From the News Front

The Key: Lady Grizzly and Sir Charles Otter
by Ice Gayle Johnson
Poets Wear Prada, 2012

April 30, 2012

Dear Friends,

I am happy and proud to announce "The Key" by Ice Gayle Johnson. It is 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. These poems follow Joel Allegretti's "Europa/Nippon/New York," recently released, a log -- part cata-, part travel -- chronicling metaphysical peregrinations of a 21st-century explorer and bricoleur. Available at Amazon. Coming soon: Patricia Carragon's "The Cupcake Chronicles," a confectionery tale for the ages--all ages.

John Jack "Jackie" (Edward) COOPER
Poets Wear Prada

Author Joel Allegretti in New York with New Poetry Book from Poets Wear Prada

NJ poet Joel Allegretti today announced 3 New York readings for his new book “Europa/Nippon/New York: Poems/Not-Poems”: Sun., May 6th, in Washington Heights; Thurs., May 17th, in Astoria, Queens; Sun., May 27th, in Greenwich Village. 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Jack Cooper

atelierprincipen@gmail.com

201.253.0561

Joel Allegretti [Credit: John Paul]

Hoboken, NJ - Apr 30, 2012 - Joel Allegretti announced three stops in New York this May on the East Coast leg of the book tour for his recently released “Europa/Nippon/New York: Poems/Not-Poems” from Poets Wear Prada. “‘Europa/Nippon/New York’ is my jet-setting, La dolce vita collection,” said Joel Allegretti. “The Kansas City Star” counted Allegretti’s “Father Silicon” among the “100 Noteworthy Books of 2006,” a list that included Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road” and “Against the Day” by Thomas Pynchon.

Pop culture chronicler Allegretti leads readers of his latest book on a cinematic journey through time and space replete with airplanes, submarines, the expected cathedral stops, plus surprise encounters with marquee idols and urban legends. “Come, children, and take your seat for ‘Europa/Nippon/New York,’ where Joel Allegretti spans the globe with ears to the ground and eyes toward the stars,” Daniel Nestor, author of “How to Be Inappropriate,” urges. Commends Peter Covino, winner of the 2007 PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry, “Everything instructs, engages, and delights us through the wide-angle lens of this wonderful new collection where ‘the next world is the next movie.’”

Allegretti, who now makes his home across the Hudson in North Jersey, is no stranger to the “bullying illuminations of New York.” He attended Xavier High School on West 16th Street in Manhattan, graduated with a degree in journalism from New York University, and worked until recently only a few blocks from Radio City Music Hall.

Allegretti will be in Washington Heights at 4 PM on Sunday, May 6th. He joins writers Sheila Maldonado and Jane LeCroy for Patricia Eakins’s Sunday Best Reading Series, at the Lounge at Hudson View Gardens, 116 Pinehurst Avenue (at West 183rd Street) in that uptown Manhattan neighborhood. $7 at the door includes light refreshments. Take the A train to 181st Street. (212) 923-7800.

Thursday, May 17th, Allegretti will participate in Boundless Tales, the Astoria Reading Series curated by Aida Zilelian, 7:30 until 9:30 PM, at Waltz Astoria, 23 – 14 Ditmars Boulevard (corner of 24th St), in Queens, with Nancy Agabian, Cassandra Faustini, Yvette Perez, and Michael T. Young. $10 drink minimum. Take the N or W trains to Ditmars Blvd. (718) 956-8742.

Allegretti will be back in Manhattan, this time in Greenwich Village, Sunday afternoon at 4:00, May 27th, reading at Michael Graves’s Phoenix Series with two co-features to be announced, at Scalinatella, 245 Bleecker Street (west of Carmine). $5 food/beverage minimum plus $3 suggested 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.

“Europa/Nippon/New York: Poems/Not-Poems”
by Joel Allegretti
(Hoboken: Poets Wear Prada, 2012)

“Europa/Nippon/New York” is Joel Allegretti’s second book project with Poets Wear Prada. The Hoboken-based press brought out “Thrum,” Allegretti’s meditation on stringed musical instruments, in 2010. Two previous collections, “Father Silicon” and “The Plague Psalms,” 2006 and 2000, respectively, were published by The Poet’s Press. Allegretti’s poetry has been set to music by Frank Ezra Levy for two song cycles: “A Cycle by the Sea,” which had its world premiere at Kean University in 2009, and “Night Keeps Its Promise,” first performed by Cantori New York at Holy Trinity, New York City, in 2011.

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

“Europa/Nippon/New York: Poems/Not Poems” by Joel Allegretti (Hoboken: Poets Wear Prada, 2012), 52 pages, ISBN-10: 0615600204, ISBN-13: 978-0615600208, list price: $12.00, is available in paperback from Amazon Books and other popular booksellers.

New Poems by Joel Allegretti from Poets Wear Prada: "Europa/Nippon/New York" Takes the Reader Around the World in 52 Pages

Poets Wear Prada announced today publication of “Europa/Nippon/New York: Poems/Not Poems” by the American poet Joel Allegretti, a cinematic travel log through space and time replete with airplanes, submarines, the expected cathedral stops, and surprise visits with pop culture icons, and other legends.

EUROPA/NIPPON/NEW YORK
Poems/Not-Poems
by Joel Allegretti
Paperback: 52 pages
ISBN-10:0615600204
ISBN-13:978-0615600208
Poets Wear Prada: 2012
list price: $12.00

Hoboken, NJ, April 27, 2012 --(PR.com)-- Poets Wear Prada announced today publication of “Europa/Nippon/New York: Poems/Not Poems” by the American poet Joel Allegretti. “The Kansas City Star” counted Allegretti’s "Father Silicon" among the "100 Noteworthy Books of 2006," a list that included Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road” and “Against the Day” by Thomas Pynchon.

“Europa/Nippon/New York: Poems/Not Poems” is a cinematic travel log through space and time replete with airplanes, submarines, the expected cathedral stops, and surprise visits with pop culture icons and other legends. Publisher Roxanne Hoffman said, "Allegretti convincingly defies gravity in the best modern way: with verve, intelligence, marquee names and loads of special effects."

“The trip is shorter than Phileas Fogg's— the book takes but a fraction of the time to read; still, Jules Verne (who figures prominently in it) remains in the balloon’s gondola,” said Jack Cooper, who as production editor at Poets Wear Prada guided “Europa/Nippon/New York” to its elegant landing. “The difference is Fogg’s out and Allegretti’s pulling the strings,” he continued. Roxanne Hoffman called it a “vacation between book covers," adding "You go to Italy. It’s a day at the beach (and undersea) with nights at the movies combined: Phantom of the Opera, one time; howling at the moon, another.”

“‘Europa/Nippon/New York’ is my jet-setting, la dolce vita collection,” said Joel Allegretti. “I absolutely love the cover! It shows a side of Steve I never knew.” Steve Dalachinsky, a widely celebrated poet, created the collages featured on both front and back of the book.

This is Joel Allegretti’s second book project with Poets Wear Prada. In 2010, the Hoboken-based press brought out “Thrum,” Allegretti’s meditation on stringed musical instruments. His two previous collections “Father Silicon” and “The Plague Psalms” were released by The Poet’s Press in 2006 and 2000, respectively. Allegretti’s poetry has been set to music by Frank Ezra Levy for two song cycles: “A Cycle by the Sea” had its world premiere in 2009 at Kean University, and “Night Keeps Its Promise” was first performed in 2011 by Cantori New York at Holy Trinity in New York City.

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

“Europa/Nippon/New York: Poems/Not Poems” by Joel Allegretti (Hoboken: Poets Wear Prada, 2012), 52 pages, ISBN-10: 0615600204, ISBN-13: 978-0615600208, list price: $12.00, is available in paperback from Amazon Books and other popular booksellers.

Thur. March 29 - Fri. March 30: Poets Wear Prada at 2012 Chapbook Festival @ CUNY Graduate Center

2012 Chapbook Festival 

Please join us at 2012 Chapbook Festival this Thursday, March 29 and Friday, March 30, held at the CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street, NYC.  The festival is on the C-Level.  The bookfair starts at 12:00 noon each day.

The festival is free and open to the public, though workshops  require advance registration.

For the complete schedule and list of participating publishers please visit: http://chapfest.wordpress.com/ 

The facebook event page is http://www.facebook.com/events/328260763891509/

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.

Go to the link on FACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/​events/346193165425594

Thurs. 2/16 Poets Weinraub, Young, Baxter + Open 7-9pm Space on White NYC

come fill up the page ...

Thursday, February 16, 2011

from 7pm to 9pm

Poets on White

features

* MICHAEL T. YOUNG *

* RICHARD MARX WEINRAUB *

* ALAN BAXTER *

+

open mic

(Sign-up 6:45pm with Cindy Hochman)

@

[space on white]

81 White Street

(Tribeca, near Broadway)

New York, NY 10013

http://www.spaceonwhite.com/

(212) 227-8600

Hosts: Evie Ivy & Cindy Hochman

$4.00 donation

Directions: J, N, R, Q, B and #6,1 train, A,C,E trains slightly longer walk

to Canal Street; Space on White is two blocks south of Canal Street

Related to the Marx Brothers through his mother, RICHARD MARX WEINRAUB was born in New York City in 1949; he was a Professor of English at the University of Puerto Rico from 1987 through 2010. His poetry has appeared in many journals including The Paris Review, Asheville Poetry Review, Measure, Slate, and River Styx. A book of his poetry entitled Wonder Bread Hill was published in 2002 by the University of Puerto Rico Press. A Spanish translation of Wonder Bread Hill was published by Terranova Press. A chapbook of his poetry entitled Heavenly Bodies was published in 2008 by Poets Wear Prada. A poem from the chapbook was nominated for a 2009 Pushcart Prize

MICHAEL T. YOUNG's most recent collection, a chapbook titled "Living in the Counterpoint," is about to be released by Finishing Line Press. His previous books include the full-length "Transcriptions of Daylight" (Rattapallax Press, 2000), and the chapbook "Because the Wind Has Questions" (Somers Rocks Press, 1997). A full-length book, "The Beautiful Moment of Being Lost," will be published by Black Coffee Press in 2013. He has received both a Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and a William Stafford Award, and he has been twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize. His work has appeared in numerous journals including The Adirondack Review, Barrow Street, Iodine Poetry Journal, The Potomac Review, The Louisville Review, and The Same. His work is also included in the anthologies "Chance of a Ghost" (Helicon Nine Editions, 2005) and "Phoenix Rising" (T&W, 2004). He currently lives with his wife and children in Jersey City, New Jersey.

ALAN BAXTER co-hosts Kairos Poetry Cafe, "Creating Community and Sharing Visions of Peace, Love, and Social Justice through Poetry, Music, and the Performing and Visual Arts," the second Sunday each month at Church of the Village, 201 W. 13th St @ 7th Ave, New York, N.Y. from 2-5pm.

TEN (a wee chapbook) by John Jack Jackie (Edward) Cooper

WE JUST RELEASED A WEE CHAPBOOK BY OUR PRODUCTION EDITOR *JACK COOPER* THIS MONDAY 2/6 AT SU POLO'S SATURN READING SERIES. We've uploaded to issuu.com for your perusal and entertainment:

Open publication - Free publishing - More aphorisms

Thurs Feb 16 Richard Marx Weinraub & Michael T. Young at Space on White NYC

come fill up the page ...

Thursday, February 16, 2011

from 7pm to 9pm

Poets on White

features

* MICHAEL T. YOUNG *

* RICHARD MARX WEINRAUB *

+

open mic

(Sign-up 6:45pm with Cindy Hochman)

@

[space on white]

81 White Street

(Tribeca, near Broadway)

New York, NY 10013

http://www.spaceonwhite.com/

(212) 227-8600

Hosts: Evie Ivy & Cindy Hochman

$4.00 donation

Directions: J, N, R, Q, B and #6,1 train, A,C,E trains slightly longer walk

to Canal Street; Space on White is two blocks south of Canal Street

Related to the Marx Brothers through his mother, RICHARD MARX WEINRAUB was born in New York City in 1949; he was a Professor of English at the University of Puerto Rico from 1987 through 2010. A book of his poetry entitled Wonder Bread Hill was published in 2002 by the University of Puerto Rico Press. His poetry has appeared in many journals including The Paris Review, Asheville Poetry Review, South Carolina Review, The Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review, Green Mountains Review, North American Review, Measure, The Evansville Review, Slate, and River Styx. A Spanish translation of Wonder Bread Hill was recently published by Terranova Press. A chapbook of his poetry entitled Heavenly Bodies was published in 2008 by Poets Wear Prada Press, and a poem from it was nominated for a 2009 Pushcart Prize.

MICHAEL T. YOUNG's most recent collection, a chapbook titled "Living in the Counterpoint," is about to be released by Finishing Line Press. His previous books include the full-length "Transcriptions of Daylight" (Rattapallax Press, 2000), and the chapbook "Because the Wind Has Questions" (Somers Rocks Press, 1997). A full-length book, "The Beautiful Moment of Being Lost," will be published by Black Coffee Press in 2013. He has received both a Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and a William Stafford Award, and he has been twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize. His work has appeared in numerous journals including The Adirondack Review, Barrow Street, Iodine Poetry Journal, The Potomac Review, The Louisville Review, and The Same. His work is also included in the anthologies "Chance of a Ghost" (Helicon Nine Editions, 2005) and "Phoenix Rising" (T&W, 2004). He currently lives with his wife and children in Jersey City, New Jersey.

Tues 2/7 Allegretti, Broderick, Koundakjian, Colman, Kalpakis & Johl 8pm Le Cheile Washington Heights NYC No Cover

A Night of  Live Literature

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7th

8PM - 10PM

featuring:

COLIN BRODERICK (novelist)

JOEL ALLEGRETTI (poet)

 LOLA KOUNDAKJIAN (poet)

DAHLIA COLMAN (poet)

with music by

LEANN KALPAKIS & MAX JOHL

@

LE CHEILE

839 W 181st Street

between Pinehurst Ave & Cabrini Blvd)
New York, NY 10033

Neighborhood: Washington Heights
(212) 740-3111

http://lecheilenyc.com/

HOSTED BY ERIN LYNN

No Cover

By Subway:

Take the A train or the number 1 to 181st Street.

Linda Lerner Reviews "the woman who who wouldn't shake hands" by Chocolate Waters for BigCityLit

Some excerpts from Linda Lerner's review:

"This quirky collection of skinny looking poems, lacking punctuation, belittle the enormous territory they cover: it is nothing less than the human heart — that need for love and a corresponding need that guards against it."

"We hear what we read on the page, and what we hear will linger, like a melody, in our minds."


Linda examines the "unexpected turns [Waters'] poems take" and  the author's  "playing with a word as in a jazz riff" citing several examples from the book.

Read Linda Lerner's complete review  of  the woman who wouldn't shake hands by Chocolate Waters (Poets Wear Prada, 2011) online in the Fall 2011 edition of BigCityLit:

http://www.bigcitylit.com/bigcitylit.php?inc=fall2011/reviews/lerner

Ms. Lerner is the author of thirteen poetry collections.  Her latest collection, a full-length book titled Takes Guts & Years Sometimes, was published by New York Quarterly Books in June of 2011.  Her book reviews have appeared in Small Press Review, Home Planet News, and Chiron Review, among other places.

Fri 2/3 Elaine Shipman Dance Performance w/ Text by Austin Alexis 9PM John Ryan Theater B'klyn



CoolNY 2012 Dance Festival at DUMBO's John Ryan Theater

presents

Real and Borrowed Personas

A Dance Performance by SITU, Inc.,

Elaine Shipman's dance & media company

(on a program with performances by several other dance companies)

• choreographic direction: Elaine Shipman

• text and performance: Austin Alexis

• music and performance: Jackson Krall
• dancers: Miai Ramnath, Marya Ursin, Elaine Shipman

Limited Engagement of 2 Performances:

Friday, February 3, 2012 at 9:00 p.m

Sunday, February 5, 2012 at 6:00 p.m.

@

John Ryan Theater

25 Jay Street, Brooklyn, NY

(entrance around the corner on John Street)

718-855-8822

Directions:

F train to York Street

A or C train to High Street

Admission by donation, pay what you wish



Mon 2/6 Poets Michael T Young & Jack Cooper at Nightingale Lounge in NYC

EVENT: Saturn Reading Series Presents:
MICHAEL T. YOUNG & JACK COOPER
DATE: Monday, February 6, 2012        TIME: 7pm - 9pm.
LOCATION:  Nightingale Lounge, 213 2nd Ave.
(NW Corner E. 13th St & 2nd Ave), NY, NY 10003
OPEN MIC: Yes, signup at 6:45 pm      HOST: SU POLO
TICKETS: $10 Drink Minimum + $3 Suggested Donation is split between the bar and the two features.
RSVP: http://www.facebook.com/events/369306029750818/

The lovely singer/songwriter and poet Ms. Su Polo hosts this long-running every Monday evening mostly poetry reading series. Tonight the featured poets are Jack Cooper and Michael T. Young.

Open mic precedes and follows the features. Sign-up at 6:45 pm.

About the features:

JACK COOPER has read for Farrar, Straus and Giroux , served as research associate for the Modern Language Association, was an ESL teacher for ELESAIR Project, and is now Production Editor at Poets Wear Prada. His American English translation of poems by Jean-Pierre Lemesle, "Wax Women," with photos by Henry Jacobs was published November 1985 by International Art Office, Paris.

MICHAEL T. YOUNG's most recent collection, a chapbook titled "Living in the Counterpoint," is about to be released by Finishing Line Press. His previous books include the full-length "Transcriptions of Daylight" (Rattapallax Press, 2000), and the chapbook "Because the Wind Has Questions" (Somers Rocks Press, 1997). A full-length book, "The Beautiful Moment of Being Lost," will be published by Black Coffee Press in 2013. He has received both a Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and a William Stafford Award, and he has been twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize. His work has appeared in numerous journals including The Adirondack Review, Barrow Street, Iodine Poetry Journal, The Potomac Review, The Louisville Review, and The Same. His work is also included in the anthologies "Chance of a Ghost" (Helicon Nine Editions, 2005) and "Phoenix Rising" (T&W, 2004). He currently lives with his wife and children in Jersey City, New Jersey.

Directions:
Take any subway (4,5,6, R, N, Q) to Union Square at 14th St or the L to 3rd Avenue.
Closest NY PATH station: W 14th St. & 6th Ave.