hiatus 2012

July, August, September-- Summer Hiatus

Okay.

Sorry, but, here’s the deal– the Almost Uptown Poetry Cartel and Poetry Thursdays has has decided to take a vacation.

A real summer vacation. For the first time in 14 years we’re going to sit down, relax, read, breathe deeply, and sip margaritas in the park. Or somesuch.

You’ll probably still find us out supporting those awesome flamenco players on Thursday nights at HMAC, and we’ll be visiting our friends at numerous versification venues around the area, but we’re putting our weekly event on siesta until September.

Hope to see you then.

Finally, Detective Dick Tracy can go to bed!

Some things don't translate.  

De Dick Tracy à votre poignet

En 1952, Dick Tracy apparu par la voix de sa montre-bracelet. Même à l'époque la plus proche distance de télécommunications a été la radio (radio et qu'ils ont appelé les deux sens du poignet) aujourd'hui il est plus facile d'entrer dans le téléphone mobile pour une montre-bracelet.

In 1952, Dick Tracy became the voice of his wristwatch. Even in the days closest distance telecommunications was the radio (radio and they called two-way wrist) today it is easier to enter the mobile phone in a wristwatch.

and/or

La montre de Dick Tracy est disponible
Le détective Dick Tracy peut aller se coucher, le vidéotéléphone cellulaire est enfin prêt pour votre poignet. C'est le fabricant Hyundai qui présente le premier appareil qui peut se réclamer de l'héritage du célèbre personnage de bande dessinée. La montre/cellulaire fonctionne dans l'environnement GSM avec un écran tactile qui permet d'utiliser ses fonctions de cellulaire, de baladeur, d'appareil photo et vidéo.

Dick Tracy's watch is available
Detective Dick Tracy can go to bed, the cellular videophone is finally ready for your wrist. It is the manufacturer Hyundai introduced the first device that can claim the legacy of the famous cartoon character. The watch / cell phone works in the GSM environment with a touch screen that allows the use of cellular functions, Walkman, camera and video.

 

Deborah Filanowksi featured June 14 at Poetry Thursdays

  

Pine Grove poet, Deborah Filanowksi, will be featured at Poetry Thursdays, June 14, at the Midtown Cinema’s Reel Cafe, 250 Reily Street, Harrisburg.

She is active with Stray Dog Poets in Schuylkill County where she lives and is also associated with the BerksBards and other readings throughout Northcentral PA.

Filanowski is a native of West Virginia and has lived in PA for 30 years. She hosted a monthly poetry reading at Stonehedge Gardens for several years and was instrumental in organizing The North Eastern Pennsylvania Poetry Festival held at Stonehedge Gardens in Tamaqua from 2006 to 2009. Her book…and guppies eat their young was published by Plan B Press in conjunction with the “Lancaster OutLoud Poetry Festival” in September 2001 and a second printing was made in 2005.

Filanowski's feature presentation begins at 8pm, following an 7pm open mic. Poetry Thursdays, now into its 14th year as a weekly poetry series, is sponsored by the Almost Uptown Poetry Cartel.

For more information: (717) 909-6566.

 

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Veasey Returns Home, Esworthy and O’Leary Rockey Sway the Museum

Poetry reading at The Fox Chase Reading Series May 20, 2012 at Ryerss Museum and Library. Jack Veasey was featured along with Christine O'Leary-Rockey and Marty Esworthy

The Almost Uptown Poetry Cartel from Harrisburg, Pa. came to visit Ryerss Museum. Christine O’Leary Rockey and Marty Esworthy entertained the crowd with a joint reading and Jack Veasey returned home for his first reading in Philadelphia since 1991. The audience listened to a talented open mic group of Christian Thiede, Maria James Thiaw, Bill Fritz and Krystle Griffin. Photos of the event are available at this link: http://www.flickr.com/photos/12065560@N04/sets/72157629096910438/

 

Dan Waber featured at Poetry Thursdays

  

 

Dan Waber will be featured at Poetry Thursdays, May 10, held at Midtown Cinema’s Reel Cafe, 250 Reily Street, Harrisburg.

 

Waber is a Pennsylvania visual poet, publisher, and multimedia artist whose work appears on college-level hypermedia syllabi around the world.

Past efforts have appeared in print, in performance, and in digital and gallery exhibitions in places like Recursive Angel, Vispo and Riding The Meridian.

He has pieces in the Electronic Literature Collection, Vol. 1, the textbook The Art of English, and is a featured guest at vispo.com. He is also the publisher of the “this is visual poetry” series of full-color chapbooks, and a series of visual poetry posters.

Waber writes a recurring column on visual poetry for the e-issues of Rattle magazine, and will be talking about poetry off the page at the University of Arizona in May. He’s passionate about what he does and loves to share his enthusiasm with others. The hub of the online portion of Waber’s activities would be logolalia.com.

His feature presentation begins at 8pm, following an 7 o’clock open mic. Poetry Thursdays, in its 14th year as a weekly poetry series, is sponsored by the Almost Uptown Poetry Cartel. For more information: (717) 909-6566.

 

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April 26, Grant Clauser is featured

Verse with Verve

Poetry Thursdays is now in its 14th year as a weekly poetry series. It’s produced and directed by the Almost Uptown Poetry Cartel at the Reel Café, Midtown Cinema, 250 Reily Street. For more  information: (717) 909-6566.
www.almostuptown.com

April 26-- Grant Clauser
Clauser is editor-in-chief for E-Gear magazine (a newsstand magazine about electronics) and editorial director for a Philadelphia-based publishing company. His poems have appeared in a various journals including the Maryland Poetry Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, Cincinnati Review, the Heartland Review, Schuylkill Valley Journal, Cortland Poetry Review, the Seattle Review,  and Philadelphia Stories.

Clauser lives in Hatfield PA where he was selected as the Montgomery County Pennsylvania Poet Laureate in 2010 by Robert Bly. He earned an MFA in poetry from Bowling Green State University where he was a Richard Devine Fellow.

He runs the Montco Wordshop in Lansdale, a monthly workshop for area poets, and conducts workshops for the Musehouse Writing Center in Philadelphia.

Clauser also does a TV show about bass fishing. His favorite dry fly is the Parachute Adams. His favorite nymph is a basic Hare’s Ear with a brass bead. His first book, The Trouble with Rivers, was released in January of this year.

Coming Next to Poetry Thursdays--

May 3-- Mayday! reading                                                                             

May 10-- Dan Waber
May 17-- open reading
May 24-- Jack Veasey
May 31-- open reading

June 7-- open reading
June 14 --Deborah Filanowski

  

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