08 Oct Paula Interviews: Poets For Change
READ MORE and cut and paste so you can check out this clip of an interview with Mike Rothenberg: a poet with a cause! ...
07 Sep My Favorite Poem and Why.
Sound has always played a role in my performance poetry. Sound is personal to me. Poetic therapy. Choosing where and how to begin and end a line, to me, is what makes a poem acoustic. That is why I came up with the title of ‘Acoustic Poetry’ and, years...
24 May Kiwanis presents the School House Green Reading!
Join me on August 5, 2019 as I participate with Richard Vetere, Linda Opyr, and Marsha Nelson as we perform our poetry at the Green, located on Foxhurst Road, Oceanside NY (east of Long Beach Rd). https://oceansidechamber.org/team_member/schoolhouse-green/...
24 May Paula Curci and William McGee Interviews Martha McPhee
In December of 2011, I was lucky to work with author William McGee as we both interviewed Martha McPhee. https://www.hofstra.edu/academics/colleges/hclas/engl/gwgr/gwgr_mmcphee.html...
02 Apr Check out my instagram posts!
My instagram posts include original photography and poetry! https://www.instagram.com/cornercalliopes/...
27 Aug Listen to a clip of my version of ‘THE HAPPIEST DAY’ by Edgar Allen Poe.
Back in 1999, I worked on a dance/spoken word performance piece with the Saltaire Dance troupe. We performed at the now closed, VANDERBILT in Plainview NY. It was a great event, packed with talented voices, all for a good cause. A really cool CD...
26 Aug Nice Words About Calliope’s Corner!
Here is what POET BILLY LAMONT had to say about the EPISODE OF "CALLIOPE'S CORNER" HOSTED BY PAULA CURCI, after she received the PRESS CLUB OF LONG ISLAND AWARD FOR MEDIA - ARTISTIC RADIO - in 2014. Here's a link to this Award Winning Show on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/corner-calliopes/calliopes-corner-billy-lamont "Paula Curci...
11 May About Mary
It’s a silver metal and wood encased box, wrapped with a thin white bow. A gift from my favorite friend, I refuse to open. The door, she lays next to is really her exit. As she waits in cue and watches everyone pray, for her safe return. I haven’t seen...
23 Feb FENCES: They Really Are Imaginary
After the ethereal wind stopped and the ocean receded, I learned fences have no meaning. Keeping people divided, really does not work. Walls, between neighbors, get knocked down. After earthquakes, hurricanes, floods, fires, lines disappear. Walls fall, fences break down. People step up, over boundaries. They help, reach out. We should know this. History proves it so. Fences, they really are imaginary. Paula Curci (c) August 2011 Long Beach NY. ...
19 Dec My 2016 Annual Holiday Poem is printed.
2016 Annual Poem In the news, this year and now appearing. the sparkling snow and white tail deer, with a distracted camper no longer peering … through his telescopic lens aperture. Meanwhile, dashing through the snow A hunter, was lost in a forest. Dense, and disconnected to the needs of a...