"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, October 29, 2012

Madeline Artenberg and David Elsasser join Peter Chelnik at Gracie's Corner Diner Monday, November 12 at 6:45 p.m.

Madeline Artenberg and David Elsasser join Peter Chelnik at Gracie's Corner Diner 

 

Monday, November 12 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


Madeline Artenberg


Madeline Artenberg’s work appears in many print and online publications, such as The Absinthe Literary Review, Margie, Rattle and Dirty Girls Come Clean.  She has garnered awards for poetry, including for performance. She collaborated with Karen Hildebrand on the poetic play, The Old In and Out (Three Rooms Press, 2010), and is co-author (with Iris Schwartz) of Awakened (Rouge Scholar Press).




 



David Elsasser


David Elsasser has long been on the New York open-mic scene, principally as a host of the Saturn Reading for nine years, and presently running a weekly peer-workshop, the Parkside Poets. Wishing to spare you a boring litanty, he reports that he has been featured and published by a medium-length list of the usual suspects. Above all, he will be happy to read for you at Gracie’s Diner.




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).