Monday, August 10, 2009

Reading @ Bluestockings

Thursday, August 13th @ 7PM - $5 Suggested
Performance: Susana Lei’ataua “Through Windows”

Join Susana Lei’ataua in a dramatic reading of her poem “Through Windows,” which takes us to the winter months after 9/11. The autobiographical poem tells the story of a woman working as a coat checker in uptown Manhattan and living in the East Village. Susana Lei’ataua is part of the Lei’ataua and Taupa’u families in Samoa and a recipient of the Fulbright New Zealand Senior Scholar Award for 2008
.

Bluestockings is located at 172 Allen Street on the Lower East Side.


TODAY'S WORD

SHREWD

Syn.- sharp, cunning, clever, astute, alert, prudent.

Ant.- unthinking, impetuous, foolish, dense, frivolous, stupid.

Sunday, August 09, 2009

WORDS OF WISDOM

A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.

~Lewis Mumford

Thursday, August 06, 2009

Not On Radar

Below are two authors who, in my opinion, fly under the radar. Read some of their work and share your thoughts.

Paul Laurence Dunbar

Herman Melville


Genevieve

Tuesday, August 04, 2009

Herstory on the Island

Wednesday, August 5 2009
5:00pm - 7:00pm

Bilingual Herstory:Patchogue

Bilingual Herstory Workshops every Wednesday.

FREE (you do not need to live in the library district to come).

Taught by Herstory Silvia Heredia.

Patchogue-Medford Library , 54-60 E. Main St, Patchogue, NY

(631) 6544-4700 x 23

TODAY'S WORD

RUSTIC

Syn.- countrified, agricultural, bucolic, rude, unpolishd, simple, crude.

Ant.- elegant, cultured, refined, urbane, stylish, sophisticated.

Sunday, August 02, 2009

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

TODAY'S WORD

QUERY

Syn.- question, ask, interrogate, inquire, dispute

Ant.- answer, retort, reply, respond

Poetry In Queens

Tuesday, August 4 2009
7:00pm

First Tuesdays Open

The Jackson Heights Poetry Festival Monthly Open Reading - Open mike signup at 6:30pm

Terraza Cafe
40-19 Gleane Street, Elmhurst (near 7 train 82nd street stop)

Free | www.jhpfest.org |www.terrazacafe.com |festival@jhpfest.org | 917-843-547

Monday, July 27, 2009

TODAY'S WORD

PALLID

Syn.~ wan, pale, colorless, ashen, salow, waxen


Ant.~ ruddy, pink, flushed, glowing

Sunday, July 26, 2009

WORDS OF WISDOM

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

~Socrates

Thursday, July 23, 2009

TODAY'S WORD

OBSTINATE

Syn.- stubborn, opinionated, inflexible, resolute, firm

Ant.- yielding, submissive, courteous, malleable, agreeable

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

TODAY'S WORD

NUDGE

Syn.- push, jog, shove, urge, spur, encourage

Ant.- avoid, repress, suppress, prevent

Sunday, July 19, 2009

Friday, July 17, 2009

TODAY'S WORD

MOTLEY

Synonyms- assorted, diverse, heterogeneous, varied, mottled

Antonyms- uniform, homogeneous, similar, pure

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

TODAY'S WORD

LEARN

acuqire, receive, imbibe, gather, hear, discover

Poetry in Greenwich Village

Friday, July 17 2009
6:00pm

Son of a Pony!

Featured poets + the best open mike in NYC (arrive by 5.45pm to sign up. Limited open mike, about 20 spots, 3 minutes each)
Hosted by Angelo Verga & friends


The Cornelia Street Cafe
29 Cornelia Street (West 4th/Bleecker Street)
$7 includes 1 free drink
|
www.corneliastreetcafe.com |bronxpoet1@gmail.com | 212-989-9319
Subway: A/C/E/B/D/F/V to West 4th or 1/9 to Christopher Street/Sheridan Squar
e

Monday, July 13, 2009

TODAY'S WORD

KALEIDOSCOPIC

Syn.-multicolored, varied, patterned, changing

Ant. - steady, unchanging, dull, quiet, constant

Sunday, July 12, 2009

WORDS OF WISDOM

Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.

-Nikki Giovanni, African-American Playwright (b.1943)

Friday, July 10, 2009

TODAY'S WORD

JOCULAR

Syn.- humorous, witty, joking, pleasant, comical

Ant.- serious, morose, dull

Thursday, July 09, 2009

TODAY'S WORD

IMMANENT

Syn.- inborn, innate, natural, subjective, universal

Ant.- learned, acquired, extrinsic, objective

Wednesday, July 08, 2009

TODAY'S WORD

HECTOR

Syn.- intimidate, bully, plague, domineer, browbeat

Ant.- help, persusade, comfort

Tuesday, July 07, 2009

Friday, July 10 2009
6:30pm

The Nuyorican Poets Cafe

Words From The Heart,

featuring Ne Ne Ali, Ms. Emily, Dylan, Mr Loxxx, special guest Jamica and The Black Widow, and comedy acts


Presented by LatinosNYC and Raul Kahayarix Rios


The Nuyorican Poets Cafe
236 East 3rd Street

$10 | rcruzrios1@nyc.rr.com | 646-352-1759
Subway: F to 2nd Avenue, R to 8th Street, 4/5 to 14 Street, 6 to Astor Place

FREE POETRY

Thursday, July 9 2009
6:30pm

Poetry from the Rooftops

Lytton Smith, Priscilla Sneff, and Rebecca Wolff

Arsenal Building Rooftop, Central Park


64th Street and 5th Avenue (next to the zoo)


In case of rain, inside Arsenal Building


Free!

TODAY'S WORD

GERMANE

SYN.- pertinent, relevant, fitting, appropriate

ANT.- irrelevant, unrelated, inapplicable

Monday, July 06, 2009

Synonym and Antonym

FLOUT

Syn.- Scorn, disdain, spurn, jeer, mock, insult, ridicule despise, sneer.

Ant.- revere, praise, esteem, respect.

Sunday, July 05, 2009

WORDS OF WISDOM

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.

~James Baldwin, African-American writer (1924-1987)

Friday, July 03, 2009




HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY!


Genevieve

Poetry In Tribeca

Sunday, July 5 2009
5:30pm

Phoenix Reading Series

Featured poets TBD + open mike
Hosted by Mike Graves & George Spencer


Bengal Curry

65 West Broadway (1 ½ blocks below Chambers Street)

$3 |
phoenixpoetryseries.blogspot.com |nvega3ec@yahoo.com
Subway: 1/2/3/A/C/E to Chambers Street

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Poetry Online

Thursday, July 2 2009
6:30pm

Calliope's Corner: WRHU 88.7 FM

Calliope’s Corner Music and poetry,

hosted by Paula Curci on WRHU 88.7 FM,

streamed on the Web at www.wrhu.org

Email pmcthepoet@aol.com for submission guidelines.

Listen live www.hofstra.edu/Academics/Colleges/SOC/WRHU/wrhu_listen.htm

Sunday, June 28, 2009

WORDS OF WISDOM

But a prayer that he sends from his heart's deep core.

~Paul Laurence Dunbar, African-American Poet (1872-1906)

Saturday, June 27, 2009

Friday @ Bowery Poetry Club

FRIDAY, JULY 3

The Left Hand Presents: Fourth of July Bash -$8

8:00 PM

New Work by Michael Reyes, BPC's Playwrite-in-Residence's theater company

Check your class prejudice and unwarranted feelings of racial superiority at the door! Michael Reyes and The Left Hand present The Great Sleep And It's Clients. Subversive sketches designed to assault the annihilators of progressive consciousness and guillotine slice the gentry. Racist conservatives and and limousine liberals beware! YES WE CAN... Attempt to incite CLASS WARFARE IN OBAMA'S AMERICA!


Poetry in Greenwich Village

Sunday, June 28 2009
6:00pm

Cornelia Street Cafe

Three Featured Poets
Hosted by Angelo Verga

The Cornelia Street Cafe
29 Cornelia Street (West 4th/Bleecker Street)
$7 incl. one drink |
www.corneliastreetcafe.com | 212-989-9319
Subway: A/C/E/B/D/F/V to West 4th or 1/9 to Christopher/Sheridan Square

Fourth of July Week

With the 4th of July weekend coming up, many folks will traveling to far off destinations. There will be many of us who will remain close to home. There are a number of venues where one can listen to poetry, a reading, or a recital. I will list various places where you can go to listen to the spoken word.

Thursday, June 25, 2009

Spelled Different; Same Sound

BAY
A body of water forming an indentation of the shoreline.

BEY
(formerly) a title of respect for Turkish dignitaries.

Monday, June 22, 2009

POEM


THE POET

He sang of life, serenely sweet,
With, now and then, a deeper note.
From some high peak, nigh yet remote,
He voiced the world's absorbing beat.

He sang of love when earth was young,
And Love, itself, was in its lays.
A jingle in a broken tongue.

~Paul Laurence Dunbar

Sunday, June 21, 2009

WORDS OF WISDOM

I carry a notebook with me everywhere. But that's only the first step.

~Rita Dove

Friday, June 19, 2009

Play @ Nuyorican Poets Cafe

Call Me Crazy: Diary of a Mad Social Worker

POETRY ALL DAY

Saturday, June 20 2009
10:00am - 6:30pm

All Day Poetry Festival:Queens

Jackson Heights Poetry Festival.

Price: Free. Phone: (347) 239-2243. Age Suitability:All Ages

@ Garden School,

33-16 79th St,

Jackson Heights, NY, 11372
www.jhpfest.org/v2/festival2009.php for full info

READING MARATHON

TOMORROW!!

Saturday, June 20 2009
1:00pm

The Sixth Annual Write Makes Might Reading Marathon

Featuring a myriad of writers with previously untapped talent, among them recent immigrants, at-risk teens, retired adults, the formerly incarcerated, the homeless, survivors of serious illness, and many others
Presented by the NY Writers Coalition


Jefferson Market Branch, NY Public Library
425 Avenue of the Americas (at 10th Street)

Free | www.nywriterscoalition.org/events | deborah@nywriterscoalition.org | 718-398-2883

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

SYNONYMS

ITEM

Entry, topic, piece, unit, story, listing, article, object, feature, subject.

Sunday, June 14, 2009

WORDS OF WISDOM

As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit.

~Emmanuel Teney

Sunday, June 07, 2009

WORDS OF WISDOM


Beauty is not caused. It is.

~Emily Dickinson, American Poet (1830-1886)

Thursday, June 04, 2009

TOMORROW NIGHT!!!

Friday, June 5 2009
6:00pm

Son of a Pony!

Featured poets + the best open mike in NYC

(arrive by 5.45pm to sign up. Limited open mike, about 20 spots, 3 minutes each)


Hosted by Angelo Verga & friends


The Cornelia Street Cafe

29 Cornelia Street (West 4th/Bleecker Street)
$7 includes 1 free drink |
www.corneliastreetcafe.com |bronxpoet1@gmail.com | 212-989-9319


Subway: A/C/E/B/D/F/V to West 4th or 1/9 to Christopher Street/Sheridan Squar
e

Wednesday, June 03, 2009

Monday, June 01, 2009

TODAY'S WORD

OLIGARCHY

1. A form of government in which power is vested in a few persons.

2. A state so ruled.

3. The persons so ruling.

Sunday, May 31, 2009

WORDS OF WISDOM

Going to the library was the one place we got to go without asking for permission. And they let us choose what we wanted to read. It was a feeling of having a book be mine entirely.


~Rita Dove, American Poet
(b. 1952)

Friday, May 29, 2009

MICRO-

Very small.   

ex. microorganism; micromanage; microfilm; microscope.

TOMORROW NIGHT!

Saturday, May 30 2009
6:00pm

Emotional Rescue

An evening of interactive poetry with R. Nemo Hill, Precious Jones, Jennifer L. Knox, and Jason Schneiderman
Hosted by Jane Ormerod

The Cornelia Street Cafe
29 Cornelia Street (West 4th/Bleecker Street)
$7 incl. one drink |www.corneliastreetcafe.com |ormerodj@msn.com
Subway: A/C/E/B/D/F/V to West 4th, or 1 to Christopher/Sheridan Squar!

Here are some magazines that are good aids to writers

www.writersdigest.com
www.p&w.org


Thursday, May 28, 2009

TODAY'S WORD

POSEUR

A person who affects a character, manner, etc.; to impress others. 

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Sunday, May 24, 2009

WORDS OF WISDOM

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

~Frederick Douglass, African-American Author (1817-1895)

Friday, May 22, 2009



Monday, May 25 2009
7:00pm

Poet's Lounge

Features TBA + open mike
Hosted by Angela Peluso and Gordon Gilbert
Presented by Collective Poets


Yippie Cafe

9 Bleeker Street
Freepoetdujour7@hotmail.com

TODAY'S WORD

QUADRIVIUM

The more advanced division of the seven liberal arts, comprising arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music. 

This was prominent during the Middle Ages.

Book Expo @ Javits Center



SOFT SKULL @ Book Expo America, Javits Center
WhenFriday, May 29, 2009
WhereJavits Center (map)
DescriptionSat. 5/29, 1:30-2:30 Book Expo America, Javits Center

Thursday, May 21, 2009

TODAY'S WORD

KITSCH, n.

Something of tawdry design or content created to appeal to undiscriminating taste.

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

TODAY'S WORD

RIVULOSE

Marked with irregular sinuous lines or stripes. Externally blackish-brown. 

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Def Poets @ Solomon Porch

Thursday, May 21 2009
8:00pm

HBO Def Poets

Features are La Bruja and Hebrew Mamita and Narubi, also Comedian Sergio Chicon
Hosted by Raul Kahayarix Rios
Presented by LatinosNYC


Solomon Porch
307 Stuyvesant Avenue 

by Hasley Street, Brooklyn
$10
latinosnyc.ning.com |latinosnyc.ning.com/xn/detail/2324339:Event:1782| rcruzrios1@nyc.rr.com | 646-352-1759

Subway: A to Utica Avenue, get off at the back of the station and walk 4 blocks on Stuyvesant Avenue

TODAY'S WORD

JALOUSIE

A window blind or shutter of overlapping horizontal slats or strips that may be tilted.


Monday, May 18, 2009

TODAY'S WORD

SOLILOQUY

1. A speech in a drama in which a character reveals inner thoughts as if alone.

2. The act of talking to oneself. 

Sunday, May 17, 2009

WORDS OF WISDOM

That's the way things become clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.

                     ~Madeleine L'Engle

Friday, May 15, 2009

TODAY'S WORD

IBIDEM

In the same place; in the same book, passage, etc.
Used to avoid the repetition of a reference.

Thursday, May 14, 2009

Kids' Open Mic

Friday, May 15 2009
7:30pm

Kids' Open Mic: Huntington

Canvas Presents Kids Open Mic Night.

Hosted by Joe Iadanza, featuring Kids… for music, spoken word,art, creative expression at 

Canvas Gallery, 

51 Gibson Ave.

Huntington
Refreshments provided by Whole Foods Market

 $5 Cover Charge


To sign up or for more information on the Kids Open Mic contact:info@pulitzerandpanetta.com

Poetry Slam


Friday, May 15 2009
10:00pm

Nuyorican Poets Cafe

Spotlight poet & slam (be sure to come early)
Hosted by Mahogany Browne


Followed by the Open Room, a midnight open mike right after the Slam every Friday Night!!! Bring a poem and read!
Hosted by A-Trayn


Nuyorican Poets Cafe
236 East 3rd Street (Avenues B/C)
$10 (each show)
|www.nuyorican.org | 212-505-8183
Subway: F to 2nd Avenue, R to 8th Street, 4/5 to 14 Street, 6 to Astor Place

TODAY'S WORD

TERPSICHOREAN, adj.
Of or relating to dancing. -n.- a dancer


Thursday, May 07, 2009

MEAGAN BROTHERS

Friday, May 8 2009
6:00pm - 8:00pm

Meagan Brothers

Meagan Brothers, poet & songwriter, with 
Mike Fornatale
Hosted by Jackie Sheeler


Cornelia Street Cafe
29 Cornelia Street @ 6th avenue/bleecker
$7 gets you a free house beverage


any subway to washington square

TODAY'S WORD

VOLIBLE

Capable of turning or being turned around.

Tuesday, May 05, 2009

Monday, May 04, 2009

Sunday, May 03, 2009

WORDS OF WISDOM

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments,
but what is woven into the lives of others.

~Pericles

Friday, May 01, 2009

Reading @ Poetry Project

Dorothea Lasky & Kristin Palm

May 4, 2009
8:00 pm
Monday

Dorothea Lasky is the author of AWE (Wave Books, 2007) and Black Life (Wave Books, 2010). Her chapbooks includeTourmaline (Transmission Press, 2008), The Hatmaker’s Wife (Braincase Press, 2006), Art (H_NGM_N Press, 2006), and Alphabets and Portraits (Anchorite Press, 2005). She has been educated at Washington University, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and Harvard University. Currently, she studies creativity and education at the University of Pennsylvania. Kristin Palm grew up in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, and lived in Detroit for many years. She currently resides in San Francisco, California. Her writing has appeared in LVNG, Bird Dog, Boog City, Chain, There, Dusie and the anthologyBay Poetics (Faux Press, 2006), as well as numerous magazines and newspapers, including Metropolis, Planning and the Detroit Metro Times

St. Mark's Church

131 E. 10th Street @ 2nd Ave.

Subway: 6 to Astor Place; F to Second Avenue


NEW WORD