Brownstone Poets

George Wallace reviews Urban Haiku and More in the Latest Big City Lit

2012-01-31T18:22:00.000-08:00

A big shout out to George Wallace for his amazing review for my book, "Urban Haiku and More" in the latest issue of Big City Lit.

Here's an excerpt from the review:

In Urban Haiku and More, Patricia Carragon brings something else to the table. There's a kind of urbane wittiness to these works, by turns caustic, plaintive, engaging and abrupt — a kimono-clad harkening to Whitman's notion of the Barbaric Yawp.

This is poetry on the urban edge, haiku that attempts to straddle the wide gulf between New York City street smarts and the ineffable parlance of the zen moment. Often enough, it is compelling stuff.

Carragon is nothing if not in this world and of it, warts and all, delineating the painful truths as opposed to the transcendental. There are ample examples of her unflinching candor: Here's a couple "I douche my drain/With Drano/she/does hers/with Liquid-Plumr.' ' stained sheets/not from/your boyfriend's last visit.' Or this: 'love/decides to/take the subway//and gets screwed/in the/tunnel.'

(Read more at: http://www.bigcitylit.com/bigcitylit.php?inc=fall2011%2Freviews%2Fwallace)

URBAN HAIKU AND MORE:
Haiku, Senruy, Hay(Na)Ku
and other Unrhymed Tercet Poetry
by Patricia Carragon

Fierce Grace Press, 2010; 52 pages; $7.00

You can purchase Urban Haiku and More at:

St. Mark's Bookshop

31 Third Avenue between 8th and 9th Streets

New York, NY 10003

http://www.stmarksbookshop.com/

212 - 260-7853

or buy them in person.

Find a used copy at:

P.S. Bookshop
76 Front Street
DUMBO, Brooklyn,NY 11201
Phone# (718) 222-3340
www.psbnyc.com
Take the F to York

How Dirty Girls Get Clean Anthology

2012-01-31T18:01:00.000-08:00

Happy to be part of How Dirty Girls Get Clean: An Anthology of Wicked Woman Writes, Art and Subversive Scholarship (Volume 1)

http://www.amazon.com/How-Dirty-Girls-Get-Clean/dp/1463754809

Rene, thank you for taking my short story, "The Fractured Peacock".

Kudos to all:

Rene Diedrich, Vicki F., Alice Carbone, Fiona Helmsley, Lydia Lunch, Amy Wood, Ann Wood, Jen Blowdrier, Jennifer Bradpiece, Cyndi Dawson, Puma Perl, Joie Cook, Joan Jobe Smith, Cassandra Love, Iris Berry, Iris Schwartz , Lisa Cherry, Lori Lakela, Madeline Artenberg, Joan Jobe Smith, Tamara Madison, Mende Smith, Roxy Cotin, Kerryn Teddra, Babs Martin, Hulga McSwine, Annette Zillenikaz, Gabey Razo, Veronica Ghostwriter, Barbara Moore, Justin Lee Brown, R Brown, Linda Albertina, Heather McCorkle, Kit Kennedy, Dominique Lowell, Kat Georges, Connie Sadler, Sarah Mac Clay, Patricia Carragon, Evie Ivy, Peggy Hienrich, Becca Mertz, Darlene Pagan, Rev Jen Miller, Alicia Adams, Tamiura Reid, Laura Estrada, Jackie Sheeler, BC Petrakos, Janice Medin, Misty Rainwater, Nico Turner, Iryna Harpy

Reminder: Leigh Harrison, Cindy Hochman, Joseph Charles Rebis, Jr. at Park Plaza R

2012-01-30T15:52:00.001-08:00

Poetry Grows in Brooklyn Heights

The Brownstone Poets presents:

Leigh Harrison, Cindy Hochman,
Joseph Charles Rebis, Jr.

Saturday, February 4 at 2:30 p.m.

Park Plaza Restaurant

220 Cadman Plaza West near Clark St.and Pineapple Walk

Brooklyn, NY 11201 - 718 – 596 – 5900

Take the A or C to High Street, 2 or 3 to Clark Street,

4, 5 or R to Court Street, Borough Hall

For more directions:

http://www.hopstop.com/

$3 Donation – plus Food/Drink - Open-Mic

Curated by Patricia Carragon email:

pcarragon@gmail.com

http://brownstonepoets.blogspot.com/

http://patriciacarragon8.wordpress.com/

http://myspace.com/pattiekake8

http://en-gb.facebook.com/people/Brownstone-Poets/541314712

BIOS:

LEIGH HARRISON is a life-long writer, poet, and singer-songwriter, creator of the Pentina poetry form, author of three volumes of poetry (Tour de Farce, Our Harps Upon the Willows, and Finding Sermons in Stones), and has two CD’s (Eclectic Chanteuse, and Oh, Wow!) released by SongCrew Music. Her poetry has been widely published in print and online; she is currently co-producing videos of the Poet To Poet (with Robert Dunn) TV show for viewing on YouTube. www.leighharrison.com

CINDY HOCHMAN is a legal proofreader right here in Brooklyn Heights, and does freelance proofreading for Harrison/Hochman “100 Proof,” a company she founded with her beautiful co-feature Leigh Harrison. She is the editor-in-chief of the online journal First Literary Review-East, an associate editor for Mobius, the Poetry Magazine, the associate editor of Poetry Thin Air Cable Show, and a contributing book reviewer for Coldfront Magazine, Pedestal Magazine, New Mirage Journal, and Gently Read Literature. Cindy is a proud member of the Brownstone Poets editorial staff. Her latest chapbook, The Carcinogenic Bride, is on sale today for only 5 smackeroos - - or your best haggle!

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Joseph Charles Rebis, Jr., a noted bus and coach photographer since 1977, was featured in an article, “Ich Bin Ein M4” (The New Yorker, May 26, 2008). He started writing poetry about five years ago. In 2009, he began reading his poetry at the Green Pavilion and the Brownstone Poets.

REMINDER: Patricia Carragon and Zork have Tea on Sunday, January 22

2012-01-16T13:51:00.000-08:00

REMINDER!

JujoMukti Lounge

SUNDAY, JANUARY 22, 2012

Patricia Carragon and Zork

211 East 4^th Street (between Aves A & B)

New York, NY 10009

6:00pm until 8:00pm

212.533.4075

http://www.jujomukti.com

Directions:

Subways F, M (2nd Ave & Houston); 6 (Astor Place; 8th St and 4th Ave.); Bus 14A from Union Square (3rd St stop and Ave. A).

info@jujomukti.com

Hosted by David Lawton

Open-Mic

$5 admission gives you tea or coffee

BIOS:

Patricia Carragon is a New York City writer and poet. Her publications include Best Poem, BigCityLit, CLWN WR, Chantarelle’s Notebook, Clockwise Cat, Danse Macabre, Ditch Poetry, Inertia, Lips, MÖBIUS, The Poetry Magazine, Marymark Press, Maintenant, Mad Hatters’ Review, The Mom Egg, The Toronto Quarterly, and more. She is the author of Journey to the Center of My Mind (Rogue Scholars Press). She is a member of Brevitas, a group dedicated to short poems. She hosts and curates the Brooklyn-based Brownstone Poets and is the editor of the annual anthology. Her most recent book is Urban Haiku and More (Fierce Grace Press, 2010). For more information, please check out her Web sites at http://brownstonepoets.blogspot.com and at http://patriciacarragon8.wordpress.com/.

Eric ZORK Alan, a 6x National Slam Poet competitor, is probably best known for standing on chairs. He is also known for gratuitously dropping names . . . like that he is the only poet ever to have his book [appropriately called “I am NOT a poet”] blurbed by Davy Jones, Dobie Gray & Wild Cherry. Zork has featured at the hottest poetry venues in America including Chicago’s legendary Green Mill where slam started. He has toured across America visiting High Schools and colleges in his mission make more poets. He performs at and hosts ZorkSlams [student based events] at Barnes & Noble Bookstores Nationwide. He hosts Westchester County, NY's largest poetry slam.

Brownstone Poets 2012 Anthology News

2012-01-12T13:27:00.000-08:00

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES FOR THE 2012 ANTHOLOGY ARE NOW CLOSED!!!

A labor of love now being brought together with the help of my team of assistant editors, Cindy Hochman, Brenda J. Gannam, and Karen Neuberg. Kudos to all three! Without their help and guidance, this anthology would not have been possible.

Congrats to the contributors (the features from last year and the poets who came to support the Brownstone Poets venues), who will be getting their comp copy by late April 2012:

AMY HOLMAN
AUSTIN ALEXIS
BARBARA HANTMAN
BERNARD BLOCK
BOB HEMAN
BRANT LYON
BRENDA J. GANNAM
CAROLYN OTA
CINDY HOCHMAN
DAVID LAWTON
DEAN KOSTOS
DEBORAH HAUSER
DONNA HUNT
DUBBLEX
ELIZABETH HARRINGTON
ELLIOT ABOSH
ELYZSABETH AHNE
ERNEST KYLE WOODLEY
EVIE IVY
G.E. SCHWARTZ
GAIL FISHMAN GERWIN
GEORGE SPENCER
GREGORY VINCENT ST. THOMASINO
IRIS BERMAN
JACOB VICTORINE
JAMES MCMENAMIN
JEFFREY CYPHERS WRIGHT
JOHN A. TODRAS
JOSEPH CHARLES REBIS, JR.
JOY LEFTOW
JUDY KAMILHOR
KAREN NEUBERG
KATHERINE A. HOGAN
KATHRYN M. FAZIO
LAURA BOSS
LINDA CARTER BROWN
LINDA LERNER
LINDA ROTHSTEIN
MARY ASKIN-JENCSIK
MATTHEW ANISH
MAX NEMEROVSKY
MINDY LEVOKOVE
MIREYA PEREZ
MOLLY PEACOCK
PATRICIA CARRAGON
PETER MARRA
RICHARD FEIN
RICHARD MARX WEINRAUB
SHONDA BUCHANAN
SWETA SRIVASTAVA VIKRAM
TANTRA-ZAWADI
TINA CHAN
TOM OLESZCZUK
VALERIE CONTI
VELEZ MOORE
VICKI IORIO
VIRGINIA CRAWFORD
YUYUTSU RD SHARMA
ZEV SHANKEN
ZEV TORRES

Amy Leigh Cutler and Ronnie Norpel Read at Our New Venue, the Linger Café & Lounge

2012-01-12T09:06:00.000-08:00

Poetry Grows In Boerum Hill

The Brownstone Poets Presents:

Amy Leigh Cutler and Ronnie Norpel

Tuesday, February 21

Starts at 7p.m. – Sign up at 6:45 p.m.

At Our New Venue,

The Linger Café & Lounge

533 Atlantic Ave. (between 3rd and 4th Avenues)

Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, NY 11217
(347) 689-4813

Take the N, R, or D to Atlantic Avenue/Pacific Street
2, 3, 4, 5, B, or Q to Atlantic Avenue
F to Jay Street and change for the R at Metro Tech and get off at Avenue/Pacific Street
G to Hoyt-Schermerhorn and walk along Hoyt Street to Atlantic Avenue

http://www.hopstop.com/

$3 donation + food/drink (wine and beer available) - Open-Mic

Curated by Patricia Carragon

pcarragon@gmail.com

http://brownstonepoets.blogspot.com/

http://patriciacarragon8.wordpress.com/

http://myspace.com/pattiekake8

http://en-gb.facebook.com/people/Brownstone-Poets/541314712

Bios:

Amy Leigh Cutler is a New York City based poet. Amy's "American Woman" tour took her from New York to California, where she performed in National Parks, bars, cafes, and bookstores all over the United States. She has also toured internationally in London, England where she competed in the Farrago Poetry Slam and in Dublin, Ireland where she was featured at The Kilmainham Arts Club. "Orange Juice and Rooftops" is her first published book of poetry and prose, and American Woman is her chapbook of poetry. Amy received a Bachelor of Arts degree in P.P.E. from The King's College. She competes in performance poetry slams and is available for readings and lectures. Her background in spoken word and performance pieces comes largely from her work with Shakespeare and Company in Lenox. MA. Amy is also a photojournalist for The Basics online magazine. Check out her website at www.amyleighcutler.com.

Ronnie Norpel is a performance poet, actor, photographer and jock with a deep passion for the Phillies, where she spent seven seasons as a ballgirl and fan accommodation manager. In New York, “Ronnie G” was the muse and collaborator of Warhol Factory superstar Gerard Malanga, whose photo of Ronnie, “Marble of Light,” was included for the exhibition and catalogue, Artists of the Warhol Circle Then & Now. She studied acting in Hollywood and worked at the Zero One Gallery. Today, Ronnie reads monthly in NYC with the Upper Left Side Writers and Poets. Other readings include the Lower East Side Festival, the SynonymUS collective at Nuyorican Poets Café, and the Wild Angels at St. John the Divine.

Leigh Harrison, Cindy Hochman, Joseph Charles Rebis, Jr. at Park Plaza Restaurant, Sat, 2/4

2012-01-11T21:16:00.000-08:00

Poetry Grows in Brooklyn Heights

The Brownstone Poets presents:

Leigh Harrison, Cindy Hochman,
Joseph Charles Rebis, Jr.

Saturday, February 4 at 2:30 p.m.

Park Plaza Restaurant

220 Cadman Plaza West near Clark St.and Pineapple Walk

Brooklyn, NY 11201 - 718 – 596 – 5900

Take the A or C to High Street, 2 or 3 to Clark Street,

4, 5 or R to Court Street, Borough Hall

For more directions:

http://www.hopstop.com/

$3 Donation – plus Food/Drink - Open-Mic

Curated by Patricia Carragon email:

pcarragon@gmail.com

http://brownstonepoets.blogspot.com/

http://patriciacarragon8.wordpress.com/

http://myspace.com/pattiekake8

http://en-gb.facebook.com/people/Brownstone-Poets/541314712

BIOS:

New Venue: Linger Café & Lounge

2012-01-05T19:08:00.000-08:00

I'm happy to announce that the Brownstone Poets will resume our third Tuesday reading series at

Linger Café & Lounge

533 Atlantic Ave. (between 3rd and 4th Aves.)

Boerum Hill, NY 11217
(347) 689-4813
www.lingercafelounge.com/

7 P.M. (sign up at 6:45 P.M.)

$3 donation + food/drink (wine and beer available) - Open-Mic

Take the N, R, or D to Atlantic Avenue/Pacific Street

2, 3, 4, 5, B, or Q to Atlantic Avenue
F to Jay Street and change for the R at Metro Tech and get off at Avenue/Pacific Street
G to Hoyt-Schermerhorn and walk along Hoyt Street to Atlantic Avenue
www.hopstop.com/

Amy Leigh Cutler and Ronnie Norpel will be the opening features on February 21.

Please drop by and linger for a few hours. Enjoy the spoken word, great Brooklyn cuisine, and good old-fashion fun at this warm and friendly café owned by Jessica Pichardo.

A special "thank you" to Patricia Mulcahy of Tillie's for contacting Jessica.

Patricia Carragon's Latest News

2012-01-02T22:18:00.000-08:00

Happy New Year to all and wish you the best of health, wealth, happiness, love, and great writing!

More Urban Haiku and More news:

Linda Lerner has written a terrific review for Urban Haiku and More. Check it out in the latest issue of Home Planet News, No. 65, 2011.

Urban Haiku and More by Patricia Carragon (illustrated by William L. Hays), Fierce Grace Press, Pooler, GA, 2010, $7.00

Here are two excerpts from the review:

“Make it new” Ezra Pound proclaimed nearly a century ago, and by implication, make it yours. He was referring to the tradition which is and has been continually reinvented and reshaped over time, as poets find inspiration in what’s old. This is exactly what Patricia Carragon has superbly done in this beautifully produced collection, Urban Haiku and More.

She evidences an acerbic wit when she writes the following:, “your / MetroCard / is not his E-Zpass,”Valentine’s Day / Cupid can’t shoot straight / no wonder I’m still single” and “dry-roasted brains / teaching at universities / …academia nuts.” She easily segues to the directly personal, with,“Sunday morning / While people go to church / I file for unemployment; in others her presence is merely felt: “a season for change / trees having a mid-life crisis / as the leave turn red” and “Chanukah candles / plastic cards max out credit / 8 days of oy.”

Publication news:

Mankh’s “Haiku du Jour” published my haiku, Prayers Cover The Earth, back on December 14 and The Year Ends on December 31.

Cheers,

Pattie

Oy Vey!

Patricia Carragon and Zork have Tea on Sunday, January 22

2012-01-02T10:13:00.000-08:00

JujoMukti Lounge

SUNDAY, JANUARY 22, 2012

Patricia Carragon and Zork

211 East 4^th Street (between Aves A & B)

New York, NY 10009

6:00pm until 8:00pm

212.533.4075

http://www.jujomukti.com

Directions:

Subways F, M (2nd Ave & Houston); 6 (Astor Place; 8th St and 4th Ave.); Bus 14A from Union Square (3rd St stop and Ave. A).

info@jujomukti.com

Hosted by David Lawton

Open-Mic

$5 admission gives you tea or coffee

BIOS:

George Held and Claudia Serea read at Park Plaza Restaurant Sat, 1/7 at 2:30 p.m.

2012-01-02T08:39:00.000-08:00

REMINDER!

Poetry Grows in Brooklyn Heights

The Brownstone Poets presents:

George Held and Claudia Serea

Saturday, January 7 at 2:30 p.m.

Park Plaza Restaurant

220 Cadman Plaza West near Clark St.and Pineapple Walk

Brooklyn, NY 11201 - 718 – 596 – 5900

Take the A or C to High Street, 2 or 3 to Clark Street,

4, 5 or R to Court Street, Borough Hall

For more directions:

http://www.hopstop.com/

$3 Donation – plus Food/Drink - Open-Mic

Curated by Patricia Carragon email:

pcarragon@gmail.com

http://brownstonepoets.blogspot.com/

http://patriciacarragon8.wordpress.com/

http://myspace.com/pattiekake8

http://en-gb.facebook.com/people/Brownstone-Poets/541314712

BIOS:

George Held, a five-time Pushcart Prize nominee, publishes his poems, stories, translations, and book reviews in such places as Commonweal, Confrontation, Notre Dame Review, and on Garrison Keillor’s The Writer’s Almanac. His poems are included in over two-dozen anthologies, and his fourteenth collection is After Shakespeare: Selected Sonnets (Červená Barva Press, 2011).

Claudia Serea is a Romanian-born poet who immigrated to the U.S. in 1995. Her poems and translations have appeared in 5 a.m., Meridian, Mudfish, Harpur Palate, Exquisite Corpse, Word Riot, Blood Orange Review, Zoland Poetry, Cutthroat, Green Mountains Review, The Red Wheelbarrow, and many others. She is the author of two poetry collections: Eternity’s Orthography (Finishing Line Press, 2007) and To Part Is to Die a Little, forthcoming from Červená Barva Press. She co-edited and co-translated The Vanishing Point That Whistles, an Anthology of Contemporary Romanian Poetry (Talisman Publishing, 2011). She lives in New Jersey and works in New York for a major publishing company.

Tillie's of Brooklyn is Closing January 1, 2012

2011-12-15T13:06:00.000-08:00

Sad News!

Tillie's of Brooklyn is closing on Sunday,
January 1, 2012.

All scheduled Brownstone Poets events are now cancelled for the 3rd Tuesday of the month. So sorry to all my featured readers!

But we will continue with the 1st Saturdays at Park Plaza Restaurant.

Please stay tuned for further developments.

Amy Leigh Cutler and Ronnie Norpel at Tillie's of Brooklyn on Tues, 1/17 at 7 p.m.

2011-12-12T23:02:00.000-08:00

Poetry Grows In Ft. Greene

The Brownstone Poets Presents:

Amy Leigh Cutler and Ronnie Norpel

Tuesday, January 17

Starts at 7p.m. – Sign up at 6:45 p.m. – We must be out by 9 p.m.

Tillie's 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)

Curated by Patricia Carragon

pcarragon@gmail.com

http://brownstonepoets.blogspot.com/

http://patriciacarragon8.wordpress.com/

http://myspace.com/pattiekake8

http://en-gb.facebook.com/people/Brownstone-Poets/541314712

Bios:

George Held and Claudia Serea read at Park Plaza Restaurant Sat, 1/7 at 2:30 p.m.

2011-12-12T22:55:00.000-08:00

Poetry Grows in Brooklyn Heights

The Brownstone Poets presents:

George Held and Claudia Serea

Saturday, January 7 at 2:30 p.m.

Park Plaza Restaurant

220 Cadman Plaza West near Clark St.and Pineapple Walk

Brooklyn, NY 11201 - 718 – 596 – 5900

Take the A or C to High Street, 2 or 3 to Clark Street,

4, 5 or R to Court Street, Borough Hall

For more directions:

http://www.hopstop.com/

$3 Donation – plus Food/Drink - Open-Mic

Curated by Patricia Carragon email:

pcarragon@gmail.com

http://brownstonepoets.blogspot.com/

http://patriciacarragon8.wordpress.com/

http://myspace.com/pattiekake8

http://en-gb.facebook.com/people/Brownstone-Poets/541314712

BIOS:

Reviews for Cindy Hochman and Chocolate Waters in Gently Read Literature for December

2011-12-04T20:00:00.000-08:00

I love the very impressive format for Daniel Casey's Gently Read Literature. In this issue are my reviews for Cindy Hochman’s The Carcinogenic Bride, published by Poetry Thin Air Press (2011) and Chocolate Waters’ The Woman Who Wouldn’t Shake Hands, published by Poets Wear Prada and Eggplant Press. I highly recommend these books.

For Cindy Hochman’s The Carcinogenic Bride

Clear the aisles! Here comes The Carcinogenic Bride by Cindy Hochman from Poetry Thin Air Press (2011). No fanfare or organ music to accompany Ms. Hochman’s 22 poems. Band-aids and surgical gloves need not apply. Cindy’s poems are not bouquets of shrinking violets. They stand alone, cultivated by her brand of Brooklyn sensibility and wit.

Unlike my signature piece, The Bride Wore Black, which is my vow to singlehood, Cindy walked down a different aisle and emerged a survivor. She survived the trenches of marriage, divorce, and cancer. Her book is her license to life.

Yet she doesn’t walk alone. Many women have walked down that same aisle. They are the warrior women who have battled with spouses or danced with the “Big C”. They are the women who could relate most to Ms. Hochman’s stories and learn to laugh at life. (Read more at http://issuu.com/gently_read_literature/docs/grl_dec)

For Chocolate Waters’ The

Woman Who Wouldn't Shake

Hands

After a thirty-year hiatus,Chocolate Waters emerges with her spicy new chapbook, The Woman Who Wouldn’tShake Hands, published by Poets Wear Prada(2011) and Eggplant Press (2011). Chocolate’s writing is rich, creamy, and dark with a shot of vodka: theflavors that make her thirty-two poems taste yummy like her name and leave youcraving more. Ms. Waters, the PoetLaureate of Hell’s Kitchen and a lesbian activist, shares her passion, pathos,and humor on that most confusing and complex word in any language—love. Her short pieces are honest and simple,spiced with grit, and easy to relate to. You cry one moment and laugh the next. Chocolate doesn’t want to shake your hand. She wants you to get to know herinstead. (Read more at http://issuu.com/gently_read_literature/docs/grl_dec)

From

Patricia Carragon

Patricia Carragon's December Publication News

2011-12-04T19:21:00.000-08:00

Hi Everyone,

It's the busy season at work and in writing. So much is happening in regards to publications, etc.

If I have repeated some of this news before, I'm sorry.

PUBLICATIONS:

MÖBIUS, THE POETRY MAGAZINE

I'm honored to be one of these fine Brevitarians selected to be in the forthcoming beautiful issue of MÖBIUS, THE POETRY MAGAZINE. My Haibun, "The Healing Pond," was selected. Congrats to these Brevies. Thank you "Brevie" Juanita Torrence-Thompson for all your hard work and spirit.

SANFORD FRASER

CINDY HOCHMAN

EVIE IVY

MARIA LISELLA

KATRINKA MOORE

KAREN NEUBERG

HAL SIROWITZ

RICHARD STORM

JUANITA TORRENCE-THOMPSON

JOHN J. TRAUSE

GIL FAGIANI

Pet Poetry Publication "Paws, Claws, Wings and Things"

Pleased to hear that my poem, "The Kitten," has been accepted for publication in the Pet Poetry Publication "Paws, Claws, Wings and Things." Congrats to Roxanne Hoffman for being published in this anthology. And hooray for cats!!!

First Literary Review-East - December Issue

"Brevies" Cindy Hochman and Karen Neuberg never miss a step in putting out a stellar edition of First Literary Review-East. My 99% piece is in the December Issue.

Read poems from Scott Rummler, Jeffrey Cyphers Wright, Philip Beitchman, John A. Todras, Sue Machlin, Stewart Florsheim, Ryan Buynak, Tammy Houtz, Matthew Anish, Erika Dagnino, and Tom Oleszczuk

http://www.rulrul.4mg.com/

Symmetry Pebbles #2 (once a poetry blog is now an online magazine)

Richard Thomas' Symmetry Pebbles has expanded as an online free poetry e-zine. My Cupcake Chronicles #10 is in their 2nd issue. It's worth reading and submitting. Please subscribe at:

http://symmetrypebbles.wordpress.com/

for a free download.

Congrats to all the contributors in this issue:

Gary Beck, M.A. Schaffner, Joe Massingham, Joseph Farley, Clyde L. Borg, Bill Wolak, Greg T. Miraglia, Denne Kara Shaffer, Marie Lecrivain, Timothy Charles Anderson, Saloni Kaul, George Freek, Michael Estabrook, Peter Lindsey, Christopher Barnes, Lilian Oben, Mira Marten-Parker, Robert Garnham, Nicolas Grenier, Daniel Barbare, Patty Mooney, Patricia Carragon, Spree Macdonald, Ann Prendergast, Demond Blake, Ian Davis, Michael Lambert, John Grey

The Cartier Street Review - November Issue

My “The 99%” poem is in the fabulous November issue of Cartier Street Review. Please submit and subscribe. Brownstoners, Joy Leftow and Doublex have worked hard on the editorial staff with Mike Finely, Thomas Hubbard, Brad Eubanks, and Marc Carver.

Click on http://mfinley.com/cartier/index.html

for your free download and please subscribe.

Congrats to all the contributors in this issue:

April Bulmer, Claudio Tomassini, David Cooper, Robert Gibbons, Annika Ruohonen, Fred Arcoleo, Niccola DeVereaux, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Nicholas Alexander, Ann Rodriguez, Mike Finley, Joy Leftow, John Yamrus, Bernard Alain, Karen Bowles, Thomas Hubbard, Dubblex

Have a Great Holiday Season and Keep Writing and Submitting!

Pattie oxoxox

More Publication News for November

2011-11-20T15:12:00.000-08:00

Symmetry Pebbles has grown into an online free poetry e-zine. My Cupcake Chronicles #10 is in their 2nd issue. Subscribe at:

http://symmetrypebbles.wordpress.com/

for a free download.

Congrats to all the contributors in this issue:

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My “The 99%” Poem is in the November issue of Cartier Street Review.

Click on http://mfinley.com/cartier/index.html

for your free download

Congrats to all the contributors in this issue:

Happy Holidays From The Brownstone Poets

2011-11-16T19:25:00.000-08:00

http://needcaffeine.tumblr.com/post/422167591/brooklyn-bridge-snow-globe-via-amazin-jane-jane

No Readings in December!

HAPPY SHOPPING! HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

But come back in January for more

Brownstone Fun!

Saturday, January 7 at 2:30 p.m. at Park Plaza Restaurant:

George Held and Claudia Serea

Tuesday, January 17 at 7 p.m. at Tillies of Brooklyn:

Amy Leigh Cutler and Ronnie Norpel

Amy Holman and Peter Marra Read at Tillie's of Brooklyn on Tues, November 15 at 7 p.m.

2011-11-09T21:26:00.000-08:00

REMINDER:

Poetry Grows In Ft. Greene

The Brownstone Poets Presents:

Amy Holman and Peter Marra

Tuesday, November 15

Starts at 7p.m. – Sign up at 6:45 p.m. – We must be out by 9 p.m.

Tillie's 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/

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Bios:

Amy Holman is the author of Wrens Fly Through This Opened Window, published with Somondoco Press in 2010, and Wait For Me, I’m Gone, which won a Dream Horse Press chapbook prize and was published in 2005. Her poetry has been in Archaeology Magazine (online), American Letters & Commentary, Barrow Street, Failbetter, Gargoyle, The Manhattan Review, New Verse News, Poet Lore, The Potomac Review, The Same, xconnect, The Best American Poetry 1999, and the forthcoming Token Entry anthology. She has recently written for the Best American Poetry blog, We Who Are About to Die blog, and her own blog, Lending Whale. She has also written publishing essays and columns for magazines, and a book on colonies, graduate writing programs, and grants. She is a literary consultant and teacher living in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn.

Peter Marra is from Williamsburg Brooklyn. Born in Brooklyn, he lived in the East Village, New York from 1979-1987 at the height of the punk – no wave movement. Peter has had a lifelong fascination with Surrealism, Dadaism, and Symbolism. His poems explore alienation, sex, love, addiction, havoc, secrets, and obsessions often recounted in an oneiric filmic haze. His work has been published or is forthcoming in Caper Literary Journal, amphibi.us, Yes Poetry, Maintenant 4 & 5, Beatnik, Crash, Danse Macabre, Clutching At Straws, O Sweet Flowery Roses, Breadcrumb Scabs,Carcinogenic, Carnage Conservatory,Dark Chaos, Subliminal Interiors, mad swirl, L.E.S. review, and Calliope Nerve. He was recently interviewed by Yes,Poetry.

Patricia Carragon is in the Unbearables Big Book of Sex

2011-11-01T18:29:00.000-07:00

Happy to have my Voodoo poem in this epic and sultry anthology, the Unbearables Big Book of Sex.

Contributors include:

Jonatham Lethem, Samuel Delany, Penny Arcade, Peter Lamborn Wilson, Bob Holman, Chavisa Woods, Tsaurah Litzky, Gerard Malanga, Jordan Zinovich, Jennifer Blowdryer, Susan Scutti, Susan Maurer, Thaddeus Rutkowski, Steve Dalachinsky, Yuko Otomo, Tom Savage, Eve Packer, Ron Kolm, Carol Wierzbicki, Shalom Neuman, Jim Feast, Erik La Prada, Amy Ouzoonian, Dorothy Friedman, Sparrow, Bruce Weber, Steve Cannon, George Spencer, Mike Topp, David Huberman, Kat Georges, Peter Carlaftes, Larissa Shmailo, Holly Anderson, Richard Kostelanetz, John M. Bennett, Valery and Ruth Oisteanu, Susan Yung, Jeffrey Cyphers Wright, Mark Sonnenfeld, Jill Rapaport, and so many more.

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Brownstone Poets

George Wallace reviews Urban Haiku and More in the Latest Big City Lit

How Dirty Girls Get Clean Anthology

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REMINDER: Patricia Carragon and Zork have Tea on Sunday, January 22

Brownstone Poets 2012 Anthology News

Amy Leigh Cutler and Ronnie Norpel Read at Our New Venue, the Linger Café & Lounge

Leigh Harrison, Cindy Hochman, Joseph Charles Rebis, Jr. at Park Plaza Restaurant, Sat, 2/4

New Venue: Linger Café & Lounge

Patricia Carragon's Latest News

Patricia Carragon and Zork have Tea on Sunday, January 22

George Held and Claudia Serea read at Park Plaza Restaurant Sat, 1/7 at 2:30 p.m.

Tillie's of Brooklyn is Closing January 1, 2012

Amy Leigh Cutler and Ronnie Norpel at Tillie's of Brooklyn on Tues, 1/17 at 7 p.m.

George Held and Claudia Serea read at Park Plaza Restaurant Sat, 1/7 at 2:30 p.m.

Reviews for Cindy Hochman and Chocolate Waters in Gently Read Literature for December

Patricia Carragon's December Publication News

More Publication News for November

Happy Holidays From The Brownstone Poets

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Amy Holman and Peter Marra Read at Tillie's of Brooklyn on Tues, November 15 at 7 p.m.

Patricia Carragon is in the Unbearables Big Book of Sex