Jackson Heights Life

The Jackson Heights Poetry Festival is going year-round!

They are initiating a new series of First Tuesdays Open Readings on the first Tuesday of each month at Terraza Cafe.  The first event will be held on October 7th, and will feature poet Charan P.

Sign-ins at 6:30; readings start at 7 pm.  $5 suggested donation.

Read the Jackson Heights Poetry Festival Blog for more information.

Location: Terraza Cafe, 40-19 Gleane St. Elmhurst, NY 11373 (right near the 7 train 82nd street stop)

Here's a report on the first open reading event, held on Oct. 7th.

The next open reading will be held on Tuesday, November 4 at 6:30 PM (make sure you vote first!), at Terraza Cafe, 40-19 Gleane St.

The next featured poet will be McGovern Prize winner Maria Terrone. You can read more about Maria here. Don't miss her reading!

First Tuesdays Open Readings

Come at 7 P.M. to sign up for a spot. Readings start at 7:30 PM and go until everyone has read.
There is a suggested donation of $5.

Tuesday, February 3
Featured Poet: Vikas K. Menon is a poet and playwright who has poems appearing or forthcoming in the New Delta Review, TriQuarterly, Catamaran, MIPOESIAS, Bitter Oleander, Brooklyn Review, Toronto Review, among others. He is a staffmember of Kundiman, an organization dedicated to supporting Asian-American poetry. He was a finalist in the Writers at Work competition, and his work is forthcoming in Writing the Lines of Our Hands, the first anthology of South Asian American poetry. His first play, "Lead with Your Left" was produced at the South Asian Theatre Arts Guild Experiment's (STAGE) One Act Festival in Washington, D.C. Come hear him read on Feb 3!

Terraza Cafe, 40-19 Gleane St. Elmhurst, NY 11373 (right near the 7 train 82nd street stop)

First Tuesdays Open Readings
Sponsored by the Jackson Heights Poetry Festival on the first Tuesday of each month
Terraza Cafe, 40-19 Gleane St.

When: Our next open reading will be on Tuesday, May 5 2009 at 7 PM.

Where: Terraza Cafe, 40-19 Gleane St. Elmhurst, NY 11373 (right near the 7 train 82nd street stop)

Featured Poet: Richard Jeffrey Newman

Poet, translator, essayist and educator, Richard Jeffrey Newman is the author of two volumes of poetry: The Silence Of Men, a book of his own poems and Selections from Saadi's Gulistan and Selections from Saadi's Bustan, translations of two masterpieces of 13th century Iranian poetry. In addition, he co-translated with Professor John Moyne the poetry in A Bird in the Garden of Angels, a selection of work by Rumi, also from 13th century Iran. Newman's poems and essays have appeared in a wide range of journals, including Salon.com, The American Voice, Circumference, Prairie Schooner, Another Chicago Magazine, The Pedestal Magazine (also here) and Birmingham Poetry Review. His work has been anthologized in Access Literature, and the title poem from The Silence Of Men has been translated into Dutch. In addition, he has completed a verse translation of a book-length section of the Shahnameh, the Persian national epic, for which he is seeking a publisher. Richard Jeffrey Newman is Literary Arts Director of Persian Arts Festival, sits on the advisory board of The Translation Project and is listed as a speaker with the New York Council for the Humanities. He is Associate Professor of English at Nassau Community College in Garden City, New York, where he coordinates the Creative Writing Project.

Click here to visit Richard Jeffrey Newman's web site.

The next First Tuesdays open reading will be on Tuesday, August 4, 2009 at 7 PM.

Where: Terraza Cafe, 40-19 Gleane St. Elmhurst, NY 11373 (right near the 7 train 82nd street stop)

Featured Poet:  Celestine Woo

Celest Woo has just published her first chapbook, Burnished Sol (Pudding House 2009), and has been published in several journals. She is an assistant professor of English at SUNY Empire State College, and also a dancer and choreographer.


FIRST TUESDAYS Open Readings
Do you have poetry to share? Do you love hearing great poetry? We meet every first Tuesday of the month at Terraza Cafe in Jackson Heights, Queens. All ages and levels, from beginner to published, are welcome to read!

Come at 7 P.M. to sign up for a spot. Readings start at 7:30 PM and go until everyone has read.

There is a suggested donation of $5.

The next First Tuesdays open reading will be on Tuesday, December 1, 2009 at 7 PM.

Where: Terraza Cafe, 40-19 Gleane St. Elmhurst, NY 11373 (right near the 7 train 82nd street stop)

Featured Poet:  Jane Ormerod


FIRST TUESDAYS Open Readings
Do you have poetry to share? Do you love hearing great poetry? We meet every first Tuesday of the month at Terraza Cafe in Jackson Heights, Queens. All ages and levels, from beginner to published, are welcome to read!

Come at 7 P.M. to sign up for a spot. Readings start at 7:30 PM and go until everyone has read.

There is a suggested donation of $5.

Tuesday, February 2, 2010 at Terraza Cafe

FIRST TUESDAYS open reading with the Jackson Heights Poetry Festival, at Terraza 7 Train Cafe

This month... featuring Brant Lyon!
 
BRANT LYON is a writer of prose, poetry, and music. He believes that the last two, though first cousins, should marry, and encourages their betrothal hosting his monthly reading series, Hydrogen Jukebox. As an ‘artivist’ frequently performing at peace concerts and university events around the U.S., or on radio, he also avers that “a rose without thorns isn’t worth sniffing,” so inhales deeply but with care. He is associate editor for Uphook Press and BigCityLit. His most recent or forthcoming publications include poetry/fiction/etc. in Red Wheelbarrow Poets Anthology (vols. I & II), Beyond the Rift, Ganymede, BigCityLit, Cyrano’s Journal, and his poemusic CD, Brant Lyon & Friends: Beauty Keeps Laying Its Sharp Knife Against Me.

Sign-up starts at 7pm on Tuesday 2/2, readings begin at 7:30. Join us at Terraza Cafe - on Gleane street and Roosevelt avenue, off the 82nd street stop on the 7 Train! You can find directions here.
 
We are very excited to have Brant with us and hope you will join too!

Celebrate Poetry Month on April 6, 2010 at the JHPF FIRST TUESDAYS open mic featuring Purvi Shah.
 
Purvi Shah’s debut book of poems, Terrain Tracks (New Rivers Press, 2006), won the Many Voices Project prize and was nominated for the Asian American Writers’ Workshop Members’ Choice Award in 2007. Shah, who holds an MA in American Literature from Rutgers University, is a former poetry editor of the Asian Pacific American Journal and the recipient of a Virginia Voss Poetry Award from the University of Michigan. Born in Ahmedabad, India, Shah lives in New York City, where she recently served for seven and a half years as the executive director at Sakhi for South Asian Women, a community-based anti–domestic violence organization. She is currently traveling, consulting on the issue of violence against women, and working toward a second collection of poetry.

Sign-up starts at 7pm on Tuesday 4/6, readings begin at 7:30. Join us at Terraza Cafe - on Gleane street and Roosevelt avenue, off the 82nd street stop on the 7 Train! You can find directions here.