"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, March 26, 2012

Peter Chelnik at the Saturn Series




Now In Our 18th Year! Every Monday Night

Saturn Series at Revival new time & New place
Poetry Reading & Open Mike

MONDAY... March 26 at 8 PM 
Featureing Peter Chelnik
Saturn Series
Poetry Reading & Open Mike  8 to 10PM every Monday!
at Revival 129 East 15 Street,  Between Irving Place & 3rd Ave.

http://www.revivalbarnyc.com/     Our former haunt of several years. Please purchase a drink at the bar and come to the upstairs lounge.
Sign up for open mike 7:45, Starts at 8pm. 
$3 donation requested and drink purchase.

NEW TIME is 8 to 10 pm

Venue is updated on supolo.com
REVIVAL !!!
  129 East 15 Street Between Irving Place & 3rd Ave.

Peter Chelnik
Is a Poet and playwright and has been the host of Prairie Fire Poetry over the course of many years. He performs his poetry accompanied by tenor saxaphonist Bob Feldman.
One of Peter's recent publications is STRAWBERRY HARMONY New Poems by Peter Chelnik (Little Sky Press, March 2010)  His work is full of Americana in all it's flavors, elements and glory. A satisfying and thought provoking time capsule celebrating the great U.S. of A. - not to be missed.  is a true American poetic voice for the 21st Century. His books include Railroad Heart, East Coast Line, Manhattan Wilderness, Eternity Road and Wildflower Serenade. He has had seven plays produced Off-Off-Broadway. These dramatic works include Street Rag, Prairie Fire, Parking Lot, Woodstock Fires, Scarsdale Station and Tremont Vortex. Peter has also written Trick Bag, a novel of the 1960's. Yes, he does believe the word will set you free.

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Left Bank Books "In Praise of Great and Small"

Left Bank Books
"In Praise of Great and Small"

C E L E B R A T E S
S M A L L P R E S S M O N T H
(The E Y E S of M A R C H)

W e d n e s d a y
21 March 21
2 0 1 2


THREE ROOMS PRESS + FINISHING LINE PRESS + RAIN MOUNTAIN PRESS + LITTLE SKY PRESS + POETS WEAR PRADA

hosted
by

Roxanne H O F F M A N and Jack C O O P E R
POETS WEAR PRADA

f e a t u r i n g
Five (5) Great Poets!
Kat G E O R G E S + Peter C A R L A F T E S + Peter C H E L N I K +
Gil F A G I A N I + Michael T. Y O U N G

7 to 9 p.m.

17 Eighth (8th) Avenue,
Corner of West 12th Street,
G r e e n w i c h V i l l a g e

plus--

A f t e r P a r t y !
at
C H O C O L A T E B A R
(n e x t d o o r ... 1 9 )


KAT G E O R G E S is an NYC poet, playwright, performer and designer. Her full-length poetry collection, Our Lady of the Hunger will be released soon on Three Rooms Press. In New York since 2003, she has directed numerous Off-Broadway plays, curated poetry readings (including the bi-monthly Son of a Pony poetry reading series at Cornelia Street Cafe), and performed widely. She is co-founder and editor of Three Rooms Press; their most recent books include Maintenant 6: A Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing and Art; Have a NYC: New York Short Stories; and Mike Watt: On and Off Bass, a collection of photos and distilled tour diaries from the great punk rock bass player.

PETER C A R L A F T E S is an NYC playwright, poet, and performer. He is the author of 12 plays, including a noir treatment of Knut Hamsun’s Hunger, and his own celebrity rehab center spoof, Spin-Dry. Carlaftes has recently published three books: A Year on Facebook (humor), Drunkyard Dog (poetry) and Triumph for Rent (3 plays). He is co-founder and editor of Three Rooms Press; their most recent books include Maintenant 6: A Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing and Art; Have a NYC: New York Short Stories; and Mike Watt: On and Off Bass, a collection of photos and distilled tour diaries from the great punk rock bass player.

PETER C H E L N I K's latest book is Strawberry Harmony:New Poems (Little Sky Press, March 2010). His chapbook "Paradise Highway" was published by Poets Wear Prada in 2007. Other books include Railroad Heart, East Coast Line, Manhattan Wilderness, Eternity Road and Wildflower Serenade. He has had seven plays produced Off-Off-Broadway. These dramatic works include Street Rag, Prairie Fire, Parking Lot, Moving Target, Scarsdale Station and Tremont Vortex. Peter has also written Trick Bag, a novel of the 1960's. And yes, he does believe "the word will set you free."

GIL F A G I A N I’s poetry collections include: Rooks (Rain Mountain Press, 2007), Grandpa’s Wine (Poets Wear Prada, 2008); translated into Italian by Paul D’Agostino, A Blanquito in El Barrio (Rain Mountain Press, 2009), Chianti in Connecticut (Bordighera Press, 2010) and just recently, Serfs of Psychiatry (Finishing Line Press). He has translated into English poetry written in Italian, Abruzzese dialect and Spanish. Gil co-curates the Italian American Writers’ Association’s monthly readings at the Cornelia Street Café and is the Associate Editor of Feile-Festa: A Literary Arts Magazine.

MICHAEL T. Y O U N G has published three collections of poetry: Transcriptions of Daylight, Because the Wind Has Questions and, most recently, Living in the Counterpoint, which was published by Finishing Line Press. His next full-length collection, The Beautiful Moment of Being Lost, will be published in 2013 by Black Coffee Press. He received a fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and was twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He received a William Stafford Award and the Chaffin Poetry Award. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous print and online journals including Fogged Clarity, Iodine Poetry Journal, The Potomac Review, The Raintown Review, and The Same. His work is also in the anthologies Phoenix Rising and Chance of a Ghost and forthcoming in The Bug Book, and In the Black/In the Red. He lives with his wife and children in Jersey City, New Jersey.

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Thursday, March 15, 2012

Back to Jack


Back to Jack

Yippie Museum Café
9 Bleecker Street (near the Bowery)

(subway: B,D,F,M, downtown 6 to Broadway/Lafayette)


http://www.hopstop.com/



Monday, March 26th, 2012
6:30 – 9 pm

A celebration of the writings of Jack Kerouac

Host – Gordon Gilbert

(no open mic)

$3 suggested donation

Readers

Peter Martin, Demetrius Daniel,Patricia Carragon,

Robin Small-McCarthy, Russ Green, Linda Lerner,

Clare Ultimo, Madeline Artenberg, Orion 0.62,

Efrayim Levenson, Pete Dolack, Rob “Guru” Jones,

Peter Chelnik, Robert Agnoli, Richard Fein,

Roxanne Hoffman, Kim Kalest, Michael Reiss,

Farid Bitar, Zev Torres, Austin Alexis