BACK AT THE PARKSIDE LOUNGE!
Featuring Joel Allegretti and Ron Price
Hosted by David Lawton
Plus poetry open mic
21+
$3 suggested donation. Two drink min, alcoholic or non.
Joel Allegretti is the author of, most recently, Platypus (NYQ Books, 2017), a collection of poems, prose, and performance texts, and Our Dolphin (Thrice Publishing, 2016), a novella. His second book of poems, Father Silicon (The Poet’s Press, 2006), was selected by The Kansas City Star as one of 100 Noteworthy Books of 2006. He is the editor of Rabbit Ears: TV Poems (NYQ Books, 2015). The Boston Globe called Rabbit Ears “cleverly edited” and “a smart exploration of the many, many meanings of TV.” Rain Taxi said, “With its diversity of content and poetic form, Rabbit Ears feels more rich and eclectic than any other poetry anthology on the market.” Allegretti has published his poems in The New York Quarterly, Barrow Street, Smartish Pace, PANK, and many other national journals, as well as in journals published in Canada, the United Kingdom, Belgium, and India.
His short stories have appeared in The MacGuffin, The Adroit Journal, and Pennsylvania Literary Journal, among others. His musical compositions have appeared in Maintenant: A Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing & Art and in anthologies from great weather for MEDIA and Thrice Publishing. His performance texts and theater pieces have been staged at La MaMa, Medicine Show Theatre, the Cornelia Street Café, and the Sidewalk Café, all in New York.
Ron Price is a Teaching Artist at the Juilliard School; a past U.S.I.A. Visiting Poet to Belgium; toured India for the Bureau of Cultural and Educational Affairs, under the auspices of a program titled Artists Respond to Terror; twice given talks and readings on American culture for the American Center in Jerusalem – these in addition to an endless string of jobs that included mailroom gopher, assembly line worker, forklift driver, leather craftsman, house organ editor, parking lot attendant and bookstore clerk. His poems appear in The American Poetry Review, The Hindu (India), Leviathan Quarterly (U.K.), The Painted Bride Quarterly, Poetry, Revista Forum (Mexico), and great weather for MEDIA’s latest anthology Arriving at a Shoreline. Poetry collections: Surviving Brothers, A Crucible for the Left Hand, A Small Song Called Ash from the Fire, and A True Account of the Failure of Bodies to Adequately Burn.