Host of Brooklyn-Based Brownstone Poets Reading Series Gives Bedbugs, Roaches, Work, Viagra, Sex, and Subways a Haiku Twist in Her New Poetry Collection
New York, NY, October 09, 2010 --(PR.com)-- Urban Haiku and More (Fierce Grace Press, 2010), by Patricia Carragon, host of the Brooklyn-based Brownstone Poets, explodes with wit and poignancy. Read it and let your imagination walk through each page. Search the Coney Island boardwalk for mermaids. Ride the NYC subways, thinking about your sex life. Laugh and cry about being dateless on Valentine’s Day. Learn that bedbugs and roaches can be just as funny as your beloved cat, dog, or parakeet. You don’t have to know about Kerouac and Bashô or what is a Haiku, Senryu, Hay(Na)Ku or an unrhymed Tercet. This book is not just for the poet or lover of poetry. It is for the city dweller who deals with the daily grind of bedbugs, roaches, work, Viagra, sex, and subways. It will provide an outlet for laughter. It will make the reader feel that he or she is not alone during these challenging times.
Brenda J. Gannam, Member, Haiku Society of America, says, "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. “And from Hal Sirowitz, author of Father Said, “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.”
Urban Haiku and More is now available at BookCourt and from Ms. Carragon at her upcoming book events:
Sunday, October 17 at 4 p.m. at The Bowery Poetry Club, - 308 Bowery, NYC 10012
Thursday, October 28 at 7 p.m. at Wyld Chyld Tattoo and Café - 1708 Sunrise Highway, Merrick, NY 11566
Tuesday, November 2 at 7 p.m. at the Perch Café - 365 Fifth Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11215
For more information, please visit Ms. Carragon’s websites at http://brownstonepoets.blogspot.com/ and http://patriciacarragon8.wordpress.com.
About the Author:
Patricia Carragon is a New York City writer and poet. Her publications include Poetz.com, Rogue Scholars, PoetsWear Prada, Best Poem, BigCityLit, CLWN WR, Chanterelle's Notebook, Clockwise Cat, Ditch, Poetry Magazine, MOBIUS: The Poetry Magazine, The Toronto Quarterly, Marymark Press, and more. She is the author of Journey to the Center of My Mind (Rogue Scholars Press). She is a member of Brevitas, a group dedicated to short poems. She hosts and curates the Brooklyn-based Brownstone Poets and is the editor of the annual anthology. For more information, please check out her websites: http://brownstonepoets.blogspot.com/ and http://patriciacarragon8.wordpress.com.
About Fierce Grace Press:
Fierce Grace Press specializes in chapbooks – “Publishing Under the Radar.” Phil Linz is founder and editor-in-chief of Fierce Grace Press. A poet and chemist, this native New Yorker now lives near Savannah, Georgia. He edited and published an anthology, The Ice Road Poems (2007), with several popular poets from the New York area and beyond, including Ms. Carragon. His photograph of the Lower Eat Side graces the cover of Urban Haiku and More. Mr. Linz had selected Texas-born artist William L. Hayes to draw the Japanese-styled illustrations in this publication.
Urban Haiku and More
by Patricia Carragon
Illustrated by William L. Hays
saddle-stitched chapbook, 52pp
Fierce Grace Press, Pooler, GA
$7
Fierce Grace Press / 1515 Benton Blvd., #1727/ Pooler, GA 31322/ linzp@bellsouth.net
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Davidson Garrett and Susanna Rich at Tillies of Brooklyn Tues 11/16 at 7 p.m.
Poetry Grows in Ft. Greene, Brooklyn
The Brownstone Poets Presents:
Davidson Garrett and Susanna Rich on Tuesday, November 16
Starts at 7p.m. – Sign up at 6:45p.m. – We must be out by 9p.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 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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Davidson Garrett studied at The American Academy of Dramatic Arts and is a member of Screen Actor’s Guild, Actor’s Equity and AFTRA. He graduated from The City College of New York with a B.A. and M.S. in Education. His poetry, prose and articles, have been published in The New York Times, The Episcopal New Yorker, Xavier Review (Xavier University, New Orleans), The Unknown Writer, Sensations Magazine, The Wild Angels Anthology (Cathedral of St. John the Divine), and online at poetryvlog.com, Big City Lit, and on the website of The Beat Museum in San Francisco. He recently had poems published in a new anthology, Beyond the Riff, published by Poets Press for the North Jersey Literary Series. Davidson has a short story forthcoming in the literary journal: Third Wednesday.
In 2006, he published a collection of poetry and prose about taxi driving and acting: King Lear of the Taxi. (Advent Purple Press). Poems from this collection were the subject of a short film, “Taxi Driver,” produced by Flashgun Films of Great Britain. The film was screened at The Portobello Film Festival in London, 2008. Davidson is the narrator for the film. Davidson has been a New York City taxi driver for over 30 years, to help subsidize his art.
Susanna Rich is a 2009 Mid-Americia Emmy Nominee for writing the poetry in Craig Lindvahl's Cobb Field: A Day at the Ballpark, author of two Finishing Line Press poetry collections~The Drive Home (2009) and Television Daddy (2008), the recipient of the first joint Fulbright and Collegium Budapest Fellowship in Creative Writing, and a Pushcart Prize nominee. She won both the 20th Century Poetry and 21st Century Poetry contests of Sensations Magazine. Susanna is Professor of English and Distinguished Teacher at Kean University in New Jersey. Susanna tours unique staged one-woman, audience-interactive poetry readings.
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4 Horseman Reading at Cornelia Street
4 Horseman Reading at Cornelia Street
Sunday October 24 at 6 P.M.
Hosted by Bob Quartrone
$7 Admission
Limited Open Mic
EVE PACKER VIVIANA GRELL CINDY HOCHMAN LEE KOSTRINSKY GORDON GILBERT JR. CYNTHIA TORONTO ROBERT GIBBONS ELIZABETH HARRINGTON PATRICIA CARRAGON FRANK SIMONE JAY CHOLLICK RONNA LEBO BONI JOI LINDA LERNER
The Cornelia Street Café 29 Cornelia Street New York, NY 10014
212-989-9319
BY SUBWAY A, B, C, D, E, F, and M to West 4th St. or 1 to Christopher St.-Sheridan Square.
BY CAR Take 7th Avenue South, turn left on Bleecker; Cornelia Street is the second turning on the left. We're a quarter of the way down on the left hand side.
There is metered parking on the street until 10pm. After 10pm and on Sundays it's free
http://www.corneliastreetcafe.com/downstairs/Performances.asp?sdate=10/24/2010&from_cal=0
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7th Annual Brevitas Festival of the Short Poem
Patricia Carragon Event for Patricia Carragon (edit)
date: venue: location: type: website: November 14, 2010 02:00PM The Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery off Bleecker, New York, NY, US other http://www.bowerypoetry.com/
description Sunday, November 14, 2010 • 2 ~ 6 pm 7th Annual Brevitas Festival of the Short Poem
Brevitas honors Emily Dickinson as Historical Guest Poet for her divine role as Patron Saint of the Short Poem • a selection of Emily’s poems will be read by poet and performer Shelley Miller • a screening of “Emily Dickinson – Her True Self” by Flash Rosenberg, produced by the Lower Eastside Girls Club
Also, a special Brevitas dedication will be made for jailed Chinese dissident and recipient of this year's Nobel Peace Prize, Liu Xiaobo.
Brevitas is a community of invited poets who email 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 features each poet’s top hits for 2010.
Brevitas founders: Jim Pignetti and Steve Zeitlin festival host: Flash Rosenberg
Admission: $7
The Brevitas book of short poems will be presented to all who attend.
THE FOLLOWING BREVITAS POETS WILL BE READING
D. F. August Susan Gerardi Bello Iris Berman Claudia Carlson Patricia Carragon Gil Fagiani Sanford Fraser Christian Garaud Bob Heman Eileen Hennessy Cindy Hochman Judy Kamilhor Andrew Kaufman Susan T. Landry Maria Lisella Tsaurah Litzky Georgia Luna Sue Machlin James McMenamin Katrinka Moore Jim Pignetti Leslie Prosterman Flash Rosenberg Dorothea Hutton Scher Susan Schipke Zev Shanken Hal Sirowitz Ed Smith Esther K. Smith Richard Storm Juanita Torrence-Thompson John J. Trause Alicia Vasquez Angelo Verga Carolyn Wells Steve Zeitlin
Guest poets will be invited to sign up for the Short Poem Open Mic (14 lines max).
Bowery Poetry Club 308 Bowery (between Houston & Bleecker Streets) New York City • 212-614-0505 www.bowerypoetry.com
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Urban Haiku and More
Host of Brooklyn-Based Brownstone Poets Reading Series Gives Bedbugs, Roaches, Work, Viagra, Sex, and Subways a Haiku Twist in Her New Poetry Collection
New York, NY, October 09, 2010 --(PR.com)-- Urban Haiku and More (Fierce Grace Press, 2010), by Patricia Carragon, host of the Brooklyn-based Brownstone Poets, explodes with wit and poignancy. Read it and let your imagination walk through each page. Search the Coney Island boardwalk for mermaids. Ride the NYC subways, thinking about your sex life. Laugh and cry about being dateless on Valentine’s Day. Learn that bedbugs and roaches can be just as funny as your beloved cat, dog, or parakeet. You don’t have to know about Kerouac and Bashô or what is a Haiku, Senryu, Hay(Na)Ku or an unrhymed Tercet. This book is not just for the poet or lover of poetry. It is for the city dweller who deals with the daily grind of bedbugs, roaches, work, Viagra, sex, and subways. It will provide an outlet for laughter. It will make the reader feel that he or she is not alone during these challenging times.
Brenda J. Gannam, Member, Haiku Society of America, says, "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. “And from Hal Sirowitz, author of Father Said, “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.”
Urban Haiku and More is now available at BookCourt and from Ms. Carragon at her upcoming book events:
Sunday, October 17 at 4 p.m. at The Bowery Poetry Club, - 308 Bowery, NYC 10012
Thursday, October 28 at 7 p.m. at Wyld Chyld Tattoo and Café - 1708 Sunrise Highway, Merrick, NY 11566
Tuesday, November 2 at 7 p.m. at the Perch Café - 365 Fifth Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11215
For more information, please visit Ms. Carragon’s websites at http://brownstonepoets.blogspot.com/ and http://patriciacarragon8.wordpress.com.
About the Author:
Patricia Carragon is a New York City writer and poet. Her publications include Poetz.com, Rogue Scholars, PoetsWear Prada, Best Poem, BigCityLit, CLWN WR, Chanterelle's Notebook, Clockwise Cat, Ditch, Poetry Magazine, MOBIUS: The Poetry Magazine, The Toronto Quarterly, Marymark Press, and more. She is the author of Journey to the Center of My Mind (Rogue Scholars Press). She is a member of Brevitas, a group dedicated to short poems. She hosts and curates the Brooklyn-based Brownstone Poets and is the editor of the annual anthology. For more information, please check out her websites: http://brownstonepoets.blogspot.com/ and http://patriciacarragon8.wordpress.com.
About Fierce Grace Press:
Fierce Grace Press specializes in chapbooks – “Publishing Under the Radar.” Phil Linz is founder and editor-in-chief of Fierce Grace Press. A poet and chemist, this native New Yorker now lives near Savannah, Georgia. He edited and published an anthology, The Ice Road Poems (2007), with several popular poets from the New York area and beyond, including Ms. Carragon. His photograph of the Lower Eat Side graces the cover of Urban Haiku and More. Mr. Linz had selected Texas-born artist William L. Hayes to draw the Japanese-styled illustrations in this publication.
Urban Haiku and More by Patricia Carragon Illustrated by William L. Hays saddle-stitched chapbook, 52pp Fierce Grace Press, Pooler, GA $7 Fierce Grace Press / 1515 Benton Blvd., #1727/ Pooler, GA 31322/ linzp@bellsouth.net
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Latest Publication News
Regarding my latest publications:
If you have a piece published or to be published in the same issue listed below, please let me know and I will update this blog to include your name.
Please e-mail me at: pattiekake@earthlink.net or message me on Facebook. Thanks.
My essay, The Invasion of Literary Brooklyn, will be in the upcoming Venom Press Curare #9. Happy to hear that Thaddeus Rudkowski will have his piece in that same issue.
My flash fiction piece, Betty, has just been accepted for the October Rusty Typer
Gulf Coast Poems and Blood Diamond are in First Literary Review 2010 IIi
http://rulrul.4mg.com/rich_text.html
Check out these other amazing poets listed: Michael Ceraolo, Mitch Corber, Ted Jonathan, Diane Mofazelli, Karen Neuberg, Michael Reiss, John Todras, and Zev Torres
Scheduled Departures has just been accepted for the Long Island Quarterly 2011. Happy to hear that Cindy Hochman will have her piece in that same issue.
Coming Home will be in Lips-Number 34/35 which is scheduled for April 2011. And also happy to learn that Roxanne Hoffman and Linda Lerner have work that will appear in that same issue
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Heller Levinson and Carol Novack Read at Tillies of Brooklyn
Poetry Grows in Ft. Greene, Brooklyn
The Brownstone Poets Presents: Heller Levinson and Carol Novack
Tuesday, October 19
Starts at 7p.m. – Sign up at 6:45p.m. – We must be out by 9p.m.
Poetry Grows in Ft. Greene, Brooklyn
The Brownstone Poets Presents: Heller Levinson and Carol Novack
Tuesday, October 19
Starts at 7p.m. – Sign up at 6:45p.m. – We must be out by 9p.m.
Heller has a new book from the UK, "Excoriate Exhale: Routing Soutine" (Knifes, Folks and Spoons Press).
Carol is launching her new book "Giraffes in Hiding: The Mythical Memoirs of Carol Novack" (Spuyten Duyvil Press), coming soon to a bookstore near you.
Copies of their new books will be available at the reading.
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 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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Heller Levinson lives in NYC where he studies animal behavior. He has published in over a hundred journals and magazines including Sulfur, Jacket, Hunger, Talisman, First Intensity, Laurel Review, Omega, The Wandering Hermit, Fire (U.K), Tears in the Fence (U.K.), Alligatorzine, The Jivin' Ladybug, Moria, Woodcoin, Mad Hatters Review, etc. His publication, Smelling Mary (Howling Dog Press, 2008), was nominated for both the Pulitzer Prize and the Griffin Prize. Black Widow Press will be publishing his from stone this running in 2010. Additionally, he is the originator of Hinge Theory. Please visit http://www.hellerlevinson.com/ for more information.
Carol Novack is the former recipient of a writer’s award from the Australian government, the author of a poetry chapbook, an erstwhile criminal defense and constitutional lawyer in NYC, and the publisher of Mad Hatters’ Review. She immigrated to a mountain ridge in Asheville in May, and will be launching her collection of fictions, fusions, and poems, “Giraffes in Hiding: The Mythical Memoirs of Carol Novack” (Spuyten Duyvil Press). Works may or will be found in numerous journals, including American Letters & Commentary, Caketrain, Drunken Boat, Exquisite Corpse, Fiction International, Gargoyle, Journal of Experimental Literature, LIT, and Otoliths, and in many anthologies, including “The Penguin Book of Australian Women Poets,” “Diagram III,” and “The & Now Awards: the Best Innovative Writing.” Writings in translations may or will be found in French, Italian, and Romanian journals.
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URBAN HAIKU BOOK PARTIES
URBAN HAIKU AND MORE Haiku, Senryu, Hay(Na)Ku and Other Unrhymed Tercet Poetry
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 by Patricia Carragon Illustrated by William L. Hays saddle-stitched chapbook, 52pp Fierce Grace Press, Pooler, GA $7
BOOK PARTIES
Sunday, October 17 at 4 P.M.
The Beat Hour with George Wallace The Bowery Poetry Club 308 Bowery off Bleecker Lower East Side, NYC with poets David Lawton/Mankh $6 admission Open Mic Hosted by George Wallace http://www.bowerypoetry.com
Thursday, October 28 at 7:30 P.M. to 10 P.M. Wyld Chyld Tattoo and Café 1708 Sunrise Highway Merrick, NY 11566 Free - Open Mic Hosted by Peter V. Dugan
http://wyldchyldstudios.com/
Tuesday, November 2 at 7 P.M. Perch Café 365 Fifth Ave Park Slope, Brooklyn, NY 11215 718-788-2830 Free admission $5 Minimum Food/Drink Open mic Hosted by Pam Laskin With featured poet, Cindy Hochman http://www.theperchcafe.com
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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Composer's Voice Concert
September 26, 2010, 1:00 pm Composer's Voice Concert Jan Hus Church E 74th Street (@ 1st Ave), New York, NY free Mary Hubbell and David Morneau will be performing Behind Corneal Gates from David’s Love Songs Project (THE CORNEAL GATES text by Patricia Carragon)
Take the 6 to 68th St or 77th St
http://5of4.com/upcoming_performances.html
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PAM LASKIN and JAMES MCMENAMIN at Park Plaza Sat, 10/2 at 2:30 P.M.
PAM LASKIN and JAMES MCMENAMIN at Park Plaza Sat, 10/2 at 2:30 P.M. Poetry Grows in Brooklyn Heights
The Brownstone Poets presents:
PAM LASKIN
JAMES MCMENAMIN
Saturday, October 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
$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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JANICE BRABAW KAT GEORGES Tuesday, September 21 at Tillies of Brooklyn
Poetry Grows in Ft. Greene
The Brownstone Poets presents:
JANICE BRABAW
KAT GEORGES
Tuesday, September 21 at Tillies of Brooklyn
Starts at 7p.m. – Sign up at 6:45p.m. – We must be out by 9p.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 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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Janice Brabaw is the critically acclaimed author of two collections of poetry - Universe, Disturbed and Tongue for Folie. She is the editor of The Best of Stain anthologies and was the host of the Stained Glass Confessional and An Echo, A Stain reading series. Janice has performed at The Bowery Poetry Club, Otto's Shrunken Head, The Inspired Word, Soule Series, and the Library Lounge series at Telephone Bar. Her work has appeared in Poesis, smoke, Violent Femininity - A Journal of Female Poets, The Toronto Quarterly, Ophelia Street, The Record, and The Cartier Street Review.
Poet, playwright and director Kat Georges wrote and directed 15 plays during her 10-year tenure as artistic director of San Francisco’s Marilyn Monroe Memorial Theater, including SCUM: The Valerie Solanas Story, Paglia in Persona (a deconstruction of Camille Paglia), and Art was Here (inspired by Dada founder Arthur Cravan). Her poetry appears in The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry (Thunder’s Mouth Press) and The Verdict is In (Manic D Press, also editor).
Kat has three collections of her poetry, Punk Rock Journal, Maiden Claiming and Slow Dance at 120 Beats a Minute (all Three Rooms Press). In New York since 2003, she has directed numerous Off-Broadway plays, including most recently Jack Kerouac: Catholic and Twitter Theater, both written by award- winning playwright Larry Myers, and Sarah's Choice, by Peter Carlaftes. For more information, visit http://threeroomspress.blogspot.com/
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