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NYC | May 11, 2008
Please join us for a special Mother's Day Salon celebrating Issue Six of The Mom Egg! Raw and real, lively and lustful, The Mom Egg is an annual collection of poetry, prose, and drawings by creative artists who are also mothers. Poets, lyricists, humorists, and essayists, from new moms to grandmothers, examine issues ranging from single-motherhood, dating younger men, separation anxiety, breasts, caring for older parents, the changing nuclear family and sex. Enjoy some intimate moments with Moms from all over North America. Diverse, multi-generational, and not just for Mother's Day! The Mom Egg is the official literary publication of the Mamapalooza Festival.
Joining us at the Salon will be the following Mom Egg contributors:
Born in Trinidad and raised in New York City, Cheryl Boyce-Taylor is the mother of Grammy Nominee Phife Dawg, a member of the politically conscious group, A Tribe Called Quest. The author of three collections of poetry, Raw Air, Night When Moon Follows and Convincing The Body, she is currently enrolled in the Stonecoast MFA program at the University of Southern Maine. Boyce-Taylor's new poems appear in Voices Rising, Carry The Word, and To Be Left With The Body, due out in Spring 2008.
JEN/ed [a.k.a. Jennifer Edwards] is an ARTIST: writer, spoken word poet, dancer, visual artist and visionary. She has toured the US and Canada inspiring, enlightening and educating audiences. She is the founder of Relaxation on the GOTM and author of a book series by the same name. The first installment, Relaxation is Not a Luxury will hit the shelves in November of 2008. www.jened.com , www.relaxationonthego.net
Alana Ruben Free, co-editor of The Mom Egg, lives in NYC with her twelve-year old son. Her first solo-performance, Beginner at Life, is available on DVD, and has grown into a workshop that inspires women to express their beauty, wisdom and power. Fear and Desire, the sequel, will be ready for production in 2008. Alana's poetry and prose appear in Bowery Women, Ducts.org, and Neshama.
Puma Perl is a writer, poet, lifelong Lower East Side resident, mother, activist, advocate, harm reductionist, former narcotics enthusiast. She believes in the transformative power of the creative arts.
Joy Rose is committed to a lasting legacy of empowerment and support for Mothers. She is lead singer of the rock band, "Housewives On Prozac" and is Founder and President of Mamapalooza Inc. and Mamapalooza Festivals. She lives in Hastings-On-Hudson with her three children and two dogs. Her oldest child is in college at Keene State, New Hampshire and she couldn't be more proud or happy!
Marian Brown St. Onge retired recently from her position of founding Director of the Center for International Partnerships and Programs at Boston College-where she also taught and at one time directed the University's Women's Studies program. St. Onge, who holds a Ph.D. in French literature, has received fellowships and awards from organizations including the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Ford Foundation and the Fulbright Association. In spring, 2006, she served as Michael Dukakis Visiting Professor in International Affairs at the American College of Thessaloniki, Greece. St. Onge has published one book, a traveler's guide to Glasgow, Scotland, and articles on twentieth-century women writers, cultural issues and topics in international education.
Marjorie Tesser has co-edited The Mom Egg with Alana Free for the past three years. With Bob Holman, she co-edited the anthologies Bowery Women: Poems and Estamos AquÃ, Poems by Migrant Farmworkers, translated by Janine Pommy Vega (both Bowery Books). She produced Bowery Women: Shoot the Poem!, a video poetry festival funded by the Center for Experimental Television, in NYC this year.
Ella Veres is a writer/performer/image maker hailing from Transylvania boasting of a Hungarian-Romanian-Gypsy heritage. Her latest dramatic collage, Three Eco-Friendly Self-Propelled Clowns, opened for a five-week run on October 19, 2007 off-off Broadway. At present she is the artistic director of her own shoe-string company, Ella Veres ArtVentures. For more information please visit her website: www.ellaveres.com
Lisa Williams is the author of The Artist as Outsider in the Novels of Toni Morrison and Virginia Woolf (Greenwood Press, 2000). Her book of creative nonfiction, Letters to Virginia Woolf, was published by Hamilton Books (June 2005). Lisa has published poetry, essays, and reviews in such publications as The Women's Studies Quarterly, The Tusculum Review, The Viriginia Woolf Miscellany, and For She is the Tree of Life: Grandmothers Through the Eyes of Women Writers. She teaches writing and literature at Ramapo College of New Jersey.
And special musical guest/hip cool mom Julia P. Farrell will be joining us as well!
Mike Farrell Missed is a collaborative effort from Charm City (Baltimore, MD) between Julia P Farrell and Mike Shumann, who have been performing together since the fall of 2004. Imagine a jazz blues voice and an indie rock acoustic guitar and songs pulled from...well, everywhere! Mike has played in bands from art punk to folk rock on both bass and lead guitar, while Julia's vocal range and style has included chanteuse on stage in the indie theatre, acoustic pub diva, lead singer with her jazz trio, and now, with Mike Farrell Missed, her current folk soul sound. Julia and Mike would like to thank to their families and friends for their support in getting to NY.
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Poets & Poetry in Sunday Salon!
The literary gods sent four talented writers and poets to grace the stage and the audience at April's Sunday Salon! Relishing the prose of Paul Pines, Janice Erlbaum, Myla Jones, and Ed Pavlic, were celebrated poets, Yusuf Komunyakaa and Major Jackson.
Yes, your Salon hostesses were soaking in all the stellar prose and poetry vibes that night and are still floating somewhere between heaven and earth. Missed it? Well then, have a look at the photos: http://www.sundaysalon.com/pics/
And to share the love, we're welcoming poetry to the SalonZine. That's right: long live prose and poetry on-line! Our inaugural issue poets include the veritable KC Trommer and S.G. Frazier. Read 'em now and spread the word!
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S.G. Frazier
S.G. Frazier is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. He holds a BFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts. His work has appeared in American Poet, Ontario Review, and various literary journals.
KC Trommer
KC Trommer’s poems have appeared in or are forthcoming from AGNI, The Antioch Review, Octopus, MARGIE and the crime poetry collection The Lineup. A 2007 graduate of the MFA program at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, KC has been the recipient of an Academy of American Poets prize, as well as fellowships from the Maine Summer Arts Program, the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Prague Summer Program. She lives in New York with the novelist Justin Courter.
Miranda Train
Miranda Train received her MFA in Creative Writing from the New School and is currently looking for an agent. She is almost finished with her first novel and is very excited to learn firsthand about the foibles of the publishing world. Her novel Wind is about a woman who eats the fruit of knowledge and travels around the world discovering the secret of the universe. If anyone is interested or knows of someone who might be, please contact her through the Sunday Salon.
Myla Jones
Myla Jones is a teacher, writer and poet/spoken word artist who has been performing on the Spoken Word scene since 2002, winning competitions on Long Island, in Manhattan and Virginia. A graduate of Nassau Community College (A.A.), Adelphi University (B.A.) and Molloy College (M.S.), she has taught Middle School and High School level students for over a decade in the Hempstead School District as an English Language Arts teacher, although her professional skills have taken her into the role of instructor for various other subjects, such as Writing, College Prep, Public Speaking and Drama—and for the past five years, as co-facilitator for the district’s annual Teen Poetry Slam. When Myla is not teaching, writing or performing poetry, she enjoys spending time with her family and taking long walks with her adopted pit bull Cinnamon.
Ed Pavlic
Ed Pavlic’s next book is a prose-poetic photo essay set on a dhow amid the islands off the coast of Kenya, but here are small clear refractions (Kwani? Books, Nairobi, 2008). His other books of poems are Winners Have Yet to be Announced, an epic poem centered in the life and music of soul singer Donny Hathaway (UGA Press, 2008), Labors Lost Left Unfinished (UPNE, 2006), and Paraph of Bone & Other Kinds of Blue which won The American Poetry Review / Honickman First Book Award in 2001. He’s also author of the critical study of African-American modernism, Crossroads Modernism (U Minn P, 2002). He has taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Indiana University, St. John’s College (York, UK), and Union College as well as in poetry workshops at the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference, the Summer Literary Seminars in St. Petersburg, Russia and at the Kwani? Literary Festival in Kenya. He now lives in Athens, Georgia where he directs the MFA / PhD Program in Creative Writing and teaches at the University of Georgia.
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Nita Noveno and co-host/fellow New School grad Caroline Berger keep a refreshing blend of new and experienced literary voices on tap at Stain Bar every third Sunday of the month and online in the Sunday Salon zine.
Nita Noveno is a graduate of the New School MFA Creative Writing Program. She founded the Sunday Salon series in the summer of 2002. She has most recently been published in Lost and Found: An Anthology of Teachers Writing and Worldview and was a finalist for the Missouri Review's 2005 Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize. Nita read at the July 2002 Salon.
Caroline Berger lives in up-and-coming Bed Stuy (she's waiting patiently). Her proetry (that's not a typo; she likes to make up her own genres) has appeared most recently on La Petite Zine and Pindeldyboz and in Barrow Street. She is the co-host of the Sunday Salon and once used all 7 letters in a game of Scrabble to spell e-t-i-o-l-a-t-e. She teaches writing at The New School & has recently succumb to the world of blogging: Apocalyptic Whimsy. Caroline read at the August 2002 Salon.
Krista Madsen is the fabulous owner of Stain Bar, and, like the rest of us nuts, a graduate of the New School MFA Creative Writing Program. She and her bar have quite kindly adopted us. She is the author of the novels Degas Must Have Loved a Dancer and Four Corners and the web mistress of readingdivas.com. Krista read at the October 2002 Salon.
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What is Salon NYC?
Salon NYC is a larger than life reading series in the Big Apple featuring a refreshing blend of local and international literary voices.
When & where?
NYC: Stain Bar in Williamsburg every third Sunday of the month at 7 p.m.
How do I get there?
NYC: Take the L to Grand, then go 1 block west. Stain Bar is located at 766 Grand Street, Brooklyn, NY 11211. Bar opens at 5 p.m. Call Krista at 718.387.7840 if lost.
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- NYC | January 20, 2008
- NYC | December 2007
- NYC | November 2007
- NYC | October 2007
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- S.G. Frazier
- KC Trommer
- Miranda Train
- Myla Jones
- Ed Pavlic
- Paul Pines
- Janice Erlbaum
- René Georg Vasicek
- Joseph Salvatore
- Julie Polk
- Luis Francia
- Robert Lopez
- Frances Madeson
- Matt Cheney
- Tayari Jones
- Tony D’Souza
- Dara Amchin Underberg
- Nicole Fix
- Ann Bogle
- Carol Novack
- Ellis Avery
- Lori Lynn Turner
- B. Kite
- Rick Spreyer
- Lisa Freedman
- Pamela Brown
- Laura Cronk
- Madge McKeithen
- Laura Tanenbaum
- Melanie Pappadis
- Kathleen Warnock
- Elise Miller
- Andy Friedman
- Luis Jaramillo
- Jami Attenberg
- Janyce Stefan-Cole
- Daniel Hayes
- Elizabeth Smith
- Nichelle Newsletter
- Leni Zumas
