Brownstone Poets Presents Judith Lee Herbert, Jennifer Juneau, Linda Lerner, and Denita Stevens at Park Plaza Restaurant, Sat, 11/23

Brooklyn, NY, October 29, 2019 --(PR.com)-- Four strong women writers, Judith Lee Herbert, Jennifer Juneau, Linda Lerner, and Denita Stevens, to rock Brownstone Poets on Saturday, November 23, at 2:30 p.m. at Park Plaza Restaurant in historic Brooklyn Heights. Poetry grows in Brooklyn Heights, and there's an open mic as well. Come enjoy an afternoon of poetry and delicious food at this cozy family-owned restaurant.

Judith Lee Herbert
Jennifer Juneau
Linda Lerner
Denita Stevens

Saturday, November 23 @ 2:30 P.M.
Park Plaza Restaurant
220 Cadman Plaza West near Clark St. and Pineapple Walk
Brooklyn, NY 11201
718 -596 -5900

Subways:
Take the A or C to High Street, 2 or 3 to Clark Street
R to Court Street
4 or to 5 Borough Hall
For more directions:
Please check the MTA's "The Weekender" for all transit updates.
http://web.mta.info/weekender.html

$5 Donation – Plus Food/Drink - Open-Mic
Curated by Patricia Carragon
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1123117011231472/

Bios:
Judith Lee Herbert’s chapbook, Songbird, was recently published by Kelsay Books, and was previously chosen as a finalist in the Blue Light Poetry Prize and Chapbook Competition in 2017. Her poems placed in contests in 2018 at the Nassau County Poet Laureate Society and the Mid-Island Y JCC. Her poetry has appeared in three additions of the Bards Annual and in Before the Dawn 2019. Her poems have been published in print and online publications including The Ekphrastic Review, These Fragile Lilacs, First Literary Review-East, Nassau County Poet Laureate Society Review, Long Island Quarterly, and Mothering in the Middle.

Jennifer Juneau is the author of the novel ÜberChef USA (Spork Press) and the poetry collection More Than Moon (Is A Rose Press.) Her work has been nominated twice for a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in journals such as the American Poetry Journal, Cimarron Review, Cincinnati Review, Columbia Journal, Evergreen Review, Gargoyle Magazine, Pank, Passages North, Portland Review, Seattle Review, Verse Daily and elsewhere. She lives and writes in Brooklyn.

Linda Lerner’s recent collection, A Dance Around the Cauldron, a prose work consisting of nine characters during the Salem witch trials brought into our own times (Lummox Press, 2017). Previously published books: Yes, the Ducks Were Real & Takes Guts and Years Sometimes (NYQ Books (2011 and 2015). When Death is a Red Balloon, a chapbook of poems will be published by Lummox in 2019. Taking the F train forthcoming from NYQ Books. Recent acceptances: Maintenant, Gargoyle, Paterson Literary Review, Café Review, Wilderness Literary House Review, Cape Rock and Piker Press, etc. Nominated for a Pushcart Prize several times.

Denita Stevens was born and raised in Texas, but now she resides in New Jersey with her beloved Pomeranian. She is the author of Invisible Veils, a collection of poems which gives insight into what it’s like to live with anxiety, depression and survive the trauma of being assaulted. Her next book will be her memoir, Disorderly Life, which is about how she spent more than a decade living with undiagnosed PTSD, but started to heal after finding the help she needed. Find out more at denitastevens.com.