First Tuesdays

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

First Tuesdays Presents Sarah Gambito February 24, 2020 2019-2020 & featured reader

When: March 3, 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

First Tuesdays Presents Sara Khalili January 27, 2020 2019-2020 & featured reader

When: February 4, 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:

The Cento for January 7, 2020 January 7, 2020 2019-2020 & centos

1. Undulating and free, the strippers were masturbating customers on the garden bed of Blake’s fairy procession, this movie shot in hell, coiled

First Tuesdays Presents Mark Weiss December 30, 2019 2019-2020 & featured reader

When: January 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:

The Cento for December 3, 2019 December 3, 2019 2019-2020 & centos

Waxed figures burned outside the leather windows. Give my kidneys to kid drummers. You courted me with cucumber soup. The strongest coffee can’t

First Tuesdays Presents Rachel Zucker November 25, 2019 2019-2020 season & 2019-2020 & featured reader

When: December 3, 2019 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:

The Cento for November 5, 2019 November 5, 2019 2019-2020 & centos

1. Amulet I took back with me to sleep, his penis is like a dark flagpole swaying in the wind of his dreams, there was not an inch of you I didn’t

First Tuesdays Presents Alex Segura October 28, 2019 current season & 2019-2020 & featured reader

Unfortunately, Alex Segura had to cancel his reading. He will read for First Tuesdays again at some point in the future. When: November 5, 2019

The Cento for October 1, 2019 October 4, 2019 2019-2020 & centos

During every First Tuesdays open mic, we communally compose a cento using language taken from each open-mic reader’s offering. On October 1, those

First Tuesdays Presents Abeer Hoque September 23, 2019 current season & 2019-2020 & featured reader

When: October 1, 2019 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:

The Cento for September 3, 2019 September 4, 2019 2019-2020 & centos

During every First Tuesdays open mic, we communally compose a cento using language taken from each open-mic reader’s offering. On September 3rd,

First Tuesday Joins PEN’s Break Out Initiative August 29, 2019 2019-2020

For more than forty years, PEN America’s Prison Writing Program has, in its own words, “amplified the writing of thousands of imprisoned writers by

First Tuesdays Presents Peter Marra August 26, 2019 2019-2020 & featured reader

When: September 3, 2019 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:

First Tuesdays Announces Its 2019-2020 Season August 16, 2019 2019-2020 & featured reader

When: The first Tuesday of the month, September through June Where: Espresso 77, 35-57 77th Street, Jackson Heights, NY 11372 Time: 7:00 — 8:30 PM