Typhoon Haiyan

Check out Laurel Fantauzzo's incredible piece "Notes from a Storm-Wrecked Land," featured in the New York Times. Here is a short list of sites for donations/aid relief to help the people affected by Typhoon Haiyan: UNICEF, Philippine Red Cross, Red Cross, World Food Programme, Doctors Without Borders, Save The Children, World Vision, Embassy of the Philippines (Washington, D.C), and ShelterBox. Please consider one of them!

Saturday, Dec. 1: Nor' Open featuring Beth Bosworth and D. Nurkse!

Nor'easter Open: Two Features and an Open Mic

Saturday, December 1st, 4 pm, Featuring Beth Bosworth & D. Nurkse

at

Big Blue Marble Bookstore

551 Carpenter Lane

Philadelphia, PA 19119-3402

215-844-1870

Nor'easter Open is Nor'easter Exchange's monthly open mic series that takes place at Mt. Airy Philadelphia's Big Blue Marble Bookstore, co-hosted by Nina Sharma and Quincy Scott Jones.  Each event kicks off with readings by two feature authors, followed by an hour of open mic.  December's features are Beth Bosworth & D. Nurkse.  Nor'easter Exchange welcomes and is proud to support both emerging and established writers, at a bookstore with a truly independent heart.  Come read your work or just support that of your friends and neighbors.

For open mic, please arrive at least 15 minutes early (3:45 pm) to sign up, and allot 3 minutes for your reading.

We are honored to have this event co-sponsored by Certain Circuits Magazine.  

This past September, Beth Bosworth's short story collection The Source of Life and Other Stories was released by The University of Pittsburgh Press, winning the 2012 Drue Heinz Literature prize.  She is also the author of A Burden of Earth and Other Stories.  She is founding editor of The Saint Ann's Review and has taught English and writing at Saint Ann's School, The New School for Social Research and CUNY's New York City Technical College.

D. Nurkse is the author og ten books of poetry, most recently, A NIGHT IN BROOKLYN (Knopf, 2012).  He's received fellowships form the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Tanne Foundations, and the Whiting Foundation, and awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Poetry Foundation.  He's taught at Rikers Island, inner city literacy programs, and MFA programs.  He currently works at Sarah Lawrence College.

For further information please visit: http://wwww.bigbluemarblebooks.com/

Email us at: noreasterx@gmail.com

Please take a moment to consider these possible organizations for donations. Afterwards, treat yourself to a Nor'easter. All information follows below.

Red Cross

All donations will provide shelter, food, emotional support and other assistance to those affected by the storm. Donate here.

New York Blood Center

Nearly 100 Red Cross blood drives were canceled because of Sandy, so blood supplies are low in the areas affected the most. The New York Blood Center is urging people to donate blood for those in the New York/New Jersey area. Donate here.

Salvation Army

The Salvation Army has dozens of mobile feeding units and shelters along the East Coast that are working to serve thousands in the most heavily hit areas. Donate here.

Feeding America

Feeding America has thousands of pounds of emergency food, water and supplies in disaster zones, working to distribute them to the storm's victims. Donate here.

AmeriCares

AmeriCares is providing medicine and other supplies to people affected by Hurricane Sandy. Donate here.

World Vision

World Vision is distributing flood clean-up kits, personal hygiene items and emergency food kits to people hit by the hurricane. Donate here.

Save the Children

Save the Children is working to provide relief to families and their children. Donate here.

Humane Society

Humane Society is partnering with local organizations in animal relief efforts. Donate here.

American Humane Association

American Humane Association is helping animals in need of rescue and shelter, via their mobile Rescue Rig, run by trained staff and volunteers. Donate here.

This Friday, Ross Gay and Patrick Rosal! + Donations for Storm Victims

Nor'easter Open: Two Features and an Open Mic
Friday, November 9th, 7 pm, Featuring Ross Gay & Patrick Rosal

Nor'easter Open is Nor'easter Exchange's monthly open mic series that takes place at Mt. Airy Philadelphia's Big Blue Marble Bookstore, co-hosted by Nina Sharma and Quincy Scott Jones.  Each event kicks off with readings by two feature authors, followed by an hour of open mic.  November's features are Ross Gay and Patrick Rosal.  Nor'easter Exchange welcomes and is proud to support both emerging and established writers, at a bookstore with a truly independent heart.  Come read your work or just support that of your friends and neighbors.

For open mic, please arrive at least 15 minutes early (6:45 pm) to sign up, and allot 3 minutes for your reading.

We are honored to have this event co-sponsored by Certain Circuits Magazine. 

Ross Gay is assistant professor of English at Indiana University and author of the poetry collections Bringing the Shovel Down (University of Pittsburg Press, 2011) and Against Which(Persea Books, 2009).  His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Gulf Coast,Margie: The American Journal of Poetry, Ploughshares, and Sou'wester, among other publications.  Gay also teaches in the low-residency MFA program at Drew University and is a Cave Canem fellow.

Patrick Rosal is the author of three full-length poetry collections, Bonesheperds (2011), My American Kundiman (2006), and Uprock Headspin Scramble and Dive (2003).  His collections have been honored by the Association of Asian American Studies, the Global Filipino Literary Awards and the Asian American Writers Workshop.  In 2009, he was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to the Philippines.  His poems have been published widely in journals and anthologies including Tin House, American Poetry Review, Harvard Review,Indiana Review.  His most recent prose appears in ESPN's Grantland.com.  He is currently on the faculty of Rutgers University-Camden's MFA program.


Please take a moment to consider these possible organizations for donations. Afterwards, treat yourself to a Nor'easter Open. All information follows below.

Red Cross
All donations will provide shelter, food, emotional support and other assistance to those affected by the storm. Donate here.

New York Blood Center
Nearly 100 Red Cross blood drives were canceled because of Sandy, so blood supplies are low in the areas affected the most. The New York Blood Center is urging people to donate blood for those in the New York/New Jersey area. Donate here.

Salvation Army
The Salvation Army has dozens of mobile feeding units and shelters along the East Coast that are working to serve thousands in the most heavily hit areas. Donate here.

Feeding America
Feeding America has thousands of pounds of emergency food, water and supplies in disaster zones, working to distribute them to the storm's victims. Donate here.

AmeriCares
AmeriCares is providing medicine and other supplies to people affected by Hurricane Sandy. Donate here.

World Vision
World Vision is distributing flood clean-up kits, personal hygiene items and emergency food kits to people hit by the hurricane. Donate here.

Save the Children
Save the Children is working to provide relief to families and their children. Donate here.

Humane Society
Humane Society is partnering with local organizations in animal relief efforts. Donate here.

American Humane Association
American Humane Association is helping animals in need of rescue and shelter, via their mobile Rescue Rig, run by trained staff and volunteers. Donate here.

Storm Relief Donations & 2 Upcoming Events!

Please take a moment to consider these possible organizations for donations. Afterwards, treat yourself to a Nor'easter. All information follows below.

Red Cross
All donations will provide shelter, food, emotional support and other assistance to those affected by the storm. Donate here.

New York Blood Center
Nearly 100 Red Cross blood drives were canceled because of Sandy, so blood supplies are low in the areas affected the most. The New York Blood Center is urging people to donate blood for those in the New York/New Jersey area. Donate here.

Salvation Army
The Salvation Army has dozens of mobile feeding units and shelters along the East Coast that are working to serve thousands in the most heavily hit areas. Donate here.

Feeding America
Feeding America has thousands of pounds of emergency food, water and supplies in disaster zones, working to distribute them to the storm's victims. Donate here.

AmeriCares
AmeriCares is providing medicine and other supplies to people affected by Hurricane Sandy. Donate here.

World Vision
World Vision is distributing flood clean-up kits, personal hygiene items and emergency food kits to people hit by the hurricane. Donate here.

Save the Children
Save the Children is working to provide relief to families and their children. Donate here.

Humane Society
Humane Society is partnering with local organizations in animal relief efforts. Donate here.

American Humane Association
American Humane Association is helping animals in need of rescue and shelter, via their mobile Rescue Rig, run by trained staff and volunteers. Donate here.

Nor'easter Opens' Upcoming Events

at:

Big Blue Marble Bookstore

551 Carpenter Lane

Philadelphia, PA 19119-3402

215-844-1870

Nor'easter Open is Nor'easter Exchange's monthly open mic series that takes place at Mt. Airy Philadelphia's Big Blue Marble Bookstore, co-hosted by Nina Sharma and Quincy Scott Jones.  Each event kicks off with readings by two feature authors, followed by an hour of open mic.  Nor'easter Exchange welcomes and is proud to support both emerging and established writers, at a bookstore with a truly independent heart.

Upcoming Events!

Friday, November 9th, 7 pm, Featuring Ross Gay & Patrick Rosal
Saturday, December 1st, 4 pm, Featuring Beth Bosworth & D. Nurkse

We are honored to have Certain Circuits Magazine as a co-sponsor for these two events.

Full information for each events follows below.

Nor'easter Open: Two Features and an Open Mic
Friday, November 9th, 7 pm, Featuring Ross Gay & Patrick Rosal

Nor'easter Open is Nor'easter Exchange's monthly open mic series that takes place at Mt. Airy Philadelphia's Big Blue Marble Bookstore, co-hosted by Nina Sharma and Quincy Scott Jones.  Each event kicks off with readings by two feature authors, followed by an hour of open mic.  November's features are Ross Gay and Patrick Rosal.  Nor'easter Exchange welcomes and is proud to support both emerging and established writers, at a bookstore with a truly independent heart.  Come read your work or just support that of your friends and neighbors.

For open mic, please arrive at least 15 minutes early (6:45 pm) to sign up, and allot 3 minutes for your reading.

We are honored to have this event co-sponsored by Certain Circuits Magazine.

Ross Gay is assistant professor of English at Indiana University and author of the poetry collections Bringing the Shovel Down (University of Pittsburg Press, 2011) and Against Which (Persea Books, 2009).  His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Gulf Coast, Margie: The American Journal of Poetry, Ploughshares, and Sou'wester, among other publications.  Gay also teaches in the low-residency MFA program at Drew University and is a Cave Canem fellow.

Patrick Rosal is the author of three full-length poetry collections, Bonesheperds (2011), My American Kundiman (2006), and Uprock Headspin Scramble and Dive (2003).  His collections have been honored by the Association of Asian American Studies, the Global Filipino Literary Awards and the Asian American Writers Workshop.  In 2009, he was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to the Philippines.  His poems have been published widely in journals and anthologies including Tin House, American Poetry Review, Harvard Review, Indiana Review.  His most recent prose appears in ESPN's Grantland.com.  He is currently on the faculty of Rutgers University-Camden's MFA program.

Nor'easter Open: Two Features and an Open Mic

Saturday, December 1st, 4 pm, Featuring Beth Bosworth & D. Nurkse

Nor'easter Open is Nor'easter Exchange's monthly open mic series that takes place at Mt. Airy Philadelphia's Big Blue Marble Bookstore, co-hosted by Nina Sharma and Quincy Scott Jones.  Each event kicks off with readings by two feature authors, followed by an hour of open mic.  December's features are Beth Bosworth & D. Nurkse.  Nor'easter Exchange welcomes and is proud to support both emerging and established writers, at a bookstore with a truly independent heart.  Come read your work or just support that of your friends and neighbors.

For open mic, please arrive at least 15 minutes early (3:45 pm) to sign up, and allot 3 minutes for your reading.

We are honored to have this event co-sponsored by Certain Circuits Magazine.  

This past September, Beth Bosworth's short story collection The Source of Life and Other Stories was released by The University of Pittsburgh Press, winning the 2012 Drue Heinz Literature prize.  She is also the author of A Burden of Earth and Other Stories.  She is founding editor of The Saint Ann's Review and has taught English and writing at Saint Ann's School, The New School for Social Research and CUNY's New York City Technical College.

D. Nurkse is the author og ten books of poetry, most recently, A NIGHT IN BROOKLYN (Knopf, 2012).  He's received fellowships form the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Tanne Foundations, and the Whiting Foundation, and awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Poetry Foundation.  He's taught at Rikers Island, inner city literacy programs, and MFA programs.  He currently works at Sarah Lawrence College.

For further information please visit: http://wwww.bigbluemarblebooks.com/

Email us at: noreasterx@gmail.com

Boo! It's a Nor'easter...

Friday, Oct. 12th

7:00-9:00 PM

Nor'easter Open: Two Features

& an Open Mic!

Big Blue Marble Bookstore

551 Carpenter Lane

Philadelphia, PA 19119-3402

(215) 844-1870

Join us for our 9th Nor’easter Open, Nor’easter Exchange’s monthly open mic series that takes place at Mt. Airy Philadelphia’s Big Blue Marble Bookstore, co-hosted by Nina Sharma and Quincy Scott Jones.  Each series kicks off with readings by two feature authors, followed by an hour of open mic.  Our October features are Trapeta B. Mayson and Charan P. Morris Nor’easter Exchange welcomes and is proud to support both emerging and established writers, at a bookstore with a truly independent heart.  Come read your work or just support that of your friends and neighbors.
 

For open mic, please arrive at least 15 minutes early (6:45 pm) to sign up, and allot 3 minutes for your reading.

Trapeta B. Mayson is a native of Liberia who immigrated to the United States in 1975. She considers herself to be richly blessed to understand the roots of her culture in both Africa and America. She grew up in North Philadelphia and currently resides in Germantown as part of the Greene Street Artists Cooperative, www.greenestreetartists.org.  In partnership with highly regarded and supremely talented jazz guitarist Monnette Sudler, Trapeta and Monnette founded Sisters in Music and Poetry in early 2000. The two have collaborated to blend original poetry and music to create a unique and poignant experience for audiences around the country and beyond through poetry and music workshops, residencies and performances.  Her publications include Mocha Melodies and submissions in The American Poetry Review, The Margie Review, and Aesthetica Journal to name a few. A second book of poetry She Was Once Herself was released in the Spring of 2012.  For further information and/or book purchase, please visit: http://trapetamayson.com/

Charan P. Morris is a poet/educator transplanted from Chicago to New York.  A 2011-12 LAMBDA Literary Foundation Fellow, her work has been published in New York University’s Gallatin Review, Brownstone Magazine, Sinister Wisdom and is forthcoming in Kweli Journal.  In addition to being a NYC public school educator for the past eight years, she has facilitated poetry workshops with diverse groups of writers including formerly incarcerated youth and graduate students at Columbia University.  Poetry takes its rightful place in her life--neck and neck with teaching.  Charan’s performance poetry has reached audiences throughout the Midwest and East Coast.  She has shared a stage with Gill Scott-Heron, The Last Poets, Staceyann Chin, Ishle Park, Tara Betts, Climbing Poetree, and others. Her work fuels public dialogue around colorism, homophobia and the effects of war.  Of course, sometimes she writes about being human.  To find out more about her work as a poet and educator visit: www.charanp.com.

For further information please visit: 

http://noreasterexchange.blogspot.com/ & http://www.bigbluemarblebooks.com/

Email us at: noreasterx@gmail.com

1st FALL OPEN!

Friday, Sept 14th, 7:00-9:00 PM Nor’easter Open: Two Features & an Open Mic! Big Blue Marble Bookstore 551 Carpenter Lane   Philadelphia, PA 19119-3402 (215) 844-1870

Join us for our 8th Nor’easter Open, Nor’easter Exchange’s monthly open mic series that takes place at Mt. Airy Philadelphia’s Big Blue Marble Bookstore, co-hosted by Nina Sharma and Quincy Scott Jones.  Each series kicks off with readings by two feature authors, followed by an hour of open mic.  Our September features are Samantha Barrow and Maleka Fruean.  Nor’easter Exchange welcomes and is proud to support both emerging and established writers, at a bookstore with a truly independent heart.  Come read your work or just support that of your friends and neighbors.
 


For open mic, please arrive at least 15 minutes early (6:45 pm) to sign up, and allot 3 minutes for your reading.

Samantha Barrow is a poet, performer, writer and educator with an MS in Narrative Medicine from Columbia University, where she was awarded a Distinguished Graduate Research Scholar Fellowship in 2011. She facilitates creative resilience & writing workshops with survivors of sexual assault, and teaches Narrative Medicine at the City College of New York. She’s been known to ride her motorcycle around the country sharing her poems in all kinds of venues; big, small, loud, silent, fabulous and awkward. She really likes performing with musicians.

She is the author of GRIT and tender membrane (Plan B Press), Jelly (a chapbook, Tiger / Monkey Alliance), and Chap (self published).  Her poetry, prose, reviews and interviews have been published in The Ledge Magazine, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Philadelphia City Paper, Off Our Backs, Avalon Magazine, Lesbian Nation, Feminist Review, Edible Vineyard, Manorborn, Moonstone’s Poetry Ink Anthology and Helmet Hair. She has been included in two Uphook Press Anthologies: “you say. say.” and “Hell Strung and Crooked."

She lives in New York City.  For more about Ms. Barrow please go to  www.SamanthaBarrow.com


Maleka Fruean was born in Western Samoa, raised in southern New Jersey, and started sassing around in Philadelphia. She creates poems and paints with her three children, and has featured her poetry and prose in venues like the Rotunda, the Painted Bride, and various communal houses and tearooms throughout Philadelphia. She recently had her first pieces of flash fiction published.    

                For further information please visit:

                http://noreasterexchange.blogspot.com/ & http://www.bigbluemarblebooks.com/

                Email us at: noreasterx@gmail.com

August Open roars in!

Friday, August 17th, 7 pm

Nor'easter Open: Two Features & an Open Mic!

Big Blue Marble Bookstore

551 Carpenter Lane

Philadelphia, PA 19119

215-844-1870

Sirowitz photo credit: Kim Soles

Join us for our 7th Nor’easter Open, Nor’easter Exchange’s monthly open mic series that takes place at Mt. Airy Philadelphia’s Big Blue Marble Bookstore, co-hosted by Nina Sharma and Quincy Scott Jones.  Each series kicks off with readings by two feature authors, followed by an hour of open mic.  Our August features are Anne Kaier and Hal Sirowitz.  Nor’easter Exchange welcomes and is proud to support both emerging and established writers, at a bookstore with a truly independent heart.  Come read your work or just support that of your friends and neighbors.

For open mic, please arrive at least 15 minutes early (6:45 pm) to sign up, and allot 3 minutes for your reading.

Anne Kaier’s recent work appears in the The Gettysburg Review, Kenyon Review, Bellingham Review, Under the Sun, Philadelphia Poets, American Writing, the recent anthology Beauty is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability, and other venues. Her chapbook, In Fire, was published in 2005. Holding a Ph.D. from Harvard University, she teaches literature and creative writing at Rosemont College and Arcadia University.

Hal Sirowitz is the author of five books of poetry, Mother Said, My Therapist Said (Crown/Random House), Father Said, Before, During & After (Soft Skull Press) and the forthcoming Stray Cat Blues (Backwaters Press). His work has been translated into ten languages including Icelandic, Turkish, and, most recently, Macedonian. Garrison Keillor has read his work on NPR’s the Writer’s Almanac and he has included Hal’s poems in his anthologies, Good Poems and Good Poems for Hard Times. Hal has performed and appeared on MTV’s Spoken Word Unplugged, PBS’s Poetry Heaven, NPR’s All Things Considered, PBS’s The United States of Poetry and Fresh Air with Terry Gross. Awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship, Hal is the former Poet Laureate of Queens, New York.

For further information please visit:

http://noreasterexchange.blogspot.com/