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Geraldine Green's short US tour
Following on the success of Write Out Loud’s own Hilary Walker at Cornelia Street Cafe in Greenwich Village , New York in January 2006 here's Geraldine Green's account of her mini tour of the East Cost (for Photos see Galleries).
The Bowery Poetry Club in New York, hosted a rich tapestry of poetry readings this week, as a combination of British and American poets read their works in a program billed as "UKNY" by organizers.
On hand to read were British poets Geraldine Green and Linda Graham. Joining them from the New York area were Steve Dalachinsky, Amy Ouzoonian, Angelo Verga, Rhonda Ward and George Wallace.
So said the article in The Long Islander's Northport Journal.
I had to pinch myself! Me, reading in Greenwich Village?! The welcome we were given by all concerned in the three readings was phenomenal. I sold all the copies of PASSIO I'd had sent to the States, was feted and spoilt and treated warmly by our American hosts, it truly was 'hands across the water'
To be part of a worldwide community of poets, to act as an ambassador for Cumbrian poets and to meet with luminaries such as Steve Dalachinsky and Simon Pettet, a poet at the heart of the 70's 'scene' in Greenwich Village, living alongside Allen Ginsberg, friends with James Schuyler, Robert Bly and John Ashberry and to do all this in and around The Bowery Poetry Club, billed by George Wallace as 'the number one scene for poetry in Manhattan today' was a very special experience.
The Bowery where, 'you'll find the likes of Jack Hirschmann, Michael McClure or Taylor Meade mixing it with the knowns and unknowns ... Manhattan at its best, at the foot of First Street, between Houston & Bleeker (across the street from CBGB's)' http://www.bowerypoetry.com/ <http://www.bowerypoetry.com/>
After the reading, George took us to Back Fence, also located on Bleeker Street which hosts 'the oldest, continuously running poetry reading series in Manhattan, going back to the 50's when Kerouac, Hunke and Micheline were among the regulars on the scene' and then on to the Gathering of the Tribes, 'run by the iconic Steve Cannon, out of a half converted, Lower East Side apartment.'
As well as reading in The Bowery, in the heart of Greenwich Village, I also read at The Poetry Barn, Huntington, LI, hosted by George Wallace, with poets Bob Cooperman from Boulder, Colorado and Christine Rau of LI and alongside Linda Graham and Rhonda Ward at Branford House, part of the University of Connecticut's campus at Avery Point.
The whole trip was truly a rich tapestry of colour, fun, poetry and friendship.
Geraldine Green 1.8.06
The Bowery Poetry Club in New York, hosted a rich tapestry of poetry readings this week, as a combination of British and American poets read their works in a program billed as "UKNY" by organizers.
On hand to read were British poets Geraldine Green and Linda Graham. Joining them from the New York area were Steve Dalachinsky, Amy Ouzoonian, Angelo Verga, Rhonda Ward and George Wallace.
So said the article in The Long Islander's Northport Journal.
I had to pinch myself! Me, reading in Greenwich Village?! The welcome we were given by all concerned in the three readings was phenomenal. I sold all the copies of PASSIO I'd had sent to the States, was feted and spoilt and treated warmly by our American hosts, it truly was 'hands across the water'
To be part of a worldwide community of poets, to act as an ambassador for Cumbrian poets and to meet with luminaries such as Steve Dalachinsky and Simon Pettet, a poet at the heart of the 70's 'scene' in Greenwich Village, living alongside Allen Ginsberg, friends with James Schuyler, Robert Bly and John Ashberry and to do all this in and around The Bowery Poetry Club, billed by George Wallace as 'the number one scene for poetry in Manhattan today' was a very special experience.
The Bowery where, 'you'll find the likes of Jack Hirschmann, Michael McClure or Taylor Meade mixing it with the knowns and unknowns ... Manhattan at its best, at the foot of First Street, between Houston & Bleeker (across the street from CBGB's)' http://www.bowerypoetry.com/ <http://www.bowerypoetry.com/>
After the reading, George took us to Back Fence, also located on Bleeker Street which hosts 'the oldest, continuously running poetry reading series in Manhattan, going back to the 50's when Kerouac, Hunke and Micheline were among the regulars on the scene' and then on to the Gathering of the Tribes, 'run by the iconic Steve Cannon, out of a half converted, Lower East Side apartment.'
As well as reading in The Bowery, in the heart of Greenwich Village, I also read at The Poetry Barn, Huntington, LI, hosted by George Wallace, with poets Bob Cooperman from Boulder, Colorado and Christine Rau of LI and alongside Linda Graham and Rhonda Ward at Branford House, part of the University of Connecticut's campus at Avery Point.
The whole trip was truly a rich tapestry of colour, fun, poetry and friendship.
Geraldine Green 1.8.06
Sun, 6 Aug 2006 12:12 pm
