Calendar Event Detail

Event Name:

Brownstone Poets

Address:

Park Plaza Restaurant at 220 Cadman Plaza West
Brooklyn, NY

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Event Date/Time:

Starts:	Sat Sep 4 2010 at 2:30 PM
Ends:	Sat Sep 4 2010 at 5:00 PM

Hosting Organization:

Patricia Carragon

Contact Name:

Patricia Carragon

Contact Email Address:

pattiekake@earthlink.net

Contact Phone Number:

917-679-5002

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Event Cost:

$3.00

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Event Description:

Poetry Grows in Brooklyn Heights The Brownstone Poets presents: GEORGE DICKERSON RICHARD LEVINE CARL ROSENSTOCK Saturday, September 4 at 2:30 p.m. Park Plaza Restaurant 220 Cadman Plaza West near Clark St. and Pineapple Walk Brooklyn, NY 11201 - 718 – 596 – 5900 Take the A or C to High Street, 2 or 3 to Clark Street, 4, 5, or R to Court Street, Borough Hall $3 Donation – plus Food/Drink - Open Mic Curated by Patricia Carragon email: pattiekake@earthlink.net http://brownstonepoets.blogspot.com/ http://patriciacarragon8.wordpress.com/ http://myspace.com/pattiekake8 http://en-gb.facebook.com/people/Brownstone-Poets/541314712 Bios: George Dickerson's poetry has been published in The New Yorker, Mademoiselle, Nadada, Pivot, Medicinal Purposes Literary Review, Rattapallax and other publications, and are collected in George Dickerson: Selected Poems 1959-1999 (Rattapallax Press, New York, 2000). His short fiction has appeared in The Best American Short Stories of 1963 and 1966, Penthouse and Rattapallax. He has written novels, screenplays and plays, including his one-man drama, "A Few Useless Mementos for Sale" which has been produced on stage in New York and Hollywood. George is founding editor-in-chief of the literary journal, Rattapallax, and has been on the staff of The New Yorker, and was Managing Editor of Cavalier, and Contributing Editor of Time, in which he published more than 200 articles and reviews. George’s acting career on stage and screen includes Blue Velvet and After Dark, My Sweet. Richard Levine is the author of That Country’s Soul, (Finishing Line Press, 2010), A Language Full of Wars and Songs (Pollack Press, 2004), and Snapshots from a Battle (Headwaters Press/BigCityLit 2001). An as yet unpublished manuscript has been finalist or semi-finalist for Ohio State Press/The Journal Poetry Book Award and the University of Arkansas Press Miller Williams Poetry Prize. A recently retired public school teacher, he is learning to steward a forest and dirt. Ca