FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 20106 PM | CORNELIA STREET CAFE
SON OF A PONY POETRY SERIES
Featured poet
Bob Hart
PLUS
NYC's Best Open POETRY Mike
Hosted by Kat Georges
Book launch for Bob Hart's new book "Lightly in the Good of Day" on Bench Press Poetry.
Bob Hart is a joker, a trickster, a gambler. He plays with life for the highest stakes, nothing less than immortality, fullness, significance. Not for him the solemn approach to these ponderous subjects, but the sleight-of-hand to match, and trump, chance, emptiness and transience. A pun, an accident of language, may be endowed by poetry with meaning. In Bob’s hands, a stone may be “a well of things well felt.”
Hart grew up in Harlem, on 145th Street, 142nd Street and 158th Street. He served in the army from 1952 to 1954, and was stationed in Germany during the Korean War. Now he works for a mail sorting company in Midtown West, and lives in Brooklyn. He has a previous small book of poems titled Acrobat. This is his second book.
Reading from the new book will be Jane Ormerod, Adriana Scorpino, R. Nemo Hill and Thomas Fucaloro. Bruce Weber and his band The No Chance Ensemble will render two poems in vocals and guitar, followed by a reading by the author himself.
The featured reading 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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