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EVENTS

2023

"AS TO WATER": A Collaboration between artist Audra Wolowiec and poets Elena Alexander,

Jon Curley, Jiwon Choi, and Edwin Torres. 

 

Newburgh Waterfront (outdoors); seating will be available

195 Front street, Newburgh NY 12550 (REGAL BAG STUDIOS)

(enter through gate just beyond “Blu Pointe” restaurant)

3:00-4:30pm


RSVP appreciated but not required: info@strongroom.us

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October 21st

A reading with Elena Alexander, Edwin Torres, and Jiwon Choi.

Pictor Gallery:

547 W. 27th St., (# 204), bet. 10th & 11th.

3pm

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2022

January 8th

Featured Poet for River Read Poetry Reading Series on Zoom

at 11:30am. Join Zoom meeting:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83180237257?pwd=ZXFKa04zbmM1RExOS3B3T0dVdmUxQT09

 

January 31st

Boog City Poetry Festival 2022. On Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiZ1ufKL4wQ&t=22s

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April 30th

"Nature in Poetry": A park and poetry tour and reading exploring various sites around Rockefeller Park

and the Esplanade of Battery Park City that feature poems and poetry excerpts in different

physical structures. We will discuss green spaces in relation to poetry, read nature poetry, and I shall read some recent work. Sponsored by Battery Park City Authority. Meet in Rockefeller Park (River Terrace & Murray Street) at 2pm.

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2021

May 28th

Spring Book Launch for Marsh Hawk Press featuring Thomas Fink

& Maya Mason, Eileen Tabios and me reading from Remnant Halo.

(A pandemic poetry event and therefore another remote ZOOM reading.)

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July 11th

Poetry in an almost Post-Pandemic Park and World! I join poets Jiwon Choi

and Elena Alexander for a verdant, in-person event. The reading will take

place in the park on Pacific Street in downtown Brooklyn between

4th and Flatbush Avenues at 5:30pm.  

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October 3rd, October 10th, and October 17th

Once again, I shall join poets Jiwon Choi and Elena Alexander for a series

of readings in a Brooklyn garden. Join us some Sunday! We read at 4:30pm

on 10/3 and then 3pm on 10/10 and 10/17. The garden is located at the

intersection of President Street and Fifth Avenue, a few blocks from the

R train stop at Union Street in Brooklyn. Verdant verse immersion!​

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2020 VERSE VERSUS VIRUS!!!

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2019

May 13th

Lecture about Bartolomeo Vanzetti and Radical Immigrant Literature 

at the Annual Dinner Meeting of the Braintree Historical Society

Granite Grill (703 Granite Street, Braintree MA 02184) at 6:30pm

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May 19th

Poetry and parkland talk and discussion as part of The Art of Nelson A.

Rockefeller tour led by art historian Dorothea Basile. The Real

World at Rockefeller Park, Battery Park City, Manhattan at 2:00pm

 

October 27th

Discussion of poetry of Walt Whitman and Frank O'Hara's

poetry and lives as well as their lines inscribed in the North

Cove of Waterfront Plaza. Battery Park City, Manhattan at 2:00pm

(Cancelled due to rain)

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2018

January 30th

Poetry Reading, with Elena Alexander, Jiwon Choi, Jon Curley and Rosie Schaap

KGB 85 E 4th (between Bowery St and 2nd Ave) 2nd FL at 7:00pm

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February 24th

Talk: "To the Barricades!: Commune Editions and the Raised First of a New Activist Poetry"

Respondent for "Hieroglyphs of Redeemed Life: Walter Benjamin and the Making of Constellations of Waking"  (with Michael Heller and Ellen Fishman)

The 46th Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900  University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky

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April 3rd

Poetry Reading, with Barbara Henning and Jon Curley

The Fox and Crow  594 Palisade Avenue, Jersey City, NJ 07302 at 8:00pm

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May 25th

Marsh Hawk Press Spring Book Launch featuring Fall 2017 and Spring 2018 titles, including poets Paul Pines, Sandy McIntosh, Geoffrey O'Brien, and Jon Curley

Reading and Reception 6pm - 8pm

Poets House, 10 River Terrace, New York, NY

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August 10th

Special guest for discussion of ILLUMINATIONS: SHORT FILMS OF DISCOVERY, films adapted from Arthur Rimbaud's prose poems ILLUMINATIONS by Newark-based social activist filmmakers Marylou and Jerome Bongiorno

7:30pm - 9pm

Cinema 505, 505 Bloomfield Avenue, Montclair, NJ 07042

 

August 22nd

Featured lecturer on Bartolomeo Vanzetti, human rights, and radical literature followed by a reading of Vanzetti's EVENTS AND VICTIMS. Presented by Sacco and Vanzetti Commemoration Society and Dante Alighieri Society of Cambridge. 7pm

Dante Alighieri Auditorium, 41 Hampshire Street, Cambridge, MA 02139

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