RED WHEELBARROW 9 IS HERE!
The Red Wheelbarrow Poets will launch their ninth anthology at GainVille Café in Rutherford on Friday, Sept. 30. Copies of the book will be available for sale. Musical feature: The Electric Poets Gathering featuring George Pereny. Poetry feature: Poets will read from their work published in RWB9.
Gainville Cafe
17 Ames Ave., Rutherford. 7 PM
$8 donation at the door includes coffee/tea and dessert
(201) 507-1800
Wednesday, September 7, 2016, 7 p.m.
Williams Center for the Arts
Cinema 3
Plus the words of William Carlos Williams
and open readings from the floor
Free
Carmen-Francesca Banciu was born in Romania and studied religious painting and foreign trade in Bucharest. As a result of being awarded the International Short Story Award of the City of Arnsberg for the story “Das strahlende Ghetto” (“The Radiant Ghetto,” 1985), she was banned from publishing her work in Romania. In 1991, she accepted an invitation extended by the DAAD Berlin Artists-in-Residence program and came to Germany. She was a writer-in-Residence at Rutgers University (2004-2005) and at the University of Bath in 2009. Banciu currently lives in Berlin and works as a freelance author and co-editor of the multilingual e-magazine Levure Littéraire. She is the author of four novels and four collections of short stories. Her work draws from the experience of writing under Communist dictatorship and from geographic and linguistic migrations. Her new books, the poetry collection Leichter Wind im Paradies and Mother´s Day—Song of a Sad Mother, were both published in 2015 by PalmArtPress.
Homesick
Last night I forgot to close the lid of the rubbish bin.
The ants appeared in front of me.
They have built an ant road. They crawl up to
the rubbish in a thin line.
Still no road below.
I close the lid and break the road.
Some ants are locked inside. They
will be taken to the rubbish dump. On the other side
of the village. Where the rubbish containers sit.
Far away from here.
Will they find their way back to the house?
Will they create a new home?
Will other ants accept them?
Adopt them?
Or will they be lost in foreign lands?
I keep the lid closed.
Contact: John Barrale – john.barrale@gmail.com
EIGHTH POETRY/MUSIC YEAR AT GAINVILLE!
The Magic Circle returns to GainVille Café on Friday, July 29 at 7 PM as we continue our eighth year of great poetry and music. Exciting news: Rutherford’s own PETE McCULLOUGH will be bringing his standup bass to perform. Also exciting news: ANTON YAKOVLEV will be our featured poet and will debut his latest chapbook! Open mic follows.
Gainville Cafe
17 Ames Ave., Rutherford. 7 PM
$8 donation at the door includes coffee/tea and dessert
(201) 507-1800
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.
Wednesday, May 4, 2016, 7 p.m.
Williams Center for the Arts
Cinema 3
Plus the words of William Carlos Williams
and open readings from the floor
Free
Burt Kimmelman has published sixteen books of poetry and criticism as well as more than a hundred articles, most on literature, some on art, and some memoir. His poems are often anthologized and have been featured on National Public Radio; and he has been the subject of a number of interviews available in print or online. His eighth collection of poetry, Gradually the World: New and Selected Poems, 1983 – 2013 (BlazeVOX [books]), appeared in 2013; a new collection, Abandoned Angel (Marsh Hawk Press), will appear this fall. He teaches literary and cultural studies at NJIT. More about him and samples of his work can be found at BurtKimmelman.com.
Jane And Ryan at the Shore
Eight Years of Age
Legs curl under
in the darkened
sand. The waves run
easily up
the beach. Dolphin
fins pace the sea
beyond. Water
has found us all.
—Cape May Point, 1998
Contact: John Barrale – john.barrale@gmail.com
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.
Wednesday, April 6, 2016, 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
Free
Amy Barone’s new chapbook, Kamikaze Dance, is from Finishing Line Press, which recognized her as a finalist in the annual New Women’s Voices Chapbook Competition. Her poetry has appeared in Gradiva, Impolite Conversation (UK), Paterson Literary Review, and Philadelphia Poets. She spent five years as Italian correspondent for Women’s Wear Daily and Advertising Age. Foothills Publishing released her first chapbook, Views from the Driveway. A PEN America Center member, she also belongs to the Brevitas online poetry community.
Current Names
In Italy they name the wind,
the one force of nature people there fear the most.
Spiffero is the dreaded draft.
Venticello and brezza mean gentle breeze;
Scirocco, hot Southern winds that blow in from Africa.
The dry, frigid Bora hits the northeastern city of Trieste,
a seaside wonder where natives eat pasta and goulash.
When I lived in Milan,
I shunned the cultural aversion to the wind.
The land-locked city needed dusting,
something to carry away the gray,
a balm that only Mother Nature’s respiro—breath—can bring.
Contact: John Barrale – john.barrale@gmail.com
Wednesday, March 2, 2016, 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
Free
JOHN J. TRAUSE, the Director of Oradell Public Library, is the author of three books of poetry and one of parody, the latter staged Off-Off Broadway. His book of fictive translations, found poems, and manipulated texts, Exercises in High Treason, is forthcoming from Great Weather for Media. His translations, poetry, prose, and visual work appear internationally in many journals and anthologies, including the artists’ periodical Crossings, the Dada journal Maintenant, the journal Offerta Speciale, and The Rutherford Red Wheelbarrow. Marymark Press has published his visual poetry and art as broadsides and sheets. He has shared the stage with Steven Van Zandt, Anne Waldman, Karen Finley, and Jerome Rothenberg; the page with Lita Hornick, William Carlos Williams, Woody Allen, Ted Kooser, Victor Buono, and Pope John Paul II; and the cage with the Cumaean Sibyl, Ezra Pound, Hannibal Lector, Andrei Chikatilo, and George “The Animal” Steele. He is a founder of the William Carlos Williams Poetry Cooperative in Rutherford, N. J., and the former host and curator of its monthly reading series. He is fond of cunning acrostics and color-coded chiasmus.
Bubo
I am an Owl
Who
Do not Howl
I whisper
Contact: John Barrale – john.barrale@gmail.com
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.
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