I thought the Allen Ginsberg part might get your attention. I know that most of these poets studied with him. Not sure about the musicians.
Poetry, percussion, and poets who stick together through thick and thin. Who can resist? This is a fun-sounding reading with music by a group of excellent New York poets who studied with Allen Ginsberg at Brooklyn College.
Poets Bill Evans, Thaddeus Rutkowski, Joanna Sit, Michele Madigan Somerville and Mike Sweeney will read with percussionists Peter Catapano and Tony Cenicola (of The Unfortunate Buzz Trio).
Every single one of these artists (except Tony Cenicola) has appeared at Brooklyn Reading Works at the Old Stone House over the last few years!
And it’s at the Cornelia Street Cafe (Owned by Park Slope’s Robin Hirsch) at 6PM on Sunday, July 15th. See you there.
Bill Evans was born and raised in Forty Fort, Pa. He is half the band, along with guitarist Larry Dunn, on the excellent spoken-word CD Collected Dark,released by Heat Warps Records and distributed by Engine Studios. His poems have appeared widely, and he’s been a frequent contributor to the exquisite, seemingly-defunct cyber-zine Exquisite Corpse, edited by Andrei Codrescu.
Thaddeus Rutkowski is the author of the innovative novels Haywire, Tetched and Roughhouse.He teaches literature as an adjunct lecturer at Medgar Evers College of theCity University of New York and fiction writing at the Writer’s Voice of the West Side YMCA in Manhattan.
Joanna Sit’s new book of poems is titled My Last Century. She has taught literature and creative writing at Brooklyn College and NYU and composition at Medgar Evers College. Her poems and translations have appeared in The Seneca Review, The Relief Journal, Natural Bridge, and The California Quarterly.
Michele Madigan Somerville is the author of Black Irish and WISEGAL.
Mike Sweeney, a two-time Pushcart nominee, earned his M.F.A. from Brooklyn College and teaches at Fairfield University. In Memory of the Fast Break (Plain View Press, 2008) was a Finalist for the Massachusetts Center for the Book’s 2009 Books of the Year/Poetry Awards.
Peter Catapano and Tony Cenicola are two-thirds of The Unfortunate Buzz Trio.