MON Feb 7: Don Zirilli at Pianos in Bloomfield NJ for Rockstar Poets

SAVE THE DATE: RockStar Poets and Writers [Bloomfield Reading Series]

 featuring DON ZIRILLI on Monday, February 7, 2011

Please beat the cold and join the folks at Pianos Bar & Grill in Bloomfield, NJ on Monday, Febrnuary 7, 2011 at 7:30 p. m. for RockStar Poets & Writers [Bloomfield Reading Series]. The feature is Don Zirilli.

The event is FREE!

Don Zirilli is the co-editor of Now Culture. He has been writing poetry for over 20 years, and has been published in River Styx, Specs, Anti-, Iota, and elsewhere.

Bloomfield Reading Series, also known as RockStar Poets, is the series for which I (John J. Trause) was the inaugural feature in February 2008, and as we continue in our third year we are pleased to have such a distinguished poet and publisher appearing on Monday, February 7th. Note that this series holds a reading every FIRST MONDAY of the month at 7:30 p. m. at Pianos hosted by writer Sanjay Agnihotri. The readings take place on the back stage. Come early and have a drink or dinner. Remember to bring some work of your own as an Open Reading follows the feature.

February 7, 2011 at 7:30PM
RockStar Poets
~features~

DON ZIRILLI
+ Open Reading
@
Pianos Bar & Grill
36 Broad Street
Bloomfield, NJ 07003
(973) 743-7208
http://www.pianosbarandgrill.com/
Host: Sanjay Agnihotri
No Cover (Please purchase food or drink to help support the venue.)


I encourage you to come out and support Don Zirilli and hang out with us.



NEXT MONTH: Monday, March 7, 2011, we look forward to poet and musician Joel Allegretti.

Love & Peace,

JOHN

WED Feb 2: Lisa Sisler & Dorinda Wegener at Willams Center, Rutherford NJ

Dear Family & Friends,

I continue to host this excellent series, now in its sixth year, so please come by for this upcoming reading.

NOTE that this series is held on FIRST Wednesdays each month.

The WCW Poetry Cooperative of Southern Bergen County is pleased to invite Lisa Sisler and Dorinda Wegener, both poets, editors, and teachers, as the features on Wednesday, February, 2011 at 7:00 p. m. As usual this monthly program will also feature the words of William Carlos Williams, this time by Dorinda Wegener herself, and open readings from the floor. No advanced registration is required and all poets and poetry lovers are invited. Note that we are now holding the WCW Poetry Cooperative readings at the following location:


Williams Center for the Arts
Marcus Theater
1 Williams Plaza in Rutherford, N. J.

(http://www.williamscenter.org/) 

Also, please remember that noted poet Jim Klein leads our peer-to-peer poetry workshops (Red Wheelbarrow Poets) on Wednesdays (2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th) when we do not have the readings at 7 p. m. NOTE that these have now been relocated to GainVille Learning Center and Café (http://www.gaincontact.com/ ):

GainVille Learning Center and Café
17 Ames Avenue
Rutherford, NJ 07070
Tel. (201) 507-1800 / Fax (201) 507-1888

Also, please see the Red Wheelbarrow website here:

http://redwheelbarrowpoets.wordpress.com/

Remember that the Rutherford Red Wheelbarrow Poets just published volume 3 of The Rutherford Red Wheelbarrow, including three poems of mine, those of many others associated with the WCW Poetry Cooperative and literary life in Rutherford, some excellent essays, and as usual some original, previously unpublished work of Dr. Williams himself. Copies of the anthology are on sale now, so please contact the editors at redwheelbarrowpoets@yahoo.com, if you would like more information or like to purchase a copy or two. They make excellent birthday or holiday gifts for poetry lovers and anyone who loves literature and history.

Please come out and support these creative endeavors.

Thank you.


Love & Peace,


JOHN

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ABOUT OUR FEATURED POETS:

Lisa Sisler’s poetry has been described by Brian Henry as, “urgent, skillful, and necessary. [Lisa’s] poems are fiery, command your attention, and, for however disturbing or painful or difficult her poems can be, they often seek and ultimately achieve a sort of cathartic alchemy that we can find only in poetry.”
Lisa is currently working n her manuscript Belly Up and serving as a guest editor for the online journal OVS. She is the editor of Knocking at the Door: Approaching the Other, a poetry anthology forthcoming from Buddhapuss Ink/ Poet’s Lane in November 2010. She holds an MFA in Poetry from New England College and a Masters of Arts in English from Rutgers University. She teaches Writing and Literature at Kean University and at various other colleges in New Jersey where she resides with her boyfriend and their cat army.

Dorinda Wegener holds a MFA from New England College where she was a Joel Oppenheimer Award recipient. Her poems have been published in The Antioch Review, Indiana Review, Hotel Amerika, and Mid-American Review, among many others. Dorinda has had the honor of reading with the louderARTS Project in New York City. Her poems, “The Harvest” and “Evening Service,” were both finalist for the Marlboro Prize as judged by poet Edward Hirsch. She has been a featured poet at the Woodberry Poetry Room, Lamont Library, Harvard University through her work with Ibbestson Street Press. Walter E. Butts, New Hampshire Poet Laureate, selected Wegener for New Hampshire Poets Showcase, an online gallery hosted by the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts. She has served on editorial boards at OVS Magazine, Naugatuck River Review, and Summer Home Review. As a child, Dorinda lived in Robert Frost’s first New Hampshire home prior to his famous farm. She currently resides in Staten Island, New York, where she teaches poetry to youths and peers for the Teachers & Writers Collaborative. Dorinda is actively seeking a literary press for her first manuscript, All I’s and O’s. In 2011, Wegener will join the editorial staff of Green Mountains Review as a reader.

A Poem by GEORGE HELD on POETRY BAY, Fall/Winter 2011 Edition

January 31, 2011,

Click here: Poetry Bay - Online Poetry Magazine  for a new poem of mine.

Best, George

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Read "I know a Man" by George Held in the Fall/Winter Edition of  LONG ISLAND QUARTERLY, online line at Poetry Bay, An Online Poetry Magazine for the 21st Century.

http://www.poetrybay.com/liquarterly/liqwinter10/GeorgeHeld.html

George Held is the author of 14 poetry collections and the editor of the anthology TOUCHED BY EROS. A five-time nominee for the Pushcart Prize, he has published his stories, poems, book reviews, and translations in such places as THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, CIRCUMFERENCE, THE NOTRE DAME REVIEW, COMMONWEAL, CONNECTICUT REVIEW, and CONFRONTATION. His most recent book is AFTER SHAKESPEARE: SELECTED SONNETS (Cervena Barva Press, 2010). In December 2007, his poem "Aftermath" was read by Garrison Keillor on THE WRITER'S ALMANAC. He has co-edited THE LEDGE POETRY AND FICTION MAGAZINE since 1991, the same year he joined the executive board of The South Fork Natural History Society and Museum (Bridgehampton, NY). A Fulbright lecturer in Czechoslovakia 1973-76, he retired as a professor of English at Queens College in 2004. Held resides in Greenwich Village with his wife, Cheryl.  

His chapbook PHASED: POEMS, ETC. was re-released as perfect-bound print on demand edition by PWP in 2010. 



Fagiani's CHIANTI IN CONNECTICUT on SPD's Recommend New Titles List

Small Press Distribution, a non-profit literary arts organization located in Berkeley, California, highlighted Gil Fagiani’s newly published Chianti in Connecticut (Bordighera Press) in its "Recommended New Titles for Jan. 15-31":

"Gil Fagiani's muse is Italian American memory. These are poems of origins and belonging, of family, culture, politics. These are recollections, both elegiac and ironic, of a world Gil Fagiani observes from the privileged perspective of an insider who does not feel bound to the need to eulogize his community. They function as archival records, a museum of language in which a gallery of characters and objects and moments are captured in lines that vibrate with a sound, a touch, a presence"—Edvige Giunta

http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9781599540153/default.aspx

Gil Fagiani’s previous collections include A Blanquito in El Barrio (Rain Mountain Press, 2009) set in the streets and to the music of Spanish Harlem and  Rooks (Rain Mountain Press, 2007) recalling his years as cadet at a Pennsylvania military college in the 1960s.  His chapbook Grandpa’s Wine (Poets Wear Prada, 2008) has been translated into Italian by Paul D’Agostino and will be re-released as bi-lingual edition in 2011. His Serfs of Psychiatry is forthcoming  from Finishing Line Press later this year.

Sat Feb 12 IAWA Features Giura & Buccino @ Cornelia St. Cafe NYC

The three rules of IAWA: Write or be written, Read each other and Buy our books. IAWA Presents Allen Ginsberg Poetry Award Honorees Anthony Buccino  & Maria Giura on  Saturday, February 12, 2011 5:45PM-7:30PM @ The Cornelia Street Cafe 29 Cornelia St New York, NY 10014 (212) 989-9319 http://corneliastreetcafe.com/ New York, NY- On Saturday, February 12, 2011, the Italian American Writers Association (IAWA) invites – Anthony Buccino and Maria Giura -- who won Honorable Mention from the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards in 2010. Anthony Buccino's poem "Something Tells Me You Went To Catholic School" earned Honorable Mention in the 2010 Allen Ginsberg awards and will be published in the Paterson Literary Review; his poem "Ten Minutes" earned Honorable Mention in the 2009 Allen Ginsberg Awards. He has published 12 books including six poetry collections, which are all available in print, and on Kindle and Nook eReaders: Canned, Sixteen Inches On Center, American Boy: Pushing Sixty, Voices On The Bus and One Morning In Jersey City. The editors for Volume 55 of U.S. 1 Worksheets nominated his poem, "At The Vet" for a Pushcart Prize. His work has also appeared in Celebrating William Carlos Williams and The Poetry of Place: North Jersey in Poetry; Rattlesnake Review; Medusa's Kitchen; Voices in Italian Americana; The Fox Chase Review; and Caduceus. A financial news editor by day, Buccino contributes to NJ.com. He maintains New Jersey Poets and Poetry, a blog of poetry happenings in New Jersey.  Visit http://www.anthonybuccino.com/ Maria Giura's poem, "Mercy" was selected for Honorable Mention in 2010 and will be published in The Paterson Literary Review; in 2005, her poem "Earthly Father" won First Prize in the Allen Ginsberg competition and appeared in Paterson Literary Review; other work has appeared and in Godspy.com, VIA and she has written for the TV show New Morning.   A member of the American Italian Historical Association, she read two chapters of her memoir at the 2009 and 2010 conferences, "Telling Papa" and "The Long Loneliness." She is an Assistant Professor at Montclair State University, NJ where she teaches First Year Writing and Memoir and is Assistant Director of their First Year Writing Program. She received her doctorate in English with a creative dissertation from the State University of New York at Binghamton. The reading takes place Saturday, February 12, 2011, 5:45 p.m. to 7:45 p.m., at the Cornelia St. Café, 29 Cornelia Street, NYC, (212-989-9319); www.corneliastreetcafe.com). The evening starts with Open Mic readings of five minutes each. IAWA is a 501(3)©not-for-profit corporation. Since 1991, the organization has given voice to writers through its Open Reading series at Cornelia St. Café every month. For membership information, visit www.iawa.net Visit the Italian American Writers Cafe blog http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/italian-american-writers-cafe Maria Mazziotti Gillan is the Executive Director at the Poetry Center Passaic County Community College, which sponsors the annual Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards. For guidelines visit: http://old.pccc.edu/poetry/Prize/index.html For Info on IAWA Reading Series: Maria Lisella 718.777.1178 Authors Available for Interviews

Karen Neuberg in ROSE & THORN JOURNAL Winter 2011

PWP Author, Karen Neuberg has two poems in the current (Winter 2011) issue of ROSE & THORN JOURNAL: "Maturity" and "Finding. Future. Meaning."
Read her work online at:

http://www.roseandthornjournal.com/Winter_2011_Poet6.html

Karen Neuberg’s poems have been found in such publications as Barrow Street, Boxcar Poetry Review, DIAGRAM, and Keyhole Magazine. She is the author of the poetry chapbook, Detailed Still (Poets Wear Prada Press, 2009) and blogs at  http://karenneuberg.blogspot.com/



"The Entire History of Your Fires," a poem from her chapbook Detailed Still was recently reprinted in Pirene's Fountain, October 2010:

http://www.pirenesfountain.com/current_issue/neuberg.html

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.

Afro-Futures: Bianca Dorsey, an exclusive interview by Tantra-Zawadi

Afro-Futures welcomes Bianca Dorsey with an exclusive interview by Tantra-Zawadi.

Tantra-zawadi writes: "Recently, I had the pleasure of spending time with Bianca Dorsey, a beautiful and gifted world artist. Bianca also spoke about the importance of exploring the techniques of our ancestors to create art that endures. Afrofutures welcomes Bianca Dorsey."

Read the rest of the article "A conversation with artist Bianca Dorsey" on-line at Afro-Futures:

http://afrofutures.com/?p=1037

Bianca Dorsey is a Brooklyn-based artist, who paints, sculpts and designs jewelry. She is graduate of Pratt Institute, NY receiving a Bachelor’s of Fine Art in Sculpture and she received her Master’s Degree in Gallery and Retail Art Administration from Fashion Institute of Technology, NY. Recent gallery exhibitions include group shows, Rising Suns, the Dash Gallery, NY (2010) and The Color of Words, Brooklyn Working Artists Coalition, Bklyn, NY (2009) and a solo exhibit, The Lives of Goddesses, Curated by Carol Blank, Bklyn, NY (2006).

PWP Books published Tantra-Zawadi's second collection of poetry Gathered at Her Sky in 2010.

Sat Feb 5 B.E. KAHN Joins Other Phili-based Authors 3PM Big Blue Marble Bookstore's Local Author Day

Saturday, February 5, 3:00pm.

LOVE YOURSELF @ Big Blue Marble Bookstore

 Local Author Day!

Join local authors in readings and discussions that celebrate loving yourself.

Featuring:

• B.E. Kahn (Landscapes of Light),
• Trudi Wray (Still Learning Lessons After Forty)
• Stenell Greene-Myers (Who's Gonna Pay the Mortgage?)

Big Blue Marble Bookstore
551 Carpenter Lane
Philadelphia, PA 19119
215-844-1870
http://www.bigbluemarblebooks.com/ 

Landscapes of Light: Poems
by B. E. Kahn
Perfect bound paperback: 34 pages
ISBN-13: 978-0-9841844-8-4
Publisher: Poets Wear Prada
Publication Date: October 28, 2010
 List Price: $12
Available at Amazon.com

Author B. E. Kahn

B. E. Kahn is a grant recipient of both the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts and the Pew Fellowships in the Arts.  Some of the poems in this, her second, collection previously appeared in Arts and Spirituality, Bridges: A Jewish Feminist Journal, Clockwise Cat, Lifeboat, New Verse News, Poetry Ink, Poetry Super Highway, and Schuylkill Valley Journal. A retired speech therapist, she now lives in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania and has taught poetry to intergenerational, interfaith groups. She is a member of the 34th Street Poets Cooperative. Her previous chapbook, SPRING APPLES, SILVER BIRCH was published October, 2008 by Greenleaf Press. For more information about the author, visit her website: http://www.bekahn.com/.

POSTPONED: Poetry's Last Wednesday Pit Stop w/ JOHN J TRAUSE -- NOW Sat, Jan 29 7:30-10PM

Dear Family and Friends,

Because of the snow storm this event is being postponed  until

Saturday, January 29, 2011, 7:30 p. m. – 10 p. m.

Francesca Sphynx-Ball of The Ain't Never Scared NYC Poetry Collective started a new poetry series at Peanut Butter Blues Café in Allendale (Bergen County), N. J. Francesca and I were both published this past autumn in hell strung and crooked, the latest issue of the Uphook Press anthology.

Rescheduled: I will be featuring for Poetry's Last Wednesday Pit Stop at Peanut Butter Blues Café on Saturday, January 29th at 7:30 p.m.. You will get 30 minutes of John J. Trause, and I promise a rich and diverse presentation. There will also be an open reading.

Sat., Jan. 29, 2011, 7:30–10PM  <==NEW DATE & TIME!

Poetry's Last Wednesday Pit Stop

JOHN J TRAUSE

+ Open Reading
@

Peanut Butter Blues Cafe

86 W Allendale Ave

Allendale, NJ 07401

(201) 825-5950

http://www.pbblues.com/

Hosted by Francesca Sphynx-Ball

Please see also the updated listing on Facebook:

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=155597277823382&num_event_invites=0


It would be a pleasure to see you at the reading this coming Saturday, so please come out and support this event.

Love & Peace,

JOHN

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Jan 26 Poet Efrayim Levenson in Brooklyn w/ Dan Brown & Matthew Anish

Hello again.  I have another reading tomorrow night.  I hope you can attend.  Coordinates are below: Efrayim Levenson

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HAPPY WINTER FOLKS!
For A Great Evening of Poetry:

The Green Pavilion Poetry Event

(The gala event for poetry.)

Wednesday, JANUARY 26, 7:00-9:30

@ 

The Green Pavillion Restaurant & Sports Lounge

4307-18th Ave.

Brooklyn, NY

Take the F train to 18th Ave. station. Last car coming from Manh, right staircase to street.
You will be only about 1/2 block away from rest., same block you will be standing on.

Join Us. Come read your poetry, or your favorite poet under the chandeliers!

One of the longest running poetry venues in the NYC area. 

We are looking forward to these two wonderful featured readers:


* * * EFRAYIM LEVENSON * *

* * * DAN BROWN * *

+ a mini-feature by well published author of poetry & prose:

***MATTHEW ANISH ***

+ o p e n r e a d i n g * * * *



$5.00 min. toward rest. (an inexpensive & diverse menu, dinner, or wine with your poetry.) *



$3.00 suggested donation toward reading.Your hosts: Evie Ivy, Cindy Hochman * * *



Some Bio Notes:



Daniel Brown's collection Taking the Occasion (Ivan R. Dee) won The New Criterion Poetry Prize in 2008. His poems have appeared in Poetry, Partisan Review, Parnassus: Poetry in Review, The New Criterion and other journals. Winner of a Pushcart Prize, he has been widely anthologized in volumes such as Poetry 180, edited by Billy Collins, and Fathers, edited by David Ray. He holds a masters degree in musicology from Cornell University, and has taught music history and theory at Cornell and Dartmouth College. He lives in Baldwin, New York. His Why Bach?, an online appreciation of Bach's music, is available at http://www.whybach.com/ .


Efrayim Levenson is the author of 2 chapbooks of poetry, For My Relations (2000) and Dances With Tears (2007). His poem "& Ribbon" was a 2008 Pushcart Prize nomination. Other poems have been published in What Happens Next, Poetica, Poems, Medicinal Purposes, www.chabadrego.org, http://timessquareshoutout.blogspot.com/ , Above Water, ArtVoice, My City Underground, Bflo Journal, The Buffalo News, Pure Light, Foist, Earth's Daughters, Tempus Fugit, Swift Kick, The Grin, and Blatherskite. He is at work currently on a collection of poetic interpretations of the music of Buckethead and a CD with double-bassist Clif Jackson. Efrayim is also blogging at http://efrayimlevenson.blogspot.com/.


Matthew Anish is a widely published poet/writer. He has published work in Aim, Beyond Bree, Voices Israel and in many other publications. He also writes a monthly column for Barr's Postcard News. He is a graduate of Brooklyn College and has an ESL Certificate from the New School. He currently works at Borough of Manhattan Community College.

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)