First Tuesdays Presents Alex Segura September 28, 2021 2021-2022 PLEASE NOTE: YOU WILL NOT BE ALLOWED INTO ESPRESSO 77 WITHOUT PROOF OF VACCINATION. (YOU WILL ALSO NEED TO PRESENT A VALID PHOTO ID.) MASKS WILL BE The Cento for September 9, 2021 September 9, 2021 2021-2022 1 No language which is not visceral will be heard. Once again I ignore prayers mixing with smoke. The real trouble is all these phony calls. 2 A The Cento for March 2, 2021 March 3, 2021 Cento & 2020-2021 As long as there are books to fill my spirit and light coming through the fire escape we are the idiots engaged in idiot boxing. The white plate First Tuesdays Presents Lola Koundakjian February 24, 2021 current season & 2020-2021 Date: March 2, 2021 Time: 7:00 — 9:00 PM (I will open the Zoom link around 6:45) Where: This will be a virtual First Tuesdays reading. For security First Tuesdays Presents Eugene Lim January 25, 2021 current season & 2020-2021 When: February 2, 2021 Where: This will be a virtual First Tuesdays reading. For security purposes, you must click this link in order to register First Tuesdays Presents Christina M. Rau December 28, 2020 current season & 2020-2021 When: January 5, 2021 Time: 7:00 — 8:30 PM (open-mic sign up at 6:30) Where: This will be a virtual First Tuesdays reading. For security purposes, First Tuesdays On Zoom Presents David Rothman November 23, 2020 2020-2021 When: December 1, 2020 Where: On Zoom. Click here to register. Time: 7:00 — 9:00 PM (I will open the waiting room around 6:45.) More Information: First Tuesdays Presents Hala Alyan October 26, 2020 featured reader & 2020-2021 When: November 4, 2020 Time: 7:00 — 9:00 PM Where: This will be a virtual First Tuesdays reading. For security purposes, you must click this link in In Memoriam Jay Chollick September 5, 2020 featured reader & 2020-2021 Yesterday, I received an email with the sad news that Jay Chollick, a long-standing regular at First Tuesdays, has passed away. Jay was our featured Watch A Video Of Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond’s Reading September 4, 2020 featured reader & videos & 2020-2021 Nana Ekau Brew-Hammond’s reading was extraordinary, not just for the quality of the work she read, but for the discussion afterwards, which turned The September 2020 Cento September 4, 2020 centos & 2020-2021 1. Fingerprints of random voyeurs did not dispel the anger of the saints How much exists in a dying brain? Let’s not stop reinventing love. We step First Tuesdays Presents Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond August 24, 2020 featured reader & 2020-2021 When: September 1, 2020 Time: 7:00 — 9:00 PM Where: This will be a virtual First Tuesdays reading. For security purposes, you must click this link Watch the Video of the Reading by Ralph Nazareth & Duane Esposito June 6, 2020 videos & 2019-2020 & featured reader The Cento for June 3, 2020 June 3, 2020 2019-2020 & centos I. In lieu of flowers, please send Justice, a blood-splattered crescendo, or else some commoner will knock our fat asses off our golden seats. Who First Tuesdays Presents Ralph Nazareth & Duane Esposito May 25, 2020 2019-2020 season & 2019-2020 & featured reader Ralph Nazareth Duane Esposito When: June 2, 2020 Where: Espresso 77 Café, 35-57 77th Street, Jackson Heights, NY 11372. Time: 7:00 — 8:30 PM The Cento for May 5, 2020 May 13, 2020 2019-2020 & centos I. Not to touch, not to breathe, not to meet, scissors scraping the face of god. How many more nights are left before this magic ends? The plague is Watch The Video of Antoinette Brim’s Reading May 9, 2020 videos & 2019-2020 & featured reader Antoinette Brim read for us from her book, These Women You Gave Me. The poems were wonderful and the conversation afterwards was fascinating First Tuesdays Presents Antoinette Brim April 27, 2020 2019-2020 & featured reader When: May 5, 2020 Where: Espresso 77 Café, 35-57 77th Street, Jackson Heights, NY 11372. Time: 7:00 — 8:30 PM (open-mic sign up at 6:30) Cost: $5 The Cento Zoom Edition for April 7, 2020 April 7, 2020 2019-2020 & centos First Tuesdays went virtual for National Poetry Month! We held our reading over Zoom and it was, by all accounts, a success. Sokunthary Svay, our First Tuesdays Presents Sokunthary Svay March 30, 2020 2019-2020 & featured reader When: April 7, 2020 Where: Espresso 77 Café, 35-57 77th Street, Jackson Heights, NY 11372. Time: 7:00 — 8:30 PM (open-mic sign up at 6:30) Cost: $5 Next page