* Cover is given where known * There is a one-drinkminimum per set * Reservations for shows downstairs can only be made by phone:212-989-9319
The Italian American Writers Association (IAWA) celebrates its 18th Anniversary with two Poets Wear Prada Press authors:
Gil Fagiani: Co-hosts IAWA's monthly reading at the Cornelia Street Café, and is the Associate Editor of Feile-Festa: A Literary Arts Journal. Grandpa's Wine, his latest chapbook, was recently published by Poets Wear Prada, and Rain Mountain Press published his book-length poetry collection, Rooks. In early 2009, Rain Mountain Press will be publishing a revised and greatly expanded book-length version of his 2004 chapbook, Crossing 116th Street: A Blanquito in El Barrio. He has translated into English, poetry written in Italian, Abruzzese dialect, and Spanish. A social worker by profession, Fagiani directs a residential support program for recovering alcoholics and drug addicts in Downtown Brooklyn.
John J. Trause: Directs the Wood-Ridge Memorial Library. His chapbook of poetry Seriously Serial was published by Poets Wear Prada, Hoboken, N. J. His translations, poetry, and visual work have appeared in Sensations Magazine, Cover (New York, N.Y.), The Rift, The Troubadour, Global City Review, and many other journals. His work is forthcoming in Sulphur River Review and LIPS. His chapbook Latter-Day Litany (Éditions élastiques, 1996) in its performance version (Latter-Day Litany & Other Pseudo-Hagiographica) has been staged Off-Off Broadway and elsewhere by Daniel P. Quinn since 1998. In 2005, he co-founded the William Carlos Williams Poetry Cooperative in Rutherford, N. J., where he serves as programmer and host. Cover $7 (includes one house drink) http://www.iawa.net
Harrison, Schuller and band will perform rarely heard gems from Guiffre's canon both as a sextet and in smaller units. Guiffre, who died this year, was an inspiration as a player and composer. He charted new directions in "chamber-jazz", in groups with Jim Hall and Bob Brookmeyer, and Paul Bley and Steve Swallow. Cover $12 www.joelharrison.com
Amy Dupcak - Amy got her bachelor's degree in writing and film history at Sarah Lawrence College, and is currently working on her MFA in fiction at the New School. She's the features editor at Beyond Race Magazine, for whom she also writes. She blogs at No-Alternative.net.
Marina Kaganova - Marina has lived in Russia, Arizona, England, Washington State and New York. She attended the University of Arizona, where she triple-majored in English, creative writing, and classics, and received every poetry award they had to offer. She's currently working on her MFA in poetry at Columbia University, but writes excellent fiction too.
Jason Amos - A native of Texas, Jason received his MFA in fiction at Sarah Lawrence College. He is the co-owner of the Brooklyn DIY music venue/record label Death by Audio, and is a veteran of Brooklyn-based bands Famous Amos and Role/Play. He's working on a novel.
David Hollander is the author of the novel, L.I.E. His short fiction has recently appeared in McSweeney's, Post Road, Swink, Unsaid, The Black Warrior Review, Sleeping Fish, and elsewhere; his nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Poets & Writers, and Gastronomica (and again, elsewhere). Hollander's work has been frequently anthologized, most recently in Best American Fantasy, 2007. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, the writer Margaret Hundley Parker, and their daughter, Percy. Cover $7 (includes one house drink)
Returning to the Cornelia Street Cafe along with him are stellar saxophonist Chris Cheek and pianist Henry Hey—both appeared on Rebound and Center Songs, plus the rhythm section of bassist Matt Clohesy and drummer Greg Ritchie. The band will perform compositions from Rebound as well as new, unreleased material. Cover $10 www.tombeckham.net , www.apriarecords.com
Copies of "Those Wonderful Lines: the poetry of Happy Days" will be on sale.
Director Miriam Eusebio will host. Cover $10 (includes one house drink)
SaltPeter are currently in NYC recording the new album and wish to debut this wicked new work in an exclusive unveiling at the Cornelia Street Cafe! As a trio they nickname themselves SaltPeanuts and in this excellent live show Salena Godden is joined on stage by Saltpeter's New York colleagues - a duo consisting of the tattooed and so slinky Max Doray (Baby Strange, Alagator) on bass guitar and uber jazz dude Theo Moniak (Randy Herman & The Sceptre of Benevolence) on guitar, bringing those jazzy licks, that salted blues and them grinding basslines to the party...totally LIVE...
“Evoking Cassandra Wilson and Ian Dury...SaltPeter is sharp literate Brit pop for disillusioned romantics and incorrigable sensualists.” The Word Magazine
“Catch her as she tumbles breathlessly from one dark thought to the next.” The Times
"Salena Godden is a tour de force...Rather than perfecting a style, Salena is style. Like most artists of note - there is no one like her." Lemn Sissay (Poet and author) www.saltpeter.co.uk , www.myspace.com/wearesaltpeter
Featured Teller: Lee-Ellen Marvin "Telling the Stories of the Day"
FORMAT: Open Telling, followed by Featured Teller (Open Telling time 5 minutes - rather than usual 6-7 - allowing more folks to swap a story on this 13th anniversary.)
LEE-ELLEN MARVIN has been a professional storyteller for 21 years, teaching it at the college and graduate levels. She has explored storytelling from all angles, and her latest project "Standing Up: Women in Peace and Social Action," is a storytelling project about women in history and current times, "standing up, speaking out, and making noise." Most recently, she has been encouraging storytellers and activists to work together to tell stories about the most important news of our times.
A gifted master storyteller, Lee-Ellen tells stories with spare and elegant language hovering just this side of music. With deceptive simplicity, she communicates warmth, love and respect for both her listeners and her stories. Telling folktales, mythology, oral histories, and original stories, Lee-Ellen takes her listeners on rich (sometimes goofy) journeys through time, place, and imagination. Cover $7 (includes one house drink) www.barbaraaliprantis.org , www.home.twcny.rr.com/lmarvin/
Cover $10 www.myspace.com/morrisongod
Michael Quattrone is the author of Rhinoceroses (New School Chapbook Series, 2006), and a curator of the KGB Monday night poetry reading series. His work has appeared online in Octopus, McSweeney's, and Jacket, and in the anthologies The Best American Erotic Poems (Scribner, 2008) and The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel—Second Floor (No Tell Books, 2007). He works with Visible Theatre and lives in Sleepy Hollow, New York.
John Deming is Co-Editor in Chief of coldfrontmag.com. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in POOL, Parthenon West Review, Tarpaulin Sky, Past Simple and elsewhere. A New Hampshire native, he currently lives in New York City and teaches at Baruch College and L.I.M. College. He holds degrees in journalism and poetry from the University of New Hampshire and The New School. Cover $7 (includes one house drink) http://www.michaelquattrone.com
“Micic is bringing an intriguing new perspective to the jazz guitar.” - LA Times Cover $10 www.ralemicic.com
STREAMING LINK: www.ralemicic.com/Music.htm
Originally from Toronto, Canada, Yoon has been in the New York City jazz scene since 2000. More than merely the sum product of a degree in classical piano, theory and composition, another in vocal jazz performance, and a lifetime listening to pop and rock, in her music Yoon has created a sound unclassifiable and fresh, and yet solidly rooted in a jazz improvising tradition. Yoon has worked with notable musicians such as Mark Dresser, D.D. Jackson, Mat Maneri, Ben Monder, Kenny Werner and Kenny Wheeler. www.sunnykim.net , www.yoonsunchoi.com
Arrive before 6 pm to sign up.
Featured Poets: Lissa Moira and Richard West
Lissa Moira is a multiple-award winning New York City playwright, screenwriter director, actor, poet and artist. The musical adaptation of one of her plays, co-written with long time collaborator Richard West, Who Murdered Love (a satirical DaDa surreally-serious romp of a murder mystery, set in 1924 New York and Paris) will open at Theatre for the New City on March 5.
Richard West is a recovering dreamer and world traveler, and an award-winning writer, musician and actor. He had a radio career on the West Coast (KPFA, KSAM), did a Manhattan Cable TV show (That's More Like It) and has performed his original satirical and serious songs and East-West exotic fusion music all over the East Coast. Cover $7 (includes one house drink) www.lissamoira.com
Saxophonist George Garzone is a member of The Fringe, a jazz trio founded in 1972 that includes bassist John Lockwood and drummer Bob Gullotti, A veteran jazzman, Garzone has appeared on over 20 recordings. In addition Garzone has guested in many situations, touring Europe with Jamaaladeen Tacuma and performing with Danilo Perez, Joe Lovano, Jack DeJohnette, Rachel Z and John Patitucci among others.
Based in Perth, Western Australia, Jamie Oehlers, was named Australian Jazz Musician of the Year at the 2007 Bell Awards, as well as winning the Best Jazz Release category and is now coordinator of Jazz Studies at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts.
Besides being a more than very creative musician, composer and bandleader, drummer Ari Hoenig is also a most sought-after sideman. Hear and read more at www.arihoenig.com.
Bassist Pater Slavov has played with George Garzone in many different constellations since he moved from Helsinki to Boston in 1999. He now resides in New York.
Only 20 years old, Nick Sanders, a jazz pianist from New Orleans, knows George from The New England Conservatory of Music, where he currently studies. Look out for something fresh!! Cover $10 www.georgegarzone.com , www.jamieoehlers.com
"Last year was a banner year for Anat Fort, but from the looks of things it was only the beginning. Folks are still talking about A Long Story, her ECM Records debut, and for good reason: She�\'s become a charmingly meditative player and composer...." K. Leander Williams, Time Out NY Cover $10 www.anatfort.com , www.myspace.com/anatfort
Cover is given where known Many spoken words events are free There is always a one-drink minimum per set; times are door opening times
January 10-January 17, 2009 
