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December 4, 2011

Patricia Carragon's December Publication News

Hi Everyone,

It's the busy season at work and in writing. So much is happening in regards to publications, etc.

If I have repeated some of this news before, I'm sorry.

PUBLICATIONS:

MÖBIUS, THE POETRY MAGAZINE

I'm honored to be one of these fine Brevitarians selected to be in the forthcoming beautiful issue of MÖBIUS, THE POETRY MAGAZINE. My Haibun, "The Healing Pond," was selected. Congrats to these Brevies. Thank you "Brevie" Juanita Torrence-Thompson for all your hard work and spirit.

SANFORD FRASER CINDY HOCHMAN EVIE IVY MARIA LISELLA KATRINKA MOORE KAREN NEUBERG HAL SIROWITZ RICHARD STORM JUANITA TORRENCE-THOMPSON JOHN J. TRAUSE GIL FAGIANI

Pet Poetry Publication "Paws, Claws, Wings and Things"

Pleased to hear that my poem, "The Kitten," has been accepted for publication in the Pet Poetry Publication "Paws, Claws, Wings and Things." Congrats to Roxanne Hoffman for being published in this anthology. And hooray for cats!!!

First Literary Review-East - December Issue

"Brevies" Cindy Hochman and Karen Neuberg never miss a step in putting out a stellar edition of First Literary Review-East. My 99% piece is in the December Issue.

Read poems from Scott Rummler, Jeffrey Cyphers Wright, Philip Beitchman, John A. Todras, Sue Machlin, Stewart Florsheim, Ryan Buynak, Tammy Houtz, Matthew Anish, Erika Dagnino, and Tom Oleszczuk

http://www.rulrul.4mg.com/

Symmetry Pebbles #2 (once a poetry blog is now an online magazine)

Richard Thomas' Symmetry Pebbles has expanded as an online free poetry e-zine. My Cupcake Chronicles #10 is in their 2nd issue. It's worth reading and submitting. Please subscribe at:

http://symmetrypebbles.wordpress.com/

for a free download.

Congrats to all the contributors in this issue:

Gary Beck, M.A. Schaffner, Joe Massingham, Joseph Farley, Clyde L. Borg, Bill Wolak, Greg T. Miraglia, Denne Kara Shaffer, Marie Lecrivain, Timothy Charles Anderson, Saloni Kaul, George Freek, Michael Estabrook, Peter Lindsey, Christopher Barnes, Lilian Oben, Mira Marten-Parker, Robert Garnham, Nicolas Grenier, Daniel Barbare, Patty Mooney, Patricia Carragon, Spree Macdonald, Ann Prendergast, Demond Blake, Ian Davis, Michael Lambert, John Grey

The Cartier Street Review - November Issue

My “The 99%” poem is in the fabulous November issue of Cartier Street Review. Please submit and subscribe. Brownstoners, Joy Leftow and Doublex have worked hard on the editorial staff with Mike Finely, Thomas Hubbard, Brad Eubanks, and Marc Carver.

Click on http://mfinley.com/cartier/index.html for your free download and please subscribe.

Congrats to all the contributors in this issue:

April Bulmer, Claudio Tomassini, David Cooper, Robert Gibbons, Annika Ruohonen, Fred Arcoleo, Niccola DeVereaux, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Nicholas Alexander, Ann Rodriguez, Mike Finley, Joy Leftow, John Yamrus, Bernard Alain, Karen Bowles, Thomas Hubbard, Dubblex

Have a Great Holiday Season and Keep Writing and Submitting!

Pattie oxoxox

November 20, 2011

Happy Holidays from the Brownstone Poets

Happy Holidays From The Brownstone Poets

No Readings in December!

HAPPY SHOPPING! HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

But come back in January for more Brownstone Fun!

Saturday, January 7 at 2:30 p.m. at Park Plaza Restaurant:

George Held and Claudia Serea

Tuesday, January 17 at 7 p.m. at Tillies of Brooklyn:

Amy Leigh Cutler and Ronnie Norpel

November 20, 2011

More Carragon Publication News

More Publication News for November

Symmetry Pebbles has grown into an online free poetry e-zine. My Cupcake Chronicles #10 is in their 2nd issue. Subscribe at:

http://symmetrypebbles.wordpress.com/

for a free download.

Congrats to all the contributors in this issue:

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My “The 99%” Poem is in the November issue of Cartier Street Review.

Click on http://mfinley.com/cartier/index.html for your free download

Congrats to all the contributors in this issue:

November 1, 2011

First Literary Review East November

Cindy Hochman and Karen Neuberg have put together another great issue of First Literary Review-East

http://www.rulrul.4mg.com/

Please check out these poets in the November issue:

Tom Oleszczuk, Fred Yannantuono, Patricia Carragon, Charles Bane, Jr., Charlie Guzman, Daniel Brown, Scott Rummler, Carl Kavadlo, Cifford Satriano, Tammy Houtz, Anne Loecher, John J. Trause, Leslie Prosterman, Stewart Florsheim, Kit Kennedy, Dorothea Hutton Scher, and Ryan Buynak.

November 1, 2011

the Unbearables Big Book of Sex

Happy to have my Voodoo poem in this epic and sultry anthology, the Unbearables Book of Sex.

Contributors include:

Jonatham Lethem, Samuel Delany, Penny Arcade, Peter Lamborn Wilson, Bob Holman, Chavisa Woods, Tsaurah Litzky, Gerard Malanga, Jordan Zinovich, Jennifer Blowdryer, Susan Scutti, Susan Maurer, Thaddeus Rutkowski, Steve Dalachinsky, Yuko Otomo, Tom Savage, Eve Packer, Ron Kolm, Carol Wierzbicki, Shalom Neuman, Jim Feast, Erik La Prada, Amy Ouzoonian, Dorothy Friedman, Sparrow, Bruce Weber, Steve Cannon, George Spencer, Mike Topp, David Huberman, Kat Georges, Peter Carlaftes, Larissa Shmailo, Holly Anderson, Richard Kostelanetz, John M. Bennett, Valery and Ruth Oisteanu, Susan Yung, Jeffrey Cyphers Wright, Mark Sonnenfeld, Jill Rapaport, and so many more.

Check out Amazon.com for information on ordering a copy:

http://www.amazon.com/Unbearables-Big-Book-Sex/dp/1570272336

October 27, 2011

Brevitas Time at The Bowery Poetry Club

Brevitas Reading at The Bowery Poetry Club, Sunday November 6

Short poem enthusiasts get ready! City Lore, an organization devoted to urban folk culture, and the Bowery Poetry Club will present the 8th Annual Brevitas Festival of The Short Poem on Sunday, November 6 from 2 to 5 p.m., hosted by Bob Holman with flourishes by Flash Rosenberg.

Brevitas is an internet community of invited poets who e-mail one to two original poems (14 lines max) to the group on the 1st and the 15th of each month. This reading and book release party is the annual occasion for Brevitas poets to actually meet in person. The program features each poet's top hits for 2011.

Brevitas’ founders are poets Jim Pignetti and Steve Zeitlin, founder and executive director of City Lore.

Admission $7 includes a free copy of the anthology guest poets will be invited to sign up for the short poem open mic (14 lines max)

The Bowery Poetry Club 302 Bowery (between Houston and Bleecker Streets) NYC 212-614-0505 www.bowery poetry club.com

D and F to Broadway-Lafayette Station 6 to Bleecker Street Station R to Prince Street Station

The following Brevitas poets will be reading:

Alicia Vasquez Andrew Kaufman Angelo Verga Bob Heman Bob Holman Carolyn Wells Christian Garaud Cindy Hochman Claudia Carlson D.F. August Dorothea Hutton Scher Ed Smith Eileen Hennessy Esther Cohen Esther Smith Evie Ivy Flash Rosenberg Georgia Faust Hal Sirowitz Holly Anderson James McMenamin Jan Castro Jeff Wright Jim Pignetti John J. Trause Juanita Torrence Thompson Karen Neuberg Katrinka Moore Leigh Harrison Leslie Prosterman Nathan A. Versace Patricia Carragon Richard Storm Sanford Fraser Sparrow Steve Zeitlin Sue Machlin Susan Gerardi Tsaurah Litsky Zev Shanken

and maybe more . . .

October 19, 2011

Amy Holman and Peter Marra Read at Tillie's of Brooklyn

Poetry Grows In Ft. Greene

The Brownstone Poets Presents:

Amy Holman and Peter Marra

Tuesday, November 15

Starts at 7p.m. – Sign up at 6:45 p.m. – We must be out by 9 p.m.

Tillie's of Brooklyn

248 DeKalb Ave. (corner of Vanderbilt and DeKalb)

Brooklyn, NY 11205 Phone # (718) 783-6140

Take the J, R or Q trains to DeKalb Avenue, the C to Lafayette, the G to Clinton/Washington

2, 3, 4, 5 to Nevins St. http://www.hopstop.com/

$3 Donation – plus Food/Drink – Limited Open Mic - one poem (3-minute limit)

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:

Amy Holman is the author of Wrens Fly Through This Opened Window, published with Somondoco Press in 2010, and Wait For Me, I’m Gone, which won a Dream Horse Press chapbook prize and was published in 2005. Her poetry has been in Archaeology Magazine (online), American Letters & Commentary, Barrow Street, Failbetter, Gargoyle, The Manhattan Review, New Verse News, Poet Lore, The Potomac Review, The Same, xconnect, The Best American Poetry 1999, and the forthcoming Token Entry anthology. She has recently written for the Best American Poetry blog, We Who Are About to Die blog, and her own blog, Lending Whale. She has also written publishing essays and columns for magazines, and a book on colonies, graduate writing programs, and grants. She is a literary consultant and teacher living in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn.

Peter Marra is from Williamsburg Brooklyn. Born in Brooklyn, he lived in the East Village, New York from 1979-1987 at the height of the punk – no wave movement. Peter has had a lifelong fascination with Surrealism, Dadaism, and Symbolism. His poems explore alienation, sex, love, addiction, havoc, secrets, and obsessions often recounted in an oneiric filmic haze. His work has been published or is forthcoming in Caper Literary Journal, amphibi.us, Yes Poetry, Maintenant 4 & 5, Beatnik, Crash, Danse Macabre, Clutching At Straws, O Sweet Flowery Roses, Breadcrumb Scabs,Carcinogenic, Carnage Conservatory,Dark Chaos, Subliminal Interiors, mad swirl, L.E.S. review, and Calliope Nerve. He was recently interviewed by Yes,Poetry.

October 14, 2011

Manic Monday

Manic Monday Happens October 17

MANIC MONDAY!!!!! Monday, October 17 · 7:00pm - 9:00pm

Yippie Museum Cafe 9 Bleecker Street (between Bowery & Elizabeth) New York, New York

Manic Monday! A new performance/poetry/music/dance series! All Features - Very limited open mic

Hosted by Big Mike Produced by Big Mike and Puma Perl

Featuring: Angela Peluso Angry Bob Bob Bell Creighton Blinn David Lawton Faux Maux Gordon Gilbert John “Survivor” Blake Laura D. Patricia Carragon Phyllis Rochelle Charney Rick Eckerley Ronnie Norpel Simone Valmonte TC Gardstein Todd Montessi

FREE OF CHARGE!!! (But please buy a soft drink or coffee - support the cafe!)

http://www.yippiemuseum.org/

October 9, 2011

Deborah Hauser, Vicki Iorio, Brant Lyon at Park Plaza Restaurant

The Brownstone Poets presents three Uphook Press poets Deborah Hauser, Vicki Iorio, and Brant Lyon on Saturday, November 5 at 2:30 p.m. at Park Plaza Restaurant in historic Brooklyn Heights. Enjoy the varied menu at this affordable family-run diner while listening to great poetry. Poetry grows in Brooklyn Heights and there's an open-mic as well.

The Brownstone Poets presents: Deborah Hauser, Vicki Iorio, and Brant Lyon

Saturday, November 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

Subways:

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

/brownstonepoets.blogspot.com/

http://patriciacarragon8.wordpress.com/

http://myspace.com/pattiekake8

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

BIOS:

Deborah Hauser is the author of Ennui: From the Diagnostic and Statistical Field Guide of Feminine Disorders (Finishing Line Press, 2011). She received an MA in English Literature from Stony Brook University. She has taught composition and literature at Stony Brook University and Suffolk County Community College. Her poetry has been published in The Wallace Stevens Journal, The Pedestal Magazine, and -gape-seed- (Uphook Press). She recently won honorable mention in the 2011 Great Neck Plaza Poetry Contest and third prize in the Farmingdale Poetry Contest. She has presented her academic work at national conferences including the Feminisms and Rhetorics Conference.

Vicki Iorio is an award-winning poet whose poetry can be read online and in print publications. She’s hoping to finish her first book of poetry early next year. She especially likes to perform her poetry in tattoo parlors and tearooms.

Brant Lyon writes poetry, short fiction, and music. He is senior editor for Uphook Press (uphookpress.com) and producer/host for Hydrogen Jukebox (hydrogenjukebox.net), a reading series in NYC that pairs poets with an improvisational band. Brant’s own music has been performed at Carnegie Hall, Bowery Poetry Club, Nuyorican Poets Café, Galapagos Art Space, and festivals in Virginia, New Mexico, and New York City. His poetry and short stories have been published in Rattle, Lullwater Review, Ganymede, etc., and in numerous anthologies. Besides his newly released collection of poetry, You Are White Inside (Three Rooms Press 2011), his other publications include a chapbook, Your Infidel Eyes (Poets Wear Prada 2008), the spoken word/music CDs Beauty Keeps Laying Its Sharp Knife Against Me (Logochrysalis 2008) and Brain Ampin (Logochrysalis 2011).

September 23, 2011

Judy Kamilhor and Zev Shanken at Tillies of Brooklyn

Poetry Grows In Ft. Greene

The Brownstone Poets Presents:

Judy Kamilhor and Zev Shanken

Tuesday, October 18

Starts at 7p.m. – Sign up at 6:45 p.m. – We must be out by 9 p.m.

Tillies of Brooklyn

248 DeKalb Ave. (corner of Vanderbilt and DeKalb)

Brooklyn, NY 11205 Phone # (718) 783-6140

Take the J, R or Q trains to DeKalb Avenue, the C to Lafayette, the G to Clinton/Washington

2, 3, 4, 5 to Nevins St. http://www.hopstop.com/

$3 Donation – plus Food/Drink – Limited Open Mic - one poem (3-minute limit)

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:

Other than her recent foray into Sestinas, Judy Kamilhor primarily writes micropoetry. Her influences are the Japanese haiku masters and the comedian Steven Wright. She is a member of brevitas and a frequent contributor to CLWN WR. She has been published in Simply Haiku, Haiku Harvest, Amaze: the Cinquain Journal, and other publications. One of her poems was chosen for the Haiku Showcase by the World Haiku Club. Please check out her blogs. Her micropoetry blog is http://kamihaiku.blogspot.com. Her baseball blog is http://bbgods.blogspot.com and her blog for healing from childhood rejection is http://chosenlast.blogspot.com.

Recently Zev Shanken's poems have been about aging, parents, sex and Jews. He teaches English at High School for Health Careers and Sciences in Washington Heights, and at Bronx Community College. In 1995 Blue Begonia Press published his chapbook, Al Het. He is a happy member of Brevitas, an on-line poetry workshop devoted to the short poem. He lives in Teaneck, NJ. At his reading at Tillies on October18, Zev will present Choral Poems in which the audience will be given texts to read responsively, like at church or synagogue or chain gang.

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