Holiday book choice: After the Aughts, Marty Esworthy

AFTER the AUGHTS, Worte und Musik, Marty Esworthy.

Truly a requirement for any modern aesthete's library. --Kyle R. Burton

http://www.lostalphabet.com/after-the-aughts/

          Marty Esworthy, a leading advocate for sound poetry and meta-verse. Esworthy, a Megaera award- winning poet, editor emeritus of Steel Point Quarterly, renowned poetry impresario  and founder of the Almost Uptown Poetry Cartel.

  He’s been published in numerous regional and national publications, including Haggard & Halloo, text_TOWER, Literary Chaos, Fledgling Rag, The Fox Chase Review , logodaedalus, Syzygy, The International Digest of World Poetry, and The Miserere Review.

Recent Esworthy tomes include hard reality, Pacobooks, 2004, and The Object Stares Back, Uh-Oh!, T&T Press, 2009.

  His collection Twenty-Six Javanese Proverbs won the 2006 R.E.Foundation Award for Outstanding Poetry from Iris G. Press in 2006. And, of course, his ground-breaking After the Aughts, Lost Alphabet, 2018.

  

   In 2006, Esworthy set in motion A Poets’ Tour of Harrisburg, a poetic stroll through the Capital City, impressed for posterity in a book and on a CD.

  A recent Pushcart nominee, he also teaches poetry composition and literary performance.

A cascade of world lyrics, AFTER the AUGHTS is a bright, genius-written, visually stunning Holiday book-choice, resoundingly acclaimed by aficionados as "best new verse collection of 2018!"

https://www.amazon.com/After-Aughts-Marty-Esworthy/dp/1948333821

Poet Richard Robbins Oct. 18 at Midtown Scholar

October 18-- Richard L. Robbins
is Poetry Thursdays' Feature
at Midtown Scholar

Richard Robbins, featured reader at the Midtown
Scholar Bookstore, October 18, grew up in
Southern California and Montana and graduated
from San Diego State University, and University
of Montana, where he studied with Richard Hugo
and Madeline DeFrees.

Robbins currently teaches at Minnesota State
University, Mankato.

Poetry Thursdays, a weekly, long-running literary
reading series features many talented writers,
poets, and artists, as well as wonderful guest
readers and headliners.

Poetry events, always Free and open
to the Public are hosted by the
Almost Uptown Poetry Cartel.  

The Cartel meets
every Thursday evening,
at the Midtown Scholar
Bookstore, 1302 North Third Street, (across
from the Broad Street Market) Harrisburg,
17102. Call 717.236.1680

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One Night Only-- Barbara DeCesare-- September 13!

Barbara DeCesare, on September 13, 
will be featured versifier at the Midtown Scholar Bookstore.

Doors open at 6:50pm, and good seats are limited so come early, especially in the event you'd like to perform in a brief, but vigorous, open reading 
which will precede DeCesare's presentation.

Barbara DeCesare speaks directly to you with simplicity, naturalness, and her own brand of humor that questions just about anything she finds interesting, tender, painful, and/or cruel. She's quite a fascinating performer.

DeCesare earned her MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College and teaches Creative Writing for HACC York. She is the author of the collections Jigsaweyesore, Adrift, Silent Type, some acts of fiction and a billion tiny plays. Poems and fiction by Barbara DeCesare have appeared in many literary journals, including Poetry, Alaska Quarterly, and Gargoyle Magazine. 

The Almost Uptown Poetry Cartel hosts open readings every Thursday at the Midtown Scholar Bookstore, 1302 North Third Street, Harrisburg, PA 17102 from 7-9PM. 
More: 717.236.1680

Marty Esworthy and Erika Eberly performing August 16

Two readers will be featured on Poetry Thursdays at the Midtown Scholar in mid-August. Marty Esworthy & Erica Eberle will strut their stuff on the 16th.

   

Erika Eberly grew up in suburban Maryland and went to High School in
nearby Westminster.  Eberly has been writing and reading poetry for years as
well as being actively involved in various arts pursuits.

She always wanted to be a performer and has performed in numerous dance
and theater presentations, most recently with Narcisse Theatre Company
in Harrisburg.

Marty Esworthy’s recent journal verse includes Haggard & Halloo,
text TOWER, Literary Chaos, Fledgling Rag, and the International Digest
of World Poetry.  His books include hard reality, Pacobooks, 2004, and The
Object Stares Back, Uh-Oh! - T&T Press, 2009.
Twenty-Six Javanese Proverbs was awarded the 2006 R.E.Foundation Award for Outstanding Poetry, Iris G. Press, 2006. Esworthy’s latest work is After the Aughts,
Lost Alphabet, 2018. https://www.amazon.com/After-Aughts-Marty-Esworthy/dp/1948333821/

Special Guest: Joun Catalano, mandolin, bass

COMING SOON:

Barbara DeCesare will perform at the Scholar on September 13th.  Maria James-Thiaw is featured October 4, and Jason Moffitt will declaim in November, on the 15th.

There's poetry every Thursday. All events run from seven to nine pm, 1302 N, Third Street, Harrisburg, 17102.  For more information: 717.236.1680

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A riff for two voices and theremin: [to be read, with dramatic urgency, but somewhat flatly, albeit as if reading a scientific report w/an edge.] Destination Moon V1: I’ll cry tomorrow. Looking out on creation, it feels/ like the edge of the Mare Librium is askew maybe three degrees to port. It’s dizzying. It's another and another aloof, unambiguously-lunar day-for-night, and vast breadths of beach on the North-coast of the mare fuse-- shimmering moongrain and wasteland into one/ long, quivering/ rectangular/ silver-gelatin/ print. V2: Westward leading, still proceeding. V1: Leeward leading/ still…. V2: Still coagulating. Cooling, scintillating into measureless darkening space swirling, still protean, amalgamating into an ever sorrowful asteroid belt of broken dreams. Undefined. Long dolorous flutes, like wands of impotent magicians. O, sea, of long forgotten sadnesses-- seriously, V1: What became/ of the early me? Thy bough and thy shaft, discomfiting, I weep/ for the rods not Tolkien. =================

Shishikuigawa, Near Midstream

V1. I'm chilling, I'm chillin', mama don't you tell on me, I'm chilling, I'm chillin', mama don't you tell on me, Hell's bells. Location sells.

V2. Parts of the first full week of June featured cool and unsettled conditions. In Tokushima cicadas arrived early, puzzling odorless, tasteless and colorless gas aficionados who can be found often massing in attics or behind the water heater and can go undetected for years. Short people.

V1. Pronunciations of words can diverge into their own distinct swarms—and about how the way we say even relatively rare words like cicada reflect much larger shifts in language. Most American families are overwhelmed by chatter and clutter, too busy to pronounce d's or t's for instance. Piaget and Chomsky have forgotten when to modulate or,  at worst how to harmonize. And they've become quite blase when discussing whether or not to clean out the garage this year.

V2. Colder conditions in winter can decrease indoor static levels, pitch, musk, sustainable reverb. That's why tonality levels often tend to fluctuate throughout the year.
V1. Since cicadas are singing summer melodies earlier than expected, multitudes of linguistic theoreticians are looking assiduously for answers. And, concurrently, ignoring many household maintenance problems

V2. One theory is that when houses are all sealed up tight against the cold weather, rhinoplasty abounds and vocal tones tend to be higher, less dulcet, leading to uninflected breathing, vocal strain and general frustration because there is not air flow enow to sooth the savage beast. Or breast if you'll pardon my French. 
V1. The leaves of a cherry tree are verdâtre and they are unfolding. On the other hand plum tree leaves are fully reddish purple and, mostly, unrolled. 

It's a grand night for dry weather-- it's expected on Friday and Saturday. Melodies, do in fact linger, and there will be a chance for a thunderstorm on Sunday during the final day for merriment and song.

V2. Goodgawd-a-mighty! Up so many prunus mume. Pride of the Susquehanna. Pride of the Yankees. Land of the Pilgrims. Abide, abide.

V2. Abide indeed! Willow, don't you weep for me.

Shishikuigawa, Near Midstream/ erika is V1.

...language is viral, time marches on, local artist showcase August 5th

Sound is a pressure wave, language is virulent, time marches on 


From 2pm until 8pm, August 5, there’ll be a Local Artist Showcase-- a gathering of Pennsylvania artists who will perform and sell their artwork. Sounds like a Sunday kinda thang?

Come to Cameron Street in the burg, connect with other artists. Music, Dance, Poetry performances, Books, Paintings, Fashion, Sculpture, and more will be, like, all over the place. 

Lindsey Simmons will be there, and Kevyn Knox. Listen for Jose Morales, Meghan Morrison, and Marty Esworthy. See works by Nicole Herbert and Michael Washienko, to name a few.



           So, hey, it all happens               August 5th from 2pm to 8pm 
           at the Appalachian Brewing Company 
        50 N Cameron St, Harrisburg, PA 17101. 
           Tickets are $7 at the door.

                             there is still time brother..

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August 16, Midtown Scholar, Marty Esworthy & Erika Eberly

 MARTY ESWORTHY (a/k/a ZUKY THE K) 

         AND ERIKA EBERLY

will be presenting hip, incendiary verse at

 the MidtownScholar August 16.      

Mark your calendars, hug your children and be ready, damn it, it's time.

Yes-- Marty Esworthy & Erika Eberly featured at the Midtown Scholar

Bookstore, Third and Verbeke. 17102.

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Michael R. Brown featured performer July 26 at Midtown Scholar Bookstore.

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July 26 at Poetry Thursdays, Michael R. Brown will be featured performer at the Midtown Scholar Bookstore in Harrisburg, PA. Keith Snow will be guest host for this occasion, and he'll also moderate a brief open reading before Brown's performance.

Michael R. Brown was born in Philadelphia in the first half of the last century. He grew up in Marietta and Columbia and graduated from Lancaster Catholic High School.

He attended the University of Scranton and taught in an all-black, all-girls high school.  His university work included a dissertation in the poetry of the Harlem Renaissance.

Brown has had four books of poetry published: FallingWallendas, Tia Chucha (1994); The Man Who Makes Amusement Rides, Hanover Press (2003); Susquehanna, Ragged Sky (2003); The Confidence Man, Ragged Sky (2007).  

Michael R. Brown was part of the burgeoning slam poetry movement in Chicago back in the day and was instrumental in spreading the phenomenon throughout New England.  He and Patricia Smith established The Cantab (1992) in Cambridge, MA, carried the slam to Sweden, and led a US national championship team in 1993.

He and Erkki Lappalainen organized the first Poetry Olympics in Stockholm in 1998. He also created Dr. Brown’s Traveling Poetry Show, a two-hour theater production.

From 2008 until 2016, Brown, and his wife Valerie Lawson put out Off the Coast, an international poetry quarterly. In 2017 they established Resolute Bear Press, which published a book of his political poems, The Martin Bormann Dog, Care Book, and her 3 Nations Anthology with writing from Canada, Native American people, and New Englanders.

The Almost Uptown Poetry Cartel hosts Poetry Thursdays, a long time reading series, every Thursday evening, from 7:00 to 9:00 PM, at the Midtown Scholar Bookstore, 1302 North Third Street, (across from the Broad Street Market) Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17102.  Ph: 717.236.1680.

Rick Kearns-- an exciting midsummer performance at the Midtown Scholar, July 12

Surprise! Rick Kearns will be dazzling mid-staters
with amazing verse during a special midsummer
performance at the Midtown Scholar!

Foothills Publishing issued a collection of Kearns poetry called Rufino’s Secret in December 2012.  
His poetry has also been published in three chapbooks and two full collections: Street of Knives
(Warm Springs Press, 1993), Boricua In Between(1997), Jazz Poems (1997), Endtime Poems,
(1998, Pacobooks), and in 2007 he published The Body of My Isla.  Red Pagoda Press has
published five of his poems in brochure form since 2000.

Kearn’s is a heckuva performer, Here's a taste:
https://soundcloud.com/rickkearnsconalma/the-moon-rides-a-black-horse-r  

From seven until nine p.m. on Thursday, July 12,
Rick Kearns will be featured at the Midtown Scholar Bookstore.

more info: 717.236.1680.

Coming: July 26, Michael R. Brown will be featured poet.

June 21, Annie Ginder featured at Poetry Thursdays

Annie Ginder featured at Poetry Cartel Event

Annie Ginder is a talented poet and singer/songwriter. For many years Ginder performed covers and her own tunes, accompanying herself on guitar, as well as giving readings of her gritty, clever and insightful poems. She has done readings in the Central Pa region and throughout the Eastern Seaboard.

She's a compelling performer. Ginder's verse has been characterized as "both precise-- to the point-- and fierce. Regardless of subject matter there's always an edge. like thunder bursting through filigrees of green forest."

Poetry events, all open to the public, are happening every Thursday, hosted by the Almost Uptown Poetry Cartel. at the, Midtown Scholar Bookstore, 1302 North Third Street, Harrisburg, PA 17102. More info: (717) 236-1680.

March 15, Poetry Thursdays at Midtown Scholar

Poetry Cartel Event, open mic, Midtown Scholar

Open poetry reading, March 15, Poetry Thursdays at Midtown Scholar, just across the street
from the Market House on Third, and, to the left, or South, a postal box, with requisite graffiti,
& a coupla trees on Verbeke.

This event, 7--9pm, is hosted by the Almost Uptown Poetry Cartel.

A theme is suggested for events, this weeks’ theme is like-- Ides of March. But, the theme
mandatory, just a suggestion. Read what you like. Sit and just listen, if you want.
But,the poetry’s pretty good, and if you’re inspired, jump in.

The Scholar is sitting pretty, with a marquee that says MIDTOWN, at 1301 North Third Street,

and a two-hour open reading with roughly, an eight minute, 47 second break around 7:55pm.

No sign-up sheet, it's all Quaker style.

Everything’s waiting for you.
Hosted by the Almost Uptown Poetry Cartel,

Listen, share. Declaim. Yeah! (717) 236-1680.

Open-Poetry-Reading, March 8, Midtown Scholar

Open Mic, March 8th

Early-March Open-Poetry-Reading, March 8.

Continuous verse, Midtown Scholar Bookstore,
every Thursday, hosted by the Almost Uptown
Poetry Cartel.

Listen, share. Declaim. Let your spirit soar.
1302 N. 3rd St. 17102. 7-- 9pm. (717) 236-1680

Stop by,

maybe read your poetry.

Or, that favorite poem
that first inspired you to read

or write poetry. Share it. Own it.

We’d really like to hear it. No kidding.