"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 * * *

Monday, September 6, 2010

Reminder: FINAL Prairie Fire Reading Sunday September 26



PETER CHELNIK WILL BE RETIRING FROM THE POETRY SCENE AFTER MANY YEARS OF SERVING THE POETRY COMMUNITY

COME AND WISH HIM THE BEST
at the 
FINAL Praire Fire Reading Sunday, September 26

SUNDAY 9/26 – 6:30 p.m. (sign up 6 p.m.)

Peter Chelnik's "Prairie Fire Jazz Poetry"


~features~


Iris Berman (poet/visual artist/photographer)


&


Bob Hart (poet)



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Jazz by


Bob Feldman (tenor sax) & Jay Shulman (cello)




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Host PETER CHELNIK (poetry)


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The Open Mic


@

AMERICAN THEATRE OF ACTORS

314 W. 54th St. (bet. 8th & 9th Aves.)

Hell's Kitchen, NYC 10019

Sargent Theater 4th Floor

(212) 581-3044





By Subway: C or E to West 50th Street

Walk north to West 54th Street, west to theatre



Admission: $5




Iris Berman is a visual artist, photographer and poet. Her published journals include Nomad’s Choir, Home Planet News, Errato, Brownstone Poets, Rogue Scholars, Stained Sheets, White Rabbit, MOBLIUS, THE POETRY MAGAZINE, and nationally in the Song of the San Joaquin and Back Street Quarterly. She has also published three chapbooks, Motherlode, The Little Book of Flowers and The Little Book of Fairy Tales and Love Poems – the last published by Poets Wear Prada Press. She has studied with Louise Gluck, William Packard, Barry Goldensohn, Charles Simic, and most recently with Patrick Rosal at Poets House.


Bob Hart has gone from middle age to old age these last years writing poetry.  He has seen word scenes like 77 Barrow Street, Centerfold Coffee House, ABC No Rio and most lately, the new Pink Pony at Cornelia Street CafĂ©, hoping they enjoyed him as much as he enjoyed them.