Kat Georges and Peter Carlaftes of Three Rooms Press join Peter Chelnik at Gracie's Corner Diner

Kat Georges and Peter Carlaftes of Three Rooms Press  join Peter Chelnik at Gracie's Corner Diner 

 

Monday, December 10 from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 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




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Subway: 4.5.6 to 86th Street




BIOS:

Kat Georges


Kat Georges is an NYC-based poet, playwright, performer, editor and designer.  Her full-length poetry collection, Our Lady of the Hunger was released in October on Three Rooms Press. In addition to writing poetry, 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. Her poetry is included in The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry (Thunders Mouth Press), The Verdict is In (manic d press; also co-editor); Mas Tequila (Mas Tequila Press); and The Unbearables Big Book of Sex (Autonomedia), among countless other journals and literary magazines. 

 

Peter  Carlaftes 

Peter  Carlaftes 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 four books: I Fold With The Hand I Was Dealt With (poetry),
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 Chelnik

Peter Chelnik'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."

Cynthia Toronto at Go Cat Go Sun, 12/2 at 7:30 p.m.

LA actor and writer, Cynthia Toronto joins Long Island poet, George Wallace and Manhattan poet, Peter Chelnik at GO CAT GO Poetry Jazz  Reading at the Greenwich Village Bistro, Sunday, December 2 at 7:30 p.m.





Also, Bob Feldman on sax,  plus it'll be wide open for poets to jam with the music.



Admission is FREE!


Sunday, December 2 from 7:30 - 9:30 p.m.


GO CAT GO Jazz Poetry Reading 
Greenwich Village Bistro
Father Demo Square

13 Carmine St between Bleecker and 6th venue
212-206-9777
greenwichvillagebistro.com



A, C, E, F, D to West 4th Street



Bios:





Cynthia Toronto

 

Cynthia Toronto, a California transplant, is recognized as a forerunner of cutting-edge Spoken Word Performance. Since the early‘80’s she has pioneered a form combining elements of poetry, music, theater and media in work that portrays unique glimpses of urban life and virtually any subject relevant to humans. Her poetry has been called ‘jolting, shocking, Dr. Seuss-like, relevant, profound, and often hilarious’. An award-winning poet, she has written eight books of poetry with her work appearing in several anthologies, including the recently released Token Entry: New York City Subway Poems by Smalls Books, Three Rooms Press’ Maintenant 6 and Maintenant 5, A Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing and Art, Poison Ivy Magazine, L. A. Driver, Verve, Brownstone Poets and Nomad’s Choir, The Poetry Bomb Word Tour 2010, and video documentaries on Los Angeles poets. She has been featured in venues on both coasts, including New York’s Bowery Poetry Club, Small’s Jazz Club, Four Horsemen and Pink Pony readings at the Cornelia Cafe, The Lower East Side Arts Festival, Prairie Fire Jazz Poetry Series, The Telephone Bar, Stark, Nomad’s Choir, Brownstone Poets, The Green Pavillion, Poetry in Central Park, The Yippie Museum Cafe, Otto’s Shrunken Head, Gathering of the Tribes, and the national Poets for Peace readings, amongst others. Also a seasoned character actress and educator, she has appeared in most mediums, including stage, film, television, radio, voice overs and nightclubs and studied with legendary teachers such as groundbreaking vocalist, Lynn Book and the late Gene Frankel. She holds a Master’s Degree in Educational Theatre from New York University, has been commissioned as a Theater Teaching Artist in residencies sponsored by The National Endowment for the Arts, The California Arts Council, Arts Alaska and currently teaches Acting and Speech as an Adjunct Professor at City College of New York, and Hostos Community College, City University of New York sites.

George Wallace



George Wallace (born March 22, 1949 in Hempstead, New York) is an American poet and poetry organizer.

Working from a base of operations in downtown New York City's poetry scene, from his family roots in Brooklyn and Long Island, and from his experiences living and working in Northern California, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Oregon and the United Kingdom, Wallace has created a grassroots network of venues for poetry.

His own poetry, in particular his performance oriented work, is imagination-based in its creation, emerging from a process of wordplay, surrealist deconstruction and bricolage into a final form that is typically characterized by accessible narrative and forceful rhythmic impetus. It is built on a foundation of a musical talent that emerged at the age of four, when he began reading and performing music, and shaped by his extensive readings in the literature of European Surrealism, the Whitman/Sandburg vortex, and the Beats. His work also bears the mark of 1960s concerns, particularly the social witness and aesthetic consciousness of that time.

His organizational efforts on behalf of poetry are based on professional training and disposition to community service developed through graduate studies with Guy Stuart and others at UNC-Chapel Hill in the mid '70s.





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).

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

http://graciescornerdinernyc.com

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).

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).

Brownstone Poets Patricia Carragon Hits the Upper East Sde, Monday, August 13

Brownstone Poets' Patricia Carragon joins Peter Chelnik at Gracie's Corner Diner on Monday, August 13 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 & 2nd Ave)
New York, NY 10028
Neighborhoods: Yorkville, Upper East Side

(212) 737-8505

http://graciescornerdinernyc.com

Patricia Carragon

Patricia Carragon is a New York City writer and poet. Her publications include Best Poem, BigCityLit, CLWN WR, Chantarelle’s Notebook, Clockwise Cat, Danse Macabre, Ditch Poetry, Inertia, Long Island Quarterly, Lips, MÖBIUS, The Poetry Magazine, Marymark Press, Maintenant, Mad Hatters’ Review, The Toronto Quarterly, Six-Word Memoirs, and more. She is the author of Journey to the Center of My Mind (Rogue Scholars Press, 2005) and Urban Haiku and More (Fierce Grace Press, 2010). Her latest book, The Cupcake Chronicles is forthcoming later this year from Poets Wear Prada. She is a member of Brevitas, a group dedicated to short poems.  She hosts and curates the Brooklyn-based Brownstone Poets and is the editor-in-chief of the annual anthology.  For more information, please check out her Web sites at http://brownstonepoets.blogspot.com and at http://patriciacarragon8.wordpress.com/.

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).

Icegale Johnson joins Peter Chelnik at Gracie's Corner Diner on Monday, July 9 at 6:45 p.m.

 

Icegale Johnson joins Peter Chelnik at Gracie's Corner Diner on Monday, July 9 at 6:45 p.m.

Admission is FREE!

OPEN-MIC!

 

Hosted by Peter Chelnik

Gracie’s Corner Diner

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

(212) 737-8505

http://graciescornerdinernyc.com

Icegayle Johnson

Icegayle Johnson is a multi-media artist, and performs in and around New York. Chicago, Boston, San Feancisco, Portland, Eugene OR., and other places. Photography published by Marcel Schuram greeting cards and Broaderbond : Signature greetings software designs. Current and forthcoming. The author of "the key"published by Poets Wear Prada, 2012 and forthcoming" love poem" Poetry in Performance #40 CUNY Poetry Festival 2012. Annually attends Amherst University, Mass.- Juniper Writers institute 2012.

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).

GO CAT GO Poetry Jazz Reading at the Greenwich Village Bistro, Sunday, June 3, 4:00-6:00 p.m.

Long Island poet, George Wallace and Manhattan poet, Peter Chelnik are back with GO CAT GO Poetry Jazz  Reading at the Greenwich Village Bistro, Sunday, June 3, 4:00-6:00 p.m.





Also, Bob Feldman on sax,  plus it'll be wide open for poets to jam with the music.



Admission is FREE!


Sunday, June 3, 4:00-6:00 p.m.


GO CAT GO Jazz Poetry Reading 
Greenwich Village Bistro
Father Demo Square

13 Carmine St between Bleecker and 6th venue
212-206-9777
greenwichvillagebistro.com



A, C, E, F, D to West 4th Street



Bios:

George Wallace (born March 22, 1949 in Hempstead, New York) is an American poet and poetry organizer.

Working from a base of operations in downtown New York City's poetry scene, from his family roots in Brooklyn and Long Island, and from his experiences living and working in Northern California, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Oregon and the United Kingdom, Wallace has created a grassroots network of venues for poetry.

His own poetry, in particular his performance oriented work, is imagination-based in its creation, emerging from a process of wordplay, surrealist deconstruction and bricolage into a final form that is typically characterized by accessible narrative and forceful rhythmic impetus. It is built on a foundation of a musical talent that emerged at the age of four, when he began reading and performing music, and shaped by his extensive readings in the literature of European Surrealism, the Whitman/Sandburg vortex, and the Beats. His work also bears the mark of 1960s concerns, particularly the social witness and aesthetic consciousness of that time.

His organizational efforts on behalf of poetry are based on professional training and disposition to community service developed through graduate studies with Guy Stuart and others at UNC-Chapel Hill in the mid '70s.

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).