Literary Café at CFI featuring Stephen Baraban and Dan Sicoli
Poetry readings by Stephen Baraban and Dan Sicoli.
Stephen Baraban attended college at SUNY Buffalo, where he was inspired by poet/professors Robert Creeley, Jack Clarke and Albert Cook, and received both a BA and an MA. He was born in Brooklyn but moved with his family at the age of five to Nassau County, Long Island. He returned to the NYC area for work after graduation. and at one point was in a poetry workshop with Bernadette Mayer. He later moved back to Buffalo. He has published poems in BlazeVox Online, House Organ, and other journals.
He has attended the annual Cloudburst Council poetry retreats many times, delivering presentations for themed panels at some. From 2015 to 2020 Stephen curated the Inner Ear reading series at Rust Belt Books. SUNY Buffalo State Professor Emeritus David Landrey has called Stephen, with his dark, curly hair and exuberant beard, Buffalo’s own Allen Ginsberg. There is also the fact of his informed perceptions of poetics and literary history, as well as his wry observations and selected language in his own poems.
Dan Sicoli is a three-time Pushcart nominee whose poetry has appeared in numerous literary magazines and anthologies including 2River Review, A New Geography of Poets, Angel Rust, Angry Old Man Magazine, Bathtub Gin, Blue Collar Review, Book of Matches, Bop Dead City, Chiron Review, Circe’s Lament, Dirt City, Evening Street Review, Hobo Camp Review, Home Planet News, Lawless Music, Loud Coffee Press, Perfume River Poetry Review, Rat’s Ass Review, Santa Fe Literary Review, San Pedro River Review, and Zero City. He is the author of two poetry chapbooks from Pudding House Publications, Pagan Supper (2002) and the allegories (2004). He is retired from a long career at the US Postal Service. Dan is a co-editor of Slipstream magazine in Niagara Falls, NY.
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