Thurs 10/26 Phyllis Capello & Angela Alaimo O’Donnell Read at Women’s /Trans’ Poetry Jam – Bluestockings
Women’s & Trans’ Poetry Jam & Open Mike for Women & Trans’
Thursday – October 26th 7pm – 9pm
Writers: Phyllis Capello & Angela Alaimo O”Donnell
Phyllis Capello writes about women & their work. She’s a writer/musician from Brooklyn. Her poetry collection, “Packs Small Plays Big,” is forthcoming from Bordighera Press
Angela Alaimo O’Donnell will read from her newest collection, STILL PILGRIM–poems that focus on the nature of the human pilgrimage, especially as seen from the perspective of a woman. In Mary Gordon’s words, O’Donnell “makes the daring move of including what has been considered undesirable subject matter for contemporary writers: the ordinary lived life of women, and the ardor and anguish of a religious life.” In addition, she will read from a project she is currently working on–poems channeling the voice of writer Flannery O’Connor.
Bring your poetry, your prose, your songs, and your spoken word.
$10 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
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
Thurs 9/28 – Mary Giaimo & Emily Vogel Read at Women’s & Trans’ Poetry Jam – Bluestockings
Women’s & Trans’ Poetry Jam & Open Mike for Women & Trans’
Thursday – September 28th 7pm – 9pm
Writers: Mary Giaimo & Emily Vogel
Mary Giaimo has occupied many in-between spaces in her life, as an expatriate American teaching English in Italy, an expatriate Midwesterner in New York, a middle-school teacher (in a mostly Italian school), and as a fairy step-parent—a counter-narrative to the sexist trope of the wicked stepmother. Her work is about drift as a poetic process, about movement and language into psychic and physical spaces between myth and fairy tale, prose and poetry, linear and fragmented vision.
Emily Vogel considers herself a third – wave feminist poet, whose themes in her poetry range from domesticity, to Catholicism, to family and children, to larger ontological & philosophical precepts. All of this aspires to the impossibility of “perfect” love. Her poetry is often surreal, sometimes lyrical, with a broken narrative.
Bring your poetry, your prose, your songs, and your spoken word.
$10 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
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
Thurs 7/20 Iris N. Schwartz & Dawn Leas Read at Women’s & Trans’ Poetry Jam – Bluestockings
Women’s & Trans’ Poetry Jam & Open Mike for Women & Trans’
Thursday July 20th 7pm – 9pm
Feature Writers: Iris N. Schwartz & Dawn Leas
A major theme of Iris N. Schwartz is a protagonist overcoming barriers to become her or his true self. The barriers can be physical, psychological, or otherwise. Another theme is celebrating one’s sensual self.
Dawn Leas writes about the connectedness and disconnect between people and place usually places a significant role in her writing. She also writes about motherhood, religion and spirituality and addiction.
Bring your poetry, your prose, your songs, and your spoken word.
$10 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
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
Thurs 6/29 LuLu Lolo & Christie Barron Read at Women’s & Trans’ Poetry Jam – Bluestockings
Women’s & Trans’ Poetry Jam & Open Mike for Women & Trans’
Thursday June 29th 7pm – 9pm
Feature Writers: LuLu LoLo & Christie Barron
LuLu LoLo has written and performed eight one-person plays Off-Broadway that evolve from her passion for historical research and social justice, especially as pertaining to the dramatic struggle of women in New York City’s past. Her recent project “Where are the Women?” highlights the lack of public monuments honoring women in New York City.
Christie Barron writes from a place of raw honesty, as if there is any other way, about being a human. Her writing is just one platform she plays with an attempt to explore the tenderness we all share in being imperfectly perfect.
Bring your poetry, your prose, your songs, and your spoken word.
$10 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
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
Thurs 5/25 Amy Barone & Amanda Bradley Read at Women’s & Trans’ Poetry Jam – Bluestockings
Women’s & Trans’ Poetry Jam & Open Mike for Women & Trans’
Thursday May 25th 7pm – 9pm
Feature Writers: Amy Barone & Amanda Bradley
Amy Barone’s new but yet to be published collection of sixty-one poems, We Became Summer, features pierces imbued with color and humor that touch on the themes of music, nature, family conflict, and the essence of place. Her ultimate goal is to write and publish poetry that appeals to a broad mix of readers.
Amanda Bradley’s recent book from NYQ books, Queen Kong, opens with a section of prosy autobiographical poems chronicling childhood through graduation from college followed by a middle section of lyric poems. The last section of the book is a collection of feminist poems that she wrote in dialogue with famous feminists across history.
Bring your poetry, your prose, your songs, and your spoken word.
$7 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
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
Thurs 4/20 Tammy Remington & Miles M. Crabtree Read at Women’s & Trans’ Poetry Jam – Bluestockings
Women’s & Trans’ Poetry Jam & Open Mike for Women & Trans’
Thursday March 30th 7pm – 9pm
Feature Writers: Tammy Remington & Miles M. Crabtree
Tammy Remington will read stories written on themes of the Burning Man Festival 2012 (Fertility 2.0), 2013 (Cargo Cult) and 2014 (Caravansary) and for each year, she wrote a story, made it into a little book with cover art created by her partner, AleXander Hirka, and gifted copies of it at Burning Man. Now she’s giving the stories to us.
Bring your poetry, your prose, your songs, and your spoken word.
$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
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
Apr. 7th – Celebrating Poetry & Two Italian American Journals
Via, Edited by Chiara Mazzucchelli
Readers: John Bargowski, Gil Fagiani, Mary Giaimo, Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Maria Lisella, Susan Miller, Vittoria repetto, Maria Terrone
Italian Americana, edited by Carla Simonini
Readers: B. Amore, Phyllis Capello, Terese Coe, Peter Covino, Marisa Frasca, Joanna Clapps Herman, Angela Alaimo O’Donnell, Richard Parisio
Moderated by Maria Terrone and Peter Covino
Friday • April 7, 2017 • 6:00 PM Reception to follow. Books available for purchase.
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute 25 West 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York, NY 10036 RSVP: 212-642-2094
Thurs 3/30 Miriam Stanley & Tsaurah Litzky Read at Women’s & Trans’ Poetry Jam – Bluestockings
Women’s & Trans’ Poetry Jam & Open Mike for Women & Trans’
Thursday March 30th 7pm – 9pm
Feature Writers: Miriam Stanley & Tsaurah Litzky
Bring your poetry, your prose, your songs, and your spoken word.
$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
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.
Thurs 2/23 Bina Sharif & Maria Lisella Read at Women’s & Trans’ Poetry Jam – Bluestockings
Women’s & Trans’ Poetry Jam & Open Mike for Women & Trans’
Thursday Feburary 23rd 7pm – 9pm
Feature Writers: Bina Sharif & Maria Lisella
Bina Sharif is writing about dreams; it’s called “Dream Projects”. Some dreams turn into nightmares but she guesses it’s ok. We are going through a nightmare any way.
Maria Lisella has been revisiting themes of loss, survival, searching for joy and gratitude. And she visits those themes through the eyes of others in short and longer forms.
$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
http://www.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 1/31 Hilary Sideris & Rosalie Calabrese Read at Women’s & Trans’ Poetry Jam – Bluestockings
Women’s & Trans’ Poetry Jam & Open Mike for Women & Trans’
Tuesday Jan 31st 7pm – 9pm
Feature Writers: Hilary Sideris & Rosalie Calabrese
Hillary Sideris writes about encounters on trains and elevators, in check-out lines and baggage claims, interactions with my fellow humans and their works, exchanges both alienating and uplifting.
Rosalie Calabrese’s major themes are family and other relationships, travel, and social commentary. Her poems, being somewhat confessional, ofter contain a mix or more of the above.
$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
