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April 28, 2005
To: Listings/Critics/Features From: JAZZ PROMO SERVICES Press Contact: JIM EIGO, [email protected]
Cornelia Street Cafe 29 Cornelia Street Greenwich Village, NY 10014
Tel: 212-989-9319 Fax: 212-243-4207 Web: corneliastreetcafe.com
between West 4th and Bleecker Sts, Greenwich Village 1,9 Subway to Sheridan Square; A, C, E, B, D, F to West 4th St.
“a culinary as well as a cultural landmark" Mayoral Proclamation, City of New York 1987
MAY Spoken Word
May 1 6:00PM ENTERTAINING SCIENCE Roald Hoffmann, host David Rothenberg; Partha Mitra; Leon Gruenbaum
WHY DO BIRDS SING? Musician, writer, and philosopher David Rothenberg hosts an evening devoted to the topic of his new book with the title of this program (Basic Books, 2005) which shows how we need science, music, and poetry to make the most human sense out of what birds are up to. He's joined by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory neuroscientist Partha Mitra, who has worked on zebra finch brains and cell phone communications, and is now trying to tackle the underlying structure of mockingbird songs. He will also sing some songs of the eminent Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore! Both are joined by Leon Gruenbaum on an instrument of his own invention, the Samchillian TipTipTipCheeepeeeee. Cover $10
6:00PM NEW SHUL SALON Ellen Gould, host
The New Shul is a new, progressive Jewish congregation located in downtown New York City. For more information, please call 212-284-6773 or visit www.newshul.org. Sponsored by The Educational Alliance’s Jewish Below 14th Street Project funded by UJA-Federation of New York. Cover $10
Tue May 03 ALUMNI FROM BENNINGTON COLLEGE poetry : Alumni From The Writing Seminars at Bennington College : Welcome, Liam Rector ; Introductions, Jason Shinder the readers: Mark Conway, Any Holy City (poetry) Kris Ohlson, Stalking the Divine (Plume/non-fiction) John May, Poe & Fanny (Algonquin Books/novel)) Elaine McFerron, Double Solitude (Green River Press/poetry) 6:00PM Cover $6
Wed May 04 FLASH FICTION Short prose in an age of dementia 6:00PM Cover $6
Fri May 06 PINK PONY POETRY Jackie Sheeler's open mic poetry series. Arrive before 6 pm to sign up. featured reader Stephen Cramer. $6 admission includes a *free* drink. 6:00PM Hosted by Jackie Sheeler. Cover $6 www.poetz.com
Sat May 07 ZIRYAB: THE ARAB-AMERICAN WRITERS ASSOCIATION (Sanaa Mulji Dutt; Ruth Handel) 6:00PM Hosted by Nada Taib and Ramzi Moufarez. Cover $8
Sun May 08 POETRY (TBA) 6:00PM Cover $6
Mon May 09 BROOKLYN RAIL (Peter Altenberg; Robert Bonon) prose: Brooklyn Rail fiction writers Peter Altenberg & Robert Bononno 6:00PM Cover $6
Tue May 10 STORYTELLING Storytelling occurs the second Tuesday of every month. 6:00PM Hosted by Barbara Aliprantis. Cover $6
Wed May 11 INTERCULTURAL POETRY (Syd Lea; Baron Wormser; Dawn Potter) 6:00PM Cover $6
Thurs. May 12 6:00PM POETRY AND MUSIC Angelo Verga, host Barry Wallenstein; Serge Pesce; John Hicks, piano; Cecil McBee; Vince Chancey an evening of poetry and music: Barry Wallenstein (City College) & Serge Pesce (France), with (what an amazing lineup of sidemen!!!) John Hicks, Cecil McBee, Vince Chancey & maybe one or two other superstars. reservations strongly suggested. $10 includes a *free* drink. Cover $10 (includes one house drink)
Fri May 13 PINK PONY POETRY Jackie Sheeler's open mic poetry series. Arrive before 6 pm to sign up. featured reader Shappy. $6 admission includes a *free* drink. 6:00PM Hosted by Jackie Sheeler. Cover $6 www.poetz.com
Sat May 14 ITALIAN-AMERICAN WRITERS ASSOCIATION Italian American Writers Association, featured readers are: TBA, plus open mic, 5 minute limit. 6:00PM Cover $6
Sun May 15 POETRY Host Bill Zavatsky poets Geoffrey Cruickshank-Hagenbucl; Charles Borkhuis) 6:00PM Cover $6 (includes one free drink)
Mon May 16 NYQUARTERLY : THE READING SERIES (Tony Demarest; Sanford Fraser; Susan Thomas) NYQ poets presented by the editors of The New York Quarterly, one of the oldest & most trusted poetry forums in the country. readers: Tony Demarest, Sanford Fraser, Susan Thomas. host: Ted Jonathan 6:00PM Cover $6
POETRY FROM MOSCOW AND NEW YORK CITY: NEW YOUTH Literary Magazine (Moscow, Russia) Poetry Editor, poet Gleb Shulpyakov presents the magazine and his poetry translations by Chris Mattison. Shulpyakov is a poet, translator of W.H.Auden into Russian and a fiction writer. He also is the Curator of popular literary club at Bookberry in Moscow. Reading by the New York poets of NEW YOUTH: Vladimir Gandelsman, Andrey Gritsman, Irina Mashinskaya, Grigory Starikovsky, Alexander Stessin. Moscow poet Vera Pavlova (Reading by the translator Steven Seymour). Cornelia Street, off Bleecker in the Village Programs Curator: Angelo Verga www.corneliastreet.com 8:30PM Cover $6 http://ars-interpres.nm.ru/cont_G_S.html
Tue May 17 WRITERS ROOM HOST JILL DEARMAN TBA 6:00PM Cover $6 (includes one free drink)
Wed May 18 POETRY & PROSE Neil Intraub and Susan Hogan, host Angelo Verga 6:00PM Hosted by Valerie Ghent. Cover $6
Fri May 20 PINK PONY POETRY Jackie Sheeler's open mic poetry series. Arrive before 6 pm to sign up. featured reader Patricia Smith. $6 admission includes a *free* drink. 6:00PM Hosted by Jackie Sheeler. Cover $6 www.poetz.com
Sat May 21 GREEK-AMERICAN WRITERS ASSOCIATION Dean Kostos' book party, “Last Supper of the Senses", also Holly Scalera. 6:00PM Cover $6
Sun May 22 LESLIE SHARPE'S WRITING GROUP (Jan Barker; Kim C Flodin; Lauri Herman; Terry Iacuzzo; Marilyn Kochman; Megan Padilla; Daniela Petrova; Leslie T Sharpe) 6:00PM Cover $6
Mon May 23 BOOK LAUNCH (Kenneth Bernard; Lynda Schor) A celebration of Ken Bernard's new collection of short fiction, THE MAN IN THE STRETCHER, from Starcherone Books 6:00PM
Tue May 24 GRADUATE POETRY STUDENTS TBA 6:00PM Cover $6
Wed May 25 SOULFUL WORDS TBA our version of Upstairs/Downstairs wherein those who serve food also have myriad other talents. 6:00PM Cover $6
Thu May 26 PEN CENTRAL (Robin Lichtig) Robin Lichtig, etc 6:00PM Cover $6
Fri May 27 PINK PONY POETRY Jackie Sheeler's open mic poetry series. Arrive before 6 pm to sign up. featured reader Marj Hahne. $6 admission includes a *free* drink 6:00PM Hosted by Jackie Sheeler. Cover $6 www.poetz.com
Sat May 28 POETICALLY INCORRECT - THE AMERICAN-CARIBBEAN WRITERS Poetically Incorrect, spoken word from the Caribbean, Brooklyn, Fordham Road and other places with soul. 6:00PM Cover $8
Mon May 30 6:00PM & 8:30PM CARABBEAN CULTURE Caribbean Culture, music, poetry, a memorable literary event!
Tue May 31 6:00PM KNOWING WOMEN A new play based on conversations with five nonagenarian women by Suzanne Logan cover $6 one house drink)
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To: Listings/Critics/Features From: JAZZ PROMO SERVICES Press Contact: JIM EIGO, [email protected]
Cornelia Street Cafe 29 Cornelia Street Greenwich Village, NY 10014
Tel: 212-989-9319 Fax: 212-243-4207 Web: corneliastreetcafe.com
between West 4th and Bleecker Sts, Greenwich Village 1,9 Subway to Sheridan Square; A, C, E, B, D, F to West 4th St.
“a culinary as well as a cultural landmark" Mayoral Proclamation, City of New York 1987
MAY Spoken Word
May 1 6:00PM ENTERTAINING SCIENCE Roald Hoffmann, host David Rothenberg; Partha Mitra; Leon Gruenbaum
WHY DO BIRDS SING? Musician, writer, and philosopher David Rothenberg hosts an evening devoted to the topic of his new book with the title of this program (Basic Books, 2005) which shows how we need science, music, and poetry to make the most human sense out of what birds are up to. He's joined by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory neuroscientist Partha Mitra, who has worked on zebra finch brains and cell phone communications, and is now trying to tackle the underlying structure of mockingbird songs. He will also sing some songs of the eminent Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore! Both are joined by Leon Gruenbaum on an instrument of his own invention, the Samchillian TipTipTipCheeepeeeee. Cover $10
6:00PM NEW SHUL SALON Ellen Gould, host
The New Shul is a new, progressive Jewish congregation located in downtown New York City. For more information, please call 212-284-6773 or visit www.newshul.org. Sponsored by The Educational Alliance’s Jewish Below 14th Street Project funded by UJA-Federation of New York. Cover $10
Tue May 03 ALUMNI FROM BENNINGTON COLLEGE poetry : Alumni From The Writing Seminars at Bennington College : Welcome, Liam Rector ; Introductions, Jason Shinder the readers: Mark Conway, Any Holy City (poetry) Kris Ohlson, Stalking the Divine (Plume/non-fiction) John May, Poe & Fanny (Algonquin Books/novel)) Elaine McFerron, Double Solitude (Green River Press/poetry) 6:00PM Cover $6
Wed May 04 FLASH FICTION Short prose in an age of dementia 6:00PM Cover $6
Fri May 06 PINK PONY POETRY Jackie Sheeler's open mic poetry series. Arrive before 6 pm to sign up. featured reader Stephen Cramer. $6 admission includes a *free* drink. 6:00PM Hosted by Jackie Sheeler. Cover $6 www.poetz.com
Sat May 07 ZIRYAB: THE ARAB-AMERICAN WRITERS ASSOCIATION (Sanaa Mulji Dutt; Ruth Handel) 6:00PM Hosted by Nada Taib and Ramzi Moufarez. Cover $8
Sun May 08 POETRY (TBA) 6:00PM Cover $6
Mon May 09 BROOKLYN RAIL (Peter Altenberg; Robert Bonon) prose: Brooklyn Rail fiction writers Peter Altenberg & Robert Bononno 6:00PM Cover $6
Tue May 10 STORYTELLING Storytelling occurs the second Tuesday of every month. 6:00PM Hosted by Barbara Aliprantis. Cover $6
Wed May 11 INTERCULTURAL POETRY (Syd Lea; Baron Wormser; Dawn Potter) 6:00PM Cover $6
Thurs. May 12 6:00PM POETRY AND MUSIC Angelo Verga, host Barry Wallenstein; Serge Pesce; John Hicks, piano; Cecil McBee; Vince Chancey an evening of poetry and music: Barry Wallenstein (City College) & Serge Pesce (France), with (what an amazing lineup of sidemen!!!) John Hicks, Cecil McBee, Vince Chancey & maybe one or two other superstars. reservations strongly suggested. $10 includes a *free* drink. Cover $10 (includes one house drink)
Fri May 13 PINK PONY POETRY Jackie Sheeler's open mic poetry series. Arrive before 6 pm to sign up. featured reader Shappy. $6 admission includes a *free* drink. 6:00PM Hosted by Jackie Sheeler. Cover $6 www.poetz.com
Sat May 14 ITALIAN-AMERICAN WRITERS ASSOCIATION Italian American Writers Association, featured readers are: TBA, plus open mic, 5 minute limit. 6:00PM Cover $6
Sun May 15 POETRY Host Bill Zavatsky poets Geoffrey Cruickshank-Hagenbucl; Charles Borkhuis) 6:00PM Cover $6 (includes one free drink)
Mon May 16 NYQUARTERLY : THE READING SERIES (Tony Demarest; Sanford Fraser; Susan Thomas) NYQ poets presented by the editors of The New York Quarterly, one of the oldest & most trusted poetry forums in the country. readers: Tony Demarest, Sanford Fraser, Susan Thomas. host: Ted Jonathan 6:00PM Cover $6
POETRY FROM MOSCOW AND NEW YORK CITY: NEW YOUTH Literary Magazine (Moscow, Russia) Poetry Editor, poet Gleb Shulpyakov presents the magazine and his poetry translations by Chris Mattison. Shulpyakov is a poet, translator of W.H.Auden into Russian and a fiction writer. He also is the Curator of popular literary club at Bookberry in Moscow. Reading by the New York poets of NEW YOUTH: Vladimir Gandelsman, Andrey Gritsman, Irina Mashinskaya, Grigory Starikovsky, Alexander Stessin. Moscow poet Vera Pavlova (Reading by the translator Steven Seymour). Cornelia Street, off Bleecker in the Village Programs Curator: Angelo Verga www.corneliastreet.com 8:30PM Cover $6 http://ars-interpres.nm.ru/cont_G_S.html
Tue May 17 WRITERS ROOM HOST JILL DEARMAN TBA 6:00PM Cover $6 (includes one free drink)
Wed May 18 POETRY & PROSE Neil Intraub and Susan Hogan, host Angelo Verga 6:00PM Hosted by Valerie Ghent. Cover $6
Fri May 20 PINK PONY POETRY Jackie Sheeler's open mic poetry series. Arrive before 6 pm to sign up. featured reader Patricia Smith. $6 admission includes a *free* drink. 6:00PM Hosted by Jackie Sheeler. Cover $6 www.poetz.com
Sat May 21 GREEK-AMERICAN WRITERS ASSOCIATION Dean Kostos' book party, “Last Supper of the Senses", also Holly Scalera. 6:00PM Cover $6
Sun May 22 LESLIE SHARPE'S WRITING GROUP (Jan Barker; Kim C Flodin; Lauri Herman; Terry Iacuzzo; Marilyn Kochman; Megan Padilla; Daniela Petrova; Leslie T Sharpe) 6:00PM Cover $6
Mon May 23 BOOK LAUNCH (Kenneth Bernard; Lynda Schor) A celebration of Ken Bernard's new collection of short fiction, THE MAN IN THE STRETCHER, from Starcherone Books 6:00PM
Tue May 24 GRADUATE POETRY STUDENTS TBA 6:00PM Cover $6
Wed May 25 SOULFUL WORDS TBA our version of Upstairs/Downstairs wherein those who serve food also have myriad other talents. 6:00PM Cover $6
Thu May 26 PEN CENTRAL (Robin Lichtig) Robin Lichtig, etc 6:00PM Cover $6
Fri May 27 PINK PONY POETRY Jackie Sheeler's open mic poetry series. Arrive before 6 pm to sign up. featured reader Marj Hahne. $6 admission includes a *free* drink 6:00PM Hosted by Jackie Sheeler. Cover $6 www.poetz.com
Sat May 28 POETICALLY INCORRECT - THE AMERICAN-CARIBBEAN WRITERS Poetically Incorrect, spoken word from the Caribbean, Brooklyn, Fordham Road and other places with soul. 6:00PM Cover $8
Mon May 30 6:00PM & 8:30PM CARABBEAN CULTURE Caribbean Culture, music, poetry, a memorable literary event!
Tue May 31 6:00PM KNOWING WOMEN A new play based on conversations with five nonagenarian women by Suzanne Logan cover $6 one house drink)
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