Tag: Rutherford

WCW – Davidson Garrett

Wednesday, December 7, 2016, 7 p.m.

Williams Center for the Arts

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

Free

DAVIDSON GARRETT, a native of Shreveport, Louisiana, is an actor, a poet, a writer and a taxi driver. Poems from his book King Lear of the Taxi, published by Advent Purple Press in 2006, were used as text in the short film Taxi Driver – King Lear of the Taxi by Flashgun Films of Great Britain. In 2015, Advent Purple Press published a new chapbook by Garrett titled Southern Low Protestant Departure: A Funeral Poem. The poem is a long narrative work, written in the verse form of tercets, which depicts a Protestant funeral in a small Southern town. Also in 2015, Garrett had a spoken-word play published titled Conspiracy Theory: The Mysterious Death of Dorothy Kilgallen. This play was published in Issue 8 of the performance art journal Nerve Lantern.

From Southern Low Protestant Departure: A Funeral Poem

Southern folks
tend to die
during the zenith of
summer’s hellish heat
as death itself
drips beads of sweat.

Contact: John Barrale – john.barrale@gmail.com

GV – John J. Trause and Mark Fogarty

TREASON POETRY AT GAINVILLE CAFE!

JOHN J. TRAUSE will be the featured poet at the Red Wheelbarrow Poets’ monthly reading on Friday, Oct. 28 at 7pm. John will be launching his seriously seditious new book of poetry, Exercises in High Treason.

MARK FOGARTY will start us off with a salute to our Nobel laureate and a few songs and poems from his new chapbook, A Prayer for Jordan. The RWP Open Mic follows.

$8 cover includes coffee/tea, dessert

GainVille Café
17 Ames Avenue
Rutherford
201-507-1800

WCW – Emilia Phillips

Wednesday, November 2, 2016, 7 p.m.

Williams Center for the Arts

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

Free

Emilia Phillips is the author of two poetry collections from the University of Akron Press, Groundspeed (2016) and Signaletics (2013). Her poetry appears in Boston Review, New England Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of the 2015 Nonfiction Prize from StoryQuarterly, the 2012 Poetry Prize from The Journal, and fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, The Kenyon Review Writers’ Workshop, among other places. She’s the Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Centenary University.

Pastoral (Radio)

Out of range the stations’ signals confuse—
like grasses, crossing. Over the fields,
a field of waves. I have thrown my voice into
the future. I’ve called after
it to return. Like the radio,
I’m waiting for something to come, flickering
meanwhile with half-songs.

Contact: John Barrale – john.barrale@gmail.com

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

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RWB Workshop Poem of the Week – Oct 04

Red Wheelbarrow Poets
Poem of the Week 10/04/2016

Arthur Russell

Faces

He was the brother to whom it fell
to sell his parents’ house, travelling down
to Charlottesville all those years, to visit
both, then one of them, then just the house.
In the room where he’d read books as a child,
other than the oxygen tank beside the recliner
that replaced the wing chair he liked,
very little had changed.

The innocence and scent had long since drained
from the dried hydrangeas and lilacs
in Roycroft vases on the glass front bookcase.
Floor-length brocade drapes hung shut, as always.
Light from leaded glass sconces above the mantle,
the same lamps he’d read by, lit an oil painting
of a clipper ship, square rigged, lunging forward
under a white sky and a chopped, green sea.

There were secret faces in the abstract pattern
of the wallpaper. He saw the first one
when he was seven, partial as the moon
behind a scrim of trees. He froze,
pretended to ignore, then peeked again, and saw
a whole tribe of faces around the room,
with crayon jaws and heavy eyes,

most somewhat obscured by drapes or chairs;
but the first one, over the radiator,
like an Easter Island moai, was his man,
the one he stared down, the one he reckoned
and then parlayed with, his counterpart,
the general and chief of the faces,
and though they never spoke, they did confer,
with eyes, on the articles of his leaving.

When, married, divorced and married again,
with a stepson playing football for State,
he returned to empty and sell the house,
he made his phone calls from the chair
beside the oxygen tank across from the chief
of the faces, who had a scarred cheek
from a raised seam in the paper after
years of darkening heat from the radiator.

This is how life found him that November,
talking to his sister in New York, to a broker
from Weichert and to Goodwill for a pickup date,
and gazing at the moai on the walls,
a sort of a class photograph.

The books he’d read were safe within him,
although dispersed by time.

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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.

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

GV – Red Wheelbarrow #9 & The Electric Poets Gathering


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

WCW & National Translation Month – Carmen-Francesca Banciu

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