Clips from an Evening of Criminally Good Verse

We were able to shoot video of almost all the poems read at Tuesday night's Cornelia Street Cafe reading with Lineup #4 contributors Jeanne Dickey and Caitlin Elizabeth Thomson and editors Reed Farrel Coleman, Sarah Cortez, and Richie Narvaez.

Below are the videos in chronological order. Click on the arrow icons or the links to play.

Jeanne Dickey - "Desires"
Jeanne Dickey - "The Fat Lady Sings"
Jeanne Dickey - "Red"
Jeanne Dickey - "An Elegy for Susan Atkins" (from The Lineup #4)
Jeanne Dickey - "The Shadow Man Visits a Babysitter" (from The Lineup #4)
Jeanne Dickey - "Dogs of Prayer"
Caitlin Elizabeth Thomson
Richie Narvaez - "Papi Was a Numbers Runner" (from The Lineup #1)
Richie Narvaez - "Metro" (from The Lineup #1)
Richie Narvaez - "Judgment Day" (from The Lineup #1)
Richie Narvaez - "Christ at 13"
Richie Narvaez - "Catching Cupid"
Sarah Cortez - "He's The One" (from The Lineup #1)
Sarah Cortez - "Two Cases..."
Sarah Cortez - "Serial Killer" (from The Lineup #3)
Sarah Cortez - "Poem for a Dying Officer"
Reed Farrel Coleman - "Daddy's Other Shoe"
Reed Farrel Coleman - "The Dying Man" (from The Lineup #2)

Thanks to everyone who participated and attended, and to the cafe management. Visit our Books section to find or purchase copies of The Lineup.

May 31: Lineup Reading at Cornelia Street Cafe

Join us next Tuesday, 6:00 P.M. at the Cornelia Street Cafe (29 Cornelia Street, NYC). Reed Farrel Coleman and Richie Narvaez will be hosting and reading with Jeanne Dickey, Caitlin Elizabeth Thomson, and, in from Texas, Sarah Cortez. Please call (212) 989-9319 for reservations. $7 cover includes a free drink.

Press Release: An Evening of Criminally Good Verse

Presenting an Evening of Criminally Good Verse

Tuesday, May 31st, 6:00 P.M.

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The Cornelia Street Cafe
29 Cornelia Street
New York, NY 10014
www.corneliastreetcafe.com

Please call (212) 989-9319 for reservations. Cover: $7.


Contributors Jeanne Dickey and Caitlin Elizabeth Thomson join editors Reed Farrel Coleman and Richie Narvaez reading from the recently published fourth annual edition of The Lineup: Poems on Crime.

Published by Poetic Justice Press since 2008, The Lineup invites poets' honest reactions to what they see as crime in fifty lines or fewer.

A limited number of The Lineup #4 will be sold at the reading. Copies may also be purchased locally at The Mysterious Bookshop (58 Warren Street, NYC). Visit Poetic Justice Press on the Web at http://poemsoncrime.blogspot.com.


Reed Farrel Coleman is a three-time winner of the Private Eye Writers of America's Shamus Award for Best Novel. He has also received the Macavity, Barry, and Anthony Awards, and has been twice nominated for the Edgar® Award. He teaches writing classes in mystery fiction and the novel at Hofstra University.

Jeanne Dickey's work has appeared in literary journals such as Passages North, RE:AL, Karamu, and The Good Foot. She is working on a novel, A Fanciful Glamour, which she hopes to complete by the end of the year, if not sooner. An except of that novel is forthcoming in the anthology The Unbearables Big Book of Sex.

Richie Narvaez has had work published by Mississippi Review, Murdaland, and Thrilling Detective, and in the anthologies Hit List: The Best of Latino Mystery, Indian Country Noir, and You Don't Have a Clue. He is the editor of the online humor journal Asinine Poetry.

Caitlin Elizabeth Thomson is a Canadian currently residing in Brooklyn, New York. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Hart House Review, Imago, Softblow, The Toronto Quarterly, Neon, Right Hand Pointing, and the anthology Killer Verse. Her first collection of poems The Victims Of Ted Bundy: Washington State is forthcoming this winter from Jeanne Duval Editions.

May 31: The Lineup at The Cornelia Street Cafe

The Cornelia Street Cafe will host an evening of criminally good verse Tuesday, May 31 at 6:00 p.m., featuring Lineup #4 contributors Jeanne Dickey and Caitlin Thomson and editors Reed Farrel Coleman and Richie Narvaez.

Jeanne Dickey

Jeanne Dickey's poetry and fiction have appeared in various venues including Passages North, Karamu, Good Foot, Visions, and Poet Lore.