Tues. 3/31 Mo Kelly & Elizabeth Clark Read at Women’s & Trans’ Poetry Jam at Bluestockings
Women’s & Trans’ Poetry Jam & Open Mike for Women & Trans’
Tuesday March 31st 7pm – 9pm
Feature Writers: Mo Kelly & Elizabeth Clark
Mo Kelly writes stories, poems and plays about love and courage; philosophical/sociological themes; or funny anecdotes or jabs at the human condition. Her work can be bold and startling or overly-sentimental depending on who she is when writing.
Elizabeth Clark’s work is the quiet language of thought, and a compliment of words. Her work is thematically eclectic, with effecting substruction of time, light, memory, color, and season.
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 only) – 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 2/24 Jane Grenier & Leigh G. Phillips Read at Women’s & Trans’ Poetry Jam at Bluestockings
Women’s & Trans’ Poetry Jam & Open Mike for Women & Trans’
Tuesday Feb. 24th 7pm – 9pm
Feature Writers: Jane Grenier & Leigh G. Phillips
Naked and pure, Jane Grenier is a fine conjurer of sinewy imagery. A radically jagged-edged writer, she throws a sarcastic blow at the bling and posturizing of modern fashion with brutal precision. Her writings are the voice of dissention, politically challenging, socially relevant and thoroughly entertaining.
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 only) – 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. 12/30 Elizabeth Morse & Stephanie Schroeder Read at Women’s & Trans’ Poetry Jam at Bluestockings
Women’s & Trans’ Poetry Jam & Open Mike for Women & Trans’
Tuesday Dec 30th 7pm – 9pm
Feature Writers: Elizabeth Morse & Stephanie Schroeder
Elizabeth Morse is writing about people who take too many — or too few — risks in their lives. In recent years, I have been doing some political writing, triggered by fallout from the financial crisis of 2008. There were casualties. A character in my fiction has taken to embezzlement in hopes of becoming a reverse Robin Hood.
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 only) – 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 Nov 25th Deirdre Sinnot & Hilary Sideris Read at Women’s & Trans’ Poetry Jam at Bluestockings
Women’s & Trans’ Poetry Jam & Open Mike for Women & Trans’
Tuesday Nov 25th 7pm – 9pm
Feature Writers: Deirdre Sinnot & Hilary Sideris
Deirdre Sinnot is working on a novel set in Utica, New York in 1835. It’s about a woman who discovers a family who are running away from slavery hiding in her shed. Her husband is part of the formidable opposition to the founding meeting of the New York Anti-Slavery Society that is being organized for late October in Utica. The woman must decide whether or not she will defy her husband and help the escaping slaves. The title of the book is The Comet.
Hilary Sideris will be reading from her new book, Most Likely to Die, poems in the voice of Keith Richards, based on his memoir, Life.
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 only) – 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 10/28 Julia Steele Allen & Poonam Srivastava Read at Women’s & Trans’ Poetry Jam at Bluestockings
Women’s & Trans’ Poetry Jam & Open Mike for Women & Trans’
Tuesday October 28th 7pm – 9pm
Feature Writers: Julia Steele Allen & Poonam Srivastava
Julia Steele Allen is a writer, performer, musician, activist and community organizer. Her writing centers on themes of rebellion, tragic beauty and making alchemy out of the tough times. She will be reading (in part) from her sci-fi/ fantasy trilogy where the “World of Imagination” overthrows the “World of Prisoners.” www.juliasteeleallen.com
$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 only) – 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.
Tue 9/30 Laura Boss & Bina Sharif Read at the Women’s/Trans’ Poetry Jam at Bluestockings
Women’s & Trans’ Poetry Jam & Open Mike
Tuesday September 30th 7pm – 9pm
Feature Writers: Laura Boss & Bina Sharif
Laura Boss’s recent themes include searching for love on the internet and the usual themes of love,loss and betrayal( even of oneself).
Bina Sharif will read from her on going project of, “Stream of consciousness of singing birds.” It consists of memories past and present, thoughts of leaving and arriving and never leaving, observations on things amazing and,tragic and funny..
$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.
Poem: l’rondini di framura (the swallows of framura)
up from africa
for the season
to feast on insects
eating orchid fruits
and to hatch their babies
under drain pipes
and the corners of tunnels.
peaceful jets,
they pitch,
roll,
glide,
and float
down narrow sloping streets
and circle anicient towers.
©- 2014 – Vittoria repetto
poem: the protector
after mamma died,
nonna would sleep with me
in the big bed
in my parent’s apt.
dad coming home
after the restaurant closed
slept in my old bed.
as a teen
i wanted my own space
but had none.
i sometimes woke nonna up suddenly
as i in an adolescent sex dream
grabbed her.
and in the summer,
she liked the a.c. high
and i didn’t.
years after she died,
an old friend of nonna’s told me
nonna had heard
of widowers taking their daughters
and though she thought
dad was not the type,
she was going to make sure.
©- 2014 – Vittoria repetto
a poem of thanks
in my 20’s,
coming home
3am from the dyke bar
i climb the stairs up from dekalb station.
a monarch butterfly flutters on the stair lights;
lost from its course.
thinking someone might hurt it,
i wait ‘til it closes
its wings together,
softly grab the paired wings
wait for it to relax its legs;
once taught to me by the old italian guy
who grew morning glories
next to the bocce court on leroy
when i was a kid.
i cup the monarch in my hands like a prayer.
out on the street, 3 young black guys
coming from where i need to go say
hey dyke!
where you going, dyke!
i figure i’m in trouble
then i remember
i still have the butterfly
and need it let it go.
i turn,
face my future beaters,
lift buddhist prayer hands to my face,
open and push the butterfly away.
it flies towards their faces.
the 3 guys duck,
confused and startled.
as the monarch goes safely to its course,
i too
go safely home.
©- 2014 – Vittoria repetto
poem: summer 2014 – chinatown park
80 degrees
and the water games begin:
ballons and space guns
block vs block,
girls vs. boys,
b ball team vs. b ball team
run, throw, retreat,
repeat.
in their enthusiasm,
they rain
near misses on the daily bench sitters.
an old chinese woman,
resting from her collection
of discarded water bottles,
yells her distain.
©- 2014 – Vittoria repetto
