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Poetry Grows in Carroll Gardens and Brooklyn Heights:

THE BROWNSTONE POETS READING SERIES:

Current February Schedule:

New Saturday Venue and Time!

In Brooklyn Heights at Park Plaza Restaurant:

Saturday, February 7 at 2PM

Daniel Fernandez & Evie Ivy

Park Plaza Restaurant
220 Cadman Plaza West near Clark St. & Pineapple Walk
Brooklyn, NY 11201 - 718 – 596 – 5900

Take the A or C to High Street, 2 or 3 to Clark Street,
4, 5, M or R to Court Street, Borough Hall

 $3 Donation – plus Food/Drink - Open Mic

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In Carrol Gardens at The Fall Cafe

Tuesday, February 17 at 7PM

Louis Reyes Rivera, Hal Sirowitz & Juanita Torrence-Thompson

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

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Bios:

Daniel Fernandez

Daniel Fernandez, lyric poet and versedramatist, is the founder and director
of Parnassian Plays, a showcase for his work.  He has a B.A. in English from
Columbia College and is fluent in Spanish, French. Italian, Russian and
German.  Several of his works have been given staged readings in New York
City by Parnassian Plays.  His Alexander Hamilton toured branches of The New
York Public Library and the Morris-Jumel Mansion in 1988-89.  The California
Olympiad of the Arts produced his prize-winning play Phaedra.  He has won
numerous poetry awards and his poems have appeared in several publications.
In 2007, he won the $1500 first prize from the National Federation of State
Poetry Societies.  He is the director of the New York Poetry Forum and a
member of Poets and Writers.  Pivot Press published his poetry book Flight
Numbers.

Evie Ivy

Evie Ivy is a poet/dancer in the NYC poetry circuit. She teaches the ancient
art of belly dancing as exercise and fun. She's been hosting poetry readings
for about fifteen years and currently hosts The Green Pavilion Poetry Event
in Brooklyn, the last Wednesday of every month. Her poetry has been heard on
cable TV and radio.  She's featured in poetry venues in the tri-state area.
Her book out is "The First Woman Who Danced," which includes most of her
poetry based on her experiences with the dance, and two chapbooks.

Louis Reyes Rivera

Known as the Janitor of History, poet/essayist Louis Reyes Rivera has been
studying the craft of writing since 1960 and teaching it since 1969. The
recipient of over 20 awards, including a New York Foundation for the Arts
Fellowship (2003), a Lifetime Achievement Award (1995), a Special
Congressional Recognition Award (1988), and the CCNY 125th Anniversary Medal
(1973) --each of which were given in recognition of his scholarship and
impact on contemporary literature-- Rivera has assisted in the publication
of well over 200 books, including Adal Maldonado's Portraits of the Puerto
Rican Experience (IPRUS, 1984), John Oliver Killens' Great Black Russian
(Wayne State U., 1989), and Bum Rush The Page: A Def Poetry Jam (Crown
Publishers, 2001), co-edited with Tony Medina. An internationally recognized
literary figure with translations of his work appearing in the Russian,
Latvian, Spanish and Italian languages, Rivera has been consistently viewed
by many as a living bridge between the African and Latino American
communities. He has distinguished himself as a professor of Creative
Writing, Pan-African Literature, African-American Culture and History,
Caribbean History, Puerto Rican History, and Nuyorican Literature, and has
taught these courses at such institutions as SUNY at Stony Brook, Hunter
College, College of New Rochelle, LaGuardia College, Pratt Institute, and
Boricua College, among others. As well, he has completed the translation of
Clemente Soto Veléz's Caballo de Palo/Broomstick Stallion, and is presently
working on the collected poems of Otto Rene Castillo of Guatemala, Por el
bien de todos/For the good of all. Over the past 28 years, his essays and
poems have appeared in numerous publications, including Areyto, Boletin
(Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter), The City Sun, African Voices,
and in several award-winning collections: In Defense of Mumia; ALOUD: Live
from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe; Of Sons And Lovers; and his own Scattered
Scripture, for which he received the 1997 Poetry Award from the Latin
American Writers Institute. Since 1996, Louis Reyes Rivera hosted a reading
series in Brooklyn, 1st & 3rd Sundays Jazzoetry & Open Mic @ Sistas' Place
(where he continues to conduct a writing workshop), and has appeared in Jazz
clubs and festivals with The Sun Ra All-Stars Project, Ahmed Abdullah's
Diaspora, Ebonic Tones, the James Spaulding Ensemble, and his own band, The
Jazzoets. He appeared on the Peabody award-winning HBO show, DEF POETRY JAM,
and can be heard every Thursday, at 2pm, on radio station WBAI (99.5 FM)
hosting PERSPECTIVE
(streamed at wbai.org/ archives).

Hal Sirowitz

Hal Sirowitz first began to attract attention at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe
where he was a frequent competitor in their Friday Night Poetry Slam. He
eventually made the 1993 Nuyorican Poetry Slam team, and competed in the
1993 National Poetry Slam (held that year in San Francisco) along with his
Nuyorican teammates Maggie Estep, Tracie Morris and Regie Cabico. Sirowitz
would later perform his poetry on stages across the country, and on
television programs such as MTV's Spoken Word: Unplugged and PBS's The
United States of Poetry.  He has written six books on poetry and is arguably
best known for the volumes Mother Said, My Therapist Said and Father Said.
Sirowitz is a 1994 recipient of an NEA Fellowship in Poetry and is the
former Poet Laureate of Queens, New York. He worked as a special education
teacher in the New York public school system for 23 years. He is married to
the writer Mary Minter Krotzer.

 Juanita Torrence-Thompson

JUANITA TORRENCE-THOMPSON is Editor-in-Chief and publisher of the
26-year-old international literary journal, MOBIUS, THE POETRY MAGAZINE. --
SMALL MAGAZINE REVIEW named MOBIUS 2007 & 2008 a "best" magazine. Her poetry
and prose is published in Canada, Europe, Australia and widely in U.S.
journals and online as well as in her New York and Massachusetts newspaper
columns. Her fifth poetry book NEW YORK AND AFRICAN TAPESTRIES. (Fly By
Night Press) was a SMALL PRESS REVIEW "best pick". Among her recent awards
is 5th prize out of 4,000 poems in WRITERS DIGEST POETRY AWARD. She has read
on TV and radio. She's headlined in Singapore, Switzerland, South Africa and
extensively in the U.S., Venues where Torrence-Thompson has performed are
ivy league universities, schools, libraries, bookstores, theatres and for
Queens Borough President, Helen Marshall, at Borough Hall.

Patricia Carragon

Curator, Editor
The Brownstone Poets

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Anny Ballardini
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I Tell You: One must still have chaos in one to give birth to a dancing
star!
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