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Just for the Joy of it! 0pen Mic, Poetry Thursdays, Nov 16th

Share your Verse: Two-Hour Open Mic. One Night Only!

Back again in our snug, traditional Poetry Thursdays meeting room at The Midtown Scholar Bookstore, the Almost Uptown Poetry Cartel is hosting its annual As-the-Days Dwindle-Down-to-a-Precious-Few open mic from 7 to 9 pm on November 16th.

So, if you're looking to share your verse in an informal group setting or, to just listen to some fine autumn-ripe poetry, here's how to get to our gig. Walk, with purpose, into the Scholar, turn left into the children's room, turn left again -- make it a U-turn-- & head straight back, way back, to join us for a two-hour open mic. For the love of poetry-- no necessary rhyme or reason required-- come on-- just for the taste of it!

We'd really like to hear your voice,
seriously. Another gig, another perspective.
Yeah,
that'll work. It's quite an active,
supportive group atmosphere.
Why not add to it?





No sign-up necessary. Read or chill,
everything's waiting for you.

Poetry Thursdays. Poetry Cartel hosts at
Midtown Scholar Bookstore, 1302 N. Third St. Harrisburg, PA 17102.

Poet Gary Fincke, November 2, at the Midtown Scholar Bookstore.

   P O E T R Y  C A R T E L  N E W S   R E L E A S E

  On November 2, Gary Fincke, poet, and author of short fiction 
and nonfiction-- whose acclaimed short story collection, "The 
Killer's Dog," was released earlier this year-- will be featured 
at the Almost Uptown Poetry Cartel's Poetry Thursdays 
reading series at the Midtown Scholar Bookstore.

  Fincke is the winner of 
the Flannery O'Connor Award 
for Short Fiction, he's published 
30 books of poetry, short fiction, 
and nonfiction.  Notable works 
include The History of Permanence
2011, winner, Stephen F. Austin 
Poetry Prize.

   Other awards include the Bess Hokin Prize from Poetry magazine 
and the Rose Lefcowitz Prize from Poet Lore.  
His collection, Writing Letters for the Blind (2003) won 
the Ohio State University Press/The Journal poetry prize.

  Fincke is a professor at Susquehanna University in Selinsgrove, 
PA, where he is also the director of the Writer's Institute.

  A short open mic will precede Fincke's reading.  The reading 
will take place at Midtown Scholar Bookstore (from 7 to 9 pm), 
1302 North Third Street, Harrisburg, PA 17102.   

  For more information call 717.236.1680  or, 
www.midtownscholar.com.

Very Open Mic, October 26, Midtown Scholar

Open Poetry Mic, October 26, 
       Midtown Scholar Bookstore
             1302 N. Third St., Harrisburg


Okay, listen up. Sound in poetry:
in ordinary listening, one responds
to the speaker's intention without attending overmuch
to shape and presentation.

In poetry-- with its double coding-- both sound and sense

are important, and the two are processed on different,
not necessarily, parallel tracks.

     Choo choo ch'-boogie! know I'm sayin'?

There'll be an open
mic, October 26, at
the Midtown Scholar.

The Almost Uptown Poetry
Carter continually hosts
Thursday night (7--9pm)
verse events.



                                                                                          We don't miss a beat.
                                  Indeed, we're constant as the Northern Star,
                  everything's waiting for you.

                No sign-up sheet.
                          It's Quaker-style-- read as the spirit moves you.


     More information:
     717-236-1680. www.midtownscholar.com,

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Poetry Readings Kick Off Harrisburg Book Festival

Annual Harrisburg Book Festival at the Midtown Scholar 

The Harrisburg Book Festival at the Midtown Scholar Bookstore,
1302 N. Third St., Harrisburg, runs from Thursday, Oct. 12,
through Sunday, Oct. 15.

                                                                   
                                                                     On Thursday, from 7-9 p.m, some     

highly anticipated poetry performances
begin this year's Festival activities
with readings by Safiya Sinclair,
Joshua Bennett, and Shara McCallum.

The Almost Uptown Poetry Cartel is
hosting the Thursdays' events.

Harrisburg poet laureate Rick Kearns
will be emceeing that evening's
performance showcase.



There is no cost for these events, for more information: 717-236-1680.

See also, midtownscholar.com,

Midtown Scholar, Open mics and Harrisburg Book Festival

Autumn events,  Harrisburg Book Festival  and Safiyah Sinclair

At the Midtown Scholar, this Thursday, October 5th, there'll be
 a fun open reading from 7 to 9pm. Quaker style. Chill, just listen
or declaim, shout it out. I mean, everything's waiting for you.
Bring it.

Something pretty special coming
next week-- the Almost Uptown  Poetry
Cartel's Poetry Thursdays reading series
at the Scholar will present
Safiyah Sinclair, one of our featured poets
for the opening of the Harrisburg Book
Festival, beginning Thursday 10/12.

Midtown Scholar Bookstore, 1302
North Third Street, Harrisburg, PA
17102. Phone, 717.236.1680.

almostuptown@gmail.com

www.midtownscholar.com

September 14, Poetry Thursdays Presents Barbara Crooker

On September 14, Poetry Thursdays at the Midtown Scholar welcomes Barbara Crooker
as our featured poet. The Almost Uptown Poetry Cartel hosts this special event.

Crooker grew up in New York's Hudson Valley and received her bachelor's degree in English Literature and art history from the women's Douglass College — now part of Rutgers University — and her master'sin English Literature from Elmira College in New York.

She is the author of Radiance, her first full-length book, which won the 2005 Word Press First Book competition and was a finalist for the 2006 Paterson Poetry Prize.

Crooker's poems have appeared in many journals such as Yankee, The Christian Science Monitor, Smartish Pace, The Beloit Poetry Journal, Nimrod, The Denver Quarterly, The Tampa Review,and Poetry International. 

Barbara Crooker's verse has frequently been featured on Garrison Keeler's PBS show, The Writer's Almanac. 

The Poetry Cartel hosts the festivities starting at 7pm with an open mike. Bring your own poems or share your favorites. All are welcome. 

The feature presentation will begin at 8:05 pm. The Midtown Scholar Bookstore, 1302 N. Third St. Harrisburg PA, Phone:717.236.1680.

www.midtownscholar.com

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August 1st, a Poets' Cruise on the Pride of the Susquehanna

Going nautical, the Almost Uptown Poetry Cartel is hosting Poets' Cruise 2017 on August 1st. Imagine-- rolling down a river of verse on the very river that, back in the day, bewitched both Coleridge and Bob Southey. 
Join us, set sail on the Pride of the Susquehanna, and enjoy an evening of poetry on our inaugural Poets' Cruise featuring Harrisburg Poet Laureate, Rick Kearns. 

Adult beverages will be available-- this is a 21+ event. Come mingle with the art community and be inspired. Believe-you-me, this event will be truly buoyant!

It's all happening from 6pm-9pm on Tuesday, August 1st. 
The Pride will be docked from 6pm-7pm, and then embark for two hours of verse,  and more. Tickets are $8, in advance, $10 at the dock. 

More information (717) 234-6500
http://harrisburgriverboat.com/

Poets’ Utopia: Coleridge, Southey and the Susquehanna, https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-1-349-26934-1_15

 

June 20, Midtown Scholar: Hotter than a matchstick,

cooler than a splash of white paint splattered 
on summer concrete and asphalt!


An open mic poetry reading beckons verse enthusiasts
June 20 to the Midtown Scholar Bookstore, 7 to 9pm. 
The excitement is, as always, hosted by the infamous Almost Uptown
Poetry Cartel. Yeah, I mean, it's, like, a happening every week.

               No sign-up sheet, it's all done Quaker-style-- read,
               share as the spirit moves you. Or not.
                                      Chill, just listen or, make a splash. Your call.

                                                              White paint on asphalt and concrete.

Why not make a splash? There's a sophisticated, yet supportive

audience who wants to catch your wave. Your vibe. Heck,
you listen, you read--you and the audience
are one and the same, Whoa!   
                                                  How'ja like them apples?

            Seriously, everything's waiting for you.
           1302 North Third Street, Harrisburg, PA 17102.
            And/or: 717.236.1680.

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www.midtownscholar.com

See also  http://www.bbc.com/news/video_and_audio/must_see/40609746/the-man-who-takes-photographs-of-white-paint-spills

Poetry Galore. July. A Month of Open Mics at the Scholar

                     July! A month of open poetry readings.
                                 
                                                July 6, an open poetry reading, 7--9 pm.
                                  Ditto: open mics on July 13, July 20 and July 27.
                 Midtown Scholar Bookstore, 1302 N. Third Street,
                                                Harrisburg, PA, 17102. More info, 717.236.1680.

                                                               

www.midtownscholar.com

www.almostuptown.com

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June 1, Open Poetry Reading at Midtown Scholar

On the first of June, there will be an open mic at Poetry Thursdays, a weekly verse series held at the Midtown Scholar.

June is bustin' out all over! If it seems different than the rest of Cornwall, that’s because it’s a month. not a geographic entity. Because it's not man-made, or a result of china clay mining.

So, why not write about Cornwall? The aqua-blue "lakes" are clay slurry and the "mountains" and ridges are waste heaps. This kind of clay, which is ideal for making high-quality ceramic porcelain, was a particularly hot commodity in the early 1900s. Cornwall is home to the largest known deposit of the clay in the world.

Meanwhile, back in the Quaker State-- the aforementioned open mic runs from 7 to 9 pm. Share your verse Quaker style. No sign--up sheet: read as the spirit moves you. The Midtown Scholar Bookstore is located at 1302 North Third Street, Harrisburg, PA 17102. Phone: 717.236.1680.

www.midtownscholar.com
https://plus.google.com/events/c5csnrfvvjrr0oefgmg48j7bbfg?authkey=COjdo8WHvtGiMg

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June 6, Patricia Lockwood will be performing at the Midtown Scholar Bookstore, 1302 N. Third St. Harrisburg PA, Phone:717.236.1680. https://plus.google.com/u/0/
June 22-- Gary (GMill) Miller will be featured performer.

Marforie Maddox Reads New Work, May 11, at Midtown Scholar Bookstore

MAY 11th: MARJORIE MADDOX to SHARES NEW TALES at the MIDTOWN SCHOLAR

  Marjorie Maddox, director of the creative writing program at Lock Haven University. will be performing her work May 11, at the Almost Uptown Poetry Cartel continuing reading series
in part to promote her new short story collection What She Was Saying,
available now from Fomite Press. Partly, just for fun.

  Maddox has published eleven collections of poetry including  Weeknights at the Cathedral (WordTech 2006);Transplant, Transport, Transubstantiation (2004 Yellowglen Prize); When The Wood Clacks Out Your Name: Baseball Poems (2001 Redgreene Press Chapbook Winner); Body Parts (Anamnesis Press 1999); Ecclesia (Franciscan University Press, 1997); How to Fit God into a Poem (1993 Painted Bride Chapbook Winner); and Nightrider to Edinburgh (1986 Amelia Chapbook Winner), as well as verse and essays in numerous journals and anthologies.

  Maddox has written children’s poetry books including Rules of the Game: Baseball Poems (2009, illustrated by John Sandford) and A Crossing of Zebras: Animal Packs in Poetry (2008, illustrated by Philip Huber), as well as her work  included in the children’s poetry anthology Hey, You!: Poems to Skyscrapers, Mosquitoes, and Other Fun Things (2007).

This reading series' event, hosted by the Almost Uptown Poetry Cartel, takes place at the Midtown Scholar Bookstore, 1302 N. Third Street, Harrisburg, PA, 17102. An open reading will precede the feature presentation. May 11. 7--9 pm. More information, 717.236.1680.
  See also:
        www.almostuptown.com,
                    www.midtownscholar.com

Coming attractions to the Scholar include: May 25, D.M. Spitzer; June 6, Patricia Lockward (Main Stage); June 8, Barbara Crooker; and June 22, Gary Miller.
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Maria James-Thiaw, featured April 20, at the Midtown Scholar

April 20, at the Midtown Scholar Bookstore, Maria James-Thiaw
will be the featured poet. Poetry Thursdays, a continuing series ishosted by the Almost Uptown Poetry Cartel.

James-Thiaw is an award-winning poet, performer, and professor. Her publications include poetry and reviews in several literary journals such as New Letters, Cutthroat Journal of the Arts, One Trick Pony Review,
and Black Magnolias as well as a spoken word CD, FREEverse,
and four amazing verse collections:

Windows to the Soul (Shippensburg University Press, 1999),

Rising Waters (Shippensburg University Press, 2003),

Talking “White” (postDada Press, 2013).

Mocha Musings is forthcoming from Community Arts Ink.

This event is hosted by the Almost Uptown Poetry Cartel.
The Midtown Scholar Bookstore is located at 1302 North 3rd Street,
across from the Broad Street Market, Harrisburg, PA 17102,
Phone:717.236.1680.

April 6. Marci Nelligan Featured at the Poetry Cartel Thursday Gig

OnApril 6. Marci Nelligan will be starring at the Poetry Cartel's weekly series at Harrisburg's Midtown Scholar Bookstore,  

Nelligan teaches creative writing at Franklin & Marshall. College. She's been published in numerous journals including Chain, syllogism, Free Lunch, and the Walrus.
Infinite Variations was published with Black Radish Books in 2011. Nelligan’s second full-length collection, The Ghost Manada is her most recent tome.

The Ghost Manada is a book of insistent absence in conversation with her own shade songs. The book is an intertext of experimental lyrics speaking to and through Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian and the spirit of Emily Dickinson.

This event is hosted by the Almost Uptown Poetry Cartel. The Midtown Scholar Bookstore is located at 1302 North Third Street, Harrisburg, PA 17102, Phone: 717.236.1680

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March 16, Open mic Reading, March 23, Kenneth Vincent Walker at Poetry Thursdays

Marc 16-- Open Poetry Reading. 
     March 23; Kenneth Vincent Walker featured at Midtown Scholar

There'll be an open poetry reading at the Midtown Scholar, 

hosted by the Poetry Cartel on March 16, 7 to 9pm .

Kenneth Vincent Walker is a New Formalist Poet performing original traditional, classical, and lyrical poetry but, with a distinctly contemporary vibe.


 Walker will be featured performer for the weekly Almost Uptown Poetry Cartel series at the Midtown Scholar,, March 23rd. A brief open reading will precede the feature.

There'll be another 2-hour open reading on March 30. Share your verse Quaker style. No sign--up sheet, read as the spirit moves you.
   The Midtown Scholar Bookstore is located at 1302 North Third Street, Harrisburg, PA 17102, Phone: 717.236.1680.

Thursday March 9, Craig Czury shares verse and more at the Midtown Scholar

March 9, Craig Czury reads his poetry at the Midtown Scholar.

Raised in  Pennsyvania's coal country, Czury, when he was 19, hitchhiked out of Wilkes-Barre on a journey of self-discovery that took him west to San Francisco and a hair full of flowers
Czury's first book of poetry, Janus Peeking, received the 1980 First Book Award from the Montana Arts Council. From there, Czury went on to publish 15 more collections of poetry. Czury’s work illustrates the pain and emptiness of the post-depression 's Mid-Atlantic states' coal-mining regions.

Here's a sample from a poem, “Coalscape:” all this black dust / black cinder and glass ground up / in the spine of a torn-out trainbed / smoke rising out of birch on the culm bank / when it begins to rain.... Much of Czury’s work is been known internationally. His verse has been translated into many different languages, including Spanish, Russian, Portuguese, and Italian.

Czury has been a featured poet at the International Poetry Festivals in Argentina, Ireland, Croatia, Colombia, Lithuania, and Macedonia.
He's worked as a traveling poet in schools, homeless shelters, prisons, mental hospitals, and community centers around the world. March 9th will find him in the heart of the capital city of Pennsylvania.
Czury's performance is part of a long-running poetry series, hosted by the Almost Uptown Poetry Cartel. Happens every Thursday. An open poetry reading will begin the night at 7 pm. Midtown Scholar Bookstore. 717.236.1680.

Watch, listen up. Czury reads in the big Apple. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQjTxl9RuJo https://www.pw.org/content/craig_czury

MartyPalooza, One Night Only! February 23, Midtown Scholar Bookstore

Martypalooza!A merry band of poets interpret Esworthian verse

On February 23, a multitude of performers, organized and directed by Harrisburg's reigning poet laureate, Rick Kearns, will perform, well, interpret, poetry written by Marty Esworthy. Seating is limited, doors open at 6:45pm.

Esworthian poetries strive to construct/de-construct the living evolution of art, ethos, physics and ethnology. "His varied works (installations, object appreciation, wave theory, verbo-visualities and throat-singing) pin-ball between arts, audiology and Shock Performance to jangle limits of perception and to raise awareness of evaporating sound and mound continua."

Imagine the spirit of Dada, Duchamp, John Cage, Spike Jones, Peggy Guggenheim, Hugo Winterhalter, and frenetic memories of Polikushka lurking in accents yet unspoken.

Performers include Kearns, Kevyn Knox, Tru Selvey, Anna Jane, Jeanette Trout, John Catalano, Le Hinton, Jennifer Huff Dutson, Gillian Branstetter, Michael Lear-Olimpi, Mikaela Rylee Phillips and more. Esworthy will, presumably, sit and listen. O, what a night!

A measured open reading (7pm) will precede the madding feature.

The Almost Uptown Poetry Cartel has hosted Poetry Thursdays, a community reading series since 1999. Now, weekly, at the Midtown Scholar, 1302 North Third Street, Harrisburg, PA 17102. Phone: 717.236.1680. www.midtownscholar.com/ www.almostuptown.com

Some Esworthy insight: Culture and Main Ep 68 White Rose Community TV http://youtu.be/Sdw21jchz24?list=UU-1o28ZQVfsUWSqjd3lrVoQ

January 26, Shara McCallum-- featured poet at the Midtown Scholar Bookstore

"As long as there have been people on this island, there have been songs, poems, incantations, curses, blessings, prayers, abuses, witticisms, word and sound play and all the core elements that constitute what we call poetry. We know that the Taino people managed to pass onto future generations the rituals of words, thoughts and feelings in other islands." [Claude]McKay remains our first truly distinctive Jamaican poet of the twentieth century, and by any reckoning, he might well be called our first major poet....

The "powerful lyric possibility developed by the great reggae and dancehall artists of the last fifty years that has served as a model and a source of possibility for the contemporary Jamaican poet. Yet, while the stages and the microphones have never stopped sounding the words of poets, a great development of the last few decades has been the publication of Jamaican poets internationally. With two or more books of poetry to their credit, poets like, Shara McCallum, Ann Margaret Lin, Tanya Shirley, Kei Miller, Delores Gauntlet, Earl McKenzie..." --http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/art-leisure/20150801/jamaican-poetry-arise-think-speak-and-live

On January 26, Shara McCallum will be featured performer at the Midtown Scholar Bookstore's Poetry Thursdays, presented by the Almost Uptown Poetry Cartel.

McCallum is a Jamaican-American poet, who has been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry. She currently directs the Stadler Center for Poetry and teaches creative writing and literature at Bucknell University. McCallum is the author of Madwoman (Alice James Books, US, 2017 and Peepal Tree Press, UK, 2017); The Face of Water: New and Selected Poems (Peepal Tree Press, UK, 2011); This Strange Land (Alice James Books, 2011), a finalist for the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature; Song of Thieves (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2003); and The Water Between Us (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1999), winner of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize for Poetry.

The event, which begins with a short open poetry reading, runs from 7:00 to 8:55 pm. Midtown Scholar Bookstore, 1302 North Third Street, Harrisburg, PA 17102. Phone: 717.236.1680.

Open Poetry Reading, January 19 at the Scholar

On January 19, there will be an open poetry reading at the Midtown Scolar. Come out and read or listen. Good poetry abounds, and We'd love to hear your voice.

The Almost Uptown Poetry Cartel hosts Poetry Thursdays, a community reading series (almost) every Thursday since 1999. Midtown Scholar Bookstore. From 7:00 to 8:55 pm. 1302 North Third Street, Harrisburg, PA 17102, 717.236.1680. Be sure to join us next Thursday, January 26th for our featured performer-- the award-winning director of the Stadler Center at Bucknell, author of Madwoman, Shara McCallum