Elinor Nauen
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ReadingsProse Prose 2011-12*** NO READING IN JANUARY!! *** We'll be back on Thursday, February 2, 2012 with Mike DeCapite and Stephanie Dickinson. Also coming up in 2012: Ann Rower, Ted Barron & Drew Hubner (photos + text: East of Bowery), Tsipi Keller and MORE Our 5th season! hosted by Martha King and Elinor Nauen You can go to hundreds of poetry readings in New York City every month, but find exactly ONE series—Prose Pros—that is dedicated solely to prose readings: stories, essays, criticism and in-between forms. If you were at the SideWalk Café for Prose Pros readings, you would have heard Diane Simmons’ con-counter-con caper “Yukon”… Philip Lopate on his Brooklyn childhood ... Siri Hustvedt on a strange neurological disorder ... Pulitzer Prize finalist Philip Dray on union organizing in America ... Joyce Johnson’s biography-in-progress of Jack Kerouac ... David Henderson’s shocking revelations about the death of Jimi Hendrix ... Prose Pros is unique, eclectic and a place for a community of people who are interested in art, politics, kids, boxing, sex, photography, martial arts movies, Turkey ... you name it. Next up: 6:30 to 7:45 p.m. (starts and ends on time!) at the SideWalk Café 94 Avenue A at 6th Street, NYC 212-473-7373 (F to Second Avenue, exit at First Ave) WHERE: The back room of the East Village’s Sidewalk Café. All readings are on Thursdays at 6:30 (sharp), usually the first Thursday of the month. One drink minimum (or purchase a munchie). No cover charge but we do ask for a generous contribution, which goes to the readers. * * * Eat! Drink! Tip! * * * For More Information ProsePros@ElinorNauen.com Martha King: gpwitd@aol.com Elinor Nauen: Elinor@elinornauen.com Or find us online by “friending” Prose Pros on Facebook. |
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Prose ProsAlong with Martha King, Elinor hosts the Prose Pros reading series, usually on the first Thursday of every month, from October through June. To be reminded about upcoming Prose Pros events, send an e-mail to prosepros@ ElinorNauen.com (or Elinor@ElinorNauen.com or gpwitd@aol.com). We're on Facebook! Friend Prose Pros for our (infrequent!) updates. So far in 2011-12, Prose Pros has hosted Francis Levy, Mischa Merz, David Henderson, David Wilentz, Mitch Levenberg, Diane Simmons, Andrei Codrescu & Elinor Nauen. Readers in the 2010-11 season included Phillip Lopate, Burt Kimmelman, Eileen Myles, Andrei Codrescu, CA Conrad, Basil King, Siri Hustvedt, Philip Dray, Sparrow, Foamola, Donald Breckenridge. Readers in 2009-10 included Joyce Johnson, Tony Towle, Monica de la Torré, Peter Schjeldahl, Sarah Schulman, Lenore Skenazy, Bob Holman, Alex Webb & Rebecca Norris Webb, Pierre Joris, Sanjay Agnihotri, JP Borum and Michael Heller. The 2008-09 season included Terence Winch, Michael Lally, Chuck Wachtel, Tom Carey, Carmen Firan, Barbara Henning, Mike DeCapite, Lee Lowenfish, Joan Silber, Dani Leone, Nahid Rachlin, Diane Simmons and Martha King. The 2007-08 season included Jocelyn Lieu, Mort Zachter, Hettie Jones, Stan Alpert, Peter Trachtenberg, Stephanie Dickinson, Sharon Mesmer, Andrei Codrescu, Eileen Myles, Susan Sherman, Maggie Dubris, Geoffrey O’Brien, Martha King & Elinor Nauen. Friend Prose Pros on Facebook! |
