nycBigCityLitTM.com the rivers of it, abridged a p h i l o p h o n e m aTM affiliate [Self-]Listings [We expect to automate this feature. Meanwhile, listings are still low-tech and labor-intensive. Send in this format to editors@nycBigCityLit.com by the 20th. Query regarding ad space. Ed.] Some special events this month: NYC Regular Series: ABCNoRio Gallery and Performance Space Sundays at 3 p.m. $3 156 Rivington St Feature + Open Hosts: J. D. Rage, Bob Hart, Carl Herr, Peter Kerns and Bruce Weber Info: (718) 638-7039 / Check website for complete music, poetry and gallery info. www.abcnorio.org Albany & Upstate [See "Upstream"] Aviatrix Reading Series Flying Bridge Community Arts Ctr 522 Court St Brooklyn (F train to Smith/9th St) Back Fence Sundays at 3:15 p.m. One drink min. 155 Bleecker St (at Sullivan) (212) 475-9221 Feature(s) + open. Host: Brigid Murnaghan Baggot Inn, Unnamable Poetry Reading [See Series on Series, January 2001 issue. Ed.] Saturdays at 3 p.m. unless o/w noted. $5 ($2 discount on first drink.) Free for listeners. 85 W 3rd St (Sullivan/Thompson) (212) 477-0622 Info: (718) 499-4517 (http://www.baggotinn.com) Feature(s) + open. Curators: Steve Bennett / David Mark Speer [The series may be unnamable, but there's no end to the ingenuity its curators bring to naming the weekly sessions. Ed.] <Series is on summer break.> Bar 13 13th St (B'way/Univ Pl) upstairs 02 Tue 9 p.m. $5 House of Pernod. Rick's Pernod's poems have been called "linguistic pinball machines." Preceded by open mic at 7:30. Bluestockings Women's Bookstore and Café 172 Allen St (at Stanton/ F train to 2nd Av) Events begin at 7 p.m. and are free unless o/w noted. (212) 777-6028 / fax: 777-6042 www.bluestockings.com (info@) Contact: Mick Walsh 12 Thur Amy Fusselman (The Pharmacist’s Mate) 22 Sun Comedy with Emmy Gaye. 6BC Botanical Garden 622 E 6th St between B & C (212) 475-0656 kag475@aol.com 13 Fri 7 p.m. Free. Gerry Gomez Pearlberg and John Del Peschio. 28 Sat 3 p.m. Free. Thad Rutkowski The C-Note 157 Ave C (10th St) (212) 677-8142 (no cover) 18 Wed 7 p.m. Peter Chelnik, Bob Feldman (tenor sax), Steve Grzeskowiak (guitar), and special guest, Angelo Verga (poet): "East Coast Jazz Poetry Explosion" Info: 289-8312. Caffè Taci 2841 Broadway (110th Street) Venue for most BigCity LitTM mid-monthly recording sessions. Spacious, high-ceilinged Tuscan ambience, succulent food, live opera on weekends. Info: (212) 864-2823. CBGB's Gallery 303 Bowery 982-4052 CCS Reading Series Sundays at 3:00 p.m. $7.00 suggested, $5.00 students, seniors. Civic Center Synagogue, 49 White Street, NYC. 3 blocks below Canal, between Church / B'way. Founding Executive Director: Martha Rhodes Director: Soraya Shalforoosh Program Assistants: Patrick Donnelly / Cathy McArthur <Series is on Summer break.> Center for Book Arts, Phoenix Reading Series Thursdays at 7 p.m. unless o/w noted. $3 contribution. 28 W 27th St 3rd Floor (Ring #7 if door is locked.) Info: (212) 264-4792 (mvidibor@home.com) Feature(s) + open. Curators: Marlene Vidibor and Michael Graves 05 Joel Allegretti, Readings from The Plague Psalms (The Poet's Press); Raul Maldonado Cooper Union 51 Astor Place Cornelia Street Café [See Series on Series, February 2001 issue. Ed.] Sundays, Wednesdays, Fridays at 6 p.m. unless o/w noted. $6 (first drink free) 29 Cornelia St (Bleecker/W 4th) (212) 989-9319 (www.corneliastreetcafe.com) Features only except Fridays. Curator: Angelo Verga Friday night open (Pink Pony West). Curators: Maggie Balistreri and Jackie Sheeler (See separate listing immediately following.) (Feature at 7:45.) Info: www.poetz.com 05 Thurs INSTANT SHAKESPEARE: A Comedy of Errors 07 Sat Arab-American Writers: KAZIM ALI & SALADIN AHMED 08 Sun Big City LitTM records its feature, "The Dark" plus "The Subterraneans: Kerouac and Kees." Readings from Kerouac's novel, plus other poetry and music. George Wallace, creator of the four-city, day-long marathon on Kerouac's Big Sur, will be among the guests. (See http://www.poetbeat.com for details on that event.) 11 Wed RENEGADE WRITERS: CHRIS BELDEN, ROB COOK, GIL FAGIANI 14 Sat Italian-American Writers 18 Wed Russian-American Writers, with ANDREY GRITSMAN 21 Sat Greek-American Writers: DEAN KOSTOS, DARLENE GOLD & DEBORAH EMIN 22 Sun THE ALL AMERICAN SLAM TEAM SEND-OFF: BRETT AXEL, CHERYL B, others 26 Thur INSTANT SHAKESPEARE: A Mid-Summer Night's Dream 28 Sat MARTINE DOMINIQUE presents CARIBBEAN WRITERS: the first of a new Cornelia series, equal parts poetry, prose, sea breeze and performance. Pink Pony West at Cornelia (Fridays) 06 Luckydave 13 Diana Manister (contributing editor, Big City LitTM) 20 Paul McDonald (Louisville, Ky. Reviews and Interview, this issue.) 27 Jonathan Winell The Drawing Center 35 Wooster St (212) 219-2166 Ear Inn Saturdays at 3 p.m. unless o/w noted. Free. 326 Spring St (west of Greenwich) Info: Michael Broder (212) 246-5074 Exoterica [See Series Review, March 2001 issue.] The Society for Ethical Culture 4450 Fieldston Rd (Riverdale, Bronx) 3 p.m. Feature(s) + open. Director: Rick Pernod Info: (718) 549-5192 (wubbies@earthlink.net) Calendar of events: http://members.aol.com/exoterica Fourteenth (14th) Street Y [See Series on Series, December 2000 issue. Ed.] 344 E 14th St (1st Ave) (212) 780-0800 x 255 Director: Wendy Sabin-Laker Poet-in-Residence: Veronica Golos A Gathering of the Tribes (See "Tribes") Housing Works Used Books & Café 126 Crosby St (B'way/Lafayette, Houston/Prince) (212) 334-3324 www.housingworksubc.com Hunter College 68th St / Lexington Av 8th Floor Faculty Lounge (212) 772-5164 Host: Elena Georgiou Joe's Pub 425 Lafayette St http://www.joespub.com tickets @ telecharge 212-239-6200 dinner reservations & info: 212-539-8778 24 Tues 7:30 $15 Raw Materials: Real Matters Poet/actor Alvin Seme transforms himself into seven characters each representing a stage of evolution in a young black man's road to enlightenment. KGB Bar ['Degrees of Apprenticeship' MFA series poets (Brooklyn College) recorded live 12/18. See Audio/CD. Ed.] Mondays at 7:30 p.m., unless o/w noted. Free. 85 E 4th St (212) 505-3360 Features only. Curators: Star Black and David Lehman The Kitchen 519 W 19th St Info: (212) 255-5793, ext. 11 Various theatrical performances and readings. Call for schedule. [See review of Edwin Torres's Gecko Suite in March 2001 issue. Ed.] The Knitting Factory Saturdays at 6 p.m. unless o/w noted. $5 74 Leonard St (IRT 1 or 9 to Franklin St) Feature(s) + open. Host: Yictove Korova Milk Bar (See "Milk Bar") Libraries in The New York Public Library System Makor [See Series Review, January 2001 issue. Ed.] 35 W 67th St (Lincoln Ctr) (212) 601-1037 (www.makor.org) Eve Grubin, Poetry Series Curator (eve.grubin@makor.org) Multiple Sessions: Four Thursdays 7:00-8:30 p.m. July 05, 12, 19, 26. Poetry Writing and Reading Workshop Instructor: Eve Grubin. $60 for four sessions; $120 for eight. 11 Wed 7:15 p.m. $5 Meet the Democratic candidates for Mayor of New York. 19 Thurs 7:30 $5 Candidate Michael Bloomberg. Manitoba's Proletkult Poetry Circus Feature + open. Events begin at 7 unless o/w noted. $5 Ave B/ 7th St Info: (212) 459-2653 (magdalena@poetic.com) Milk Bar (Korova Milk Bar) 200 Avenue A (at 12th St) Events at 7:30 unless o/w noted. $2 (one drink min.) Info: (718) 389-2666 Monthly reading Moroccan Star Sundays at 1 p.m. $3 min. + $3 contribution 205 Atlantic Ave (Brooklyn Heights) Feature(s) + open. Hosts: Evie Ivy and Tom Oleszczuk Info: (718) 789-3943 Museums Bronx Museum 1040 Grand Concourse (165th St) (718) 681-6000 Brooklyn Museum of Art 200 Eastern Pkwy Guggenheim Museum 1071 Fifth Ave (88th St) (212) 423-3587 Metropolitan Museum of Art 1000 Fifth Avenue (212) 570-3807 Museum of The City of New York The New York Historical Society 2 W 77th St www.nyhistory.org (212) 873-4300 New Millennium (Series for the) The Lower East Side Ecology Center East 7 th St (B/C) (212) 260-6389 Open. Saturdays at 6 p.m. Free. Musicians welcome. Ninety-Second (92nd) Street Y [See Series Reviews, February 2001 issue. Ed.] 1395 Lexington Avenue (212) 415-5500 (http://www.92ndStY.org) 29 Sun 3:00-4:30 p.m. $50 The "Grand Gonk" Hotel Algonquin Round Table: Tea, Tales & Tour Jim Pappas, actor, radio o personality and host of Author's Roundtable relives the legend of the Algonquin Hotel's round Table, the most celebrated literary group in the history of American letters: Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley, George F. Kaufman. Nuyorican Poets Cafè 236 E 3rd St (B/C) Wednesday/Friday Slams The NY Open Center 83 Spring St (www.opencenter.org) The Orange Bear 47 Murray Street. Poet to Poet Sundays at 4 p.m. unless o/w noted $3 + $3 minimum Info: 212.566.3705 MelindaLevokove@excite.com. Phoenix Reading Series (see Center for Book Arts) Pink Pony West Reading Series Fridays at 6 p.m. unless o/w noted. Cornelia Street Café (address, admission as above) Feature follows open at 7:45 p.m. Hosts: Jackie Sheeler and Maggie Balisteri Info: www.poetz.com (See listings under 'Cornelia Street.') Poetry Project, St. Mark's Church [See Series on Series, December 2000 issue. Ed.] Events cost $7 unless o/w noted. 131 E 10th St (2nd Ave) (212) 674-0910 (poproj@artomatic.com) Readings: Monday (8 p.m. open, 7:30 sign-up), Wednesday and Friday (8:00 or 10:30). Director: Ed Friedman / Program Coordinator: Tracy Blackmer Details: (http://www.poetryproject.com) [Poetry Project is closed this month, and resume workshops and events in September.] Poets House Seminar center and library co-founded in 1985 by Stanley Kunitz (U.S. Poet Laureate). 72 Spring St Events are $7 / free for members unless o/w indicated. (212) 431-7920 (www.poetshouse.org) (The Poets House programming season is over for the summer. Information regarding fall programs will be available later in the summer. For more information, please call (212) 431-7920.) Posman Books Sunday afternoons at 3 p.m., unless o/w noted One University Pl (NE corner, Washington Sq) (212) 533-2665 Curator: Tom Padilla [Posman held its last reading in April and has closed. We expect to carry at least one article shortly on this well-loved bookstore. Ed.] Reading Between A & B 510 E 11th St Unless o/w noted, free readings are Mondays at 8. www.readAB.com Curators: Meghan Cleary / Jonathan Thirkield Saturn Series at Revival Bar [See Series on Series, March 2001 issue. Ed.] Mondays at 7:30 p.m., unless o/w noted. $3 donation. 129 E 15th St Feature(s) + Open Hosts: John Chism, Su Polo and William Duke (www.poetrycentral.com) Shelter Island Summer Series, "Poems in the Garden" Sponsored by Rebel Road 5 Rebel Road, Shelter Island, NY. Info: (212) 966-1667, lilazemborain@inch.com. 21 Sat 6:30 p.m. Featuring Marcella Durand, Lila Zemborain, Edwin Torres. Taci (see Caffè Taci) Teachers & Writers Collaborative 5 Union Square. Info: 212.691.6590; www.twc.org. Tillie's 248 DeKalb Avenue Brooklyn (718) 783-6140 9:00 p.m. Thursdays Open mic hosted by Christine $2 cover A Gathering of the Tribes Sundays, 5-7 p.m., unless o/w noted. 285 E 3rd St (C/D) (212) 674-3778 (info@tribes.org) Fridays 7:30-9:30 $3 Stoop Poetry Workshop. Participants bring several copies of one poem. Sundays 5-7 p.m. $3 Feature(s) + open. http://www.tribes.org [Check web site for complete schedule. Ed.] The Underground Lounge 955 West End Ave (at 107th St) Open mic, Mondays at 8, hosted by the Freestyle Family Orchestra. www.freestylefamily.com Unnamable (See Baggot Inn) Urbana Sundays at 7 p.m., unless o/w noted. $5 CBGB's Gallery 313 Bowery (Bleecker) (www.cbgb.com/slamschedule.html) The West End Bar 2911 Broadway (113/114th Sts) (212) 662-8830 Open: First Sunday of the month, 8 p.m. Universal Spectrum Series: hiphop / poetry/ folk vocals / jazz / storytelling Host: Zander Wordsmiths@Halcyon 227 Smith St., Brooklyn Thursdays at 7:30. Free. Sponsored by: Marisa Simon Info: (718) 260-9299 wordsmiths@halcyonline.com.   NYC Single Events: Upstream (Hudson River Valley & Upstate) Big City LitTM goes country! The magazine will be sponsoring a number of events and workshops in Greene and Southern Albany Counties during July and August. Hudson Valley Manors: Special Events (For complete details, consult http://www.hudsonvalley.org)