On Sunday, April 3, 2011, the Red Wheelbarrow poets performed again for the Red Harlem Readers’ Series at the Indian Cafe in Manhattan. We thank our gracious hosts for a great night of poetry. Here are some pictures from this event, courtesy of Janet Kolstein and Richard Gaffield.
The Red Wheelbarrow Poets will read at the Harlem Readers’ Series
April 1, 2011
The Red Wheelbarrow poets are performing again this year for the Red Harlem Readers’ Series at the Indian Cafe in Manhattan (Broadway, between 107/108th Streets) on SUNDAY, APRIL 3, 2011 from 4:00 to 6:00 P.M. Come have tea with us and hear new poems from this amazing group!
A great night of Irish music and poetry!
March 13, 2011
The Red Wheelbarrow Poets invite you to enjoy an evening of Irish music and poetry on Friday, March 18, 7 PM at GainVille Café in Rutherford (17 Ames Avenue). BRENDAN FOGARTY will play Irish reels and jigs on the Irish bagpipes and the tin whistle. The featured poets will be Irish-American poets MICHAEL O’BRIAN and MARK FOGARTY, reading their own work and the words of the great Irish poets like Yeats and Seamus Heaney. An open mike with generous reading times will follow the feature. $5 admission includes coffee/tea and dessert. We’re making magic at GainVille Learning Center & Café each month—join us as we bid you in the Gaelic words “Fleadh agus Failte”—welcome and celebrate!
GREAT POETRY AND MUSIC MIX, RATHER THAN A WINTRY MIX!
February 11, 2011
Ready for a break from the icy grip of winter? MELANIE KLEIN will be the featured poet and dazzling violinist CHRISTINE SCHREMPP from New York City will perform at the Red Wheelbarrow Poets’ reading at GainVille Learning Center & Café (17 Ames Ave., Rutherford) on Friday, Feb. 18 at 7 PM. (Snow date Feb. 25.) An open mike with generous reading times will follow.
Klein will read from her new book of poems There Was a Gathering Darkness, an elegy for her grandfather that brilliantly weaves in pieces of his occasional writing into found poetry. Schrempp will play from her extensive repertoire of classical and improvisational pieces. We are making history in our residency at GainVille Learning Center & Café—come be a part of the legend!
A $5 cover includes coffee/tea and dessert.
NEW HOME FOR THE RED WHEELBARROW POETS
January 23, 2011The Red Wheelbarrow Poets now hold their workshop every Wednesday night (except for the First Wednesday of each month when they convene at the Williams Center) from 7:00 to 9:00 P.M. at the GainVille Cafe, 17 Ames Avenue, Rutherford, NJ. The workshop is open to all. There is no cover charge, but dessert, soup, and beverages are available for purchase. For additional information, email them at redwheelbarrowpoets@yahoo.com.
The Rutherford Red Wheelbarrow No. 3
August 22, 2010
ISBN 978-0-557-58376-8
Paperback: 232, Price: $15
Red Wheelbarrow Poets, August 2010
http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/the-rutherford-red-wheelbarrow-no-3/12206587
Masthead:
Editor: Jim Klein
Managing Editor: Mark Fogarty
Managing Editor: Sondra Singer Beaulieu
Designer: Claudia Serea
Editor Advisor: John Barrale
Editor Advisor: Céline Beaulieu
Editor Advisor: George DeGregorio
William Carlos Williams Poetry Cooperative of Southern Bergen County Presents
Poetry in Rutherford
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Featuring THE RED WHEELBARROW POETS & Celebrating the Release of the Third Edition of THE RUTHERFORD RED WHEELBARROW
Plus the work of WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS presented by JOEL LEWIS & Open Readings from the floor
This program is held at:
Williams Center for the Performing Arts
One Williams Plaza
Rutherford, NJ 07070
Tel: (201) 939-6969
Fax: (201) 939-0843
THE RUTHERFORD RED WHEELBARROW 3RD COLLECTION CELEBRATES THE AMERICAN POETIC VOICE
August 20, 2010RUTHERFORD, August 20, 2010 — A remarkable collection of 42 poets connected with the Rutherford, NJ poetry revival gives voice to memorable poetry and essays in the third edition of The Rutherford Red Wheelbarrow.
Published by the Red Wheelbarrow Poets, this third annual edition of the literary journal celebrates the epic in the local and poetic voices in the American grain that so inspired William Carlos Williams, Rutherford’s hometown doctor and poet, whose liberation of the voice of the common man (and woman) in poetry was a true revolution in words during the last century.
“Dr. Williams was a one-man vortex who continues to inspire the many fine poets who live in Rutherford or come here to take part in its many poetry readings, workshops, symposia, and literary journal,” said Jim Klein, editor of the book and leader of the Red Wheelbarrow Poets.
“All of the poets in The Rutherford Red Wheelbarrow have a deep connection with the town,” said Klein. “Either they have participated in the Red Wheelbarrow Poets’ weekly poetry workshop, now in its fourth year, or the monthly readings at the Williams Center, sponsored by the William Carlos Williams Poetry Cooperative, or the monthly readings at GainVille Café hosted by the Red Wheelbarrow Poets.”
“We have scored another coup by publishing two rare and perhaps previously unpublished works by Williams,” said managing editor Mark Fogarty. “Jane Fisher, director of the Rutherford Public Library, graciously allowed me to look through the library’s Williams Collection, and we came up with a short typed memoir of Paris by the doctor and a handwritten letter and introductory fragment of a poem Williams worked on in the first decade of the 1900s.”
“Our featured poet this year, Kathy Kuenzle, is a Rutherford native now living in Providence, RI who has made a “return of the native” to Rutherford in the past couple of years,” said managing editor Sondra Singer Beaulieu. “Her exciting work comes both from her Rutherford period and her later years in Providence.” Kuenzle’s poetry has just been issued by the Rutherford-based White Chickens Press in the volume A Dress Full of Holes.
Keeping up the Williams theme, the book also features four essays on the poet, adapted from presentations made at the monthly Williams Center readings, as well as a review of a new book of Williams’ correspondence with his brother. There is also a memoir of the North Jersey poetry scene by Hoboken poet and critic Joel Lewis.
The journal will be launched on Sept. 1 at 7 PM at the Williams Center, at the Williams Poetry Cooperative reading run by poet John J. Trause and Fisher. Copies of it will be available for sale that night, and many of the poets in the journal will read from it during the evening. The Rutherford Red Wheelbarrow is also available online at Lulu.com and will be available through Amazon.com before the end of the year.
The Red Wheelbarrow Poets read at The Red Harlem Readers Series
April 27, 2010On Sunday, April 25th 2010, The Red Wheelbarrow poets read from their anthologies at The Red Harlem Readers, at the Indian Cafe in New York City.
Below are some pictures from the event, courtesy of Richard Gaffield.
Many thanks to Anne Gefell and the Series Associates and to Sondra Singer Beaulieu who hosted the event.
The Phoenix Reading Series: Claudia Serea & George Held—Plus: Open Mic
February 22, 2010The Phoenix Reading Series features
Claudia Serea & George Held
Plus: Open Mic
Sunday, February 28, 2010, at 5:30 pm
Bengal Curry
65 West Broadway, New York
between Murray & Warren Streets
1, 2, 3, A, C, or E trains to Chambers Street
1 1⁄2 blocks below Chambers St
Just then, the blizzard rushes into the street
on its messenger bike,
trailing its heavy veil through the crowd.
Is this a sales offer from the store,
or is it something that will change my life, I ask,
but the snowflakes fill the tall man’s mouth
before he can answer.
Claudia Serea, Blizzard
A Boat on an Ocean
December 30, 2009A boat on an ocean,
something a Japanese might like.
It could build.
Serenity with complementry peril.
Because you long for me,
I’ll never sell you short.
Tomorow will be a happy day.
What a sendoff we’ll give it.
I know it’s easy to think
this is just a small part
of a dolorouus story,
but to think so
is a dog-brained istake.
Take hold, lover.
Do whatver comes to you.
It will be serene and bright.
Little if anything will ever
break up this happy time.
