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Event Name:

Brownstone Poets

Address:

Cafe Dada 57 Seventh Avenue at the corner of Lincoln Place
Brooklyn, NY

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Event Date/Time:

Starts:	Tue Sep 18 2012 at 7:00 PM
Ends:	Tue Sep 18 2012 at 9:00 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:

$4.00

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Event Description:

Poetry Grows In Park Slope The Brownstone Poets Presents: Amber Atiya, Stephen Bluestone and Robert Gibbons Tuesday, September 18 Starts at 7p.m. – Sign up at 6:45 p.m. Café Dada 57 Seventh Ave. (at the corner of Lincoln Place) Park Slope, Brooklyn, NY 11217 (718) 622-2800 Subways: 2 or 3 to Grand Army Plaza B or Q to Seventh Avenue F or G to Seventh Avenue (9th Street) R to Union Street, plus a bit of a walk. http://www.hopstop.com/ $4 donation + food/beverage - Open-Mic Curated by Patricia Carragon pcarragon@gmail.com http://brownstonepoets.blogspot.com/ http://patriciacarragon8.wordpress.com/ http://myspace.com/pattiekake8 http://en-gb.facebook.com/people/Brownstone-Poets/541314712 Bios: Amber Atiya is an electrifying presence in the New York poetry scene, with an intense body of work that slices fresh emotional grooves on stage and page. Her work has appeared in Tribes Magazine, Drunken Boat, and Coloring Book, an anthology of multicultural writers. She was a participant in the 2012 Poets House Emerging Poets Residency Program and is a member of a women's writing group, currently celebrating it's tenth-year anniversary. Stephen Bluestone was born in New York City. His earlier volume The Laughing Monkeys of Gravity was nominated for the National Book Award in Poetry. The Flagrant Dead, his latest book, also nominated for the National Book Award, has been called “original and beautiful” by Gerald Stern. Louis Simpson has called the same volume “delightful and astonishing.” Stephen Bluestone has won The Greensboro Review Poetry Prize, The Thomas Merton Prize, two Hopwood Prizes, and second prize in the Robert Penn Warren Competition, in addition to an NEH Award, a Pushcart Prizes Special Mention, and other awards. Robert Gibbons moved to New York City in the summer of 2007 in search of his muse-Langston Hughes. Robert has featured in New York, Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Florida. Moreover,