THE BROWNSTONE POETS


(Photo Credit:Patricia Carragon )

 PATRICIA CARRAGON hosts and curates this
Brooklyn-based Poetry Series & Open Mic








THE BROWNSTONE POETS READING SERIES:



1st Saturday Readings unless another date is requested by the restaurant's owners
Park Plaza Restaurant
220 Cadman Plaza West near Clark St. & Pineapple Walk
Brooklyn, NY 11201 - 718 – 596 – 5900
2:30PM
$3 donation + food/drink - Open Mic
Take the A or C to High Street, 2 or 3 to Clark Street, 4, M or R to Court Street, Borough Hall http://www.parkplazarestaurant.com/contact.html






3rd Tuesday Readings
Tillies of Brooklyn
248 DeKalb Ave. corner of Vanderbilt and DeKalb Brooklyn, NY 11205 Phone # (718) 783-6140
Take the J, M, R or Q trains to DeKalb Avenue, the C to Lafayette, the G to Clinton/Washington
2, 3, 4 , 5 to Nevins St.

http://www.tilliesofbrooklyn.com/gettinghere.html


ABOUT PATRICIA

For EVIE:
I want to wish my lovely co-hostess, EVIE IVY, much success in her endeavors. I thank her for the wonderful times we spent together in launching this little Brooklyn reading and for making it a safe haven for poetry. We will miss "our Muse."
-- Patricia Carragon



The Brownstone Poets 2009 Anthologies are available! $4 at the readings. $6 elsewhere. All participants get a free copy.



SUBMISSION GUIDELINES FOR THE BROWNSTONE POETS 2010 ANTHOLOGY


Submissions are being taken for The Brownstone Poets 2010 Anthology. All submissions must be sent in no later than December 31, 2009. All featured poets from 2009 will automatically be eligible to submit 1 short poem, published or unpublished, in an email either on an attached word document file or in the body of the email with your name on each. All regular attendees will be eligible to submit 1 short poem, published or unpublished, in an email either on an attached word document file or in the body of the email with your name on each. The Brownstone Poets 2010 Anthology will be published by March 2010. Please, no hate poems against another person's race, creed, faith, gender or sexual preference, or overuse of extreme language!!! All participants will receive a free copy.


The Brownstone Poets 2009 Anthology on sale at BookCourt for $8.

BookCourt

163 Court Street
Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, NY 11201
Phone # (718) 875-3677


Take the F or G to Bergen St., N or R to Court St.,4 or 5 to Borough Hall

http://www.bookcourt.org/

Or you can purchase them from me for $6. Come to any Brownstone reading for the discounted "Brownstone price" of $4. All contributors can purchase additional copies at the"Brownstone price."



CONGRATULATIONS TO THE FOLLOWING CONTRIBUTORS TO THE 2009 ANTHOLOGY:

AUSTIN ALEXIS ** JOY LEFTOW ** JOEL ALLEGRETTI ** LINDA LERNER ** MARY ASKIN-JENCSIK ** EFRAYIM LEVENSON ** ROSE BERNAL ** GABRIEL A. LEVICKY ** ALEX O. BLEECKER ** LAURA LUDWIG ** HOBO BOB ** BRANT LYON ** ALEX CALDIERO ** EUGENIA MACER-STORY ** ANNE CAMMON ** MANKH (WALTER E. HARRIS) ** PATRICIA CARRAGON ** SUSAN MAURER ** ARLENE CASSARINO ** JOSHUA MEANDER ** PETER CHELNIK ** SALLY-ANNE MILGRIM ** DEMETRIUS DANIEL ** MAX NEMEROVSKY ** WILLIAM DUKE ** RICHARD JEFFREY NEWMAN ** ROBERT DUNN ** NGOMA ** GIL FAGIANI ** OBSIDIAN ** RICHARD FEIN ** TOM OLESZCZUK ** CRAIG FISHBANE ** PUMA PERL ** ROBERT GIBBONS ** SU POLO ** ALLAN DAVID GOLDSCHMIDT ** VITTORIA REPETTO ** GERALDINE GREEN ** EUGENE RING ** SHARON LYNN GRIFFITHS ** DONALD R. SIEGEL ** TOM GUARNERA ** JEANNE R. SLAVIN SIEGEL ** GEORGE HELD ** GEORGE SPENCER ** BOB HEMAN ** MIRIAM STANLEY ** EVIE IVY ** CHRISTINE TIMM ** PRECIOUS JONES ** CYNTHIA TORONTO ** CARL KAVADLO ** GEORGE WALLACE ** JEE LEONG KOH **



Copies of the 2007 anthologies are still available at these bookstores:

The Golden Notebook @ 29 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY

Robin's Bookstore @ 108 S13th Street, Philadelphia, PA



Current Schedule:





Saturday, November 7 at the Park Plaza Restaurant at 2:30PM

*Frank Simone, Cindy Sostchen-Hochman and Zev Torres*

November 17, 2009 at Tillies of Brooklyn

Tuesday, November 17 at 7PM

*Emmy Hunter, Michael Fiorito and Brenda J. Gannam*








Please, scroll down to view the entire 2005/2006/2007/2008/2009/2010 Schedule


2009/ 2010

  • January 17, 2009: Fareed Bitar & Diana Gitesha Hernandez at Roots Café ( No 1st Saturday Reading due to Holiday)
  • January 20, 2009: Canceled The Fall Cafe Reading to honor the Inauguration of Barack Obama
  • February 7, 2009: Daniel Fernandez & Evie Ivy at the Park Plaza Restaurant
  • February 17, 2009: Louis Reyes Rivera, Hal SirowItz & Juanita Torrence-Thompson at The Fall Café
  • March 7, 2009: George Guida & Lee Kostrinsky at the Park Plaza Restaurant
  • March 17, 2009: No Reading at The Fall Café
  • April 18, 2009: Caryn Baruch, Suzanne Kaufman and Janet Wolfman at the Park Plaza Restaurant (April 4 had to be switched)
  • April 21, 2009: John Amen, Mary Orovan and Ester K Smith at The Fall Café
  • May 2, 2009: Maria Chisolm, DuEwa Frazier, Marilyn Thomas-King at the Park Plaza Restaurant
  • May 19, 2009: Samantha Barrow, Jean Lehrman and Mireya Perez at Tillies of Brooklyn
  • June 6, 2009: Robert Harris, Sarah Sarai and Adriana Scorpino at the Park Plaza Restaurant
  • June 16, 2009: Rudy Baron, Wayne Berninger and David Francis at Tillies of Brooklyn
  • July 4, 2009: No Reading at the Park Plaza Restaurant - Happy July 4th!
  • July 21, 2009: Peter Dugan, Michael Graves and Elizabeth Smith at Tillies of Brooklyn
  • August 1, 2009: Gary Esolen, John Marcus Powell and Ricki Stuart at the Park Plaza Restaurant
  • August 18, 2009: Iris Berman, Steve Bloom and Viviana Grell at Tillies of Brooklyn
  • September 5, 2009: Elise Buchman and Charles J. Butler at the Park Plaza Restaurant
  • September 15, 2009: Gordon Gilbert, Frank Romano and Carmela Tal Baron at Tillies of Brooklyn
  • October 3, 2009: Linda Lerner, Eve Packer and Sparrow at the Park Plaza Restaurant
  • Wednesday, October 21, 2009: Rosalie Calabrese, Jim Porter and Moira Smith at Tillies of Brooklyn
  • November 7, 2009: Frank Simone, Cindy Sostchen-Hochman and Zev Torres at the Park Plaza Restaurant
  • November 17, 2009: Emmy Hunter, Michael Fiorito and Brenda J. Gannam at Tillies of Brooklyn
  • December 5, 2009: Mary Askin-Jencsik, Barbara Reiher-Meyers and Carol Wierzbicki at the Park Plaza Restaurant
  • December 15, 2009: Jay Chollick, Alan David Goldschmidt and Karen Neuberg at Tillies of Brooklyn
  • January 2, 2010: Janice Brabaw, Dan Brown, Alan Devenish at the Park Plaza Restaurant
  • January 19, 2010: ICE, Dennis Nurkse and Barry Wallenstein at Tillies of Brooklyn
  • February 16, 2010: Zoe Artemis, Fred Dasig, Georgia Faust at Tillies of Brooklyn
  • May 18, 2010: R. Nemo Hill, Quincy Lehr and Jane Omerod at Tillies of Brooklyn





    • 2008

  • January 5: Austin Alexis & Carl Kavaldo
  • January 26: JeeLeong Koh & Vittoria Repetto
  • February 2: Peter Chelnik & Sally Milgrim
  • March 1: Gabriel A. Levicky & Joshua Meander
  • March 15: Donald Siegel & Jeanne Slavin-Siegel
  • April 26: Craig Fishbane & Su Polo
  • May 3: Alex Caldiero, Laura Ludwig & Eugenia Macer-Story
  • May 24: Robert Gibbons & George Spencer
  • Friday, June 6: Brownstone Poets Anthology Event @ BookCourt
  • NO READING ON JULY 5
  • July 19: Hobo Bob & Obsidian
  • July 22: George Wallace, Geraldine Green & Mankh at The Fall Café
  • August 19: Alex O. Bleecker & Cynthia Toronto at The Fall Café
  • September 6: Ngoma & Precious Jones at Café Sutra
  • September 16: Joel Allegretti & Richard Jeffrey Newman at The Fall Café
  • October 4: Puma Perl & Christine Timm at Café Sutra
  • October 21: Gil Fagiani, George Held & Susan Maurer at The Fall Café
  • November 1: Anne Cammon & Sharon Lynn Griffiths at Café Sutra
  • November 18: Thomas Guarnera, Efrayim Levenson & Miriam Stanley at The Fall Café
  • December 20: Demetrius Daniel & Joy Leftow at Roots Café (switched from 12/13)( No 1st Saturday Reading )
  • December 16: Rose Bernal & Arlene Cassarino at The Fall Café


    • 2007
  • January 6: S.David & Allan David Goldschmidt
  • January 20: Bob Heman & Nathan Whiting
  • CANCELLED *****February 3: Richard Newman & John J. Trause
  • March 3: Radomir Luza, Jr. & Frank Simone
  • March 17: Bill Pyles & Alan Barysh
  • April 7: Charles J. Butler & Jack Tricarico
  • April 21: Mad Poets of PA: Eileen D'Angelo, Richard Bank, G. Emil Reutter, Dave Worrell, Autumn Konopka,Camelia Nocella
  • May 5: Thaddeus Rutkowski & Bob Quatrone
  • May 19: Chocolate Waters & Larissa Shmailo
  • CANCELLED ***** June 23 : Zork & LV
  • July 7: Ray Pospisil & David Lawton, plus special guest poet, Ramon Matos, the "Christina Poet"
  • July 21: Linda Lerner & Theo Coates
  • July 28 : Zork & LV
  • August 18: Vincent Quatroche & Richard Fein
  • September 1: Edgar Carlson & Max Nemerovsky
  • September 15: Riverside Poets
  • CANCELLED **** October 6 : Sarah Sarai & Thomas Fucaloro
  • CANCELLED **** October 20: Thomas Fucaloro & Sarah Sarai
  • November 3: Dorothy F. August & guest
  • November 17: Donald Lev & John J. Trause
  • December 1: Alan Baxter & Robin Small-McCarthy



    2006
  • January 7: Carol Novack & Tom Oleszczuk
  • February 4: Peter Weisman & Big Mike
  • March 4: Robert Dunn & Leigh Harrison
  • April 1: Madeline Artenberg & Iris N. Schwartz
  • May 6: Bruce Weber & Joanne Pagano Weber
  • June 3: Rich Hemmings & EJ Antonio
  • July 1: George Wallace & Brant Lyon
  • August 5: Phillip Levine & Lisa Roma
  • September 2: Eugene Ring & Bob Hart
  • September 16: Joy Leftow, Ricki Stuart & Special Guest Poet, Graham Bucham
  • October 7: Stanley H. Barkan & Aleksey Dayen
  • November 4: Jackie Sheeler & Angelo Verga
  • November 18: Amy Ouzoonian & G Emil Reutter
  • December 2: Jay Chollick & Liza Wolsky



    2005
  • August 6: Roxanne Hoffman & Jane Ormerod
  • September 3: William Duke & Iris Berman
  • October 1: Jean Lehrman & Pete Dolack
  • November 5: Ice & Mindy Matijasevic
  • December 3: Su Polo & Mary Elizabeth Shanahan

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