Sat. 5/19: Fink, Hoffman, Karageorge, Shmailo at Cornelia St. Cafe in NYC

The Greek-American Writers’ Association

 

Presents

Tom Fink, Roxanne Hoffman,

Penelope Karageorge & Larissa Shmailo

 

6-7:30 PM, Saturday, May 19^th, 2012

The Cornelia Street Café

29 Cornelia Street (Between West 4^th & Bleecker Streets)

(212) 989-9319

A $7.00 entry fee includes one complimentary house drink.

Hosted by Dean Kostos

Thomas Fink is the author of seven books of poetry, including Peace Conference (Marsh Hawk, 2011) and Autopsy Turvy (Meritage, 2010), a collaboration with his daughter, Maya Diablo Mason. His work appears in The Best American Poetry 2007 (Scribner’s). A Different Sense of Power (Fairleigh Dickinson, 2001) is his most recent book of criticism, and in 2007, he co-edited Burning Interiors: David Shapiro’s Poetry and Poetics. Fink’s paintings hang in various collections.


A freelance journalist, Penelope Karageorge writes frequently about film and theatre. She is the author of a crime novel, Murder at Tomorrow (Walker Publishing), Stolen Moments (Pinnacle Press) and a poetry collection, Red Lipstick and the Wine-Dark Sea (Pella Publishing). Her short stories have been published in journals as diverse as Mouth Full of Bullets and The Charioteer. Penelope began her career as a Newsweek reporter, interviewing luminaries including Bette Davis and Cary Grant. She was publicity director of People magazine. She's currently developing her original film script, a romantic comedy set on the Greek island of Lemnos, Drinking the Sun.


Roxanne Hoffman worked on Wall Street, now answers a patient hotline for a New York home healthcare provider. Her words can be found, on and off the net, in Amaze: The Cinquain Journal, Clockwise Cat, Danse Macabre, The Fib Review, Hospital Drive, Lips Magazine, Lucid Rhythms, Mobius: The Poetry Magazine, The New Verse News, The Pedestal Magazing and Shaking Like a Mountain; the indie flick Love and the Vampire starring Dave Gold and Rick Poli; and several anthologies including The Bandana Republic: A Literary Anthology by Gang Members and Their Affiliates (Soft Skill Press), Love After 70 (Wising Up Press), and It All Changed in an Instant: More Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous & Obscure (Harper Perennial). She started the small literary press Poets Wear Prada with her late husband in 2006, and continues to runs it with the poet, fiction writer and translator Jack Cooper.Her elegiac poem "In Loving Memory" with illustrations by Connecticut artist Edward Odwitt was published as a chapbook in 2011.


Larissa Shmailo has been published in The Unbearables Big Book of Sex, Barrow Street, Fulcrum, Rattapallax, Drunken Boat, Big Bridge, Mad Hatters Review, Naropa’s We among other publications. Larissa translated the Russian Futurist opera Victory over the Sun by A. Kruchenych for the original English-language production performed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, archived at the Smithsonian, the Los Angeles County Museum, and the Museum of Modern Art. Her CD, Exorcism won her the 2009 New Century Music Awards for spoken word with music. Her first CD, The No-Net World, is heard frequently on the radio and internet. She has published three books of poetry, In Paran (BlazeVox), A Cure for Suicide (Cervena Barva Press), and the e-book Fib Sequence (Argotist Ebooks).

Hoboken Publisher and Author Roxanne Hoffman in New York City This May

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

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Hoboken Publisher and Author Roxanne Hoffman in New York City This May

Poets Wear Prada announced Senior Editor, Hoboken author Roxanne Hoffman in New York this month to promote her new book: Sundays, May 6^th and 13^th, and Saturday May 19^th.

(Hoboken, NJ – May 4, 2012) Poets Wear Prada announced today Senior Editor Roxanne Hoffman will be reading at several literary events in New York City this month. “In Loving Memory,” her lyrical ballad chronicling a small-town church congregation from funeral to marriage, features illustrations by Connecticut artist Edward Odwitt.

IN LOVING MEMORY
by Roxanne Hoffman
illustationsby Edward Odwitt

“‘In Loving Memory’ should be on everyone’s shelves as it reflects on one of the darkest human experiences with insight and humanity in a charmingly gothic presentation,” said Garth von Buchholz, publisher, member of the National Book Critics’ Circle and author. Vampire verse by author Hoffman, a frequent dabbler in the horror genre, can be heard during Dave Gold’s 2005 indie flick “Love and the Vampire.” Twice included in the “House of Horror” best-of-the-year anthology, her 2010 contribution was nominated for Pushcart Prize.

Hoffman, now making her home in Hoboken, New Jersey, grew up on Manhattan’s Upper Westside. A Bronx High School of Science alumna, she lived for several years in Greenwich Village, while attending New York University’s Stern School of Business and later when she worked on Wall Street at Chase Manhattan Bank.

Roxanne Hoffman
[Credit:  Hugh Thompson]

This coming Sunday, May 6^th, Hoffman returns to her hometown where from 6:00 until 8:00 PM she joins The Hebrew Mamita Vanessa Hidary at the JujoMukti Tea Lounge, located at 211 East 4th Street, between Avenues A and B. Five dollars admission buys both a pot of tea and a spot on the roster for anyone wishing to participate in the open portion of the "unplugged" reading hosted by David Lawton, poet, actor and musician. Directions: F train to Second Avenue, 6 to Bleecker, or 14A bus from Union Square along Fourteenth to Third Street at Avenue A.

Host Lawton described the event where Hoffman and Hidary will read round-robin as “Mixed communities. Different backgrounds. Contrasting styles. Two lovely female poets come together to represent the state of the art with good humor and sex appeal.” Featured on HBO's Def Poetry Jam, Hidary, herself a native New Yorker, recently published her first book “The Last Kaiser Roll in the Bodega.”

The Hebrew Mamita Vanessa Hidary

May 13^th, the following Sunday, Hoffman goes west, to Greenwich Village where she joins Michael Graves, author of four poetry collections, the most recent, “In Fragility,” from Black Buzzard, for his Phoenix Reading Series at Scalinatella, 245 Bleecker Street (west of Carmine), from 4:00 until 6:00 PM. An open reading follows two additional features to be announced. There is an $8 food/beverage minimum plus a suggested $3 donation. Take the 1 train to Christopher Street-Sheridan Square; alternatively the A, B, C, D, E, or F train to West 4th Street. (212) 255-5353.

Again in Greenwich Village, Saturday, May 19^th, Hoffman will be reading for the Greek American Writers Reading Series at the Cornelia Street Café, 29 Cornelia Street (off Bleecker). Convening every third Saturday of the month, for poetry, prose — music, occasionally, and song — from 5:45 until 7:45 PM, the series, with Dean Kostos — his latest book, “Rivering,” soon to be published by Spuyten Duyvil Press — as host, has a $7 cover charge, which includes one free house drink. Co-featuring with Hoffman on the 19^th will be Larissa Shmailo, Tom Fink and Penelope Karageorge.

Roxanne Hoffman worked on Wall Street. She divides her time now between a “night” job, answering the patient hotline for a New York home-healthcare provider, and a “day” one, running the literary press Poets Wear Prada. Her writing has appeared and continues to appear in periodical publication, widely — “Champagne Shivers,” “Danse Macabre,” “Dark Eye Glances,” “Dark Gothic Resurrected Magazine,” “Hospital Drive,” “House of Horror,” “Lucid Rhythms,” “Mirror Dance,” “The Pedestal Magazine,” “Scarlet Literary Magazine,” “SNM Horror Magazine” among many others, and numerous anthologies including “The Bandana Republic: A Literary Anthology by Gang Members and Their Affiliates” (Soft Skull Press), “Love after 70” (Wising Up Press), and “It All Changes in an Instant: More Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous & Obscure” (Harper Perennial).

“In Loving Memory,” by Roxanne Hoffman with illustrations by Edward Odwitt, paperback: 24 pages, ISBN-10: 1468019074 ISBN-13: 978-1468019070, list price: $12.00, is now available from Amazon Books, Barnes & Noble, and other booksellers. Signed copies may be purchased directly from the author at readings.

Founded in 2006, Poets Wear Prada publishes beautifully designed, well-crafted poetry chapbooks from Sinatra’s hometown, the birthplace of professional baseball.