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

Kearns & Catalano, Words & Music, December 29,

Kearns & Catalano, Words & Music, December 29, Midtown Scholar Bookstore

Rick Kearns and Johnny Catalano, Two Hussars, blending poems and music with flamenco, gypsy jazz and blues themes, return to Poetry Thursdays at the Midtown Scholar bookstore to spread their wings, to expand their unique sonic collaboration.

Rick Kearns is a poet, freelance writer and musician based in Harrisburg, Pa. His poems have appeared in over 70 literary journals including The Massachusetts Review, The Painted Bride Quarterly and Chicago Review. Kearns’ poems are in national anthologies, chapbooks, and books. He has given readings throughout the US since 1992. Kearns was named Poet Laureate of Harrisburg, Pa in January 2014.

Johnny Catalano is a professional guitarist whose influences include gypsy jazz, flamenco, classical, blues and rock. Catalano has a great passion for collecting musical instruments. He is a music teacher - with students from ages 5 to 88 years old. Many of his lessons and performances can be viewed on Youtube. For lessons or bookings call: (717) 623-7166 or johncatalanomusic@gmail.com.

The Two Hussars are both veteran artists and part of the Flamenco Kitchen family.

The Midtown Scholar is located at 1302 N. Third Street. For more information, (717) 236-1680. Hosted by the Almost Uptown Poetry Cartel.

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