Wed March 2: Poetry Thin Air Features Susan Maurer & Efrayim Levenson on MNN Ch 67 Live Stream

Efrayim Levenson, Author of  DANCES WITH TEARS (PWP, 2007)

Susan Maurer, author of RAPTOR RHAPSODY (PWP, 2007)

Wed@ 8:30 PoetryThinAir… Susan Maurer and Efrayim Levenson
Direction and Video by Mitch Corber

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About two dozen shows were recently put up on YouTube by Mitch Corber so you can watch them at your convenience.

Go to http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=poetry+thin+air+spencer&aq=f
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The show airs every Wednesday night at 8:30 pm on Channel 67

(MNN/Manhattan Neighborhood Network)

Note: if you live outside Manhattan or can't get MNN Ch 67, you can still watch
the live internet stream of the show by following instructions below.


INTERNET STREAM.....

1. Click on http://www.mnn.org/

2. Viewing the right column of MNN webpage, go to "MNN4 Culture"

3. Click "Watch MNN4 Live"

4. Click small icon to watch full screen on your computer during live broadcast.



(You can only watch the streaming video in real time, i.e. at 8:30pm Wednesday night)

Shakespeare Anyone?

David Morneau's "No Pianos Allowed" concert is on Wednesday, 12/8.

David will be presenting three songs from his LOVE SONGS PROJECT:

• "Behind Corneal Gates," Shakespeare's Sonnet 56 with poetry by Patricia Carragon
• "Music In Me," Shakespeare's Sonnet 8 with poetry by Susan Maurer
• "Now I Love You Best," Shakespeare's Sonnet 115 with poetry by Roxanne Hoffman

These will be performed by Mary Hubbell (soprano), Roberta Michel (flute) and Ernesto Ramos (guitar).

LOVE SONGS is a new songwriting project that pairs sonnets by William Shakespeare with poems by contemporary writers. Each collaborating poet selects one sonnet and pairs it with a work of their own—an existing poem or one written especially for the project.  David is setting each pair to music.
You can preview "Behind Corneal Gates"  at the 5OF4 website: http://5of4.com/love_songs/sounds.html

The text for all 3 pieces as well the other pairs selected for the project can be read at the 5OF4 website:
http://5of4.com/love_songs/poets.html



Also Robert Voisey and David Morneau will performing MONKEY LAB.

NO PIANOS ALLOWED CONCERT

Wednesday, December 8, 9:30pm

@

The Tank

354 West 45th Street (between 8th and 9th Avenues)

$10 ($7 - students)

 (212) 563-6269

http://www.thetanknyc.org/music

Take the 7, N, Q, R, 1, 2, 3, A, C, E to 42nd Street Times Square

For more information about David Morneau and various projects visit:

http://5of4.com
http://60x365.com
http://www.immigrantbreastnest.com/releases/ibn009/

Sun Nov 21: PHOENIX w/ Maurer, Graves & Weichselbaum 5:30-7:30PM Bengal Curry NY

Sunday, November 21, 2010

5:30PM-7:30PM

Phoenix Reading Series @ Bengal Curry

featuring

SUSAN MAURER,

LEHMAN WEICHSELBAUM

&

MICHAEL GRAVES

@

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

Hosted by Mike Graves

*An Open Mic at the Discretion of the Hosts*

This Sunday will be another great experience at the Phoenix Reading @ Bengal Curry. If you love poetry you will not want to miss it. If you love Indian food, including the best naan in NYC, you will not want to miss it. If you love both you will be in Nirvana. If the weather is bad please call Bengal Curry at 212-571-1122 to verify that the venue is open.

The following poets will be featuring:

Susan Maurer’s BY THE BLUE LIGHT OF THE MORNING GLORY was published by Linear Arts, IN2, with Mark Sonnenfeld by Marymark Press, and DREAM ADDICT by Backwood Broadsides. RAPTOR RHAPSODY was published in ’07 by Poets Wear Prada, MAERCHEN in ’08 by Maverick Duck. RAW POEMS was published by Gold Wake Press as e-book in '08. Letterpress broadsides were done by Clamshell Press and The Center for Book Arts. Her first full-length collection PERFECT DARK was published in 2009 by Ungoverable Press and is available as a free-to-read-and-download e-book at http://ungovernablepress.weebly.com/uploads/2/1/2/2/2122174/perfect_dark.pdfHer poetry has been nominated 4 times for Pushcart. Nelson Lyon, Writer for Saturday Night Live, Writer & Director of The Telephone Book, Co-Producer with Hal Willner of William S. Burroughs’ Spoken Word CD album Dead City Radio calls Maurer's work: "Gifted and surprising."

Lehman Weichselbaum poet, reporter, critic. Widely published in mainstream and alternative print media. Associate editor HOME PLANET NEWS.

Michael Graves is the author of a full-length collection of poems, ADAM AND CAINE (Black Buzzard, 2006) and two chapbooks, ILLEGAL BORDER CROSSER (Cervana Barva, 2008) and OUTSIDE ST. JUDES’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. Many years ago, he was a student of James Wright and organized a conference on James Wright at Poets House in 2004. And he became a member of P. E. N. a couple of years ago. In addition to leading a James Joyce Ulysses’ Reading Group, he has published thirteen 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.

Susan Maurer Gives an Impromptu Reading at Teardrop Park, NYC

Poets Wear Prada poet Susan Maurer took a copy of Bob Heman's CLWN WR (issue 48 which contains her poem "Night Walking" about Teardrop Park ) to a park tour Dorothea Basile recently lead at that park, one of a series of her tours of Battery Park's Conservancy's public art collections. Ms. Basile asked Ms. Maurer to do a reading of her poem on the spot which she very happily did.  Susan Maurer says "It was a beautiful day and it was really fun."

Here's the poem reprinted with the permission of the author:

NIGHT WALKING

There must be a reason
for the sudden
sound of birdsong in the dark
in Teardrop Park

by Susan Maurer

Reprinted from clwn wr 48, Editor/Publisher Bob Heman.

RAPTOR RHAPSODY
Poems by Susan Maurer
(Poets Wear Prada, 2007)

Susan Maurer's chapbook RAPTOR RHAPSODY was released by Poets Wear Prada in 2007.

Susan Maurer | Raptor Rhapsody

For quite some years, Susan Maurer has had her incredible poems published across the United States and abroad. How great to have many of these poems collected in this one lovely volume.— Bill Kushner, Author of He Dreams of Waters, Night Fishing, Head, and Love Uncut.

This is one honest broad and it shows in her work. Brilliant!
— Brigid Murnaghan, Beat Poet & Curator of the Sunday Afternoon Reading Series at The Back Fence, NYC.

It's both innocent and passionate…a beautiful book.— Mil Thompson, Analyst and Editor

RAPTOR RHAPSODY
by Susan Maurer
soft cover/saddle stitched/13 pp.
$8.00 (+ $1.50 S&H)
Gifted and surprising.
— Nelson Lyon, Writer for Saturday Night Live, Writer & Director of The Telephone Book, Co-Producer with Hal Willner of William S. Burroughs’ Spoken Word CD album Dead City Radio

The overall tone of the book is wry, jaunty, ironic, and stoic--a fresh and original voice.— Robert Kramer, Home Planet News

Click here to read Kramer's complete review in the Fall 2007 issue of Home Planet News

Credit: Patricia Carragon

Susan Maurer’s By the Blue Light of the Morning Glory was published by Linear Arts, in2 with Mark Sonnenfeld by Marymark Press, and Dream Addict by Backwood Broadsides. Letterpress broadsides were done by Clamshell Press and The Center for Book Arts.

Her poetry has been nominated three times for Pushcart, published in 12 countries, and has appeared in over 400 magazines and anthologies, including Off the Cuffs (Softskull Press), Help Yourself! (Autonomedia), Virgina Quarterly Review, Literary Imagination, Cross Connect, and Orbis.

She participated in a Rattapalax CD and posed and read for photographer Anna Siano's INSIDE-OUT Photography & Poetry Project showcased at Hoboken’s 2006 Artists Studio Tour.

She has read at Poets House, St. Marks’ Poetry Project, Bowery Poetry Club, on the Brooklyn Bridge with the Unbearables, as well as at the National Arts Club, Harvard Coop, Barnes and Noble Booksellers and the Susquehanna Art Museum among other venues.

Stradivarius You are our instrument. I dial the number hand you the telephone. You tell me he says “I got your letter,” You chuckle, repeat. He “And I forgive you.” And he asks “Is Anthony there?” And I say “I did him twice last night” and you convulse with laughter, say “No you didn’t.” And he says “There’ll be reprisals.” And I want you to tell him the turkey was good but you two begin talking of other things. You’re playing our song.

Click my Hypster playlist to hear my interview & reading on Anne Cammon's Art Waves originally aired on WKCR 89.9 FM NY, Friday August 24, 2007 at 9PM EST.

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Susan Maurer at Bowery Poetry Club in NYC on New Year's Day 2008 [Video Credit: Roxanne Hoffman]



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