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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