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Cornelia Street Cafe February Schedule Update Spoken Word
February 11, 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
“a culinary as well as a cultural landmark" Mayoral Proclamation, City of New York 1987
SPOKEN WORD
Fri Feb 11 PINK PONY Open mike with featured reader, Les Lopes. Arrive before 6pm to sign up 6:00PM Hosted by Jackie Sheeler. Cover $6 www.poetz.com
Sat Feb 12 IAWA Italian American Writers Association, featured readers are: Maria Terrone and Gerry La Femina, plus open mic, 5 minute limit. 6:00PM Cover $6
Mon Feb 14 POETRY & PROSE (Pat Kaufman; Martin Tucker) 6:00PM Cover $6
Tue Feb 15 THE WRITERS ROOM (Marlene Nichols; Joe Kolman; Francis Levy) The Writers Room presents: “Love"
“Naked Option" Novel excerpt by Joe Kolman “Meson Delta#2" Novella excerpt by Francis Levy “Mona's Ironing Again" A Dramatic Monologue by Marlene Nichols.
JOE KOLMAN has worked as a financial journalist for more than two decades, serving as writer and editor at a number of financial magazines, and as editor and publisher of Derivatives Strategy, a magazine he started in 1992.He has a BA from Reed College, an MFA from Cornell University and has been a fellow at the MacDowell Colony and the Ragdale Foundation. He has also worked for an industrial espionage firm.He will be reading an excerpt from a recently completed novel, which he describes as an erotic financial mystery.
FRANCIS LEVY is a short story writer, humorist, critic and poet. His work has appeared in a wide variety of publications including The New York Times Book Review, Washington Post Book World, The Village Voice, The New Republic, The Quarterly and The East Hampton Star. He was one of the team of writers who collaborated on the satiric radio sketch The President's Big Day conceived by fellow Writer's Room member Maggie Paley.
MARLENE NICHOLS. Inspired by Tennessee Williams, Marlene has been a passionate letter writer all her life and is perhaps one of the few people who still buys stamps. During her ex-pat days in Paris she was a member of New Mood Productions, bringing English speaking theatre to the Parisian masses. Here in New York she has read and performed her work at the Moth Story Slam, Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Little Loft Theatre in Brooklyn (aka, her living room) and the Bowery Poetry club. This is her second appearance at Cornelia Street. 6:00PM Cover $6
Wed Feb 16 RENEGADE WRITERS Renegade Writers features Stephanie Dickinson, Gil Fagiani, Andrew Kaufman, and Russell Siller. 6:00PM Cover $6
Thu Feb 17 PO'JAZZ Po'Jazz (Poetry in partnership with Jazz) kicks off its 2005 Third Thursdays Series with “Words and Urban Jazz". The musicians are the Po'Jazz House Quartet: Eliot Cardinaux on piano, Adam Chilenski on bass, Bram Kincheloe on drums, and Daniel Levine on trumpet. Poets are: FISH Vargas, Tamara Magnitsky, Monique Avakian, Jason Butler, Jamal, and Golda Solomon (host). 6:00PM Cover $13
Fri Feb 18 PINK PONY WEST open mic series with featured reader Gil Fagiani. please arrive before 6 pm to sign up. 6:00PM Hosted by Jackie Sheeler. Cover $6
Sat Feb 19 POETRY (Daniel Christophe; Andrea Landros; Andriana Rizos) One of our longest running series, readers include those of us who bear gifts but are not of Greek heritage. 6:00PM Cover $6
Sun Feb 20 POETRY & TRANSLATIONS (Doug Tobin, poet/translator; Bill Pagonis, poet/translator) Classics Revisited: Sappho & Catullus, Greek & Latin followed by English. Translations by Doug Tobin, original languages rendered by Bill Pagonis. Stay tuned: Homer & Virgil may be coming in the fall. Many thanks to Bill Zavatsky for suggesting this program. 6:00PM Cover $6
Mon Feb 21 NY QUARTERLY (Sommer Browning; Tim Monaghan; Matthew Yeager) recent contributors to the venerable journal 6:00PM Cover $6
Tue Feb 22 GRAD SCHOOL POETS Grad School Poets, host Gina Myers features Adam Davis - Columbia University, April Reitano - Sarah Lawrence College, Michael Montlack - The New School, Alyssa Yankwitt - City College. 6:00PM Cover $6
Fri Feb 25 PINK PONY WEST open mic series with featured reader Brian Boyles. Arrive before 6 pm to sign up. 6:00PM Hosted by Jackie Sheeler. Cover $6 www.poetz.com
Sat Feb 26 SPOKEN WORD WITH A CARIBBEAN BEAT 6:00PM Cover $8
Sun Feb 27 3 POETS READ RECENT WORK (Anne Marie Macari; Lynn Emanuel; Martha Rhodes) 6:00PM Cover $6
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
“a culinary as well as a cultural landmark" Mayoral Proclamation, City of New York 1987
SPOKEN WORD
Fri Feb 11 PINK PONY Open mike with featured reader, Les Lopes. Arrive before 6pm to sign up 6:00PM Hosted by Jackie Sheeler. Cover $6 www.poetz.com
Sat Feb 12 IAWA Italian American Writers Association, featured readers are: Maria Terrone and Gerry La Femina, plus open mic, 5 minute limit. 6:00PM Cover $6
Mon Feb 14 POETRY & PROSE (Pat Kaufman; Martin Tucker) 6:00PM Cover $6
Tue Feb 15 THE WRITERS ROOM (Marlene Nichols; Joe Kolman; Francis Levy) The Writers Room presents: “Love"
“Naked Option" Novel excerpt by Joe Kolman “Meson Delta#2" Novella excerpt by Francis Levy “Mona's Ironing Again" A Dramatic Monologue by Marlene Nichols.
JOE KOLMAN has worked as a financial journalist for more than two decades, serving as writer and editor at a number of financial magazines, and as editor and publisher of Derivatives Strategy, a magazine he started in 1992.He has a BA from Reed College, an MFA from Cornell University and has been a fellow at the MacDowell Colony and the Ragdale Foundation. He has also worked for an industrial espionage firm.He will be reading an excerpt from a recently completed novel, which he describes as an erotic financial mystery.
FRANCIS LEVY is a short story writer, humorist, critic and poet. His work has appeared in a wide variety of publications including The New York Times Book Review, Washington Post Book World, The Village Voice, The New Republic, The Quarterly and The East Hampton Star. He was one of the team of writers who collaborated on the satiric radio sketch The President's Big Day conceived by fellow Writer's Room member Maggie Paley.
MARLENE NICHOLS. Inspired by Tennessee Williams, Marlene has been a passionate letter writer all her life and is perhaps one of the few people who still buys stamps. During her ex-pat days in Paris she was a member of New Mood Productions, bringing English speaking theatre to the Parisian masses. Here in New York she has read and performed her work at the Moth Story Slam, Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Little Loft Theatre in Brooklyn (aka, her living room) and the Bowery Poetry club. This is her second appearance at Cornelia Street. 6:00PM Cover $6
Wed Feb 16 RENEGADE WRITERS Renegade Writers features Stephanie Dickinson, Gil Fagiani, Andrew Kaufman, and Russell Siller. 6:00PM Cover $6
Thu Feb 17 PO'JAZZ Po'Jazz (Poetry in partnership with Jazz) kicks off its 2005 Third Thursdays Series with “Words and Urban Jazz". The musicians are the Po'Jazz House Quartet: Eliot Cardinaux on piano, Adam Chilenski on bass, Bram Kincheloe on drums, and Daniel Levine on trumpet. Poets are: FISH Vargas, Tamara Magnitsky, Monique Avakian, Jason Butler, Jamal, and Golda Solomon (host). 6:00PM Cover $13
Fri Feb 18 PINK PONY WEST open mic series with featured reader Gil Fagiani. please arrive before 6 pm to sign up. 6:00PM Hosted by Jackie Sheeler. Cover $6
Sat Feb 19 POETRY (Daniel Christophe; Andrea Landros; Andriana Rizos) One of our longest running series, readers include those of us who bear gifts but are not of Greek heritage. 6:00PM Cover $6
Sun Feb 20 POETRY & TRANSLATIONS (Doug Tobin, poet/translator; Bill Pagonis, poet/translator) Classics Revisited: Sappho & Catullus, Greek & Latin followed by English. Translations by Doug Tobin, original languages rendered by Bill Pagonis. Stay tuned: Homer & Virgil may be coming in the fall. Many thanks to Bill Zavatsky for suggesting this program. 6:00PM Cover $6
Mon Feb 21 NY QUARTERLY (Sommer Browning; Tim Monaghan; Matthew Yeager) recent contributors to the venerable journal 6:00PM Cover $6
Tue Feb 22 GRAD SCHOOL POETS Grad School Poets, host Gina Myers features Adam Davis - Columbia University, April Reitano - Sarah Lawrence College, Michael Montlack - The New School, Alyssa Yankwitt - City College. 6:00PM Cover $6
Fri Feb 25 PINK PONY WEST open mic series with featured reader Brian Boyles. Arrive before 6 pm to sign up. 6:00PM Hosted by Jackie Sheeler. Cover $6 www.poetz.com
Sat Feb 26 SPOKEN WORD WITH A CARIBBEAN BEAT 6:00PM Cover $8
Sun Feb 27 3 POETS READ RECENT WORK (Anne Marie Macari; Lynn Emanuel; Martha Rhodes) 6:00PM Cover $6
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