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Poetry Grows in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn
The Brownstone Poets Presents:
Joel Allegretti & Richard J. Newman on Tuesday, September 16 at 7PM
The Fall Café
307 Smith St. (between Union & President Sts.)
Brooklyn, NY 11231 Phone # 718 – 403 - 0230
Take the F or G train to Carroll St. & exit at President St.
$3 Donation – plus Food/Drink – Limited Open Mic
Curated by Patricia Carragon email: pattiekake@earthlink.net
http://patricia.carragon.home.att.net/ http://myspace.com/pattiekake8
Bios:
Joel Allegretti
Joel Allegretti is the author of The Plague Psalms, which appeared in 2000 from The Poet’s Press and is now in its third edition. His second collection, Father Silicon, also from The Poet’s Press, was selected by the Kansas City Star as one of the 100 Noteworthy Books of 2006, a list that included novels by Thomas Pynchon and Cormac McCarthy.
Allegretti’s poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Sensations, Art/Life, Rattapallax, New York Quarterly, descant, The Laurel Review, Margie, Anglican Theological Review, BigCityLit, Wandering Hermit Review, Manhattan Literary Review, Porcupine, Knock, Confrontation, River Oak Review and other publications. He is represented in the anthology Chance of a Ghost (Helicon Nine Editions, 2005), which also includes work by Billy Collins, Rita Dove and James Tate. His poem in that collection received an Honorable Mention in the 2006 edition of The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, published by St. Martin’s Press.
Allegretti was a quarter-finalist in the 2002 Lyric Recovery Festival and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He was one of three writers selected to participate in the inaugural Visible Word, a collaboration of literary and visual artists sponsored by the DeBaun Center for the Performing Arts, Stevens Institute of Technology.
Of his second collection, Father Silicon, D. Nurkse said, “These poems are architectures, webs and prayers. Their volatility and wit never harden into irony. Read ‘Anointing of the Sick’ and then ‘P |
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