Kathy Polenberg

new jersey artist/writer

SURPRISE!!

What a treat to hear Tony Forte http://www.tonyforte.com/ read from my chapbook on show #153 (but it's always a treat to listen to Tony and Mike!) 
 

NEW CHAPBOOK release 8/08

 

A chapbook of poems by Katharine Polenberg - 24 pages - each copy individually illustrated throughout in pen and ink.

"If you remember on waking that you have dreamed about things at a great distance, it is because your eyes have actually been there while you were asleep."  Copper Inuit

"When somebody dies, when you hear thunder way over there -- so that you just hardly hear it -- that means that the white cloud is taking him to another world. They travel for many days, and then sometimes on the fourth day it rains. when that rain drops on you, they are touching you."  Philip Cassadore, Apache

                                             

 

three days road

 

before I will walk
the three days road
just once for all time
I would like to know

sound of a fingertips’ giggle
to tingle other skin
feel of loud bloodrush chant
the flush from outside in

see a dawn light through my
own muscle and bone
and leave night as one
before I start dying alone

just once for all time
I would love
to know
before I walk the three days road

PRICE INCLUDING POSTAGE: $5 ea.

OTHER BOOKS AVAILABLE for Purchase:

 

                                                          

                  A chapbook of my beatest ramblings -each copy signed & illustrated-                                                            "NJ Yellowed Pages" 44 pages 5 1/2 X 8 1/2 PRICE $5.00 check or well-concealed cash to:   PoleKat Press 105 Norwood Avenue, Long Branch, NJ 07740      

"I'm not going to try to tell you what I think of NJYP, because there's a danger that it will just be a bunch of words,but man,it is so good. Powerful + sweet + dangerous + smart + audacious+ real + unreal..." raves Dave Morrison,host of "Have Poems Will Travel" on WRFR FM   http://www.wrfr.org/   Dave will read from my chapbook on WRFR on wed.6/4/08 live from 5pm to 6pm EST, archived here if you missed it: http://havepoems.podomatic.com/

"NJ YELLOWED PAGES" contents:

backyard, Long Branch, NJ                  

Wore Make-Up, Punched Dog       

Lincroft section, Middletown, NJ        

Harlem Globetrotters Fault          

Peters Pl.,  Red Bank, NJ                      

how joe went crazy on pearl          

new jersey, NJ                                    

Culled a sack                         

new jersey, NJ                                     

some kind of nerve                   

Montclair, Bloomfield- East Orange, NJ

Ballad of Bill the Bad Actor         

Essex County, NJ                                

bottle neck slide on flatbed         

Denville, NJ                                        

Introduction to Music                

me- new jersey,NJ                               

My celebrity                          

Broad Street- Red Bank, NJ                 

Fugitive!                               

Carrier Clinic, Belle Meade, NJ          

disOrientation at Princeton          

East Orange, NJ - Asbury Park, NJ        

Transvestite Yard Sale              

Asbury Park, NJ                                   

Shooting Pool at Echoes            

Monmoth County, NJ                          

Porkroll Justice                      

tv new jersey, NJ                               

very gifted:                          

down the shore, NJ                             

Fortune Teller- Pre Eminence        

Medical Arts Building, 2nd Ave            

What's His Problem?                

down the shore, NJ                             

Benny's Seashell Motel              

Broadway, Long Branch, NJ                

Tin Men on Broadway                

4th of July Parsippany, NJ                 

The Fireworks                        

Parsippany, NJ                                      

Truck Stop                            

basement, Long Branch, NJ                 

I'm Washing Here                   

historic Howell ironworks, NJ             

Ballad of the Iron Man              

home sweet head, NJ                          

the half of it                        

my job, Middletown, NJ                      

stop the slide                        

Norwood Ave, Long Branch, NJ           

my leased inheritance                

my Dads funeral Silsbee, TX               

Reaching                             

 

 "I'm Your Field Trip"    Katharine Polenberg                           

Paperback 60 pages "All Terrain poems.  Ms. Polenberg brings the reader underground  and outside via the 30 poems in this collection. She walks us through a site where floorboards sing, pork roll equals justice, zombies cry together, drowning is intentional and God is a method actor. Her writing reveals a brain which has adapted to injury through the deliberate and self-prescribed application of poetry . . . "

" It's a MASSIVE JOLT of LIBERATION!!!! I am so blown away by these poems- Asbury Park Tattoo...etc...just wonderful stuff!! Oh, it is so good! I love it! "  - raves Tony Forte - Host of ODGMS!  http://ohdontgetmestarted.com/modules/news/

RETAIL PRICE $16.50

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Discount! when you buy direct from PoleKat Press get both " I'm Your Field Trip" "NJ Yellowed Pages" together for $13.00 (includes postage) check or well-concealed cash to: 

PoleKat Pres

    105 Norwood Avenue     

                               LongBranch, NJ 07740                                         *Please include the mailing address where books should be shipped, along with your order

 

 

 Aloha from Connecticut- pictures from the CT BEAT POETRY FESTIVAL 2008       Reading at Hall Memorial Library, Ellington CT June 6, 2008

reading at the beautifull Lincoln Financial Auditorium    

 

 

                         The print edition Zygote In My Coffee #5 is ready for you!

Tainted Coffee Press books are sold online and at famous independent bookstores like City Lights in SF! It's chock-full from cover-to-cover with all that's unwholesome (including one of my poems) and thensome-  plus comics and original cover art!

Go here for the zygote bookstore: http://www.zygoteinmycoffee.com/60/zygotebookstore.html

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Greetings from Long Branch, NJ!

NEXT Poetry Show!

 at The Brighton Bar in Long Branch, NJ 
Sunday August 3

Co. Jack Presents
'Does A Captain Go Down with His Ship?'
Poetry Show 
W/ DAN WEEKS;  GREGG GLORY;
GREGORY SCHWARTZ;  KATHY POLENBERG;  LADY B;
AMANDA:  CHRISTINA REED;  TONY PANZICA;
MARK RASMUSSEN;  JESSI SMITH;  DENNIS TOWNSEND;
PROF. VILE;  CHRIS OEHME;  GEORGE HOLLER
MATT LITTLEHALE;
THE IDIOM magazine poets
WALKING
ENGLISH.com poets
JACK MONAHAN...AND MORE  $5 cover @ 9:30
                                                 

 

 

 

 

You missed this? Don't worry- there's always next summer!

Come to the NJ Reperatory's Lumia Theater July 30 for the final night of the series! 

I'll be reading during the open mic . . .    

Newspaper article quoted from The Independent  online  "Long Branch poetry series makes great summer readings

The Summer Poetry Series will conclude on Wednesday, July 30, with two very different poets, each representing a distinct era, stylistic school and localized scene. Bronx-born and Brooklyn-based Lewis Warsh is a dynamic ambassador of the second-generation "New York School." The prolific poet, novelist, memoirist, editor and publisher (noted for his founding of Angel Hair magazine and books with Anne Waldman) will appear live in Long Branch.

The veteran writer and educator will be joined for this occasion by a fresh new radical lesbian voice from San Diego, Ali Liebegott. The author of the acclaimed book-length poem "The Beautifully Worthless," as well as the novel "The IHOP Papers," Liebegott writes with detail-intensive humor and keenly observed emotion of an America where runaway waitresses crisscross the continent on quests for companionship, closure and crush fulfillment. A public-invited, open-mic session will also round out the program, which will begin at 7 p.m.

. . . All events will be presented in New Jersey Repertory's Lumia Theatre, located at 179 Broadway in Long Branch. Admission is $5; seating is limited, and reservations, which are recommended, can be made by calling 732-229-3166.

The poetry series is sponsored by the Long Branch Arts Council, the city of Long Branch and the Long Branch Historical Association, and produced by New Jersey Repertory director Gabor Barabas and City Councilman Brian Unger. "

 

                                                 

 

A good cause. . .

The West Memphis Witch Hunt anthology is available now!
Anthology including contributions from myself and 40+ writers who support this cause.


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http://www.lulu.com/wm3witchhunt

All profits will be donated to the West Memphis Three Defense Fund.
Please show your support and buy a copy!

This anthology of modern poetry collected to raise awareness about the injustice perpetrated against Jason Baldwin, Damien Echols, and Jessie Misskelly Jr., known collectively as the West Memphis 3.
All proceeds from this book will be donated to the WM3 defense fund, arranged by
www.wm3.org.
collected and edited by Michael W. Johnson and Misti Rainwater-Lites

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