POETRY SALON

Program Director: Kevin O'Sullivan

OPEN MIC

Program Director: Maria Villafranca

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Program Director: Victoria N. Alexander

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Come read, meet the publishers, celebrate four years of open mic...
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featuring Phillis Levin with Ciaran Berry
seating is limited rsvp@dactyl.org
suggested donation $10

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Saturday, September 20, 2008, 6-8PM

Cautionary Tale Poetry Reading/Book Party
Seven New York Performing Poets
$3 suggested donation
RSVP to maria@dactyl.org

Featuring all seven contributors to A Cautionary Tale: Peer into the lives of seven New York performing poets (Uphook Press, 2008) including ICE and Jane Ormerod, frequent readers at Dactyl's Open Mic/Emerging Poets series. MORE ->

Friday, June 6th, 2008
POETRY SALON 7:30 - 9:00

Marie Ponsot, Award-winning Poet and Mentor to Generations, with Kevin O'Sullivan, Dactyl Foundation's Emerging Poet of the Year. MORE ->

Saturday, May 10, 2008, 6-8PM
OPEN MIC
Poets are encouraged to register: write maria@dactyl.org. Please plan to read for no more than seven minutes.
A $100 award for the best performance went to John Gavin White
Judges: Maria Villafranca, Director, Open Mic/Emerging Poet Series
Victoria N. Alexander, Co-Founder, Director, Programs for Thought
Kevin O'Sullivan, Dactyl's Emerging Poet of the Year

October 20, 2007.

OPEN MIC Readers: Julie Abramoff, Joseph Pacheco, Jane Ormerod, Lydia Cortes, Richard Fein, Debra R. Andrews, Miles Morton.

June 9, 2007.

OPEN MICReaders: Lucia Cammarata, Judie David, Ice, Andrew Aaron, Robert Siek, Kevin O'Sullivan, Kevin Estrada, Gus Iversen, Phil Radiotes and Andy Tran.

May 6, 2007.

OEPN MIC Readers: Tom Oleszczuk, Karl Lorenzen, Richard Fein, Van Hartmann, Alkamal, Lucia Cammarata, Laurel Peterson, Debra R. Andrews.

Nov 9, 2006

FICTION, POETRY

SLSA Creative Writers Read,Sponsored by the New York State Council on the Arts

Bob Martinez, Laura Otis, Bruce Beasely, Suzanne Paola

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July 29, 2006. Two Year Anniversary Party & Reading featuring Jason Schneiderman
OPEN MIC

Jason Schneiderman is the author of Sublimation Point, a Stahlecker Selection from Four Way Books (2004). His poems and essays have appeared in numerous publications including Teachers & Writers, Tin House, Grand Street, American Poetry Review, Best American Poetry, and The Poetry Book of the Sonnet. He has received fellowships from The Corporation of Yaddo, The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and The Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference. A Chancellor’s Fellow at the City University of New York’s Graduate Center, he teaches creative writing for the Gotham Writers Workshop and literature at Hunter College.

June 24, 2006. Featuring Richard Jeffrey Newman

OPEN MIC

Richard Jeffrey Newman, a poet, essayist and translator, is the author of The Silence Of Men (CavanKerry Press, 2006), a book of his own poetry, and two books of translations from classical Persian literature, Selections from Saadi’s Gulistan and Selections from Saadi’s Bustan (both from Global Scholarly Publications, 2004 and 2006 respectively). Richard Jeffrey Newman sits on the advisory board of The Translation Project and is listed as a speaker with the New York Council for the Humanities. He is an Associate Professor in the English Department at Nassau Community College in Garden City, New York.

May 21, 2006.

OPEN MIC Featuring Timothy Liu. Readers: Gail Stoughton, Lucia Cammarata, Loren Kidd, Jonathan Coppola, Woody Loverude, John Findura, Tom Oleszczuk, Heller Levinson, Richard Jeffrey Newman, Karl Lorenzen, Frederick Speers, Linda Tieber, ice, Milan, Jason Fleeting, Viviana Gorell and Nelson Chimilio.

Timothy Liu is the author of six books of poems, most recently For Dust Thou Art (Southern Illinois University Press, 2005). His poems have been translated into seven languages, and his journals and papers are archived in the Berg Collection at the New York Public Library. He is an Associate Professor of English at William Paterson University and a member of the Core Faculty in Bennington College's Graduate Writing Seminars.

February 25, 2006.

OPEN MIC
Readers: Timothy Liu, Patricia Carragon, Emily Candace Shaw, Debra R. Andrews, Todd Cincala, Jessie Male and Nicole Spector.

January 21, 2006.
OPEN MIC Readers: Tom Oleszczuk, Patricia Carragon, Christian Georgesco, Bob Rainey, Debra R. Andrews, Todd Cincala, Richard Jeffrey Newman, Nelson Chimilio, Aglaia Davis, Iris Berman, Miriam Hartstein, Carrie Tocci and Nicole Salis.

December 13, 2005.

OPEN MIC

November 12, 2005.
OEPN MIC Readers: Lucia Cammarata, Debra R. Andrews, Peter Emile, Patricia Carragon, Mary Beth Shanahan, Todd Cincala, Kevin Estrada, Mary Kelly, Umoja, Glen River, Bob Rainey, Miriam Hartstein and Jennifer Burch.

October 21, 2005. Featuring Peter Covino & Jerry Williams
OPEN MIC Readers: Deborah Asch, Emily Candace Shaw, Robert Siek, Todd Cincala, Idalmis Toro, Karen Delasala, G Emil Reutter, David Curzon and Glen River.
Peter Covino's new book Cut Off the Ears of Winter (2005) was recently published by Western Michigan University/New Issues Press. His awards include the 2001 Frank O'Hara Chapbook Prize in Poetry; a scholarship from the Fine Arts Work Center; and two prestigious Steffensen Cannon Fellowships from the Dean of Graduate Programs at the University of Utah, where he is finishing his Ph.D. in English/Creative Writing. His poems have appeared in Colorado Review, Columbia, The Journal, The Paris Review, Verse, and The Penguin Anthology of Italian-American Writin

g among other publications. He is one of the founding editors of Barrow Street and Barrow Street Press.
Jerry Williams was born and raised in Dayton, Ohio. He received a BA from Vermont College and an MFA from the University of Arizona. His first collection of poems, Casino of the Sun (Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 2003), was a finalist for the prestigious Kate Tufts Discovery Award. His poetry and creative nonfiction have appeared in American Poetry Review, Crazyhorse, Exquisite Corpse, Hayden's Ferry Review, The Southeast Review, Barrow Street, Under the Sun, and many others. He has received a New Jersey Arts Council Fellowship, several Academy of American Poets awards, and recently a nomination for a Pushcart Prize. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the English Department at Marymount Manhattan College in New York City.

Friday Sept 16, 2005

FICTION READING Rebecca Goldstein Fiction reading. Goldstein was awarded a National Science Foundation Fellowship, a Whiting Foundation Fellowship, a MacArthur Fellowship and was elected to The American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her publications include: The Mind-Body Problem, The Late-Summer Passion of a Woman of Mind, The Dark Sister, (Whiting Writer's Award), Mazel (National Jewish Book and Edward Lewis Wallant awards), Properties of Light: A Novel of Love, Betrayal, and Quantum Physics, and Strange Attractors (National Jewish Book Honor Award).

September 10, 2005. One Year Anniversary Party & Reading.
OPEN MIC

Readers: Todd Cincala, Debra R. Andrews, Rachel Bennett, Kevin Estrada, ebony monique figueroa, Frederick Speers, Peter Carravetta, G Emil Reutter, Patricia Carragon, Ilene Starger, Mary Beth Shanahan, Tom Oleszczuk, Jane Bradbury, Richard Jeffrey Newman, Marjorie Dalrymple, Sharon Lynn Griffiths, Naren Gupte, Ruth Siekevitz, Joe Pacheco, Peter Marcus and Jane Ormerod.

August 4, 2005.

OPEN MIC Readers: Ilene Starger, Patricia Carragon, G. Emil Reutter, Karl Lorenzen, Albert Depas, Marjorie, Jane Ormerod, Alexis Beeth, Richard Fein, Debra R. Andrews, Frederick Speers and Kevin Barden.

June 4, 2005.

OPEN MIC

May 14, 2005. Featuring Richard Jeffrey Newman. Readers: Debra Andrews, A. K. Allin, Todd Cincala, Patricia Carragon, Tom Oleszczuk, Ilene Starger, Peter Emile, Jane Ormerod, Richard Fein, Ice.

Richard Jeffrey Newman is an essayist, poet and translator. His essays and poems have appeared in Changing Men, Salon.com, The American Voice, On The Issues, The Pedestal, Circumference, Prairie Schooner, ACM, Birmingham Poetry Review, Potomac Review among others. He has given talks and led workshops on writing autobiographically about gender, sex and sexuality. His first book, a translation, Selections from Saadi’s Gulistan, the 13th century Persian masterpiece, has just been jointly published by Global Scholarly Publications and the International Society for Iranian Culture. His own book of poems, The Silence Of Men, is forthcoming from CavanKerry Press. He is currently translating selections from Saadi’s other masterpiece, the Bustsan. He is an Associate Professor in the English Department at Nassau Community College. His website is www.richardjnewman.com.

April 21, 2005.Readers: Ilene Starger, Patricia Carragon, Richard Fein, Karl Lorenzen, Iris Berman

March 26, 2005.Readers: Rich Newman, Peter Emile, Patricia Carragon, Jane Ormerod, Ilene Starger,Richard Fein, Ondi Mcmaster, George Paterson, Ice, Deborah Asch, Lourdes Vazquez and Debra Andrews.

February 17, 2005. Readers: Joel Allegretti, Debra Andrews, Deanna Barillari, Peter Emile, Richard Fein, Douglas Korb, Karl Lorenzen, Albert Min, Robert Siek, Ilene Starger and Nate Stengrevics.

A New York City resident, Ilene Starger is working on her first collection of poems. Her poetry has appeared in Bayou and Oyez Review, and will appear in upcoming issues of The Georgetown Review and Paper Street. She received an Honorable Mention in the 2004 Ann Stanford Prize sponsored by the Southern California Anthology, and was a semi-finalist in the most recent New Millennium Writings Competition. For two decades, she has been a casting director for film and theater, and is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

January 22, 2005. Featuring poet Lance Phillips.
Lance Phillips holds degrees from the University of North Carolina and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. His first book, Corpus Socius, was published in 2002 by Ahsahta Press and his second, Cur aliquid vidi was released this past December from the same. His work has appeared in Aufgabe, Colorado Review, Fence and Slope among others. He lives in Charlotte, NC.

November 11, 2004. Readers: Alexis Beeth, Peter Carravetta, Rich Newman, Jane Ormerod, Maya Pindyck, Ilene Starger and Brian Unger.

August 19, 2004. Readers: Debra R. Andrews, Joselyn Almeida Beveridge, Todd Cincala, Geoffrey Cruickshank-Hagenbuckle, Christian Georgesco, Justin Lacour, Karl Lorenzen, Steven Matrick, Rich Newman, Jane Ormerod, Margarita Shalina, Robert Siek and Ilene Starger.

July 15, 2004. Readers: Debra R. Andrews, Peter Covino, Richard Fein, Joel Gold, Rene N. Hargrove, Justin Lacour, Timothy Liu, Rich Newman, Jane Ormerod, Laura Rothenberg, Robert Siek, Ilene Starger and Celest Woo.

Archive of Past Poetry Events

Lindsay Ahl
Meena Alexander
Agha Shahid Ali
John Ashbery
Joshua Beckman
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
Tom Breidenbach
Mahogany Brown
Peter Covino
Tim Davis

Stephen Dunn
Marcella Durand
Oona Frawley
Jonathan Goodman
Camille Guthrie
Gerrit Henry
Jen Hofer
Gad Hollander
David Hinton
Richard Howard
Laird Hunt
Krysia JopekPierre Joris
Vincent Katz
Tom Kelley
Jamie Kilstein
Galway Kinnell
Kenneth Koch
Sharon Lattig
Ann Lauterbach
Tricia Lin
Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill
Dan Machlin
Colum McCan
Timothy Liu
Jackson Mac Low
Jill Magi
Taylor Mali
Bernadette Mayer
Mark Mirsky
Stephen Mounkhall
Paul Muldoon
Eileen Myles
Monica Nepote
Richard Jeffery Newman

Jena Osman
Alan Michael Parker
Jive Poetic
Marie Ponsot
Heather Ramsdell
Carter Ratcliff
Cristina Rivera-Garza

Raphael Rubinstein
Stephen Sandy
Jason Schneiderman
Danzy Senna
Lytle Shaw
Laura Solorzano
Geny Turovsky
Cecilia Vicuna
Chuck Wachtel
Susan Wheeler
Jerry Williams
C.D. Wright
John Yau