Tag: Williams Center for the Arts

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

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

Workshop – new day and new location

Workshops will now be conducted every Tuesday (including the first week of the month), and will now meet in the Kindergarten room, first floor of the Williams Center, Rutherford. Be there or be un-workshopped.

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

Submissions for RWB #9 open until July 31st

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.

WCW – Burt Kimmelman

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

WCW – Amy Barone

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

WCW – John J. Trause

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

WCW – Anton Yakovlev

Anton Yakovlev

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