upcoming at Bowery Poetry Club
Saturday 8/26
1:00pm – 7:00pm Bowery Arts & Science presents Poetry Now! The East Village Scene. Expect discussions/performances by Ed Sanders, John Giorno, Sapphire, Celena Glenn and many more! Lots of audience participation! $10/7 A Seminar including panel discussions, live interviews, and performances to illuminate the roots, traditions, and culture of the historical and present Downtown Poetics. 1:00 – 1:45pm Open Mic Today! : The changing dynamics of the Lower East Side… How to keep a scene from becoming insular/insulated… Poetry vs. performance and music… Hip-hop Impact… The future: Where are the teens and 20s? With The O'Debra Twins, Faceboy, Reverend Jen, Aric Shunneson 2:00 – 2:45pm Old School and Beyond: The changing dynamics of the Lower East Side… Visual Art/Film/Theater/Poetry… Andy Warhol as Poet… Poet as Artist With Ed Sanders, John Giorno, Taylor Mead, Bob Holman 3:00- 3:45pm The Roots of Spoken Word: Nuyorican and Umbra Poets: In the Beginning was the Spoken Word… The Beats and Pre-Beats… Is there continuity in the Oral Tradition? With Miguel Algarín, Steve Cannon, David Henderson, Bob Holman 4:00- 4:45pm Poetry Now: "A Spoken Word Take" With Celena Glenn, Sapphire, Deanna Zandt, Edwin Torres 5:00pm Battle of the Bartenders: A Slam 6:00pm Audience SpeakOut
7:00pm – 10:00pm AMAZING DISGRACE: Katrina Benefit Reading. Suggested donation $15 Putting poetry into action with a Mega-Marathon Benefit Reading produced by Nicholas Bredie. W/ Ed Sanders, John Giorno, Sapphire and Prof Arturo, the Poet Laureate of the Streets of New Orleans and many many more.
Sunday8/27
2:00pm – 3:30pm LIT/Redivider Collaboration w/ readings by: Laura Cronk, Katie Degentesh, Timothy Liu, Sampson Starkweather, and Pauls Toutonghi FREE Cronk received an MFA in poetry from The New School. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Conduit, LIT, McSweeney’s, No Tell Motel and other journals. Her poems have been anthologized in The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel and Best American Poetry 2006. Degentesh poems and writings have appeared in Shiny, Fence, The Brooklyn Rail, and numerous other venues. Her first book, The Anger Scale, is forthcoming from Combo Books. Liu is the author of six books of poems, most recently For Dust Thou Art (Southern Illinois University Press, 2005). Starkweather lives in Chappaqua, New York, where he is an editor of science textbooks. He is working on a screenplay about the inner life of Alec Baldwin, involving two red blood cells whose unbridled desire leads to a short life of trouble, trouble, trouble. Toutonghi was born in Seattle, Washington. He received his MFA in poetry and his Ph.D. in English literature from Cornell University. His fiction has appeared in Zoetrope: All-Story, One Story Magazine, The Boston Review, Glimmer Train, Book Magazine, and many others. Pauls received a Pushcart Prize for his short story, “Regeneration,” which appeared in The Boston Review in 2000, when he was twenty-three. Random House published his first novel, Red Weather, in May 2006. LIT, a journal based at New School University in New York City, released its first issue in 1999. Redivider is a journal of new literature and art based at Emerson College in Boston.
6:00pm - 7:30pm The Brooklyn Rail Presents: Rant Rhapsody: New Nonfiction Reading series w/ Mark Read $5 Brooklyn Rail magazine emphasizing local arts, politics and events. A brand new series w/ some of the best best new new writing writing. The Bowery is proud to represent Brooklyn Cross the Hudson.www.thebrooklynrail.org
Wednesday 8/30
7:00pm - 8:30pm Marc Arena presents: Haitian poetry Arena is the grandson of great Haitian poet Paul Laraque, and here carries forward the traditions of art and culture, creole and politics.
9:00pm – 11:45pm Erica Miriam Fabri book party for "High Heel Magazine" on The Belle Letter Press $5 Book-Release Party for "High Heel Magazine" by Erica Miriam Fabri. An ALL-GIRL FESTIVAL FEATURING Poetry by: Erica Miriam Fabri, Elaine Equi, Rachel McKibbens, Sofiya Cabalquinto, and Tahani Salah. Music by: "Bunny Rabbit" and "Bombshell". Hosted by: Michael Cirelli.
1:00pm – 7:00pm Bowery Arts & Science presents Poetry Now! The East Village Scene. Expect discussions/performances by Ed Sanders, John Giorno, Sapphire, Celena Glenn and many more! Lots of audience participation! $10/7 A Seminar including panel discussions, live interviews, and performances to illuminate the roots, traditions, and culture of the historical and present Downtown Poetics. 1:00 – 1:45pm Open Mic Today! : The changing dynamics of the Lower East Side… How to keep a scene from becoming insular/insulated… Poetry vs. performance and music… Hip-hop Impact… The future: Where are the teens and 20s? With The O'Debra Twins, Faceboy, Reverend Jen, Aric Shunneson 2:00 – 2:45pm Old School and Beyond: The changing dynamics of the Lower East Side… Visual Art/Film/Theater/Poetry… Andy Warhol as Poet… Poet as Artist With Ed Sanders, John Giorno, Taylor Mead, Bob Holman 3:00- 3:45pm The Roots of Spoken Word: Nuyorican and Umbra Poets: In the Beginning was the Spoken Word… The Beats and Pre-Beats… Is there continuity in the Oral Tradition? With Miguel Algarín, Steve Cannon, David Henderson, Bob Holman 4:00- 4:45pm Poetry Now: "A Spoken Word Take" With Celena Glenn, Sapphire, Deanna Zandt, Edwin Torres 5:00pm Battle of the Bartenders: A Slam 6:00pm Audience SpeakOut
7:00pm – 10:00pm AMAZING DISGRACE: Katrina Benefit Reading. Suggested donation $15 Putting poetry into action with a Mega-Marathon Benefit Reading produced by Nicholas Bredie. W/ Ed Sanders, John Giorno, Sapphire and Prof Arturo, the Poet Laureate of the Streets of New Orleans and many many more.
Sunday8/27
2:00pm – 3:30pm LIT/Redivider Collaboration w/ readings by: Laura Cronk, Katie Degentesh, Timothy Liu, Sampson Starkweather, and Pauls Toutonghi FREE Cronk received an MFA in poetry from The New School. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Conduit, LIT, McSweeney’s, No Tell Motel and other journals. Her poems have been anthologized in The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel and Best American Poetry 2006. Degentesh poems and writings have appeared in Shiny, Fence, The Brooklyn Rail, and numerous other venues. Her first book, The Anger Scale, is forthcoming from Combo Books. Liu is the author of six books of poems, most recently For Dust Thou Art (Southern Illinois University Press, 2005). Starkweather lives in Chappaqua, New York, where he is an editor of science textbooks. He is working on a screenplay about the inner life of Alec Baldwin, involving two red blood cells whose unbridled desire leads to a short life of trouble, trouble, trouble. Toutonghi was born in Seattle, Washington. He received his MFA in poetry and his Ph.D. in English literature from Cornell University. His fiction has appeared in Zoetrope: All-Story, One Story Magazine, The Boston Review, Glimmer Train, Book Magazine, and many others. Pauls received a Pushcart Prize for his short story, “Regeneration,” which appeared in The Boston Review in 2000, when he was twenty-three. Random House published his first novel, Red Weather, in May 2006. LIT, a journal based at New School University in New York City, released its first issue in 1999. Redivider is a journal of new literature and art based at Emerson College in Boston.
6:00pm - 7:30pm The Brooklyn Rail Presents: Rant Rhapsody: New Nonfiction Reading series w/ Mark Read $5 Brooklyn Rail magazine emphasizing local arts, politics and events. A brand new series w/ some of the best best new new writing writing. The Bowery is proud to represent Brooklyn Cross the Hudson.www.thebrooklynrail.org
Wednesday 8/30
7:00pm - 8:30pm Marc Arena presents: Haitian poetry Arena is the grandson of great Haitian poet Paul Laraque, and here carries forward the traditions of art and culture, creole and politics.
9:00pm – 11:45pm Erica Miriam Fabri book party for "High Heel Magazine" on The Belle Letter Press $5 Book-Release Party for "High Heel Magazine" by Erica Miriam Fabri. An ALL-GIRL FESTIVAL FEATURING Poetry by: Erica Miriam Fabri, Elaine Equi, Rachel McKibbens, Sofiya Cabalquinto, and Tahani Salah. Music by: "Bunny Rabbit" and "Bombshell". Hosted by: Michael Cirelli.
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