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2009 Events | 2008 Events If you want Juanita Torrence-Thompson to give a reading, speech or workshop or want information about her readings prior to 2003, please contact the poet directly. Print and Online Articles The Culvert Chronicles column, November, online Readings/Signings/Interviews Sunday, December 20th, 3pm - Poetry Salon Series. Juanita Torrence-Thompson will host and read with Christopher Stackhouse George Northrup, and Alison Roh Park at the Lewis H. Latimer House Museum 34-41 137th Street, (corner of Leavitt St.) Flushing, NY. Light refreshments Executive Director is Vivian Warfield. RSVP: latimerhouse@live.com or 718-961-8585 for directions, etc. Suggested donation: $7 adults, seniors/students/Children 12 and over $5. Saturday, November 7, 2009 (1-4 pm) reading at the BIRTH POETRY READING of 2009 LONG ISLAND SOUNDS ANTHOLOGY at the Southampton Historical Museum, 14 Meeting House Lane, Southampton, LI, NY 11968. Hosted by The North Sea Poetry Scene. POETS READING: Juanita Torrence-Thompson. Nancy Picone, Tammy Nuzzo-Morgan, Gladys Henderson, Fran Castan, Beverly Kotch, Gail Goldstein, Philip Postiglione. Joanne Pateman, Lynn Cohen, Stanley Barkan, Phil Reinstein, Daune Esposito. Pramila Ventakasawaren, Janice Bishop, Melanie Meyers, Barbara Reiher-Meyers, Walter Donway, Thomas Brinson, Ruth Sabath Rosenthal, Maria Manibanco, Paula Camacho, Richard Bronson, Peter Dugan, Billy Hands, Debby Andreas, Nancy Picone, Bobbi Kaufman, Leslie Brooke Bell, Mark Wells, & JoAnn Proscia. To attend Email: Thenorthseapoetryscene@hotmail.com or Call: 631-204-1240. Sunday, September 13 - Juanita Torrence-Thompson, Möbius, The Poetry Magazine Editor & Publisher, will host and read at 3pm at the LEWIS H. LATIMER HOUSE MUSEUM POETRY SALON SERIES. Other esteemed poets are: activist/publisher/WBAI radio producer & host, Louis Reyes Rivera; former Queens Poet Laureate, Hal Sirowitz; and curator of Brooklyn readings Patricia Carragon. Salon reading followed by light refreshments & conversation which spills out into the house museum and outside, weather permitting. Where: (historic) Lewis H. Latimer House Museum. 34-41 137th Street, (corner of Leavitt St.) Flushing, NY. Executive Director is Vivian Warfield. RSVP: latimerhouse@live.com or 718-961-8585. Limited seating. Limited parking on street. Take Subway #7 to Main St, Flushing; Take Q25 to Linden Place & 35th Avenue, Flushing. (cream colored, burgundy trimmed, 19th Century Victorian House Museum) -- Suggested donation: $7 adults, seniors/students/Children 12 and over $5. Thursday, September 3 from 2-3pm - Juanita Torrence-Thompson is guest of famed radio host/producer Louis Reyes Rivera on WBAI’s “Perspective.” (99.5 FM) Other guests include: Vivian Warfield, Exec. Director of Lewis H. Latimer House Museum, and Patricia Carragon, poet & curator of poetry readings in Brooklyn, NY. It is also ONLINE for 2 weeks starting late Sept. 3. Thursday, May 28, 2009 - 5:30 pm-7:30 pm - Long Island City Community Library Juanita Torrence-Thompson is the featured poet at QUEENSBORO BRIDGE 100th Birthday Celebration. “Life Around The Queensboro Bridge” Address: 37-44 21st Street, Long Island City, NY 11101. Sponsored by Queens Borough President Helen M Marshall, the NYC Bridge Centennial Commission, LaGuardia Community College & the Queens Library, Long Island City Community Library. See: www.nycbridges100.org Saturday, May 23, 2009 - 2 pm - Juanita Torrence-Thompson reads from her critically acclaimed book, New York & African Tapestries. Also poets Marvin Goldfarb, Barbara Liss & Vincent Tomeo. Plus lecture by Barbara. Hantman & piano solos by G W Lichtenstein & Mark Fiedler at NEW YORK POETRY FORUM, Soldiers, Sailors & Marines & Airmen’s Club, 2nd floor, 283 Lexington Ave, between 36-37th Streets, NYC (Nearest bus & subways at 34th Street.) No parking. Members $3, Non members $4. Sunday, May 17, 2009 - 3-6 pm -- RSVP by 5/16/2009, Email: latimerhouse@live.com TELEPHONE: 718-961-8585. Outstanding Poets: Juanita Torrence-Thompson, Host & Reader, Editor/Publisher of Möbius, The Poetry Magazine; Messiah Ramkissoon (APOLLO Theatre poetry winner), Barbara Hantman, Dominick Arbolay in LEWIS H. LATIMER HOUSE MUSEUM SALON SERIES. Also Q&A, Light refreshments. Limited seating. Limited parking. Lewis H. Latimer House Museum, 34-41 137th St, Flushing, Queens, NY (Corner of LEAVITT ST). (Cream colored burgundy trimmed Victorian house.) Subway #7 to Main Street. Walk north 10 minutes or Bus Q25, to Linden Place & 35th Ave., or buses Q1, Q13, Q34 Q28 Q44 Q65, Q66. Flushing. Or see: MAPQUEST. -- DONATION $5. Website: www.historichousetrust.org Sunday April 26 at 3pm - RSVP by 2/22/2009, Email: latimerhouse@live.com. Outstanding Poets: Juanita Torrence-Thompson, Host & Reader, Thaddeus Rutkowski, Rigoberto Gonzales, Roxanne Hoffman in LEWIS H. LATIMER HOUSE MUSEUM SALON SERIES. Also Q&A, Light refreshments. Limited seating. Limited parking. Lewis H. Latimer House Museum, 34-41 137th St, Flushing, Queens, NY (near 34th Ave). Subway #7 to Main Street & Roosevelt Ave. OR: Bus Q25 to Linden Place & 35th Ave., Flushing. DONATION $5. Tuesday, April 21, 2009 - Juanita Torrence-Thompson reads at Queens Borough Hall for Queens Borough President, etc. Not open to public.
Tuesday, February 17, at 7pm - Juanita Torrence-Thompson reads poetry with Hal Sirowitz & Louis Reyes Rivera at The Fall Café 307 Smith St. (between Union & President Sts.) Brooklyn, NY 11231. Patricia Carragon will host and read a few poems. Tel. for The Fall Cafe: (718-403-0230), Take the E or F train to Carroll St. & exit at President St. $3 donation from audience, Food/Drink - Limited OPEN MIC. Curated by Patricia Carragon - email: pattiekake@earthlink.net, http://patricia.carragon.home.att.net, http://myspace.com/pattiekake8 Thursday, January 1, 2009 - Juanita Torrence-Thompson reads poetry in the annual New Year’s Day Marathon At Bowery Poetry Club, NYC with poets from the tri-state area, including: Tara Betts, Laura Boss, Steve Cannon, Patricia Carragon, Cornelius Eady, Roxanne Hoffman, Bob Holman, Linda Lerner, Marie Ponset, Miriam Stanley, George Wallace and many more. Print and Online Articles Möbius, The Poetry Magazine was selected for the 2nd consecutive year as one of the BEST magazines of 2008 by the prestigious Small Magazine Review in their Nov/Dec 2008 issue. Meredith Sue Willis review of JTT’s New York and African Tapestries. and Möbius, The Poetry Magazine 2007 Issue. LI Poetry Calendar by Barbara Reiher-Meyers, poetry reading at Lewis Latimer House Museum - Sept. 21, 2008 JTT reads at Central Library Auditorium, Queens, Oct 19, 2008 by Peter Murphy - October 13, 2008 Poetry NJ Sunday, April 20, 2008, Newsday Interview of Juanita Torrence-Thompson In LI Life Section “Magazine Publisher: She’s Passionate About Poetry.” Article also appears in The Baltimore Sun. April 3-9, 2008, The Culvert Chronicles photo story with Juanita Torrence-Thompson flanked by Daniela Gioseffi, Dr. Stephen Stepanchev, Samuel Menashe and Colette Inez. The poetry reading at Borders Books, Park Avenue & 57th Street), Celebrated Part 2 of Möbius, The Poetry Magazine’s 25th Anniversary. Readings/Signings/Interviews Sunday, October 19 from 2-4 pm - Juanita Torrence-Thompson will be featured poet reading 3pm at Central Library, Merrick Blvd, Jamaica, Queens, NY. Before & after JTT reading will be OPEN MIC. She opens the Poetry Reading Series for 2008-2009. FREE and open to the public. Saturday, October 11 at 5 pm - Juanita Torrence-Thompson is featured poet at a music and poetry Vespers at St. Albans Congregational Church. Musical guest is Mari-Yan Pringle. Saturday, September 27 from 11-3 pm - Juanita Torrence-Thompson will read her poetry for the 4th consecutive year about 11:30 a.m. She is joined by state senators & other dignitaries on the dais at Little Neck Bay Festival at Alley Pond Environmental Center, Douglaston, NY. FREE and open to the public. Sunday, September 21 from 3-5pm - Juanita Torrence-Thompson hosts poets in Möbius, The Poetry Magazine at the first Lewis H. Latimer House Museum Poetry Series, featuring: Queens Poet Laureate, Julio Marzan and TV Host Tammy Nuzzo-Morgan, storyteller Seamas O’Flannagain, E.J. Antonio, Erica Mapp and Möbius Assistant Editor Dominick Arbolay. All will read from Möbius and Juanita will also read poetry of Lewis Latimer. Place: (historic) Lewis H. Latimer House Museum, 34-41 137th Street, Flushing, NY. From 1-3 pm a Tour/reception of Lewis H. Latimer House precedes the reading. Adults -- $6, Seniors, students & children -- $4. For information: 718-961-8585 Wednesday, August 13 from 4;30-5:30 pm LIVE interview/reading. Juanita Torrence-Thompson is guest poet of Tammy Nuzzo-Morgan on “Long Island Poets on Film” on Cablevision, Channel 20. The reach is from Center Moriches to Shelter Island. Saturday, June 21 at 5pm - Juanita Torrence-Thompson is featured poet in cultural program at St. Albans Congregational Church, Linden Blvd., St. Albans, New York. Saturday, May 24 at 1pm - Juanita Torrence-Thompson and friends Thaddeus Rutkowski and Dominick Arbolay will read from Möbius, The Poetry Magazine and from their poetry books as well as new poems at Poets Corner, 570 Main Street, New Rochelle, NY. Q&A to follow. Metro North train or buses. Parking on street. For further information, please call: 914-235-4551. Admission: $15. Tuesday, May 13 at 7:30 pm - Juanita is featured poet at Barnes & Noble, Northern Blvd., Manhasset, reading from her new book, New York And African Tapestries, etc. she is joined by Performance Poets Assn. members. FREE and open to public. Saturday, April 26 at 2pm - Juanita Torrence-Thompson read her poetry at the Performance Poets Association’s 12th anniversary program at Bryant Library, 2 Papermill Rd, Roslyn. April 2008 - Juanita Torrence-Thompson and two others read at Queens Borough Hall Meeting. April 2008 - Juanita Torrence-Thompson is featured reader at a Queens high school. Wednesday, March 19 at 7 pm - Borders Bookstore, Park Avenue & 57th Street, Manhattan Möbius, The Poetry Magazine 25th Anniversary Celebratory Reading, Part 2, Featuring Award-Winning Poets: Möbius Editor/Publisher, Juanita Torrence-Thompson (Host & Reader), Daniela Gioseffi (her poetry is engraved on 7th Ave wall in Penn Station), Colette Inez (has won Guggenheim, Rockefeller, NEA Fellowships & 2 Pushcart Prizes), Samuel Menashe (only living poet published by The Library of America) and Stephen Stepanchev who was the first Queens Poet Laureate. Saturday, March 15 at 2pm - Juanita reads poetry from her new book, New York and African Tapestries which was a Small Press Review “pick,” at New York Poetry Forum with Barbara Hantman and others. Also classical music. Lexington Avenue (36-37th St), NYC. Thursday, February 14 at 7:30 pm - Juanita Torrence-Thompson & Lila Wheeler Duckett read at Barnes & Noble, Union Turnpike, Fresh Meadows, Queens, for Black History Month. Also open mic. January 1 - Juanita is a featured poet reading during 2-4 pm timeslot at New Year’s Day Reading Marathon, Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery, NYC. The program is 2 until midnight and 150 poets will read in that time period. There is also an open mic. Some of the other poets reading will be: Dominick Arbolay, Brett Axel, Laura Boss, Regie Cabico, Steve Cannon, Patricia Carragon, Robert Dunn, Cornelius Eady, Evie Ivy, Jushi, Linda Lerner, Eve Packer, Su Polo, Louis Reyes Rivera, Thaddeus Rutkowski, Iris Schwartz, Jackie Sheeler etc. See website http://www.spokenwordextravaganza.org for full list. Open to the public. FREE ADMISSION. Bring canned goods for City Harvest and/or paperback books for Books Through Bars. Print and Online Articles Myspace - Roxanne Hoffman, Photo of Juanita Torrence-Thompson, Michael Graves, R. Hoffman & Dominick Arbolay @ A Gathering of the Tribes (Fly By Night Press), Launch of JTT’s book, New York and African Tapestries. Roxanne Hoffman.com - Re Möbius, The Poetry Magazine 25th Anniversary Gala Oct 2007 with JTT & other well-known poets. Artcards.CC - 2007 (re reading by JTT) The New York Times: Spare Times, Around Town, Spoken Word: Friday, Oct. 25, 2007 piece re: Möbius 25th Anniversary celebration on Oct. 27th. New York Daily News: Oct. 21, Jared Mccallister’s column Caribbeat, publishes piece on Juanita & Möbius’ 25th Anniversary gala. Culvert Chronicles: Oct. 18, 2007 - Re: Möbius, The Poetry Magazine’s 25th Anniversary on Oct. 27, 2007. Point of View: Oct. 1, 2007 Juanita interviewed by Marjorie J. Hurst, Editor for feature article. Juanita is interviewed and profiled by Jessica Lyons of The Queens Courier. Publication date: August 3, 2007. Rose & Thorn Forum Feb. 2007 (re Möbius) See INCREDIBLE REVIEW from IRELAND of MÖBIUS, THE POETRY MAGAZINE 25th Anniversary issue: The Western Writers Centre - Kiosque Book News & Reviews. See at: http://www.twwc.ie - Click on Kiosque (right side of web site) and scroll down to Möbius. Below is an EXCERPT of review: “Calling Möbius a poetry magazine is like calling ERIC CLAPTON a guitar player. It’s a lavishly-produced, silver-covered (no, I am not joking) exhibition-space for all sorts of poetry, published with a stanza-staggering professional allure that should scare off small magazines everywhere. Published from Flushing, New York, it is celebrating with this issue its quarter-century with no fewer than 148 poets on display, all under a variety of theme headings, such as “Family & Relationships,” “Art & Culture,” “The World About Us.,” and so on. This last category containing work on Darfur, the murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, the Middle East, Iraq, and a scathing satire, “The Cabinet Talks War,” from Arthur Gottlieb. Anyone who thinks American poets aren’t engaging with these subjects should think again. Some readers over here may recall the poet SAMUEL MENASHE, who visited Galway a few years ago... I have not run into Val Nolan, who is listed as teaching poetry at NUI Galway. His poem is dedicated to Megan Buckley, whom I think I may know. The work is wonderfully varied, a veritable anthology, and submissions are welcome. WELL WORTH A LOOK.” More about Möbius at: www.mobiuspoetry.com (Juanita is Editor/Publisher/Owner of Möbius.) Readings/Signings/Interviews Thursday, November 15, WBAI. Radio 2-3pm - Juanita and Daniel Thomas Moran (Suffolk County Poet Laureate from 2005-2007) are interviewed by Louis Reyes Rivera. Then it appears online for two weeks at: www.wbai.org.
Saturday, September 29 at 11:30 a.m Juanita Torrence-Thompson reads for the 3rd year at National Estuaries Day during “Little Neck Bay Festival”. She joins on the dais, Senator Frank Padavan, NE Queens Parks Administrator Janice Melnick, Assemblyman Mark Weprin, Assistant Commissioner Nancy Barthold and more. Hosted at: Alley Pond Environmental Center, 228-06 Northern Blvd., Douglaston, NY. For details and route call 718-229-4000. May 8 - Juanita Torrence-Thompson is featured poet to read at Barnes & Noble, Northern Blvd., Manhasset, Juanita Torrence-Thompson will read from her new poetry book New York and African Tapestries (Spring 2007), Fly By Night Press. Open Mic Follows. Call Barnes & Noble for directions. FREE & open to the public. Sunday, April 29 from 5-7 pm Join Juanita Torrence-Thompson & friends for the Fly By Night Press launch/reading of her new book, New York and African Tapestries, at A Gathering of the Tribes, 285 East 3rd Street, #2, NY, NY. Reading with Juanita are poets Dominick Arbolay, Mike Graves and Roxanne Hoffman. $5 suggested donation. April 24 - Juanita gave a triple reading back to back at Martin Van Buren High School from her new book, New York and African Tapestries and also Celebrating a Tapestry of Life. She also taught a mini poetry workshop. Her reading was open only to students and faculty. April 19 - Juanita Torrence-Thompson returned as featured poet reading her poetry in “Read Aloud” program at John Bowne High School. Joined by JBHS Students. Not open to public. April 17 - Juanita read poems from her audiobook Poetry Among the Flowers: Queens Meets Asia at Queens Borough Hall. Also reading was G. Northrup. April 14 from 2-4 pm- Juanita Torrence-Thompson is MC and Reader at Möbius, The Poetry Magazine Queens reading & launch for Möbius. Book signing follows by several Queens poets. Headliner, Suffolk County Poet Laureate, Daniel Thomas Moran. Other Möbius poets include: Dominick Arbolay, Lila Wheeler Duckett, Robert Dunn, Israel Halpern, Martin Hamburger, Barbara Hantman and Barbara Reiher-Meyers. Place: Langston Hughes Community Library and Cultural Center, Northern Blvd., Corona, NY Call library for info. FREE & open to the public. April 12 - Juanita was commissioned to write a poem for honoree Sesame Street Workshop which she read at the big annual Queens Council on the Arts Fundraiser in New York. March 31 - Juanita Torrence-Thompson’s 5th book, New York and African Tapestries (Fly By Night Press) Spring 2007, will be at Poet’s House Showcase, 72 Spring Street, NYC, March 31, 2007-April 30, then in Poet’s House permanent library. March - Reading at Queens Borough Hall for Women's History Month. Wed. February 28, 2007 from 7-9 pm. Long Island Center of Empire State College celebrates 3rd Annual Hauppague Speaker Series: Features alumni poet, Juanita Torrence-Thompson who joins Suffolk County Poet Laureate Headliner Daniel Thomas Moran, Author of 6 books including Looking for the Uncertain Past. Juanita reads from her Spring 2007 poetry book New York and African Tapestries published by Fly By Night Press. Performances by creative writing mentors Mindy Kronenberg and Yvonne Murphy. Also featuring Empire State College faculty, staff, students & alumni. Empire State College, Hauppauge Unit Atrium, 250 Veterans Memorial Highway, Hauppauge, NY 11788. CALL ESC, Hauppauge for directions. FREE & open to the public. News articles about Juanita buying Möbius, The Poetry Magazine and taking over as Editor/Publisher (see also 2005 listings):
Poetry Super Highway - JTT new Möbius Editor/Publisher Fred Johnston’s review from Ireland of Möbius, The Poetry Magazine 2006 at Western Writers’ Centre website http://www.twwc.ie: “On the other side of the pond, Möbius, The Poetry Magazine, (you even get an explanation as to what a Möbius strip is, and it’s got nothing to do with lap-dancing) is upon us, featuring oodles of poems from all over the world in a coffee-table-sized format, lavishly and lovingly produced. The greater number of foreign submissions, the Editor remarks, came from Ireland; some of the contributions were from poets not usually graced with collections, but who write wonderfully. See, for instance, Margaret Galvin’s contribution, and that of Eoin Scolard. Möbius has been going for nigh onto 25 years. Let’s hope it gets another quarter-century. Again, one is struck by the variety and straightforwardness of much contemporary American poetry, and its honesty. Poets such as the great Rita Dove are here, and Marge Piercy. Worth looking at and contributing to.” Readings/Signings/Interviews Monday, November 27 from 6-7:30 pm. Juanita Torrence-Thompson reads and MC’s Möbius, The Poetry Magazine Launch with poets reading their poems from September 2006 issue including: Daniel Thomas Moran (Suffolk County Poet Laureate), Daniela Gioseffi, Rochelle Ratner, Dominick Arbolay, Denise Lewis Patrick and more. One drink minimum. Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery, New York. Air Date: Friday, November 17 from 6-7 pm. Repeated: November 23 6:30-7 pm “Everything Goes” WNYE (91.5 FM) Möbius, The Poetry Magazine program with host Juanita Torrence-Thompson and guests: award-winning poets Daniela Gioseffi and Hal Sirowitz (former Poet Laureate of Queens). Saturday, September 30, at 1 pm -- Juanita Torrence-Thompson was the featured poet again at Alley Pond Environmental Center’s National Estuaries Day during Little Neck Bay Festival. She sat on the dais with Senator Frank Padavan, Assemblyman Mark Weprin and more. The festival was from 11-4pm and included exhibits, trolley rides, kayak and canoe rides for the family. FREE. Wednesday, July 26, at 7:30 pm, Juanita Torrence-Thompson won 2nd prize in the New York Association of Black Journalists’ “Spoken Word Poetry” The Sugar Bar, 254 West 72nd Street, New York City. Saturday, June 10, at 11-11:45 am, Juanita Torrence-Thompson will be the featured guest speaker at the National Federation of State Poetry Societies convention on “Four African American Poets: Their Lives and Poetry” at the Airport Hilton Hotel, San Antonio, Texas. Saturday, May 27, at 2 pm, Juanita Torrence-Thompson is a featured poet at the New York Poetry Forum, at Lexington Avenue (36-37 Street), Soldier’s, Sailor’s, Marines and Airmen’s Club. An afternoon of poetry and music. OPEN MIC follows. Members of NYPF $3, others $4. Monday, May 1, at 6 pm, Juanita Torrence-Thompson is the featured poet with the Performance Poets Association members. Hosted by Ms. Weinstein at Douglaston/Little Neck Library, 249-01 Northern Boulevard, Little Neck. Near Marathon Parkway. Tel. 718-225-8414. OPEN MIC follows. FREE and open to the public. April 10, Juanita Torrence-Thompson is featured GUEST POET during 2 READ-INS at John S. Bowne High School library, Flushing Queens. March 2006 Featured poet read at Borough Hall for Women’s History Month Tuesday, February 14, at 7:30 pm, Juanita Torrence-Thompson will be the featured poet at Barnes & Noble, Norther Blvd., Manhassett, New York. Please call the store for directions. Monday, January 16, from 2-6pm, Juanita reads her poetry in observance of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr’s birthday at American Association of University Women, 111 East 37th Street. This is part of a larger program. AAUW is between Lexington Avenue and Park Avenue in Manhattan. Entrance on lower level. |
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