Poetry Cartelians Perform at Gettysburg Coffeehouse

Esworthy, Thiede, and Anna Jane Featured at Ragged Edge Coffeehouse

Christian Thiede, Anna Jane, and Marty Esworthy will represent the Almost Uptown Poetry Cartel as featured performers at the monthly poetry reading at the Ragged Edge Coffee shop in Gettysburg, PA. The reading takes place on the first Friday of each month.

The poetry cartel hosts a weekly verse series in Harrisburg, Poetry Thursdays at the Midtown Scholar Bookstore.



The Ragged Edge Coffeehouse is located at 110 Chambersburg St in Gettysburg, and the reading begins at 7pm, and lasts until 9pm. An open reading will precede the feature presentation.

Dustin Nispel, a York poet, will be featured at Ragged Edge in January. And Maria James-Thiaw will be featured in February, oddly enough, a year hence. At a futuristic poetry cartel sponsored event. OK? That would be February 25, 2016 in Harrisburg at the Midtown Scholar Bookstore. 1302 N. 3rd St. 17102. 7-- 9pm. (717) 236-1680. Jules Verne would understand. Everything's waiting for you.

Trees. Susquehanna, Highway. Bridge

Longest Stone Arch Railroad Bridge in the World

Culture & Main Video Ep 68, Esworthy, Brabham, Nispel & Flynn

Carla (The Priestess) Christopher, host of Culture & Main: "Time to enjoy the behind-the-scenes raw poetic genius of the godfather of the Almost Uptown Poetry Cartel and Iris G Press Fame-- Marty Esworthy!" Poetry Cartel flyer, 2004

Also check out the musical stylings of Kiko Brabham AND Dustin Nispel & Jessica Flynn take on First Friday."

Culture and Main Ep 68 White Rose Community TV

http://youtu.be/Sdw21jchz24?list=UU-1o28ZQVfsUWSqjd3lrVoQ

Dan Vera is featured poet November 6 at Harrisburg's Midtown Scholar

“The poetry of Dan Vera is clear, strong, honest and funny. He’s the sharp-eyed observer in the corner who doesn't say much but makes every word count.” --Martín Espada

Dan Vera is the featured poet November 6 at Harrisburg's Midtown Scholar Bookstore. The Almost Uptown Poetry Cartel hosts this community reading series, held every Thursday from 7:00 to 9:00 pm

Dan Vera's a writer, editor and author of Speaking Wiri Wiri (Red Hen Press). He's the inaugural winner of the Letras Latinas/Red Hen Poetry Prize, and The Space Between Our Danger and Delight (Beothuk Books). His poetry has appeared in various journals and anthologies. He's the co-creator of the literary history site, DC Writers' Homes, and on the board of Split This Rock Poetry.

“To read Dan Vera is to believe the world is actually a good place after all – a place where the reputation of poetry is redeemed with humor and kindness. In the deepest part of the heart where we truly reside, there is always a wish that poetry will rinse off artifice. This is it.” --Grace Cavalieri

Poetry Thursdays is hosted by the Almost Uptown Poetry Cartel, at the Midtown Scholar Bookstore, 1302 North Third Street, Harrisburg, PA 17102. Every Thursday! Phone: 717.236.1680

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Painting in July; Raining on May....

So, I painted today. :) Turns [turned] out to be a slate-y bluish green thang. Yeah, called verdigris.

In ancient times it was called existentialism.

Then I invented this complex form which encourages italics. It’s Mai,
it’s soggy-- Il pleut, no? Maybe. (I’m remembering a cat called Gris-gris.)

Mei-Mei Berrsenbrugge? Agh! without spell-check, it’s always a toss-up.
Shimmering silver-foil disintegrating as it arcs over a fence.
Her name? Agh!

Mai, y’know, Sammy’s wife? The rat-pack an’ all that.

And...yeah, May West, mais oui!

Poetry Book Sale/Summer Readings at Midtown Scholar

Now's the time to pick up some great poetry bargins at the Midtown Scholar. Get early Holiday gifts. There's a sale in the upstairs Poetry Nook: 20% off all poetry books! The sale runs from June 17 until June 30. And there are special upcoming poetry listening opportunities, beginning with Alyse Bensel on June 20. Her poetry has appeared in Cider Press Review, Cold Mountain Review, MAYDAY Magazine, and Word Riot. She is a regular contributor to Newpages and the Los Angeles Review, and additional work has appeared in CALYX, Colorado Review, Prairie Schooner, and Rain Taxi. In the fall of 2013, she will begin doctoral studies in creative writing. Internet Cafe at the Midtown Scholar Bookstore, 1302 North Third Street, Harrisburg, PA 17102 Phone: 717.236.1680 Upcoming events at Midtown Scholar Poetry Thursdays: All Events are from 7-9 pm with an Open Reading from 7-8 pm followed by an 8-9 pm Feature, or continued Open. June 27 -- Feature Jack Veasey July 4 -- Holiday : No Reading July 11 -- Feature Yolanda Wisher July 18 -- Feature J. Love 'SoulCry' Kearse July 25 -- Open Reading August 1 -- Feature Gary Miller August 8 -- Feature Kenneth Walker August 15 -- Open Reading August 22 -- TBA August 29 -- Open Reading September 5 -- TBA September 12 -- Open Reading September 19 -- Feature J. C. Todd September 26 -- Feature Tony Oliveri

Ionesco's "Man With Bags", Harrisburg Gig, 90-ish

. . . Little bit o' web search and a search of my own pic/documentations turned up this: Original poster from Harrisburg RR Station production, early 90s . . . --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- . . . . . . . . . . . . . Man with Bags by Eugene Ionesco, Translated by Marie-France Ionesco, Adapted by Israel Horovitz What happens when you do go home again? When the Man of the title heads back to the land of this childhood, the notions of time, space, and memories merge to create a dreamscape of great insight, passion, and humor. Like great works of visual art, Ionesco weaves commonplace ideas, images, and observations in order to unmask complex truths, and profound ambiguities. "For the playwright, a dream can be considered as an essentially dramatic event. The dream is pure drama. In a dream, one is always in mid-situation. To be more concise, I think that the dream is a lucid thought, more lucid than anyone has when awake, a thought expressed in images, and that at the same time its form is always dramatic." --Eugene Ionesco . . . --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- . . . . <>Alive - Entertainment Section issuu.com/thesentinel00/docs/alivebinderdecember8Share "Dec 8, 2011 – 11, at Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts in Harrisburg. ...... [Clark]Nicholson had appeared earlier in another Ionesco work, the play "Man with Bags" -- given a multimedia production at the Train Station in the early 1990s ..." . . . --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- .