Robert Gibbons featured at Go Cat Go, May 14th, in Yorkville, NYC

Monday, May 14th

6:45 PM - 9 PM

Peter Chelnik's GO-CAT-GO! Poetry Event
~featuring~

ROBERT GIBBONS

@

Gracie's Corner Diner

352 E 86th St

(between 1st Ave & 2nd Ave)\

New York, NY 10028

Neighborhoods: Yorkville, Upper East Side

(212) 737-8505

http://graciescornerdinernyc.com

FREE!  Open Mic for Poetry

your food/beverage purchase helps support the venue

Robert Gibbons, originally from Belle Glade (Palm Beach County) Florida, is an actor, model, musician, educator, writer and spoken word artist.  His work has been published widely online and in print in places like Cartier Street Review, Nomad's Choir, Stained Sheets, and The Palm Beach Post, appearing in several anthologies, Dinner With the Muse, The Anthology of the Green Pavilion Poetry Event, ed. Evie Ivy (Ra Rays Press, 2009), The Brownstone Poets, ed. by Patricia Carragon and hell strung and crooked, eds. Jane Ormerod, Ice Gayle Johnson, Brant Lyon, Tom Fucalora (Uphook Press, 2011).

A popular performance poet he has been featured for Kairo's Cafe at the Church of the Village, Saturn Series at Nightingale Cafe, Poets on White at Space on White, and at The Cornelia Street Cafe, among other venues.

He received his B.S. in History from  Florida A&M University in Tallahassee in 1989. Robert has taught in the Palm Beach County School District; the Prince George’s County School District; the Fairfax County School District; and now works as an English Specialist for the Renaissance Charter High School of Innovation of East Harlem (Manhattan), New York City.

Robert has studied poetry at Cave Canem and the 92Y with master poets Cornelius Eady, Marilyn Nelson, KImiko Hahn, Nathalie Handal, and Linda Susan Jackson.

 

Peter Chelnik

Publisher/Editor Roxanne writes a little bit about the host of Go Cat Go!:

Peter Chelnik is responsible for getting me to read my work in public.  In 2003 I went to hear him read at The Back Fence at Dee Anne Gorman's invitation.  I had never met him before. There was this big burly "all-American" guy at the mic wearing his trademark Pendleton plaid wool shirt, baseball cap, glasses, mustache. reading list poems and what lists he read.  It sounded like jazz rants. No music.  But he was making music with his words.And his words were filled with American people and American scenes. big and real just like him. He was terrific.  Then after the reading broke up, Bridgid Murnagham, reading curator and our waitress for the day, dragged Dee and me on to the stage to read from our notebooks while Chelnik, along with his brother and nephew cheered us on.

We became fast friends, and Herb and I had the pleasure of publishing a chapbook of his poetry,  "Paradise Highway," four years later in 2007.

Chicago Poet Ice Gayle Johnson at CCNY Poetry Festival on May 11th

Hair stylist turned poet Ice Gayle Johnson to spotlight the 40th annual City College (CCNY) Poetry Festival featuring fellow Chicago native Patricia Smith.

Chicago Poet Ice Gayle Johnson

Chicago hair stylist, professional photographer Ice Gayle Johnson kicks off her book tour for “The Key: Lady Grizzly & Sir Charles Otter,” her debut collection of poems, with a spotlight reading at the 40th annual City College of New York (CCNY) Poetry Festival, Jack Cooper, Production Editor at Poets Wear Prada, announced today. Dubbed “Woodstock of the Spoken Word,” the all-day, all-verse event takes place Friday May 11, from 9:15AM to 5:00PM, in Theater B of Aaron Davis Hall located on campus at West 135th Street and Convent Avenue. Fellow Chicago native Patricia Smith, with Richard Tillinghast, originally of Memphis, Tennessee, will be featured guest poets this year.

Announcing publication of “The Key” recently, Jack Cooper described Johnson’s book as “profoundly beautiful: an unexpected turn of the lock. Hidden chambers of the heart lead from a girlhood kitchen to the panorama of windows that survive the woman's adult life.” Johnson, the daughter of a Holocaust survivor, shares her very personal experiences of love and loss, first the familial and then the romantic, in her debut collection. Her mentor and longtime friend, the poet Barry Wallenstein, founder of The Poetry Outreach Center at City College, invited Johnson to take part in the festival where upwards of 150 students from as many as 50 New York public schools will recite their poems. Winners of the festival’s citywide high school contest will also read, the top-three receiving cash prizes awarded by Alfred A. Knopf, the New York publisher. Johnson will be among the invited published poets from around the country joining City College students, alumni, and faculty in reading their work to close out the event.

Barry Wallenstein
Founder of The Poetry Outreach Center, CCNY

Of Johnson, Barry Wallenstein, himself, author of six poetry collections, “Drastic Collections” (New York Quarterly, 2012) his most recent, has written “Ice is anything but cold,” and of her poems, “These confessions of unashamed love, expressed frankly and directly, are warm enough to heat a city.”

Johnson continues her book tour, visiting New Jersey next month to read on Wednesday June 6th at the Williams Center for the Arts, located at 1 Williams Plaza in Rutherford. In addition to reading from her new book, Johnson has been invited to make a brief presentation on the life and work of Williams. The event is sponsored by The William Carlos Williams Poetry Cooperative of Southern Bergen County and hosted by the poet John J. Trause. Free and open to the public, the monthly first Wednesday poetry series starts at 7:00PM and includes an open reading. Also in attendance will be The Red Wheelbarrow Poets, participants of the local peer-to-peer poetry workshops led by Jim Klein.

The author returns to New York City as featured poet on July 9th for Peter Chelnik’s Go Cat Go! reading series, a monthly poetry event, at Gracie’s Corner Diner, 352 East 82nd Street (at 1st Avenue). Sign up for the open reading begins at 6:45PM. The reading starts at 7:00PM and continues till about 9:00PM. No cover, but a food/drink purchase is required.

Creator of “The Five-point Cut,” “Graduated Bob” and “Fire Fly,” Chicago-based stylist Johnson, a member of Intercoiffeur, the international honorarium and organization for hairdressing professionals, served on Clairol’s Presidential Council with First Lady Nancy Reagan’s colorist. An accomplished photographer, she has been represented by the Ward Nasse Galley of New York, her photos appearing on Marcel Schulman Greeting Cards, Signature Greetings, and others.

A founder and shaper of Uphook Press, Johnson co-edited and contributed to its debut collection, “A Cautionary Tale: Peer into the Lives of Seven New York Performing Poets,” in 2008. Three other anthologies have followed: “you say. say.” (2009), “Hell Strung and Crooked” (2010), and “gape-seed” (2011).

“The Key: Lady Grizzly & Sir Charles Otter” by Ice Gayle Johnson (Hoboken: Poets Wear Prada, 2012), 42 pages, ISBN-10: 0615606512, ISBN-13: 978-0615606514, list price: $12.00, is available in paperback from Amazon Books and other popular booksellers.

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

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact:
Jack Cooper
atelierprincipen@gmail.com
201.253.0561

Tonite: Small Press Celebration at Left Bank Books 7-9pm Wed 21 March 2012

Left Bank Books"In Praise of Great and Small"
C E L E B R A T E S
S M A L L   P R E S S   M O N T H
(The  E Y E S  of  M A R C H)

W e d n e s d a y
21 March 21
2 0 1 2

THREE ROOMS PRESS + FINISHING LINE PRESS + RAIN MOUNTAIN PRESS + LITTLE SKY PRESS + POETS WEAR PRADA

hosted by

Roxanne  H O F F M A N  and  Jack  C O O P E R
POETS WEAR PRADA
f e a t u r i n g
Five (5) Great Poets!
Kat  G E O R G E S + Peter  C A R L A F T E S + Peter  C H E L N I K +

Gil  F A G I A N I + Michael T.  Y O U N G

7 to 9 p.m.

17 Eighth (8th) Avenue,
Corner of  West 12th Street, G r e e n w i c h  V i l l a g e

plus--

A f t e r   P a r t y !
at

C H O C O L A T E   B A R

(n e  x   t        d     o      o       r        ...        1         9          )

KAT  G E O R G E S is an NYC poet, playwright, performer and designer. Her full-length poetry collection, Our Lady of the Hunger will be released soon on Three Rooms Press. In New York since 2003, she has directed numerous Off-Broadway plays, curated poetry readings (including the bi-monthly Son of a Pony poetry reading series at Cornelia Street Cafe), and performed widely. She is co-founder and editor of Three Rooms Press; their most recent books include Maintenant 6: A Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing and Art; Have a NYC: New York Short Stories; and Mike Watt: On and Off Bass, a collection of photos and distilled tour diaries from the great punk rock bass player.


PETER  C A R L A F T E S  is an NYC playwright, poet, and performer. He is the author of 12 plays, including a noir treatment of Knut Hamsun’s Hunger, and his own celebrity rehab center spoof, Spin-Dry. Carlaftes has recently published three books: A Year on Facebook (humor), Drunkyard Dog (poetry) and Triumph for Rent (3 plays). He is co-founder and editor of Three Rooms Press; their most recent books include Maintenant 6: A Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing and Art; Have a NYC: New York Short Stories; and Mike Watt: On and Off Bass, a collection of photos and distilled tour diaries from the great punk rock bass player. 

PETER  C H E L N I K's latest book is Strawberry Harmony:New Poems (Little Sky Press, March 2010).  His chapbook "Paradise Highway" was published by Poets Wear Prada in 2007. Other books include Railroad Heart, East Coast Line, Manhattan Wilderness, Eternity Road and Wildflower Serenade. He has had seven plays produced Off-Off-Broadway. These dramatic works include Street Rag, Prairie Fire, Parking Lot, Moving Target, Scarsdale Station and Tremont Vortex. Peter has also written Trick Bag, a novel of the 1960's. And yes, he does believe "the word will set you free."

GIL  F A G I A N I’s poetry collections include: Rooks (Rain Mountain Press, 2007), Grandpa’s Wine (Poets Wear Prada, 2008); translated into Italian by Paul D’Agostino, A Blanquito in El Barrio (Rain Mountain Press, 2009), Chianti in Connecticut (Bordighera Press, 2010) and just recently, Serfs of Psychiatry (Finishing Line Press).  He has translated into English poetry written in Italian, Abruzzese dialect and Spanish. Gil co-curates the Italian American Writers’ Association’s monthly readings at the Cornelia Street Café and is the Associate Editor of Feile-Festa: A Literary Arts Magazine.

MICHAEL T.  Y O U N G  has published three collections of poetry: Transcriptions of Daylight, Because the Wind Has Questions and, most recently, Living in the Counterpoint, which was published by Finishing Line Press.  His next full-length collection, The Beautiful Moment of Being Lost, will be published in 2013 by Black Coffee Press.  He received a fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and was twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize.  He received a William Stafford Award and the Chaffin Poetry Award.  His work has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous print and online journals including Fogged Clarity, Iodine Poetry Journal, The Potomac Review, The Raintown Review, and The Same.  His work is also in the anthologies Phoenix Rising and Chance of a Ghost and forthcoming in The Bug Book, and In the Black/In the Red.  He lives with his wife and children in Jersey City, New Jersey.

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SUN Feb 27: Peter Chelnik's Prairie Fire Jazz Poetry at ATA NYC 5PM

SUNDAY 2/27 - 5:30 p.m. (sign up 5 p.m.) Peter Chelnik's Prairie Fire Jazz Poetry ~features~ Linda Leedy Schneider (poet) & George Wallace (poet) & Host PETER CHELNIK (poetry) & Bob Feldman (tenor sax) & Lawrence Goldman (acoustic bass) & The Open Mic @ AMERICAN THEATRE OF ACTORS 314 W. 54th St. (bet. 8th & 9th Aves.) Hell's Kitchen, NYC 10019 Beckman Theater 2nd Floor (212) 581-3044 http://www.appleboxdesign.com/ATA/ata.html By Subway: C or E to West 50th Street Walk north to West 54th Street, west to theatre Admission: $5 About the Featured Poets Linda Leedy Schneider is an award-winning internationally published poet and writer, individual poetry and writing mentor, psychotherapist in private practice, and college writing instructor. She facilitates writing groups at Gilda's Club for people living with cancer. A writer since able to hold a pencil, Linda's volunteer work in orphanages in Albania motivated her to submit her poems and prose for publication. Her work has since been published in over 200 literary magazines including Rattle Magazine, The Spoon River Poetry Review, Pudding Magazine, Driftwood Review, Midwest Poetry Review, Miranda Literary Magazine, ONTHEBUS, and The Pedestal Magazine. Linda has written five collections of poetry including Through the Lattice: Poetry of a Psychotherapist, Argonne House Press, 2002, and Through My Window: Poetry of a Psychotherapist, Pudding House Publications, 2007. She has recently been featured poet at The Back Fence, NYC, Peter Chelnik's Prairie Fire Series, NYC and The Saturn Poetry Reading Series, NYC. Her poetry is included in the world poetry anthology, Not A Muse, Haven Press, 2009. Many of her writing students have been published as well. She is currently editing an anthology of her student's poetry. Linda believes that a regular writing ritual leads to discovery, authenticity, personal growth, and even Joy. She can be reached at loschneide@AOL.com.  Add caption  George Wallace (born March 22, 1949 in Hempstead, New York) is an American poet and poetry organizer. Working from a base of operations in downtown New York City's poetry scene, from his family roots in Brooklyn and Long Island, and from his experiences living and working in Northern California, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Oregon and the United Kingdom, Wallace has created a grassroots network of venues for poetry. His own poetry, in particular his performance oriented work, is imagination-based in its creation, emerging from a process of wordplay, surrealist deconstruction and bricolage into a final form that is typically characterized by accessible narrative and forceful rhythmic impetus. It is built on a foundation of a musical talent that emerged at the age of four, when he began reading and performing music, and shaped by his extensive readings in the literature of European Surrealism, the Whitman/Sandburg vortex, and the Beats. His work also bears the mark of 1960s concerns, particularly the social witness and aesthetic consciousness of that time. His organizational efforts on behalf of poetry are based on professional training and disposition to community service developed through graduate studies with Guy Stuart and others at UNC-Chapel Hill in the mid '70s.

GO CAT GO Jazz Poetry w/ Peter Chelnik on MNN Tonite 4pm EST

GO CAT GO JAZZ POETRY



Poet: Peter Chelink

Sax Man: Bob Feldman, Bass Buddy: Lawrence  Goldman

on

Manhattan Network Cable

Sunday, January 23 at 4 p.m. MNN2 Lifestyle (34)

Monday, January 24 at 5:30 p.m. MNN2 Lifestyle (34)

Saturday, February 5 9:30 p.m MNN2 Lifestyle (34)

Monday, February 7 at 5:30 p.m. MNN2 Lifestyle (34)

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or

Go directly to  http://mnn2.mnntv.org/OnAir/flash for live streaming!



For more info about Peter Chelnik visit his blog:

http://peterchelnik.blogspot.com/ 

Additional Contact Information regarding this programming:

Roberto Slaughter  speliotisphoto@yahoo.com  

PWP published PARADISE HIGHWAY by Peter Chelnik in 2007.  His latest collection is STRAWBERRY HARMONY,ISBN 978-0-964 270 9-9-3,$12.00, Little Sky Press, Release Date: March 2010.

Peter Chelnik continues his quest of the American Dream on his highway of language in a style evocative of that true American Art, Jazz He forges this highway concrete image by concrete image, and his voice is not only fiercely brave, but also one of powerful affirmation.

—Laura Boss, editor of Lips, author of

Arms: New and Selected Poems

PARADISE HIGHWAYPoems by Peter Chelnik
soft cover/saddle-stitched/12 pp.
$6.25 (+ $1.50 S&H)

Monday, November 8: Peter Chelnik & Charles Butler at Nightingale Lounge in NYC

Monday November 8th 

Saturn Series Poetry Reading

Features

PETER CHELNIK, 

author of STRAWBERRY HARMONY (Little Sky Press, March 2010)

&

CHARLES J. BUTLER,
author of 39 POEMS (No Shirt Press, 2010)

Come to Saturn Series Poetry Reading ... Celebrating our 16th year!

Every Monday Nite at 7:30pm to 10:30pm,

Sign-up at 7. Age 21 and Up.

Open Mic plus 1 or 2 features.

$3.00 Suggested Donation + $10 Minimum at the Bar.

@Nightingale Lounge

213 East 13th Street, at 2nd Ave.
Hosted by David Elsasser, and Su Polo

Take #6,N,R to Union Sq. Then a short walk East. or L to 1st ave, walk West

GO CAT GO Jazz Poetry Reading Sunday, November 28

SUNDAY 11/28 – 4:30- p.m. (sign up 5 p.m.)

Peter Chelnik's "GO CAT GO Jazz Poetry"

~features~

Peter Chelnik, poet and host

Jazz by

Bob Feldman (tenor sax) & Lawrence Goldman (acoustic bass)

plus

The Open Mic

@

AMERICAN THEATRE OF ACTORS

314 W. 54th St. (bet. 8th & 9th Aves.)

Hell's Kitchen, NYC 10019

Sargent Theater 4th Floor

(212) 581-3044

www.appleboxdesign.com/ATA/ata.html

http://peterchelnik.blogspot.com/

By Subway: C or E to West 50th Street

Walk north to West 54th Street, west to theatre

Admission: $5

He's Back!!!!

PETER CHELNIK with Charles J. Butler and Bob Feldman on sax ***

Monday, November 8, 2010

at 7:30pm

@

S A T U R N S E R I E S

P O E T R Y R E A D I N G

@

Nightingale Lounge

213 2nd Avenue at East 13th Street

New York, NY

Age 21 & up

$3 Suggested Donation + 2 Drink/$10 Minimum at the Bar

Hosted by Su Polo & David Elsasser

http://www.supolo.com/Saturn_Series_Poetry.html

Reminder: FINAL Prairie Fire Reading Sunday September 26

PETER CHELNIK WILL BE RETIRING FROM THE POETRY SCENE AFTER MANY YEARS OF SERVING THE POETRY COMMUNITY

COME AND WISH HIM THE BEST

at the 

FINAL Praire Fire Reading Sunday, September 26

SUNDAY 9/26 – 6:30 p.m. (sign up 6 p.m.)

Peter Chelnik's "Prairie Fire Jazz Poetry"

~features~

Iris Berman (poet/visual artist/photographer)

&

Bob Hart (poet)

&

Jazz by

Bob Feldman (tenor sax) & Jay Shulman (cello)

&

Host PETER CHELNIK (poetry)

&

The Open Mic

@

AMERICAN THEATRE OF ACTORS

314 W. 54th St. (bet. 8th & 9th Aves.)

Hell's Kitchen, NYC 10019

Sargent Theater 4th Floor

(212) 581-3044

www.appleboxdesign.com/ATA/ata.html

http://peterchelnik.blogspot.com/

By Subway: C or E to West 50th Street

Walk north to West 54th Street, west to theatre

Admission: $5

Iris Berman is a visual artist, photographer and poet. Her published journals include Nomad’s Choir, Home Planet News, Errato, Brownstone Poets, Rogue Scholars, Stained Sheets, White Rabbit, MOBLIUS, THE POETRY MAGAZINE, and nationally in the Song of the San Joaquin and Back Street Quarterly. She has also published three chapbooks, Motherlode, The Little Book of Flowers and The Little Book of Fairy Tales and Love Poems – the last published by Poets Wear Prada Press. She has studied with Louise Gluck, William Packard, Barry Goldensohn, Charles Simic, and most recently with Patrick Rosal at Poets House.

Bob Hart has gone from middle age to old age these last years writing poetry.  He has seen word scenes like 77 Barrow Street, Centerfold Coffee House, ABC No Rio and most lately, the new Pink Pony at Cornelia Street Café, hoping they enjoyed him as much as he enjoyed them.

Peter Chelnik's "Prairie Fire Jazz Poetry" Sun, Aug 8 at 6 p.m.

Next Prairie Fire Reading Sunday August 8

SUNDAY 8/8 - 6pm (sign up 5:30pm)

Peter Chelnik's "Prairie Fire Jazz Poetry"

~features~

Brant Lyon (poet/jazz keyboard)

&

Ronnie Norpel (poet/writer)


&

Bob Feldman (sax)


&

Host PETER CHELNIK (poetry)

&

The Open Mic

@
AMERICAN THEATRE OF ACTORS
314 W. 54th St. (bet. 8th & 9th Aves.)
Hell's Kitchen, NYC 10019
Beckman Theater 2nd Floor
(212) 581-3044
www.appleboxdesign.com/ATA/ata.html


By Subway: C or E to West 50th Street
Walk north to West 54th Street, west to theatre


Admission: $5

Brant Lyon writes poetry, prose, and music. His anthologies include “A Cautionary Tale: Seven New York Performing Poets” (Uphook Press, 2008), Beauty Keeps Laying Its Sharp Knife Against Me” (Logochrysalis Productions, 2008), “The Company We Keep” (Poet Warrior Productions, 2003). His journals include Big City Lit, Lullwater Review, Rattle, Rogue Scholars. He is an editor of Uphook Press, contributing editor of BigCityLit, and curator of the poetry and music reading series, Hydrogen Jukebox, in NYC. For more information, go to logochrysalis.com.


Ronnie Norpel is a performance poet, actor, photographer and jock with a deep passion for the Phillies, where she spent seven seasons as a ballgirl and fan accommodation manager. In New York, “Ronnie G” was the muse and collaborator of Warhol Factory superstar Gerard Malanga, whose phot of Ronnie, “Marble of Light,” was included for the exhibition and catalogue, Artists of the Warhol Circle Then & Now. She studied acting in Hollywood and worked at the Zero One Gallery. Today, Ronnie reads monthly in NYC with the Upper Left Side Writers and Poets. Other readings include the Lower East Side Festival, the SynonymUS collective at Nuyorican Poets Café, and the Wild Angels at St. John the Divine.

Peter Chelnik | Paradise Highway

Peter Chelnik in NYC at The Cornelia Street Cafe on November 14, 2007 (Video by Roxanne Hoffman)

Peter Chelnik continues his quest of the American Dream on his highway of language in a style evocative of that true American Art, Jazz He forges this highway concrete image by concrete image, and his voice is not only fiercely brave, but also one of powerful affirmation.

—Laura Boss, editor of Lips, author of

Arms: New and Selected Poems

PARADISE HIGHWAY
Poems by Peter Chelnik
soft cover/saddle-stitched/12 pp.
$6.25 (+ $1.50 S&H)

His latest collection, Paradise Highway, takes the reader on a journey down the mythic roads of the contemporary American landscape. These poems will resonate with Chelnik’s most loyal fans, and provide newcomers the ideal introduction to this unique American voice.

—Sara Liebling, Disney Publishing Worldwide

Credit: David Elsasser

Peter Chelnik’s books include Railroad Heart, East Coast Line, Manhattan Wilderness, Eternity Road and Wildflower Serenade. He has had seven plays produced Off-Off-Broadway. These dramatic works include Street Rag, Prairie Fire, Parking Lot, Moving Target, Scarsdale Station and Tremont Vortex.

Peter has also written Trick Bag, a novel of the 1960's. And yes, he does believe "the word will set you free."

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