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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

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.

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.

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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On Sunday, April 3, 2011, the Red Wheelbarrow poets performed again for the Red Harlem Readers’ Series at the Indian Cafe in Manhattan. We thank our gracious hosts for a great night of poetry. Here are some pictures from this event, courtesy of Janet Kolstein and Richard Gaffield.

The Red Wheelbarrow poets are performing again this year for the Red Harlem Readers’ Series at the Indian Cafe in Manhattan (Broadway, between 107/108th Streets) on SUNDAY, APRIL 3, 2011 from 4:00 to 6:00 P.M. Come have tea with us and hear new poems from this amazing group!

RUTHERFORD, August 20, 2010 — A remarkable collection of 42 poets connected with the Rutherford, NJ poetry revival gives voice to memorable poetry and essays in the third edition of The Rutherford Red Wheelbarrow.

Published by the Red Wheelbarrow Poets, this third annual edition of the literary journal celebrates 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.

“Dr. Williams was a one-man vortex who continues to inspire the many fine poets who live in Rutherford or come here to take part in its many poetry readings, workshops, symposia, and literary journal,” said Jim Klein, editor of the book and leader of the Red Wheelbarrow Poets.

“All of the poets in The Rutherford Red Wheelbarrow have a deep connection with the town,” said Klein. “Either they have participated in the Red Wheelbarrow Poets’ weekly poetry workshop, now in its fourth 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.”

“We have scored another coup by publishing two rare and perhaps previously unpublished works by Williams,” said managing editor Mark Fogarty. “Jane Fisher, director of the Rutherford Public Library, graciously allowed me to look through the library’s Williams Collection, and we came up with a short typed memoir of Paris by the doctor and a handwritten letter and introductory fragment of a poem Williams worked on in the first decade of the 1900s.”

“Our featured poet this year, Kathy Kuenzle, is a Rutherford native now living in Providence, RI who has made a “return of the native” to Rutherford in the past couple of years,” said managing editor Sondra Singer Beaulieu. “Her exciting work comes both from her Rutherford period and her later years in Providence.” Kuenzle’s poetry has just been issued by the Rutherford-based White Chickens Press in the volume A Dress Full of Holes.

Keeping up the Williams theme, the book also features four essays on the poet, adapted from presentations made at the monthly Williams Center readings, as well as a review of a new book of Williams’ correspondence with his brother. There is also a memoir of the North Jersey poetry scene by Hoboken poet and critic Joel Lewis.

The journal will be launched on Sept. 1 at 7 PM at the Williams Center, at the Williams Poetry Cooperative reading run by poet John J. Trause and Fisher. Copies of it will be available for sale that night, and many of the poets in the journal will read from it during the evening. The Rutherford Red Wheelbarrow is also available online at Lulu.com and will be available through Amazon.com before the end of the year.

Rice and chicken breasts,
heedless if anything flat might intrude.
No one had the right
to obsolete him in such a manner.
Lacking a building supply,
the mind contrives itself of dialogue.
The city of wampum never lies
so many seashells at rest.
Fleas trade dogs.
The shore with one fisherman
needs the lone swimmer.

Jim Klein

The Red Wheelbarrow Poets is a group of poets that gather for readings and writing in Rutherford, NJ, lifelong home of Pulitzer Prize winning poet William Carlos Williams. All are welcome to attend our special events, monthly readings, and peer-to-peer writing workshops.