Jane Ormerod and R. Nemo Hill at Poetry at Tasty Coco
 

Poetry at Tasty Coco
presents

Jane Ormerod and R. Nemo Hill

Tuesday, March 16, at 8:00 pm

Jane Ormerod is the author of Recreational Vehicles on Fire (Three Rooms Press, 2009), 11 Films (Modern Metrics, 2008,) and the spoken word CD Nashville Invades Manhattan . She is host of the reading series Emotional Rescue at The Cornelia Street Café, performs throughout the United States and beyond , and is a founding editor at Uphook Press. Look carefully and you may spot her in the ‘80’s cult horror classic Screamtime. Her website is www.janeormerod.com.

R. Nemo Hill is the author of an illustrated novel in collaboration with painter Jeanne Hedstrom, Pilgrim’s Feather (Quantuck Lane Press, 2002), a narrative poem based upon a short story by H.P. Lovecraft, The Strange Music of Erich Zann (Hippocampus Press, 2004), and a chapbook, Prolegomena To An Essay On Satire (Modern Metrics, 2006). Forthcoming from 7Towers (Dublin) in 2010 are a mock-epic riff on Alexander Pope and a saucy conversation with Lord Byron, A Gumbo Abandoned & A Yeast Reversed. Editor of EXOT BOOKS (www.exot.typepad.com/exotbooks), his poetry and fiction have appeared in various print and online journals including Poetry, Sulfur, Smartish Pace, Measure, 14 by 14, The Flea, The Chimaera, Ditch, Umbrella, The Hypertexts, and Big City Lit. He lives in New York City, but travels frequently to Southeast Asia. His travel blog, Elsewhere, can be accessed at www.rnemohill.typepad.com

Tasty Coco Bistro and Dessert Lounge
291 Bloomfield Avenue
Caldwell, NJ 07006

Free admission/Open mic for poetry

PM me for easy bus directions form New York

Anyone in the area, if you have never heard Jane Ormerod read, you shouldn't miss this. She really knows how to put the music in free verse and is a consummate performer.

Nemo

Indeed. And Hill is no slouch.

One of our regulars lives in Fort Lee, NJ, near the George Washington Bridge. She has offered to give three people a ride to and from Manhattan that night. PM me and I can put you in touch with her.

Then, there is my spiel about the #33 bus. It's not so bad. PM me.

Rick

NEW YORKERS!

There is a car leaving from Manhattan to and from the venue. This is a free ride to a great reading with a lovely poet at the wheel. All bridge. No tunnel. Call me (PM).

Rick

Once in a hundred years.

If I may brag on my own event, ...it was very good. We had a full house, including Orwn Acra, who read from memory a poem about his sister that I wish John Whitworth could have heard. The good kind of clever.

Nemo and Jane were knock-outs. As Nemo notes above, you have to see Jane read. He read prose--a story. Which is against the rules. We broke other rules, all to good effect. Nemo closed the night with a ghazal. His takhallus in the maqta was brilliant.

Hope to have the obligatory YouTubes.

Cultural note: I was busy in the city all day and ended up taking the #33 Decamp Bus myself. It's cheap, easy, a short ride, and clean for a bus. A lot of you didn't have to miss this thing!

Mention should be made here, as well, of Rick's expertise as a host. This is a job that when it is done well looks very easy--which it is not, or it would be done well more often. Structurally the evening was perfect, and without structure the house falls.

Nemo