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I will be reading from recent work at Brooklyn's Green Pavilion Reading Series, scheduled for 7 pm on Halloween night, with Cindy Hochman and Marion Palm. Hosted at the Green Pavilion Restaurant, join us for an evening that promises to be interesting and enjoyable.
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Information from host Evie Ivy about the event:
An Evening of Poetry: The Green Pavilion Poetry Event
(One of the longest running NYC poetry venues found at 4307-18th Avenue, Bk 11218 (between McDonald Ave. & E. 2nd St.) F train to 18th Avenue - last cars, right staircase down to street, you will be standing on 18th Ave near McDonald Ave, and walk about 1/2 block from there. $4.00 suggested donation, $6.50 to the restaurant (reasonably priced menu. Halloween-Costumes: optional. Join us-under the chandeliers!)
In the hall where wedding, birthday, "events" are held, we celebrate the spoken word! Have dinner with the muse - all nine of them - at this "gala" reading for poetry. We celebrate this month with these much loved poets:
Well published in diverse journals, author of 15 books, award-winning poet
CINDY HOCHMAN Proofreader, poet, book reviewer, Editor-in-Chief of First Literary Review-East MARION PALM
Activist, songstress (in ten languages), author of "Reflections from an Urban Poet"
Plus an Open Mic (music & song okay)
Our poets in brief:
Brooklyn-born STEVEN SHER has taught, edited and published widely since the 1970s. His 15 books include his most recent "Uncharted Waters" from New Feral Press in 2017. Recent appearances range from Veils, Halos & Shackles: International Poetry on the Oppression and Empowerment of Women to New Voices: Contemporary Writers Confronting The Holocaust. Symphony Space (Selected Shorts) and Poetry In Motion have featured him. In November he will receive the Glenna Luschei Distinguished Poet Award, headlining the 35th annual San Luis Obispo Poetry Festival in California.
MARION PALM is co-founder of Poets Under Glass, incorporated in 1987. She is an internationally published poet and writer, who sings in 10 languages. She has authored six chapbooks and five non-fiction books, with grants and awards. In 2017, she was inducted into the ANA (Alumni of Notable Achievement) by the dean of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota at a ceremony in Minneapolis. Her most recent book is a 30-year anthology of performance poems collected from appearances on the NYC readings circuit, called Reflections from an Urban Poet.
CINDY HOCHMAN is a proofreader, editor, poet, and book reviewer. Her reviews appear in The Pedestal Magazine, Clockwise Cat, Home Planet News, great weather for MEDIA, and American Book Review. She is the editor-in-chief of the online poetry journal First Literary Review-East. Her writing has been published in national and international journals and has been translated into Italian and Turkish. She has written 75 collaborative poems with her partner-in-poetic crime, Mr. Bob Heman. Her most recent chapbook is "Habeas Corpus" from Glass Lyre Press.