Secret Horror Salon: a night with the macabre Edgar Allen Poe
Oct
7
9:00 AM09:00

Secret Horror Salon: a night with the macabre Edgar Allen Poe

Secret Horror Salon in New York City on October 7 — the day Edgar Allan Poe died

During the macabre night at the Bowery Poetry Club, Oscar nominated actor and horror icon Brad Dourif (Child’s Play, The Exorcist III, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest) will perform a surreal short story by Andrei Codrescu about his obsession with Poe’s grave and a shape-shifting snake.

A poem about the mysterious death of Poe by Bob Holman, and reading of Poe’s poems by Claudia Handler and others. Live radio drama, “Androsphere,” which is set in an abandoned and haunted school by Luis Carlos Barragán, Melanconnie, and Faebian Ceruleo with voice over performances by Pete McElligott & Bryant Jager.‍ ‍

All work produced exclusively for this event, and are world premieres. The night concludes with a psychic reading by renowned psychic medium Heather Carlucci.

Wed., October 7, 2026 at 7pm EST at Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery, New York City. SOLD OUT

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Lecture: The Flight of Brancusi's Magic Bird –Unboxing Brancusi Festival. Bucharest Romania
Oct
30
12:00 PM12:00

Lecture: The Flight of Brancusi's Magic Bird –Unboxing Brancusi Festival. Bucharest Romania

The Flight of Brancusi's Magic Bird Through the Centuries

Mina Loy wrote THE GOLDEN BIRD before she met Brancusi, who became an intimate friend. More than recognition of kindred genius, Mina Loy's poem collaborates with Brancusi's Magic Bird by extending its flight in what came to be the spaces of new expressions of the modern mind.

The Golden Bird has flown into the future, taking on a variety of signifcances. In 1990 the Chicago Art Museum acquired and displayed Pasarea Maiastra, the Magic Bird, in the context of the fall of the Romanian dictatorship in 1989.

Mounted ed on its three pedestals, as Brancusi wanted to and wasn't always listened to, the The Magic Bird, added a new meaning to its already miraculous flight through world wars, revolutions, pandemics and changing technologies? Where does it lend now in the 21st century?

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The lecture will be held in English
Cinema Elvire Popesco (Bd. Dacia 77) Free admission, registration required

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Eastport Poetry Festival – Eastport ME
Aug
15
to Aug 16

Eastport Poetry Festival – Eastport ME

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Come gather on Maine's eastern edge for a weekend of celebration of art, poetry, and music as the first light rises over Passamaquoddy Bay

POETRY READINGS * FOOD TRUCKS * BOOK, BROADSIDE + MERCH TABLES

Charles Cantalupo | Mihku Paul | Craig Sipe | Mark Pawlak | Jefferson Navicky | Mary Bonina | Carl Little | Bill Carpenter | Janee Baugher | Erine Leigh | Jeffrey Cyphers Wright | Steven Rea | Littlefawnn Ketchum | Sue Sinclair | Steve Luttrell

more info here

Rossport By The Sea Retreat Center, 54 Toll Bridge Road, Eastport, Maine, USA 04631

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Lincoln Center Theater & Ragtime Honor Immigrants
Jun
23
7:00 PM19:00

Lincoln Center Theater & Ragtime Honor Immigrants

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In recognition of National Immigrant Heritage Month, Lincoln Center Theater will gather a remarkable group of visionary leaders to celebrate the extraordinary ways immigrants have shaped—and continue to shape—the cultural, intellectual, and civic fabric of this country.

This special evening is alongside a performance of our Lincoln Center’s production of Ragtime.

For over four decades, Lincoln Center Theater has championed storytelling that reflects the complexity, ambition, and evolving identity of American life. Few works embody that mission more powerfully than Ragtime, a soaring portrait of a nation straining toward its promise. Set at the dawn of the twentieth century, the musical traces the intertwined lives of newcomers to America, Black Americans, and families striving toward opportunity, dignity, and belonging—a portrait of a country transformed by those who come to it, and by the contributions they make to its culture, conscience, and future.

please join us on June 23rd at the Vivian Beaumont Theater

Ragtime!

The production is directed by Lear deBessonet, who also holds the position of Kewsong Lee Artistic Director of Lincoln Center Theater

Book by Terrence McNally
Music by Stephen Flaherty
Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens
Based on the novel, "Ragtime," by E.L. Doctorow
Directed by Lear deBessonet

please join us on June 23rd at the Vivian Beaumont Theater

I Am An Immigrant | I Stand With Immigrants

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New Book: No Dog
May
17
2:00 PM14:00

New Book: No Dog

A new fashionable way of walking swept through the snazzier sections of the dying American empire in the first quarter of the 21st century, namely walking as if you had a fancy dog on a leash.

Among these street aristocrats one could glimpse now and then a number of clones walking and running like their fashion idols, with one shoulder higher than the other, heads lifted in expectation of the wind ruffling their tresses, and a covert vibe that read "Dig my dog?"

I tried. But when I looked at where the object of their pride should have trotted or minced, there was nothing. No dog.

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