Calendar Event Detail

Event Name:

Brownstone Poets

Address:

Park Plaza Restaurant 220 Cadman Plaza West
Brooklyn, NY

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Event Date/Time:

Starts:	Sat Jun 2 2012 at 2:30 PM
Ends:	Sat Jun 2 2012 at 5:30 PM

Hosting Organization:

Brownstone Poets

Contact Name:

Patricia Carragon

Contact Email Address:

pcarragon@gmail.com

Contact Phone Number:

917 679 5002

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Event Cost:

$3.00

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Event Description:

The Brownstone Poets presents G.P.A., Donald Lev, and Linda Lerner, on Saturday, June 2 at 2:30 p.m. at Park Plaza Restaurant in historic Brooklyn Heights. Enjoy the varied menu at this affordable family-run diner while listening to great poetry. Poetry grows in Brooklyn Heights and there's an open mic as well. The Brownstone Poets presents: G.P.A., Donald Lev and Linda Lerner Saturday, June 2 at 2:30 p.m. Park Plaza Restaurant 220 Cadman Plaza West near Clark St.and Pineapple Walk Brooklyn, NY 11201 - 718 – 596 – 5900 Subways: Take the A or C to High Street, 2 or 3 to Clark Street, 4, 5 or R to Court Street, Borough Hall For more directions: http://www.hopstop.com/ $3 Donation – plus Food/Drink - Open-Mic Curated by Patricia Carragon pcarragon@gmail.com /brownstonepoets.blogspot.com/ http://patriciacarragon8.wordpress.com/ http://myspace.com/pattiekake8 http://en-gb.facebook.com/people/Brownstone-Poets/541314712 BIOS: G.P.A. is a Poet and Author from the south side of Chicago. He has written three books of Poetry, The Confessional Heart of a Man, The Book of 24 Orgasms, and The Mind of a Poetic Unsub. He is the 2012 winner of the Black Essence Award for Poetry and Charity and is currently nominated for Poet of the Year. Currently, he is finishing a children's book of Poetry entitled Remembrances of a Black Boy. Donald Lev continues to publish Home Planet News, the newsprint literary review he and his late wife, the poet Enid Dame founded in 1979. The latest collections of his poetry are The Darkness Above: Selected Poems 1968-2002 (Red Hill, 2008), a chapbook, Only Wings (Presa, 2010), and A Very Funny Fellow (NYQ Books, 2012). Linda Lerner was born and educated in New York City; New York Quarterly Books published her most recent collection, Takes Guts & Years Sometimes June 2011. http://www.nyqbooks.org/title/takesgutsandyearssometimes. She’s previously published thirteen collections of poetry