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Monday, April 25, 2011

May 17 Tantra-zawadi & Richard Marx Weinraub at Tillies of Brooklyn

Poetry Grows In Ft. Greene

The Brownstone Poets Presents:

Tantra-zawadi
&
Richard Marx Weinraub

Tuesday, May 17
Starts at 7p.m.
– Open Mic 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)

Tantra-zawadi
author of GATHERED AT HER SKY (Poets Wear Prada, 2010)

Richard Marx Weinraub
Author of  HEAVENLY BODIES (Poets Wear Prada, 2007)


Michael's COOL LIMBO Book Launch Party at Elmo's 5/21 at 8:30pm

Poems by
MICHAEL MONTLACK
(New York Quarterly, 2011)
Book Launch Party
May 21 at 8:30PM
@ ELMO'S
156 7th Avenue
(between 19th & 20th Streets)
RSVP:  http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=141136609293605

 

Michael Montlack is the author of the poetry collection Cool Limbo (New York Quarterly Books, 2011) and the editor of the Lambda-nominated essay anthology My Diva: 65 Gay Men on the Women Who Inspire Them (University of Wisconsin Press, 2009) and 3 poetry chapbooks, the most recent The Slip (Poets Wear Prada). He splits his time between New York City, where he teaches at Berkeley College, and San Francisco.



Tonight: Celebrating Diane di Prima at Yippie Cafe in NYC

A Diane di Prima Primer
Monday, April 25, 2011
6:30 – 8:30 pm
Yippie Museum Café
9 Bleecker Street (near the Bowery)


A celebration of the writings of Diane Di Prima
Host – Gordon Gilbert
(no open mic)

$2 at the door
helps to support Yippie Museum Cafe
Readers:
Austin Alexis
Robert Gibbons
Puma Perl
Hala Alyan
Viviana Grell
Bob Quatrone
Lauren Marie Cappello
Kim Kalesti
Heidi Schwartz
John Clinton
Louise Landes Levi accompanied by Wayne Lopes
Susan Scutti
Jackie Cooper
Maria Lisella
Jack Tricarico
Jessica Femiani
Valery Oisteanu
Clare Ultimo
Kat Georges
Eve Packer
Ernest K.Woodley

Two PWP authors will be reading the works of Diane di Prima as well as their own:  Austin Alexis, author of  Lovers & Drag Queens and For Lincoln: & Other Poems, and Maria Lisella, author of  Two Naked Feet.