Jackson Heights Life

April showers bring Sarah Gambito to our May FIRST TUESDAYS poetry stage!

Join us on May 4, 2010 for the JHPF FIRST TUESDAYS open mic featuring Sarah Gambito.
 
Sarah Gambito is the author of the poetry collections Delivered (Persea Books) and Matadora (Alice James Books). Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Iowa Review, The Antioch Review, Denver Quarterly, The New Republic, Field, Quarterly West, Fence and other journals. She holds degrees from The University of Virginia and The Creative Writing Program at Brown University. Her honors include the Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award from Poets and Writers and grants and fellowships from The New York Foundation for the Arts, Urban Artists Initiative and The MacDowell Colony.

She is Assistant Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing at Fordham University. Together with Joseph O. Legaspi, she co-founded Kundiman, a non-profit organization serving Asian American poets.

Sign-up starts at 7pm on Tuesday 5/4, 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.
 
See you soon!
JHPF

P.S. Check out another great Jackson Heights event from the Jackson Repertory Theatre! 
167 Tongues - a new play celebrating the most diverse neighborhood in the world. www.jacksonrep.org

Hi!

As the year comes to an end, please join us at our next FIRST TUESDAYS open reading  tomorrow,  Tuesday, December 7, 2010, featuring poet David Mills.

David Mills has a master's in creative writing from New York University and is a cum laude grad of Yale University. He is a 2010 Queens Poet Laureate Finalist. He has won NYFA, Breadloaf, Henry James, Brio, PALF and Soros Fellowships to travel to Poland to write poems about the Holocaust. His poetry has appeared in Ploughshares, Fence, Callaloo, Rattapallax, Aloud Poets from the Nuyorican Cafe and Hanging Loose Press to name a few. He has also recorded his poetry on RCA records with jazz artist Steve Coleman. His collection the Dream Detective is on the small press bestseller list.

We will start a bit earlier this month, as we have a great follow-up act: Isa Alfonso will be performing as part of Terraza's roster of Latin jazz. Sign-up for the reading will start at around 6:45pm, and readings begin at 7:15-7:30pm.

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.

See you soon!
JHPF

FIRST TUESDAYS open mic!

We have a fabulous reading coming up tomorrow, Tuesday, May 3, 2011, featuring Richard Newman, who will share work from his new book!

Sign-up for the reading will start at around 6:45pm, and readings begin at 7:15-7:30pm. We also have a great follow-up act of Latin Jazz.

The reading will be held at Terraza Cafe - on Gleane street and Roosevelt avenue, off the 82nd street stop on the 7 Train! You can find directions here.

Hello!

In anticipation of her upcoming book, coming out in 2012, Christi Shannon Kline will be giving a preview reading at JHPFs FIRST TUESDAYS on Tuesday, November 1, 2011 at Terraza Cafe.

Sign-up for the reading will start at around 6:45pm, and readings begin at 7:15-7:30pm. We also have a great musical follow-up act.

The reading will be held at Terraza Cafe - on Gleane street and Roosevelt avenue, off the 82nd street stop on the 7 Train! You can find directions here.

Please find information about Christi Shannon Kline below, and a flyer attached.
 
Arkansas native, Christi Shannon Kline is a New York-based American poet, playwright, and performer and member of Actors' Equity Association and The Dramatist Guild. She has had the good fortune to study extensively, by invitation, with renowned poet and translator, Marie Ponsot.

Christi's poetry first premiered as part of a political ballet, SLIPPERY PEOPLE, which she was commissioned to write for a dance company in residence at the prestigious Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival. Her play, REUNION, a full length drama in the Southern Gothic style about an adopted woman who searches for her identity, was presented at the National Conference on Adoption in Manhattan in 2010, and subsequently at The Drilling Company Theater, with Christi playing the leading role.

Her upcoming book, No Child More Perfect is currently being published by Nirala and scheduled for release in early 2012 and advance notice is good: Author and JHPF board member, Richard Jeffrey Newman says: These are poems of real courage, and so they are also poems of hope. It is a wonderful thing that Christi has brought them into the world. And Marie Ponsot, winner of The National Book Critics Circle Award, says Watch out! Christi Shannon Kline's poems are original. She speaks her mind: ordinary and desperate, frank and unfaked and full of feeling. The poems sing, and we welcome their freshness.

See you soon!

JHPF