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.
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.
Call for Submissions to Red Wheelbarrow # 9
Dear Poet:
Just to let you know – this year’s Red Wheel Barrow (Volume 9) is now open for submissions. We plan to publish and release Volume 9 on October 5, 2016. Our reading period ends July 31, 2015.
Our submission guidelines are simple: we’re looking for previously unpublished poems.
We also require that you’ve read poetry as a featured poet or at the open microphone at either of the following reading series venues: the William Carlos Williams Center in Rutherford NJ or at the Gainsville Cafe in Rutherford NJ at any time from November 1, 2016 through July 31, 2016.
Please note: reading at the RWB # 8 Launch in October 2015 or at the GainVille Café Red Wheelbarrow # 8 launch party does not make a poet or writer eligible to submit work to RWB # 9.
You can submit up to 5 poems. The poems that you submit do not have to have been read at either of the above venues. We only ask that you as a poet have read at either venue as a featured poet or open microphone participant at any time during the period November 1, 2016 through July 31, 2016.
How to submit: please send a e-mail with Red Wheel # 9 Submissions as its title to john.barrale@gmail.com and attach the poems that you are submitting for consideration to the e-mail as a separate Word document. The only acceptable file formats are Word 97-2004 (.doc) or Word Document (.doc.x)
Please do not paste your poems into the body of the e-mail. Please see “Format for Submission Document” below for how to present your work. We ask that you follow this format so that all work submitted will be viewed for consideration equally and promptly by our editorial staff without any delay necessitated by having to re-contact you.
Simultaneous submissions are OK. But, please notify us immediately if your work is accepted elsewhere
To keep it simple: Do not send a bio or other information at this time. Just send your poems. If your work is accepted for publication we’ll ask for that prior to publication.
Best Regards,
John Barrale
Managing Editor
Format for Submission Document
Your name should appear only once at the top of the document.
Submit each poem with a page break in-between poems , but in one Word document. Example: Percy B .Shelly
“Ode to a Moonbeam”
———————– (page break)
“Guys N’ Dollies”
———————– (page break)
and so forth…,
Use Times or Times New Roman as the font. Text size should be 12.
The only acceptable file formats are Word 97-2004 (.doc) or Word Document (.doc.x)
Attach your submission document as a file to an e-mail and send to john.barrale@gmail.com.

MUSIC AND POETRY AND POETRY AND MUSIC
The Magic Circle returns to GainVille Café on Friday, April 29 at 7 PM. THE ELECTRIC POETS GATHERING featuring GEORGE PERENY will be the musical feature. For the spoken word feature Mark Fogarty will read the poetry of MIGUEL WAMBLI, a 17-year-old Oglala Lakota poet from South Dakota. The Red Wheelbarrow Poets’ Bring-Your-A-Game open mic will follow
GAINVILLE CAFE
17 Ames Ave., Rutherford. 7 PM.
$7 donation at the door includes coffee/tea and dessert.
(201) 507-1800.
CLAUDIA SEREA’S NEW POETRY BOOK LAUNCH
The Magic Circle returns to GainVille Café on Friday, April 1 for a first look at Claudia Serea’s new book of poetry, Nothing Important Happened Today. Claudia will read and sign copies of her book. We will have JOE VERNAZZA and WALTER PICKWOAD as musical guests and there will be a Bring-Your-A-Game Open Mic for poets afterward.
GAINVILLE CAFE, 17 Ames Ave., Rutherford. 7 PM.
$7 donation includes coffee/tea and dessert.
(201) 507-1800.
More information here.
From the book:
The other woman
She blooms in his mind,
a poisonous rose.
She wants to carry his babies
and I can’t stop her,
my friend said.
For hours, we walked around Soho
talking about our men,
how not to lose them.
Desperate times call
for great lingerie.
We bought thongs,
black lace with velvet roses.
At home, I shaved my worries
and dimmed the lights,
pretending to be
the other woman.
GET A JUMP ON ST. PATRICK’S DAY WITH MUSIC AND POETRY
The Magic Circle returns to GainVille Café on Friday, Feb. 26 for a first look at St. Paddy’s Day. Irish piper BRENDAN FOGARTY will be joined by Irish vocalist FIONA CONWAY for a set of music from the Emerald Isle. Featured poet MARK FOGARTY will debut his new book of poetry, The Tall Women’s Dance: Poems on Women’s Basketball. There will be a Bring-Your-A-Game Open Mic for poets afterward.
GAINVILLE CAFE, 17 Ames Ave., Rutherford. 7 PM.
$7 donation includes coffee/tea and dessert.
(201) 507-1800.
The Magic Circle returns to GainVille Café on Friday, Jan. 29 for our first gathering of the year. JOEL ALLEGRETTI will be the featured poet. Joel has just edited a well-received book of poems on television called Rabbit Ears. Musical guest will be THE ELECTRIC POETS GATHERING featuring GEORGE PERENY. There will be an Open Mic for poets afterward.
GAINVILLE CAFE, 17 Ames Ave., Rutherford. 7 PM.
$7 donation includes coffee/tea and dessert.
(201) 507-1800
The Magic Circle returns to GainVille Café on Friday, Dec. 4 for our fifth annual salute to the great bassmeister Jaco Pastorius, featuring PETE McCULLOUGH, VICTORIA WARNE and the maestro himself (via YouTube). Featured poet will be KEN VENNETTE, whose work has appeared in The Rutherford Red Wheelbarrow. There will be an Open Mic for poets afterward.
GAINVILLE CAFE, 17 Ames Ave., Rutherford. 7 PM.
$7 donation includes coffee/tea and dessert.
(201) 507-1800
The Magic Circle returns to GainVille Café on Friday, October 30 to celebrate the publication of Claudia Serea’s fine new book of poetry To Part Is to Die a Little. There will be an Open Mic for musicians prior to the feature and an open mic for poets afterward.
GAINVILLE CAFE, 17 Ames Ave., Rutherford. 7 PM.
$7 donation includes coffee/tea and dessert.
(201) 507-1800.
Friday, September 25, 2015, 7 p.m.
With Musical Guest Corina Bartra
GainVille Cafe
Seventeen Ames Avenue, Rutherford NJ
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Wednesday, October 7, 2015, 7 p.m.
Williams Center for the Arts
One Williams Plaza, Rutherford NJ
The Red Wheelbarrow Poets will launch the gorgeous 8th edition of their yearly publication, The Rutherford Red Wheelbarrow, at readings at GainVille Café Friday, Sept. 25 (with musical guest Corina Bartra), and at the Williams Center Wednesday, Oct. 7. Both events are in Rutherford and start at 7 PM.
The book, pronounced the best of the eight in the series by editor Jim Klein, features a stunning cover by Don Zirilli and the poetry and prose of 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 in the past year.
Interior drawings have been supplied by poet and artist Melanie Klein. Claudia Serea provided the cover design. John Barrale and Mark Fogarty 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 also Don Zirilli. He is a New Jersey poet and publisher who is the owner of not one but two wheelbarrows. Don has also contributed four short essays on the work of Dr. Williams to the book.
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, Zorida Mohammed and Anton Yakovlev). Mark Fogarty curates the monthly reading series at GainVille, which started in 2009.
The RWP weekly poetry workshop at Rutherford Borough Hall, now in its ninth year, is run by Jim Klein, the leader of the Red Wheelbarrow Poets. It is free and open to all local poets.
Both the Williams Center and the GainVille readings 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 both events and are also available online at http://www.lulu.com/shop/red-wheelbarrow-poets/the-red-wheelbarrow-8/paperback/product-22346521.html.
THE BOOK IS HERE!
The Magic Circle returns to GainVille Café on Friday, September 25 to celebrate the publication of The Rutherford Red Wheelbarrow 8. Featured musician will be Afro-Peruvian jazz pioneer CORINA BARTRA, while the poetry feature will be poets who are in the anthology, reading from RRWB 8.
GAINVILLE CAFE, 17 Ames Ave., Rutherford.
7 PM. $7 donation includes coffee/tea and dessert.
(201) 507-1800.
MARK FOGARTY PO BOX 1691 RUTHERFORD, NJ 07070
markfogarty54@yahoo.com
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