Red Wheelbarrow Poets 3 PM 7/21 Chumley’s Governors Island. Claudia Serea, Mark Fogarty, John Barrale. We mash up Romanian surrealism, rock and roll, and the imaginative infinite (we are in sight of the end of the Internet, like the Big Bang). Dangerous poets—listen to them but do not feed them!
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Red Wheel Barrow poets of Rutherford, NJ, home of Pulitzer-prize winning poet William Carlos Williams.
Gainsville Cafe’s Third Anniversary Poetry and Music!
British singer/songwriter JOY ASKEW will be the musical guest and New Jersey poet JOHN BARRALE will be the featured reader for the Red Wheelbarrow Poets’ monthly reading Friday, June 29.
It’s our third anniversary so come join the festivities! An open mike with generous reading times will follow at the event, which starts at 7 PM at GainVille Café, 17 Ames Ave., Rutherford NJ.
JOY ASKEW has a new CD she will be featuring called Drunk On You. She has played and toured with many of the greats of classic rock, including Peter Gabriel, Jack Bruce, Joe Jackson, and Laurie Anderson.
JOHN BARRALE will be debuting his new book of poetry, SHAKESPEARE’S MOTHS and has had poetry published in The Rutherford Red Wheelbarrow, Journal of New Jersey Poets and many other publications. He is a regular at Red Wheelbarrow Poets readings and workshops in Rutherford.
$6 cover includes coffee/tea and dessert.
ALL THAT JAZZ (AND POETRY TOO)
New York jazz singer CORINA BARTRA will be the musical guest and New Jersey poet JANET KOLSTEIN will be the featured reader for the Red Wheelbarrow Poets’ monthly reading Friday, June 1. An open mike with generous reading times will follow at the event, which starts at 7 PM at GainVille Café, 17 Ames Ave., Rutherford NJ. CORINA BARTRA has been a pioneering artist in the field of Afro-Peruvian jazz and has recorded six jazz albums for BLUE SPIRAL Records. JANET KOLSTEIN has had poetry published in The Rutherford Red Wheelbarrow, Lips, and other publications, and is a regular at Red Wheelbarrow Poets readings and workshops in Rutherford. $6 cover includes coffee/tea and dessert.
POETRY NIGHT
Terrific New York singer-songwriter SHERI MILLER will be the musical guest and New Jersey poet TONY PUMA will be the featured reader for the Red Wheelbarrow Poets’ monthly reading. An open mike with generous reading times will follow at the event, which starts at 7 PM at GainVille Café, 17 Ames Ave., Rutherford NJ. Since her last visit to GainVille, SHERI MILLER has worked with a stellar array of nationally and internationally known producers and musicians to release her latest CD, the winning WINNING HAND.
TONY PUMA has had poetry published in The Rutherford Red Wheelbarrow and is a member of the Italian-American Writers Association, Paulinskill Poetry Project, Poets House, South Mountain Poets and Hudson Valley Poets on the Loose. He has attended the Red Wheelbarrow Poets’ writing workshop and read at many of our events.
$6 cover includes coffee/tea and dessert. www.facebook.com/gainvillecafe
MUSIC & POETRY at GAINVILLE CAFE!
The Red Wheelbarrow Poets and GainVille Cafe present an exciting evening of music and poetry as part of the LAST FRIDAY series on March 30 at 7 PM – LATE. The terrific jazz duo of German Gonzalez on guitar and Pete McCullough on bass will present a set of improvs and standards. German played at GainVille in December for our Jaco Pastorius tribute and Pete is the bass player for Streetlight Manifesto. Brant Lyon will be the featured reader. Brant has been published several times in the Rutherford Red Wheelbarrow and is one of the founders of the publisher Great Weather for Media. An open reading with generous reading times will follow. $6 cover includes coffee/tea and dessert. The cafe is at 17 Ames Avenue in downtown Rutherford. Tel | 201.507.1800 | http://www.facebook/gainvillecafe
NEW BOOK BY MARK FOGARTY: PENINSULA
Join us this Friday to celebrate poetry in Rutherford! New York singer-songwriter LISA BIANCO will play and MARK FOGARTY will be the featured poet at the Red Wheelbarrow Poets’ LAST FRIDAYS reading Friday, Jan. 27 at 7 PM at GainVille Cafe, 17 Ames Ave., Rutherford. Bianco will be featuring her new CD, Momentum, while Fogarty will debut his new book of poems, Peninsula. An open reading with generous reading times will follow. A $6 cover includes coffee/tea and dessert.
SAVING THE BEST FOR LAST
The last Fridays of both November and December fall into the holiday season, so the Red Wheelbarrow Poets will hold only one reading in these two months. But it should be a memorable one! On Friday, Dec. 16, JIM KLEIN will read his new chapbook of poetry, Trinis Talk Like the Birds. Jim is the author of the classic Blue Chevies and a previous chapbook on his experiences in Trinidad. He leads our weekly workshop. Our musical guest will be the fine jazz guitarist GERMAN GONZALEZ, who will help me present a 60th birthday tribute to the maestro of the bass guitar, Jaco Pastorius. Some amazing music and an extraordinary and tragic life story. An open mic will follow and close the event, to be held 7 PM at GainVille Café, 17 Ames Avenue, Rutherford. A $6 cover includes coffee/tea and dessert.
Autumn in New Jersey? Let us tell you all about it in music and poetry
Music and poetry will celebrate the season on Friday, Oct. 21 as MARIAN CALABRO features along with musical guest Afro-Peruvian jazz pioneer CORINA BARTRA at 7 PM in GainVille Café, 17 Ames Ave., Rutherford NJ. Marian’s poetry has been featured in all four of the anthologies of the Red Wheelbarrow Poets, who are hosting the show. An accomplished musician, Corina Bartra has released eight CDs of jazz and meditation music on Blue Spiral Records. Her music traces the roots of both American and Peruvian music back to their roots in Africa. A native of Peru, she now lives in New York City. There will be an open mike with generous reading times after the featured reader. $6 cover includes coffee/tea and dessert.
PASSIONATE POETS APPEARING
DON ZIRILLI will be the featured poet and New York City songstress MARION LOGUIDICE will be the musical guest as the Red Wheelbarrow Poets present their monthly poetry reading Friday, Sept. 30, 7 PM at GainVille Café, 17 Ames Avenue, Rutherford. Don Zirilli is editor of Now Culture, an online literary magazine, and has been a frequent contributor to the Rutherford Red Wheelbarrow and a reader at many local poetry readings. Marion Loguidice is a singer-songwriter of tremendous passion whose songs manage to be mainstream and highly original at the same time. She has just appeared with Pete Seeger at a Sept. 11 memorial and has dueted with Cyndi Lauper. An open mike with generous reading times follows. $5 cover includes coffee/tea and dessert.
THE RUTHERFORD RED WHEELBARROW 4TH COLLECTION CONTINUES TO CELEBRATE THE AMERICAN POETIC VOICE
RUTHERFORD, August 4, 2011—The Rutherford Red Wheelbarrow 4 reflects a diversity of voices and styles rarely combined in one book.
Published by the Red Wheelbarrow Poets, this fourth annual edition of the literary journal continues to celebrate the epic in the local and poetic voices in the American grain that so inspired William Carlos Williams, Rutherford’s hometown doctor and poet, whose liberation of the voice of the common man (and woman) in poetry was a true revolution in words during the last century. Thirty poets connected with the ongoing Rutherford, NJ poetry revival carry on that tradition in this year’s publication. They include: John Barrale, Céline Beaulieu, Sondra Singer Beaulieu, Marian Calabro, the late George de Gregorio, Milton P. Ehrlich, Mark Fogarty, Thomas Fucaloro, Davidson Garrett, Elissa Gordon, Roxanne Hoffman, Jim Klein, Melanie Klein, Janet Kolstein, Kathy Kuenzle, Brant Lyon, Zorida Mohammed, Rick Mullin, Mike O’Brien, Jane Ormerod, George Pereny, S. Gili Post, Tony Puma, Dan Saxon, Claudia Serea, Francesca Sphynx, Madeline Tiger, John J. Trause, Dorinda Wegener, and Don Zirilli.
“All of the poets in The Rutherford Red Wheelbarrow have a deep connection with the town,” said Jim Klein, leader of the Red Wheelbarrow Poets. “Either they have participated in the Red Wheelbarrow Poets’ weekly poetry workshop, now in its fifth year, or the monthly readings at the Williams Center, sponsored by the William Carlos Williams Poetry Cooperative, or the monthly readings at GainVille Café, hosted by the Red Wheelbarrow Poets.”
In addition to the poetry, four essays give insight into the life and work of the Rutherford doctor/poet: William Carlos Williams and the Baroness by John J. Trause; The Poetry Reading by Madeline Tiger; Friendship and “The Figure 5” by Marian Calabro; and Medicine, Languages, a River and the American Muses in the Work of William Carlos Williams by Céline Beaulieu. Jim Klein shares his thoughts on creating a painting in “Don’t Talk Unless You Can Improve the Silence,” and Mark Fogarty gives a preview of his novel in excerpts from It’s So Easy to Fall in Love.
“Featured this year is John Barrale, a gifted poet with a wide poetic imagination and a protean talent for turning observations and memories into cogent poetry,” said managing editor Mark Fogarty.
The journal will be launched on Wednesday, Sept. 7 at 700 P.M. in the Williams Center in Rutherford, NJ. Copies will be available for sale that night, and many of the poets will read from it during the evening. The Rutherford Red Wheelbarrow is also available online at Lulu.com (www.lulu.com/content/10922431) and will be available through Amazon.com before the end of the year.
Contact: redwheelbarrowpoets@yahoo.com
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