Brevitas Reading at The Bowery Poetry Club, Sunday November 6

 

 Short poem enthusiasts get ready! City Lore, an organization devoted to urban folk culture, and the Bowery Poetry Club will present the 8th Annual Brevitas Festival of The Short Poem on Sunday, November 6 from 2 to 5 p.m., hosted by Bob Holman with flourishes by Flash Rosenberg. 

Brevitas is an internet community of invited poets who e-mail one to two original poems (14 lines max) to the group on the 1st and the 15th of each month. This reading and book release party is the annual occasion for  Brevitas poets to actually meet in person.  The program features each poet's top hits for 2011. 

Brevitas’ founders are poets Jim Pignetti and Steve Zeitlin, founder and executive director of City Lore. 

Admission $7 includes a free copy of the anthology
guest poets will be invited to sign up for the short poem open mic (14 lines max)

The Bowery Poetry Club
302 Bowery (between Houston and Bleecker Streets)
NYC 212-614-0505
www.bowery poetry club.com

D and F to Broadway-Lafayette Station
6 to Bleecker Street Station
R to Prince Street Station

 

The following Brevitas poets will be reading:

Alicia Vasquez

Andrew Kaufman

Angelo Verga

Bob Heman

Bob Holman

Carolyn Wells

Christian Garaud

Cindy Hochman

Claudia Carlson

D.F. August

Dorothea Hutton Scher

Ed Smith

Eileen Hennessy

Esther Cohen

Esther Smith

Evie Ivy

Flash Rosenberg

Georgia Faust

Hal Sirowitz

Holly Anderson

James McMenamin

Jan Castro

Jeff Wright

Jim Pignetti

John J. Trause

Juanita Torrence Thompson

Karen Neuberg

Katrinka Moore

Leigh Harrison

Leslie Prosterman

Nathan A. Versace

Patricia Carragon

Richard Storm

Sanford Fraser

Sparrow

Steve Zeitlin

Sue Machlin

Susan Gerardi

Tsaurah Litsky

Zev Shanken

and maybe more . . .