Short Play by AUSTIN ALEXIS at BOOG CITY 5 in August in NYC

Poet and playwright AUSTIN ALEXIS will have a short play performed this August at the 5th annual WELCOME TO BOOG CITY festival in NYC. The play will be performed Sunday August 7th at 5:45pm at Zinc Bar located at 82 West 3rd Street in Manhattan. The 3-character short play explores the sustainability of friendship during crisis.

Austin Alexis is the author of 2 poetry chapbooks,  LOVERS AND DRAG QUEENS and FOR LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS, both from POETS WEAR PRADA.

POETS WEAR PRADA, Austin's publisher will also have a table at the festival's small press bookfair taking place Saturday August 6th and Sunday August 7th in Brooklyn's Prospect Heights neighborhood at Unnameable Books, located at 600 Vanderbilt Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11238. For more information about the bookstore call (718) 789-1534. Unnameable Books is Open Daily 11am-11pm. Austin's lastest book as well as other books from the press will be available for purchase.  Another PWP author TBA will be reading at the bookfair.

The 5th Annual BOOG CITY festival presents 5 days of Poetry & Music from Friday August 5th to Tuesday August 9th with events in Manhattan and in Brooklyn. This year's festival marks the 20th anniversary of BOOG CITY, edited and published by David A. Kirschenbaum.

The poetry readings are curated by Jim Behrle, Joanna Fuhrman, and David A. Kirschenbaum. The music is booked by Brian Speaker.

Among the festival highlights are:

• our levy lives: celebrating the renegade press series devotes a night to Black Radish Books;
• our 8th annual small, small press fair, with exhibits from a host of small presses, and readings by their authors;
• Poetry’s First Responders: 9/11, A Time When Poetry was Always Still Possible, a panel curated and moderated by Douglas Rothschild;
• Poet Rebecca Woolf reading and in conversation with poet Alan Gilbert
• Poets’ theater plays from: Austin Alexis • Charles Borkhuis • Maria Brandt • Joel Chace • Jenny Hill • Vincent Katz • Matt Reeck;
• Poetry readings from: Alex Abelson • Rachel Aydt • Cara Benson • Sean Cole • Joanna Penn Cooper • Jim Dunn • Will Edmiston • Alan Gilbert • Christine Hamm • Monica Hand • Jibade-Khalil Huffman • Brenda Iijima • Ish Klein • Austin LaGrone • Mark Lamoureux • Tanya Larkin • Sheila Maldonado • Debrah Morkun • John Mulrooney • Ekoko Omadeke • Jean Paul Pecqueur • Douglas Piccininni • Brett Price • Greg Purcell • Douglas N. Rothschild • Kathrin Schaeppi • Toni Simon • Kimberly Ann Southwick • Mary Austin Speaker • Jill Stengel • Mark Statsman • Nicole Wallace • Meredith Walters • Ian Wilder • Jeffrey Wright • and more;
• Poetry readings on Black Radish Books night: Mackenzie Carignan • Bruce Covey • Carrie Hunter • Mark Lamoureux • Marthe Reed • Kathrin Schaeppi • Jill Stengel • David Wolach;
• music performances by: Crazy and the Brains • Emily Einhorn • Dan Fishback • Greg Smith band • Charles Mansfield • Justin Remer • Cat Rockefeller • and more; and
• tabling presses and artisans: Bone Bouquet • Don’s Saddles • Furniture Press • Gigantic Sequins • Litmus Press/Aufgabe • Lunar Chandelier • Ping Pong • Poets Wear Prada • Stonecutter Journal • Vanitas magazine • White Rabbit zine.

The full schedule will be released shortly. If you need any additional information or want to advertise in the festival program issue of Boog City you can reach David A. Kirschenbaum at 212-842-BOOG (2664) or editor@boogcity.com or at the address below:

David A. Kirschenbaum, editor and publisher

Boog City
330 W. 28th St., Suite 6H
NY, NY 10001-4754

For event and publication information:

http://welcometoboogcity.com/  T: (212) 842-BOOG (2664)

June 20: GENERATION BEAT at Yippie Museum Café in NYC

GENERATION BEAT

Date: Monday, June 20, 2011

Time: 6:30 – 8:30 pm

 

Place:

THE YIPPIE MUSEUM

CAFE & GIFT SHOP

9 Bleecker Street

(near the Bowery)

New York, NY 10002

(212) 677-5918

http://yippiemuseum.org/

Admission: $2

Host: Gordon Gilbert

 

Featured Readers:
(Reading Their Favorite Beat Writer
& Their Own Work)

ALAN BAXTER
*

PETER CHELNIK
*

BOB HEMAN
* 

CINDY HOCHMAN
* 

ROXY HOFFMAN
* 

EVY IVY
* 

KIM KALESTI
*

RONNIE KORPAL
*

JOSH MEANDER
*

ORION 0.62
*

EVE PACKER
*

PUMA PERL
*

BOB QUATRONE
* 

CHRISTINE TIMM
* 

JOHN J. TRAUSE
* 

RICHARD WEST

Sorry, This is Not an Open Mic.

Beverage and Snacks Availalble at the Refreshment Stand.

COME EARLY

for 4 pm screening of a Lawrence Ferlinghetti documentary by Chris Felver.

Publisher Roxanne Hoffman will be performing "The Mummy Piece" by William S. Burroughs and her "Mum's The Word."

Author John J. Trause will be presenting the work of Gregory Corso and, time permitting, his own poetry. 

Other PWP Authors reading at the event include Bob Heman and Peter Chelnik.

The 9th Annual Fresh Fruit Festival: Pears, Prose & Poetry

The 9th Annual

Fresh Fruit Festival

presents

P E A R S , P R O S E & P O E T R Y

WHEN

Monday July 11

7pm-9pm

WHERE

The LGBT Community Center

208 West 13th Street (off 7th Avenue)

New York, NY

WHO

Featuring

Austin Alexis
Joel Allegretti
Dorothy Friedman August
Davidson Garrett
Melinda Goodman
Dean Kostos
Michael Montlack
Carol Polcover
John Marcus Powell
Jessica Reed
Vittoria Repetto
Jason Schneiderman
Sinclair Sexsmith
Chocolate Waters
Chavisa Woods
Richard Marx Weinraub
with hosts

Roxanne Hoffman & Robert Urban

$$$

FREE!



Please come and support us! Limited edition of chapbook anthology of the readers poems will be made available for sale at the event. As well as signed books and CDs by our readers.

BUY YOUR $5 BOOSTER AD!
Please sponsor us and support the Fresh Fruit Festival with your purchase of a $5 booster ad to be include in our program and listed as a sponsor in our announcements. (Please contact me at roxy533@yahoo.com if you would like to buy a 1/4 page or 1/2 page or full page advertisement for your business or if you would specifically like to contribute to our refreshment stand or gift bags.)

To purchase a $5 25-word booster ad, send $5 as cash to roxy533@myway.com using PayPal. (additonal words up to max of 30 words are 50 cents a word.) Please include the text of your ad (you can use your business card, promote your new book or CD or forthcoming event, or send a greeting to a loved one).

You can also send us check made out to Poets Wear Prada (please write Fresh Fruit Festival in the memo section). But please don't forget to include the text of your booster ad and your contact info.

Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=220715484618909

Wed May 25: PWP at PBQ Bookfair for Literacy! at Drexel U in Phili

PBQ BOOKFAIR FOR LITERACY
Wednesday, May 25th 2001
10am-3pm
Great Court of the Main Building
Drexel University
3141 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, PA

Proceeds go to Philadelphia Reads and Books Through Bars

FOR MORE INFO: DREXELPUBLISHING.ORG
E-MAIL: PG@DREXEL.EDU

Sponsored by the Department of English and Philosophy, Painted Bride Quarterly,
Drexel University College of Arts & Sciences


This event will bring together regional small presses, academic publishers, and literary magazines. The Bookfair aims to help fight illiteracy and support PBQ’s efforts to acknowledge the importance of the written word in the digital age. Used books are sold with all proceeds donated to Philadelphia Reads, a local literacy group that is dedicated to eradicating children’s illiteracy in Philadelphia. The additional books will be donated to Books Through Bars, an NPO that serves the incarcerated and their families.

Poets Wear Prada- Roxanne Hoffman
Philadelphia Poets- Rosemary Cappello
Hidden River Publishing/New Door Books-Debra Leigh Scott
American Poetry Review-David Bonanno
Philadelphia Stories-Carla Spataro
Ringtail Cafe-Darren Mueller
Aviary- Lillian Dunn
Barrelhouse- Tom MacAlister
Drexel-PBQ/DPG/Saturnalia

Speed Editing
12:00 – 1:30 pm
Main Auditorium

Editors from various fields and disciplines, such as journalism, creative, and academic writing, will offer attendees advise on their own work, in 5-minute “speed” sessions.

Meet the Editors Q&A

3:30 pm – 5:00 pm

A.J. Drexel Picture Gallery

Editors from various fields and disciplines will discuss the “behind-the-scenes” work that goes into their craft, and will answer questions on all topics related to the publishing industry.

For More Information Visit about Drexel University's week-long literacy Week of Writing event visit:
http://drexelpublishing.org/week-of-writing-2011-schedule/#w1

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May 17 Tantra-zawadi & Richard Marx Weinraub at Tillies of Brooklyn

Poetry Grows In Ft. Greene

The Brownstone Poets Presents:

Tantra-zawadi

&

Richard Marx Weinraub

Tuesday, May 17

Starts at 7p.m.

– Open Mic Sign Up at 6:45 p.m. –

We must be out by 9 p.m.

@

Tillies of Brooklyn

248 DeKalb Ave.

(corner of Vanderbilt and DeKalb)

Brooklyn, NY 11205

Phone # (718) 783-6140

Take the J, R or Q trains to DeKalb Avenue, the C to Lafayette, the G to Clinton/Washington

2, 3, 4, 5 to Nevins St.

http://www.hopstop.com/  

$3 Donation – plus Food/Drink – Limited Open Mic - one poem (3-minute limit)

Tantra-zawadi
author of GATHERED AT HER SKY (Poets Wear Prada, 2010)



Richard Marx Weinraub
Author of  HEAVENLY BODIES (Poets Wear Prada, 2007)



Michael's COOL LIMBO Book Launch Party at Elmo's 5/21 at 8:30pm

COOL LIMBO

Poems by

MICHAEL MONTLACK

(New York Quarterly, 2011)

Book Launch Party

May 21 at 8:30PM

@ ELMO'S

156 7th Avenue

(between 19th & 20th Streets)

RSVP:  http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=141136609293605

 

Michael Montlack is the author of the poetry collection Cool Limbo (New York Quarterly Books, 2011) and the editor of the Lambda-nominated essay anthology My Diva: 65 Gay Men on the Women Who Inspire Them (University of Wisconsin Press, 2009) and 3 poetry chapbooks, the most recent The Slip (Poets Wear Prada). He splits his time between New York City, where he teaches at Berkeley College, and San Francisco.

Tonight: Celebrating Diane di Prima at Yippie Cafe in NYC

A Diane di Prima Primer

Monday, April 25, 2011

6:30 – 8:30 pm

@ 

Yippie Museum Café

9 Bleecker Street (near the Bowery)

A celebration of the writings of Diane Di Prima

Host – Gordon Gilbert

(no open mic)

$2 at the door

helps to support Yippie Museum Cafe

Readers:

Austin Alexis

Robert Gibbons

Puma Perl

Hala Alyan

Viviana Grell

Bob Quatrone

Lauren Marie Cappello

Kim Kalesti

Heidi Schwartz

John Clinton

Louise Landes Levi accompanied by Wayne Lopes

Susan Scutti

Jackie Cooper

Maria Lisella

Jack Tricarico

Jessica Femiani

Valery Oisteanu

Clare Ultimo

Kat Georges

Eve Packer

Ernest K.Woodley

Two PWP authors will be reading the works of Diane di Prima as well as their own:  Austin Alexis, author of  Lovers & Drag Queens and For Lincoln: & Other Poems, and Maria Lisella, author of  Two Naked Feet.

Poets Wear Prada at Rainbow Book Fair this Saturday March 26 in NYC

This Saturday, March 26, from 11AM to 5PM, Poets Wear Prada will be sharing at table with poet Jee Leong Koh and Bench Press at the 3rd Annual Rainbow Book Fair, the only GLBT book fair in the U.S.A.. The book fair  which is sponsored in part by CLAGS will be held at The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center in Greenwich Village located at 208 West 13th Street in NYC.  For more information about the fair visit:  http://www.rainbowbookfair.org/

This is the largest LGBT book event in America, and it is FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

Be a part of the most exciting lgbt book event in the U.S. Join authors, poets, publishers, university presses, and the entire reading and writing community in this diverse spectacular of words, images, and talent. With the Center’s dramatic large 3rd floor exhibition space, additional rooms for panels, poetry readings, and author events, free books and hourly book giveaways, mingling, and meeting authors and readers like yourself.

The book fair includes over 50 exhibitors.  Our friends Ice, Jane Ormerod, Brant Lyon  from Uphook Press and Kat Georges and Peter Carlaftes from Three Rooms Press will also have tables with books for sale at the fair.

Four of the writers published by Poets Wear Prada, Austin Alexis, Joel Allegretti, Jee Leong Koh and Richard Marx Weinraub will be among the fifty GBLT writers who will be reading at the Poets Salon curated by Regie Cabico and Nathaniel Siegel:

COME HEAR ! POETS AT THE POETS SALON

RAINBOW BOOK FAIR SATURDAY MARCH 26 2011 THE CENTER NYC

11AM TO 12NOON

A. Tennessee Williams

1. Steven Cordova

2. Bill Kushner

3. Richard Tayson

4. Jason Roush

5. James Pergola

6. Sarah Chinn

7. Regie Cabico

Each poet reads 5 minutes each Fifteen minute break 11:45am-12:00noon


12NOON TO 1PM

1. AUSTIN ALEXIS

2. Arianne Benford

3. AJ Bialo

4. Sean Patrick Conlon

5. Seren Divine

6. Jameson Fitzpatrick

7. Joseph O. Legaspi

8. Gregory Laynor

9. Tamiko Beyer

Each poet reads 5 minutes each Fifteen minute break 12:45pm-1:00pm

1PM TO 2PM

1. Betsy Andrews

2. Guillermo Filice Castro

3. CAConrad

4. Walter Holland

5. Michael Klein

6. JEE LEONG KOH

7. Laura Neuman

8. Angelo Nikolopoulos

9. Erica Kaufman

Each poet reads 5 minutes each Fifteen minute break 1:45pm-2:00pm
2PM TO 3PM

1. JOEL ALLEGRETTI

2. Michael Brazell

3. Marc E. Dones

4. Sarah Dowling

5. James Pergola

6. RICHARD MARX WEINRAUB

7. Saeed Jones

8. Vittoria Repetto

9. Scott Hightower

Each poet reads 5 minutes each Fifteen minute break 2:45pm-3:00pm

3PM TO 4PM

1. Cheryl B.

2. Leopolding Core

3. Davidson Garrett

4. Tamika LaDawn Harbor

5. Zoe Contros Kearl

6. Rickey Laurentiis

7. Timothy Liu

8. David Messineo

9. Eileen Myles

Each poet reads 5 minutes each Fifteen minute break 3:45pm-4:00pm

4PM TO 5PM

1. Bakar Wilson

2. Tim Peterson (Trace)

3. Moonshine Shorey

4. Stephanie Gray

5. Sam LaRoche

6. Joanna Hoffman

7. Natalie E. Illum

8. Jeffery Berg

9. Nathaniel Siegel

Z. James Purdy

Each poet reads 5 minutes each Fifteen minute break 4:45pm-5:00pm

Save 20% on Your Book Purchases at LULU dot com this March!

LULU.com helps you celebrate SPRING  with a new book!

Enter SPRINGREAD at the checkout for 20% off your book purchase through 3/31/2011 (This coupon can only be used once but will be applied to all the books in your shopping cart for maximum savings of $25)


Visit our LULU storefront at http://stores.lulu.com/poetswearprada to purchase copies of

THRUM: Poems by JOEL ALLEGRETTI
OUTSIDE GIRL by CYNDI DAWSON
GATHERED AT HER SKY: Life Poems by TANTRA-ZAWADI
DEAD RECKONING: Poems by GENE AUPREY

OUTSIDE GIRL by CYNDI DAWSON
$12.00

Lived through the NYC downtown ’80s? Cyndi Dawson takes you home. And if you were never there, you are now, through the penetrating glare of an "Outside Girl" who brings the reader through the scene, the clubs, the drugs, the grit, and ties it all together with love. With this collection, Cyndi Dawson, who is known largely for her stage performances, establishes herself as fierce, forceful, raw, punk poet in the tradition of Jim Carroll, who holds her own on the page as well as the stage. — PUMA PERL, author of KNUCKLE TATTOOS and BELINDA AND HER FRIENDS





 





 

GATHERED AT HER SKY: Life Poems by TANTRA-ZAWADI
$12.00

  “Tantra's writing oozes with the passion of Neruda and the sensitivity of Sonia. Her words can warm the coldest of hearts.” — Bruce George, Co-Founder of RUSSELL SIMMONS DEF POETRY JAM

“Tantra-zawadi's poetry speaks of a global consciousness and ambassadorship; each word of every line reminds us of the connection we have to one another in the race to win.”— Tshombe Sekou Harris, Founder/Host of FREEDOM VERSE CAFE

Tantra-zawadi, an award winning poet/artist/filmmaker from Brooklyn, New York, has performed to standing-room audiences in the USA, South Africa, London, Germany and Toronto. GATHERED AT HER SKY contains excerpts from her off-Broadway production SOLDIER BLUES, and her one-woman performance piece GIRL: A CHOREOSPECTIVE, as well as the text of previously recorded spoken word tracks.

 

THRUM: Poems by JOEL ALLEGRETTI
$12.00

In THRUM, Joel Allegretti, deftly and delightfully, strums his magical musical instrument, which is poetry, as he forges fresh forms of songs and stories that are inspired by strummers’s strings. “Context is everything,” Allegretti reminds us, and we’re planted in the heart of a global ancient/modern orchestra. Prepare yourself for the revelatory performance. --Martine Bellen



 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

DEAD RECKONING: Poems by GENE AUPREY
$15.00

 
Author Gene Auprey offers a new collection of poems; a meditation on nature, life and death, and the ever-present possibilities of hope, humor and love. “At home somewhere between the pastoral and the familial, violence and tranquility (often showing how they are sometimes the same side of the same coin), Gene Auprey’s voice is one of restrained and steady power.” — James Midgely, Editor MIMESIS

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)

Wed March 1 Poet MADELINE TIGER Reads at Williams Center for Arts, Rutherford NJ

Plus the words of William Carlos Williams

& open readings from the floor

This program is held at

Williams Center for the Arts

Marcus Theatre

One Williams Plaza

Rutherford, NJ 07070

Call the Rutherford Public Library at 201.939.8600 for more information

http://www.williamscenter.org/

Dear Family & Friends,

Although it was a cold and icy night last night, Lisa Sisler and Dorinda Wegener provided a strong and engaging feature, playing off their diversity, and Dorinda started off the evening with her reflections on the conflict between William Carlos Williams’s Romanticism as represented by his mother Elena’s influence and his scientific, Modernist commitment as represented by Ezra Pound’s influence. Once again I thank John Barrale and Claudia Serea for introducing our features.

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

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

Madeline Tiger

The WCW Poetry Cooperative of Southern Bergen County is pleased to invite Madeline Tiger, noted poet and teacher, as the feature on Wednesday, March, 2011 at 7:00 p. m. As usual this monthly program will also feature the words of William Carlos Williams, this time by Madeline Tiger 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 in the Marcus Theater of the Williams Center for the Arts (www.williamscenter.org ) located at 1 Williams Plaza in Rutherford, N. J.

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 J. Trause

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About Our Featured Poet:

Madeline Tiger’s tenth collection of poems, The Atheist’s Prayer, appeared from Dos Madres Press, (Spring, 2010). Her other recent collections include The Earth Which Is All (2008) and Birds of Sorrow and Joy: New and Selected Poems, 1970-2000 (2003). Her work appears regularly in numerous local and national journals and anthologies.

Ms Tiger is also a noted teacher in the Writers-in-the-Schools Program of the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Playwrights Theatre of NJ; The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Poetry Programs; The Montclair Adult School (Memoir Writing); and in private poetry writing workshops for adults.


She has garnered prizes and fellowships from the NJ State Council on the Arts: 1978, 1980, 1987; Virginia Center for the Creative Arts: 1987, 1988, 1990; Blue Mountain Center, 1988; Columbia University School of the Arts, 1985-86; Poetica Magazine, 2007; and Artist/Teacher award from Playwrights Theater of NJ, 1993. In addition, she was honored with the Pioneer Teaching Artist Award of the NJ Arts Education Collective in April 2008.

Born in New York City, Madeline Tiger has lived in NJ for most of her life. She was a resident of Montclair, NJ from 1963 until moving to Bloomfield in 2000 where she lives under a weeping cherry tree. Ms Tiger has five children and seven grandchildren.

Sat Mar 19: Greek American Writers w/ JOHN J TRAUSE 6pm Cornelia St Cafe NYC

Dear Family and Friends,


Please join us at this event at which I will be presenting my poetry on SATURDAY, MARCH 19, 2011 ( St. Joseph ’s Day), 6 – 8 p. m.

The Cornelia Street Café
29 Cornelia Street
(Between West 4th & Bleecker Streets)
New York City
(212) 989-9319

A $7.00 entry fee includes one complimentary house drink.

Please see the attached flyer and also the announcement in elegant Papyrus by the eminent host of the series Dean Kostos:

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Dear Friends,

On the night before the vernal equinox, five gifted poets will read at the Cornelia Street Cafe. For full details, please open the attached flyer.

Think spring,

Dean

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I look forward to seeing you there.

Peace,

JOHN J TRAUSE

JOHN


P. S. No, I am not Greek or Greek-American, but I do a mean Sappho in her original Aeolic dialect.