Phoenix Reading Series @ Left Bank Books Sunday, November 2, 2014 6:30--8 pm 17 8th Avenue—Near West 12th Street NY, NY 10014 212-924-5638 $5 Contribution PETER BLAXIL, BERNARD BLOCK, PTR KOSLOVSKI & OPEN READING Peter Blaxil is a retired theatre professional. As an actor he has appeared on Broadway, Off--Broadway, The Kennedy Center in D.C., extensively in regional theatre, stock, And you name it. He has played in everything from Shakespeare to Shaw, Beckett, Tennessee Willams and Musical Comedy.He has been writing poetry for several years now, has studied with William Packard, Pearl London, Colette Inez among others and has had poems published in The New York Quarterly, He is currently compiling material for future publication. Bernard Block …found in a creek in Bad Beach, Brooklyn, adjacent to Gravesend Bay, where he will end up. His first sound--Hai-ku--his parents knew--he was a Poet--would end up in the Bay. Bar Mitzvahed at Thirteen; Rabbi Morgenstern praised his Kantorial Base-Line. In Lafayette High School, he co-authored and co-directed the Senior Sing--Big Business Buys Lafayette High School--Posts School on Stock Market--Students Strike--we did not win First Prize. He entered Cornell--Unhappy--Dropped Out--Entered Wall Street--Unhappy--Dropped Out. Entered Brooklyn College--Finally--Dropped--with degree. Hitched to California--Entered Haight-Ashbury just prior to Human Be-In, Summer of Love--read poems in I and Thou Coffee House--on Tors and Fells of Golden Gate and the Panhandle--an Augury? A Dark Omen? Perhaps. He returned to Isle of Manhatta--worked as Social Worker with Bureau of Child Welfare for 25 years--etched ethereal musings amid Probationary Reports for Family Court. Attended the Court of Emilie Glens at 77 Barrow Street--notorious Boheemie Hangout--and Speakeasy--Dave Von Ronks Pad. He returned to Street Scene recently--to curate and host notorious Anti-Tea Extravaganza--but he likes tea. He continues to breathe air not far from Defunct Parachute, the Wonder Wheel, the Cyclone (which he still fears), adjacent to Gravesend Bay. Ptr Kozlowski has been writing poems along the way through a varied life. He learned the trade of letterpress printing from his father in his native Bridgeport, Connecticut and worked as a typesetter in San Francisco in the late 1970s, where he also was a roadie for bands. Back East, hes been a truck driver and a NYC cabbie. And he played guitar in a New Wave band called Baby Boom, led by downtown poet J.D. Rage. They played around the New York spots like A7, CBGB and The SIN Club, put out a four song EP, and blew up. Ptrs poems have appeared in Anthology ABC No Rio Open Mike 1987 and in 2014s Estrellas En El Fuego anthology; in Hobo Jungle, Curare and Stained Sheets. He has a poem in the new Great Weather For Media anthology “I Let Go Of The Stars In My Hand” - and in Patricia Carragon’s “Brownstone Poets Anthology 2014”. He has read at ABC No Rio, Bowery Poetry Club, Yippie Musem Cafe, Cornelia St. Cafe, Jujo Mukti Tea Lounge, Su Polos Saturn Series, the Green Pavilion, The Parkside, and many open mikes. HOST: Michael Graves is the author of Adam and Cain (Black Buzzard, 2006), In Fragility (Black Buzzard, 2011) and two chapbooks, Illegal Border Crosser (Cervana Barva, 2008) and Outside St. Jude’s (R. E. M. Press, 1990). His poem “Apollo to Daphne” appears in an anthology from Oxford University Press, Gods and Mortals (2,001) and his “Poem to Spring in a Time of Global Warming” appears on AboutPoetry In two thousand four (2004), he received a grant from the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation. Thirteen (13) of his poems appear in the James Joyce Quarterly. He has published scholarly-critical work on James Wright and organized a conference on Mr. Wright at Poets House in 2004. youtube/watch?v=HjGZeKfSW8g.... .
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