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

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

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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.

Next Prairie Fire Reading Sunday August 8

Next Prairie Fire Reading Sunday August 8

SUNDAY 8/8 - 6pm (sign up 5:30pm)

Peter Chelnik's "Prairie Fire Jazz Poetry"

~features~

Brant Lyon (poet/jazz keyboard)

&

Ronnie Norpel (poet/writer)


&

Bob Feldman (sax)


&

Host PETER CHELNIK (poetry)

&

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

Brant Lyon writes poetry, prose, and music. His anthologies include “A Cautionary Tale: Seven New York Performing Poets” (Uphook Press, 2008), Beauty Keeps Laying Its Sharp Knife Against Me” (Logochrysalis Productions, 2008), “The Company We Keep” (Poet Warrior Productions, 2003). His journals include Big City Lit, Lullwater Review, Rattle, Rogue Scholars. He is an editor of Uphook Press, contributing editor of BigCityLit, and curator of the poetry and music reading series, Hydrogen Jukebox, in NYC. For more information, go to logochrysalis.com.


Ronnie Norpel is a performance poet, actor, photographer and jock with a deep passion for the Phillies, where she spent seven seasons as a ballgirl and fan accommodation manager. In New York, “Ronnie G” was the muse and collaborator of Warhol Factory superstar Gerard Malanga, whose phot of Ronnie, “Marble of Light,” was included for the exhibition and catalogue, Artists of the Warhol Circle Then & Now. She studied acting in Hollywood and worked at the Zero One Gallery. Today, Ronnie reads monthly in NYC with the Upper Left Side Writers and Poets. Other readings include the Lower East Side Festival, the SynonymUS collective at Nuyorican Poets Café, and the Wild Angels at St. John the Divine.

Peter Chelnik Will Ride The Son of Pony, Fri, 8/6 at 6 P.M.

Peter Chelnik with Bob Feldman on the Sax at The Son of Pony

Friday, August 6 at 6 p.m. sign-up at 5:45 p.m.
Open Mic

Cover $7 (includes one house drink)

Hosted by Kat Georges


Cornelia Street Café
29 Cornelia Street, NYC 10014

212-989-9319

http://www.corneliastreetcafe.com/index_performances.asp

Peter Chelnick Hits The Epoch Times

Read about Peter Chelnik's interview at the Poets House Showcase in the July 1st issue of The Epoch Times

online at

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/38392/

Poets House Showcase A Literary Treasure Trove For Modern Bards

By Annie Wu

Poetry lovers are open to peruse the over 2,000 titles at the 18th Annual Poets House Showcase at 10 River Terrace near Battery Park. (Annie Wu/ The Epoch Times)

With a collection of over 50,000 volumes of poetry books and an impressive panoramic view that overlooks the Hudson River, there are more than enough reasons for any poetry enthusiast to take a trip down to Poets House by Battery Park in New York City.

“Can I die here?” remarked a Poets House patron.

This summer, there is yet another incentive, in the form of the 18th Annual Poets House Showcase, where all the poetry books published in the United States in the past year are on display for the public. This year, there are over 2,000 titles on exhibit, published by both large and small presses, and some by artists’ collectives. The showcase includes chapbooks, which are small booklets of poems, multimedia works, and poetry in other quirky presentations, including as scrolls inserted in cigarette cases.

The showcase includes anthologies, scholarly works, and translated poetry in 26 different languages. Many of the translated texts are presented in both English and the original language, including a translation of Chinese philosopher Lao Zi’s seminal work, “Tao Te Ching” (also spelled Dao De Jing).

Maggie Balistreri, the librarian at Poets House, explained that the showcase is all-inclusive and democratic, intending to include all the poetry that they can find. Poets are also invited to send in their work. The showcase includes first editions of works and those hot off the press, contemporary poetry as well as poetry from earlier periods. Every book is donated by publishers and artists.

“It’s an annual harvest of the field that is poetry,” said executive director of Poets House, Lee Briccetti, who conceived of the idea in the early years of the House’s history. With the books organized by publisher, visitors can see the breadth and diversity of the art, reminding them that poetry is still very much alive. This showcase is a place for poetry lovers to explore a wide range of literature that one cannot find in bookstores, and to expose them to “the different kinds of poetry and find one that’s bound to be right for you,” said Briccetti.

At the same time, Briccetti noted that through the showcase, poets get to be documented into the history of poetry. A large, eclectic crowd of up-and-coming poets showed up at the opening reception of the showcase on June 28. Some were poets who also ran their own reading series, which then developed into a publishing press, like Patricia Carragon’s Brownstone Poets based in Brooklyn, and Rachel Levitsky’s Belladonna Books.

Others like Peter Chelnik and Eugenia Macer-Story are poets and playwrights. Chelnik describes himself as an “American Highway poet,” who was once nominated for the coveted Pushcart Poetry Prize. Macer-Story writes about supernatural phenomena and also composes music for off-off-Broadway musicals.

Susan Maurer published her first e-book of poems called “Perfect Dark” from a Swedish publisher, ungovernable press. Meanwhile, Alan Baxter was at the reception to view the works written by poets from Kairos Poetry Café, a café in Greenwich Village where he is the curator and host of open mics that give poets a space to perform their work, often to music and under “the theme of peace and justice,” Baxter said.

These poets all have their works exhibited at the showcase, which will run from June 28 to July 31. After the showcase, the books will be moved to the library’s growing collection upstairs, which is also open to the public year-long.

Poets House is located at 10 River Terrace, New York, NY. Go to http://www.poetshouse.org/ for more information.