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2009 Poetry Readings at Reel Cafe, Midtown Cinema
Poetry hoopla! yeah! Big time! Each &
every Thursday evening, 7:00-- 9:00pm,
presented by that ol' 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,
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, Iya Isoke, and Claude Lewis, the capitol city's reigning laureate.
Members of the cartel governing board act as hosts for the series.
for information about the cartel's various and sundry activities:
www.almostuptown.com/
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Our PoetryThursdays reading series will celebrate its ten-year anniversary in 2009. 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. Most recently, 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 of the 'burg.
We had some great readings in 2008 including a December reading by Michael Brown. Earlier, Le Hinton, Daniel Hawkins, J.C. Todd and Alex Hartman gave stellar performances.
In 2009-- Heather Thomas, Rick Kearns, Gene Hosey, and Craig Czury. Now, that's entertainment!
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AUTUMN POETRY EVENTS at the REEL CAFE:
November 5-- Open Mic
November 12-- t/b/a
November 19-- Gene Hosey
Hosey, back in the day, directed the legendary Paper Sword poetry series at the Art Association of Harrisburg. He's been published in numerous journals, including Fledgling Rag, Megaera, and Experimental Forest.
At Harrisburg's Susquehanna Art Museum, Hosey conducted a wildly successful Poetry Cartel special tribute to John Cage: the Night of the Living Pianos.
This, from Hosey's website: "Gene knew little of what was to await him once he escaped the coal dusted hills of Forty Fort, Pennsylvania. Those hills still burn but Gene got out just in time. He now lives the storybook American life in a patch called Lisburn, Pennsylvania with his creative wife and companion, Terrie. ….He reminds us that we are moving toward what Dennis Hopper, paraphrasing Andy Warhol, paraphrasing Duchamp, described as a time when the 'artist' will merely point, and whatever it is the artist points at is 'art'."
Gene has a stellar verse collection, The Gravity of Titles, (Musser publications, 1998) and performs all over the Eastern Seaboard. Sometimes with a band.
You can sample, see and hear Hosey performing his work on YouTube
and on his own website. http://www.genehosey.com/
http://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=ZasCeP9KQP4
November 26-- HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
Coming in December-- Dana Larkin Sauers.
Community entertainment at it's finest. Reel Café. Midtown Cinema.
Poetry and popcorn, what could be better? Maybe you, sharing your prose or verse. Further enlightenment: (717) 909-6566.
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OTHER EVENTS
Newport, PA. 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.
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 [YouTube video]
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.
Note: Fledgling Rag # 9, just released, features Alexandra Hartman. Complimentary copies will be available to those who attend this reading. There will also be copies of other issues of Fledgling Rag in which JM Servansky, Christian Thiede, and Deborah Filanowski appear.
Fledgling Rag is a publication of Iris G. Press.
http://www.irisgpress.org/fledglingrag/index.htm
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The New Cafe di Luna, is poetry friendly, and will host a monthly reading event-- "Mocha Poets" will meet every first & second Fridays.
Cafe di Luna, formerly at 402 N @d Street,
has recently moved to 1004 N 3rd Street
Harrisburg, PA 17101, call (717) 701-9868.
Good coffee, good people. Good poems.
http://www.cafediluna.com/Lunaevents.html
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POETRY CARTEL PROJECTS
“I-83 Anthology”
The Almost Uptown Poetry Cartel is celebrating Poetry Month
with a month full of featured readers, and a kick-off for the “I-83 Anthology”. This year is the Cartel’s 10th Anniversary! Ten years of poetry and spoken word, 10 years of road trips! Many of them from Harrisburg to York and Baltimore &
back again.
Ten years of wanderlust: So the Almost Uptown Poetry Cartel is creating an anthology of work from the best poets along the I-83 corridor.
We’ll be asking for submissions soon. The only requirement for consideration is residence somewhere along storied Route I-83. Watch this space for details.
http://www.almostuptown.com/
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Drop the coin right into the slot!
"Treasure Trove Poetry Project"
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 publishes Fledgling Rag, a literary journal
which has just released its sixth issue, featuring works by
Rick Kearns, Barbara Buckman Strasko, stevenallenmay [sic] and Deanna
Nikaido, whose work is featured in issue No. 6.
The latest book from Iris G. is Rebecca Gonzalez' Sonata for Rain.
"There is music in her words; there is gentleness in the soul of her work. Although this is poetry, it could serve as the passionate soundtrack to a full life," Lancaster publisher Le Hinton writes in the book's foreword.
Le Hinton notes elsewhere that Gonzalez "believes that writing poetry is closely related to music composition and art in which various elements combine to create a piece that is highly individual, the ultimate goal being that it can breathe beyond its realities. She's inspired by music, nature, love, art and the human condition."
The poet's thoughts about her craft are expressed in her poem "Poet's Manual":
You take the silence and make it speak,
but you choose: honey, sword or laughter.
Grab hold of the empty spaces
and color them solid.
When you feel there is no more to be painted,
let the conglomeration of color
swirl the sidewalks.
The 48-page tome is priced at $10. To order a copy-- it's quick and easy-- go to www.irisgpress.org.
also, see
http://hometown.aol.com/irisgpress/myhomepage/business.html
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we're no longer at
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but that site has moved to multiply.com. Hey, y'all
know how volatile the damn web can be.
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