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THRUM: Poems by JOEL ALLEGRETTI
OUTSIDE GIRL by CYNDI DAWSON
GATHERED AT HER SKY: Life Poems by TANTRA-ZAWADI
DEAD RECKONING: Poems by GENE AUPREY

OUTSIDE GIRL by CYNDI DAWSON
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Lived through the NYC downtown ’80s? Cyndi Dawson takes you home. And if you were never there, you are now, through the penetrating glare of an "Outside Girl" who brings the reader through the scene, the clubs, the drugs, the grit, and ties it all together with love. With this collection, Cyndi Dawson, who is known largely for her stage performances, establishes herself as fierce, forceful, raw, punk poet in the tradition of Jim Carroll, who holds her own on the page as well as the stage. — PUMA PERL, author of KNUCKLE TATTOOS and BELINDA AND HER FRIENDS





 





 

GATHERED AT HER SKY: Life Poems by TANTRA-ZAWADI
$12.00

  “Tantra's writing oozes with the passion of Neruda and the sensitivity of Sonia. Her words can warm the coldest of hearts.” — Bruce George, Co-Founder of RUSSELL SIMMONS DEF POETRY JAM

“Tantra-zawadi's poetry speaks of a global consciousness and ambassadorship; each word of every line reminds us of the connection we have to one another in the race to win.”— Tshombe Sekou Harris, Founder/Host of FREEDOM VERSE CAFE

Tantra-zawadi, an award winning poet/artist/filmmaker from Brooklyn, New York, has performed to standing-room audiences in the USA, South Africa, London, Germany and Toronto. GATHERED AT HER SKY contains excerpts from her off-Broadway production SOLDIER BLUES, and her one-woman performance piece GIRL: A CHOREOSPECTIVE, as well as the text of previously recorded spoken word tracks.

 

THRUM: Poems by JOEL ALLEGRETTI
$12.00

In THRUM, Joel Allegretti, deftly and delightfully, strums his magical musical instrument, which is poetry, as he forges fresh forms of songs and stories that are inspired by strummers’s strings. “Context is everything,” Allegretti reminds us, and we’re planted in the heart of a global ancient/modern orchestra. Prepare yourself for the revelatory performance. --Martine Bellen



 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

DEAD RECKONING: Poems by GENE AUPREY
$15.00

 
Author Gene Auprey offers a new collection of poems; a meditation on nature, life and death, and the ever-present possibilities of hope, humor and love. “At home somewhere between the pastoral and the familial, violence and tranquility (often showing how they are sometimes the same side of the same coin), Gene Auprey’s voice is one of restrained and steady power.” — James Midgely, Editor MIMESIS

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The following titles are available on LULU:

THRUM: Poems by Joel Allegretti
DEAD RECKONING: Poems by Gene Auprey
GATHERED AT HER SKY: Life Poems by Tantra-zawadi
OUTSIDE GIRL by Cyndi Dawson

Poets Wear Prada Announces 2010 Pushcart Nominations

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact:

Roxanne Hoffman

201 795 3810
roxy533@yahoo.com

 

SMALL NEW JERSEY LITERARY PRESS PICKS SIX 

FOR A SHOT AT THE ANNUAL PUSHCART PRIZE

RECOGNIZING THE BEST OF 2010 BY SMALL PRESSES 

 
HOBOKEN, NJ (November 18, 2010)  Poets Wear Prada announces its 6 nominees for the 35th Annual Pushcart Prize, the coveted award for the best of the best published by small presses.   Each fall, nominations for the Pushcart Prize are made by little magazine and small book press editors (print or online).  Each editor may make up to six nominations from their year’s publications by the December 1, (postmark) deadline.   Nominations can include a poem, short story, essay or a chapter from a novel, or any "literary whatnot." Translations, reprints and both traditional and experimental writing are also welcomed. The best from these nominations are selected by Bill Henderson and the other Pushcart Press editors for inclusion in the annual print anthology distributed by W. W. Norton, published every year since 1976.

The six nominees and their submitted works in order of their release are as follows:

“The Drop” by Austin Alexis from his chapbook For Lincoln: & Other Poems (Poets Wear Prada, March 2010), a varied collection of poetic portraits -- famous &  unknown -- artists, US Presidents, street people, commuters and family members -- selected as a Small Press Review Pick this past June.  Poets Wear Prada published his previous chapbook LOVERS AND DRAG QUEENS in 2007. This is his second Pushcart nomination by the press.


"Guitar” by Joel Allegretti from his chapbook Thrum: Poems (Poets Wear Prada, March 2010), a pop-culture and trivia infused collection of 22 prose poems and essays about "chordophones" or string musical instruments. “Guitar” was previously published in Porcupine.


“Chores” by the widely traveled and a dedicated outdoors man Gene Auprey from his chapbook Dead Reckoning: Poems (Poets Wear Prada, April 2010), a 50-page collection of memoiristic poems set in rural Maine and written in colloquial New Englandese.

“Girl” by Tantra-zawadi,  the award winning Brooklyn poet/artist/filmmaker from her chapbook Gathered at Her Sky: Life Poems (Poets Wear Prada, June 2010), containing contains excerpts from her off-Broadway production SOLDIER BLUES, and her one-woman performance piece GIRL: A CHOREOSPECTIVE, as well as the text of previously recorded spoken word tracks. “Girl” also appeared in the publication Poetry in Purple as part of Downstate Medical Center’s Domestic Violence Awareness Month in October 2009.

“Exit 14” by New Jersey Actress and Wordrocker Cyndi Dawson from her chapbook Outside Girl (Poets Wear Prada, June 2010), focusing on the author’s behind-the-scene experiences and reflections on her “coming of age” during the punk rock ’80s in New York and New Jersey.


“At the Kotel” by Philadelphia native and retired speech therapist B.E. Kahn from her chapbook Landscapes of Light: Poems (October, Poets Wear Prada, 2010), tracking her spiritual journey while traveling from Greece to Israel.

Poets Wear Prada, a small literary press based in Hoboken, New Jersey, was founded in October of 2006 to develop and promote new and established narrative and lyrical poets. Some of the poets previously published and nominated by the press include Iris Berman, Carol Wierzbicki, Michael Montlack, Susan Maurer, Erik La Prade, Gil Fagiani, Bob Heman, Maria Lisella and Laura Vookles. Poets Wear Prada blogs at http://pwpbooks.blogspot.com/. Most of their titles are available at Amazon.com.

Friday Nov 19 Mike Graves & Cyndi Dawson at Bengal Curry, NYC at 8pm

This Friday, November 19th at 8PM,  join Phoenix Reading Series Host MICHAEL GRAVES and Wordrocker CYNDI DAWSON over Indian food and some of the best naan in NYC at Bengal Curry in Tribeca for a Talk and a Reading.

Michael Graves

This will be the first of Michael Graves' Friday night talks at Bengal Curry. Bengal Curry is at 65 West Broadway, between Murray and Warren, 1 1⁄2 blocks below Chambers St. The subject will be "Out of My Nothingness: The Work of James Wright." This talk was first given as part of a conference on Wright that Mike organized at Poets' House in 2004.


Michael Graves is the author of a full-length collection of poems, ADAM AND CAIN (Black Buzzard, 2006) and two chapbooks, ILLEGAL BORDER CROSSER (Cervana Barva, 2008) and OUTSIDE ST. JUDE'S (R. E. M. Press, 1990). In 2004, he was the recipient of a grant of $4,500 from the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation. He is the publisher of the small magazine PHOENIX. He was a student of James Wright and organized a conference on James Wright at Poets House in 2004. He is a member of P. E. N. In addition to leading a James Joyce Ulysses’ Reading Group, he has published thirteen (13) poems in the James Joyce Quarterly and read from them and others of his poems influenced by Joyce to a gathering of the Joyce Society at the Gotham Book Mart. He has appeared on the Poetry Thin Air Cable Show and the DVD of that interview will soon be in the collections of Poets House, NYPL, the Poetry and Rare Books Collection at SUNY-Buffalo, The Avant Writing Collection at The Ohio State University Libraries and the Fales Library and Special Collection at NYU.




Cyndi Dawson

 Joining him will be wordrocker Cyndi Dawson who will be reading from her new poetry collection OUTSIDE GIRL released this past June from Poets Wear Prada. 

Dawson curates the Poets and Angels music and poetry series in her hometown of East Brunswick, and has performed in N.Y., N.J. and internationally. An actress in TV and film, she has stood in for Madonna and appeared on LAW AND ORDER and is famous for her collaboration as a performance artist with Venezuelan SoHo-based, artist Rene. Her new poetry chapbook OUTSIDE GIRL focuses on her behind the scene recollections of the punk rock '80s in New York.

Other publication credits include Gutter Eloquence Magazine, Heroin Love Songs, Lines Written with a Razor, Spine Writer, Deep Tissue Magazine, Off Beat Pulp, Breadcrumb Scabs, The Plebian Rag, 63 Channels, The Skyline 2009 Review, The Aquarian, Images of the Mystic Truth, Gloom Cupboard, Light Trauma, Journey of the Poet/Prophet, Poetz.com and the Livingston Medium, and two previous collections, Dream Sequences and Inside of Outside. Her spoken word has been featured on the CD, Going Down Swinging and has been heard on radio stations around the world.


Jackie Sheeler, host of the Friday night open mic series at the Cornelia Street Cafe, writes about OUTSIDE GIRL: "These poems are black leather jackets lined in lace and silk. If you don’t hear the drums booming out of propped-open club doors, if you don’t see the bloodied arm and earlobe of the punk, if you don’t smell the Bowery, mustard greens and car exhaust, then you haven’t been paying attention."

Visit Ms. Dawson online at www.myspace.com/insideofoutside.

Friday, November 19th

8PM-10PM

MICHAEL GRAVES & CYNDI DAWSON

A Talk: Out of My Nothingness: The Work of James Wright

A Reading: OUTSIDE GIRL

@

Bengal Curry

65 West Broadway

New York, NY 10007-2292

212.571.1122

Between Murray and Warren.

1 1⁄2 blocks below Chambers St

Take the 1, 2, 3, A, C or E trains to Chambers Street

Please purchase meal, snack, desert and or beverage to help support the venue.

Small Donations Encouraged and Greatfully Accepted  

*Both writers will have their books available for sale and signing*

15% Off OUTSIDE GIRL at LULU with Coupon Code: BEACHREAD305

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Cyndi Dawson Rocks Mulligan's on Friday, July 9 at 7 p.m.

On Friday, 7/8, Cyndi Dawson will read from her new poetry collection “Outside Girl” from 7-8 p.m.

Joining her for the celebration will be Kat Georges, David Lawton, Jane Ormerod and Puma Perl.


Stick around for The Trash Mavericks. Hear live old school rock and roll at 9 p.m.


Mulligans Pub
159 First St
Hoboken NJ

http://www.mulligansonfirst.com/
(201) 876-4101

Press Release "Outside Girl" by Punk-Rocker Momma, Cyndi Dawson

Poetry Rocks - Punk-Rocker Momma from N.J. Strikes a Pose with Her New Chapbook



FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact:
Patricia Carragon
917 679 5002
pcarragon@gmail.com

POETRY ROCKS TO AN ’80S BEAT
PUNK-ROCKER MOMMA FROM N.J. STRIKES A POSE WITH HER NEW CHAPBOOK

HOBOKEN, NJ (June 16, 2010) Cyndi Dawson’s Outside Girl, a new collection of poetry due out from Poets Wear Prada this June, focuses on the author’s experiences and reflections on her “coming of age” during the punk rock ’80s.

Ivan Kral, Grammy Award winning composer, and songwriter for U2, David Bowie, Patti Smith and Iggy Pop, among others, comments: “Cyndi, you’re a true poet! It seems like you so easily seize life’s major challenges, but also its tiny nuances. Your choice and placement of words are so much more than a technical skill. They’re charged with fire, wisdom, but also a child-like wonder. It’s as if you easily toss words onto a page and somehow magic appears. Easier said than done. Believe me, I know.”

Ms. Dawson writes her history into twenty poems. Readers will learn about her bartending days, the birthing of her daughter, cocaine addiction, go behind the scenes at CBGB’s and Danceteria, inhale the stench of punk rock, sex, booze, go-go girls, leather jackets, drugs and vomit, and of her collaboration with Venezuelan SoHo artist and friend, Rene i.a.t.b.a..

Rene has created the art for the book. They were “each other’s muses” when she collaborated with him in the ’80s. The first poem “Color Wheels” reflects how two art forms flowed together as one. She would read her poetry while his painted string sculpture hardened on her body creating Nudismos. The last, “Draw Me a Cover,” is about the author’s request for this book’s artwork: “Draw me a cover Rene / draw me a woman with fire in her eyes.”

Outside Girl will be available online at Amazon.com, CreateSpace.com and Lulu.com, and from Ms. Dawson at her upcoming readings. For more details, visit Poets Wear Prada at http://pwpbooks.blogspot.com/ and Ms. Dawson online at www.myspace.com/insideofoutside.

About Ms. Dawson

An actress in TV and film, she has stood in for Madonna and appeared on Law and Order. She curates the Poets and Angels music and poetry series in her home town of East Brunswick, and has performed in N.Y., N.J. and internationally. She has been published in numerous anthologies and journals. Her two previous books of poetry are Dream Sequences and Inside of Outside. Her spoken word has been featured on Going Down Swinging CD.

About Poets Wear Prada

PWP is a small press based in Hoboken, New Jersey, devoted to introducing new authors through high-quality chapbooks primarily of poetry, since October 2006. Please visit us online at http://pwpbooks.blogspot.com/.

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