Hoopla re Pre-Liz-Laribee-Poetry-Thursdays-Gig, October 24

Flaubert in Kyôbashi

(photo: Marty Esworthy).

Van Gogh cried a river and painted literal rain that Hiroshige had carved into a block of wood. Virtual plum blossoms in a snow drift; Whistler transposing Hiroshige’s bridge at Kyôbashi to an Indian Head penny.

Plum blossoms rule. On this V.G. and R. W. agreed. They, almost mechanically, stared, & shook their heads, though not a nodding manner, dazed by the ferocity and angles carved by that genteel lateral reign. --Zuky Kunstweker

perceptions of numbly inherent in breeze effects

Ray Bolger pining, fading away. Yet, outside the Bell Foundry windows-- a sunny street of brownstones and black railings, fenced-in patches of earth round leafless trees, dwarf crocuses just pushing up into one of the first sincerely spring days of whole damn era. --ZuZu Rockit

Marty Esworthy Featured Dec. 3 at Poetry Spoken Here, CityArts

Gentle Harrisburg poet Marty Esworthy will be featured Dec.3 at Poetry Spoken Here, City Arts, 118 W. Philadelphia St., in York, PA 17401.

He's a leading advocate for sound poetry and meta-verse. Esworthy, a Megaera award-winning poet, editor emeritus of Steel Point Quarterly, and renowned poetry impresario, is founder of the Almost Uptown Poetry Cartel.

He’s been published in numerous regional and national publications, including Haggard & Halloo, text_TOWER, Literary Chaos, Fledgling Rag, The Fox Chase Review , logodaedalus, Syzygy, The International Digest of World Poetry, and The Miserere Review.

Recent Esworthy tomes include hard reality, Pacobooks, 2004, and The Object Stares Back, Uh-Oh!, T&T Press, 2009.

His collection Twenty-Six Javanese Proverbs won the 2006 R.E.Foundation Award for Outstanding Poetry from Iris G. Press in 2006.

In 2006, Esworthy set in motion A Poets’ Tour of Harrisburg, a poetic stroll through the Capital City, impressed for posterity in a book and on a CD.

A recent Pushcart nominee, dubbed "Gentle Ben" for his sweet, yet sardonic, verse,  he also teaches poetry composition and literary performance. Gently, mais oui.

The Poetry Spoken Here/City Arts reading series, hosted by Keith Baughman, takes place on the first Monday of every Month, begins at 7 p.m. and runs until 9.

G. Emil Reutter featured November 1, at the Midtown Scholar

Poetry Thursdays at Midtown Scholar Bookstore

G. Emil Reutter, with host Christine O'Leary-Rockey

G. Emil Reutter is a Philadelphia, Pa. based poet and author. He has worked in the factories, steel mills and rails of the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. His work has been widely published in the small and electronic press and eight volumes of his collections have been published. He has read his poetry at venues in New England, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Arizona and Texas. In 2007 he founded The Fox Chase Review and The Fox Chase Reading Series.

In a collection of poetry titled "Carvings" Reutter says, in his introduction, “We are very much like the old oak trees found in a public park. People stop and leave their marks on the trees, carving with a knife, initials, hearts with initials, a piece of someone left behind. Like the oak, people stop and leave their mark on us, some gently, some carve us not so gently. As time passes, these carvings left on us, form who we are, how we view the world and how long we last in the world. Our time is shorter than the great oak yet the carvings we carry are more numerous, deeper, sometimes fading but always there. These poems represent some carvings in my life, some minor others lasting.”

Reutter's website: gemilreutter-author.com

 This event is hosted by the Almost Uptown Poetry Cartel. An hour-long open reading, which begins at 7pm, will precede the feature presentation.
The Midtown Scholar, one of "America's Great Independent Bookstores" is located at 1302 North Third Street, Harrisburg PA 17102.
Further enlightenment: (717) 236-1680.

Rebecca Gonzalez Featured at Midtown Scholar October 25

Rebecca Gonzalez is a Pushcart nominee and the 2008 R.E. Foundation Award winner for Outstanding Poetry. Some of her poems will be appearing in the upcoming CD anthology, Live at the Corner of Poetry and Main: Celebrating Five Years of Annapolis Poetry. She is the author of, Sonata for Rain, published by Iris G. Press. Her second and upcoming book is titled, Aerial Descending.

She has been called a “female counterpart to [Pablo] Neruda.” Gonzalez believes that writing poetry is closely related to music composition and art in which various elements combine to create a piece that is highly individual, the ultimate goal being that it can breathe beyond its realities. Sonata for Rain is a lyrical concerto, like cool jazz in an early morning sunrise. Elegant, spiritual, cerebral…there is no deficit of language to describe the beauty that she brings to the craft of poetry.

Gonzalez's versatility is tempered by her cultural and linguistic bilingualism and a unique ability to capture the right word or phrase, exercising brevity in uncanny ways to deliver the perfect line time after time. Her work has been published on-line at The Cerebral Catalyst, Haggard and Halloo and Poetryork and in print in Fledgling Rag, Hanover Sun, and the York Daily Record.

 

Next up at Midtown Scholar Poetry Thursdays:
All Events are from 7-9 pm with an Open Reading from 7-8 pm
followed by an 8-9 pm Feature, or continued Open.
November 1 -- Feature: G. Emil Reuter, with host Christine O'Leary-Rockey

Next up at Midtown Scholar Poetry Thursdays:

All Events are from 7-9 pm with an Open Reading from 7-8 pm

followed by an 8-9 pm Feature, or continued Open

 

Common Wealth: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania at Midtown Scholar

Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania reading, Midtown Scholar

 

at the Midtown Scholar Bookstore, Poetry Thursdays, October 11th:

7-8 PM Common Wealth: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania

featuring

Jerry Wemple, Marjorie Maddox, David Bauman,

Melanie Simms, and Nate Gadsen.

8-9 PM Open Reading