The New York Nexus Cafe 

Alliteration Alley Victory Hall 186 Grand St. Jersey City
Marj Hahne + open reading 8PM $3
Amos and I are going [I know, I know, I should have posted this just a little sooner....]

there are lots of events sometimes more than one per day especially now that it's poetry month

later

in "Remembrance"
for September 11, 2001
[Marj Hahne read this tonight at Alliteration Alley]

Piano, violin inconsolable
keys, strings like long-faced
skyscrapers : these prepare me
for the winter : December 2001 : mass
of ash, traces of human trajectory, smoked
postscripts blotting out a briefer sun.

December 1965 : a family's first apartment
on Schaeffer Street in Brooklyn : my first New York winter :
the disaster of my birth two seasons past (six weeks in a hot
hospital box like a preborn bird thrashing in its amnion) : fast
forward 36 years : my second first winter in the city :
a musty one-bedroom sublet on the Upper West Side : and I
again have no need for language : but for long
howling vowels, the hundred-plus words in this poem, my own
dumb limbs flailing.