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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 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
Tues 2/25 Maria Mazziotti Gillan & Lisa Marie Basile at Bluestockings
Women’s / Trans’ Poetry Jam & Open Mike
Tuesday Feb 25th 7pm – 9pm
Feature Writers: Maria Mazziotti Gillan & Lisa Marie Basile
Lisa Marie Basile has recently released a chapbook entitled, “triste:mourning poems” from Dancing Girl Press. The work is a diary entry-like collection of poetic stories, notes and epistolary pieces about people that have vanished or won’t vanish. Lisa Marie Basile often writes about identity and the female perspective.
Bluestockings Bookstore
$5 suggested donation
This series that 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
http://www.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
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
the pigeon without feet
i see it every time in the park,
no feet,
just reddish stumps,
maybe torn off
escaping a cruel trap.
it finds broad branches
to land on
beating its wings
‘til it gets the proper placement
for balance.
it joins the crowd
feasting on rice and stale chinese buns
as the crowd tears into the buns
it chooses the rice
low flying jumps
into ample patches.
all its flying
makes its body lean and strong
it grooms itself well.
i wonder
can it get a mate
pass on that will.
@2012 – Vittoria repetto
Poem: w/ queers 4 economic justice pride march 2012
w/ queers 4 economic justice pride march 2012
1.
1pm
we wait to drive into the parade
but someone got music
I get into a dance
a bit of a trance,
a skinny black cocteau teen angel
catches my eye
as he watches me
we smile at each other
and look away.
2.
driving down
i spot a policewoman
got a rainbow flag
hanging out a leg pocket
she sees me looking
we are two Italian butches
giving the nod and a smirk
3.
the car announces an engagement
jay loves syd
syd loves jay
but
jay walks pumping the chants
and
syd takes pics all the way up the parade
everyone thinks
the driver and me are they
we get lots of congratulations
as i’m older and therefore jay
and must be faithful
i can only give
fleeting glances to pretty girls
@2012 – Vittoria repetto
Fri Apr 13 Italian Amer Book Festival
I’ll be attending and selling my books Not Just A Personal Ad and my chapbook Head For The Van Wyck
Special Event for Members*
SAGRA DEL LIBRO
THE ITALIAN-AMERICAN BOOK FESTIVAL
will be held on April 13th at Fordham University.
Please read the announcement below and let us know if you would like to participate.
In past years on a Sunday in May most bookstores remained open in Italy to encourage the sale of books and support and promote its writers. This initiative was called “Celebrazione dei Libri” (Book Celebration). In line with the spirit of this movement, IAWA – The Italian-American Writers Association, in collaboration with Dr. Giuseppe Perricone, Modern Language Department, are launching a “Sagra Del Libro” (Book Festival) on Friday, April 13 from 6 to 9 pm in the South Lounge of Fordham University’s Lincoln Center Campus, 113 West 60th Street (corner of Columbus Avenue) on the Mezzanine Floor. Admission is free to all.
All members of IAWA are invited to showcase their published books. There is no charge for individual authors but they must be members of IAWA. Non members wishing to participate must join IAWA first. Tables will be set up for the display of books and promotional materials, and authors will be available to speak with attendees and sign books. Also lively presentations consisting of readings and panel discussions by the authors will make for a fascinating evening of celebrating our Italian-American writers. Light refreshments will be served.
The Festival committee members are: Emelise Aleandri, Robert Agnoli, Jessica Femiania and Gil Fagiani. IAWA IAWA Authors wishing to participate in this event should contact Gil Fagiani immediately at fagianella@aol.com. Authors who are not yet members and who wish to join IAWA, please take this opportunity to join. Membership categories are: Student ($20), Senior ($20), Regular ($30), Associate ($100-249), Patron ($250- 499), Founder($500-1,000) and Benefactor ($1,000+). Payments and donations can be made through PayPal at http://www.iawa.net. For further information or any questions about IAWA, contact Dr. Robert Viscusi, President, at 718-951-5847 or at rviscusi@brooklyn.cuny.edu. Thank you in advance for your participation.
untitled – an exorcism
1
the one thing
my family did good
was cook
esp. dad
it was his job
ravioli
lentil soup
osso buco
bollito misto.
2
sunday dinners
the arguments
the silent chewing
in between
dad said
it was easier
to clothe nonna
than to feed her
the gulf stream
i was fat
mama was ignored.
3
sometimes
nonna would get mad
enough was enough
ma basta*
the gulf stream
one or two times
but too much
un insulto
basta
dad would continue
next sunday.
4
he said
you’re fat
he said
have some ravioli
you’re fat
have some gnocchi
you’re fat
have some cheese
you’re fat
have some torta
fat
panettone
fat
cioccolate
fat
fat
fat
fat.
5
when i was twenty-eight
i exercised like
no tommorrow
two hrs. on the bike
three times a wk.
three hrs. of wts. and nautilus
three times a wk.
two hrs. of martial arts
three times a wk.
i was
one hundred thirty-three lbs.
no fat
pure muscle
washboard abs.
dad never said
how good
i looked.
6
we’re eating dinner
he cooked for me
ravioli
roast baby lamb
with potatoes
i take another potato
he says
ma no, basta
you’re too fat
i lose it
i throw my plate
take the serrated knife
grab his hair
pull his head back
cut
cross the jugular
the cartoid
ear to ear
as he lays bleeding
i smash the four sets of dishes
hammer the copper pots
pile it all on top of him
i set the apt. on fire
i stand outside the door
i sing a greek chorus.
@1996 _Vittoria repetto
