Laura Boss and Gail Gerwin at Park Plaza Restaurant

Poetry Grows in Brooklyn Heights

The Brownstone Poets presents: Laura Boss and Gail Gerwin

Saturday, October 1 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:

Laura Boss, founder and editor of Lips, has received many awards for her own poetry including a first place in Poetry Society of America’s Gordon Barber Poetry Contest and three Poetry Fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. Her six books of poetry include Reports from the Front (CCC) and Arms: New and Selected Poems (Guernica). She was the sole representative of the USA at the XXVI International Poetry Readings in Europe. More recent featured readings include The Dylan Thomas Centre in Wales and the 2010 Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival. Her poems have appeared in The New York Times. Her newest book of poetry is Flashlight (Guenica, 2010).

Gail Fishman Gerwin’s memoir Sugar and Sand earned finalist designation for the 2010 Paterson Poetry Prize and she has earned four honorable mentions for the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards. Her poems appear in journals including Paterson Literary Review, Lips, Edison Literary Review, Tiferet, Smith College Poetry Center online, Caduceus, Adanna, U.S. 1 Worksheets, The Fib Review, Jewish Women’s Literary Annual, and The American Voice in Poetry: The Legacy of Williams, Whitman, and Ginsberg. The Paterson, NJ, native is working on her second collection. She and her husband Kenneth live in Morristown and are parents of two daughters and grandparents of three boys and a girl.

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The Brownstone Poets Anthology At BookCourt Mon, 9/12

The Brownstone Poets is proud to have its annual anthology event at BookCourt on Monday, September 12 at 7 p.m. Rain or shine, this is a celebration for sixty-four diverse poets (featured poets from 2010 or poets who had frequently attended the Brownstone Poets reading series during 2010). All anthology contributors are reading for approximately three minutes each. There is a limited Open-Mic and admission is free.

The Brownstone Poets 2011 Anthology sells for $8 at BookCourt. All contributors to this anthology will get their complimentary copy at the reading if they haven’t already received one.

This is the current line-up of poets from The Brownstone Poets 2011 Anthology who will be reading at BookCourt:

Elyzsabeth Ahne Austin Alexis Mary Askin-Jencsik Harry Bentivegna Lichtenstein Iris Berman Patricia Carragon Steve Dalachinsky Fred Dasig David Elsasser Brenda J. Gannam Bob Heman Cindy Hochman Matthew Hupert Evie Ivy Ted Jonathan Linder Lerner Richard Levine Heller Levinson Maria Lisella Georgia Luna Brant Lyon Karen Neuberg Tom Oleszczuk Mireya Perez Joseph Charles Rebis, Jr. George Spencer John Todras Zev Torres

BookCourt is a charming independent bookstore dedicated to serving the Cobble Hill community and surrounding Brooklyn areas with friendly service that’s both kid and adult-friendly. This bookstore provides a wide selection of books to attract any bibliophile, as well as the Barnes and Noble aficionados. Books from local authors are welcomed at BookCourt and find homes on its shelves.

The Brownstone Poets, a Brooklyn-based literary series, is generally held twice a month: first Saturdays at Park Plaza Restaurant in Brooklyn Heights and third Tuesdays at Tillie’s of Brooklyn in Ft. Greene. It’s an Open-Mic with usually two featured readers. Patricia Carragon, the host and curator, edits its annual anthology. Her Assistant Editors are Cindy Hochman, Brenda J. Gannam, and Karen Neuberg. Ms. Carragon began this reading series back in 2005 with Evie Ivy, who was her co-hostess.

BookCourt is located at:

163 Court Street Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, NY 11201

Phone # (718) 875-3677

http://www.bookcourt.org/

http://brownstonepoets.blogspot.com/

http://patriciacarragon8.wordpress.com/

http://myspace.com/pattiekake8

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

Subways:

Take the F or G to Bergen St., N or R to Court St., 4 or 5 to Borough Hall

http://www.hopstop.com/

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Matthew Anish and Kathryn M. Fazio at Park Plaza

Poetry Grows in Brooklyn Heights

The Brownstone Poets presents: Matthew Anish and Kathryn M. Fazio

Saturday, September 3 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: Matthew Anish is a widely published poet/writer. He has published verse in Dinner with the Muse, Aim, Beyond Bree, Minas Tirith Evening Star, Jews in Space and in many other publications. He is a graduate of Brooklyn College and has studied writing and ESL at the New School University. He currently works at BMCC as an ESL instructor and writes a monthly column for Barrs Postcard News. He wishes the best to everyone here today.

Kathryn Marie Fazio, whose work has been published internationally, is a poet and fine artist. She was awarded the Ferrara Scholarship from the Performing and Creative Arts Department of the College of Staten Island CUNY, and named its Poet Laureate. Her book, A Taste of Hybrid Vigor: new poems of War, Passion, and Social Significance, contains poems and pictures of her original oil paintings and her poem "War" in the collection, won her the First Ed-Rehberg Prize for poetry, which was translated into French and televised in Haiti by the Education Committee of the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce.

Fazio participated in a FUSE event to raise money for the aftermath of Katrina, was a poet for telethon to support public television in Kingston, NY. and has recited on the Brooklyn Waterfront in Red Hook for Creative Arts Therapy Outreach and Awareness. Fazio was coined a Bowery Woman, appearing in the only Bowery Women Anthology ever published.

Fazio credits her close relationship with Robert Dunn for encouraging her to participate in the 5th World Congress of Poets for Poetry Research and Recitation where she represented the U.S., and was awarded the Silla Gold Crown World Peace Literature Prize from Korea. Fazio edited a collection of poems Our World in an Onion and is currently a poet at a Wellness Center in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.

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Amy Leigh Cutler and Ronnie Norpel Hit Tillies of Brooklyn

The Brownstone Poets Presents:

Amy Leigh Cutler and Ronnie Norpel

Tuesday, September 20

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:

Amy Leigh Cutler is a New York City based poet. Amy's "American Woman" tour took her from New York to California, where she performed in National Parks, bars, cafes, and bookstores all over the United States. She has also toured internationally in London, England where she competed in the Farrago Poetry Slam and in Dublin, Ireland where she was featured at The Kilmainham Arts Club. "Orange Juice and Rooftops" is her first published book of poetry and prose, and American Woman is her chapbook of poetry. Amy received a Bachelor of Arts degree in P.P.E. from The King's College. She competes in performance poetry slams and is available for readings and lectures. Her background in spoken word and performance pieces comes largely from her work with Shakespeare and Company in Lenox. MA. Amy is also a photojournalist for The Basics online magazine. Check out her website at www.amyleighcutler.com

Ronnie Norpel is a performance poet, actor, photographer and jock with a deep passion for the Phillies, where she spent seven seasons as a ballgirl and fan accommodation manager. In New York, “Ronnie G” was the muse and collaborator of Warhol Factory superstar Gerard Malanga, whose photo of Ronnie, “Marble of Light,” was included for the exhibition and catalogue, Artists of the Warhol Circle Then & Now. She studied acting in Hollywood and worked at the Zero One Gallery. Today, Ronnie reads monthly in NYC with the Upper Left Side Writers and Poets. Other readings include the Lower East Side Festival, the SynonymUS collective at Nuyorican Poets Café, and the Wild Angels at St. John the Divine.

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Cupcakes in Red Fez

Have some cupcakes on Red Fez's Issue #37. Fresh from Carragon's imagination. Check them out in the Fiction Section:

Cupcake Chronicles #6 - 6- Tuesday morning at 9:00, May 13, 2008 - by Patricia Carragon

http://www.redfez.net/fiction/311

Cupcake Chronicles #8 - 8- Thursday afternoon after school, September 24, 2008 - by Patricia Carragon

http://www.redfez.net/fiction/312

Also, drop by http://www.redfez.net/ for these wonderful fiction writers:

An Evening With the Charles Bukowski of Berlin by M.P. Powers

Breakfast and a Cigarette, Part VI - A Novella in Four Directions - by Bill McLaughlin

Bring Me An Apple With No Worms by Catfish McDaris

Czarninapalooza by Tom Andrews

Destined by Greg Eidson

E-Harmony Connection #54421 by Meg Tuite

Hey, Chinese kid! by Josh Olsen

Hines Park by Josh Olsen

Kleptomania by Ally Malinenko

Klippinger, Minnesota by Adam R. Burnett

Soldiers by Daniel Davis

The Electric Ukulele Lady Land Band by Ashwin Parulkar

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RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

Sketchbook’s Vegetable Haiku Thread

I’m pleased to see that three of my Veggie Haiku, Veggie Platters, Rotten Tomato, and Eating Carrots, were selected for John Daleiden’s May / June 30, 2011 Sketchbook Vol. 6, No. 3, Editor’s Choice Vegetable Haiku Thread:

http://poetrywriting.org/Sketchbook6-3MayJun2011/Sketchbook_6-3_MayJune_2011_Editor_s_Choice_John_Daleiden_vegetable_s_Haiku_Thread.htm

Congrats to:

Andrzej Dembonczyk, Karin Anderson, Alegria Imperial, Stella Armour, Cezar Ciobica, Juliet Wilson, Chitra Rajappa, Munia Khan, André Surridge, Maria Tirenescu, Evica Kraljić, Sandra Martyres, Tatjana Debeljacki, Willie R. Bongcaron, Keith A. Simmonds, Cara Holman, Vera Primorac, Sandra Martyres, Malvina Mileta, Emily Romano, Djurdja Vukelic-Rozic, Chen-ou Liu, CA, Stevie Strang, Bernard Gieske, Cara Holman, Bernard Gieske, Priyanka Bhowmick, Nada Jačmenica, Irena Szewczyk, Vania Stefanova, Stella Pierides, Kirsten Cliff, and Scott Owens

Rolling Thunder Quarterly: Summer 2011

My poems, Sweat, The Forest, and Free are part of this fab anthology, Rolling Thunder Quarterly: Summer 2011, a quarterly collection of poetry, prose, art, and photography.

This issue also includes contributions by Sarah-Joy Elizabeth, Amber Shefchek, Beth Milton, Joseph Reich, Dan Provost, Anna Aaron, Rachael Delamar, Rodney Foster, Khristian E. Kay, Bonnie Hudgins, Paula Lietz, David Tomaloff, and Tommy Anthony.

To order your copy or get your free download, please go to:

http://www.lulu.com/product/file-download/rolling-thunder-quarterly-summer-2011/16186173?productTrackingContext=search_results/search_shelf/center/1

Acoustic Levitation

My poems, Avant-garde and Eye Sense have been accepted by Acoustic Levitation.

Check them out, as well as these great people:

Cindy Hochman, Jack M. Freedman, John J. Trause, Steve Dalachinsky, Bruce Weber, Barry Wallenstein, Valery Oisteanu, Steve Koenig, Harold Norse, Jim Ryan, Eve Packer, David Messineo, Vernon Frazer, Len Frazer, Robert Burr, Marc Thorman, Basscentric Live, and even Generation Beat at the Yippie Musuem on http://www.acousticlevitation.org/poetry.html

2012 Haiku Calendar (Allbook Books)

My haiku, Homeless Men, Paper Crane, and Passover Dinner, are in the 2012 Haiku Calendar (Allbook Books).

These extraordinary poets are in it as well:

Geri Barton, Dean Blehert, Cliff Bleidner, Paula Camacho, Edgar Carlson, Chris Clendenin, steve dalachinsky, Betsey Dickerson, Robert Epstein, Barbara Harris, Mankh (Walter E. Harris III), Patrice Hasbrook, Hans Henderiks, Julia Butterfly Hill, Bill Kenney, Maria Manobianco, Sheila Mardenfeld, A. Molotkov, George H. Northrup, PhD, Chris Nicola, Tammy Nuzzo-Morgan, Yuko Otomo, Russ Perry, Kelly Jean Powell, Narges Rothermel, Russell Salamon, Robert Savino, Keith Simmons, Richard A. Smith, Bob Stone, Patti Tana, Jeanne Thomason, J R (Judy) Turek, James P. Wagner (Ishwa), Kay J. Wight, Ginger Williams, Bill Zavatsky

To order your copy, please click below:

http://www.allbook-books.com/html/to_order_books_and_more.html

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David Lawton and Carolyn Ota at Tillies of Brooklyn

Poetry Grows In Ft. Greene

The Brownstone Poets Presents:

David Lawton and Carolyn Ota

Tuesday, August 16

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: David Lawton is a performance poet with a background in theatre and music. He has poems forthcoming in the anthologies -gape-seed- and Spiny Babbler, and is one of the featured artists on the upcoming Hydrogen Jukebox CD. David hosts the JujoMukti Tea Lounge Spoken Word Sundays weekly from 6-8 p.m. on 4th St. bet. A & B.

Photo credit to Shannon Elizabeth Hardwicke. Carolyn Ota is a NYC singer-songwriter who comes from Hawaii. She recently graduated from The NY Open Center Sound & Music Facilitators program and has begun recording her music with RAD studio. Her music is a vehicle for transformation.

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Working Girl in Central Park

This working girl will be able to perform tomorrow:

Mon, July 11th 4 - 7:30 p. m.

Patricia Carragon, Phillip Levine & Piper! & Open Mic

Naumberg Bandshell Central Park (72nd St) South of Bethesda Terrace between 66th and 72nd streets.

Hosted by: Angela Peluso

Free

Subways: 6 to 68th Street – Hunter College & walk to the park 1, 2, 3 to 72nd Street (Bway) & walk to the park

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Tina Chan, Gregory Vincent St.Thomasino, Jacob Victorine

Poetry Grows in Brooklyn Heights

The Brownstone Poets presents: Tina Chan, Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino, and Jacob Victorine

Saturday, August 6 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:

Tina Chan is a prolific poet whose writing style is a poetic puzzle for readers to determine the definitive underwriting. She has an abiding passion for writing ablaze: be it poetry or be it Yelp reviews with wittiness based on personal experiences. She believes life’s juicy sweetness is to eschew the negativity for a motivator as an inspiration outlet in her writing. With her writing, she is able to achieve closure to her life’s difficulties as the author of one’s own story.

Tina made her poetry debut in early 2009 and has been fortunate to be selected as a feature performer at various open-mikes. She recites with sprightly liveliness energy to ignite flames.

Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino was born in Greenwich Village, New York, and was raised in both the city and in the country across the Hudson River in New Jersey. He was educated at home, eventually to enter Fordham University where he received a degree in philosophy. In 2009 he received the Distinguished Scholar Award from the Doctor of Arts in Leadership program at Franklin Pierce University in New Hampshire. His e-chaps include The Logoclasody Manifesto (2008), Six Comets Are Coming (2009) and The Galloping Man (2010). In his spare time he writes at his blog, The Postmodern Romantic, and edits the online poetry journal, Eratio.

Jacob Victorine is a poet and performance artist born and bred on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. A 2009 graduate of Brooklyn College, he has won awards for both his poetry and literary criticism. Jacob has featured or spotlighted at venues throughout New York and New Jersey such as the Cornelia Street Café and the Nuyorican Poets’ Café, where he competed in the 2009 runoffs for their National Slam Team. He was a 2010 Intangible Grand Slam finalist and is a member of the 2011 Jersey City National Slam Team. His work appearsin the Uphook Press anthology, Hell Strung and Crooked and is forthcoming in the newest Uphook Anthology, Gape Seed. Find him at www.jacobvictorine.com .

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No Readings in July

I'm taking a break in July from the Brownstone Poets. Need the rest and strength for my new job in retail.

No Readings for Saturday, July 2 at Park Plaza Restaurant

No Readings for Tuesday, July 19 at Tillies of Brooklyn

But . . . please come back in August for more great poetry and fun:

Saturday, August 6: Tina Chan, Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino, and Jacob Victorine at Park Plaza Restaurant

Tuesday, August 16: Carolyn Ota and David Lawton at Tillies of Brooklyn

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