Words With Multiple Meanings

BLIND

1. Unable to see.

2. Lacking in perception or judgment.

3. Act or do randomly.

4. Unreasoning; heedless.

5. Concealed.

Reconnecting

I have revisited many places from my youth and young adulthood. A Catholic church reminds me of my religious upbringing. An avant garde neighborhood takes me back to when I hung out with many young people who wanted something different. I don't pine for days gone by but I will not forget how they shaped who I am today.

Am I a relic who is out of touch with today's world of the internet, Ipod, and digital camera? Or am I finding pleasure in the sound of solitude? There are many people who feel like I do. They want escape from all the noise and loud voices that say you must keep going. I say come away awhile and sit by the fire and warm yourself.

Reflect on times when you were carefree. Reflect on the times you wish you were young again. Believe that those times of formalism and frivolity are still within yor heart. Believe that you are still young. Believe that your life still counts for something.

Words With Multiple Meanings

ACQUIT

1. Fear or clear, as from accusition.

2. Relieve, as of an obligation.

3. Conduct (oneself); behave.

September Is Here!

Friday, September 4 2009 10:00pm

The 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

The 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

WORDS OF WISDOM

I think in the case of horror, it's a chance to confront a lot of your worse fears and those fears usually have to do, ironically, with powerlessness and isolation.

~Adam Arkin,American Actor (b.1956)

TONIGHT!

Saturday, August 29 2009 5:00pm

Smalls Reading Series

Two Features TBA + 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

TODAY'S WORD

ZEALOT

Syn.- partisan, bigot, enthusiast, patriot, fanatic.

Ant.- shirker, dawdler.

TODAY'S WORD

YEARN

Syn.- crave, desire, hanker, pine.

Ant.- reject, ignore, shun, deprecate.

Mid Week Inspiration

Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present.

~Babatunde Olatunji

TODAY'S WORD

WONDER

Syn.-

n.- amazement, awe, bewilderment, admiration, surprise, prodigy, spectacle.

v.- query, ponder, doubt.

Ant.- expectation, commonness, steadiness, hardheadedness.

WORDS OF WISDOM

I think that the ideal space must contain elements of magic, serenity, sorcery and mystery.

-Luis Barragan, Mexican Architect (1902-1988)

TODAY'S WORD

VERACITY

Syn.- truth, reality, accuracy, candor.

Ant.- falsehood, lying, misrepresentation, deceit.

TODAY'S WORD

UNSCRUPULOUS

Syn.- ruthless, unprincipled, dishonest.

Ant.- honest, just, merciful, conscientious

Open Mic

Thursday, August 20 2009 9:00pm

Uzi's Open Mic: Brooklyn

Uzi's open!hosted by Amy Ouzoonian

at HiChristina's

632 Grand St.,

Brooklyn, NY

www.hichristina.comamy.ouzoonian@gmail.com

$5 Donation

WORDS OF WISDOM

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

TODAY'S WORD

TERSE

Syn.- neat, succinct, concise, brief, exact

Ant.- tedious, tiresome, wordy, lengthy, redundant

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.

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

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

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.

WORDS OF WISDOM

I want my prose to be as clear as a pane of glass.

~Tracy Kidder

WORDS OF WISDOM

There is creative reading
as well as creative writing.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

TODAY'S WORD

PALLID

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

Ant.~ ruddy, pink, flushed, glowing

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

TODAY'S WORD

OBSTINATE

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

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

TODAY'S WORD

NUDGE

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

Ant.- avoid, repress, suppress, prevent

WORDS OF WISDOM

Reflecting on my past has allowed me to anticipate the future.

TODAY'S WORD

MOTLEY

Synonyms- assorted, diverse, heterogeneous, varied, mottled

Antonyms- uniform, homogeneous, similar, pure

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 Square

TODAY'S WORD

KALEIDOSCOPIC

Syn.-multicolored, varied, patterned, changing

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

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)

TODAY'S WORD

JOCULAR

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

Ant.- serious, morose, dull

TODAY'S WORD

IMMANENT

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

Ant.- learned, acquired, extrinsic, objective

TODAY'S WORD

HECTOR

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

Ant.- help, persusade, comfort

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

Synonym and Antonym

FLOUT

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

Ant.- revere, praise, esteem, respect.

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)

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

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

WORDS OF WISDOM

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

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

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.

Spelled Different; Same Sound

BAY

A body of water forming an indentation of the shoreline.

BEY

(formerly) a title of respect for Turkish dignitaries.

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

WORDS OF WISDOM

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

~Rita Dove

Play @ Nuyorican Poets Cafe

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

SYNONYMS

ITEM

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

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

WORDS OF WISDOM

Beauty is not caused. It is.

~Emily Dickinson, American Poet (1830-1886)

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 Square

TODAY'S WORD

MARZIPAN

A confection of almond paste and sugar.

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.

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.