04.04
Tuesday, Feb. 21st – Caroline Rothstein and *Happy Birthday Martin Steingesser*
Port Veritas hosts a birthday celebration for loved Portland poet and performer Martin Steingesser. The evening consists of two rounds of open mic poetry topped off with feature performances by Martin and Caroline beginning at 8:30pm. Sign up at 7pm with the reading begins at 7:30pm.
Martin Steingesser: A collection of my poems, Brothers of Morning, is published by Deerbrook Editions (North Yarmouth, ME, July 2002).
The poems have also been published in a broad spectrum, including national magazines, such as The Sun and The Progressive, the Op-Ed Page of The New York Times, Tiferet: A Journal of Spiritual Literature, Chautauqua Literary Journal, Poetry International, Country Journal, Dogwood, The American Voice, The Quarterly, The American Poetry Review, Rattle, The Ohio Review, Nimrod International Journal and The Beloit Poetry Journal. They are represented in several anthologies, most recently in The Maine Poets, edited by Wesley McNair (Down East Books: 2003); Motion: American Sports Poems (University of Iowa Press, 2001); Poetry Comes Up Where It Can: Poems from The Amicus Journal, 1900-2000 (University of Utah Press, 2000); Wherever Home Begins: 100 Contemporary Poems (Orchard Books: New York, NY, 1995); Speaking of New England (North Country Press: Belfast, ME, 1993); Blood to Remember: American Poets on the Holocaust (Texas Tech University Press: Lubbock, TX, 1991).
Caroline Rothstein is a New York City-based writer and performer of spoken word poetry, theater, creative nonfiction, and journalism. She was a member of the 2010 Nuyorican Poets Cafe slam team, which placed second at Poetry Slam Incorporated’s National Poetry Slam 2010. She has competed, performed, and led workshops at poetry venues, theaters, colleges, universities, and schools around the United States for more than a decade. Caroline is a member of the Intangible Collective, and was both a member of and director for The Excelano Project, a nationally-acclaimed spoken word poetry organization at the University of Pennsylvania. She was the 2004 and 2006 UPenn Grand Slam Champion, is a five-time College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational finalist, and coached the UPenn slam team to CUPSI championships in 2007 and 2009. Upon graduating in 2006, Caroline was honored for her work with an event in her name at the Kelly Writer’s House called “The Caroline Rothstein Annual Oral Poetry Event.”
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Tuesday, Feb. 28th – All Night Open Mic
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Tuesday, Mar. 6th – Port Veritas Slam Team Fundraiser
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Tuesday, Mar. 13th – Second Tuesday Slam
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Tuesday, Mar. 20th – San Francisco Poet Stephen Meads
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