If nothing else is noted specifically for a certain event the following General Admission Policy applies:
Admission $7, students/seniors/children $5, members FREE

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SEPTEMBER

September 3 , Friday - 6:30 PM
H.I.P. HOLLYWOOD INSTITUTE OF POETICS PRESENTS: Picasso Isn't Happy That Dali Got Angel Wings and Lorca Just Doesn't Care
An Evening of Poetry, Art & Music. Poetry by Eve Brandstein, Corrie Greathouse, Michael O’Keefe and Frankie Salinas. Art by Lysa Flores, Louie Metz and Hector Velez. Music by Lysa Flores. Art show opening at 6:30 pm. Poetry event starts at 8:00 pm followed by a musical performance by Lysa Flores.
Hosted By Rafael F J Alvarado & Brett Candace. FREE (but donations are appreciated.)
H.I.P. HOLLYWOOD INSTITUTE OF POETICS, established in April 2009, is committed to the perpetuation of PLC: Poetry, Literature and Community through Poetic Loving Care. Our numbers are committed to the on-going promotion of good works, good thoughts and good people by serving the poetic muse in the form of public readings, publication and the promotion of poetry everywhere.

Art work by Hector Velez

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September 4, Saturday 7:30 PM
CHARLES GOODRICH, ALEJANDRO ESCUDÉ and ERIC GUDAS
CHARLES GOODRICH worked for twenty-five years as a professional gardener and has also worked as a correctional work crew supervisor, a short-order cook and a carpenter. He now serves as Program Director for the Spring Creek Project for Ideas, Nature and the Written Word at Oregon State University. Goodrich lives and gardens in Corvallis, Oregon. His poems and essays are rife with the smells, sounds and precise visual details of a nature intimately known, of creatures living together in "a ceremony / of appetite." In addition to his new book, Going to Seed, he is the author of another volume of poems, Insects of South Corvallis (Cloudbank Books, 2003) and a collection of essays about nature, parenting and building his own house, The Practice of Home  (Lyons Press, 2004). His poems and essays have appeared in Orion, The Sun,Open Spaces, Willow Springs, Zyzzyva and many other magazines. A number of his poems have been read by Garrison Keillor on his National Public Radio Program, The Writer's Almanac. For more information please go to his website at www.charlesgoodrich.com 
ALEJANDRO ESCUDÉ is the author of Where Else But Here and Unknown Physics, two poetry collections published by March Street Press. He teaches English at St. Monica Catholic High School and holds a master’s degree in creative writing from UC Davis, where he won the 2003 UC Poet Laureate Award. Among other journals, his work has been published in Poet Lore, Rattle, Phoebe, The Lilliput Review, California Quarterly and Main Street Rag. He is originally from Argentina and lives in Los Angeles with his wife Jennifer and son Aaron. Here is his website in case you need further information on this poet alejandroescude.com
ERIC GUDAS's new book, Best Western and Other Poems, won the 2008 Gerald Cable Book Award from Silverfish Review Press. His work has appeared in The American Poetry Review, Crazyhorse, The Iowa Review, Poetry Flash, The Southern Review and other journals. If you are interested, you can visit his website at http://www.ericgudas.com for more information.

Eric Gudas

Charles Goodrich

Alejandro Escude

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September 5, Sunday 5:00 PM
OPEN READING with ANGEL PERALES and CHARLES CLAYMORE
ANGEL PERALES is a poet, filmmaker and author of The Brown Recluse (Rum Razor Press 2003) and The Curmudgeon and the Debutante (2010 Offworld Publications). CHARLES CLAYMORE is a poet, musician and author of Fall From Prescopia (2010 Sybaritic Press). Sign up at 4:45 PM. FREE!

Beyond Baroque Theater

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September 10, Friday 7:30PM
RED(D)RESS: MANDY  KAHN, STEVE WESTBROOK and NEIL AITKEN
MANDY KAHN's poetry has been anthologized in From Totems to Hip-Hop: A Multicultural Anthology of Poetry Across the Americas (Thunder’s Mouth) and she is co-author of Collage Culture.  STEVE WESTBROOK’s work has appeared in the journals RATTLE, Conduit and Hibbleton Independent. NEIL AITKEN is founding editor of Boxcar Poetry Review and author of The Lost Country of Sight (Anhinga).

Brendan Constantine

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September 11, Saturday 7:30 PM
CLAUDIA KEELAN and DONALD REVELL
CLAUDIA KEELAN is the author of six books of poetry including Refinery (Cleveland State University Poetry Prize), The Secularist (University of Georgia Press), Utopic (Alice James Books) and Missing Her from New Issues Press (2009), which received a starred review in Publisher’s Weekly. Critic Harold Bloom, in the preface to The Body Electric, The American Poetry Review’s Best Poetry wrote: “Claudia Keelan, new to me, is very welcome…she is endlessly enigmatic, again almost always what one hopes for in poems.” Of Utopic, the late poet Robert Creeley wrote: ”This profoundly moving book is fact of a consummate skill and the human possibilities it works to realize and to honor. In these poems Claudia Keelan keeps the faith for us all.” Born in California, Keelan has taught at universities in Iowa, Boston, Kentucky, Tennessee and Colorado. Since 1996, she has been at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where she works as a Professor of English and Creative Writing. She is also editor of the literary journal Interim (www.interimmag.org.). Her honors include the Jerome Shestack prize from The American Poetry Review, the Beatrice Hawley Award from Alice James Books, a Creative Achievement Award from UNLV, a Silver Pen Award from the Library Board of Nevada, and grants from the Kentucky Foundation for Women and the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation. Under the auspices of Interim, she is partner to www.lyrikline.org , an online poetry archive founded in Berlin, whose mission it is to serve poetry through translation. She lives in Las Vegas.
DONALD REVELL, born in Bronx, New York, is an American poet, essayist, translator and professor. Revell has won numerous honors and awards for his work, beginning with his first book, From the Abandoned Cities, which was a National Poetry Series winner. More recently, he won the 2004 Lenore Marshall Award and is a two-time winner of the PEN Center USA Award in poetry. He has also received the Gertrude Stein Award, two Shestack Prizes, two Pushcart Prizes and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as from the Ingram Merrill and Guggenheim Foundations. His most recent book is The Bitter Withy (Alice James Books, 2009). Revell has taught at the Universities of Tennessee, Missouri, Iowa, Alabama, Colorado and Utah. He currently teaches at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where he also resides with his wife, poet Claudia Keelan, and their children. In addition to his writing, translating and teaching, Revell was editor of Denver Quarterly from 1988-94 and has been a poetry editor of Colorado Review since 1996.

Donald Revell _____ Claudia Keelan

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September 12, Sunday 3:00 PM
Chopin with Cherries Anthology Reading
Chopin with Cherries (Moonrise Press, 2010) is an anthology celebrating the 200th birth anniversary of Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849) with 123 poems by 92 poets living in the U.S., England, France, Mexico, the Philippines and Poland - with roots in Poland, Australia, China, France, India, Italy, Malta, Mexico, the Philippines, Serbia, and other countries. The anthology, edited by music historian and poet, Maja Trochimczyk, includes classic verses by Emma Lazarus, Amy Lowell, T.S. Eliot and Cyprian Kamil Norwid. The volume is illustrated by vintage postcards of scenes from Chopin's life and death and interpretations of his music. 
MAJA TROCHIMCZYK is a poet, music historian and non-profit director born in Poland, educated in Poland and at McGill University in Canada (Ph.D., 1994) and living in California (www.trochimczyk.net). She published four books of music studies After Chopin; The Music of Louis Andriessen; Polish Dance in Southern California and A Romantic Century in Polish Music, two books of poetry illustrated with her photographs Rose Always and Miriam’s Iris, 2008, hundreds of peer-reviewed and popular articles on music and culture as well as over 70 poems. She currently serves as President of Modjeska Club of Art and Culture and Poet Laureate of Sunland-Tujunga. 
Readers include: 
Marlene Hitt
Georgia Jones-Davis
Lois P. Jones
Leonard Kress
Radomir Voytech Luza
Marie Lecrivain
R. Romea  Luminarias
Ruth Nolan
Kathi Stafford
Marilyn Robertson
Maja Trochimczyk
Kathabela Wilson
Erika Wilk

Maja Trochimczyk

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September 12, Sunday 7:30 PM
ALDEN MARIN and PABLO CAPRA
ALDEN MARIN grew up in Malibu and studied at Stanford as well as the Sorbonne. In addition to writing more than a dozen books of poetry, he paints and writes music. His books include Little Nuts, Herzog's Pig, Knee Driving and Pennies in the Parking Meter. Please visit www.aldenmarin.com for more information.
PABLO CAPRA is the publisher of Brass Tacks Press and former manager of Beyond Baroque's bookstore.
Author Aldin Marin __________

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September 17, Friday 7:30 PM
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Birthday Reading
Happy 127th Birthday, William Carlos Williams, Poet and Physician
Celebrated writer WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS is noted for his influence on the development of the poetic form in 20th century American literature. His distinctive poetry is marked by an exploration of human nature deepened by his lifelong commitment to his “day job” as a physician. Please join SA Griffin, Rafael F J Alvarado and Michael Leon as well as special guests as they read from the works of Dr. Williams and bring you your favorite Williams' poem. FREE!

Dr. William Carlos Williams

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September 18, Saturday 7:30 PM
CHIWAN CHOI and MELORA WALTERS: PROJECT ROOM OPENING
CHIWAN CHOI is a writer, editor, teacher and publisher. He has been a member of the Los Angeles Poets & Writers Collective since 1989 and his poems and essays have also appeared in numerous journals and magazines, including ONTHEBUS, Esquire and American Book Jam in Tokyo. Chiwan's first book of poetry, The Flood, has been published by Tia Chucha Press in April, 2010. He is a regular in the Los Angeles literary circuit, often invited as a featured poet at readings at the Hotel Cafe in Hollywood and the Los Angeles Central Library.
MELORA WALTERS resides in Los Angeles with her husband Alex and her two children, Tom and Joanna. Her chapbook of poetry and art, Sonnets and Failures, will be published by Finishing Line Press. Melora is also a professional actress (Magnolia, Matchstick Men, Wise Girls). Her art will be on display in the Project Room. 

Chiwan Choi ______ by Melora Walters

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September 19, Sunday 3:00 PM
FOUND & LOST MAGASCENE Release Party
FOUND & LOST is a bi-annual publication devoted to printing pure poetry/art.
Poetry readings by Frank T. Rios, S.A. Griffin, Michael Leon, Bob
Branaman, Marc Olmsted and Michael C. Ford. Hosted by Richard Modiano. FREE (but a donation is appreciated.)

Found & Lost Magascene cover

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September 24, Friday 7:30 PM
JULIE SHEEHAN and DOUGLAS KEARNEY
JULIE SHEEHAN is a 2008 recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award and author of two poetry collections, Orient Point, which won the Barnard Women Poets Prize, and Thaw, winner of the Poets Out Loud prize from Fordham University.  Other honors include a 2009 NYFA Fellowship in Poetry, the Elizabeth Matchett Stover Award from Southwest Review, the Robert H. Winner prize from Poetry Society of America, and, from Paris Review, the Bernard F. Conners prize.  Her poems have appeared in such magazines and anthologies as Parnassus, Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, Yale Review, Poem in Your Pocket, The Best American Poetry and 180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day, as well as the just-released anthology Seriously Funny: Poems About Love, God, War, Art, Sex, Madness, and Everything Else, edited by Barbara Hamby and David Kirby.  Her third collection, Bar Book: Poems & Otherwise, has been published by W.W. Norton in June, 2010.  She teaches in the MFA program at Stony Brook Southampton.
Poet, performer, librettist and educator, DOUGLAS KEARNEY lives in Southern California’s San Fernando Valley with his family. He has been a Whiting Writers Award winner, a Cave Canem and Idyllwild fellow, a MAP Fund grantee, a Pushcart Prize nominee and a Notable New American Poet (The Poetry Society of America, 2007). Kearney’s second manuscript, The Black Automaton (Fence Books 2009), is poet Catherine Wagner’s selection for the 2008 National Poetry Series. His first full-length collection, Fear, Some, was published by Red Hen Press in 2006. Kearney’s work has also appeared in a number of journals and anthologies, including Callaloo, nocturnes, Performance Research, jubilat, Washington Square, MiPOesias, Ninth Letter, Saints of Hysteria, The Ringing Ear and Spoken Word Revolution Redux. In addition, he has performed his poetry in venues from coast to coast, including NYC’s Public Theater, L.A.’s REDCAT and Minneapolis’ Orpheum. He has written the texts for two solo operas, Mordake (Erling Wold, composer) and Sucktion (Anne LeBaron, composer), each of which premiered in the summer of 2008 (San Francisco and Los Angeles, respectively). Sucktion has since been performed in the UK and Sweden and his most recent opera, Crescent City (LeBaron, composer), was showcased at the New York City Opera’s VOX festival in 2009. He earned an MFA in Writing in 2004 from the California Institute of the Arts. Please go to his website at www.douglaskearney.com to find more information about him.

Douglas Kearney ______ Julie Sheehan

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September 25, Saturday 7:30 PM
TONY BARNSTONE and MICHAEL HULSE
TONY BARNSTONE is Professor of English at Whittier College. Born in Middletown, Connecticut, and raised in Bloomington, Indiana, Barnstone lived for years  in Greece, Spain, Kenya and China before taking his Masters in English and Creative Writing and Ph.D. in English Literature at U.C. Berkeley. His poetry, translations, essays on poetics, and fiction have appeared in dozens of American literary journals, from APR to Agni. He has won fellowships and poetry awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the California Arts Council, the Pushcart Prize, the Paumanok Poetry Award, the Randall Jarrell Poetry Prize, The Sow's Ear Poetry Contest, the Milton Dorfman Poetry Prize, the National Poetry Competition (Chester H. Jones Foundation), the Pablo Neruda Prize in Poetry, the Cecil Hemley Award and the Poetry Society of America Award.  In 2006 he won the Benjamin Saltman Award in Poetry for his manuscript The Golem of Los Angeles, which was published by Red Hen Press in 2007.  He won the John Ciardi Prize in Poetry in 2008 for Tongue of War (forthcoming by BKMK Press) and won the grand prize in the Strokestown International Poetry Festival, in Strokestown, Ireland, in 2008. 
In addition to his many books of poetry, MICHAEL HULSE is a distinguished translator of over 60 books of German literature, including the one novel by Rainer Marie Rilke, a number of books by W.G. Sebald, and of novels by Nobel Laureate Elfriede Jelinek as well as by Nobel Laureate Herta Müller. He is also the editor of the literary journal The Warwick Review.  See him at Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hulse#Translations

Tony Barnstone ______ Michael Hulse

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September 26, Sunday 7:30 PM
MARJORIE BECKER and JONATHAN HARRIS
MARJORIE BECKER is the author of the poetry collection Body Bach and of the historical monograph, Setting the Virgin on Fire: Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán Peasants and the Redemption of the Mexican Revolution.  A fifth-generation Macon, Georgia Jewish native, she was trained in Spanish beginning in childhood.  She studied in Spain and served in the Peace Corps in rural Paraguay.  As a professional journalist, she wrote about race relations in the Deep South.  A Yale-trained historian of Latin American cultural history, much of her historical writing focuses on the Mexican revolution, Frida Kahlo, the power of dance, the worlds of longing.  She is an associate professor of Latin American History at the University of Southern California and lives in Santa Monica.
JONATHAN HARRIS received an MFA in Creative Writing from Pacific University and a Bachelor’s degree in Liberal Arts from St. John’s College.  A finalist for Cutthroat’s Joy Harjo Poetry Contest, his work has appeared in many magazines and journals.  Along with being head of development for the entertainment agency Atoll Productions, he serves as a judge for the Page International Screenwriting Contest.  A former Peace Corps volunteer, Jonathan lives in Los Angeles with his wife and kids. The Wave That Did Not Break is his first published book of poetry.

Marjorie Becker _______ Jonathan Harris

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September 30, Thursday 7:30 PM
POETRY RODEO WITH ELLYN MAYBE AND HER BAND
A monthly series with ELLYN MAYBE AND HER BAND performing songs from her poetry/music CD, Rodeo for the Sheepish (Hen House Studios) as well as other works.  Also, people can bring up to 5 minutes of poetry and the band will improvise behind them.

Ellyn Maybe and her Band 

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OCTOBER

October 1, Friday 7:30 PM
NO PLACE FOR A PURITAN ANTHOLOGY READING
Desert Writers' Showcase – Readings from No Place for a Puritan: The Literature of California’s Deserts (Heyday, 2009) with JEANETTE CLOUGH, GAYLE BRANDEIS, RUTH NOLAN, DEANNE STILLMAN and REBECCA K. O’CONNOR.
JEANETTE CLOUGH’s books include Island (Red Hen Press), Cantatas (Tebot Bach) and Celestial Burn (Sacred Beverage). She works at the Getty Research Institute.
GAYLE BRANDEIS is the author of the novels Delta Girls, Self Storage and The Book of Dead Birds, which won Barbara Kingsolver's Bellwether Prize for Fiction in Support of a Literature of Social Change. She's also the author of the young adult novel My Life with the Lincolns and a creativity guide, Fruitflesh: Seeds of Inspiration for Women Who Write.
RUTH NOLAN is the author of two collections of poetry, Wild Wash Road   (1996) and Dry Waterfall (2008), both with Petroglyph Books, and is a contributor to Inlandia: a literary journey through Southern California’s Inland Empire (Heyday, 2006.) She edits Phantom Seed, a literary magazine of desert writing, and teaches at College of the Desert.
REBECCA K. O’CONNOR is the author of  the award-winning memoir Lift published by Red Hen Press in 2009. She has published essays in South Dakota Review, Iron Horse Literary Review, Los Angeles Times Magazine, West, divide. Her novel, Falcon’s Return was a Holt Medallion Finalist for best first novel.
DEANNE STILLMAN is a widely published, critically acclaimed writer. Her latest book, Mustang: the Saga of the Wild Horse in the American West, was an L.A. Times "Best Book, 2008," and her previous book, Twentynine Palms: A True Story of Murder, Marines, and the Mojave, an L.A. Times "Best Book, 2001," was called "a strange and brilliant story by an important American writer," by Hunter S. Thompson.

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October 2, Saturday 7:30 PM
SASHA STEENSEN and JANE SPRAGUE
SASHA STEENSEN is the author of A Magic Book and The Method, both from Fence Books.  She co-edits Bonfire Press (http://coloradoreview.colostate.edu/bonfire.htm) and, along with Matthew Cooperman and Donald Revell, she edits the poetry for Colorado Review.  She teaches creative writing, American literature, letterpress printing and bookmaking at Colorado State University.
JANE SPRAGUE is the author of the books The Port of Los Angeles and, with Tina Darragh and Diane Ward, *Belladonna Elders Series 8. She is also author of the chapbooks Apache Roadkill, Sacking the Henwife, Entropic Liberties (with Jonathan Skinner) and fuck your pastoral, among others. Her poems, essays, reviews and interviews have been published in numerous print and online magazines including Columbia Poetry Review, Rain Taxi, How2, Jacket, ecopoetics, Tinfish, The Poetry Project Newsletter, Tarpaulin Sky, Hot Whiskey and others. Since 2004, she has edited and published the imprint Palm Press. She is an associate faculty member at Bard College's Institute for Writing and Thinking and its Workshop in Language and Thinking. She teaches writing at CSULB in Long Beach, California where she lives on an island with her family.

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October 3, Sunday 5 PM
OPEN READING WITH GEDDA ILVES AND STEVE BARRATA
GEDDA ILVES is the author of several books of poetry, including A View from Within (copyright 2008 Aquarius West Press) and Grains of Life (self-published 2005). STEVE BARRATA is a poet, activist and long-time supporter of the Beyond Baroque first Sunday of the Month Reading. Sign up at 4:45. FREE

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October 8, Friday 7:30 PM
FARRAH FIELD, JARED WHITE, MAUREEN ALSOP and LOUISE MATHIAS
FARRAH FIELD's poems have appeared in many publications including the Mississippi Review, Typo, Harp & Altar, La Petite Zine, Copper Nickel, Effing Magazine and Ploughshares and are forthcoming in Mantis, Cannibal and Memorious. Rising, her first book of poems, won the Four Way Books' 2007 Levis Prize. She lives in Brooklyn where she co-hosts a reading series called Yardmeter Editions. She blogs at adultish.blogspot.com.
JARED WHITE's poems have appeared or will appear in journals such as Action Yes, Barrow Street, Cannibal, Coconut, Fugue, Fulcrum, Harp & Altar, Laurel Review and Sorry 4 Snake. A chapbook, YELLOWCAKE, was part of the hand-sewn anthology, NARWHAL, from Cannibal Books. He also has written essays in Harp & Altar, Open Letters, and Poets Off Poetry. He lives in Brooklyn, where he co-hosts poetry readings at Yardmeter Editions and sometimes blogs at jaredswhite.blogspot.com.
MAUREEN ALSOP is the author of Apparition Wren and several chapbooks, most recently Luminal Equation in the collection Narwhal (Cannibal Press, 2009) and the dream and the dream you spoke (Spire Press) as well as Greatest Hits (Pudding House, pending). She is the winner of Harpur Palate's Milton Kessler Memorial Prize for Poetry and The Bitter Oleander’s Frances Locke Memorial Poetry Award. Her recent poems have appeared or are forthcoming in various journals including Blackbird, Front Porch Journal, AGNI, Tampa Review, Born Magazine, Kenyon Review, Whiskey Island, Drunken Boat, qarrtsiluni, Switchback and Pank.
LOUISE MATHIAS grew up in England and Los Angeles. She is the author of Lark Apprentice, which won the New Issues Poetry Prize and was published in 2004, as well as Above All Else, the Trembling Resembles a Forest, chosen by Martha Ronk for the Burnside Review Chapbook Contest. Her poems appear in journals such as Triquarterly, Pool, Barrow Street, Prairie Schooner and many others. Her literary criticism has appeared or is forthcoming in Poetry International and The Laurel Review.

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October 9, Saturday 7:30 PM
BRENDA PETRAKOS, RICHARD VARGAS, LISA GILL and AMELIE FRANK
BRENDA PETRAKOS' prose has been published in: Magna Poets, Huston Literary Review, Duke University Press, Maintenant 4 and more. You can find her book Stories From the Inside Edge at Amazon.com
RICHARD VARGAS graduated from Cal State Univ. Long Beach in 1978 and is currently enrolled in the Creative Writing MFA program at the University of New Mexico. In 1999 he was included in Rattle's tribute to Latino/Chicano poets. Poems from his first book, McLife, were featured on Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac/NPR 2/9 and 2/18, 2006. The book was runner-up in Rattle's 1st annual poetry contest, 2006. Vargas' second book, American Jesus, was published in the fall of 2007 by Tia Chucha Press. His poems have also appeared in The Wormwood Review, Main Street Rag, Blue Mesa Review, Willow Review, Rockford Review, Java Snob, Touched by Eros, Breakfast All Day (U.K.), Bilingual Review/Bilinque Revista, Chiron Review and others. He is publisher and editor of The Mas Tequila Review, first issue to be released in May 2010.
LISA GILL is a long-term New Mexico resident and recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry and a Gratitude Award from New Mexico Literary Arts. She just received her MFA with distinction from the University of New Mexico. She is the author of four poetry collections, including Red as a Lotus: Letters to a Dead Trappist (sonnets dedicated to Thomas Merton), Mortar & Pestle (poems about medicinal herbs), Dark Enough (haiku-esque meditations on the night sky) and The Relenting (a play—or scripted poem—about a woman encountering a rattlesnake in her living room, based on Lisa’s true story). She frequently collaborates with artists as well as musicians and values the process deeply.
AMELIE FRANK, formerly of Beyond Baroque's Board of Trustees, is now a Beyond Baroque Curator. She also served as a co-director of the Valley Contemporary Poets and is the author of five poetry chapbooks.

Lisa Gill

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October 10, Sunday 7:30 PM
MOLLY KAT GOLDBLATT AND JUSTIN VINOKUR
MOLLY KAT GOLDBLATT studied Creative Writing at Binghamton University and graduated in May 2010. She has attended SUNY Purchase, WCC and Cambridge University in England. She has had work published in Ragazine, ETC, Omega Magazine under Howling Dog Press alongside Charles Bukowski, several college journals and newspapers and has two chapbooks published, the latter under Black Swan Press. Currently a member of Binghamton University's slam team, she attended college nationals for the first time last year and made the national team this year as well. Two years ago, she made the Bowery Poetry Club's Intercollegiate Slam Team, was president of the Urban Poets Society and ran Westchester Community College's Slam Team.  Molly recently competed in the Women of the World Poetry slam in Columbus, Ohio as a storm poet. Also very recently, she became a slam master of the venue she started in Binghamton at a local bar called the Belmar, which is now PSI certified.  She also started, publishes, produces and edits a chapbooks series called Linus that has published poets from around the globe. Molly has shared the stage with Ainsely Burrows, John Survivor Blake, Caits Meissner, Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai, Shanelle Gabriel, Tantra Zawadi, Bonafide Rojas, Erik Words Maldonado, Tara Hardy, Tristan Silverman and many other talented poets.
JUSTIN VINOKUR's poetry has been described as being repeatedly punched in the face. He has a degree in English and Creative Writing from Binghamton University, where he started Binghamton's only Artistic Development Group called "Breeding Grounds".  Breeding Grounds is an environment aimed at fostering creativity between club members through the exchange of ideas, thoughts and artistic works. Justin is a two time Binghamton Slam Team member and was this year's Grand Slam Champion. He co-hosts the Belmar open mic and poetry slam series with MOLLY KAT GOLDBLATT. Justin creates all the beats he uses for his tracks and is an expert on sound and intricate rhyme schemes. Some of his biggest influences are Pharaohe Monch, Tonedeff, John Coltrane and Nat Turner.

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October 15, Friday 7:30 PM
RED(D)RESS: KIM NORIEGA, HEATHER HARTLEY and CHRISTIE FERRATO
Presented by Brendan Constantine, hosted by Elizabeth Iannaci, musical guest TBA.
HEATHER HARTLEY is the author of Knock Knock and her poems, essays and interviews have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies.  She lives in Paris where she is Paris editor for Tin House magazine, curates Shakespeare & Co.'s reading series and teaches poetry and creative writing at the American University of Paris.
The title poem of KIM NORIEGA's first book, Name Me, was a recent finalist for the 2009 Joy Harjo prize and her work can be found in a myriad of publications.  She lives in San Diego where she facilitates family literacy programs and teaches poetry to adults and teens in recovery homes and public libraries.

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October 16, Saturday 7 PM
AL YOUNG
AL YOUNG is a poet, novelist, essayist, screenwriter and former Poet Laureate of California. Muriel Johnson, Director of the California Arts Council, declared: "Like jazz, Al Young is an original American voice." Young’s many books include novels, collections of poetry, essays and memoirs. His work has appeared in literary journals and magazines including Paris Review, Ploughshares, Essence, The New York Times and in anthologies including the Norton Anthology of African American Literature, and the Oxford Anthology of African American Literature. Visit www.alyoung.org for more details.

Al Young

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October 16, Saturday 8:30 PM
MOLLY BENDALL and LAYNIE BROWNE
MOLLY BENDALL is the author four collections of poetry, After Estrangement, Dark Summer, Ariadne’s Island and most recently, Under the Quick from Parlor Press.  She also has a co-authored with the poet Gail Wronsky Bling & Fringe.   Her poems have appeared in the anthologies:  American Hybrid: The Norton Anthology of the New Poem,  American Poetry: The Next Generation and The Gertrude Stein Awards in Innovative Poetry. She teaches at the University of Southern California.
LAYNIE BROWNE is the author of nine collections of poetry and one novel.  Her most recent publications include: The Desires of Letters, The Scented Fox, and Daily Sonnets. Her honors include: the National Poetry Series Award of the Contemporary Poetry Series Award and two Gertrude Stein Awards for Innovative American Poetry.  She is one of the directors of the POG Reading Series, Tucson Arizona. She has taught creative writing at The University of Washington, Bothell, at Mills College in Oakland and at the Poetry Center at the University of Arizona, where she is  currently developing a poetry-in-the-schools program.

 

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