Ibis Reading and Performance Series features novelist Gina Apostol and poet Patrick Rosal. Location TBD.

The Distinguished Poets Series of readings is held on Saturdays at 1 pm on the dates listed below at the Poetry Center, 32 Church Street, Paterson, New Jersey. 

All readings are free and open to the public. Open readings follow the featured readers when time allows. 

Tanya Olson lives in Silver Spring, Maryland and is a Lecturer in English at University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC). Her first book, Boyishly, was published by YesYes Books in 2013 and was awarded a 2014 American Book Award. She has won the Discovery/Boston Review prize and was named a Lambda Emerging Writers Fellow by the Lambda Literary Foundation. Her poem "54 Prince" was included in Best American Poetry 2015.

Patrick Rosal is the author of four books of poetry, most recently Brooklyn Antediluvian, which was a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Award and winner of the Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets. Rosal’s other three books are Boneshepherds, My American Kundiman, a winner of the Association of Asian American Studies Book Award, and Uprock Headspin Scramble and Dive, winner of the Asian American Writers Workshop Members’ Choice Award. His writing has appeared in Tin House, New England Review, Poetry, Best American Poetry, Grantland, and many other journals and anthologies. The recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Fulbright Research Program, Rosal has been a featured performer internationally in Greece, South Africa, the UK and at various spaces in the Caribbean, South America, and the Philippines. He is an Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University-Camden.

Workshop with Tanya Olson or Patrick Rosal 10 am to 12 pm

with Douglas Piccinnini and Taps Drum Line 

Poetry & Prose Panel with Camille Dungy and Patricia Lockwood

I'll be reading with D. Nurkse

Craft Talk Date/Time: Sunday, April 22, 11 a.m.-11:45 a.m.
Reading Date/Time: Sunday, April 22, 4:15 p.m.-5:15 p.m.

After NJSO's performance of Dvorak, Maria Mazziotti Gillan and I will be reading poems

Please join me on December 15th for FREE WATER #22 which will feature four wonderful poets/artists/writers including Chase Berggrun, Marina Carreira, Patrick Rosal and Ricardo Maldonado. 

Chase Berggrun is a trans poet. They are the author of R E D, forthcoming from Birds, LLC in 2018. Their work has appeared in the Lambda Literary Spotlight, Barrelhouse, Pinwheel, PEN Poetry Series, Sixth Finch, Diagram, The Offing, Beloit Poetry Journal, & elsewhere. They received their MFA from New York University, & they are poetry editor at Big Lucks. They are alive on the internet: @patriphobe.

Marina Carreira is a Luso-American writer from Newark, NJ. She holds a MFA in Creative Writing from Rutgers University, and is curator of "Brick City Speaks," a monthly reading series in Newark. Marina’s chapbook, “I Sing to That Bird Knowing It Won’t Sing Back” was published May 2017 by Finishing Line Press. Her work is featured in Paterson Literary Review, The Acentos Review, Pittsburgh Poetry Review, Hinchas de Poesia, among others.

Ricardo Alberto Maldonado was born and raised in Puerto Rico. He is the translator of Dinapiera Di Donato's Collateral (National Poetry Series/Akashic Books) and the recipient of poetry fellowships from Queer/Arts/Mentorship and the New York Foundation for the Arts. His poems and translations have appeared or are forthcoming in Poetry, Boston Review, Guernica, Denver Quarterly and elsewhere. He is managing director at the 92Y Unterberg Poetry Center and co-hosts the EMPIRE reading series with Hafizah Geter.

A 2017 John Simon Guggenheim Poetry Fellow, PATRICK ROSAL is the author of four full-length poetry collections. His newest book, Brooklyn Antediluvian (2016), was a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Award for Poetry and winner of the Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets. Previously, Boneshepherds (2011) was named a small press highlight by the National Book Critics Circle. He is also the author of My American Kundiman (2006), and Uprock Headspin Scramble and Dive (2003). He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, and the Fulbright Scholars Program. He teaches in the MFA program at Rutgers-Camden. 

Two old friends meet again who could occupy either page or stage! Hosted by Steven Willis.

"Where the Pulitzer Prize meets the Poetry Slam." We are now BACK where we started over a decade ago: The Bowery Poetry Club! Two poets take the stage together and read back and forth, poem for poem, in an ongoing poetic conversation about where poetry exists. Visit www.PageMeetsStage.com for the full schedule of who is meeting whom each month. Pairings occur on the fourth Sunday of every month from September through November. We typically take June, July, and August off. We are now ALL AGES! NO REFUNDS AVAILABLE AFTER NOON ON THE DAY OF THE SHOW.

Doors open at 5:45 pm
Show starts at 6:00 pm
Show ends before 7:30 pm

Featured Poet at Desales

As if the Black imagination had hit a low point between Reconstruction and the Great Migration, the period between 1890 and 1920 has been called “the nadir” of African American history. But what if this era of Black culture was left out of history in order to preserve the American fantasy of imperialism and expansionism? What if, as a result of the distortion of the story of the Philippine-American War (c.1898-), Filipino and Filipino American history was lost along with its Black counterparts as well as crucial instances in which Black folks and Filipinos engaged in correspondence, mutual seeing, and the kinds of collaboration that threaten the white supremacist myths of the state? And how do we see each other in the 21st century? Are we now complicit in the forgetting?

In this talk, Patrick Rosal will discuss figures of the twentieth century like W.E.B. Dubois, Carter G. Woodson, Thomas Edison, and soldier-composer-conductor Walter H. Loving. Lecture material will be drawn from a prose book-in-progress about his mother’s arrival in America during the Civil Rights Era.

The New Salon is an exciting national series where a featured poet reads for 30 minutes and then participates in a 20-minute sit-down Q&A discussion. After the Q&A, there is a book-signing/reception. Past readers for The New Salon at NYU have included Jorie Graham, Claudia Rankine, Charles Simic, Yusef Komunyakaa, Edward Hirsch, Nikky Finney, and Lucie Brock-Broido.

A reading with McKnight Fellowship Judge for 2016, Patrick Rosal. (Details TBA)

https://www.loft.org/

The Loft presents Patrick Rosal and Elissa Altman as they discuss elements of craft in writing. Patrick will read from his latest work, a book of poems entitled Brooklyn Antediluvian, and Elissa will read from her forthcoming memoir Treyf: My Life as an Unorthodox Outlaw before settling in to elaborate on matters of craft, inspiration, history, and politics, and how they converge in the mind of a writer intent on telling her or his story. 

Pricing:
• Regular: $15.00
• Member: $13.50

(The first of two events I'll be doing at The Loft Center this week.) 

Saturday, Nov. 5th, 8pm in Hollywood. $10 at the door.

Dirty Laundry Lit: O

Featured Readers: 
Ashaki Jackson
Sara Bond
Jian Huang
Seth Fischer
Melissa Chadburn
Dana Johnson
Lisa Catto
& Patrick Rosal

Hosted by Jeff Eyres
Live Set by DJ Thing
Produced by: Natashia Deon

Thursday, October 20th

 7:30 PM

Gelman Library Room 702

Join the GW English department for our latest edition of the Jenny McKean Moore Reading Series featuring Patrick Rosal, the author of 4 full-length poetry collections