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Tues 6/25 LuLu LoLo & Tammy Remington Read at Bluestockings’ Women’s & Trans’ Poetry Jam
Women’s & Trans’ Poetry Jam & Open Mike
Tuesday June 25th 7pm – 9pm
Feature Writers: LuLu LoLo & Tammy Remington
LuLu LoLo will perform excerpts from two of her plays:“38 Witnessed her Death, I Witnessed her Love: The Lonely Secret of Mary Ann Zielonko (Kitty Genovese Story)”; forty years after the brutal murder of Kitty Genovese, Mary Ann Zielonko breaks her silence and reminisces about gay life in NYC in the 60’s, her life with Kitty, the murder, the trial, and its aftermath and “OBITS: An Exercise In Limitation” a series of monologues based on obituaries from The New York Times written while an LMCC writer in residence.
T.Remington, a 2011 Pushcart nominee, has been a featured reader here at Bluestockings twice before as well as being a frequent open mic participant.
She will be reading her story “The Last Risk” which was published in Takahe Magazine in New Zealand last year and she’ll be reading her new story “Giving Ground” in June. Both stories tug at our ideas of what’s real and what’s imaginary with unexpected outcomes.
$5 suggested donation
This series, started in 1999, is hosted by Vittoria repetto – the hardest working guinea butch dyke poet on the lower east side
Bluestockings Bookstore
172 Allen St.
(between Staton & Rivington)
1 1/2 blocks south from E.Houston
NYC
212-777-6028
info@bluestockings.com
Open mike ( for women & trans) – sign-up at 7 pm – 8 minute limit
Bring your poetry, your prose, your songs, and your spoken word.
Take V or F train to 2nd Ave. and exit from the 1st Ave exit and walk south down Allen St. (aka. 1st Ave) 1 ½ blocks to the store
Tues 5/28 Geri De Luca & Deborah Hauser Read at Bluestocking’s Women’s/Trans’ Poetry Jam
Women’s / Trans’ Poetry Jam & Open Mike
Tuesday May 28th 7pm – 9pm
Feature Writers: Geri De Luca & Deborah Hauser
Deborah Hauser’s poetry chapbook” Ennui: From the Diagnostic and Statistical Field Guide of Feminine Disorders” is a satirical take on the current status of women and the “woman question.” Her poetry seeks to (dis)enchant the reader and dismantle the happily ever after myth.
Geri De Luca states that novelists only invent plots they can resolve. They ask the questions they can answer. They ultimately have to trust their own knowledge, experience and curiosity, and keep going deeper into the plots and questions they already have.
$5 suggested donation
This series, started in 1999, is hosted by Vittoria repetto – the hardest working guinea butch dyke poet on the lower east side
Bluestockings Bookstore
172 Allen St.
(between Staton & Rivington)
1 1/2 blocks south from E.Houston
NYC
212-777-6028
info@bluestockings.com
Open mike ( for women & trans) - sign-up at 7 pm – 8 minute limit
Bring your poetry, your prose, your songs, and your spoken word.
Take V or F train to 2nd Ave. and exit from the 1st Ave exit and walk south down Allen St. (aka. 1st Ave) 1 ½ blocks to the store
Tues 4/30 Leah Umansky & Gabriella M. Belfiglio Read at Bluestockings’ Poetry Jam
Women’s / Trans’ Poetry Jam & Open Mike
Tuesday April 30th 7pm – 9pm
Feature Writers: Leah Umansky & Gabriella M. Belfiglio
Bluestockings Bookstore
$5 suggested donation
This series, started in 1999, is hosted by Vittoria repetto – the hardest working guinea butch dyke poet on the lower east side
Bluestockings Bookstore
172 Allen St.
(between Staton & Rivington)
1 1/2 blocks south from E.Houston
NYC
212-777-6028
info@bluestockings.com
Open mike ( for women & trans) - sign-up at 7 pm – 8 minute limit
Bring your poetry, your prose, your songs, and your spoken word.
Take V or F train to 2nd Ave. and exit from the 1st Ave exit and walk south down Allen St. (aka. 1st Ave) 1 ½ blocks to the store
Bluestockings Bookstore
$5 suggested donation
This series, started in 1999, is hosted by Vittoria repetto – the hardest working guinea butch dyke poet on the lower east side
Bluestockings Bookstore
172 Allen St.
(between Staton & Rivington)
1 1/2 blocks south from E.Houston
NYC
212-777-6028
info@bluestockings.com
Open mike ( for women & trans) - sign-up at 7 pm – 8 minute limit
Bring your poetry, your prose, your songs, and your spoken word.
Take V or F train to 2nd Ave. and exit from the 1st Ave exit and walk south down Allen St. (aka. 1st Ave) 1 ½ blocks to the store
Tues 3/26 Jennifer Miller & Erika Lutzner at Bluestockings’ Women’s / Trans’ Poetry Jam
Women’s / Trans’ Poetry Jam & Open Mike
Tuesday March 26th 7pm – 9pm
Feature Writers: Jennifer Miller & Erika Lutzner
Jennifer Miller often writes about the natural world and the insights and consolations it can provide. She is currently working on a collection of poems exploring her relationship with one of her sisters through the prism of addiction and mental illness.
Erika Lutzner’s work gives a voice to the invisible; she writes about those who are often left unheard or kept silent. Her work, though often brutal deals with subjects such a grief and violence trying to add color, texture and balance to an imperfect world.
Bluestockings Bookstore
$5 suggested donation
This series, started in 1999, is hosted by Vittoria repetto – the hardest working guinea butch dyke poet on the lower east side
Bluestockings Bookstore
172 Allen St.
(between Staton & Rivington)
1 1/2 blocks south from E.Houston
NYC
212-777-6028
info@bluestockings.com
Open mike ( for women & trans) - sign-up at 7 pm – 8 minute limit
Bring your poetry, your prose, your songs, and your spoken word.
Take V or F train to 2nd Ave. and exit from the 1st Ave exit and walk south down Allen St. (aka. 1st Ave) 1 ½ blocks to the store
the choice for lunch
musante – my old girl scout leader
worked at NYU
said she could get me in
but
it was a few blocks from home
I said no thanks.
I went to LIU –B’klyn Center
cross the river
fortunately
too much travel
to get lunch.
@2012 – Vittoria repetto
The Place I Call Home by Maria Mazziotti Gillan – A Review
This review will be published in the Spring 2013 issue of VIA (Voices in Italian Americana) magazine.
Though the years, Maria Mazziotti Gillan has painted wonderful pictures of her life via her narrative poems.
In her new book, The Place I Call Home, she gives us vivid images of the house she grew up in, images of her mother washing clothes and sewing to supplement the family income and making sure that her family was well fed though she never spent money on frivolities like blueberries.
“…remember my mother’s refrigerator
that was always full of homemade food – bread, meatballs,
braciola, spinach, broccoli rabe, but no blueberries,
this small berry I didn’t taste until I was a grown women
and married myself, and I imagine my mother’s horror
at the thought of he spoiled daughter paying $3.95 a pint
for blueberries just because she wants them.”
These are stories of a mother who only went to the 3rd grade in Italy buying her daughter a typewriter so she could be a writer.
But these poems go deeper than nostalgia for one’s family or the difference between an immigrant family and a first generation “American girl.”
There are revealing poems like “Doing the Twist with Bobby Darin” that deal with her shyness about her body and dancing w. someone who thinks a Italian girl is loose and easy.
“my friend’s husband dragged me
out onto the dance floor, expecting
that I would be loose and easy,
imagining that all my energy
would translate into an abandon I never felt…….
……….. I understood
that he thought my Italian bloo
meant I was hot like Sophia Loren
or Anna Magnani.”
There are poems that strike at our hearts and make us sigh sadly when she talks about her husband having Parkinson’s and not being in the same bedroom with him, of Dennis getting to the point where he will not know her.
There are angry poems about her ex son-in-law who hurt her daughter badly when they divorced.
This book will make you laugh and cry and every emotion in between; buy it!
Tues 11-27 Fay Chiang & Senia Hardwick read at Bluestockings
Women’s / Trans’ Poetry Jam & Open Mike
Tuesday Nov 27th 7pm – 9pm
Feature Writers: Fay Chiang & Senia Hardwick
Fay Chiang writes about her experiences as an Asian American woman, a visual artist and cultural activist from a working class 1950’s Queens family and the mother of the inimitable Xian.
Senia Hardwick examines the way emotions and emotional history translate into new experiences; feelings and thoughts are given weights and abilities that mirror their affect on the self and emotional and spiritual journeys are recreated as vast landscapes and deep oceans
Bluestockings Bookstore
$5 suggested donation
This series started in 1999 is hosted by Vittoria repetto – the hardest working guinea butch dyke poet on the lower east side
Bluestockings Bookstore
172 Allen St.
(between Staton & Rivington)
1 1/2 blocks south from E.Houston
NYC
212-777-6028
info@bluestockings.com
Open mike – sign-up at 7 pm – 8 minute limit
Bring your poetry, your prose, your songs, and your spoken word.
Take V or F train to 2nd Ave. and exit from the 1st Ave exit and walk south down Allen St. (aka. 1st Ave) 1 ½ blocks to the store
NYC. Italian American Writers Association (IAWA) at the San Gennaro
Italian American Writers (including myself) get interviewed at the San Gennaro Feast
Via del Popolo @ Little Italy -20012
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBCqFNcA0RE
Tues Sept 25th Gina Inzunza & Betsy Housten read at Women’s / Trans’ Poetry Jam – Bluestockings
Women’s / Trans’ Poetry Jam & Open Mike
Tuesday Sept 25thst 7pm – 9pm
Feature Writers: Gina Inzunza & Betsy Housten
Gina Inzunza’s poetry enlists dramatic voices, humor and a variety of forms to champion the underdog and those who often go unnoticed. Her poems feature characters who search for meaning in adversity, discover their own unique voice and stumble upon ways to celebrate life.
Betsy Housten writes the annual zine You Know Better, exploring queer life in Brooklyn and comprising stories and poems that leave a great deal unanswered.
Bluestockings Bookstore
$5 suggested donation
Hosted by Vittoria repetto – the hardest working guinea butch dyke poet on the lower east side
Bluestockings Bookstore
172 Allen St.
(between Staton & Rivington)
1 1/2 blocks south from E.Houston
NYC
212-777-6028
info@bluestockings.com
Open mike – sign-up at 7 pm – 8 minute limit
Bring your poetry, your prose, your songs, and your spoken word.
Take V or F train to 2nd Ave. and exit from the 1st Ave exit and walk south down Allen St. (aka. 1st Ave) 1 ½ blocks to the store
