Caffè Lena Poetry Open Mic Featuring Jessica Cuello & Anthony Bernini

This monthly event, hosted by Carol Graser, takes place on the first Wednesday of every month and includes an open mic reading as well as featured poets. Sign up for the open mic starts at 7:00 and readings start at 7:30. The features this month are Jessica Cuello and Anthony Bernini. Anthony Bernini was born and raised on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Bernini’s poems have appeared in a number of anthologies and journals, and on the CD release, Volume. His narrative poem, “The Escape of Cloelia”, about the Roman girl who in 506 B. C. E. eluded the Etruscans and was heroically celebrated in Rome, is in the permanent archive of the Italian Americana Review. Bernini reads his work mostly in New York’s Hudson Valley and in New England. He is the author of two volumes of poetry, Distant Kinships, and Immediate Worlds, published in 2011. He now lives in Brunswick, New York. Jessica Cuello is the author of Pricking (Tiger Bark Press, 2016), Hunt (The Word Works, 2017), and several chapbooks. She has been awarded The 2017 CNY Book Award (forPricking), The 2016 Washington Prize (for Hunt), The New Letters Poetry Prize, and a Saltonstall Fellowship. Her newest poems can be found or are forthcoming in Passages North, Crab Orchard Review, Foundry, The Missouri Review, The American Poetry Journal, and Red Paint Hill.