Poet Anne Waldman reads at Cornelia St. Cafe Feb. 26

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2010
6 PM | CORNELIA STREET CAFE
SON OF A PONY POETRY SERIES
Featuring
Anne Waldman, poet
Devin Brahja Waldman, sax

PLUS
NYC's Best Open POETRY Mike
Hosted by Kat Georges & Jackie Sheeler

Anne Waldman is a poet & teacher, and with Allen Ginsberg co-founded of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado in 1974. She was born April 2, 1945 in Millville, New Jersey. During the late Sixties she ran the St. Mark's Church Poetry Project, and gave exuberant, highly physical readings of her own work. She was featured along with Ginsberg in Bob Dylan's experimental film 'Renaldo and Clara.' She has performed her work around the world, and is considered a major voice in American Poetry. Her list of publications is voluminous. She has written more than 42 books, most recently Kill or Cure (Penguin Poets) and her book-length poem, Iovis (Coffee House Press). She is now working on Book III of Iovis.Throughout the poem, Waldman is trying to come to terms with her own male energy and impulses.

At this event, she will be accompanied by her nephew Devin Brahja Waldman on saxophone.


The featured reading by Waldman follows the fabulous Son of a Pony open reading at the cafe. Poet/convivial mistress of ceremonies Kat Georges hosts. Doors open at 5:45 p.m.; the open reading begins at 6 p.m. Admission is $7, which includes a free drink.

Cornelia Street Cafe is at 29 Cornelia Street, between W. 4th Street & Bleecker, just around the corner from the W. 4th Street subway station. Phone: 212-989-9319. www.corneliastreetcafe.com

Poet Bob Quatrone Ready to Rumble at Cornelia St. Cafe Feb. 19

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2009
6 PM | CORNELIA STREET CAFE
SON OF A PONY
Featuring Poet Bob Quatrone
PLUS
NYC's Best Open POETRY Mike
Hosted by Kat Georges

Bob Quatrone has written poetry since the late 1960s at Columbia, where his Master's study on the creative process in Yeats earned him a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship. His poetry has been published in the Aquarian, Passaic Review, Lips and the literary ezine, The 4 Horsemen, where he is editor-in-chief. He has also served as chief editor of literary journal Lunch, was program director at the Walt Whitman poetry society in NYC. During the past 35 years, Quatrone has also been a lecturer in literature at Rutgers, Queens College, Montclair St., Stevens Tech, and, most recently, Felician College in New Jersey.

The featured reading by Quatrone follows the fabulous Son of a Pony open reading at the cafe. Poet/convivial mistress of ceremonies Kat Georges hosts. Doors open at 5:45 p.m.; the open reading begins at 6 p.m. Admission is $7, which includes a free drink.

Cornelia Street Cafe is at 29 Cornelia Street, between W. 4th Street & Bleecker, just around the corner from the W. 4th Street subway station. Phone: 212-989-9319. www.corneliastreetcafe.com

Poets Eli McCarthy & Kahlil Almustafa this Friday at Cornelia St. Cafe

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2009
6 PM | CORNELIA STREET CAFE
SON OF A PONY
Featured reader: Eli McCarthy & Kahlil Almustafa
PLUS
NYC's Best Open POETRY Mike
Host: Kat Georges

Eli McCarthy is an Irish, Barcelona-based artist. Her medium is Anatomusic, a new "humanized" genre of intimate experimental electronica. In the same way as poetry describes a situation via words, Anatomusic allows the body to recount its experiences via the recording and digital processing of its movement/sound expression into musical notes, timbres and ambients. For a taste of what she does, check out www.myspace.com/espacemc2

Kahlil Almustafa is known as the People’s Poet, whether for a mass rally of hundreds, a nightclub, church, university or a backyard family reunion. Almustafa is the 2002 Nuyorican Grand Slam Champion and the author of four book of poetry and his debut CD CounterIntelligence. His collection of 15 years of poetry, Growing Up Hip-Hop, is used in classrooms from the elementary to the university level. Almustafa recently completed the “100 Poems For 100 Days” project where he wrote 100 poems in the first 100 days of Barack Obama’s presidency soon to be published in a collection of poems entitled, From Auction Block to Oval Office. He uses poetry to engage communities in critical dialogue.

The featured readings follow the fabulous Son of a Pony open reading at the cafe. Poet/convivial mistress of ceremonies Kat Georges hosts. Doors open at 5:45 p.m.; the open reading begins at 6 p.m. Admission is $7, which includes a free drink.

Cornelia Street Cafe is at 29 Cornelia Street, between W. 4th Street & Bleecker, just around the corner from the W. 4th Street subway station. Phone: 212-989-9319. www.corneliastreetcafe.com