October 2010
11 posts
WatchLast night’s QUILL event at Sunnyside’s Transilvania Restaurant was a fun and memorable affair. Thanks to Council Member Van Bramer, Lynn Lobell and folks with the Queens Council on the Arts for supporting poetry in my neck of the woods. Had a blast reading with local poets Dorothea Lasky and David Mills, and what a treat to be introduced to fellow poets and poetry readers from the...
QUILL Reading in Sunnyside this Thursday, October...
FREE event! You just need to rsvp to this link:
http://myemail.constantcontact.com/Queens-Poet-Laureate-in-Sunnyside—Thu—Oct-28—6pm.html?soid=1101240241837&aid=7P2kHRObwig
I’ll be playing emcee to a reading that features a pair of unbelievably talented Queens poets, Dorothea Lasky and David Mills, to occasion QUILL’s first event of the season.
Queens Chronicle - "A scene grows in Woodhaven,...
Thanks to journalist Bryan Yurcan of the Queens Chronicle for covering my first official reading as QPL:
A scene grows in Woodhaven, man by Bryan Yurcan , Assistant Editor
Queens Poet Laureate Paolo Javier, left and poet Aisha Menard connect with the crowd at “Writers and Pints” night in Woodhaven.
PHOTOS BY BRYAN YURCAN
It might be hard to find a more appropriate atmosphere...
Dept of Micro Poetics Residency Wrap-Up, 10/16/10
Battling slight symptoms of the flu as I write this, likely due to exhaustion from a terrific book-end event to my busiest October ever: the conclusion of my four-day writing residency with collaborator Roberto Jamora at the AC Institute last Saturday, October 16th. Birdo and I managed to draw up and finish a limited silkscreen print run of the first of several issues of the concluding chapter of...
Talk/Reading at the AC Institute Dept of... →
I’d like to invite you to a talk/reading that I’m giving this Saturday, October 16, at 4 pm at the AC Institute’s Dept of Micro Poetics in Chelsea. The event concludes my four-day writing residency curated by David Berridge/Very Small Kitchen at, or rather, just outside of the AC Institute’s gallery space. I’ll be discussing and reading from ‘obb a.k.a. The...
Busy Last Week
My gosh, have things picked up this season! Last week saw me attending and performing at four (4) events, with two on the same day. Here’s a run down of em, all of which were in my QPL capacity, so I have to report:
Thursday, October 7, @ the Queens Museum of Art - Gave opening night address following a terrific reading by David Mills (an Astoria-based poet you will be hearing more from me...
NY Book Expo at the Queens Museum of Art, Sunday,... →
Ive been invited to curate a group of Queens-based small presses to exhibit their titles at this year’s NY Book Expo at the QMA. At the opening reception this evening at 6 pm onwards, I’ll be giving an address and a short reading, alongside a bunch of other poets and performers. Do come out and support this event! And recognize how diverse our great borough truly is; I certainly...
Coverage of Woodhaven Reading in Times News Weekly →
Thanks to Robert Mancini and the Times News Weekly for attending and reporting on my first reading as QPL at the historic Neir’s Tavern this past September. Here is the link to the article.
JHPF's First Tuesdays reading series, 10/5 →
I’ll be reading next Tuesday, October 5th, at the Jackson Heights Poetry Festival’s First Tuesdays reading series. They’ll be celebrating their two-year anniversary then, so it’s quite the honor to be invited to participate. Click on the link above for more deets, but here’s what the director, Marina Yoffe, announced recently:
Hello! Today, on the third day of...
2AP Vol 3 →
Just passing along the announcement/link to my online journal’s new issue, which the talented Maspeth-raised artist Emmy Catedral designed. Alan Ramon Clinton is our guest editor for this new volume devoted to poetry and the occult. Thank you, Emmy and Alan, for helping to put together a truly amazing new volume.
First Reading as New QPL at Neir's Tavern,... →
Im playing serious catchup here, so let me first give a shoutout to Ed Wendell, President of The Woodhaven Residents’ Block Association in Woodhaven, for putting together a memorable poetry reading at the historic (understatement of the year) Neir’s Tavern last Thursday, September 23rd. This marked my first official reading as QPL, and I couldn’t have hoped for a better venue and...
