Cancellation

Cancellation of Brownstone Poets for Saturday, April 25:

Because of the social distancing going on and Park Plaza Restaurant being closed for gatherings, I can't promise that this reading will happen on April 25. Even if the restaurant opens for regular business, I'm not sure if a gathering of more than 10 people would be safe.

I am concerned for your health, as well as for our friends, family, and the people around us. I don't want anyone to get sick from a poetry reading.

I hope you are well during this difficult time. Keep writing, do some reading, etc., and try to find peace of mind. We will get over this, hopefully before June.

Kind regards,

Patricia Carragon

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March Publications

March Publications

Bear Creek Haiku, March 2020

Thank you Ayaz Daryl Nielsen for publishing my haiku:

feline agenda make America purr again

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snowflakes conceptual art on my sleeves

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the Persian cat matches the weather camouflage in white

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Valentine’s Day I’d rather kiss your cat than you

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Valentine’s Day cat leaves heart-shaped poop inside your slippers

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Valentine’s Day kitty kisses smell like tuna

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Valentine’s Day cat ladies marry their fur babies

A shout out to Steve Austerman, Mary Jo Balistreri, Michael Ceraolo, Judith Partin-Nielsen, and more.

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Concrete Mist Anthology, 2020

To Heath Brougher of Concrete Mist Anthology, (Concrete Mist Press 2020), many thanks for accepting, "Ball and Chain" and "So What."

Kudos to poets:

Bob Heman, Michael Lee Johnson, Red Focks, Heller Levinson, Dustin Pickering, Bill Yarrow, Mary Newell, Mike Fiorito, Charles Rammelkamp, Ace Boggess, Annie Pluto, Cindy Sostchen-Hochman, Alison Ross, and others.

Order on Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/Concrete-Press-Anthology-Contemporary-Writers/dp/1734440996/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=concrete+mist&qid=1584907094&sr=8-1

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The New Verse News, Sunday, March 22, 2020

https://newversenews.blogspot.com/2020/03/tenderly.html

Thank you James Penha for publishing "Tenderly," Chet Baker's haunting jazz as a backdrop for the current sadness.

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Jerry Jazz Musician, Monday March 23, 2020

https://jerryjazzmusician.com/

2020/03/tenderly-a-poem-by-patricia-carragon/

Honored that Joseph Maita published "Tenderly" the day after The New Verse News.

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Al-Khemia Poetica, Tuesday, March 24

So honored that my short story, "What Has to Happen Next" and two of my cat photos from "Meowku are part of Marie C. Lecrivain's National Women's month series.

https://alkhemiapoetica.blogspot.com/2020/03/tuesday-march-24-2020-national-womens.html?m=1&fbclid=IwAR1SA04akYlCOhh_8NBSEWC32SxOu5DJwBZiY1zv0UsB_9_Ks0IQQ11oHzo

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Oddball Magazine, Friday, March 20, 2020

Thank you Chad Parenteau and Jason Wright for publishing "Bésame Mucho."

Read it at https://oddballmagazine.com/poem-by-patricia-carragon-2/

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Home Planet News Online Issue 8 submissions

Home Planet News Online is taking submissions for Issue 8

Per Frank Murphy

Submissions welcome. Home Planet News Online is an On Line Only Publication. All copyrights return to the poet, writer, artist. The submissions requirements are as follows: Submit up to 6 poems at a time.

We would prefer prose pieces that are 2000 words or less, but we will consider longer pieces by merit. We will accept no more than 2 prose pieces per writer per issue. We will consider using more than 2 pieces with the prior approval of one of the Home Planet News Editors. Artwork and photos should be sent as jpeg attachments.

Simultaneous submissions will be accepted with the understanding that we will be notified ASAP of publications in another magazine. Home Planet News Online will accept poems that have been previously published in printed magazines, journals, or chapbooks with a distribution of 500 copies or less. We will not accept poems or prose that has been accepted in an anthology or published in another online magazine. Please include contact information Submit everything in one file as a single Microsoft Word or Page document. No pdf files. If that is not possible, just paste poems in the body of the email. Deadline-late fall homeplanetnews@outlook.com

http://www.homeplanetnews.org/7-submissions.html

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Coronavirus Cancellations

Due to the current crisis with Coronavirus, I don't want to put anyone in jeopardy of getting sick, and plan to cancel the Saturday, March 28th reading at Park Plaza Restaurant.

My March Madness reading at the Secret Loft on Thursday, March 26, is also canceled. Management hasn't officially canceled it on FB, but I've already done it on my own FB Invite.

Please be well everyone and stay safe. This too shall pass.

Patricia oxoxox

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March Madness

MARCH MADNESS

Friday, March 6

The New Feminine: Poetry/Flash Reading and Open Mic

Meet and hear the fabulous writers from Poets Wear Prada: Patricia Carragon Iris N. Schwartz Tantra-zawadi Chocolate Waters

Hosted by Roxanne Hoffman

Bureau of General Services / Queer Division 208 W 13th St, Rm 210 NYC 10011 from 7 p.m to 9 p.m.

$10 suggested donation or whatever you can afford!!! plus panel discussion

Open mic

FACEBOOK EVENT: https://www.facebook.com/events/561717091220678/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Secret Loft with Patricia Carragon and Joel Allegretti

Thursday, March 26

7:30-8: Open mic sign-up 8-10: Open mic and featured readers

Secret Loft

137 W 14th St, New York, NY 10011

$5-8 General Admission. Details to come on Advance General admission.

Open Mic

I'm happy to announce that I will be featured at the amazing Secret Loft with Joel Allegretti.

I will be bringing copies of MEOWKU, THE CUPCAKE CHRONICLES, and INNOCENCE.

FACEBOOK EVENT:

https://www.facebook.com/events/2410070085972110/

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Broder, Case, Holman, Sarai, Stern

Five electrifying poets, Michael Broder, Susana H. Case, Amy Holman, Sarah Sarai, and Gerd Stern to rock Brownstone Poets on Saturday, March 28, at 2:30 p.m. at Park Plaza Restaurant in historic Brooklyn Heights. Poetry grows in Brooklyn Heights, and there's an open mic as well. Come enjoy an afternoon of poetry and delicious food at this cozy family-owned restaurant.

Saturday, March 28, @ 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

R to Court Street

4 or to 5 Borough Hall

For more directions:

Please check the MTA's "The Weekender" for all transit updates.

http://web.mta.info/weekender.html

$5 Donation – plus Food/Drink - LIMITED OPEN MIC- ONE POEM PER PERSON

Curated by Patricia Carragon

Facebook Event:

https://www.facebook.com/events/561717091220678/

Bios:

Michael Broder is the author of Drug and Disease Free (Indolent Books, 2016) and This Life Now (A Midsummer Night’s Press, 2014), a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry. His poems have appeared in numerous publications and anthologies. Michael is founding publisher of Indolent Books, a small nonprofit press amplifying marginalized voices. He holds a BA from Columbia University, an MFA from NYU, and a PhD in Classics from The CUNY Graduate Center. Michael lives in Brooklyn with his husband, the poet Jason Schneiderman, and a backyard colony of feral cats.

Susana H. Case is the author of seven books of poetry. Dead Shark on the N Train is due out in 2020 from Broadstone Books. Drugstore Blue (Five Oaks Press) won an IPPY Award in 2019. She is also the author of five chapbooks, two of which won poetry prizes, and most recently, Body Falling, Sunday Morning, from Milk and Cake Press. Her first collection, The Scottish Café, from Slapering Hol Press, was re-released in a dual-language English-Polish version by Opole University Press. Her work has appeared in Calyx, The Cortland Review, Portland Review, Potomac Review, Rattle, RHINO and many other journals. Case is a Professor and Program Coordinator at the New York Institute of Technology in New York City.

Amy Holman is the author of five small press published poetry books, including Wrens Fly Through This Opened Window, reviewed as “part freak show, part searing insight”, and the 2004 Dream Horse Press chapbook winner, Wait for Me, I’m Gone, blurbed as “revelatory and grave, and light as a cloud.” She has poems Blueline, The Chiron Review, concis, Gargoyle, Milk Letter, The Westchester Review, and great weather for MEDIA’s 2019 anthology. She works freelance as a literary consultant from her home nearby the Superfunded Gowanus, and teaches poetry in view of the Hudson River. Lately, she is also a watercolorist.

Sarah Sarai is the author of That Strapless Bra in Heaven (Kelsay Books), Geographies of Soul and Taffeta (Indolent Books), and The Future Is Happy (BlazeVOX). Her poems are in Barrow Street, Boston Review, Prelude, and many other journals; and have received three Pushcart nominations and one Best-of-the-Net nomination.

Gerd Stern is a poet and multimedia artist with experience in both film and video. He has published several books of poetry including First Poems and Others (1952), Afterimage (1965), a serigraphed selection with drawings by David Weinrib, Conch Tales (1984), and a chap book Fragmeants (2002). His fourth book of poems, WhenThen, was published summer of 2018 by Ohio’s Dos Madres Press An oral history of Stern, USCO and Intermedia Foundation was published by the University of California (ROHO) Berkeley in 2002 and is available online and in hard cover.

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Brownstone Poets reading Tomorrow

REMINDER:

Sally Dawidoff, Karen Neuberg, Michael T. Young, and Barry Wallenstein to rock Brownstone Poets on Saturday, February 29, at 2:30 p.m. at Park Plaza Restaurant in historic Brooklyn Heights. Poetry grows in Brooklyn Heights, and there's an open mic as well. Come enjoy an afternoon of poetry and delicious food at this cozy family-owned restaurant.

Saturday, February 29, @ 2:30 P.M.

Park Plaza Restaurant

220 Cadman Plaza West near Clark St. and Pineapple Walk

Brooklyn, NY 11201

718 - 596 - 5900

FACEBOOK EVENT:

https://www.facebook.com/events/179435086752050/

Subways:

Take the A or C to High Street, 2 or 3 to Clark Street

R to Court Street

4 or to 5 Borough Hall

For more directions:

Please check the MTA's "The Weekender" for all transit updates.

http://web.mta.info/weekender.html

$5 Donation – plus Food/Drink - Open-Mic

Curated by Patricia Carragon

Bios:

Sally Dawidoff’s poetry has appeared in The Paris Review, Ploughshares, AGNI, and many other periodicals. She has won fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and artist-in-residence programs in the U.S. and abroad. Her stage adaptation of Ha Jin’s novel, The Crazed, premiered at Central Works Theater, and Pets I’ve Known, a song cycle she wrote with composer Jason Atkinson, was recorded at King Kuts, here in Brooklyn. She curates a series of conversations called More Speech.

Karen Neuberg is a Brooklyn-based poet. Her latest book is Pursuit,(Kelsay Press, 2019) She is also the author of the chapbooks, the elephants are asking (Glass Lyre, 2017), Myself Taking Stage (Finishing Line, 2014), and Detailed Still (Poets Wear Prada, 2009). Her poems and collages can be found in numerous publications including 805, Canary, New Verse News, and Verse Daily.She belongs to the brevitas online poetry community that celebrates the short poem and is associate editor of the online poetry journal, First Literary Review-East.

Michael T. Young’s third full-length collection, The Infinite Doctrine of Water, was longlisted for the Julie Suk Award. He received a fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. His chapbook, Living in the Counterpoint, received the Jean Pedrick Award from the New England Poetry Club. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous journals including Atticus Review, Gargoyle, One, Rattle and Valparaiso Poetry Review. His poetry has also been featured on Verse Daily and The Writer’s Almanac.

Barry Wallenstein is the author of eight collections of poetry, the most recent being At the Surprise Hotel and Other Poems (2016) and Drastic Dislocations: New and Selected Poems (2012). His poetry has appeared in over 100 journals, including Ploughshares, The Nation, Centennial Review, and American Poetry Review. A special interest is his presentation of poetry readings in collaboration with jazz. He has made eight recordings of his poetry with jazz, the most recent being titled Lisbon Sunset, (2016). Barry is Emeritus Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at the City University of New York and an editor of the journal, American Book Review.

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Meowku Review

MEOWKU Review in Compulsive Reader by Michael T. Young

Thank you Michael T. Young for reviewing my new book, "MEOWKU" (Poets Wear Prada, 2019) in Compulsive Reader, as well as for my friend, Robert Anthony Gibbons. His latest book is "FLIGHT," also from Poets Wear Prada.

Here is an excerpt:

As the witticism that is this collection’s title suggests, the haiku comprising it center around cats. But it’s not just haiku about them, rather these poems explore a variety of topics with a feline twist. They include simple admiration and observation, but also engage social questions and current politics. They move with wit and grit, from non-traditional to traditional to innovative. Although haiku is known for language that is simple and direct, these poems take advantage of clever ambiguities, and cultural resonances. As in one of the first poems we are told:

the maneki-neko waves her calico paw “meowzel tov.”

Read the entire review at:

http://www.compulsivereader.com/2020/02/27/a-review-of-meowku-by-patricia-carragon-and-flight-by-robert-anthony-gibbons/?fbclid=IwAR2fIL1qceNURom9VmqOsh0FrX8BjqbIhIMVCC-u7ChN9W4nufn9gFHSc_k

"MEOWKU" is available on Amazon:

https://amzn.to/2MTklrO

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Publication News Late Fall/Early Winter 2019-2020

Nixes Mate, Issue 13, Fall 2019

Thank you Annie Pluto and Michael McInnis for publishing my poem, "Avalon."

Congrats to Bill Yarrow and Zvi A. Sesling, and more.

http://nixesmate.pub/avalon/

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From Wikipedia

Stardust Haiku, December 26, 2019

the Persian cat

matches the weather

camouflage in white

Warm regards to Valentina Ranaldi-Adams for publishing me in her monthly journal.

Congrats to fellow poet, John J. Dunphy.

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Narrative Northeast, Haiku Corner 7, January 15, 2020

Thank you Pamela Hughes for posting Jazz Purrs, dedicated to steve dalachinsky in your haiku section of Narrative Northeast.

Kudos to Aaron Barry, Anne Knupher, Edytta Anne Wojnar.

Click on the link below; https://narrativenortheast.com/?page_id=6620

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From Wikipedia

The Weekly Avocet, #372, January 19, 2020

the Persian cat

matches the weather

camouflage in white

Appreciate being published in The Weekly Avocet, #372, January 19, 2020. Thank you Charles Portolano.

Kudos to Rochelle S. Cohen, Rex Sexton, Lisa Townsend, Michael E. Stone, Joe Bisicchia, Pyong (Byung) A. Fallgren, Susan Oleferuk, Conrad Gurtatowski, Eugene O’Connor, Marjorie Borden, Nancy L. Dahl, Julie A. Dickson

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Nomad's Choir Winter 2020, Vol.28 Issue 1

Thank you Joshua Meander for publishing "Strangers on the Shore."

Kudos to Austin, Alexis, Alan Braverman, Rosalie Calabrese, Kathryn Fazio, Art Gatti, Robert Gibbons, Patrick Hammer, Evie Ivy, Penelope Maguffin, Joshua Meander, Alexandra Portal, John A. Todras, and more.

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Bear Creek Haiku Blogspot, Thursday, February 6, 2020

Grateful for Ayaz Daryl Nielson's posting about "Meowku" along with Don Wentworth's new book, "With A Deepening Presence."

Read all about it at:

https://bearcreekhaiku.blogspot.com/2020/02/patricia-carragons-meowku-don.html

Bear Creek Haiku Blogspot, Thursday, February 14, 2020

Big thanks again to Ayaz Daryl Nielson's posting my new catku. Kudos to Peggy Dugan French, Judith Partin-Nielsen, and more.

https://bearcreekhaiku.blogspot.com/2020/02/peggy-dugan-french-and-st-teresa.html

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“Untitled” by Henry Dendander

Jerry Jazz Musician, Winter edition, February 17, 2020

Grateful appreciation to Joe Maita for posting 2 poems, "Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered" and "All I could Do Was Cry."

Shout outs to :

Alan Yount, Arlene Corwin, Aurora Lewis, Aurora M. Lewis, D.R. James, Dan Franch, Ed Ruzicka, Erren Kelly, Felicia Chernesky, Freddington, Gerard Sarnat, Joel Glickman, John Stupp, Jordan Thretheway, Julianne Di Nenna, Kristofer Collins, Michael Keshigian, Michael L. Newell, Michael Vander Does, Nathan Tluchowski, Paula Puolakka, Phil Linz, Phyllis Wax, R. Bremner, Robert Nisbet, Robin Ray, Roger Singer, Russell Dupont, Susandale, T.S. Davis, Terrance Underwood

https://jerryjazzmusician.com/2020/02/a-collection-of-jazz-poetry-winter-2019-edition/

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Sally Dawidoff, Karen Neuberg, Michael T. Young, and Barry Wallenstein

Reminder: Sally Dawidoff, Karen Neuberg, Michael T. Young, and Barry Wallenstein to rock Brownstone Poets on Saturday, February 29, at 2:30 p.m.

REMINDER:

Sally Dawidoff, Karen Neuberg, Michael T. Young, and Barry Wallenstein to rock Brownstone Poets on Saturday, February 29, at 2:30 p.m. at Park Plaza Restaurant in historic Brooklyn Heights. Poetry grows in Brooklyn Heights, and there's an open mic as well. Come enjoy an afternoon of poetry and delicious food at this cozy family-owned restaurant.

Saturday, February 29, @ 2:30 P.M.

Park Plaza Restaurant

220 Cadman Plaza West near Clark St. and Pineapple Walk

Brooklyn, NY 11201

718 - 596 - 5900

FACEBOOK EVENT:

https://www.facebook.com/events/179435086752050/

Subways:

Take the A or C to High Street, 2 or 3 to Clark Street

R to Court Street

4 or to 5 Borough Hall

For more directions:

Please check the MTA's "The Weekender" for all transit updates.

http://web.mta.info/weekender.html

$5 Donation – plus Food/Drink - Open-Mic

Curated by Patricia Carragon

Bios:

Sally Dawidoff’s poetry has appeared in The Paris Review, Ploughshares, AGNI, and many other periodicals. She has won fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and artist-in-residence programs in the U.S. and abroad. Her stage adaptation of Ha Jin’s novel, The Crazed, premiered at Central Works Theater, and Pets I’ve Known, a song cycle she wrote with composer Jason Atkinson, was recorded at King Kuts, here in Brooklyn. She curates a series of conversations called More Speech.

Karen Neuberg is a Brooklyn-based poet. Her latest book is Pursuit,(Kelsay Press, 2019) She is also the author of the chapbooks, the elephants are asking (Glass Lyre, 2017), Myself Taking Stage (Finishing Line, 2014), and Detailed Still (Poets Wear Prada, 2009). Her poems and collages can be found in numerous publications including 805, Canary, New Verse News, and Verse Daily.She belongs to the brevitas online poetry community that celebrates the short poem and is associate editor of the online poetry journal, First Literary Review-East.

Michael T. Young’s third full-length collection, The Infinite Doctrine of Water, was longlisted for the Julie Suk Award. He received a fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. His chapbook, Living in the Counterpoint, received the Jean Pedrick Award from the New England Poetry Club. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous journals including Atticus Review, Gargoyle, One, Rattle and Valparaiso Poetry Review. His poetry has also been featured on Verse Daily and The Writer’s Almanac.

Barry Wallenstein is the author of eight collections of poetry, the most recent being At the Surprise Hotel and Other Poems (2016) and Drastic Dislocations: New and Selected Poems (2012). His poetry has appeared in over 100 journals, including Ploughshares, The Nation, Centennial Review, and American Poetry Review. A special interest is his presentation of poetry readings in collaboration with jazz. He has made eight recordings of his poetry with jazz, the most recent being titled Lisbon Sunset, (2016). Barry is Emeritus Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at the City University of New York and an editor of the journal, American Book Review.

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