Cold Millers

April 2024 – Updates on future readings always pending—

Recommended if you can swing it- I guarantee we will-

Meet the Ancient Mariner (for Phil) who made this happen

I sat down before a poetry reading over on 15^th Street at the Revival Bar last Summer

On a stool open between us- at first glance out of the corner of my eye

He struck me as a classic tough ass old New Yorker chewing gum that

Would gladly deck/knock the block off of the nearest wise guy punk

Who would ask for it by running his yap barking up the wrong tree or

Perhaps it might be just a look in his general direction he didn’t like.

Now this guy was in shape to boot with dignified duds, dignified white hair and impeccably groomed mustache smoothly nursing a drink with a folder in front of him on the bar.

I was thinking Union Boss, Mob Goodfella or Teamster Rep. chilling after work

So the seat I’m planted in between this GD air conditioner unit blowing

Ice cubes down my neck and I want to move over the bar stool open between us

(All the other spots were taken)

So I decide to make the move and keep my pie hole buttoned up as to why

Even if he decides that I’m some friggin fruit trying to make a move.

Bartender goes – guess that seat got to you too

Little too cool there huh boss ?

Which adding a reaction my man says- yeah I was there at first

When I came in- had to make a move over here.

Chewing that gum he’s sizing me up.

With this beatific spark in his eye.

I slug my beer down and head up the stairs to the reading.

In few minutes The Ancient Marnier shows up.

Shrugging at me in recognition of some sort that suggests he is

Knowing now you’re another poet huh there boss.

He was thinking downstairs much the same about you before at the bar before

Contractor or hardass something or other.

And since then we discovered we were brothers from another mother.

VQ 8/7/2015

YOUR VOICE MATTERS!!!

STARK REALITY

353 STUDIOS

353 West 48th St., 2nd Floor, (bet. 8th and 9th Ave.)

Next Reading- May TBA

6: 00- 9:30 PM

Featuring-

TBA

Special guests

VINCENT QUATROCHE AND THE POETRY OF FREDERICK TODD SMITH performed by DJ VIV

STARK REALITY OPEN MIC@353 STUDIOS..
COME 6:00 PM AND SIGN UP!! GETS CROWDED !!
353 STUDIOS, 353 West 48th St., 2nd Floor, (bet. 8th and 9th)

STARK OPEN Mic (sign up on list before show)

The Stark Raw Reality Open Mic

(sign up on list before show)

Performers get 7 minutes

STARK HEART TO HEART OPEN MIC !!POETS,SPOKEN WORD, MUSICIANS,
YOUR VOICE IS THE POWER!!

AN OPEN MIC FOR THE OPEN MIND!! PASSION RULES !!
LIVE!! Hosted by DJ VIV

7 minutes each for each performer..There will be a mic and amplifier…Poets, Acoustic Musicians, Spoken Word !!! HIP HOP, BLUES, ROCK N’ ROLL, POP….ALL MUSIC TYPES… COME AND ROCK !!

WE HAVE A PIANO IF YOU WANT TO BANG THOSE KEYS !! WE CAN MAKE NOISE, WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THIS CHALLENGING WORLD!!

Hosted by DJ VIV

We hope you can join us at these Pink Trees Press events!

April Calendar

Saturday, April 13^th

12- 6 pm

LONG BEACH POETRY FESTIVAL

Meet PINK TREES PRESS authors MADELINE ARTENBERG, PHILLIP GIAMBRI, RON KOLM and LINDA KLEINBUB

Long Beach Library

111 West Park Avenue Long Beach, Long Island, NY

The festival is a two-day long action-packed event for more info:

https://longbeachlibrary.org/2024/03/14/2024poetryfest/

https://fb.me/e/1UiKtaOnO

Sunday, April 14^th

1 – 3 pm

PHILLIP GIAMBRI features at the ARTEMIS POETRY COLLECTIVE

One & One

76 1^st Street @ 1 Avenue

Other features include C.O. MOED, Dorothy Freidman, Philip Beitchman, Hellen Peterson, and YOU on the open mic.

Sunday, April 14^th

6-8:30 pm

UNCLOISTERED POETRY ONLINE

LINDA KLEINBUB features on ZOOM

Join us as we celebrate National Poetry Month with three phenomenal women. Featuring Linda Kleinbub, Chiquita Mullins Lee, and Rose Smith, followed by an open mic.

Be sure to register for the Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/…/tZwuf-usrTwoHtUq5…

Saturday, April 20^th

2 – 4:45 pm

Poetry Reading: The COVID Poetry Files

Tompkins Square Library, Basement

331 East 10^th Street NYC

PINK TREES PRESS authors Phillip Giambri, Ron Kolm, Linda Kleinbub, and Madeline Artenberg will be joining readers including Ptr Kozlowski, Austin Alexis, Mindy Levokove, Mindy Matijasevic, Evelyn Katz, Gordon Gilbert, John J. Trause, Roberto Mendoza Ayala, Michael Joseph, Jack Tricarico, Linda Morales Caballero, Marion Palm, Eugene Ring, Jaroslav E. Sykora, Sylvia Rivera, Natalie Rogers, and others.

Presented by The Green Pavilion Poetry Event to celebrate the publication of The COVID Poetry Files A (SMALL) Anthology of Those Times (Edited by Evie Ivy; Chris Robin, Elizabeth A. Todras, Michael Joseph, assistant editors).

https://www.nypl.org/events/programs/2024/04/20/poetry-reading-covid-poetry-files

Sunday, April 28^th

5:00 – 7:30 pm

Two Guys in a Bar Talkin’

Otto’s Shrunken Head

538 East 14^th Street, NYC

A Reading of Stories and Poems from the Other Side of Town with Pink Trees Press Author PHILLIP GIAMBRI and VINCENT QUATROCHE and hosted by Pete Solomita.

Free admission but two drink minimum to support the venue.

For more info:

https://www.facebook.com/events/879041843968345/?ti=ls

Tuesday, April 30^th

7 – 10 pm

Pink Trees Press Author JANE LECROY features at TRIMIC

All Night Skate

54 Rockaway Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11233

For tickets and more info:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tri-mic-poetry-tickets-865200396677?aff=erelexpmlt

Some additional essential links-

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Carol Vossler Bluseed Studios http://bluseedstudios.org/
Dan Berggren http://berggrenfolk.com/
Patricia Carragon http://brownstonepoets.blogspot.com/

Howard Thompson http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Thompson_%28film_critic%29 (details included below)

The International Bar formerly THE COAL YARD Corner of 1st Avenue & 6st. East Village NYC .The official Rubber Eden Bar is one that my Kid’s GF picked out for me on the lower east side one Fall. Must to check out the. No sound system (only a old juke box) nice and dark, circular bar stocked with regulars, ill-regulars, beats, punks, hippies, left-overs, reheated souls and characters galore and aglow. Friendly bartenders, cheap beer (yea they have 3 buck High Life) and a killer court yard out back (as displayed here) to have a butt and talk in. Here’s a link for more info

http://yelp.com/biz/coal-yard-bar-new-york

Essential Radio

Howard Thompson’s radio tour-de-force program entitled Pure on WPKN 89.5 FM from Bridgeport, Connecticut can be heard the 1st & 3rd Friday of the month, 1-4pm. Not in Tri-State terrestrial broadcast area of Long Island/Conn/Mass ? Not to worry you can stream this excellent eclectic free-for all. Just no telling what you’ll hear from Howard’s incredibility voluminous encyclopedic discography, but always the very best of the best across the broad spectrum of expression from Rock n Roll to the aural sonic world beyond. Perfect way to kick off the weekend. Essential links below:

http://tunein.com/radio/WPKN-895-s21976/

http://stream.wpkn.org/

Miss a past program ? (there all very diverse & worthwhile)

http://archives.wpkn.org/show/profile/183

More background of the hosts extensive history in the music biz

http://archives.wpkn.org/host/profile/393

And addition is own internet radio station is highly recommend as well

http://northforksound.blogspot.com/

For Your listening pleasure Please listen to and support Howard Thompson’s internet radio station http://northforksound.com/ Tune in at http://live365.com/stations/thespangler

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