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)

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

TODAY'S WORD

POSEUR

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

TODAY'S WORD

LIGURE

A variant of a word which appears in many different forms.

WORDS OF WISDOM

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

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

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
Free | poetdujour7@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

TODAY'S WORD

KITSCH, n.

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

TODAY'S WORD

RIVULOSE

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

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.

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. 

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

TODAY'S WORD

IBIDEM

In the same place; in the same book, passage, etc.

Used to avoid the repetition of a reference.

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

TODAY'S WORD

HAUTEUR, n.

Haughty manner or spirit. 

WORDS OF WISDOM

Whenever I write I can express thoughts not spoken.

TODAY'S WORD

UXORIOUS

Fatuously or foolishly devoted to one's wife.

TODAY'S WORD

GORMANDIZE

To eat greedily. 

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.

TODAY'S WORD

FORAMINOUS

Full of holes, perforated, porous

TODAY'S WORDS

WEALSOME

Happy, properous, fraught with happiness

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

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

Be An Extraordinary Person

This is the book I am currently reading. It's a great book for those who want to live out their dreams. There's more to life than being ordinary. 

Genevieve

TODAY'S WORD

EDUCE

1. To bring out; elicit

2. To infer or deduce.