Thursdays Are For Poetry

02/07/2020

THURSDAYS ARE FOR POETRY AT CLASSIC QUICHE PRESENTS
LESLIE PROSTERMAN
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2020 at 7 pm.

BREVITAS poet and Community teacher of poetry, and a cultural activist and dancer, Leslie is the author of " Snapshots and Dances" ( Garden District Press, 2011) and poems and collections in many journals and online magazines, including, " New Verse News", : First Literary Review--East", " Fourth River's " Displacement" issue, as well as " From Somewhere to Nowhere: The End of the American Dream"; and " Flute Bone Song" set to Charaley Gerard's music, now out on CD..
Come join us in an evening of wonderful poetry, good food, and great conversation. Open Mic. $10 min. Bring friends and fellow poets.

Classic Quiche
330 Queen Anne Road
Teaneck, NJ 07666
Easy Access from Port Authority
NJ Transit #167
Gate 210.

02/07/2020

THURSDAYS ARE FOR POETRY PRESENTS LESLIE POSTERMAN, February 21, 2020 at Classic Quiche. 7 pm
$10 min, Open Mic See details below.

THURSDAYS ARE FOR POETRY AT CLASSIC QUICHE PRESENTS
LESLIE PROSTERMAN
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2020 at 7 pm.

BREVITAS poet and Community teacher of poetry, and a cultural activist and dancer, Leslie is the author of " Snapshots and Dances" ( Garden District Press, 2011) and poems and collections in many journals and online magazines, including, " New Verse News", : First Literary Review--East", " Fourth River's " Displacement" issue, as well as " From Somewhere to Nowhere: The End of the American Dream"; and " Flute Bone Song" set to Charaley Gerard's music, now out on CD..
Come join us in an evening of wonderful poetry, good food, and great conversation. Open Mic. $10 min. Bring friends and fellow poets.

Classic Quiche
330 Queen Anne Road
Teaneck, NJ 07666
Easy Access from Port Authority
NJ Transit #167
Gate 210.

11/06/2019

Thursdays Are For Poetry at Classic Quiche welcomes back for a second time Georgia poet, LYNN FARMER, on Thursday, November 21, 2019, at 7pm.
Join us for an evening of poetry, talk, community involvement and an open mic that have become the hallmarks of the unique style of our evenings at TAFP
LYNN FARMER, a native of Knoxville, Tennessee, has lived most of her life in Decatur, Georgia.In addition to her 2015 poetry reading at TAFP, she has been featured in readings at the Callanwolde Fine Arts Center in Atlanta, Emory University, Poets Read Series in Marietta, GA. the Green Cafe in West Philadephia, and elsewhere. She has been awarded the Byron Herbert Reece Award, The Chattahochee VAlley Writers' Prize; and the James E. Warren Prize from the Academy of American Poets in New York. Her poems have appeared in " Snake Nation Review", " Red Mountain Rendezvous" "Poets, Artists, and Madmen" " The Chattahochee Review" and elsewhere. Lynn's collection, " The Rare,Persistent Light," was the winnder of the Charles Dickens Chapbook Award.
TAFP is delighted to welcome her once again to our microphone and venue.
$10 min. Open mic
Classic Quiche
330 Queen Anne Rd
Teaneck, NJ 07666
Easy Access from NY Port Authority
NJ Transit # 167 Q or T
Gate 210
With Lynn Farmer Zev Shanken Don Zirilli, Susanna Lorber Lee. John Barrale. Mark F Fogarty, Arthur Russell Fran Lombardi.

10/03/2019

WALT WHITMAN COMES TO TEANECK
—and you are he!


THURSDAYS ARE FOR POETRY
featured poet:
EVERYBODY AS WALT WHITMAN

Thursday Night, October 17


Here is how it works.
Everyone will be given a complete text of the 1882 edition of “Song of Myself.”
We will read in the round. When your turn comes, you read aloud until you want to stop.

Readers and listeners may call out one of three things during the “service”:
1. You may shout, “Wow!”
2. You may shout, “Somebody actually said that?”
3. You may shout the word or phrase or line that you just heard that you can’t resist repeating.

Otherwise, the only sound in the room will be the sound our voices reading Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself to ourselves. Aloud. Yes, read the lines on the page as if you were reading them to yourself for the first time, with the rest of us tenderly eavesdropping on your discoveries. Don’t act. Read.

Zev Shanken has held this event in his college and adult ed courses. It is a powerful way to ‘get’ Walt Whitman. A memorable poetic-spiritual-dramatic experience will materialize in the ears and minds of all who attend this special event in the monthly THURSDAYS ARE FOR POETRY reading series.

Please join Alice Twombly and Zev Shanken THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, AT CQ for this open, informal and inspiring program of poetry, democracy and soul. (RSVP appreciated but not required so we will know approximately how many copies of 1882 edition of “Song of Myself” to run off.)
Email for this event : [email protected]

CQ Café 330 Queen Anne Rd Teaneck, NJ 07666
No admission charge/ $10.00 MINIMUM / BYO /7:00 - 9:00