* 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
Fawzia Afzal-Khan, professor of English at Montclair University, poet-editor, originally from Pakistan
Miriam Stanley, poet-editor-publisher.
Michael Schwartz-writer-poet
Fau’ad Attal, Plaestinian-America poet from New Jersery.
Gordon Gilbert, poet-American.
Brant Lyon, poet-composer-pianist
Cover $7 (includes one house drink)
Actors and Writers will be performing the work of: *STACI SWEDEEN *DAVID SIMPATICO *DAVID RIMMER *KATHLEEN WARNOCK *FRANK GAGLIANO *BOB SHUMAN *ROBIN GOLDFIN *ANDY BRAGEN *JUNE RIFKIN
Alan Hampton is one of New York's most sought after bassists, who is also emerging as a songwriter in his own right. Cover $5 www.myspace.com/gianslater , www.alanhampton.com
Arrive before 6 pm to sign up.
Tonight's featured poet is Larissa Shmailo.
"The poet, like the lover, is a menace on the assembly line." -Rollo May Cover $7 (includes one house drink)
Warm and liquid, the music of jazz guitarist Greg Ruggiero slides into the ear so easily, you don’t notice until it’s already had its way with you. The first signs include a slowing of the breath, a relaxed attentiveness and a heightened awareness of one’s blessings. - WEEKLY ALIBI ARTICLE V.16 No.50 | December 13 - 19, 2007 Albuquerque, New Mexico
cover for both shows $8 www.myspace.com/gregruggiero
cover for both shows $8 www.loganrichardson.com , www.myspace.com/loganrichardson
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
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 07-January 14, 2009 
