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The Red Wheelbarrow #9 Launch at the Meadowlands Museum

Join us for the Red Wheelbarrow #9 launch at the Meadowlands Museum in Rutherford, NJ, on Saturday, October 22nd, at 1 p.m. Contributors will read their poems and celebrate the legacy of Dr. William Carlos Williams in the unique atmosphere of the permanent exhibit dedicated to the Pulitzer-winning poet and hometown physician.

The Red Wheelbarrow Poets will present the Meadowlands Museum with the complete collection of The Red Wheelbarrow journal.

Free admission and surprise musical guest! We hope to see you there.

When: Saturday, October 22nd, 1 p.m.
Where: The Meadowlands Museum
91 Crane Ave, Rutherford, NJ 07070
Tel: (201) 935-1175

Please Note: you can follow everything about the Red Wheelbarrow, its events and poets at the following sites:

Blog – https://redwheelbarrowpoets.wordpress.com
Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/RWBPoets
Twitter – https://twitter.com/rwbpoets

Launch reading at the Williams Center in Rutherford, Wednesday Oct. 5

Wednesday, October 5, 2016, 7 p.m.

Williams Center for the Arts
One Williams Plaza, Rutherford NJ

The Red Wheelbarrow Poets will launch the gorgeous 9th edition of their yearly publication, The Rutherford Red Wheelbarrow, at a reading at the Williams Center in Rutherford Wednesday, Oct. 5. The launch starts at 7 PM.

The book features a stunning cover illustration by editor Jim Klein (cover designed by Claudia Serea) and the poetry and prose of more than 40 area writers who have either participated in the RWP’s long-running weekly poetry workshop or who have read their work at the Williams Center or GainVille Café (also in Rutherford) in the past year.

Interior drawings have been supplied by Don Zirilli and Janet Kolstein (section cover pages). Mark Fogarty, John Barrale and Melanie Klein are managing editors of the book.

The overall theme of the book again is Dr. Williams’ observation that the epic is the local fully realized. Many of the writers in the volume adhere to Williams’ groundbreaking poetic philosophy of writing about the everyday in vibrant, “live” language.

This year’s featured poet is Anton Yakovlev. He is a Russian-born New Jersey poet and filmmaker who is the author of two books of poetry, Neptune Court and The Ghost of Grant Wood. Anton has also contributed two short essays on the work of Dr. Williams to the book and translations of two poems by Russian writer Sergei Esenin. The book features an interview with Anton by Loren Kleinman and a review of The Ghost of Grant Wood by Mark Fogarty.

The revival of poetry in Rutherford, Dr. Williams’ home town, began when poet John J. Trause, along with Jane Fisher, director of the Rutherford Public Library, founded the Williams Carlos Williams Poetry Cooperative of Southern Bergen County. From 2006 through 2012, Trause ran the monthly readings at the Williams Center, featuring poets from the tri-state area as well as from further afield. This First Wednesday series now is run by the “Gang of Five” (Claudia Serea, John Barrale, Don Zirilli, Anton Yakovlev and Arthur Russell). Mark Fogarty curates the monthly reading series at GainVille, which started in 2009.

The RWP weekly poetry workshop at the Williams Center, now in its tenth year, is run by Jim Klein, the leader of the Red Wheelbarrow Poets. It is free and open to all local poets every Tuesday at 7 PM.

Both the Williams Center and the GainVille offer an open mic to poets who are also invited to submit their work for next year’s publication. Copies of the book will be on sale at the Williams Center and are also available online at http://www.lulu.com/shop/red-wheelbarrow-poets/the-red-wheelbarrow-9/paperback/product-22857853.html. The book will be available on Amazon.com and other Internet retailers in about two months.

Launch of The Rutherford Red Wheelbarrow Number 9

Hello Poets, Poetry Lovers, Family and Friends,

Come experience the launch of The Rutherford Red Wheelbarrow Number 9! Contributors will be reading their poems and celebrating this local phenomenon slash collective.

Please join us on Wednesday October 5th, 2016, 7:00 PM at the William Carlos Williams Center, One Williams Plaza in Rutherford NJ. Admission is free and there is an open mic if time allows.

https://www.facebook.com/events/884601318291911/

Please Note: you can follow everything about the Red Wheelbarrow, its events and poets at the following sites:
Blog – https://redwheelbarrowpoets.wordpress.com
Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/RWBPoets
Twitter – @RWBPoets.

Best Regards,
John Barrale
Arthur Russell
Claudia Serea
Anton Yakovlev
Don Zirilli

Workshop – new day and new location

Workshops will now be conducted every Tuesday (including the first week of the month), and will now meet in the Kindergarten room, first floor of the Williams Center, Rutherford. Be there or be un-workshopped.

WCW—Cathy Cavallone

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Wednesday, July 6, 2016, 7 p.m.

Williams Center for the Arts
Cinema 3
One Williams Plaza, Rutherford NJ

Plus the words of William Carlos Williams & open readings from the floor

Cathy Cavallone has been a resident of Bergen County for much of her life and studied at Montclair State University. She has been writing for decades, but began pursuing it seriously in 2014. Her last feature was at the Classic Quiche in Teaneck, New Jersey. She has been published in The Rutherford Red Wheelbarrow, The New Verse News, Turk’s Head Review, Rose Red Review, Nerve Lantern, and elsewhere. She is a Pushcart Prize nominee and teaches English to middle school students.

Releasing the Burka

First, she will feel the caked earth
under mud huts seeping through
her blistered toes.
Then, the winds will wrap about her ankles
and coil up her splintered calves.
Next, her knees, like desert rocks,
will buckle and shake as she exposes
her heaving midriff to the flagrant sunlight.
Then, her breasts, like two ashen husks,
will quiver in the stagnant air. And finally, her eyes,
like landmines about to detonate onto the world,
will gaze upon the adumbration of where
a woman once stood.

GV—Loren Kleinman

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BOOK LAUNCH AT GAINVILLE!

The Magic Circle returns to GainVille Café on Friday, June 4 at 7 PM. LOREN KLEINMAN will be debuting her fourth collection of poetry, Stay with Me Awhile.  She also has a new poetic memoir coming out. JOHN BARRALE will be our guest host. The Red Wheelbarrow Poets’ Bring-Your-A-Game open mic will follow. $8 cover charge includes coffee/tea and dessert. 17 Ames Ave., Rutherford, NJ. 201-507-1800.

WCW—Rabbit Ears Anthology

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Wednesday, June 1, 2016, 7 p.m.
Williams Center for the Arts
Cinema 3
One Williams Plaza, Rutherford NJ

Plus the words of William Carlos Williams & open readings from the floor

FEATURED READERS:
Joel Allegretti
MaryLisa DeDomenicis
Rick Mullin
Susanna Rich
John J. Trause
David Vincenti
Michael T. Young

Mark Fogarty

Mark Fogarty is back in the hospital with a blood clot in his lungs. Our prayers and thoughts go out to Mark for a speedy recovery.

Please note: there will be no GainVille Cafe reading this evening.

Finishing Line Press announces the publication of She Called Me Girlee by Zorida Mohammed

Georgetown, Kentucky, December, 2013 – Finishing Line Press proudly announces the publication of She Called Me Girlee, a chapbook by Zorida Mohammed. The book is available through the publisher’s web site; please visit www.finishinglinepress.com for additional information and ordering.

What others are saying about She called Me Girlee:

“Mohammed describes a place that is both timeless and present, in a clear-eyed way. The specificity of these poems locates them solidly in a lush Trinidad while they simultaneously and lightly take wing with Childhood imagination’s indomitability. These are poems of memory but are generous poems too, and Mohammed’s gift to us is that she allows us to see for ourselves. These poems are full of love and hope, even for a time when ‘There are no boot straps to pull up. There is no boot.’”
—Matt Rohrer, Author of Destroyer and Preserver.

“Zorida Mohammed has the rare gift of privileged access to her own thoughts, combined with the equally refined talent for sharing this access. This accessibility is so inviting and engaging that we enter her world freely as well
as let it into ourselves. With this collection of poems on the desk, an exciting journey becomes possible every morning.”
—Philip Nikolayev, Co-Editor in Chief at Fulcrum

“Zorida is not an anecdotal poet. She is a storyteller with a rich life to pull from. Read these poems and the difference will be clear to you.”
—Don Zirilli, Editor at Now Culture.

About the author: Zorida Mohammed was born in Trinidad and immigrated to the US in 1968. Her poems have been published in Fulcrum #6 and # 7, Atlanta Review, Folio, The Dirty Goat, Apalachee Review, Compass Rose, Bayou, The Distillery, Quercus Review, The Caribbean Writer and many others. Zorida Mohammed won a NJ State of the Arts Grant for her manuscript Shanty Town.

WCW – Michael T. Young

The Williams Readings present
MICHAEL T. YOUNG

Wednesday, January 8, 2014, 7 p.m.

Williams Center for the Arts
One Williams Plaza, Rutherford NJ

Plus the words of William Carlos Williams
and open readings from the floor

Michael T. Young’s fourth collection, The Beautiful Moment of Being Lost, will be published in spring of 2014 by Poets Wear Prada Press. He received a fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. His work has appeared in numerous journals including The Adirondack Review, Fogged Clarity, The Louisville Review, Off the Coast, The Potomac Review, and The Raintown Review. His work is also in the anthologies Phoenix Rising, Chance of a Ghost, In the Black/In the Red and forthcoming in Rabbit Ears: TV Poems. He lives with his wife and children in Jersey City, New Jersey.

Sage

None of my dictionaries define it as a color
and yet my wife tells me it’s the color
of our wedding—her dress, my tie.
I take her word for it, but feel no wiser.
I sometimes find it in the tiles of some mosaic
or fired into a mug now on clearance at the store
and I’m suddenly connected, rooted,
though it depends on the light, as color always does,
changing with air densities and angles,
shifting with the hours, aging
like the plant that is this color’s namesake,
its leaves like fingers pointing in every direction,
as if it knew something.

(originally published in Tribeca Poetry Review)