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[Self-]Listings / May
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Some special events this month:
04 8:30 $5 Exoterica concludes its 10th anniversary season, featuring Trinidadian poet Roger Bonair-Agard (Nuyorican "Fresh Poet", 1998, "Individual Slam Champion", National Poetry Slam, Chicago)
05 1 p.m. Free. A Celebration of New Jersey Poets: Gerald Stern, C.K. Williams, John Bargowski, Laura Boss, Constance Quarterman Bridges + Open. The Distinguished Poetry Series, Poetry Center, Passaic County Community College Hamilton Club Bldg, 32 Church Street, Paterson, NJ. Info: (973) 684.6555; TNAIK@pccc.cc.nj.us.
06 3 p.m. Free. Yusef Komunyakaa: Ringel Memorial Lecture. Teachers & Writers' Collaborative & Johns Hopkins University, Mudd Hall, Johns Hopkins University. Info: (212) 691.6590; www.twc.org.
07 7 p.m.Cave Canem Benefit Book Party and Reading. Cornelius Eady plus eleven Cave Canem artists at the Fourteenth (14th) Street Y. Proceeds go to fund the book prize. Judge: Marilyn Nelson.
11 10:30 p.m. If This is Just a Head Trip, How Come They Stole My Luggage? Staff from Poet to Poet and Medicinal Purposes Literary Review perform at St. Mark's Poetry Project on behalf of The Poetry Event Schedule.
Featured readers include Robert Dunn, Executive Editor (Playing in Traffic), Thomas Catterson, Managing Editor (This Pot Has Pepper); Leigh Harrison, Associate Editor (Our Harps Upon the Willows), Anthony Scarpantonio (Place Your Bets); Jacqueline Annette, and Evie Ivy, Consulting Editor (The First Woman Who Danced).
12 10 p.m. $10 5-State Slam-Off Finale at Nuyorican. Info: (718) 444-7464.
14 8 p.m. $12 The Poet's Theatre: Karl Kirchwey's Adaptation of Euripides's Alcestis: Performance in Verse at the 92nd St Y.
A story of a contemporary marriage and the cataclysmic events confronted by the generation of World War II. Director: Robert Scanlan
17 6:30 p.m. International Rivers Network Benefit Dinner at San Francisco's Maritime Museum in Aquatic Park, with guest poet Gary Snyder.
[The June issue of Big City Lit will carry a review of the event and more on the mission of the IRN. See www.irn.org. Ed.]
17 7 p.m. Ellen Bryant Voigt: "Lost & Found -- Speech, Music and Repetition in the Poems of Randall Jarrell." Poets House, 72 Spring St( 212) 431-7920 (www.poetshouse.org)
17 7 p.m. $8 A Tribute to Anne Sexton: Betsy Andrews, Marie Howe, Chris Stroffolino at Wollman Auditorium, Cooper Union, 51 Astor Place. (212) 254-9628
20 4 p.m. Free. The New Yorker Poetry Festival in Bryant Park
C.K. Williams, Jorie Graham, Mary Oliver, Donald Hall, others.
Pick up tickets at 3 p.m. from Festival Café, 14-20 West 40th. In case of rain, the reading will move indoors to the Celeste Bartos Forum in the library.
23 7:30 p.m. $15 Letters to a Young Poet. Poets House and Makor present an evening with Stanley Kunitz and Lucille Clifton, designed to inspire developing writers. At Makor. Seating limited. $15/$10 students. Box office: (212) 601-1000.
[Order: NYC regular series, NYC single events; Upstream regular series, single events. Ed.]
NYC Regular Series:
ABC-NoRio
Sundays at 3 p.m. $3
156 Rivington St
Open
Hosts: J. D. Rage, Bob Hart, Carl Herr, Peter Kerns and Bruce Weber
Info: (718) 638-7039
27 Rachel Levitsky, Greg Fuchs, Jonathan Winell.
Albany & Upstate
[See "Upstream"]
Back Fence
Sundays at 3:15 p.m. One drink min.
155 Bleecker St (at Sullivan)
(212) 475-9221
Feature(s) + open.
Host: Brigid Murnaghan
06 Carl Martin / Kam Bollyfield
13 The Unbearables
20 Benefit for The Poetry Calendar
27 Poet to Poet
Baggot Inn, Unnamable Poetry Reading [See Series on Series, January 2001 issue. Ed.]
Saturdays at 3 p.m. unless o/w noted. $5 ($2 discount on first drink.) Free for listeners.
85 W 3rd St (Sullivan/Thompson)
(212) 477-0622
Info: (718) 499-4517
(http://www.baggotinn.com)
Feature(s) + open.
Curators: Steve Bennett / David Mark Speer
[The series may be unnamable, but there's no end to the ingenuity its curators bring to naming the weekly sessions. Ed.]
Bluestockings Women's Bookstore and Café
172 Allen St (at Stanton/ F train to 2nd Av)
Events begin at 7 and are free unless o/w noted.
(212) 777-6028 / fax: 777-6042
www.bluestockings.com (info@)
Contact: Emily Burton
03 Screening: Amala, a Himalayan Quest for the Meaning of Womanhood, directed by Elizabeth Snider
04 Sharlene Hesse-Biber, author of Am I Thin Enough Yet?
09 3 p.m. Dissertation Writers Group. Graduate students working on Ph.D., MA, or MFA theses. Organized by Liena Vayazman, Ph.D. candidate in Art History at Yale.
09 Susan Gaines reads from Carbon Dreams
10 Melinda Given Guttmann reads from The Enigma of Anna O.: A Biography of Bertha Pappenheim, the first major biography of this famed Freudian patient and founder of the first Jewish feminist movement.
11 Art opening 1:30-3 p.m. Group show features Cascades High School students Michelle Gonzalez, Tamika Troche, Jiham Noesi, Lauren Ng, Ebonee Gibbs, Jalene Galena, Kamillah Fraser, Kami Esau, Danielly Battle, and Gloria de Los Santos.
16 Patsy Clarke and Eloise Vaughn read from Keep Singing: Two Mothers, Two Sons, and their Fight Against Jesse Helms.
17 Marleen S. Barr reads from Next Generation: New Voices and Velocities in Feminist Science Fiction Criticism
20 Kate Millett (Sexual Politics) reads from Mother Millett.
22 $3 "Women Make Movies" screens Shanti Thakur's Seven Hours to Burn
23 Women's acoustic open mic featuring Julie Boyd / Gina Holsopple / Betina Hershey.
24 Cass Daglish Reads from Nin
29 Vittoria repetto hosts an all-women open mic. Features: Elaine Sexton and Jilsarah Moscowitz
Bronx Museum
1040 Grand Concourse (165th St)
(718) 681-6000
30 6:45 p.m. Free. Cop Poems: Sarah Cortez, Angelo Verga, Jackie Sheeler, David Mills & Maggie Balistreri read poems by and about the police from a forthcoming anthology.
Caffè Taci
2841 Broadway (110th Street)
Venue for most BigCity Lit™ mid-monthly recording sessions. Spacious, high-ceilinged Tuscan ambience, succulent food, live opera on weekends. Info: (212) 864-2823.
10 Thurs 7:00 "Degrees of Affinity" : The Columbia University Writing Division
The second in the magazine's "Degrees" series appears in the current issue, presenting distinguished faculty and alumni of the Columbia MFA program. Contributors include: Alfred Corn, Lucie Brock-Broido, William Wadsworth, Jeanne Marie Beaumont, Tracy K. Smith, David Yezzi, and others. Live music. $15 minimum. Reservations strongly recommended: (212) 678-5345.
CBGB's Gallery
303 Bowery
982-4052
06 8 p.m. $5 Performance celebrating the release of "Let's Dine Like Jack Johnson Tonight", the first CD by Bruce Weber's No Chance Ensemble. With nelson alxndr, bob hart, bruce weber, joanne pagano weber.
CCS Reading Series
Sundays at 3:00 p.m.
$7.00 suggested, $5.00 students, seniors.
Civic Center Synagogue, 49 White Street, NYC.
3 blocks below Canal, between Church / B'way.
Founding Executive Director: Martha Rhodes
Director: Soraya Shalforoosh
Program Assistants: Patrick Donnelly / Cathy McArthur
20 A Four Way Books Event: Joy Manesiotis / Terri Ford / Michael Collier / Gregory Orr
Center for Book Arts, Phoenix Reading Series
Thursdays at 7 p.m. unless o/w noted. $3 contribution.
28 W 27th St 3rd Floor
Info: (212) 264-4792 (mvidibor@home.com)
Feature(s) + open.
Curators: Marlene Vidibor and Michael Graves
03 $5 Benefit for the Center for Book Arts. Several CBA poets read from their recent work. Limited edition broadsides designed and letterpress printed at CBA, will be sold to benefit The Center. www.centerforbookarts.org
24 Edmund Pennant
Cooper Union
51 Astor Place
*17 7p.m. $8 A Tribute to Anne Sexton: Betsy Andrews, Marie Howe, Chris Stroffolino (212) 254-9628
Cornelia Street Café [See Series on Series, February 2001 issue. Ed.]
Sundays, Wednesdays, Fridays at 6 p.m. unless o/w noted. $6 (first drink free)
29 Cornelia St (Bleecker/W 4th)
(212) 989-9319 (www.corneliastreetcafe.com)
Features only except Fridays.
Curator: Angelo Verga
Friday night open curators: Maggie Balistreri and Jackie Sheeler
(Feature at 7:45.) Info: www.poetz.com
02 PAOLO JAVIER, SARAH GAMBITO, PRAGEETA SHARMA
04 GEORGE HARVILLA & GLUE PUPPET+ OPEN
06 TONI LEVY, PAUL LAYTON, DICK LOURIE
09 BRUCE WEBER'S NO CHANCE ENSEMBLE, PLUS OPEN
11 MIRIAM STANLEY + OPEN
12 ITALIAN AMERICAN WRITERS, FEATURED READER:
13 LINDA LERNER, AMY RITCHIE, TONY HOFFMAN
16 SHORT FICTION: JOHN MCCAFFREY / DAVID SPEER
18 ELIZABETH HARRINGTON + OPEN
19 Greek American Writers
20 LIDIA TORRES, GENINE LENTINE, JOHN HOPPENTHALER
23 DENVER BUSTON, TOM CATTERSON, DANIEL NESTER, CAROL WIERZBICKI
24 BARRY WALLENSTEIN (POETRY) IN PERFORMANCE WITH MUSICIANS FROM MALI (JAZZ)
25 GERTRUDE MORRIS + OPEN
26 Arab American Writers
27 MARCELLA DURAND, MICHELE MADIGAN SOMERVILLE, PAUL VIOLI, HOSTED BY DONNA CARTELLI
30 ON THE WALL: FICTION, WRITERS FROM NYC'S MFA PROGRAMS, HOSTED BY ASARI BEALE AND EUGENIA KLOPSIS
The Drawing Center
35 Wooster St
(212) 219-2166
Ear Inn
Saturdays at 3 p.m. unless o/w noted. Free.
326 Spring St (west of Greenwich)
Info: Michael Broder (212) 246-5074
Exoterica [See Series Review, March 2001 issue.]
The Society for Ethical Culture
4450 Fieldston Rd (Riverdale, Bronx)
3 p.m. Feature(s) + open.
Director: Rick Pernod
Info: (718) 549-5192 (wubbies@earthlink.net)
Spring calendar of events: http://members.aol.com/exoterica
*04 8:30 $5 Exoterica concludes its 10th anniversary season, featuring Trinidadian poet Roger Bonair-Agard, named A Little Bit Louder's "LOUDPOET" Champion. His debut collection of poems And Chaos Congealed was recently published by Fly By Night Press.
Fourteenth (14th) Street Y [See Series on Series, December 2000 issue. Ed.]
344 E 14th St (1st Ave)
(212) 780-0800 x 255
Director: Wendy Sabin-Laker
Poet-in-Residence: Veronica Golos
07 7 p.m. Inviting Artist Series: Cornelius Eady plus eleven Cave Canem artists. Cave Canem Benefit Book Party and Reading.
A Gathering of the Tribes
(See "Tribes")
Hunter College
68th St / Lexington Av
8th Floor Faculty Lounge
(212) 772-5164
Host: Elena Georgiou
KGB Bar ['Degrees of Apprenticeship' MFA series poets (Brooklyn College) recorded live 12/18. See Audio/CD. Ed.]
Mondays at 7:30 p.m., unless o/w noted. Free.
85 E 4th St (212) 505-3360
Features only.
Curators: Star Black and David Lehman
07 Mark Bibbins curates: Mark Levine / Matthea Harvey
[See Diana Manister's review of Harvey's Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form in the March 2001 issue. Ed.]
14 Star Black / David Lehman
The Kitchen 519 W 19th St
Info: (212) 255-5793, ext. 11
Various theatrical performances and readings. Call for schedule.
[See review of Edwin Torres's Gecko Suite in March 2001 issue. Ed.]
The Knitting Factory
Saturdays at 6 p.m. unless o/w noted. $5
74 Leonard St (IRT 1 or 9 to Franklin St)
Feature(s) + open.
Host: Yictove
05 Charlie Mosler
12 Gerry Gomez Pearlberg
19 P.R. Smith
26 P.R. Smith (repeat)
Korova Milk Bar
(See "Milk Bar")
Libraries in The New York Public Library System
02 3:30 p.m. Free. Poetry in the Branches: Young Adult Workshop with Veronica Golos. 96th St Branch, 112 E 96th St. (212) 289-0908.
05 1 p.m. Free. Poetry Slam. The Will Library, 1500 Central Av, Yonkers. Host: Andre Mayes. Info: (914) 337.1500.
09 3:30 p.m. Free. Poetry in the Branches: Young Adult Workshop with Veronica Golos. 96th St Branch, 112 E 96th St. (212) 289-0908.
10 6 p.m. Free. Poetry in the Branches. Robin Beck / Deborah Tall. Riverside Branch Library, 127 Amsterdam Avenue. Info: (212) 870.1810.
12 2:30 Free. Poetry in the Branches: Young Adult Writing Workshop with Mariposa. Allerton Branch Library, 2740 Barnes Av The Bronx. Info: (718) 881-4240.
12 2 p.m. Free. Robin Morgan / Emily Chang, 96th St Branch Library, 112 E 96th St (212) 289-0908.
15 3:30 p.m. Poetry in the Branches: Young Adult Writing Workshop with Clara Sala. Allerton Branch Library, 2740 Barnes Av., The Bronx. (718) 881-4240
16 3:30 p.m. Free. Poetry in the Branches: Young Adult Workshop with Veronica Golos. 96th St Branch, 112 E 96th St. (212) 289-0908.
19 2 p.m. Free. Poetry Grand Slam. Getty Square Library, 7 Main St, Yonkers. Host: Andre Mayes. Info: (914) 337.1500.
19 2:30 Free. Poetry in the Branches: Young Adult Writing Workshop with Mariposa. Allerton Branch Library, 2740 Barnes Av The Bronx. Info: (718) 881-4240.
19 3 p.m. Free. Quraysh Ali Lansana, Rugby Branch Library, 1000 Utica Av, Bklyn. Info: (718) 566.0054.
20 4 p.m. Free. The New Yorker Poetry Festival in Bryant Park
C.K. Williams, Jorie Graham, Mary Oliver, Donald Hall, others.
Pick up tickets at 3 p.m. from Festival Café, 14-20 West 40th. In case of rain, the reading will move indoors to the Celeste Bartos Forum in the library.
22 3:30 p.m. Poetry in the Branches: Young Adult Writing Workshop with Clara Sala. Allerton Branch Library, 2740 Barnes Av., The Bronx. (718) 881-4240
29 3:30 p.m. Poetry in the Branches: Young Adult Writing Workshop with Clara Sala. Allerton Branch Library, 2740 Barnes Av., The Bronx. (718) 881-4240
Makor [See Series Review, January2001 issue. Ed.]
35 W 67th St (Lincoln Ctr)
(212) 601-1037 (www.makor.org)
Eve Grubin, Poetry Series Curator (eve.grubin@makor.org)
03 Thurs 7:30 $7 Word of Mouth Thursdays: Memoir Night
Hosted by Alix Strauss, featuring Joseph Berger (Displaced Persons), Stacy Horn (Waiting for My Cats to Die), and Nell Casey (Unholy Ghosts: Writers on Depression).
03 Thurs 7:30 $7 Men on Men: A Poetry Reading And Discussion
Featuring Yusef Komunyakaa, Tony Hoagland, Jason Shinder
07 Mon 7:30 Exclusive Screening of Fast Food, Fast Women, the award-winning new film by renowned Israeli writer/director Amos Kollek. Quirky and touching lives and loves of three overworked and cynical New Yorkers.
10 Thurs 7:30-9:00 $10 + book donation (appropriate for ages 2-9)
Cover to Cover: Reading and Book Drive for Homeless Youth
Feature: Melissa Bank (The Girl's Guide to Hunting and Fishing)
10 Thurs 7:30 $5 Shpatzir: Camden Joy, author of Boy Island and The Last Rock Star Book. ("guerrilla rock criticism")
10, 17, 24, 31 Four Thursdays: "Poems from Poems" Instructor: Eve Grubin
Poets are readers. Works to be read: Sharon Olds, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Gwendolyn Brooks, Stanley Kunitz and others. Craft and technique: iambic pentameter, the sonnet, sestina, pantoum. Workshopping and critique of participant poems.
15 Tues 7:30 $5 Shmear the Queer: A Literary Launch Reading with Sarah Schulman, Tsaurah Litzky, Ahimsa Timoteo Bohdran, Brian Kay, and Scott Berry.
*23 Wed 7:30 $15/$10 students
Poets House and Makor present Letters to a Young Poet: An Evening with Stanley Kunitz and Lucille Clifton (212) 601-1000. Seating is limited.
Manitoba's
Proletkult Poetry Circus
Feature + open.
Events begin at 7 unless o/w noted. $5
Ave B/ 7th St
Info: (212) 459-2653 (magdalena@poetic.com)
05 David Roskos
Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue
(212) 570-3807
12 6 p.m. William Blake, Read by Christopher Cartmill and Michelle Hurst.
Milk Bar (Korova Milk Bar)
200 Avenue A (at 12th St)
Events at 7:30 unless o/w noted. $2 (one drink min.)
Info: (718) 389-2666
Monthly reading
Moroccan Star
Sundays at 1 p.m. $3 min. + $3 contribution
205 Atlantic Ave (Brooklyn Heights)
Feature(s) + open.
Hosts: Evie Ivy and Tom Oleszczuk
Info: (718) 789-3943
Ninety-Second (92nd) Street Y [See Series Reviews, February 2001 issue. Ed.]
1395 Lexington Avenue
(212) 415-5500 (http://www.92ndStY.org)
07 8 p.m. $15 Simon Gray and Edna O'Brien.
*14 8 p.m. $12 The Poet's Theatre: Karl Kirchwey's Adaptation of Euripides's Alcestis, a Performance in Verse.
22 8 p.m. $15 John Irving (The World According to Garp)
04 Sun 7:30 $20 Roger Rosenblatt & Friends: God & Nature {Series session, Youth & Age, reviewed in March issue. See Series Reviews.]
05 Mon 8 $12 Linda Bierds / Jay Wright: Distinctly American Poets
11 Sun 11-1 $26 Biographers & Brunch Series: Frances Kiernan on Mary McCarthy
11 Sun 2.-5:00 $75 A Literary Seminar on Elizabeth Bowen: Kennedy Fraser
15 Thur 7 $70 (4 sessions) An Introduction to the Art of Storytelling: Peninnah Schram
19 Mon 8:15 $12 James Lasdun / Les Murray
25 Sun 10-4 $55 A Tour of the Literary Bronx: Borough historian Lloyd Ultan
26 Mon 8 $12 Mary Oliver (Pulitzer Prize)
27 Tues 6:30 $75 (5 sessions) Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass: Judith Granger Ph.D. (Read Alice's Adventures in Wonderland for 1st session.)
28 Wed 6:30 $75 (5 sessions) George Eliot's Heroines: J. Granger Ph.D. (Read Middlemarch for 1st session.)
Nuyorican Poets Cafè
236 E 3rd St (B/C)
12 10 p.m. $10 Five-State Slam-Off Finale. $400 grand prize. (718) 744-7464.
The NY Open Center
83 Spring St
(www.opencenter.org)
The Orange Bear
47 Murray Street.
Poet to Poet
Sundays at 4 p.m. unless o/w noted $3 + $3 minimum
Info: 212.566.3705
MelindaLevokove@excite.com.
20 Maude Ena Headlam / Midy Levokove + Open
Phoenix Reading Series
(see Center for Book Arts)
Pink Pony West Reading Series
Fridays at 6 p.m. unless o/w noted.
Cornelia Street Café (address, admission as above)
Feature follows open at 7:45 p.m.
Hosts: Jackie Sheeler and Maggie Balisteri
Info: www.poetz.com
(See listings under Cornelia Street.)
Poetry Project, St. Mark's Church [See Series on Series, December 2000 issue. Ed.]
Events cost $7 unless o/w noted.
131 E 10th St (2nd Ave)
(212) 674-0910 (poproj@artomatic.com)
Readings: Monday (8 p.m. open, 7:30 sign-up), Wednesday and Friday (8:00 or 10:30).
Director: Ed Friedman / Program Coordinator: Tracy Blackmer
Details: (http://www.poetryproject.com)
02 8 pm Eleni Sikelianos, Earliest Worlds (Coffee House Press, 2001) ("original . . . incomparable." -- Alice Notley) and Tony Towle, The History of the Invitation: New & Selected Poems 1963-2000 (Hanging Loose Press, 2001).
07 8 pm OPEN, sign up at 7:30.
08 8 p.m. The Art of Listening: Poems and Criticism
Workshop taught by Gary Lenhart, author of Father and Son Night (1999 Hanging Loose Press 1999) and editor of The Teachers & Writers Guide to William Carlos Williams (Teachers & Writers, 1998) and Clinch: Selected Poems of Michael Scholnick (Coffee House Press, 1998). "[P]oems so well made their craftsmanship is invisible" -- Ron Padgett.
09 8 pm DIANE DI PRIMA / GARY LENHART
Diane di Prima will be reading from her just-published memoir, Recollections of My Life as a Woman (Viking). Ms. di Prima is considered by many to be the most important woman writer of the Beat movement. She edited The Floating Bear.
11 10:30 p m. IF THIS IS JUST A HEAD TRIP, HOW COME THEY STOLE MY LUGGAGE? A presentation by members of the Poet to Poet/Medicinal Purposes Literary Review staff on behalf of The Poetry Event Schedule. Featured readers include Robert Dunn, Executive Editor (Playing in Traffic), Thomas M. Catterson, Managing Editor, (This Pot Has Pepper); Leigh Harrison, Associate Editor (Our Harps Upon the Willows), Anthony Scarpantonio (PlaceYour Bets); Jacqueline Annette, and Evie Ivy, Consulting Editor (The First Woman Who Danced).
14 8 p.m. $7 Luisa Giugliano / David Kirschenbaum.
15 7 p.m. $7 Deepi-Talki: The Griot's Poetics, a Workshop with Lorenzo Thomas.
16 8 p.m. $7 Ed Friedman / Lorenzo Thomas.
21 8 p.m. $7 Diana Rickard / Roger Snell.
25 10:30 p.m. $7 Kiss It Up to God: Poetry, Funk & Gospel with Nadine Mozon & Friends.
28 8 p.m. $7 El Gran Final de las Estrelles de Lunes: Regie Cabico, Betsy Andrews, Roberto Tejada and others "do" American Poetry Theatre.
30 8 p.m.? $ A Hal Willner Poetry & Music Spectacular
Poets House
Seminar center and library co-founded in 1985 by Stanley Kunitz (U.S. Poet Laureate).
72 Spring St
Events are $7 / free for members unless o/w indicated.
(212) 431-7920
(www.poetshouse.org)
01 7 p.m. Anne Carson on Decreation: How Sappho, Marguerite Porete, and Simone Weil Tell God. Fence Magazine and Poets House.
05 4 p.m. $75/$60. Workshop with Eamon Grennan.
*17 7 p.m. Ellen Bryant Voigt: "Lost & Found -- Speech, Music and Repetition in the Poems of Randall Jarrell."
Posman Books
Sunday afternoons at 3 p.m., unless o/w noted
One University Pl (NE corner, Washington Sq)
(212) 533-2665
Curator: Tom Padilla
[Posman held its last reading in April and has closed. We expect to carry at least one article shortly on this well-loved bookstore. Ed.]
Reading Between A & B
510 E 11th St
Unless o/w noted, free readings are Mondays at 8.
www.readAB.com
Curators: Meghan Cleary / Jonathan Thirkield
07 Hugh Seidman, Rebecca Wolff, Christopher Stackhouse
21 Eileen Myles, Thaddeus Rutkowski, Terri Ford
Saturn Series at Revival Bar [See Series on Series, March 2001 issue. Ed.]
Mondays at 7:30 p.m., unless o/w noted. $3 donation.
129 E 15th St
Feature(s) + Open
Hosts: John Chism, Su Polo and William Duke (www.poetrycentral.com)
Taci (see Caffè Taci)
Teachers & Writers Collaborative
5 Union Square. Info: 212.691.6590; www.twc.org.
01 7 p.m. Free. Kwaa Books.
03 7 p.m. Free. Poetry City! Jarvis Moorehead / Brian Keith Jackson.
10 6 p.m. Free. Book Party: Regina McBride.
11 6 p.m. Free. Book Party: Hanging Loose Press.
12 6 p.m. Bringing the Noise! All Youth Open with spoken word, hip hop, poetry.
17 7 p.m. Poetry City! Patricia Storace / Calvin Baker
18 4 p.m. Holler If Hear Me! Greg Michie with Nancy Serrano and Juan Palacios
24 6 p.m. Book Party. Gerry Gomez Pearlberg
30 6 p.m. Book Party: Brooklyn Review
31 7 p.m. Free. Poetry City! Kathryn Davis / Dale Peck.
A Gathering of the Tribes
Sundays, 5-7 p.m., unless o/w noted.
285 E 3rd St (C/D)
(212) 674-3778 (info@tribes.org)
Open.
http://www.tribes.org
[Complete schedule not available at press time. Check web site. Ed.]
03-31 6-9 p.m. Fantasia in The Theme of Berger, opus ATCG: photographs by Kevin Clarke, curated by Mary S. Chen.
04 (Every Friday) 7:30-9:30 $3 The Stoop Poetry Workshop
(bring several copies of one poem.)
05 7-9 p.m. $10 Pianist Charles Gayle presents the music of Jazz greats Tadd Dameron, Gil Evans, and George Russell.
06 5-7 p.m. GOS Feature: Lourdes Vazquez + open.
13 5-7 p.m. GOS Feature: Malcolm I. Barrett + open.
19 2-5 p.m. Artist's Talk:
19 7-9 p.m. $10 pianist Dave Burrell playing from the repertories of Jelly Roll Morton and Duke Ellington
20 5-7 p.m. Reading and Book Party for Eye of the Fish by Luis Francia
27 4-6 p.m. Memorial Day Poetry, Music, and Whimsy
Featuring: Melange, Richard West, Lisa Moira,
Jigger Turner, Susan Mitchell and special guests
The Underground Lounge
955 West End Ave (at 107th St)
Open mic, Mondays at 8, hosted by the Freestyle Family Orchestra.
www.freestylefamily.com
Unnamable
(See Baggot Inn)
Urbana
Sundays at 7 p.m., unless o/w noted. $5
CBGB's Gallery
313 Bowery (Bleecker) (www.cbgb.com/slamschedule.html)
The West End Bar
2911 Broadway (113/114th Sts)
(212) 662-8830
Open: First Sunday of the month, 8 p.m.
Universal Spectrum Series: hiphop / poetry/ folk vocals / jazz / storytelling
Host: Zander
Wordsmiths@Halcyon
227 Smith St., Brooklyn
Thursdays at 7:30. Free.
Sponsored by: Marisa Simon
Info: (718) 260-9299 wordsmiths@halcyonline.com.
NYC Single Events:
01 $6 WASHINGTON SQUARE Winter Issue Launch! Mary Jo Bang, Cornelius Eady, Eamon Grennan, Michael Harper, Maxine Kumin, David Lehman, Philip Levine, etc. 19 University Place. Info: www.nyu.edu/gsas/program/cwp/wsr.htm.
*06 3 p.m. Free. Yusef Komunyakaa: Ringel Memorial Lecture. Teachers & Writers' Collaborative & Johns Hopkins University, Mudd Hall, Johns Hopkins University. Info: (212) 691.6590; www.twc.org.
07 7 p.m. Free. "Verse Circus with Mike Fleming". Poetry/Music. St. Mark's Theatre, 94 St. Mark's Pl. Info: Raven6364@aol.com.
12 2 p.m. $3 p.m. Festival of the Arts VI. D. Nurkse + Open. First Unitarian Church, Pierrepont at Clinton Streets, Bklyn. Info: (718) 624-5466.
* * *
Upstream
(Albany & Upstate)
(Questions re Albany: wilcox23@juno.com)
02 [Every Wed] - Open Mic for musicians & poets, 9PM, Lark Tavern, Madison Ave., Albany
02 [1st Wed] - Open Mic for musicians & poets, 7:00 PM, MotherEarth's Cafe, Quail & Western, Albany
04 [Every Fri] - "Urban Guerilla Theater" open mic, 9PM, Mason Hall, 120 Madison Ave., Albany 07 [1st Monday] - Open Mic, 7:00 PM, Mocatopia Coffee House, LarkSt., Albany
09 [2nd Wed.] - "Alchemy of the Word" Open Mic & feature (Dan Wilcox), Lionheart, Lark St., Albany, 7:30PM 10 [2nd Thurs.] - "Soul Kitchen" Open mic at Clayton's Caribbean Restaurant, 244 Washington Ave., Albany, 8PM
12 [2nd Sun.] - Saratoga Poetry Zone, open mic, Saratoga Springs Public Library, Saratoga Springs, 3PM
15 [3rd Tues.] - Open mic, Colonie Town Library, 629 Albany Shaker Rd., Loudonville, 7PM
19 [3rd Sat.] - Terry Provost Feature & open mic, "Pete's Poets" at Arthur's Market, 35 N. Ferry St., Schenectady, 7:30
29 [Last Tues.] - "School of Night" open mic, Valentine's, 17 New Scotland Ave., Albany, 8:00
30 [Last Wed.] - "High Drama Poetry Society" Open Mic, Fuze Box, 13 Central Ave., Albany, 7PM
Mid-Hudson
01 Gallery Poets Series 2001
7 p m. Reading by NY poets Nancy Willard & Paul Kane. Albert Shahinian Fine Art, Poughkeepsie. (914) 454-0522.
01 Word, Sound, Vision & Poetry
8:30 p m. W/Chitra Neogy. Stone Ridge Center, Stone Ridge. (914) 687-8890.
03 T.A. Barron 6:30pm. Author signs Wings of Merlin. Merritt Bookstore, Millbrook. 677-5857.
03 Marilyn Nelson 7pm. Poetry reading. Lecture Center 102, SUNY New Paltz. 257-2739.
04 Kristin Prevallet & Eleni Sikelianos
3:30pm. John Ashbery Poetry Series. Olin Hall, Bard College, Annandale. 758-7425.
05 8 p.m. Joel Allegretti features at "Poetry on the Loose", Unitarian Universalist Church, Middletown, NY. Info: (845) 294-8085
Lower Hudson
01 8 p.m. $22, $20 The New Rochelle Opera Opens Its Run of The Student Prince. New Rochelle Public Library Theatre, Main Street, New Rochelle. Director: Camille Coppola. Refreshments will be served. Info: (914) 632.7878, ext. 33.
New Jersey
05 10 a.m. $10. C. K. Williams: Workshop. 10 a.m. $10. The Distinguished Poetry Series, Poetry Center, Passaic County Community College Hamilton Club Building, 32 Church Street, Paterson, New Jersey. Info & Pre-registration (required): (973) 684-6555.
*05 1 p.m. Free. A Celebration of New Jersey Poets: Gerald Stern, C.K. Williams, John Bargowski, Laura Boss, Constance Quarterman Bridges + Open. The Distinguished Poetry Series, Poetry Center, Passaic County Community College Hamilton Club Bldg, 32 Church Street, Paterson, NJ. Info: (973) 684.6555; TNAIK@pccc.cc.nj.us.
Connecticut
16 7:30 p.m. Joel Allegretti features at Bethel Arts Junction, Bethel, CT. Info: (203) 426-3388