"Peter's Eternity Road is fierce, political and sassy--definitely worth 15 cents in the pocket." — Flo Kennedy * * * "Chelnik's poetry reflects the rhythms of urban American life, its frenetic pace, its roaring energy. This is a poet whose roots go back to Whitman and Ginsberg, a poetry crammed with specific details that sensually recreate the poet's life and places in which he lives it. Chelnik is a unique and often startling poet." — Maria Maziotti Gillan * * *

Sunday, April 25, 2010

Charles J Butler | west 97th street lope

west 97th street lope


walking
with the ladies
in
the rain
down
97th
past Amsterdam
they
linger over a set
of
prints
he knows to be theirs
smiles
thinking stupid dogs
don’t
even know you left a part of
yourselves
behind
then
he looks
at them
they
at him
smiling
their dog
smiles
they’ll
go on walking
doing
their business
loping
together
thinking
hundred
years from now others will see our
prints fill their snouts
with our scents
they’ll know
Kirby and
Eureka – ‘Reka to her
friends – were here later
in the home watching them sleep he says a
prayer to the lord for the souls
of two stupid dogs


Charles J. Butler hosts the Park Slope Poetry Project, and is the sometime guest host at The Perch Café and recently had his first book published 39 Poems by No Shirt Press.

©Charles J. Butler 2010



Saturday, April 10, 2010

Next Prairie Fire Reading Sunday April 18


SUNDAY 4/18 - 6pm (sign up 5:30pm)

Peter Chelnik's "Prairie Fire Jazz Poetry"

~features~


ZEV TORRES

&

CHARLES BUTLER

&

Host PETER CHELNIK

with BOB FELDMAN on Tenor Saz

&

The Open Mic

@
AMERICAN THEATRE OF ACTORS
314 W. 54th St. (bet. 8th & 9th Aves.)
Hell's Kitchen, NYC 10019
(212) 581-3044
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Admission: $5


Zev Torres’ most recent chapbook, Revision, was published January 2010. His earlier books are In Celebration of Hope and Change and The Beginning of Time. In addition to being the featured reader at numerous venues through New York City (including Otto’s Shrunken Head), Zev has also performed his poetry at the JVC Jazz Festival and the Make Music New York Festival. Zev blogs at http://zevtorres.wordpress.com/


Charles Butler co-hosts Literary Tuesdays at Perch Cafe in Brooklyn. Charles participated in Emilie Glen's legendary downtown readings in the 1970’s, and read at the original Nyorican Poets' Café. Re-emerging as a performance poet in 2006, he continues to share the inside story of the streets, through many views and voices. Butler’s work has appeared in Abestos, Brownstone Poets Anthology, Rogue Scholars, among other places.