Buccino rings in new year at poetry marathon in Montclair

The Montclair Monthly Poetry Series, coordinated by Laura Boss and Maria Mazziotti Gillan, is presenting a New Year Poetry Marathon Reading on Thursday, January 8. 

This free event is from 7 p.m. to - 9 p.m. at the Montclair Public Library (auditorium), 50 South Fullerton Ave., Montclair, New Jersey.

Local poets will read a few poems each during the Marathon portion of the evening. An open reading will follow. 

Poets include: Susan Amsterdam, Susan Lembo Balik, Ron Bremner, Anthony Buccino, Linda Cronin, Gail Fishman Gerwin, Martin Golan, Jim Gwyn, Elizabeth Marchitti, Marilyn Mohr, Frank Niccoletti, Ken Ronkowitz, Bob Rosenbloom, Rachel Parker, Janet Kolstein, Elissa Gordon and D. M. Dutcher.

Buccino has published seven poetry collections.

• American Boy: Pushing Sixty
• CANNED - Booted, bumped, down-sized, fired, forced out, hated, hired, jobless, laid off, let go, out of work, out-sourced, pink-slipped, terminated, sacked, unemployed
• One Morning In Jersey City
• Retrieving Labrador Days dog tales in prose and verse
• Sixteen Inches On Center
• Sometimes I Swear In Italian
• Voices on the Bus train, subway, sidewalk and in my head
• Yountakah Country - A Poetic View of Nutley, Old and New

He created the New Jersey Poets and Poetry site and posted a short A Buccino Poem A Day series.

Buccino a feature reader So. Brunswick 2/20

Anthony Buccino and David Crews
Sunday at 2 p.m.

Anthony Buccino, Pushcart Prize nominee, and David Crews will read as part of the Sunday poetry series at the South Brunswick Library. The reading, which will be followed by an open reading, begins at 2 p.m. on Feb. 20, 2011.

 The event is free, though a donation of a nonperishable food item for the South Brunswick Food Pantry would be appreciated.

Open reading to follow feature

South Brunswick Library
110 Kingston Lane, Monmouth Junction, NJ
Contact: 732-329-4000
Contact: Hank Kalet, otherhalf@comcast.net
Sponsored by the South Brunswick Arts Commission

December reading

South Mountain Poets 2010 anthology Off Line
 
Anthony Buccino will read his poem Forced Out at the launch of the South Mountain Poets 2010 anthology, Off Line, on Sunday, December 5, 2 p.m.  Other poets will read their work from the new issue of the literary magazine.

New Jersey Arts Incubator, 
495 Prospect Avenue, 
West Orange, New Jersey, 07052

Buccino in Fanwood Oct. 19

Carriage House Poetry Series

Anthony Buccino in Fanwood
Tuesday, Oct. 19, 8:00 pm
Kuran Arts Center, Watson Road
(off Martine Avenue, GPS use 75 N. Martine Avenue)
Fanwood, NJ

Free. Open Reading after Feature

Contact: Adele Kenny 908-889-7223
http://carriagehousepoetryseries.blogspot.com/

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NEWS!
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Three essay collections by Anthony Buccino are available on Kindle.
A Father's Place, An Eclectic Collection
Sister Dressed Me Funny
Rambling Round, Inside and Outside at the Same Time

Buccino to read at Poet's Book Launch - 9/11

Poet's Book Launch Weekend in Frenchtown

Saturday, Sept. 11, 2 p.m.

Anthony Buccino and Gail Fishman Gerwin

Reading and book signing. Open mic.
Open Space Gallery, 36 Bridge Street, Frenchtown, N.J.

See full schedule
http://raybrownbooklaunchweekend.wordpress.com/

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Adele Kenny and Anthony Buccino in Somerset 4/21

Somerset Poetry Group: Poetry Reading - Adele Kenny and Anthony Buccino

Bridgewater Library, 1 Vogt Drive, Bridgewater, NJ
7 p.m. Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Adele Kenny is the author of 23 books (poetry and nonfiction). Over 700 of her poems, articles, and reviews have been published in journals throughout North and South America, the UK, Europe, Australia, and Asia, as well as in books and anthologies published by Crown, Mc-Graw Hill, and Tuttle. She served as associate editor of The Antiquer: Fine Art & Antiques from 2000-2005 and is currently poetry editor of Tiferet: A Journal of Spiritual Literature.

Adele is the recipient of various honors and awards, including poetry fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. She received an award for the 2007 Merton Poetry of the Sacred Prize, honorable mention in the 2006 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards, and was a finalist for the 2006 Paumanok Poetry Award.

Visit Adele Kenny's website.

Anthony Buccino has published eight books including three poetry collections AMERICAN BOY: Pushing Sixty, Voices On The Bus and One Morning In Jersey City.

His poem Hands In Socks was named Editor’s Choice in the 2008 Allen Ginsberg Awards. His poem Ten Minutes earned Honorable Mention in the 2009 Allen Ginsberg Awards.

His work has been published in Paterson Literary Review; Celebrating William Carlos Williams and The Poetry of Place: North Jersey in Poetry; Rattlesnake Review (Poetry With Fangs); Medusa’s Kitchen; Voices in Italian Americana; Edison Literary Review; Journal of New Jersey Poets; CHEST, the Journal of the American College of Chest Physicians; The Idiom; MEWS; Raving Dove; More Sweet Lemons; The Poem Factory; and PowWow Review.

His first poetry chapbook, Days You Knew Me, was published in 1976. Buccino has written three books of essays based in and around Nutley and Belleville, N.J. He published two biographies of the men from his home towns who died while in service.

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Buccino's Old View of Nutley in Verse

Buccino to read ‘Nutley’ poem 
at anthology launch

Local writer scores a poem about Nutley’s rich history in the new anthology “The American Voice in Poetry: The Legacy of Whitman, Williams and Ginsberg” being published as part of the Distinguished Poets Series at the Poetry Center in Paterson.

The Nutley author weaves a poem around Frances Goodrich, who grew up in town and went on to write the “Thin Man” film series and later won a Pulitzer Prize for the play “The Diary of Anne Frank.”

Buccino’s poem suggests Goodrich’s screenplay for the popular Christmas film “It’s A Wonderful Life” has hints of old Nutley, and that the scene of the angel and George on the bridge may have been inspired by the Lyndhurst bridge over the Passaic River, not far from where Goodrich grew up.

In recalling Nutley of about 100 years ago, Buccino cites Guthrie’s Dry Good Store and some of our famous residents and visitors, including Mark Twain, Annie Oakley and Richard Stockton lining up for that new invention called ice cream.

Frances Goodrich was inducted into the Nutley Hall of Fame in 2005. Buccino stood in for the writer and her family at the ceremony.

Buccino will read “A Wonderful Town” at the book launch and poetry reading by contributors to the anthology on April 10, at 1 P.M., Hamilton Club Building, 32 Church Street, Paterson, N.J. For more information, visit Distinguished Poets Series http://old.pccc.edu/poetry/events.htm

See also:
http://www.oldnutley.org/wonderful.htm


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NEWS!
Check out Anthony Buccino's poetry and essay collections

Three essay collections by Anthony Buccino are available on Kindle.
A Father's Place, An Eclectic Collection
Sister Dressed Me Funny
Rambling Round, Inside and Outside at the Same Time

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EVERY 30 YEARS OR SO

In January 1978 – on John’s radio show at Upsala, with Tom, I knew then that Tom wrote better poems. Mine, from his, were very different. And I don’t use that word ‘very’ lightly here.

John said I was a Romantic. I didn't know what to make of that.
Tom had it right – off to count sheep on the Falkland Islands, after that thing with the Submarine crew. He was doing just fine, too, until the war came along. He sold his story to the TV crew so he could pay his way home.

He ended up in Japan, teaching English, I think, with a Japanese wife. Then he died. And where are his poems now? The one about the lumberjack I especially enjoyed.

When John had us on the radio, he made a tape of our appearance. I had him make me a new cassette ten or fifteen years ago when the first one crumbled. I was planning to ask for yet a third copy, after all these years, just a few years ago, when I heard that John, too, had died.

Maybe we’re better off that the audio is lost. I feel bad that Tom’s poems are gone. Maybe John & Tom are together somewhere reliving their days in Mexico City or some other beat adventure about which I never heard the rest of the details.

Hold on a second. Someone's bashing at the door, something about my poetic license, whatever that is. Must be the word police!

"Turn in your pens, pencils, cameras and keyboards, and walk away, slowly, and forever."

Every thirty years or so, I publish some poetry – maybe we’ll meet again.

And he sat back never again to write another line.


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Yountakah Country

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A volume of poetry, Days You Knew Me, was published in 1976. It is safely out of print.

Jimmy Boyce Photos of John Narucki

first publishd 6-23-2006