Beat Street - English-language poetry readings

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Hi folks!

Only one week away for Beat Street. We hope to see you there next Monday at the Hazelwood (Chorinerstr. 72). It's fun!

Yeah

Tomorrow is the big day. We have a great lineup and we are always looking for new poets, so come through and check out the show and talk to the organizers!

See you tomorrow, Berlin...

Berlin's hottest English language poetry and spoken word showcase returns to ring in the new year with all new Beat Street performers:

Anthony Baggette is an Ohio native whose been in Berlin since there were two Berlins. Jazz poet, basketball coach, eV organizer, dancer, teacher...this incredible performer graces the Beat Street stage for the first time.

Anna Nowok cut her teeth in the German slam scene. She's young, brash, and the first German we have featured at Beat Street. No worries, she is going to do some her English stuff for us who struggle with der, die, and das.

Rob Grant, the Beat Street founder will be on hand to do some of his new work from this winter.

And our fourth poet is...undecided. But you will be the first to know as soon as we do.

Beat Street
at Hazelwood (Chorinerstr. 72 in Mitte)
January 17, 9pm

See you then!

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Come see the talk on the town!

Thursday 17th Jan 2008. Starting 9pm at ‘The Hazelwood’ Chorinerstr. 72

Hello all you Beaters out there. Hope you had a wonderful Christmas and a Merry New Year. We’re starting as we mean to go on in 2008 with a very special show. Not only welcoming two new poets to the Beatstreet clan, but witnessing the first host night of Mike (should be fun!) Hope you can make the start of this year as much fun as the end of last. Keep Beating! http://www.myspace.com/beatstreetpoetryberlin

The line up:

ROBERT GRANT is a writer and performance poet. First published in 2005 he has appeared on numerous stages in England and America. Now living and working in Berlin, he is the founder and co-organiser of Beatstreet. Recently described as the Bukowski of Berlin (which he took as a great compliment) his observational poetry can sometimes be controversial, sometimes sweet, but always powerful.

ANTHONY BAGETTE is a berlin legend. This Ohio native whose been in Berlin since there were two Berlins, is truely a unique voice in the poetry scene. Jazz poet, basketball coach, eV organizer, dancer, teacher...this incredible performer graces the Beat Street stage for the first of many times, we hope. His cool-hard words are something truely special and should not be missed.

ANNA NOWOK cut her teeth in the German slam scene. She's young, brash, and the first German we have featured at BeatStreet. No worries, she is going to do some of her English stuff for all who struggle with der, die, and das. Her talent is unquestionable, her style is unforgetable and her words, remarkable!

Special guest host MIKE HAEF is a Chicago based poet, now living and working in Berlin. His impressive Berlin reputation has been built on strong european performances and his clever, mellow wit. Now a co-organiser of Beatstreet and other Berlin based poetry events, this will be his first night Hosting!

And we welcome back LISA HOLIS, the hit from Beatstreet one. This thoughful poets quiet demena only strengthen the true weight of her voice. What more can I say?

Do you just turn up to this?! It sounds interesting.

Also how do you get there and how long does it last?

Attention Beat Streeters:

We have had an almost-last-minute change of venue:

You can find us at Christinenstr. 27, in Mitte.
It's off Torstr. between Rosa-Luxemborg-Platz and Rosenthalerstr. U-Bahnhofen.

Check out the map:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&...c=addr&om=1

Still January 17 and still at 9pm. Just come on through, we'll be happy to see you!

What is the new place called???

Charlotte

It doesn't have a name, because it is a new establishment owned by the owners of the Hazelwood. The h'wood is undergoing renovations, but the show info was not passed on from owner to owner. So when the new owner found out we were supposed to do a show at h'wood, he offered us another place he owns.

Worry not, it will be amply signaged.

Hello all:

We have a slight lineup change for the upcoming show. Anthony Baggette can't make it, so Michael Haeflinger is gonna sit in for the night. Don't worry, we'll have Anthony another month.

See you Thursday

Beat Street
English Language Poetry in Berlin

Christinenstr. 27
9 pm
Thursday 1/17/08

TONIGHT!!!

Wicked awesome poetry in English

9pm at Christinenstr. 27

See you then!

Beat Street crew

Beat Street returns in March with a reading at Coffee Karma (Sonntagstr. 30) in Friedrichshain.

We will start at 9, and have four great poets performing works in English. Details forthcoming, hope to see you there!

Beat Street

Hello friends,

We have a great show for you in March. Four fantastic poets, a gentle host, a guitar player, two giraffes, and a wizard! Huzzah!

On the bill we have

Anthony Baggette (USA/Berlin)
Michael Haeflinger (USA/Berlin)
Kerri Mullen (USA/Berlin)
Moon (UK/Berlin)

Rob Grant (UK/Berlin) will be your host.

We are also happy to have Joe Czarnecki on stage. He's a guitar caresser from Seattle/Berlin.

See you March 14th at Coffee Karma (Sonntagstr. 30 in Feidreichshain). 9pm.

Thanks,
Beat Street
www.myspace.com/beatstreetpoeryberlin

We area ways looking for poets to round out our bills, so email us if you are interested.
Thanks!

We have a great lineup for March!

Anthony Baggette
Catherine Hale
Moon
Michael Haeflinger

Hosted by Rob Grant

Music by Joe Czarnecki

at Coffee Karma
Sonntagstr. 30
9pm

See you then!

That sounds great!! I am looking forward to the March meeting.

Hi everyone:

A reminder that Beat Street returns March 14th with four dynamic poets, one surly host, and one magnificent guitar player.

Anthony Baggette
Michael Haeflinger
Alistair Noon
Catherine Hales

are your poets. Each will deliver exciting work representing the many sided prism that is the Berlin English language scene.

Beat Street founder Rob Grant will host. Joe Czarnecki will play his incredible guitar for us.

March 14th at Coffee Karma
Sonntagstr. 30 (near Ostkreuz)
9 pm

See you there!
www.myspace.com/beatstreetpoetryberlin

*If you are a poet writing/reading in English and would like to perform at a future Beat Street, let us know.
**Rob Lowe Berlin Poetry Awards (in conjunction with Clear Blue Water e.V. coming in May! Stay tuned!)

..Lokking forward to the next one, if its a s good as the last!! Rob rocks, and mike h is a witty and talented chap!! GET DOWN FOLKS ITS A CRACKING NIGHT!! and only €3!!

Check out our fly poster:

http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff52/be...Beatstreet7.jpg

See y'all on Friday March 14th.

(Thanks berlinender for the kind words...be sure to check out Anthony, Cathy, and Alistair, all newcomers to the beat street scene...(but certainly not to Berlin))

oops..sorry mike, got the price wrong..still, see you there y'all!

Is this a monthly do or every other month?

monthly-ish

we had some venue issues in december (plus cos of the holidays) and february

but I think we are settled in a venue and will be proceeding monthly

Beatstreet really is one cool event here in Berlin and the next one sounds again very promising. Looking forward to it!

Tonight's the night!

Beat Street returns with a hot lineup:

Anthony Baggette, Alistair Noon, Cathy Hales, and Michael Haeflinger

One cute host: Rob Grant

One banging guitar banger: Joe Czarnecki

That's tonight, y'all
at Coffee Karma (Sonntagstr. 30)
9pm

Greetings Toytowners:

We have established residency at a great new cafe in Friedrichshain: Coffee Karma (Sonntagstr. 30). We will be holding Beat Street every 4th Thursday of the month from here on out.

Last month was a lot of fun. We had the Bordercrossing poetry editorial staff in th ehouse, Alistair Noon and Cathy Hales, as well as Anthony Baggette, who rocked it.

Come on April 24, and indulge in another hot night of English-language poetry in Berlin!

http://www.myspace.com/beatstreetpoetryberlin

I missed the March event but I am already looking forward to the 24th April !

Hey everyone...

The support for Beat Street in the last seven months has been tremendous. We have had some great poets come through, some living in Berlin, some traveling. Different nationalities, different styles, substances and forms.

But our search continues. If you, or anyone you know, is a poet who does work in English, let us know. We are always striving to give voice to the many poets who come through this wonderfully diverse little burg in Central Europe. Even folks living out of country, we are happy to oblige drifters, and as the summer bumming months approach, we would love to get a little of that road dust on our brows, as well. At least on our stage...

Coming in May, we are happy to have Clear Blue Water e.V.'s Rob Lowe Poetry Awards. More details on that as it unfolds, but it is a juried poetry contest with cash prizes. Come one come all!

Talk to you soon and thanks again for checking in!

Beat Street
http://www.myspace.com/beatstreetpoetryberlin

Hey Everyone,
Make a note that Beat Street has been moved from April 24 to April 25...still at Coffee Karma...see you there!

Mike

April's Beat Street is shaping up to be a crazy mix of poetic awesomeocity!

Dig it:

We welcome back Lady Gaby, a Berlin legend. Romanian-born, Australian-reared, and Berlin-fortified, her spoken word performances and wordplay invite thoughtfulness and cheering.

In for her first Beat Street performance we are happy to have USAer Cera Impala, one sixth of the Berlin bluegrass and old timey outift, The New Prohibition Band. Cera will leave her banjo at home but dazzle us with her words.

Rob Grant will do a set of his often-funny, often-thought provoking, always intense words. Birdies told us that he may have written some new stuff. New stuff from Rob? Rumors being what they are, it's hard to say. Sorry Rob, rumours.

Dirk Ronnenburg will be our musical guest, playing some songs for us between sets. He is another sixth of the NPB and has a wicked cool dobro and satchel full of blues tunes.

Your host is Mike Haef. The lyrical master, the rhyme disaster. What you heard!

See you FRIDAY April 25th
Coffee Karma
Sonntagstr. 30
9pm

Til then!

Hi Mike

My name's Dave - I'm a writer here in Berlin for next few months - how exactly can one get involved in the poetry readings? Is there any room for open Mic or is
it all scheduled performers? If so, how can I get on the roster?

Thanks

Dave deweil@gmail.com

Hi Dave,

I hope you get this...I tried to send an email and it got sent back.

Email me at mikehaef@gmail.com

Thanks,
Mike

Is there an angle for Limericks too??

Yes, I think it's 46 degrees

wait...

There once was a fine limmerick writer
Who worked on a limmerick all nighter
When he was done
It was so much fun
He went to the store and bought some pudding

Wait. Something isn't right here.

Limmericks welcome.

No triolets. I'll eat my hat before I accept triolets!

Hello everyone:

Coming this Friday (clear your calendar) Beat Street April 2008 (did you get your calendar out?) at 9pm at Coffee Karma, Sonntagstr. 30 (turn to April), Berlin's finest monthly English-language poetry soiree (cancel that date with Joe from accounting), at a fine venue, in a fine city...

(All clear? Okay, good, get back to work...you ain't gettin' paid to goof around on Toytown all day!)

See you Friday!

Beat Street
English Language Poetry in Berlin
with Cera Impala, Chris Whitley, Lady Gaby, and Rob Grant

Hosted by Michael Haeflinger
Music by Dirk Ronnenburg

Coffee Karma
Sonntagstr. 30
9pm
April 25

Tonight's the night, ladies and germs. 9 pm at Coffee Karma at Sonntagstr. 30.

Check out www.myspace.com/beatstreetpoetryberlin for all the details!

See you tonight.

46 Degress? Thats a bit too much - still, glad its not just 3 degrees, because I cant be arsed singing it..

A Limerick packs laughs anatomical,
into space that is quite economical,
But the ones I have seen,
are seldom so clean,
and the clean ones are seldon so comical!

Good show by the way way on Friday - how drunk was Rob?? See you at the next one, hopefully!

Beat Street presents
The 2nd Annual Rob Loew/Clear Blue Water eV
Poetry Awards

Ten poets vying for a shot at taking home some real cash. A chance for your to see ten poets from Berlin's dynamic poetic community.

May 23rd @ 9pm
Coffee Karma (Sonntagstr. 30)

Hosted by Michael Haeflinger and Rob Grant.

with special guest Anthony Baggette

And, special for June, we welcome friends from Holland to present the new issue of Versal, Holland's premiers English-language lit mag.
And, in July we invite all of the great performers we've had in the last year to drop a poem or two at the Beat Street anniversary show.

That's a crazy summer! See you all May 23rd.

1000! We have had 1000 views to our Beat Street thread! Watch out Thursday night drinks, we are fast catching up...

Next Beat Street next Friday, May 23

The Rob Loew/Clear Blue Water eV Poetry Awards...

Look for details at http://www.myspace.com/beatstreetpoetryberlin

Congratulations!!!

Tomorrow!!!
Hurrah!

We have a very special show tomorrow...with the Rob Loew/Clear Blue Water eV Poetry Awards with ten dynamic Berlin poets competing for cold, hard cash!

That's Geldschein!

See you there

Beat Street
Coffee Karma
Sonntagstr. 30
Friedrichshain
9 pm

just out of curiousity Mike, is it still the same entry fee as usual?

hey folks

4 euros gets you in the door

but it's still free to leave

see you tonight

m

On June 27, Beat Street welcomes five great expat poets from Amsterdam, in town to launch the sixth issue of their internationally known magazine, Versal. We hope you can come out and pick up a copy of the magazine and check out:

Ana Arov
Megan Garr
Kate Foley
Prue Duggan
Robert Glick
and Berlin's own (and Bordercrossing poetry editor) Alistair Noon.

Six poets. Sixth magazine...

Disturbing.

Disturbingly fun!

See you June 27
Beat Street welcomes
Versal 6 Release Party

Coffee Karma
Sonntagstr. 30
10245 Berlin
9 pm

www.myspace.com/beatstreetpoetryberlin
www.wordsinhere.com

Just two weeks until the exciting June Beat Street featuring poets from the NL. No football that night to miss, so come kick it with us at Coffee Karma!

This week only! Visiting us from the Netherlands, a gang of fantastic expat poets from around the world:

The Versal Issue Six Release Reading
featuring

Anna Arov (RUS/CAN)
Prue Duggan (AUS)
Megan Garr (USA)
Robert Glick (USA)
Kate Foley (UK)
and Bordercrossing Berlin Poetry Editor Alistair Noon (UK)

Versal is a beautiful magazine from Amsterdam that showcases English language literature from all over the world. You can find out more about them at here.

See you Friday June 27 at 9pm. Hosted by Michael Haeflinger. 4 Euro at the door to contribute to the travel costs of the artists.

Coffee Karma
Sonntagstr. 30
10245 Berlin

See you then!

Greetings:

If you haven't heard, tonight we have a very special Beat Street featuring five writers visiting us from the Netherlands to promote the new issue of Versal magazine. Versal is Amsterdam's international literary magazine, and this is there exciting six issue.

We will feature Megan Garr, Prue Duggan, Anna Arov, Kate Foley, Robert Glick and Berlin's own Alistair Noon, who is in the magazine.

We are honored and excited to have them here in Berlin and after last night's dinner, I am excited about the potential of building with our sisters and brothers in orange.

See you tonight!

Mike

Beat Street
@ Coffee Karma
Sonntagstr. 30
near Ostkreuz

9pm

I was at the May and June events and they are a lot of fun and good poems. I am sure this one will be just the same...happy birthday beat street

Beat Street this Friday

Our ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY PARTY with

Rob Grant, Lady Gaby, Anthony Baggette, Michael Haeflinger, Cathy Hales, Xarkos Atkos, Rebecca Ellis, Dave Weil, Cera Impala, Paradox Paul, and more!
Live music with My Sister Grenadine and a set by English comedian Maureen Younger.

Coffee Karma
Sonntagstr. 30
July 25 9 pm

See you there!