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
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.
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
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.
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
Wednesday, February 3, 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
Born in Moscow, Russia, Anton Yakovlev has been a member of the Red Wheelbarrow Poets since early 2012. He is the author of chapbooks Neptune Court (The Operating System, 2015) and The Ghost of Grant Wood (Finishing Line Press, 2015). His work is published or forthcoming in The Rutherford Red Wheelbarrow, The New Yorker, Fulcrum, American Arts Quarterly, The Raintown Review, Blue Monday Review and elsewhere. He has also directed several short films.
The Samurai Season
Move along, nothing more to see here.
The beheadings have all been moved to museums.
We’re all here only by the grace of
shutting up—a miniature survival.
Reaching the lookout, you praise the epicurean landscape,
set aside the miserable sticks and stowaways of your child.
You keep readjusting your glow,
you underdog you. In the samurai season, religion
is a kind of ballad, sprinkled with fresh skeletons of birds.
Never mind the pervasive spectacular feathers.
Open your mouth, and the entire forest disappears
Contact: John Barrale – john.barrale@gmail.com
Wednesday, January 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
Contact: John Barrale – john.barrale@gmail.com
Bob Murken is 81 years old but started to write only 5 years ago. That’s strange because, for 35 years as an English teacher, he’d shared his love of literature with students of all ages and levels of ability, yet never really dabbled in creative writing himself until 2009. That was the year he got pancreatic cancer, a diagnosis that made him learn to treasure life and play it by ear. He began saluting it in simple rhythmic verse that tended to be concise, vivid, and generally good-humored. A heart attack two years ago complicated things even further, but he’s a lucky man, and the days have continued to accumulate for him. So, he hasn’t died yet and hopes he won’t any time soon. In the meantime, his modest publishing history includes appearances in Los Angeles’ City Works, The Red Wheelbarrow, The Cynic Online Magazine, and Oklahoma’s Art Affairs.
LEGOS AND SWISS ARMY KNIVES
What is it you want from me?
To be a simple Lego block
that fits so well and clicks in place
with dozens others of my kind?
Or maybe a Swiss Army knife
to do all those surprising things
like bore and screw and file and rasp
and cut you if you are not careful?
Wednesday, December 2, 2015, 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
Contact: John Barrale – john.barrale@gmail.com
Born in Zagreb, Croatia, Ana Božicevic emigrated to New York City in 1997 and studied at Hunter College. She is the author of several chapbooks, including Morning News (2006) and Document (2007). Her first book-length collection, Stars of the Night Commute (2009) was a Lambda Literary Award finalist, and her second book Rise in the Fall (2013) won the Lambda Literary Award. Božicevic has worked for the PEN American Center and the Center for the Humanities of the Graduate Center, CUNY.
From A Kind of Headless Guilt Emerges
And now it’s time. To use vague holy-man speech, like: I am
another face in your hand, the face of your eye — wing-surrogates, the word bones—
it’s time for afternoon, them white-blank architectures.
No, veil. Nothing’s glistening. Christmas, Christmas. It’s time
for you to forgive me: I was forced to eat valises
that wouldn’t close by themselves—
that was just a dream, good morning:
regurgitate the stars and the soot
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