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Caffe Lena Poetry Festival 2009
Saturday, Apr 11
Starts at noon and runs through the evening |
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“…Mass production, the glory and curse of the 20th century,
replays words, pictures, politics and bad art
until it all seeps in like an Eskimo winter,
and sometimes the only way to clear the synapses
is a vigorous cranial wallbanger—or a good poem.”
—Michael R. Brown
 This year Caffè Lena greets the approaching spring and the arrival of National Poetry Month with a torrent of words: an all-day festival of poetry performance and workshops.
The program will feature twenty-minute readings throughout the afternoon by eleven stylistically varied, widely read poets from NYC, Rhode Island, Maine, the Capital District and the Adirondacks. Included will be Bernadette Mayer, Joseph Bruchac, Sam White, Michael Brown, Lyn Lifshin, Alan Catlin, Steven Huff, Miriam Axel-Lute, Barbara Ungar, Nancy White, M. Miriam Herrera and Jordan Smith.
Finishing the day will be a potluck dinner followed by a full-length reading by legendary counter-culture hero Ed Sanders.
Day Pass:
$10
Tickets available at door. No advance reservations.
Workshops:
$10 each (must have day pass to participate)
Tickets available at door. No advance reservations.
Evening performance with Ed Sanders:
$10 for day pass holders, $15 without
Tickets available at door or through Brown Paper Tickets
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Events:
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Noon
Readers
1:00 PM
Worshops
6:00 to 7:15 PM
Potluck Dinner
8:00 PM
Ed Sanders |
Workshops
Held at Saratoga Springs Public Library (next door)
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1 to 2 PM
Miriam Axel-Lute - Poetry Performance
Barbara Ungar - Poetry in Performance, Poetry on the Page
3 to 4 PM
Steven Huff - Consider the Line Break
Jordan Smith - Honoring & Disguising the Autobiographical Impulse
5 to 6 PM
Joseph Bruchac - Editing, Feedback & Ideas for Generating New Work
Michael Brown - Critic! Using the Good to Drive Out the Bad Without Chasing People Away
Readers
Starts at Noon, each reads for 20 Min. with a brief break between
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| 12:00 |
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Miriam Axel-Lute |
| 12:30 |
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Alan Catlin |
| 1:00 |
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Cara Benson |
| 1:30 |
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Joseph Bruchac |
| 2:00 |
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Lyn Lifshin |
| 2:30 |
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Michael Brown |
| 3:00 |
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"I Can Always Substitute Other, Angrier Poems
Later:
A Dialogue on Divorce" a collaborative reading by
Nancy White and Barbara Ungar |
| 4:00 |
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M. Miriam Herrera |
| 4:30 |
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Steven Huff |
| 5:00 |
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Jordan Smith |
| 5:30 |
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Bernadette Mayer |
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Feed the Muse:
Potluck for Poets and Their Friends
6 to 7:15 PM
Ed Sanders
8 PM
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$15 / $10 with a day pass
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Sanders
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