You are cordially invited to a Buffalo Readings to be held eight hours past noon at the legendary Gathering of The Tribes in New York’s Lower East Side.
Your practitioners for the evening will be NYC’s own Buffalo Poets. They’ll offer up their brand of mind-expanding poetry and Discordian prayers, with musical interludes and crappy prizes for ordinary feats.
Admission is $5 at the door. Poetry and/or performance implements are encouraged, and may be brought.
Buffalo Readings
Poetry & Music Open Mic
Every Third Friday
October 21, 2011
November 18, 2011
December 16, 2011
January 20, 2012
Gathering of The Tribes
Friday August 19th, 2011
285 East 3rd Street (Between Ave C & D) #2
New York, NY
8pm - 10pm
Transportation
Train: F to 2nd Ave; J, M to Essex St; L to 1st Ave
Bus: M9, 14D, 21
Tomorrow!! Buffalo Readings Backyard Poetry Music BBQ!!
Friday, July 29 2011 @ 08:38 AM MST Contributed by: noah
Planning to vibrate the stars, we're telling the fortune of the earth.
We're grilling it up in Brooklyn this Saturday courtesy of good friends and open doors with our usual style of Roundhouse Poetry and this time we've got a great guest all the way from the Pacific North West!
Blair Vail who's style of Outlaw Folk Balladry has blessed us at nearly every Buffalo Readings in Portland Oregon so it's our humble honor to host her in New York while she's on tour. Come on through and hear something never said and feel something real.
872 Hart St
Brooklyn NY 11237
Directions: Take the L Train to Dekalb Ave
Price: Donations Welcome
This Saturday, the Buffalo Readings Presented by RA Araya @ The Nuyorican
Friday, June 24 2011 @ 11:14 AM MST Contributed by: noah
After a life long ban ten years ago The Buffalo are preparing for their return to The Nuyorican Poets Cafe. Please join us in a historical event courtesy of RA Araya! Come early, but hang around for the other poets and guests performing as well! We're also giving away a special Chap book we've prepared just for the event!
Come armed with poetry & musical instrumentation 'cause we're hauling everyone and anyone on stage with us who wants to join in!!
Nuyorican Poets Cafe
Saturday, June 25 ·
3:30pm - 6:30pm
(We Buffalo Poets be on Stage from 3:30 - 4:15!)
236 East 3rd Street Between Avenue B & C
New York, NY
RA "R!" Araya Presents
poets Kymberly Brown with Stuart Klinger on guitar
Norman Douglas
John Farris
David Henderson
Tsaurah Litzky
Nancy Mercado
with The Buffalo Poets, Nuyorican founder Miguel Algarin, Mia Hansford via phone
plus comic Kelviz Parra
This is news that
shall not leave my heart
Those are eyes that
look out from my mind
These are memories of
closeness in corners
and tight breath moments
in which what will be spoken
in halting awkwardness?
What footstep dance
will be shuffled today?
What marks will be made
in today's golden honey?
Bubbly trails that
weave the mat of
time in reality?
Isn't it true that we
know each other now?
Isn't always been true?
This thing,
this one thing
that only seems separate
that we know is not big
that we know is not really hidden
which is the only thing there is
and so cannot really be separate
the wind sticks against
the skin and clothes of all things
and radiant heat and shine
reminds us of that
one true bed
in which we wiggle and twist
together in Sunday morning
foreverness
And my cells shout
and my shoulders throb
with the heavy bourdon
of knowing you
And my lips ache
with the form of your name
My throat will not let it escape
You're not here though
You're in that other spot
Like a televised image of you
Like a Macy's day parade float of you
Like an optical illusion
in which which face is you
Which of these lines
are bigger?
Mysterious grey boxes
appearing at the
intersection of the grid
Mega-
mind in
time is all existence
wrapped up in a dream
of conciousness
Nifty hair blowing
confrences across
a hot rail
pizza apocolypse
My eyes would lie
and tell you
no sausages
My eyes would lie
and give you
hands explosive
stop stomp stop
stomp stomp bang
How do you you do?
Yo take em offa
da floor
The hair weaves shall
stalk no more
Dems dissapeared
their dirty maw
Your natural eye
seek refuge in the
golden wind of seas
Skin bumped smooth
and soft sky shallow
smile
Hands me to you
There aint no way to
feel
Hands me up to you
There he aint gonna sail
no more.
Take a blessing from
my heart and stroll up
and away
Down that long and
unkown way where the
seas and scuttles roam
Punch the kettle.
Thumb the drum. Light the
light down the room
New coffee, old machine
And she screams in
horrible way.
And the sky wasn't
up that day
And nothing can be
the same.
And life will change
anyway.
What is over
is never gone
What has never been
has been either way
The truth is much simpler
than you expect
But time is all about
complications
And the tears
billions of pairs
of tears pouring out over
the eons followed
by nervous worn out
monkey laughter
thousands of years
of shaking your
head
And the walking
all the walking
through caves, bridges
over high up constructions
in circles over oceans over
one hundred million years
of three hundred and
sixty five shits
per person
sometimes twice a day!
But also sometimes none
for a whole week
And the hunger
Oh the hunger
And the dying
Oh the dying
And the absolutly
fucking exhausted.
And the disaster
And the rare moments
when you feel your
heart just buzz with
excitement.
The Buffalo have been invited to read their poetry at the prestigious Quarterly Art Soirée happening this Sunday at Webster Hall. The QAS is a large event featuring many New York City visual artists, musicians, and performers showcasing their work and talents. We'll be performing in the Marlin room from 2:30pm - 3:30pm. In addition, Roger (aka King Otho) will be displaying his paintings. Admission is $15 at the door, and covers the entire event with performances from noon till 4:00am. Hope to see you there!
Monthly Rent Parties!! Yes, the Buffalo Readings are doing another old fashioned rent party down in the East Village for jazz vocalist (and long time friend of the buffalo) Susan Kramer. It's $5 suggested admission and you'll get a nice plate of food, 1 beer & great live performances of poetry for us buffalo.
So come on down and join us, it's always great fun!
The Buffalo Readings Live Poetry
Susan Kramer Rent Party
Friday April 30th, 2010
6pm - 1:00am
$5 Suggested Admission
Live Poetry, Food & Great Company!
BYOB, so if you're thirsty, please bring with you!
Food at the event is the home cooked variety, so first come, first served.
Bring your own Poetry or Musical Instrument and don't be afraid to jump in!
Signed,
Us Buffalo Poets,
Noah Levin, King Otho, David Acevedo & Kevin Callahan
We had a lot of fun at the last one & rent needs to be paid monthly. So the Buffalo Readings are doing another old fashioned rent party down in the East Village for jazz vocalist (and long time friend of the buffalo) Susan Kramer. It's $5 suggested admission and you'll get a nice plate of food, 1 beer & great live performances of poetry for us buffalo.
So come on down and join us, it's gonna be fun! This gig is by invite only, and we are inviting all of you.
The Buffalo Readings Live Poetry
Susan Kramer Rent Party
Thursday, March 25th, 2010
6pm - 11:30pm
Live Poetry, Food & Great Company!
BYOB, so if you're thirsty, please bring with you!
Food at the event is the home cooked variety, so first come, first served.
Bring your own Poetry or Musical Instrument and don't be afraid to jump in!
Signed,
Us Buffalo Poets,
Noah Levin, King Otho, David Acevedo & Kevin Callahan
This Thursday! Buffalo Readings! Live Poetry + Jazz! East Village Rent Party!
Tuesday, February 16 2010 @ 01:03 AM MST Contributed by: noah
Come on down this Thursday, February 18th from 6pm - 11:30pm where The Buffalo Readings (joined by a couple of talented jazz musicians) are the featured artist at an old fashioned rent party down in the East Village for jazz vocalist (and long time friend of the buffalo) Susan Kramer. It's $5 admission and you'll get a nice plate of food, 1 beer & great live performances of poetry & jazz.
So come on down and join us, this one should be a lot of fun. This gig is by invite only, and we are inviting all of you.
The Buffalo Readings Poetry + Live Jazz
Thursday, February 18th, 2010
6pm - 11:30pm
Susan Kramer Rent Party
Live Poetry + Jazz, Food & Great Company!
BYOB, so if you're thirsty, please bring with you!
Food at the event is the home cooked variety, so first come, first served.
Tuesday, May 19 2009 @ 01:05 AM MST Contributed by: noah
The Buffalo Readings
The Buffalo return to the surface of the city in a new location in Brooklyn
ready to connect with minds with a house band bringing Poetry and free groove stylistics
for everyone looking for an auspicious beginning to Summer's in the city!
David Acevedo
King Otho
Noah Levin
Callahan & Friends
Poetry & Music Open Mic
Sunday, May 24th @ 7pm
59 Jefferson St
#302
Brooklyn NY
Free and Open to All!
J, M, Z to Myrtle Ave, walk a block and a half north on Jefferson and ring the buzzer.
Fire steals in seething moment. Passion
is needed tool that must be expressed or
urgent need to action that explodes skin
in creativity.
Violently create,
spill soul and thought onto paper and
create where there wasn’t once. OUT
OF NOTHING -something that always
existed in the future perhaps. Large
swath of brush out of mind.
All consuming.
No one wants to pay me but I must.
Spare some food into an artistic cup? I
think music and write rhythm thought
because god made me this way. Tap,
tap, tap and spray my brains on paper
for all to see as best I can abstract cut
up of what I was trying to tell you.
Multiple dimensions coming and going
because black and white never existed
except in cliff notes version of life.
Hard experience grime under finger
nails is the pushpull tug of war that is
all time ticks on by and lost pages of
book floats away but I keep on
shouting. This is what I have damn it.
Starring at silence. Don’t know
what to do. Heart pulls in directions
perhaps not understood yet seems
predetermined in its own way.
Inevitability seems to be direction
flow that I can’t pull away or let self
break on the rocky shores. Passive
yet not fully content. Anger swells
waves, puts fire under march
towards what? Checked off a lot on
that checklist now and that leaves
this bag of goodies half empty.
Open opportunity that perhaps I
don’t understand; the pious hates
downfall as just reward. Precipice
without answers, the wind is empty
engulfing sound yet I listen to the
howl of the gale on the horizon all
around me. Mutterings in my head:
A last winter's night in Portland, before Dusty heads off down to New Orleans. The show was over, but Dusty didn't want to stop. Gaylin danced along, leon hung out cool against the wall, walt wailed on the harmonica in the back, me, i picked up my camera, lit with the lonely light from passing cars, closing club, and the shell station across the street.
Yes, you heard right! Come on down this Saturday January 10th to catch some of the best poetry & live musical mayhem at the grandest and most chaotic free-form & free for you Open Mic in NYC, right on down at the Bowery Poetry Club. So come on down, watch the mass explosion of art, take part in the good vibes, grab a frothy libation and jump on stage with us!
Saturday, January 10th, 2009
6pm-7:30pm
Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery
Between Houston & Bleecker
New York, NY
Free!
Featuring:
Daniel Carter - Sax, flutes, reeds
Demian Richardson - Trumpet
David Schnug - Sax, flutes, reeds
David Patrick - Trumpet
David Moss - Bass
David Miller - Drums
Susan Kramer - Vocals
David Acevedo, Noah Levin, King Otho & Kevin Callahan - Buffalo Readings Poetry, Blues Harps, Korg DS, Graphical Designs & Shakuhachi
& most importantly YOU!
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