publication includes Small Poems, The Hand of The Poet (both from Ugly Duckling Press), A Sunday Afternoon on the Isle of Museum (Propaganda Press), and Fragile (Sisyphus Press). She has exhibited her artwork at Court House Gallery, Anthology Film Archives, Tribes Gallery and the Vision Festival, etc.
Larissa Shmailo's work has appeared in Gargoyle, Barrow Street, Drunken Boat, Fulcrum, The Unbearables Big Book of Sex, and the Penguin anthology Words for the Wedding. Her books of poetry are In Paran (BlazeVOX [books]) and the chapbook A Cure for Suicide (Cervena Barva Press) and Fib Sequence (Argotist Ebooks — free download at http://www.lulu.com/product/ebook/fib-sequence/16347718). Larissa's poetry CDs are The No-Net World and Exorcism, available through iTunes and other digital distributors. Her translation of A. Kruchenych's Victory over the Sun is forthcoming from Cervena Barva Press and is currently featured on the Brooklyn Rail InTranslation Web site at http://intranslation.brooklynrail.org/russian/victory-over-the-sun.
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Maintenant 6
I am happy to be part of Maintenant 6 and one of the many featured readers at the Fifth Annual NYC Dada Poetry and Art Salon.
From Three Rooms Press:
Three Rooms Press and Son of a Pony present:
The Fifth Annual NYC Dada Poetry and Art Salon
Friday, March 16
Doors open at 5:45. Admission is $7
Cornelia Street Cafe
29 Cornelia Street (between Bleecker and
W. 4th St.)
Subways: E, A, C, F, M, D to West 4th Street
1 to Christopher Street
Featured Dada performers include:
--NY Dada's JOANIE FRITZ ZOSIKE and
LOIS KAGAN MINGUS
--Dada Daddy PETER CARLAFTES
--Romanian Dada descendent VALERY OISTEANU
--Underground Comic Book Artist MIKE DIANA
with CITY SCUM SHOT
--LA Dada's CYNTHIA TORONTO
--NJ Dada's JOHN J. TRAUSE
--and surprise guests
It's back! And better than ever: The fifth annual Dada Poetry and Art Salon, with Dada hostess KAT GEORGES! This year's theme: Declare Art on War!
Wear your favorite Dada fashion, thrill to the excitement of the strangest, most hard-hitting Dada performances ever, and enjoy Dada-inspired poetry read LIVE! from the latest edition of Maintenant: A Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing and Art* (Three Rooms Press, 130 pages, 2012).
Featured guest poets include Dada superstar boxer/poet Arthur Cravan, brought back to life for this special event. Plus Live Dada Twitter, and performances by underground comic book artist Mike Diana with Steven Retchard, NY Dada's Joanie Hieger Zosike & Lois Kagan Mingus, NJ Dada's John J. Trause, Romanian Dada descendent Valery Oisteanu, LA Dada's Cynthia Toronto, Dada Daddy Peter Carlaftes, and surprise guests!
Plus: new videos, book giveaways and more. The first 20 people will receive a free copy of the hot-off-the-press Maintenant 6: A Journal of Contemporary Dada Literature and Art (inspired by Arthur Cravan‘s early 20th Century Maintenant ’zine--the first ’zine EVER!).
Doors open at 5:45. Admission is $7 which includes (naturally) a free drink! Cornelia Street Cafe is at 29 Cornelia Street, in the West Village, between W. 4th Street at Bleecker (http://corneliastreecafe.com).
Reservations and additional information: threeroomspress@mac.com
Maintenant 6: A Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing and Art is the fifth edition of an annual collection of contemporary Dada work inspired by Dada instigator and Three Rooms Press spiritual advisor Arthur Cravan. This issue, edited by Peter Carlaftes and Kat Georges, includes bold poetry, cutting-edge visual art, essays and word art from Neo-Dadaists worldwide, including: Roger Conover, Mina Loy, Jerome Rothenberg, Giovanni Fontana, Fork Burke, Paolo Pelosini, Constantin Xenakis, Vittore Baroni, George Wallace, Scott Wannberg, Duska Vrhovac, Bart Verburg, Mike Mollett and more than 100 other artists. Color cover, with interior black and white text and images. It is now archived in the MOMA library.
The original Dada movement peaked from 1916-1922, primarily involved visual arts, literature—poetry, art manifestoes, art theory—theatre, and graphic design, and concentrated its anti-war politics through a rejection of the prevailing standards in art through anti-art cultural works. Its purpose was to ridicule what its participants considered to be the meaninglessness of the modern world. In addition to being anti-war, dada was also anti-bourgeois and anarchist in nature.
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