Poetry Grows in Brooklyn Heights
The Brownstone Poets presents:
Swapan Basu and Katherine Hogan
Saturday, March 5 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
$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
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Dr. Swapan Basu was influenced by the 1913 Nobel Laureate Poet, Rabindra Nath Tagore, from Kokata, Bengal, India. He writes in community newspapers, Sangbad Bichitra and Udayan. His writings are in Bengali and in English and he also translates his poems.
Dr. Basu has a Ph.D. in Chemistry from a US university and spent 25 years in industry. In the last leg of his career, he chose to teach at a HS for the underprivileged community. To motivate the young and restless minds, he wrote few poems, which were all posted at the website of International Society of Poetry at www.poetry.com. Some got published in the anthologies. He received a silver bowel and medallion from ISP in 2004 for his outstanding poetry.
Dr. Basu is the Founder and Chairman of a Rhyming Poets International (soon to be a NPO) at http://Meetup.com/Rhyming-Poets with 100+ members in 18 US states and in UK, Canada, Sweden, Slovenia and India. This group meets twice a month in NY and NJ. They publish an ezine, Flute and hold a Rhyming Poetry Contest. This group discusses various rhyming styles with famous examples, and observes birthdays of famous poets every month to learn from their lives and works. These events are free and open to all styles and are videotaped and telecasted from NJ and all over in NY. His interviews were telecasted May ‘06, East Brunswick Cable TV of NJ and on 14th April ‘07 by Cablevision and Time Warner from NYC telecasted his 0.5 hr solo interview. Dr. Basu has a regular weekly TV program by Cablevision at NJ. He moderates two Yahoo groups – Rhyming and Rupantar.
Dr. Basu reads at several poetry events and was a featured poet at several readings. He has two chapbooks, Hungry Diner and Rupantar of translated Bengali poems.
Katherine Hogan, Vice President of the New York Poetry Forum, has a doctorate from St. John's University, Queens, and teaches at Long Island University, Brooklyn. Her poems, plays and short stories have enjoyed several prizes, performances and publications, including Downtown Brooklyn, The Scribes of Ozymandias, Lunch with the Muse, and Mad Poets Review among others.
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Swapan Basu and Katherine Hogan at Park Plaza Restaurant Sat 3/5 at 2:30 pm
Poetry Grows in Brooklyn Heights
The Brownstone Poets presents:
Swapan Basu and Katherine Hogan
Saturday, March 5 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
$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
Dr. Swapan Basu was influenced by the 1913 Nobel Laureate Poet, Rabindra Nath Tagore, from Kokata, Bengal, India. He writes in community newspapers, Sangbad Bichitra and Udayan. His writings are in Bengali and in English and he also translates his poems.
Dr. Basu has a Ph.D. in Chemistry from a US university and spent 25 years in industry. In the last leg of his career, he chose to teach at a HS for the underprivileged community. To motivate the young and restless minds, he wrote few poems, which were all posted at the website of International Society of Poetry at www.poetry.com. Some got published in the anthologies. He received a silver bowel and medallion from ISP in 2004 for his outstanding poetry.
Dr. Basu is the Founder and Chairman of a Rhyming Poets International (soon to be a NPO) at http://Meetup.com/Rhyming-Poets with 100+ members in 18 US states and in UK, Canada, Sweden, Slovenia and India. This group meets twice a month in NY and NJ. They publish an ezine, Flute and hold a Rhyming Poetry Contest. This group discusses various rhyming styles with famous examples, and observes birthdays of famous poets every month to learn from their lives and works. These events are free and open to all styles and are videotaped and telecasted from NJ and all over in NY. His interviews were telecasted May ‘06, East Brunswick Cable TV of NJ and on 14th April ‘07 by Cablevision and Time Warner from NYC telecasted his 0.5 hr solo interview. Dr. Basu has a regular weekly TV program by Cablevision at NJ. He moderates two Yahoo groups – Rhyming and Rupantar.
Dr. Basu reads at several poetry events and was a featured poet at several readings. He has two chapbooks, Hungry Diner and Rupantar of translated Bengali poems.
Katherine Hogan, Vice President of the New York Poetry Forum, has a doctorate from St. John's University, Queens, and teaches at Long Island University, Brooklyn. Her poems, plays and short stories have enjoyed several prizes, performances and publications, including Downtown Brooklyn, The Scribes of Ozymandias, Lunch with the Muse, and Mad Poets Review among others.
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Happy Alt. Valentine's Day from Symmetry Pebbles
Happy Alt. Valentine's Day
Symmetry Pebbles, an exciting and edgy new online journal from the UK, has taken numbers 7 and 12 from my Cupcake Chronicle series to be part of the Alt. Valentine's Selection.
Read it at:
http://symmetrypebbles.wordpress.com/2011/02/14/alt-valentines-selection-patricia-carragon/
Also, please check out the rest of this selection at http://www.symmetrypebbles.com/ for wonderful work by:
Anne Welsh, Richard Thomas, Arron Palmer, and Abi Wyatt
And please SUBMIT, SUBMIT to this journal!
Send to editor, Richard Thomas, no more than three poems, along with a short bio to submissions@symmetrypebbles.com. Please put your name and email address on each poem.
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Egyptian Haiku on New Verse News
Egyptian Haiku on New Verse News
Please check out my latest political haiku for New Verse News for Tuesday, February 8 at:
http://newversenews.blogspot.com/2011/02/egyptian-haiku.html
If you write politically progressive poetry on either current events or topical issues, please submit them the New Verse News. You must send previously unpublished poems in the body of an email along with a brief bio to:
nvneditor@yahoo.com OR to nvneditor@gmail.com.
Use "Verse News Submission" as the subject line.
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My Review For Because All Is Not Lost
Please check out my review For Sweta Srivastava Vikram’s Because All Is Not Lost on Gently Read Literature for February:
Because All Is Not Lost: Verse On Grief, published by Modern History Press (2010), is one woman’s celebration of love for those she had lost, but whose influence continues to touch her life. Ms. Vikram’s twenty poems do not dwell under the mourning veil. They speak of never-ending life in memories, hope, and inspiration, even skeptics, like myself, can appreciate and respect. The deaths of Sweta’s paternal grandfather, Dada, and her mother’s elder sister, Mausi, have deeply influenced the author and her writing. She says, I feel my Dada and Mausi’s absence every single day… But these two losses have taught me that their time had come. And that life is about celebrating those alive.
Her prose piece, A note to the biggest thief in this world, resonates with me the most. It protests against loss. Its universality of words goes beyond loss through death. It can also relate to those who have suffered from any situation beyond their control, whether human or nature related. But the message here is the same – the transcendence of suffering through hope and Sweta does it eloquently throughout, and especially in her final paragraph:
Read more at:
http://gentlyread.wordpress.com/2011/02/01/loss-will-become-insignificant-patricia-carragon-on-sweta-srivastava-vikrams-because-all-is-not-lost/
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More February Publications
More February Publications
FLRev
* Five of my Valentine’s Day Haiku are in the February Issue of FIRST LITERARY REVIEW EAST
at http://www.rulrul.4mg.com/
I share the limelight with these fab poets below:
Linda Rothstein, Peter Aaron Myhre, Cindy Hochman, Mark Sonnenfeld, Jerome Brooke, Ted Badger, Ali F. Bilir, Charles Bane, Jr., Leigh Harrison, Lyn Lifshin, Robert Gibbons, and George Wallace
Cindy and Karen, great job!
Please check out this web site and SUBMIT, SUBMIT!
“First Literary Review-East welcomes submissions of poetry, and also prints your comments on work from previous issues.
WE ARE NOW SEEKING WORK FOR OUR MAY ISSUE. IF YOU HAVE ANY POEMS ABOUT "MOTHER", PLEASE SEND THEM OUR WAY!
Before submitting work to FLRev, PLEASE READ ALL THE GUIDELINES, as follows:
Seeking excellent and exciting poems (free verse, prose, or traditional forms); under 16 lines preferred due to space constraints. I am aiming for an eclectic mix of topics and styles so send me love poems, humorous poems, haiku, experimental poems, abstract, etc. Blow me away with your poetic prowess!!
Previously published ok (with proper credit). Simultaneous submissions ok (with immediate notification if accepted elsewhere). Please send 3 short poems in the body of your e-mail (no attachments), with brief bio, to firstliteraryreview@yahoo.com.”
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THE MOM EGG
* One of my Mother’s Day Haiku about eggs sitting in limbo will be in the forthcoming May Issue of The Mom Egg 2011, Vol. 9.
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The Cupcake Chronicles #4 on Symmetry Pebbles
The Cupcake Chronicles #4 is Up and Running on Symmetry Pebbles, A New, Edgy Online Journal from the UK
Here comes the bride and groom cupcakes. A delicious spoof on what sometimes might happen at a wedding. Cupcake Chronicles #4 is up and running in the January 29 edition of Symmetry Pebbles, a new, edgy online journal from the UK.
http://symmetrypebbles.wordpress.com/
Summit, submit!
Send to editor, Richard Thomas, no more than three poems, along with a short bio to submissions@symmetrypebbles.com. Please put your name and email address on each poem.
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Molly Peacock and Dean Kostos at Brownstone Poets 2/15
Poetry Grows In Ft. Greene
The Brownstone Poets Presents:
Molly Peacock and Dean Kostos
Tuesday, February 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
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Dean Kostos
Dean Kostos’s books include: Last Supper of the Senses, The Sentence That Ends with a Comma, and Celestial Rust. He co-edited Mama’s Boy and edited Pomegranate Seeds. His poems have appeared in Western Humanities Review, Boulevard, Southwest Review, Chelsea, Stand Magazine, on Oprah Winfrey’s Web site Oxygen.com, and elsewhere. His literary criticism has appeared on the Harvard UP Web site, in The American Book Review, and elsewhere. He teaches at The City University of New York, Wesleyan, and has served as literary judge for Columbia University’s Gold Crown Awards.
Molly Peacock
Molly Peacock is the author of six volumes of poetry, including The Second Blush and Cornucopia: New & Selected Poems, both published by W.W. Norton and Company (US and UK) and McClelland and Stewart (Canada). Her poems have appeared in leading literary journals such as The TLS, New Yorker, The Nation, The New Republic, and The Paris Review, as well as in numerous anthologies, including The Best of the Best American Poetry and The Oxford Book of American Poetry. She is the Series Editor for The Best Canadian Poetry in English and the Poetry Editor of the Literary Review of Canada. She serves on the Graduate Faculty of the Spalding University Brief Residency MFA Program in Creative Writing. Her latest work of nonfiction is The Paper Garden: Mrs. Delany Begins Her Life’s Work at 72, published in Canada by McClelland and Stewart, in the US and the UK by Bloomsbury, and in Australia by Scribe Books.
She is now working on a book-length poem called, AlphabeTique: the Lives of the Letters as Written by T.
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GPA the poetic unsub and Jeffrey Cyphers Wright at Brownstone Poets 2/5
Poetry Grows in Brooklyn Heights
The Brownstone Poets presents:
GPA the poetic unsub and Jeffrey Cyphers Wright
Saturday, February 5 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
$3 Donation – plus Food/Drink - Open Mic Curated by Patricia Carragon email: pattiekake@earthlink.net
http://brownstonepoets.blogspot.com/
http://patriciacarragon8.wordpress.com/
http://myspace.com/pattiekake8
http://en-gb.facebook.com/people/Brownstone-Poets/541314712
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GPA the poetic unsub is a native of Chicago. He is the author of the best selling, critically acclaimed book of poetry entitled, The Confessional Heart of a Man., co-authored the erotic anthology The Chocolate Rose, and the upcoming The Book of 24 Orgasms.GPA has been featured on radio stations WGCI 107.5 FM and WVON 1390 AM, and the Chicago Sun Times. He is the winner of the Michael Baisden Radio Show Poetry Slam and the Waiting 4 the Bus Poetry Penthalon. He is a founding member of the League of Extraordinary Poets, P.O.E.T. (People of Extraordinary Talent), and the Waiting 4 the Bus poetry collective. GPA hosts an open mic at the Quaker House in Hyde Park.
Jeffrey Cyphers Wright studied with Ted Berrigan and Alice Notley at St. Mark’s Church. He also studied with Allen Ginsberg at Brooklyn College and received an MFA in poetry. Wright is the author of eleven books of poetry. His poems also appear in six anthologies including Out of This World from Crown Press and Thus Spake the Corpse from Black Sparrow Press. Wright's poetry and art criticism has appeared in ARTnews, Art and Antiques, ArtNexus and The Brooklyn Rail. In 2008 The monthly Rail instituted his ongoing column of poetry reviews called Rapid Transit. Wright started Live Mag! (www.livemagnyc.com) in 2007 and hosts related poetry events at the Bowery Poetry. He contributed poems and collages to online venues, including Bicycle Review, Beet, Reading Dance, and Tool: A magazine. In 2010, his visual and performance work was the subject of the solo, participatory exhibit The Good Outlaw at AC Institute.[2] In an A-List preview of the show, The Villager described Wright as a "master collagist."
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OMG -The Bloomberg Haiku Quartet
OMG - Bloomberg Haiku on Vimeo
OMG -The Bloomberg Haiku Quartet, which I read at the Bowery Poetry Club on New Year's Day, is now on Vimeo. It was posted by OPEN CITY.
Way too funny!
CLICK ON EITHER ONE OF THESE LINKS BELOW AND ENJOY!
Pattie :)
http://vimeo.com/18415535
Patricia Carragon from Open City on Vimeo.
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LOVE HAPPENS AT THE NEW YORK POETRY FORUM
LOVE HAPPENS AT THE NEW YORK POETRY FORUM
Saturday, February 12 from 2 to 6 p.m.
PATRICIA CARRAGON The New York Poetry Forum Soldiers', Sailors', Marines' & Airmen's Club 283 Lexington Avenue (between East 36th & 37th Sts) New York, NY 10016
Subway: 6 to 33rd Street
Open Mic $3 for Members, $4 for Non-members Hosted by Daniel Fernandez
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