Please come to see us at Cornelia Cafe! Annual Jewish Spoken Word (and more) Evening: A matzoh-ball soup of poetry, prose, music and humor at The Cornelia Street Café 29 Cornelia St., Greenwich Village, NY 10014, betw. Bleecker & W. 4th Sts. (subway: W. 4th St. Station A/B/C/D/E/F/M or Christopher St. Station #1 train) Tuesday, July 22nd, 2014 6:00 sharp to 8:00 PM (doors open ~5:45 PM, sign up for limited open mic) Host: Madeline Artenberg (Poet) $8 admission includes a free drink Venue Contact: corneliastreetcafe, reservations suggested: 212-989-9319 Event Contact: Madeline Artenberg, madderpoet.MA@gmail or madderpoet@erols Featured Performers: Poetry: Madeline Artenberg J. Lois Diamond Gabriel Levicky Tsaurah Litzky Mireya Perez Prose: Jessica Feder-Birnbaum Music: The 13th Floor Klezmer Band Humor: Of course! Madeline Artenberg’s poetry has appeared in many print and online publications, such as Vernacular and Rattle. She won Lyric Recovery and Poetry Forum prizes and was semi-finalist in the 2005 contest of Margie, The American Journal of Poetry. In 2006, Rogue Scholars Press published Awakened, poems by Madeline Artenberg and poems by Iris N. Schwartz. The play, The Old In-and-Out, based on Madeline’s poetry and that of Karen Hildebrand, directed by Kat Georges, garnered raves in June, 2013, in an off-off-Broadway theatre. Jessica Feder-Birnbaums plays have been produced at The Grove St. Theatre, Richmond Shepard Theatre, The Village Gate, the 14th St Y, and Hunter College. Her prose pieces and comedy sketches have been performed at The Knitting Room, Cornelia St. Cafe, Bowery Poets, Tonic, West Bank Cafe and The Duplex. Her articles and essays have appeared in Mitzvah Magazine, Big Apple Parents, Dancing Meatball, NYC Not For Tourists Guide, and The Mom Egg. She collaborated with Artichoke Dance Company under a NY State Council on the Arts Grant, and was a full scholarship recipient to the MFTA (Materials For the Arts) summer institute. She annually directs the Town and Village Synagogues multi-generational musical Purim Spiel. J. Lois Diamond is a playwright, poet and performer. Her full length, one-act, and ten-minute plays have been performed at various off-off Broadway venues. Her poem Hurricane Sandy was the finale of the show NY Ladies at The Hudson Guild Theatre last fall. Her play A Siri-Ous Situation was just produced in Toronto,Canada as part of The InspiraTO Festival. She is a member of Polaris North and The Dramatists Guild. jloisdiamond Gabriel Ariel Levicky was born in the former Czechoslovakia to Holocaust survivors. Inspired by American Beats and music, he embarked on a search, publishing his first book of poetry. In 1979, he escaped to the US. In 1982, he ran poetry readings in San Francisco, got involved with a Beat magazine, Beatitude, and published his second book of poetry, The Unknown Poetry # 2. His poetry collection, B(lack) & W(hite) Wet Paint Poems, was published by Xlibris. He is also author of a farce/lampoon (as Emir Gabpashaberger, the founder and destroyer of Jews For Jihad, orgasmization), a farce. Tsaurah Litzky is an internationally published writer of novels, plays, poetry and erotica. However, poetry is and will be her heart. Her second major collection, Cleaning The Duck was published by Bowery Books. Flasher, her memoir, was published by Audible Books in 2013. Her most recent poetry chapbook, Jerry in the Bardo, published last month by Night Ballet Press, is already in its second printing. Mireya Perez is a poet, novelist and non-fiction writer. From The Diary of Anne Frank, the novels of Chaim Potok, to the songs of the Sephardim, Mireya, a non-Jew, has been touched by Jewish history. Her work appears in Caribbean Review, Revista del Hada, Brownstone Poets Anthology, New School IRP Voices, NYU Poetry Review, among others. The 13th Floor Klezmer Band plays danceable, soulful Eastern European Jewish music, flavored with Middle Eastern rhythms and an occasional New Orleans horn groove. Named after the location of the bass player’s apartment, its first incarnation was formed in 2009, and its current lineup settled in 2011. The five members are Andrea Urist—flute, Jonathan Flamm—alto sax, Peter Kowalski—baritone horn, Beverly Novick—percussion (the Yiddish poyk drum, the Turkish/Arabic dumbek, and drums), and Steve Wishnia—bass (electric or upright, depending on the schlep).
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