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 May 5 2012 at 2:30 PM
Ends:	Sat May 5 2012 at 5:00 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 Bernard and Diane Block, a poetic couple, on Saturday, May 5 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: Bernard and Diane Block Saturday, May 5 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: Bernard Block’s poems have appeared in the NY Quarterly, the Minnesota Review and the Colorado Review. He has published four chapbooks: Quest; Prometheus Returns; Portraits; and To Music. Born and raised in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, he attended Cornell University and Brooklyn College. Hitch-hiked out to California in 1965 and lived in the Haight-Ashbury through 1967. Gave poetry readings at the I and Thou Coffee Shop, City Lights Bookstore and Golden Gate Park. He returned to NYC and studied with the poet Colette Inez in the mid '70s. Read at Speakeasy, Emilie Glen’s, Henry St. Settlement and The New School. Recently he has read at Nightingale’s, Cornelia St. Café, The Bowery Poetry Club, Brownstone Poets, Green Pavilion, Phoenix, SOB’s, TOMI Jazz (a Japanese jazz club), Penny’s, StringPoet and Molloy College. He is presently organizing his many recent poems into thematic collections for future publications. Diane Block is a professional classical violinist who received her training at the Manhat