Monday, February 8, 2010

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

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