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).

The UNDERGROUND HOWL Goes Uptown

Peter Chelnik brings his Underground Howl uptown to the Ding Dong Lounge on Wednesday, June 15 at 6:30 p.m.

Joining him are Bob Feldman on sax and  Laurence Goldman on bass trumpet, plus it'll be wide open for poets to jam with the music.


Admission is FREE!

OPEN-MIC!

Wednesday, June 15 at 6:30 p.m.

Tract 187 Culture Clatch Underground Howl
Ding Dong Lounge
929 Columbus Avenue between 105th and 106th Streets
New York, NY 10025

http://www.dingdonglounge.com/index.html

Hosted by Ronnie Norpel




A, C, B to 103rd Street


BIO:

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).

30th Anniversary Issue of Lips Reading

Lips Magazine will hold a Publication Celebration Reading for the 30th Anniversary Issue of Lips, Number 34/35, on Thursday, May 26, 2011 
at 7:00 p.m.

Readers to include:

Stanley Barkan, Svea Barrett, Norma Bernstock, Patricia Carragon, Peter    Chelnik, Gail Fishman Gerwin, Grace Henderson, Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Martin    Golan, Jim Gwyn, Joan Cusack Handler, Diana Lagomarsino, Laine Sutton    Johnson, Adele Kenny,  Sheila Massoni, Barbara MInch, Bob    Rosenbloom, Arthrur  Sharon, John J. Trause, and surprise guests    from this issue and past issues of Lips.

Hosted by Laura Boss

7 p.m.    Free Admission

Open-Mic ( time permitting)
 
Contact: Laura Boss, Editor @  201-662-1303
or Library: 973-744-0500

30th Anniversary Issue of Lips Reading
Montclair Public Library (Auditorium)
50 South Fullerton Ave.
Montclair, NJ
Library: 973-744-0500

http://www.hopstop.com/

www.montclairlibrary.org

Next Prairie Fire Reading Sunday February 27

Next Prairie Fire Reading Sunday February 27

SUNDAY 2/27 - 5:30 p.m. (sign up 5 p.m.)

Peter Chelnik's "Prairie Fire Jazz Poetry"

~features~


Linda Leedy Schneider (poet)



&

George Wallace (poet)

&

Host PETER CHELNIK (poetry)

&

Bob Feldman (tenor sax)  & Lawrence Goldman (acoustic bass)

The Open Mic

@
AMERICAN THEATRE OF ACTORS
314 W. 54th St. (bet. 8th & 9th Aves.)
Hell's Kitchen, NYC 10019
Beckman Theater 2nd Floor
(212) 581-3044
www.appleboxdesign.com/ATA/ata.html


By Subway: C or E to West 50th Street
Walk north to West 54th Street, west to theatre


Admission: $5

BIOS



Linda Leedy Schneider

Linda Leedy Schneider is an award-winning internationally published poet and writer, individual poetry and writing mentor, psychotherapist in private practice, and college writing instructor. She facilitates writing groups at Gilda’s Club for people living with cancer. A writer since able to hold a pencil, Linda's volunteer work in orphanages in Albania motivated her to submit her poems and prose for publication. Her work has since been published in over 200 literary magazines including Rattle Magazine, The Spoon River Poetry Review, Pudding Magazine, Driftwood Review, Midwest Poetry Review, Miranda Literary Magazine, ONTHEBUS, and The Pedestal Magazine. Linda has written five collections of poetry including Through the Lattice: Poetry of a Psychotherapist, Argonne House Press, 2002, and Through My Window: Poetry of a Psychotherapist, Pudding House Publications, 2007. She has recently been featured poet at The Back Fence, NYC, Peter Chelnik's Prairie Fire Series, NYC and The Saturn Poetry Reading Series, NYC. Her poetry is included in the world poetry anthology, Not A Muse, Haven Press, 2009. Many of her writing students have been published as well. She is currently editing an anthology of her student's poetry. Linda believes that a regular writing ritual leads to discovery, authenticity, personal growth, and even Joy. She can be reached at loschneide@AOL.com.



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.

GO CAT GO Jazz Poetry on WWW.MNN.ORG

GO CAT GO Jazz Poetry on WWW.MNN.ORG

Hear Peter Chelnik on

MNN2 Lifestyle (34) 

Sunday, January 23 at 4 p.m. MNN Channel 34

Saturday, February 5 9:30 p.m MNN Channel 34

Monday, February 7 at 5:30 p.m. MNN Channel 34

Click on www.mnn.org

GO CAT GO Jazz Poetry Reading Sunday, November 28

SUNDAY 11/28 – 4:30- p.m. (sign up 5 p.m.)

Peter Chelnik's "GO CAT GO Jazz Poetry"


~features~


Peter Chelnik, poet and host


Jazz by


Bob Feldman (tenor sax) & Lawrence Goldman (acoustic bass)


plus


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

www.appleboxdesign.com/ATA/ata.html


http://peterchelnik.blogspot.com/



By Subway: C or E to West 50th Street

Walk north to West 54th Street, west to theatre

For more information, please contact Peter at 917-492-2554



Admission: $5

He's Back!!!!

PETER CHELNIK with Charles Butler and Bob Feldman on sax***
Monday, November 8, 2010
at 7:30pm
@
S A T U R N S E R I E S
P O E T R Y R E A D I N G
@
Nightingale Lounge
213 2nd Avenue at East 13th Street
New York, NY
Age 21 & up

$3 Suggested Donation + 2 Drink/$10 Minimum at the Bar
Hosted by Su Polo & David Elsasser

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)

&

Jazz by

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

&

Host PETER CHELNIK (poetry)

&

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

www.appleboxdesign.com/ATA/ata.html

http://peterchelnik.blogspot.com/

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 Café, hoping they enjoyed him as much as he enjoyed them.

Little Sky Press Launches Peter Chelnik's STRAWBERRY HARMONY

"Peter Chelnik's poems take us across America's highways, down back roads, up city streets, across the tracks and into open fields. They sing a song of America and they swing with the blues and be-bop." -- Bob Feldman STRAWBERRY HARMONY New Poems By Peter Chelnik ISBN 978-0-964 270 9-9-3 $12.00 Little Sky Press Release Date: March 2010 "Peter Chelnik's Strawberry Harmony is an odyssey across the physical and spiritual plains of America with the fast paced images that are his signature poetry snapshots. In an age where voices often express cynicism and rage, Chelnik's energetic ovice always resonates with affirmation and optimism. Fans of Peter Chelnik with cheer his newest and strongest book of poems Strawberry Harmony." -- Laura Boss, Editor of Lips ~Book Launch + Open Mic~ ***PETER CHELNIK with BOB FELDMAN on Tenor Sax*** Monday, March 15, 2010 at 7:30pm @ S A T U R N S E R I E S P O E T R Y R E A D I N G @ Nightingale Lounge 213 2nd Avenue at East 13th Street New York, NY Age 21 & up $3 Suggested Donation + 2 Drink/$10 Minimum at the Bar Hosted by Su Polo & David Elsasser "Peter Chelnik's Strawberry Harmony tantalizes with its odd juxtapositions, its American Highway jump cuts. Using refrains and a broad range of cultural allusions, form "Baptist wood pew prayers" to "Matisse paint joy," Chelnik creates a 21st Century vision: three-dimensional, speedy, ecstatic and reverent. Chelnik's new book will entertain as it surprises readers and satisfies our hunger for poems that resonate in the mind." -- Austin Alexis, Author of Lovers and Drag Queens 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."