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April 17th: TMP reads for Queens Library The Poet in You series

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April 17th: TMP reads for Queens Library The Poet in You series

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TMP is happy to return to Queens Public Library - where it all began. You are welcome to join our virtual reading on April 17th at 11 am.

Join Zoom Meeting https://queenslib.org/3QixhXw Meeting ID: 899 9721 2880 Passcode: 587354

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Join Thursday morning poets at Poe Cottage - reading Poe poems and their own work. Friday, Jan 19th from 1 to 230 pm. 2640 Grand Concourse, Bronx NY.

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TMP will be reading at the New York City Poetry Festival on Governor's Island, the site of our very first reading! We'll be reading on July 13th at 11 am on the Whitehorse Stage.

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9/24 1 pm Join TMP at the 91st Street Garden

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9/24 1 pm Join TMP at the 91st Street Garden

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Join TMP at the 91st Street Garden in Riverside Park as part of 100,000 poets for change

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By Carol Tannenhauser

On Saturday, September 24, at 1 pm, a special event will take place at the 91st Street Community Garden in Riverside Park, between West 90th & West 91st Streets, adjacent to the Hippo Playground.

A group of poets, known as the Thursday Morning Poets, will be reading and planting their poetry in the garden, in solidarity with 100 Thousand Poets for Change, a global movement that began in California more than a decade ago. Their mission is to "use the intersection of art and activism to promote peace and sustainability around the world."

But will they really "plant" their poems?

"With a little poetic license," answered Luvon Roberson, a Thursday Morning Poet. "Our poems are each one page and laminated to withstand the weather. Each poet will read her (or his/our one male poet) original poem - using only voice, no other amplification, so as to respect nature/environment - before posting the poem on the fence surrounding the garden flora. Following this public reading, passersby will be able to welcome the first days of fall with a poetry walk, enjoying poems as garden flora dries, withers, falls, bringing change, ushering in the new season."

Strangers until 2021, the Thursday Morning Poets met online. Writers in the group have varied styles and themes in their poetry, but there is a strong emphasis on social justice issues, the environment and stories that spin out of their personal life histories. Members who are multilingual often include other languages in their writing.

To contact, email: thursdaymorningpoets@gmail.com

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Welcome Fall: A Poetry 'Reading and Planting' in the 91st Street Garden on Saturday

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By Carol Tannenhauser On Saturday, September 24, at 1 pm, a special event will take place at the 91st Street Community Garden in Riverside Park, between West 90th & West 91st Streets, adjacent to the Hippo Playground.

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Writing Our Way Home: A prompt-based poetry writing workshop with TMP                           8/31,9/7, 9/14       11 am to 1 pm 

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Writing Our Way Home: A prompt-based poetry writing workshop with TMP                           8/31,9/7, 9/14       11 am to 1 pm 

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Join Thursday Morning Poets for a prompt-based poetry writing workshop on the theme: Writing Our Way Home, hosted by Queens Public Library. After a brief reading by 3 of the members of TMP, participants will be given a prompt to guide them in writing drafts of original poetry exploring the theme of home. After writing, participants will have an opportunity to share drafts of their work if they wish.

Wednesdays, Aug. 31  Sept 7, 14 11:00 am

https://queenspubliclibrary.webex.com/queenspubliclibrary/j.php?MTID=m723015d8de2b20fe60ee13219a543d40
Meeting number: 2340 169 7503

Password: rtZSrbKd586

This (event, project, program) is made possible in part by the Queens Council on the Arts with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

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https://queenspubliclibrary.webex.com/queenspubliclibrary/j.php?MTID=m723015d8de2b20fe60ee13219a543d40
Meeting number: 2340 169 7503

Password: rtZSrbKd586

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https://www.nypl.org/events/programs/2021/09/24/1000-poets-change

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TMP in action! Video from Governors Island 2021

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TMP in action! Video from Governors Island 2021

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Thursday Morning Poets at Governors Island 2021

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Melva C. Lewis uncovered her poetry writing superpower in 2020.  She believes knowledge should be shared & children encouraged to read. She writes in English and Spanish, is a Trekkie, and enjoys a good cup of coffee.

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Judy Trupin is a writer, yoga instructor and an ESOL teacher of adult immigrants.  A 2023 Pushcart Prize nominee, recent poems have appeared in New Verse News and Equinox Journal. For many years, she performed her original movement theater pieces in the US and Europe. She likes open spaces, green tea, and mud-free shoes.

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Ana (Anastasiia) Denysenko is a 22 year-old poet from Kyiv, Ukraine. She self-published her first poetry chapbook in 2018. Ana’s work covers political, social and cultural issues in Ukraine and abroad.

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Strangers until 2021, The Thursday Morning Poets (TMP) first met at a Queens Public Library virtual workshop with Queens Poet Laureate Maria Lisella in January of that year. Enthusiastic about the prompt-based workshop she led, 16 people elected to continue on their own, forming TMP. The weekly meetings are facilitated by a different member each time. TMP is a safe writing space in which members are inspired first by prompts, ideas, and poems and finally each other to produce first drafts of original poetry.
Writers in the group have varied styles and themes in their poetry, but there is a strong emphasis on social justice issues, the environment and stories that spin out of their personal life histories. Members who are multilingual often include other languages in their writing.

contact us at
thursdaymorningpoets
at gmail

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Megha Sood is an award-winning poet, editor, author, and literary activist. Author/coauthor of eight collections of poetry and Literary Partner with “Life in Quarantine," Stanford University. Her co-edited anthology “The Medusa Project” will be sent to the moon in collaboration with NASA/SpaceX. Link : https://linktr.ee/meghasood

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Thursday Morning Poets -- Media Advisory_TMP at NYCPoFest on 7.24.21_UPDATED FINAL VERSION

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Nicollette Barsamian is a poet and writer from NYC. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University and her BA in English from Barnard College. She teaches writing at City University of New York (CUNY), hosts a weekly Writing Circle and a weekly Duolingo Greek Conversation Club.

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Laura Pantoja is a poet, writer, artist, crafter and lover of music and dance based in Long Island City.  She is a proud member of the Thursday Morning Poets and GUBU, where she collaborates with a group of kindred spirits who share her passion for poetry and literature.

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Marcia spent decades “poetizing” her students; motivating them to look at the world with a poet’s eye. She modeled poetry writing strategies for students but never gave it a go outside the classroom. She wrote her 1st poem in Spring 2021 when she joined QPL’s Prompt Based workshop. She continues to write and participate in open-mics.

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J.A. Forgione grew up in an extended Italian-American family. She  teaches writing at Fashion Institute of Technology and has a background in fine art. Her work has appeared in A Feast of Narrative, and the Patterson Literary Review. A member of the Italian American Writers Association, she lives in NYC.

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Isabella Calisi-Wagner (http://icalisiwagner.com), poet, artist, photographer, and documentary associate producer of A Winter Landscape: The Art and Life of Roger Winter. Her work can be found in Ms. Magazine, the American Journal of Nursing, and isliparts.org/Graffiti to Art workshops."

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Bruce Grossberg lives in Forest Hills with a wife, a daughter, two cats, a law degree, a SAG card and an artificial heart valve. He reads and writes with TMP, the Gazebo Series and ShopTalk. Some recent poems have been published in Newtown Literary Journal, Bards Annual 2023, and 27th Annual Poetry Ink (Moonstone Press).

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Beth Evans is an emerging writer, merging genres. Read her Journal of the Plague Year contribution
Pronouns: Grammar Guardian by training || Identity Choice Champion in the Head & Heart || When I am present, please do not use the third person

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Luvon Roberson writes poetry, memoir, ethnographic fiction, narrative performance. She was nominated for the Pushcart Prize 2023;  published her chapbook, Black Girl June Memories Done Been Changed in 2024. "Mississippi Sanctifyin," a collection of her multi-genre writings, current wip. She tweets @LuvonRwriter.

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The sixth Queens Poet Laureate, Maria Lisella was awarded a Poet Laureate Fellowship from the American Academy of Poets; she co-curates the Italian American Writers Association. Collections include Thieves in the Family and Amore on Hope Street. A journalist, she contributes to various publications.