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2012 Poetry Readings at Midtown Cinema's Reel Cafe
Poetry Excitement, each &
every Thursday evening, 7:00-- 9:00pm,
presented by the Almost Uptown
Poetry Cartel. For two centuries--
a major player in spoken word performance!
Past featured performers at Poetry Thursdays include luminaries
such as Craig Czury, Cher Williamson,
Thaddeus Rutkowski, Emily Rice, Jeanette trout, Bill Shields, Chris Conlon, Rick Kearns, Jack Veasey,
Hiram Larew
and Richard Peabody, Rich Hemmings, Julianna Spallholz, Kim Roberts,
Kevyn Knox, Barbara DeCesare, stevenallenmay, as well as Gene Hosey-- Harrisburg's first poet laureate, and Iya Isoke.
for information about the cartel's various activities:
www.almostuptown.com/
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Our PoetryThursdays reading series celebrates its twelve-year anniversary in 2011. The series, a cartel mainstay since 1999, began in a small coffeehouse on 3rd Street, in Midtown, near Nick's Cafe, and continued through numerous downtown venues. For a time, we were at the Crimson Frog coffeehouse in the Cedar Cliff Mall. But now, we're home again. At Midtown Cinema. 250 Reily St.--the creative hub, "the cultural corridor" of the 'burg.
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UPCOMING POETRY EVENTS at the REEL CAFE:
celebrating twelve years of bringing Harrisburg poets together.
No cover, no minimum, at the Reel Cafe, Midtown Cinema,
250 Reily Street, Harrisburg, PA 17102. 717 909-6645
every Thursday from 7:00 to 9:00 pm.
February Events 2012
February 2-- Open reading (a Bill Murray tribute)
February 9-- Philadelphia poet Diane Sahms-Guarneiri
Sahms-Guarneiri is Poetry Editor of The Fox Chase Review, Diane served on the Editorial Board of Philadelphia Stories Magazine (2007-2009), founded The Fox Chase Reading Series “2nd Tuesdays Poetry Open Mic” (2009-2011), founded and hosted The Center City Poets Workshop (2006-2011).
Her work has been published widely in the small and electronic press, Images of Being, her first full length collection is now available from Stonegarden. net publishing.
Her poems appear in anthologies including Common Wealth: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania and in more than 30 print and online journals including American Letters and Commentary, Chain, 13th Moon, and mid)rib. Associate poetry editor for the online magazine 5Trope. Sahms-Guarneiri has garnered awards from the Academy of American Poets, the Gertrude Stein Awards in Innovative American Poetry, and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.
She’s performed her poetry at venues in Philadelphia, Southeastern Pennsylvania and New York.
February 16-- Blue Valentine Open reading,
the things we do for love
February 23-- Rick Kearns
Award-winning poet, freelance writer and musician Rick Kearns will be Poetry Thursdays’ featured reader on Thursday, February 23, at the Midtown Cinema’s Reel Cafe, 250 Reily Street, Harrisburg. He'll be reading from his latest tome, Rufino's Secret,(FootHills Publishing, 2012.
His poetry has also been published in three chapbooks and two other full collections: Street of Knives (Warm Springs Press, 1993), Boricua In Between (1997), Jazz Poems (1997), Endtime Poems, (1998, Pacobooks). Red Pagoda Press has published five of his poems in brochure form since 2000. His latest collection of verse, The Body of My Isla was published in 2008.
As a journalist Kearns has written for daily, weekly and monthly news publications since 1986. In the last decade his work has focused on Latino and Native American issues.
Kearns’ poems have appeared in numerous anthologies: El Coro/A Chorus of Latino and Latina Poetry (Univ. of Massachusetts Press, Amherst, 1997); Voices from the Nuyorican Cafe (Henry Holt & Co., NY, 1994. Winner of the American Book Award.), and in literary reviews such as: The Massachusetts Review, Chicago Review, Drum Voices Revue (So. Illinois University Edwardsville), Painted Bride Quarterly, The Patterson Review, HEART Quarterly, Big Hammer, Palabra: A Journal of Chicano and Literary Art, Yellow Medicine Review, and Fledgling Rag.
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Zounds! Joseph Jablonski has put together the astounding, SURREALISM IN 2012, a celebration of the beginning of the 14th baktun (cycle) in the Maya long count calendar, and the fifth rebirth of our Sun.
It will run at Reading PA's GoggleWorks from January 6 to February 19.
This gathering of creative forces in Eastern Pennsylvania represents the first collective manifestation of the ongoing surrealist movement in that part of the United States. It is a rare opportunity to experience the stimulating atmosphere of authentic surreality apart from the academicism or media distortion so often identified with that word.
GoggleWorks Center for the Arts is a community art and cultural resource center for Berks County, Central and Southeastern Pennsylvania, and is the largest, most comprehensive interactive arts center of its kind in the country.
http://www.goggleworks.org/
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STANDING EVENTS:
There is a Poetry Night, Open Mic and a workshop.
at the Midtown Scholar in Harrisburg on every third Tuesday evening.
1302 N. 3rd St.
http://www.midtownscholar.com/
Newport, PA. monthly reading. Free and open to the public. Call 717-567-7023 for details or to sign up to perform.
The coffeehouse hosts poetry readings (7-- 9pm) on the last Friday of each month.
Camp Curtin YMCA Poetry Theater
Open Mic & refreshments every Tuesday evening, 6:30 – 8:00 pm.
At Camp Curtin YMCA, 6th & Woodbine Streets, Harrisburg, PA.
Combines spoken word with theater-like performances for youth and adults.
For information call Nate Gadsden at (717) 608-2312 or Marki Polite at (717) 234-7058
Convergence
Open Mic the second Monday of the month, 7:30 pm.
At Borders Books, 940 Plaza Blvd, Lancaster, PA. (717) 293-8022
Hosted by Rich Hemmings.
Dreamer's Poetry
Open Mic every Wednesday, 7:30 pm.
At Frederick Coffee Co, 100 N East St, Frederick, MD. (301) 698-0039
Hosted by Daniel Armstrong. January 12: Michael Lear-Olimpi
Poetic Perkolations, 2nd and 4th Tuesday, 7--9pm
Workshop and Reading at Crimson Frog Coffeehouse
New Cumberland, PA (717) 761-4721
hosted by Marilyn Tenenoff
Fox Chase Reading Series
Open Mic the second Tuesdays of the month, 7 to 9 pm.
At Three Sisters Corner Café, 7950 Oxford Ave, Philadelphia, PA. (215) 725-6848
Hosted by G Emil Reutter.
Poetry at the Emporium
Open Mic the second Wednesday of the month, 7 pm.
At The York Emporium, 343 West Market St, York, PA. (717) 846-2866
Hosted by Carol Clark Willliams.
Ragged Edge Coffee House Reading Series
Open Mic the first Friday of the month, 7 to 9 pm.
At The Ragged Edge Coffee House, 110 Chambersburg St, Gettysburg, PA. (717) 334-4464
Hosted by Dana Larkin Sauers.
Reader's Cafe Poetry
Open Mic the fourth Monday of the month, 7:30 pm.
At The Reader's Cafe, 125 Broadway, Hanover, PA. (717) 630-2524
Hosted by Michael Hoover.
Writer's Wordshop
Meets every Friday evening, 7 to 9 pm.
At Imani African Christian Church, 1416 Cumberland Street, Harrisburg, PA. (717) 608-2312
Persons of all ages and races join the weekly Wordshop readings.
Hosted by Nate Gadsen--The Writers Wordshop was founded in 1977.
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POETRY CARTEL PROJECTS
A unique literary magazine that makes poetry available through a gumball vending machine. Put in a quarter and you're treated to a poem by one of the 8 Almost Uptown poets featured in Treasure Trove’s second “publication.”
Treasure Trove is the newest poetry installation by local poet, Julia Tilley. Tilley was inspired to create this project after reading an article about Art’o’mat, an old cigarette machine revamped to dispense art. “Poetry should be fun and accessible. I’m always looking for ways to get poems off the page and in front of people,” Tilley said.
Treasure Trove Poetry Project is currently dispensing poems at Midtown Cinema 250 Reily St. Harrisburg, PA 17102.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/35281574@N00/3384736594/
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Iris G. Press, last year hosted the York Poetry Festival, the press was begun in 2004.
Fledgling Rag is a journal published by the press.
Issue No 10 featured work by Marjory Heath Wentworth.
Lisa Munson was guest editor for the current issue.
http://www.irisgpress.org/
www.irisgpress.org.
also, see
http://hometown.aol.com/irisgpress/myhomepage/business.html
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and
PostDada Press publishes maybe three or four chapbooks each year. This savvy promotional group also asists with web design
and site-enhancing stuff for creative, but tech-challenged writers and artistes.
Christine O'Leary-Rockey's "3 Faces of Brahman"
has been released and is now available at selected locations
including the Midtown Cinema, on Reily Street.
John Destalo will be touring, reading from his latest tome, Raw: Exposing the Untamed Mind, released by PostDada Press in Fall 2011.
Two tomes by Christian Thiede, and also a collection by Michael Lear-Olimpi, are coming soon.
PostDada Press - Art, poetry, prose. Publication & promotion.(see https://sites.google.com/site/postdadapress/)
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