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.

TODAY'S WORD

XENOPHOBIA

An unreasonable fear or hatred of foreigners or strangers or of anything foreign or strange.

Indie Press Series

Thursday, April 30 2009 7:00pm

McNally Jackson Books

Indie Press Series: Brick Books & Friends,

featuring Jan Conn, author of "Botero's Beautiful Horses",

Carolyn Smart, author of "Hooked", 

and Tom Sleigh, author of "Space Walk"

McNally Jackson Books
In the Teahouse
52 Prince Street (Lafayette/Mulberry)
Free | www.mcnallyjackson.com |events@mcnallyjackson.com | 212-274-1160

Subway: 6 to Spring, R to Prince, or B/D/F/V to Broadway/Lafayette

TODAY'S WORD

DUBITATIVE

Inclined or given to doubt; expressing doubt or hesitancy.

A word or phrase expressing doubt.

TODAY'S WORD

YARROW

A plant with flat-topped clusters of white-to-yellow flowers.

WORDS OF WISDOM

The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.

~Chinese proverb

TODAY'S WORD

CRESCENDO

1. A gradual increase in loudness.

2. A musical passage characterized by such an increase.

TODAY'S WORD

ZEPHYR

1. A light breeze.

2. A fine, light fabric or yarn.

TODAY"S WORD

JERRYBUILT

1. Built cheaply and flimsily. 

2. Developed hap-hazardly.

Bookstore in the Flatiron District

I remember that I picked up a post card somewhere about this small bookstore. One day I was in Union Square so I sauntered over to Idlewild bookstore a block away. If it wasn't for a sign outside I might have passed by the store.

Never one to pass up a bookstore, I walked up a few steps and inside the small store with wooden floors. Idlewid features fiction and non-fiction books from all over the world. It has maps and globe also. All that's needed is a small little coffee stand.

I'll need to go back again very soon. I just feel in my blood that there's a book with my name on it.

TODAY'S WORD

BE-

A prefix meaning; about or around (beseige); all over (bedaub);
To provide with (bejewel); at or regarding (bewail)
To make (befriend).

Words of Wisdom

A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds.

A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship,

and he who plants kindness gathers love.

                               ~Saint Basil,Greek Saint (330-379)

Poetry in Brooklyn Heights

Wednesday, April 15 2009 7:00pm

Brooklyn Heights Poetry Circle

Featured reader TBD, musical interlude + open mike
Hosted by Roslyn Rabin

The First Unitarian Church of Brooklyn (Undercroft)

50 Monroe Place (Pierrepont St. between Clinton/Monroe Place)

$3 incl. refreshments raypo9@hotmail.com 718-377-1253

Subway: R to Court St.; 2 to Clark St.; 3/4/5 to Borough Hall

TODAY'S WORD

CARPHOLOGY

The movements of delirious patients, as if searching for or grasping at imaginary objects, or picking the bed-clothes; floccilation.

WORDS OF WISDOM

Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

~Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish Writer (1547-1616)

TODAY'S WORD

OBSTINATE

1. Stubbornly adhering to a purpose, opinin, etc.

2. Not easily treated, as a disease.

Open mike

Friday, April 10 2009 6:30pm

Stark! Wide
Open Mike

Open mike for music, poetry, spoken word & featured performers

Hosted by VivianaNola

Studios/Studio
C250 West 54th Street, 11th Floor (7th/8th Avenues)

$5 Spunkypoetress@aol.com 917-292-2683

Subway: R to 57th Street or C/E/1/9 to 50th Street

TODAY'S WORD

SPECTRAL

1. Of or like a specter; ghostly.

2. Pertaining to a spectrum.

TODAY'S WORD

A-

A prefix meaning not; without.
Ex.- atypical; asexual

Comedy Drama/Choir-Poem Play

Saturday, April 4 2009 7:00pm
The Jalopy Theater

"In Love With Mom" by Lola Cooper, a romantic, comedic drama/Choir-poem play about our relationships with our mothers, whose story is told through poetry, based on a collection of poems bearing the same title

Shows on Saturdays, March 28th, April 4th & 11th @ 7pm,
and Sundays, April 26th, May 3rd, 10th, 17th @ 6pm

The Jalopy Theater
315 Columbia Street,
Redhook, Brooklyn
$20 emmy.no@gmail.com 718-395-3214

TODAY'S WORD

NIMBUS

A light believed to surround a deity or holy person.

Reading Series at Judson Memorial Church

TONIGHT!
April 3 2009 7:00pm


The Writers Studio Reading Series

Five Point Magazine, featuring Ann Beattie, Edward Hirsch,
Alice Hoffman, JD McClatchy, Philip Schultz

Judson Memorial Church
55 Washington Square South
$5 www.writerstudio.com 212-255-7075

Subway: A/C/E/B/D/F to West 4th Street

WORDS OF WISDOM

Hidden gems can be found in the unlikeliest of places.

Monday, March 16 2009 8:00pm

The Poetry Project

Gregg Biglieri & Larry Price

St. Mark's Church
131 East 10th Street @ Second Avenue

$8; $7 students & seniors; $5 members
www.poetryproject.com cf@poetryproject.com

212.674.0910

Subways: N/Q/R/W/4/5/6 to 14th St – Union Square,
or L to 1st or 3rd Ave.

WORDS OF WISDOM

A woman who is willing to beerself and pursue her own potential
runs not so much the risk of lonelness, as the challenge of exposure
to more interesting men-and people in general.

~Lorraine Hansberry, African American writer(1930-1965)

Poem

All the layers of I life are stripped bare
I'm not the person I thought I was
The nagging thought that I was someone else,
is staring at me
Who is this stranger? What do you want?
It's a bad dream, I surmise.
I'll go to sleep
Tomorrow will be another day.
A new day and nothing's changed.
I walk down the street. I work. I attend church.
Yet this other person seeks to take over.
Nerves are taught like tuning a guitar string.
My destiny is closing in.
I am tired. I am in distress.
I admit that I am this other person.
Finally, I found peace.
No more distress.
I have become. I am.

Genevieve

WORDS OF WISDOM

During the dry periods, go back to when you first started writing and how new it was to you.

Poetry, Fiction, Publishing Tips

Thursday, March 12 2009 6:00pm

New York State of Mind

A night of poetry, fiction and publishing tips from members of the Greater New York Independent Publishers Assoication, featuring Kat Georges, Perry Brass, Norman Beim, Annie Heckman, Heidi Russell, Kay Williams, Fred Milani, Jeanne Pearson
Hosted by Three Rooms Press

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

Words

GORILLA
The largest anthropoid ape, native to equatorial Africa


GUERILLA, GUERRILLA
Memeber of a band of irregular soldiers that harasses the enemy, as by surprise raids.

WORDS OF WISDOM

A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.

~ Louis L'Amour, American Author (1908-1988)

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY
a benefit for
WOMEN'S PRESS COLLECTIVE

Film showing of "Rosie the Riveter"- U.S. women's role in WWII industrial production

Women within Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution-first-hand report by COLLECTIVE ENDEAVOR publisher, just returned from press in Caracas, Venezuela

Bring a Friend to join as a Women's Press Collective (WPC) member! Or learn how you can join WPC

Find out how you can volunteer with WPC projects and activities

Refreshments, discussion-an opportunity to put your beliefs into action, here and now!

DATE: Sunday, March 15, 2009

TIME: 1:00-4:30pm

LOCATION: Union Hall: 72 Union Street near 5th Avenue, Park Slope, Brooklyn

SUGGESTED DONATION: $10.00

TODAY'S WORD

VERACITY

1. Habitual observance of truth; truthfulness.

2. Conformity to fact; accuracy.

Saturday, March 7 2009 2:30pm
Brownstone Poets
Poetry Grows in Brooklyn Heights, featuring George Guida and Lee Kostrinsky of the Smalls Jazz Club Poetry Reading Series + open mike

Hosted by Patricia Carragon

Park Plaza Restaurant
220 Cadman Plaza West
(near Clark Street & Pineapple Walk),
Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn
$3 + food & drink patricia.carragon.home.att.net www.parkplazarestaurant.com pattiekake@earthlink.net

Subway: A/C to High Street, or 2/3 to Clark Street,
or 4/5/M/R to Court Street/Borough Hall

WORDS OF WISDOM

Don't go where others lead,
Go where they haven't gone
and leave a trail.

~author unknown

Public Speaking

I have mentioned in the past that reading and writing go hand in hand and that is largely true. Speaking is another way of communicating. I can be poetry, a speech, an opinion, or just communication between two friends.

One thing the speaker wishes to convey is what he/she wants for us to understand. I have spoken out in public a few times in my life. I always find necessary to write down what I want to say. I used to write down a speech then read from it when I was in high school. However, it stunted my ability to communicate in a natural tone to the audience. Instead I wrote down an outline of the high points I wanted to cover. I still do research and have a written speech or commentary. I find that speaking from my heart with the outline as a guide is more to my liking.

Speaking in public actually invigorates me. I get the butterflies in my stomach but I use it to my advantage. I think of my audience to be knowledgeable and intelligent. Trying to pull one over on them is insulting. That's why I spend time researching and making sure my facts are straight. I enjoy speaking in public because they see a live person who has something to say. I pray that the words will encourage, stir, and spark them to go beyond what they think they cannot do. The words can be firy or subtle, simple or compelling. Either way it is communicating to the masses.

Welcome to the MIC

FRIDAY NITE MARCH 6, 2009 @ 7pm
@ Sista's Place

Black Power, Word Power,
Self Determining Power!

Welcome to the MIC

SPIT FIRE!

The best political and cultural spoken word event in NYC!

Sign up @ 6:30PM

Sista's Place
456 Nostrand Ave @ Jefferson Avenue
Brooklyn

Free December 12th Movement Culture Committee (718) 398-1766

Subway: A/C to Nostrand Avenue

Thursday, February 26 2009 7:00pm

McNally Jackson Books

Sharon Dolin, Anne Marie Macari

McNally Jackson Books
52 Prince Street (Lafayette/Mulberry)In the Teahouse
Free www.mcnallyjackson.com events@mcnallyjackson.com

212-274-1160

Subway: 6 to Spring, R to Prince, or B/D/F/V to Broadway/Lafayette

TODAY'S WORD

PROTEAN

Readily assuming different forms or characters.

Tuesday, February 24 2009 6:00pm

Boog City Presents

d.a. levy lives: celebrating the renegade press

Atelos Publishing Project (Berkeley, Calif.)

Featuring readings from Ted Greenwald, Jennifer Scappettone,

Lytle Shaw, Edwin Torres, Rodrigo Toscano,

with music from Lisle Ellis and Larry Ochs

Hosted by Atelos Publishing Project

directors and editors Lyn Hejinian and Travis Ortiz Curated

and with an introduction by Boog City editor David Kirschenbaum


ACA Galleries
529 West 20th Street,
5th Floor (10th/11th Avenues)
Free, incl. wine & cheese

www.welcometoboogcity.com www.atelos.org

212-842-2664

Subway: C/E to 23rd Street, 1/9 to 18th Street

WORDS OF WISDOM

Never be afraid to sit awhile, and think.

~Lorraine Hansberry, African American author (1930-1965)

Words

Monday, February 16 2009 6:00pm

New York Quarterly Reading Series

Joel Allegretti, Rynn Williams, Peter V. Arcese

Hosted by Ted Jonathan

The Cornelia Street Cafe

29 Cornelia Street (West 4th/Bleecker Street)

$7 gets you a free drink
www.corneliastreetcafe.com
tjonathan@nyquarterly.org 212-989-9319

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

Fear

There are elements consistenly found in mstery and horror stories. The unknown, suspense, fear, sudden changes in storytelling, long dormant thoughts coming back full force.

Fear is one thing that fascinates me in horror and suspense stories. I once wrote a story about a career woman who met people who reminded her of people in her past long deceased. When she met a man she thought had died fiteen years earlier, she realized that destiny was catching up to her. Fear can freeze people dead in their tracks. They feel powerless. They want to escape sensing that some horrible fate awaits them.

I like writing stories where a person comes face to face with their past misdeeds. Add supernatural events like ghosts and then you have the making of a good horror story. I like to believe that people will change when they see that thier evil deeds will come back to haunt them. In horror and suspense the story would compromised but I don't think so necessarily. That's what our imagination is for. We can twist and shape the story anyway we see fit.

Sound the same but spelled differently

DOUGH; DOE

SEW, SOW

PRINCIPAL; PRINCIPAL

COURSE; COARSE

HORSE; HOARSE

WOOD; WOULD

METAL; METTLE

WIDTH; WITH

TODAY'S WORD

PREDILECTION

A partiality; preference

Southern Writers Reading Series

Wednesday, February 11 2009 8:00pm

Southern Writers Reading Series

Two featured Southern authors (TBA)

+ open mike

(sign up begins at 7:30PM -bring poetry or fiction to share and a mind ready to experience the mythic South without ever leaving Manhattan)

Hosted by Ekoko Omadeke

Happy Ending Lounge

302 Broome Street (Forsyth/Eldridge)

Free southernwritersny@gmail.com

Subway: B/D to Grand Street, or J/M/Z to Bowery

Words of Wisdom

The more I write the more my spirit is freed from tension and fear.

Open Mike @ Smalls Jazz Club

Saturday, January 31 2009 5:00pm

Smalls Reading Series

Phillip Levine & Joanna Herman + open mike(sign-up at 4:30pm)

Hosted by George Guida, Lee Kostrinsky and Christine Timm

Smalls Jazz Club

183 West 10th Street (near Sheridan Square on 7th Avenue)

$6 www.smallsjazzclub.com leeko@rcn.com

212-252-5091

Subway: 1/9/A/B/C/D/E/F/V to West 4th Street

Stress can produce masterpieces

How many of us have written hour after hour and afterwards see how much we have accomplished. You didn't worry about grammar or spelling. You had to write whatever was on your mind or in your heart. You could have been happy, sad, mad, troubled, thankful, or joyous. You just needed to release your heart of those things that were brewing inside.

Some of the best writing have come during times of duress. Maybe you didn't feel like doing it. Perhaps it wasn't the right time but you got out a pad, paper, or wordprocessor and wrote away. It may not have any meaning at first but when you read it at another time it has a connection with what you are trying to convey to your audience. People like writing that is original and heartfelt. One reward of writing is when it connects with your audience.

Don't minimize those times when life doesn't seem all that great. Get out your pad! Get on that wordprocessor and write away! It can be the beginning of speaking to others who are experiencing those tough times.

TODAY'S WORD

GHOSTWRITE

Write for someone else who receives credit as author.

Words

Sunday, January 25 2009 3:00pm

SOS: ABC No Rio Sunday Open

Open mike hosted by Bruce Weber, Eugene Ring,
John Bredin, John Marcus Powell, George Spencer.

No list, No Time Limit, No B.S., Workshop feel, Try out new work.

ABC No Rio
156 Rivington St. (Clinton/Suffolk Streets),

2 blocks south of Houston

$3 212-674-3585
Subway: F/V to Delancey/Second Avenue, then walk East and South

WORDS OF WISDOM

An individual can be educated well beyond the walls of academia. The best education we receive is from life's experiences.

Books for Writers

Below is a list of some books I recommend for writers.



Playwriting: The Structure of Action-Sam Smiley

The Elements of Style, 4th Edition-Wm. Strunk Jr. & E.B. White

Random House Basic Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms

Teach Yourself Writing: Non-Fiction Janet MacDonald

MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 6th Edition-Joseph Gibaldi

One Word

A story can sprout from just one word. I read what the word means then take off from there. I use my imagination, using metaphors to tell the story. I'm presently working on a few articles with one word as a catalyst. They will posted in future blogs.


Genevieve

Monday Night!

Monday, January 12 2009 7:30pm

KGB Bar

Monday Night Series featuring poets TBA

Hosted by Laura Cronk & Michael Quattrone

KGB Bar
85 East 4th Street @ 2nd Avenue

Free

www.kgbbar.com michaelquattrone@earthlink.net

TODAY'S WORD

BACCHANAL

1. a worshipper of Bacchus.

2. an occasion of drunken revelry.