November PAD Challenge: Day one prompt: A "matches" poem.
striking the box, the flame
leaps out to color the
darkness, blue, yellow, sulfur
sputtering to fire, sheltered
by one hand, coaxing the
kindling to spark into fire
that will warm us, warm
the animals off, cook
our food, this essential
element, flaring up, casting
shadows, the embers banked
rubybright
08 November 2012
23 October 2012
Poetry Workshop & Open Mic, Bean Runner Cafe, 1st November 2012, Peekskill, NY
The Bean Runner Cafe
BEAN RUNNER POETRY PROJECT
Thursday 1st November
Doors open at 5:45 p.m.
Workshop and Open Mic sign-up 6:45 p.m.
Open Mic 7:00 p.m.
FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!
(Donations accepted and appreciated.)
BEAN RUNNER POETRY PROJECT
Thursday 1st November
Doors open at 5:45 p.m.
Workshop and Open Mic sign-up 6:45 p.m.
Open Mic 7:00 p.m.
FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!
(Donations accepted and appreciated.)
http://www.beanrunnercafe.com
The Bean Runner Cafe
201 S. Division Street
Peekskill, NY 10566
914.737.1701
13 October 2012
Poetry Reading, via SNACKTOOLS, 13th October 2012
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Audio reading.....13th October 2012
Night Time--Blue Shirts, Scorched--Continental Drift--Thick With Superstition--Land of the Badger Warren--Spring-Operated Woman.
Audio reading.....13th October 2012
Night Time--Blue Shirts, Scorched--Continental Drift--Thick With Superstition--Land of the Badger Warren--Spring-Operated Woman.
12 October 2012
04 October 2012
Read these, tonight, at the BEAN RUNNER CAFE in PEEKSKILL, NY.....
The next open mic will be Thursday the 1st of November.......
201 S. Division Street, Peekskill, NY 10566
Bean Runner Cafe
Self-Made Man
be still and know that you are loved
unlike any other
the trees, joining branches over the
road, make a canopy of green leaves
for her to walk beneath
detritus placed out on the curb
The next open mic will be Thursday the 1st of November.......
201 S. Division Street, Peekskill, NY 10566
Bean Runner Cafe
Self-Made Man
be still and know that you are loved
unlike any other
the trees, joining branches over the
road, make a canopy of green leaves
for her to walk beneath
detritus placed out on the curb
for the trashman--Wednesday is
collection day, black bags bulging, larval
in them,
oddments--an alphabet soup of letters, some
errant organs still wrapped in sterile plastic, a
kidney here, a heart there, two eyes (the better
to see you with, my dear, as the old wolf said)
she assembles a whole in half the
time it takes her to walk to Bronxville, the
original reconstituted man, add water and
stir briskly, with your smile lipsticked on
expert, so, at making something from
nothing
looping great strands of DNA around
her fingers, fashioning this self-made
man, the codes catching in her
nails
she'll teach him to talk, too,
a word at a time, til they
totter in a tower of Babel, together,
embracing his newness in her
arms, him, slick against her in
an August thunderstorm,
fleshy, this man of remnants, who,
new-born, looks upon her, pale-eyed,
learns love like an old repetition
of sums sung out from a window
collection day, black bags bulging, larval
in them,
oddments--an alphabet soup of letters, some
errant organs still wrapped in sterile plastic, a
kidney here, a heart there, two eyes (the better
to see you with, my dear, as the old wolf said)
she assembles a whole in half the
time it takes her to walk to Bronxville, the
original reconstituted man, add water and
stir briskly, with your smile lipsticked on
expert, so, at making something from
nothing
looping great strands of DNA around
her fingers, fashioning this self-made
man, the codes catching in her
nails
she'll teach him to talk, too,
a word at a time, til they
totter in a tower of Babel, together,
embracing his newness in her
arms, him, slick against her in
an August thunderstorm,
fleshy, this man of remnants, who,
new-born, looks upon her, pale-eyed,
learns love like an old repetition
of sums sung out from a window
Scarecrows
they crop up, this time of year, on
lawns untroubled by tubers or the
like, pale vestiges of their former,
workaday selves, clad in old clothes
and caps, to scare off the crows....
now, the mass-produced grins mirror
each other, staked in similar clipped
they crop up, this time of year, on
lawns untroubled by tubers or the
like, pale vestiges of their former,
workaday selves, clad in old clothes
and caps, to scare off the crows....
now, the mass-produced grins mirror
each other, staked in similar clipped
suburban lawns, reduced to the
decorative, the false pleat, the
row of buttons designed to catch the eye
crows are nonplussed by such fellows,
storebought, their tags still attached
as they are staked into the ground, a
xerographic, sixth-generation copy of their
sterner cousins, trousers cut to
ribbons in the wind, their aspect
fearsome, clad, as they were, in
the clothes of the dead, the tattered
remnants of a Sunday suit, worn
shiny, cuffs and collar frayed
and crows and candy-gorging goblins alike,
pass them by, unseeing, unafraid
decorative, the false pleat, the
row of buttons designed to catch the eye
crows are nonplussed by such fellows,
storebought, their tags still attached
as they are staked into the ground, a
xerographic, sixth-generation copy of their
sterner cousins, trousers cut to
ribbons in the wind, their aspect
fearsome, clad, as they were, in
the clothes of the dead, the tattered
remnants of a Sunday suit, worn
shiny, cuffs and collar frayed
and crows and candy-gorging goblins alike,
pass them by, unseeing, unafraid
02 October 2012
SECOND CHANCE: A LITERARY EVENT
SECOND CHANCE: A LITERARY EVENT
Saturday, 6th October 2012
3:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Part of the EMBARK/Peekskill Performing & Literary Arts Festival
Hosted by Ian Berger
Energy Movement Center
925 South Street
Peekskill, NY
Poetry and Prose by local writers!!
A FREE event (donations gratefully accepted)
"WINE & JAM" to follow at the BEALE STREET BARBER SHOP (907 South Street)
5:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Saturday, 6th October 2012
3:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Part of the EMBARK/Peekskill Performing & Literary Arts Festival
Hosted by Ian Berger
Energy Movement Center
925 South Street
Peekskill, NY
Poetry and Prose by local writers!!
A FREE event (donations gratefully accepted)
"WINE & JAM" to follow at the BEALE STREET BARBER SHOP (907 South Street)
5:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
01 October 2012
EMBARK/PEEKSKILL Performing & Literary Arts Festival, 5th, 6th, and 7th October, Peekskill, NY
EMBARK | PEEKSKILL, Performing & Literary Arts PRESENTS 3 DAYS OF PERFORMANCES - Oct. 5, 6 & 7 in Downtown Peekskill
Embark|Peekskill, Performing & Literary Arts, a not-for-profit coalition of performing and literary artists and companies from Peekskill and surrounding communities will host its second Performing & Literary Arts Festival over the weekend of October 5, 6 & 7. Performances will occur at multiple locations in downtown Peekskill and at Peekskill’s state of the art Middle School Theater. Local presenters include: YCP TheaterWorks, Hand to Mouth Players,Andrea Elam’s Synapse Dance Company,Antonia Arts’ The Wiz Kidz, Mark Sinnis,Raygull, and Matt Norris. Literary offerings will feature Antonia’s South Street Poets and local writers Andrew Acciaro, Cindy Beer-Fouhy,Ian Berger, Patrice Klubnik, MaryAnn McCarra-Fitzpatrick, Natalia Ortega-Brown,Dan Shapiro, Maureen Winzig and Elocin Yrneh.
On Friday, Oct. 5, Teatro SEA, a returning guest company from NYC, will present their award winningbilingual musical, VIVA PINOCHO! A Mexican Pinocchio with Peekskill’s own and returning guest artist Magician Margaret Steele as the opening act on Friday, Oct. 5 at 6:30 pm at Peekskill’s Middle School Theater. Tickets at the door $20 Adults, $10 Kids under 12 or for $12 & $8 when purchased in advance through the Dual Language Program or the Oakside School-PTO (contact: 917-692-2372). Join us at our Festival Opening Night Party featuring Antonia’s South Street Poets and Mary Crescenzo and Friends, featuring David August, Paul Mesches and Brian Delma Taylor.
On Saturday, Oct. 6, Alyssa & Peter Reit of Singing Harp will entertain families with their rendition ofThe Ugly Ducking. Fusion-belly dancer, Chantal Mariani and local dancer/choreographer, Andrea Elam will capture us with their dances followed by our Literary Director Ian Berger’s SECOND CHANCE, an interactive event featuring local writers while local actress/director, Marilyn Heberling,is performing the one woman comedy Miss Fozzard Finds Her Feet at Kathleen’s Tea Room. Beale Street Barber Shop will host WINE & JAM with a cool line up of musicians including his owner, singer/songwriter, Mark Sinnis while Dylan’s Cellar and Gleason’s provide wine tasting and pizza sampling. Hand to Mouth Players and YCP TheaterWorks will perform an evening of one acts. The Bitchy Waiter, a returning guest artist, whose hilariously biting blog has landed him a large internet following and a recent spot on the Dr. Phil show, will share his musings with the post-theatre cocktail crowd during Night Cap Variety at the Division Street Grill at 9:00 pm, also featuring, R&B group The Nippy Thieves and storyteller/puppeteer for adults, Sarah W. Young.
On Sunday, Oct. 7, in addition to Hand To Mouth Players, YCP TheaterWorks encore presentation, we are excited to present from NYC new Guest Artist, Willfull Pictures who will amuse us with their one act, O Feel Ya, a spoof on Shakespeare’s Hamlet at EMC. 12 Grapes will host a Cabaret featuring Embark’s Executive Director, actress/singer/director Katie Schmidt Feder’sLonging, Leaving and Loving and dancer Barbara Nadel’s Sounds of Joy: A Tap Cabaret. Join us for our FREE Festival Finale CONCERT on North Division Street featuring The Wiz Kidz, Rising Stars, Chordsmen, G-21 Soul and Brian Delma Taylor & Chaka Ngwenya. Enjoy the theater & music on the showmobile and the restaurants on this Columbus Holiday Weekend!
See performance schedule for times & venues, ticket prices and the amazing individual and family packages. Many offerings will be FREE of charge. Also, tickets can be purchased individually at the door of each performance or online at brownpapertickets.com (search by PEEKSKILL). For more info, visit www.embarkpeekskill.com or email us at embarkpeekskill@gmail.com or Embark|Peekskill on Facebook.
EMBARK | Peekskill is a coalition of performing and literary artists and community members committed to the establishment and development of a Performing and Literary Arts Center for Peekskill as a home and venue. It is our goal to be a partner and collaborator with artists, arts alliances, and supporters of the arts. EMBARK seeks to encourage understanding of the role the arts play in building community and in celebrating diversity.
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