next acentos

the ultra talented ms sarah gambito will be rockin da house. y’all should really come and check this one out as i expect to be in a euphoric headspace. jus a hunch on my part ;-)

here are your details…

Tuesday, September 27
@ 7:00pm
ACENTOS
The Bruckner Bar & Grill
1 Bruckner Boulevard
(Corner of 3rd Ave)

Poetry in the Bronx lives and breathes at Acentos at the Bruckner Bar and Grill and on Tuesday, September 27, we set it off with the Uptown’s best open mic, along with featured poet Sarah Gambito.

ACENTOS @ The Bruckner Bar & Grill
6 Train to 138th Street Station
Hosted by Oscar Bermeo
FREE! ($5 Suggested Donation)

Coming from Manhattan: Exit by the last car on the 6. Take the exit to your left, go up the stairs to your right to exit at Lincoln Avenue. Walk down Lincoln about 5 blocks to Bruckner Blvd, turn right on Bruckner past the bike shop, the Bruckner Bar & Grill is on the corner. For more directions, please call 718.665.2001 or click here for an e-map

Sarah Gambito

Sarah Gambito is the author of Matadora (Alice James Books). Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Iowa Review, The Antioch Review, The New Republic, Quarterly West, Fence and other journals. She holds degrees from The University of Virginia and The Creative Writing Program at Brown University. She teaches in the creative program at Rutgers University and is Executive Director of Kundiman, a not-for-profit organization serving emerging Asian American poets

Immigration 2

My heart eats cake, Veronica cake that hates yoga
And lets me be crazy in the goldbar city.
So what if I don’t love you.
My problems don’t even happen to me

But to three girls grandstanding by the Potomac.
Respectively: your mother, her mother and her mother.
Three bitches in front of a trashcan.
Desirous of psychotherapy and a split lip courtesy of me.
Because I didn’t ask to be born here.
Didn’t ask to learn the language.
And don’t know how to save you.

Am I frightening you?
I’m frightening you.

Good and good and good and good.

© Sarah Gamibito

synonymUS in FULL multimedia effect – tonight!

synonymUS in FULL multimedia effect – tonight!

synonymUS
This Wednesday, September 21st
Anniversary Show at the Nuyorican Poets Café
Featuring the Visual Art of John Garretson
Open Form@ sign up 6:45pm

Dancers, Musicians, Poets and Artists of all walks welcome. Bring your own collab or work with US.

John Garretson is a graduate of Rowan University’s illustrious program for art education. When not creating his own work, John shares the art of expression in the classroom. He is currently aquiring his Masters at Columbia’s Teachers College. John’s work has been featured in many art shows, where he insists on pushing the form and his expression of it.

synonymUS celebrates its anniversary show at the Nuyorican by bringing Garretson’s work together with sound and word in a multimedia performance that promises to push our poets, musicians, and visual artists to a new understanding of narrative. Visual projections will offer an energetic touchstone with which the performers will explore form and content. Composed of all new original artwork inspired by the words of Jessica Elizabeth, Maria Nieves, Abena Koomson, Scot Lee Williams, Raymond Daniel Medina, and John Trause, this anniversary show promises to remind us how things can be a little different and still synonymUS.

Every 3rd Wednesday @ 7pm
synonymUS • Poet’s Collaborative Open
Music, Movement, Image, Narrative – always an Open Mic

The Nuyorican Poets Café
236 East Third St (bet Aves B & C) NYC
F Train to 2nd Ave
$7 Cover