Joe Allen Junior "Joetry" Featured poet for November (11/19 one week earlier!)

Don't forget, due to Thanksgiving we will be meeting one week earlier than usual this month, Thursday, November 19th!!!

Joe Louis Allen Jr., a poet who reveals the truth about life through his experiences and uncensored eyes. Just reaching a milestone of 17 years alive, after being declared clinically dead for 14 minutes on 10/24/98, Joe continues to show progression in his life by adding credentials not thought of back then. Following his first book "Progression", Joe has become a certified recovery coach, a certified CPR/First Aid trainer, as well as being a credentialed alcohol and substance abuse counselor. Joe uses his degree from the streets, combined with common sense, to exhibit a style of poetry that races to the heart and the mind.

Joe is following his life's work with his soon to be published second book, "Still Breathing".

Joe is a charter member of Ken Siegelman's Brooklyn Poetry Outreach, and a riveting poet of the people. Please come down and bring a poem or two to share with us after Joe's reading.

And while you are here, please support our event by buying books, and don't forget to let your cashier know you came to Barnes & Noble for Ken Siegelman's Brooklyn Poetry Outreach's event!

When: Thursday, November 19th

6:30-8:30 pm

Where: Barnes & Noble Park Slope

267 7th Ave (at 6th St)

Brooklyn, NY 11215

Directions: https://goo.gl/maps/2RcxtUGFMeP2

On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BrooklynPoetryOutreach/

October event | Cathy Gigante-Brown and Darryl Alladice Bounce Off | 10/29/2015

Please join us in welcoming Cathy Gigante-Brown and Darryl Alladice in a bounce-off, alternately reading from their works, bouncing poems back and forth. We are looking forward to an exciting, spontaneous, fun event.

After Cathy and Darryl we will have the open mic, so bring some poems of your own!

If you want to help support Ken Siegelman's Brooklyn Poetry Outreach, please buy books and other merchandise at Barnes & Noble the night of the event, and let your cashier know you are visiting Barnes & Noble for Ken Siegelman's Brooklyn Poetry Outreach and buying books!

Put a poem in your pocket, and come down and read with us or just come to listen.

Hope to see you there,

Anthony Vigorito

When: Thursday, October 28, 2015
6:30-8:30 pm

Where: Barnes & Noble Park Slope
267 7th Ave (at 6th St)
Brooklyn, NY 11215

Facebook Event Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/502959053204044/

Directions: https://goo.gl/maps/LpKKL

September featured Poet: Ricardo Hernandez

Please come down and help us launch our 13th season at Barnes & Noble.  Prior to the feature we will pay tribute to Ken & Pearl Siegelman. 

Our featured poet for September is one of Brooklyn's unique voices, Ricardo Hernandez.

Ricardo is from the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn. With influences from early hip hop culture, Ricardo is inspired by the written form of graffiti and the spoken word of rap. Ricardo grew up painting walls under the street lights of Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Queens. Hanging out on the corner kicking freestyle rhymes with friends, Ricardo found himself expressing the world around him through the arts. Today the spray can is no longer in hand, but he hasn't put down the pen and pad. When Ricardo graduated High School he enlisted in the United Sates Air Force and served as a Project Manager with the 71st Fighter Squadron. Ricardo was the very successful host of "Poet's Settlement" at Breukelen Colony. He's also a regular at many open mic venues such as "Tom Kane's Boulevard Bards" held at Boulevard Books & Cafe, "Ken Seigleman's Brooklyn Poetry Outreach" at the Park Slope Barnes & Nobles, "Brooklyn Poets" at 61 Local and "The Bay Ridge Poets Society" at the Owl's Head Wine bar.

Following Ricardo's reading, we will have the open mic.

Put a poem in your pocket, and come down and read with us or just come to listen.

Hope to see you there,

Anthony Vigorito

When: Thursday, September 24

6:30-8:30 pm

Where: Barnes & Noble Park Slope

267 7th Ave (at 6th St)

Brooklyn, NY 11215

Facebook event page: September featured Poet: Ricardo Hernandez

Directions: https://goo.gl/maps/LpKKL

June Featured poet Clarence Bess 6/25

Closing out our 2014-2015 season is the wonderful poet Clarence Bess.

Clarence began writing as a means of escape, his writing blossomed beautifully into vivid, visceral, and compelling poetry. Clarence refers to his style as "open air" poetry. He cites that we all breath, it comes as natural as anything we must do to survive. As air, his poems are light, yet complex in their makeup. Clarence aims to bridge the gap between poetry for poets, and poetry for the everyman. 

Clarence has authored "Actuality Askew", "N Vers 1 Quarrels with Myself", "N Vers 2 Sincerely Chris", and "N Vers 3 Songs my Father Forgot to Tell Me". Please join us for a night of riveting poetry. Read with us, or just come down and enjoy.

Following Clarence's reading will be the open mic, so put a poem in your pocket and come down and join us!

Hope to see you there,

Anthony

When: Thursday, June 25th
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Where: Barnes & Noble Park Slope
267 7th Ave (corner of 6th St)
Brooklyn, NY 11215
Click for directions

Facebook Event Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/764563333662386

May Featured poet Evie Ivy 5/28/15

Please join us in welcoming Evie Ivy as our May featured poet.

Evie Ivy, dancer/instructor in the NYC poetry circuit. She hosts the Green Pavilion Poetry Event
on the last Wed. of the month. She has 3 chapbooks out and a book, "The First Woman Who Danced"
which includes most of her poems based on her experiences as a dancer. Her work appears
in several websites including Levure litteraire, Versewrights, Brooklyn Borough President's website-
"Poetic Brooklynites," Newspaper Tree El Paso, among others. Her book "Living in 12-Tone . . .
and other poetic forms" will be out soon.

As usual, following Evie will be the open mic.


So put a poem in your pocket and come read with us.

Hope to see you there,

Anthony
When: Thursday, May 28, 20156:30-8:30 pm
Where: Barnes & Noble Park Slope267 7th Ave (corner of 6th St)Brooklyn, NY 11215
Directions: https://goo.gl/maps/LpKKL

Facebook Event Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1456528034641046/

April Featured poet: Zev Torres 4/30/15

We are excited to have Zev Torres as our featured poet for the month of April. This is Zev's first time featuring at Ken Siegelman's Brooklyn Poetry Outreach. 

Zev is a writer and spoken word performer who seeks to unearth hidden veins of emotion from ordinary experiences. 

Zev’s poetry has appeared in numerous print and on-line publications including, Great Weather for MEDIA’s  anthology, I Let Go of the Stars in My Hand, The Screech Owl, The Linnet’s Wings, First Literary Review-East, and Typoetic.us, and in three self-published chapbooks: Revision (2010), In Celebration of Hope and Change (2009) andPercussion Suite (2008). 

Zev’s spoken word performances expand on his creative process, often melding his own poetry into new pieces, and freely employing the words of others -- Ovid, Neruda, Rossetti and Angelou, to name a few –creating elaborate and unexpected constructs. 

In 2010, Zev founded the Skewered Syntax Poetry Crawls and, since 2008, has hosted Make Music New York’s annual Spoken Word Spectacular.

After Zev's reading we will have the open mic. So put a poem in your pocket and come down and read, or just relax and enjoy some great poetry.

When: Thursday, April 30

6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Where: Park Slope Barnes & Noble

267 7th Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11215

(at 6th St)

Facebook Event Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/542638389209622/

Directions: https://goo.gl/maps/LpKKL

March Featured poet: Linda Gnat-Mullin 3/26/15

Linda Gnat-Mullin is a Reiki Master and the founder of Energetic Empowerment.® In private practice since 2001, she has helped hundreds of clients gently find their truth and change their lives. A member of the visiting faculty of Cancer Care, Inc., Linda has also offered Reiki to World Trade Center workers after 9/11 at the New York medical examiner's office; to U.S.Military Veterans; to doo-wop rock 'n' rollers at Madison Square Garden; to emergency medical teams and survivors of Hurricane Sandy, and more. 

Her book, Kisses Out of the Blue, recounts some of her adventures in this and other realms in twenty-two, true, life-embracing stories from the dead, inanimate objects, star brothers, geese, and other unlikely sources. It was described by noted Native American author Lewis Mehl-Madrona, M.D., as "A wonderful collection of life vignettes that will inspire and uplight."

Following Linda's reading will be the open mic.

When: March 26, 2015

6:30-8:30 pm

Where: Barnes & Noble Park Slope

267 7th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11218

Corner of 6th Street

         Directions: https://goo.gl/maps/tESmL

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1603452086542736/