Austin Alexis joins Peter Chelnik at Gracie's Corner Diner Monday, October 8 at 6:45 p.m.

Austin Alexis joins Peter Chelnik at Gracie's Corner Diner 

 

Monday, October 8 at 6:45 p.m.

Admission is FREE!

OPEN-MIC!

Go Cat Go Poetry Reading Series

Hosted by Peter Chelnik

Gracie’s Corner Diner

352 E 86th St
(between 1st Ave and 2nd Ave)
New York, NY 10028
Neighborhoods: Yorkville, Upper East Side

(212) 737-8505

http://graciescornerdinernyc.com

Austin Alexis
   

Austin Alexis has published poetry, short fiction and nonfiction in a large number of journals and magazines, including Lips, Paterson Literary Review, Danse Macabre, The Journal, Connecticut River Review, Kansas Quarterly, Poetry Now, Candelabrum Poetry Magazine (Great Britain), Tuesday Shorts, The Arts Cure, The Writer, Writ (Canada), The Big Spoon (Ireland), Shot Glass Journal, and in anthologies , such as Off the Cuffs (Soft Skull Press), And We the Creatures (Dream Horse Press), Chopin with Cherries, The Brownstone Poets Anthology, and Come Hear!  His chapbooks (both from Poets Wear Prada) are Lovers and Drag Queens and For Lincoln & Other Poems, a Small Press Review (California) "Pick of the Month."  He has read his poetry at many venues, including The Bowery Poetry Club, La Mama LaGalleria, Cornelia Street Cafe and several radio stations.  His one-act plays have been performed at several venues, including The Samuel French Short Plays Festival.  He received a Bread Loaf Writers' Conference Scholarship and fellowships to the Millay Colony, the Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico and the Vermont Studio Center. He received the Mobius:The Poetry Magazine Editor-in-Chief's Award and a Pushcart Prize nomination. He has taught both academic and creative writing at a number of colleges, including Long Island University (Brooklyn Campus), Hunter College (School of Continuing Education) and Empire State College. 

Peter Chelnik



Peter Chelnik's 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." His latest book is STRAWBERRY HARMONY New Poems (Little Sky Press, March 2010).