URBAN HAIKU and MORE at Seaburn Bookstore in Astoria

April 15, 2011 URBAN HAIKU and MORE at Seaburn Bookstore in Astoria

From the riotously humorous to the deeply poignant, Patricia covers the emotional terrain with her witty personality unfurled and a display of craft that, like a dancer, seems so effortless. – Brenda J. Gannam, Haiku Society of America

It’s no accident that she starts off with a Kerouac and Bashô haiku … Bashô’s frogs are replaced by bedbugs – Kerouac’s drugs are replaced by Viagra. –Hal Sirowitz, FATHER SAID

Urban Haiku and More Haiku, Senryu, Hay(Na)Ku and Other Unrhymed Tercet Poetry may have sold out at Brooklyn's BookCourt,

but... it's now available in Queens at

Seaburn Bookstore 33-18 Broadway Astoria, NY - 11106

www.seaburn.com

718 - 267-7929

Subways: N/W/Q to Broadway or the R/M to Steinway Street

and in Manhattan at

St. Mark's Bookshop

31 Third Avenue between 8th and 9th Streets

New York, NY 10003

http://www.stmarksbookshop.com/

212 - 260-7853

Subways: 6 Train at Astor Place and the N/R Trains at Broadway and 8th Street

URBAN HAIKU AND MORE by Patricia Carragon Illustrated by William L. Hays chapbook, 52pp Fierce Grace Press, Pooler, GA $7

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Tantra-zawadi and Richard Marx Weinraub at Tillies of Brooklyn

Poetry Grows In Ft. Greene

The Brownstone Poets Presents:

Tantra-zawadi and Richard Marx Weinraub

Tuesday, May 17

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 emails: pattiekake@earthlink.net

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:

Tantra-zawadi (Brooklyn, New York) - performance poet, published author and filmmaker, has performed to standing room audiences at venues as far away as South Africa and Germany. Her poetry has appeared in Essence Magazine and her film A Silent Genocide - A Brief Insight into HIV/AIDS, was part of the 2010 Cine Mostra AIDS screenings in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Partial proceeds from her book Gathered at Her Sky (PWP Books) is going to Girl-Child Network Worldwide. Tantra, a member of Collective Spirits, appears on compilations with Do It Now Recordings and Gotta Keep Faith Records. Follow Tantra on line at www.tantra-zawadi.com.

Related to the Marx Brothers through his mother, Richard Marx Weinraub was born in New York City in 1949; he taught literature and creative writing courses at the University of Puerto Rico from 1987 through 2010. A book of his poetry entitled Wonder Bread Hill was published in 2002 by the University of Puerto Rico Press. His poetry has appeared in many magazines including The Paris Review, South Carolina Review, Green Mountains Review, North American Review, Measure, Slate, Lips, River Styx, and The Evansville Review. Wonder Bread Hill has been translated into Spanish, and it was recently published by Terranova Press. A chapbook of his poetry entitled Heavenly Bodies was published in 2008 by Poets Wear Prada, and a poem from it was nominated for a 2009 Pushcart Prize.

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April Publication News

Hey Poets,

Drop by Tattoosday for April 2, 2011 for Cupcake Chronicles #9 - Friday evening before midnight, February 13, 2009 and the rose tattoo pictures, including the story behind my "ink." The tattoo pictures were taken at the Border's bookstore near Penn Station and Macy's Herald Square.

A special "thank you" to Bill Cohen for making this possible for us tattooed poets to celebrate National Poetry Month!

http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/2011/04/tattooed-poets-project-patricia.html

Hooray for the April issue of FIRST LITERARY REVIEW-EAST Cindy Hochman and Karen Neuberg continue to publish poetry to delight our 5 senses, including the 6th. Love the various voices pertaining to the theme of "Age." I'm pleased that my senryu, Age Discrimination, and my revised poem, Dead Flower, published in Journey to the Center of My Mind, (Rogue Scholars Press, 2005), are part of this edition, along with all these terrific poets: Diane Mofazelli, Bob Heman, John A. Todras, Christian Garaud, George Held, Karen Neuberg, Austin Alexis, Shellie Enteen, Dd. Spungin, Emily F. Keller, Jackie Sheeler, and John Amen

Click on the link below and ENJOY!:

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

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The Mom Egg Spring Reading and Party Sunday, May 15th

The Mom Egg Spring Reading and Party Sunday, May 15th 6-8 p.m.- Cornelia Street Cafe - 29 Cornelia Street- NY, NY 10014 212-989-9319 - Friends and family welcome (readings are geared for adults). - Cost:$7 (includes free house drink)- Hosted by Marjorie Tesser - Featured Readers: Kelli Stevens Kane, Jan Heller Levi, A. Kay Emmert, Rosaly DeMaios Roffman, Kelly Bargabos, Lee Schwartz, Puma Perl, Marci Ameluxen, Louise Howerow, Rachael Lynn Nevins, Katie Manning, Blueberry Morningsnow, Floyd Cheung,Briony Gylgayton, Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser, Janlori Goldman, Marie Gauthier, Marie Gauthier, Carol Berg, Eliana Osborn, Judy Swann, Heather Lynne Davis, Tammy Bradshaw, Nancy Vona, Nicelle Davis, Carl Palme, Rhonda Woodward, Barbara Rockman, Pauletta Hansel, Carol Dorf, Kristin Laurel, Jann Everard, Tina Traster, Sarah Cavallaro, Rosalie Calabrese, Sandra de Helen, Teresa Pfeifer,Anika Paris, Caroline A. Le Blanc, Donna Katzin, Wendy Levine DeVito, Patricia Carragon, Suzanne Kamata, Meredith Trede, Maryanne Hannan, Olga Abella, Ashley M. Nissler, Judith Skillman, Carla Carlson, Susan Morse, Cheryl Boyce-Taylor, Jonathan Wells, Christopher Kulakowski, Heather Haldeman, Olga Suarez, Nancy Gerber,Lois Marie Harrod, Elsbeth Wofford Tyler, A. Kay Emmert, Peter Seidman, L.B. Williams, Heather Lynne Davis, Elsa Mandelbaum, Chanell Ruth, Kristin Roedell, Eleanor Gaffney, MRB Chelko Upstate kids, Danielle Taana Smith, Liane Kupferberg Carter, Golda Solomon, Cheryl Byler Keeler, Margo Berdeshevsky, Fay Chiang, Iris Dunkle, A.M. Baker, Jennifer Edwards, Sharon Campbell, Claudia Van Gerven, Christina Thompson, Wendy Vardaman, Jacqueline Doyle, Robyn Art, Wynne Huddleston, Joanne G. Yoshida

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Virginia Crawford and G.E. Schwartz at Park Plaza Restaurant Sat 5/7

Poetry Grows in Brooklyn Heights

The Brownstone Poets presents:

Virginia Crawford and G. E. Schwartz

Saturday, May 7 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: pattiekake@earthlink.net

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:

Virginia Crawford is the author of Touch (2011, Finishing Line Press) and co-editor of the anthology Poetry Baltimore. Ms. Crawford is a graduate of Emerson College, Boston, and the University of St. Andrews, Scotland. She is also a teacher with the Maryland State Arts Council’s Poets in the Schools program. Her poems have been published in numerous journals, including Gargoyle, Baltimore Review, Maryland Poetry Review and Potomac: Journal of Poetry and Politics. She is currently co-editing an anthology of student poetry with Laura Shovan.

Feel free to include this link to her recent radio interview:

http://mdmorn.wordpress.com/2011/03/22/322113-virginia-crawford/

G. E. Schwartz, who has studied with Irish-American poet John Montague and Joseph Brodsky, was an original member of Solomons Ramada, as well as Faking Trains. He's the author of Only Others Are: Poems (Legible Press), Odd Fish (Argotist ebooks), World (Furniture Press), and Living In Tongues (Theenk/Loose Gravel Press). In short, he lives to regenerate, in the manner of new trees that are renewed with new foliage, pure and disposed to mount unto the stars.

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Shonda Buchanan, Linda Carter Brown and Barbara Hantman Hit Bklyn

Poetry Grows in Brooklyn Heights

The Brownstone Poets presents:

Shonda Buchanan, Linda Carter Brown and Barbara Hantman

Saturday, April 2 at 2:30 p.m.

Park Plaza Restaurant

220 Cadman Plaza West near Clark St. & 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: pattiekake@earthlink.net

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

Shonda Buchanan is a recipient of the Eloise Klein-Healy Scholarship, a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and several Virginia Foundation for the Humanities grants. Ms. Buchanan is a Sundance Institute fellow and a PEN Center Emerging Voice fellow. She has freelanced for the Los Angeles Times, and as a poet and essayist, published in Step into a World: A Global Anthology of New Black Literature, Def Jam Poetry’s Bum Rush the Page, Geography of Rage: Remembering the Los Angeles Riots of 1992 and Indian Country Today. Editor of Voices from Leimert Park: A Poetry Anthology, she is working on a second collection of poetry, a memoir and a novel. Of the North Carolina Indian and Choctaw Mississippi Nations, she is a board member of the Poetry Society of Virginia and the Weyanoke Association, which educates the public on the shared heritage of African Americans and Indigenous Americans. Ms. Buchanan is an assistant professor in the Dept. of English at Hampton University, teaching creative writing. For more info, visit www.shondabuchanan.com.

Linda Carter Brown is a transplanted southerner with her feet planted deeply in the sidewalks of New York City. She begin to write poetry at the age of forty after a friend suggested she take a writing class as she always went for the pen and paper whenever she had something to say. She lives in Queens and is a member of the Fresh Meadows Poets. Linda works as an administrative assistant in a private school in NYC and teaches poetry to first, second and third grade students. Helping children to realize their feelings and thoughts and to get them from the mind, to the hand to paper is rewarding and exciting.

Barbara Hantman has served the NYC public schools for over twenty years. She is proud to be Fresh Meadows Poets'Corresponding Secretary. Her credits include four volumes with Edwin Mellen Poetry Press (Capullos Del Alma: Soul Buds is fully bilingual in Spanish and English) and two books with Xlibris (the most recent one, Call of Abraham’s Kin, focuses on Jewish themes and has some Hebrew and Spanish bilingual verse; access excerpts at www.xlibris.com/callofabraham'skin.html). She has also published in such journals as Midstream, Poetica, The Deronda Review, Mobius the Poetry Magazine, Conceit, Freshet and Women In Judaism. She has placed in poetry contests at the New York Poetry Forum, and won first prize for her poem "The Velvet Toolbox" in the Lone Stars Magazine Winter 2009-10 contest.

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Hit the Road Jack!

Hit the Road, Jack!

at the Yippie Museum Café 9 Bleecker Street (near the Bowery) Monday, March 28, 2011 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.

A celebration of the writings of Jack Kerouac Host – Gordon Gilbert (no open mic)

$2 at the door

F or M to 2nd. Avenue 6 to Bleecker Street

http://www.hopstop.com/

Readers

Big Mike, Patricia Eakins, Valery Oisteanu, Lauren Marie Cappello, Allan Goldschmidt, Eve Packer, Peter Carlaftes, Roxanne Hoffman, Angela Peluso, Patricia Carragon, Kim Kalesti, Mikelle Terson, Jackie Cooper, Peter Martin, Jack Tricarico, Amy Leigh Cutler, Ronnie Norpel, George Wallace

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Haiku Publication News

Publication News:

SxSE, Haiku & Haiku Arts Volume 18 Number 1

My haiku on homeless men made “Editor’s Choices.”

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FOURTH ANNUAL DADA POETRY SALON

FOURTH ANNUAL DADA POETRY SALON SLATED FOR MARCH 18 AT CORNELIA STREET CAFE

What: Dada Poetry Salon When: Friday, March 18, 2011, 6 pm Where: Cornelia Street Cafe, 29 Cornelia St., NY, NY 10014 Cost: $7 (includes free house drink)

It's back! And better than ever: The fourth annual one-night-only Dada Poetry Salon, with Dada hostess Kat Georges!

Wear your favorite Dada fashion, bring your Dada-inspired poetry for the open reading (sign up at 5:45, limited spaces available!). 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 Joanie Hieger Zosike, Cynthia Toronto, City Scum Shot, Jan Michael Alejandro, Valery Oisteaneu, The Typewriter Girls, Peter Carlaftes, and more.

Plus: new videos, book giveaways and more. The first 10 people will receive a free copy of Maintenant 5 (inspired by Arthur Cravan‘s early 20th Century Maintenant magazine, the first ‘zine ever produced!).

For more information, email: info@threeroomspress.com

W 4 St (0.1 mi NE) A B C D E F M

List of Contributors:

Derek Adams, Resa Alboher, Jan Michael, Alejandro Joel Allegretti, Rafael F.J. Alvarado, Claus Ankersen, Elizabeth Ashe, John M. Bennett, Lisa Bottone, Gedley Braga, Jamie Brown, Fork Burke, Ryan Buynak, Mary Campbell, Stephen Caratzas, Hélène Cardona, Peter Carlaftes, Patricia Carragon, Erich Christiansen, Peter Ciccariello, John Clarke, Sue Clennell & Jan Napier, Foo Connor, Roger Conover, Yvon Cormier, Steve Dalachinksy, Tracy Darling, Caterina Davinio, Holly Day, Rene Diedrich, John Dutterer, Katy Evans-Bush, Bonny Finberg, Michael T. Fournier, Thomas Fucaloro, James Gautier, Kat Georges, Robert Gibbons, Gordon Gilbert, Peter Grieco, S.A. Griffi, n Laurence Groux, Lisa Grunberger, Heather Haley, Paul Handley, Henry Harvey, Sarah Hayden, Lisa Henri, Kevin M. Hibshman, Karen Hildebrand, Crystal Tzara Hoffman, Roxanne Hoffman, Dustin Holland, Ted K. Hood, Matthew Hupert, Kelli Stevens Kane, Amy King, Doug Knott, W.F. Lantry, Eric Lawson, David Lawton, Jonathan Leiter, Linda Lerner, Paula Lietz, Maria Lisella, Dominique Lowell, Brant Lyon, Diana Manister, Peter Marra, Ellyn Maybe, Renata McCormish, Philip Meersman, David Miller, Shanon Mitchell, Carmen Mojica, Ben Nardolilli, Larry Myers, JD Nelson, Ronnie Norpel, Valery Oisteanu, Marc Olmsted, Suzi Kaplan Olmsted, Little Deer Opera, Jane Ormerod, Sergio Antonio Ortiz, Puma Perl, Helen Peterson, BC Petrakos, Misti Rainwater-Lites, Bob Quatrone, Steven Retchard, Stephanie Rigsby, Jerome Rothenberg, Michael Routery, Sarah Sarai, Susan Scutti, William Seaton, David Smith, George Spencer, Joe Stagno, J.J. Steinfeld, Christy L. Stewart & Justynn Tyme, Christy Leigh, Stewart Thomas Stolmar, Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino, Zoë Brigley Thompson, Cynthia Toronto, Brian Townsley, John J. Trause, Marguerite Van Cook, Angelo Verga, Voxx Voltair, Duska Vrhovac, Linder Wadez, Scott Wannberg, Jeffrey Cyphers Wright, Sheri L. Wright, George Wallace, Mike Watt, Liza Wolsky, Tamara Wyndham, Joanie Hieger Zosike

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Velez! Moore and DubbleX with Joy Leftow at Tillies of Brooklyn Tues 3/15

Poetry Grows In Ft. Greene

The Brownstone Poets Presents:

Velez! Moore and DubbleX with Joy Leftow

Tuesday, March 15

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.

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

Curated by Patricia Carragon emails: pattiekake@earthlink.net

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:

DubbleX is a poet, writer and musician who spends his days being certifiably crazy. DubbleX has been writing & playing music his entire life. He has been published by Street Literature Review Magazine (paper) The Cartier Street Review, the Nov. 3rd Club, Polarity, Mad Swirl, readerjack.com, wheelhouse magazine, and the recent Omega 7. DubbleX writes & plays music to stay sane.

Joy Leftow is a double alumna from Columbia U with a second Master’s from CCNY in creative writing. Her blog can be relished at: http://joyleftowsblog.blogspot.com, and has over 25000 facebook followers. She’s been featured on Rockland Internet Radio, Indie Feed, Jazz Poetry Café and Everything Goes. Leftow’s honesty and openness may astonish you or embarrass you, but she promises not to bore you. Her book, A Spot of Bleach, is available at Amazon.

Velez! Moore, vocalist, performance poet+writer is a native New Yorker who performs throughout the New York tri-state area. She has appeared at LaMama ETC., The Bowery Poetry Club, JoyceSoho, Cornelia St. Cafe & other NYC venues+art galleries. The thrust of her work is a place where sound/text+movement intersect forming a multi-disciplinary art event. Her chapbook, spiritalkin', will be available Fall 2011.

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