LIC Arts Open Poetry Festival, Sunday, May 17th noon to 2pm

I’m reading this Sunday, May 17th at the LIC Arts Open 13 - Poetry Festival from 12 to 2pm.

The Poetry Festival will be curated by Queens Poet Laureate, 2015-2019, Academy of American Poets Fellow Maria Lisella.

It will be held at The Local NY located at 13-02 44th Avenue in Long Island City (Queens, baby). It’s free!

I will be reading my poem Rape Kits.

I am so excited! Or are those nerves? I can never tell the difference.

Directions for those in need from the Local NY website. (Mark is my GPS because I’m directionally distraught)

E/M/G Subways – Get off at Court Sq- 23rd St subway stop. Exit the train and follow signs in the subway for 44th Drive/21st St NE Corner. You will exit outside of Palace Chicken restaurant. Cross the street in front of you but then head to your right heading north on 21st St. You should see the beautiful Manhattan skyline at your left. You will take the second left which will be 44th Avenue (so first you will cross 44th Road, then take your next left on 44th Avenue). There’s a new gray building on the corner where you turn onto 44th Avenue. Walk approximately 150 feet down 44th Avenue and you’ll see our entrance with an awning about halfway down the block on the left. 

7 Subway – get off at the stop Court Sq. Exit the train and walk down the stairs. After the turnstile, turn right and go down the stairs. Walk down the stairs (the Court Square diner will be on your left) and at the bottom of the stairs continue straight ahead on 45th Road, walking away from the train tracks. Take your first right on 21 Street. Pass 45th Ave, 44th Drive and 44th Road. Take your fourth left on 44th Avenue (in our neighborhood the street names sometimes use the same number so keep your eyes peeled for AVENUE, not road, not drive). There’s a new gray building on the corner where you turn onto 44th Avenue. Walk approximately 150 feet down 44th Avenue and you’ll see our entrance with an awning about halfway down the block on the left.

Hunter’s Point!

Hope to see you there!

Please check out https://www.endthebacklog.org/ and the important work they do.

Andrea

Umbrella Factory Magazine - Editors and Contributors issue #21

I’m incredibly honored to have been selected by the Editor in Chief of Umbrella Factory Magazine to be part of their Editors and Contributors issue #21. I was one of six contributors from issues 1-20 to be a part of this issue!

Five of my poems - I should have done something, Fern, Pipe Dream, Daughter Decay & rummy - were published in this issue on September 15, 2015.

You can read the issue at following link
ttp://issuu.com/blog-site/docs/issue_21?e=0/30086363

A little about Umbrella Factory Magazine:
“We are a small press determined to connect well-developed readers to intelligent writers and poets through virtual means, printed journals, and books. We believe in making an honest living providing the best writers and poets a forum for their work.”

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My poem, Red Shift, was published in Dark Matter Journal

My poem, Red Shift, was published in Dark Matter Journal (Issue 6 - February 2015) 

http://darkmatterjournal.org/2015/02/issue-6-is-now-online.html

My poem is on p.8  

“The reason the siren slides is because it doesn't hit you.”

The above quote in my poem should be attributed to Astronomer John Dobson. The footnote was erroneously omitted. 

About Dark Matter Journal:

Dark Matter is a blog for speculative literature. Dark Matter refers to the unknown particles suggested by the Standard Model to explain observations of gravity which cannot be accounted for by observable matter and energy. It could also be considered a reference to the thoughts and ideas that ferment inside a human brain before they emerge through spoken or written words. The title was chosen to reflect the emphasis of the unknown in both scientific inquiry and creative writing. Modern science provides new opportunities for natural metaphor to search for and create meaning in all areas of human thought and endeavor. Dark Matter will use cosmological, evolutionary, quantum mechanical and traditional natural metaphor to elicit literary thought and infuse modern ideas into poetry and prose.

My poem, Nostalgia Half-life was published in Cordite Poetry Review

My poem, Nostalgia Half-life, was published in Cordite Poetry Review on February 1, 2015 in their OBSOLETE issue # 49. You can read it here. 

Tracy Ryan,  guest poetry editor of Cordite 49  says this about Issue # 49 - This OBSOLETE issue invites readers to reconsider the throwaway – to rummage, revise and reassess in the imaginary office of lost property that some languages prefer to call ‘found’. It’s not about nostalgia; some things we need to lose. It’s about individual and collective responsibility and reinvention.

Read more about the issue here - http://cordite.org.au/essays/obsolete-editorial/