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 Ryn Gargulinski is a poet, journalist, humorist and illustrator.  She holds a BFA in Creative Writing and an MA in English Literature from Brooklyn College, where she received the Donald G. Whiteside Poetry Award and completed her thesis on the Occupational Folklore of New York City Subway Workers.  

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Read from the article based on Ryn's thesis in the NY Folklore journal Voices
PUBLICATIONS

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Ryn's work has been published in a number of sources, including New York Newsday, Courier-Life Publications, Edgell Communications, and New York Folklore Society's The Journal of New York Folklore.  

Her articles, poetry, photos and illustrations have appeared in Brooklyn Review, Medicinal Purposes Literary Review, Moroccan Star Poetry, Devil Blossoms, The Doomed City and Gnome, The Lower East Side News, The Excelsior and the Bengali poetry journal of Shabdaguchha. 

Her poems can be found online at Asterius Press' The Doomed City and Gnome, at CafeMo.com, poetz.com, stirrings.net.  CLICK HERE to read Ryn's interview with Asterius Press editor JCE.

Ryn wrotes the weekly column, "The World According to Me" for Brooklyn Woman, a newspaper published by the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.  CLICK HERE for weekly columns.  She also writes the monthly Brooklyn column for 12gauge.com, an online literary zine, to which she also contributes poems, articles and illustrations.  Read her Giacometti review in 12gauge!

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To read some of Ryn's poems & articles, please visit RYN'S WRITING section on this website
CHAPBOOK II

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 Soap Would be the Opposite of Mud & Other Truths is now available!  A collection of illustrated, diametrically opposed poems, you shall find pain and pleasure within its pages (take your pick -- the book reads front to middle with the opposing poems upside down from the opposite side -- making two books in one!).

"I haven't seen a book with this layout since Scholastic's Stupid Jokes/Smart Jokes..."

"This is truly a Jeckyll & Hyde experience..."

...said two early browsers of the tome.

SOAP, which sells for $7, is available (in its four designer colors) at the monthly Cranberry Café readings, the monthly Green Pavilion readings or by e-mailing your request to Ryn at ryngargulinski@hotmail.com.

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CD!

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 Rambles & Rumbes is the CD containing poems by Ryn Gargulinski set to the original music of 2/3 of the band The Nerve! CLICK HERE for their website at TheNerve.org.

Bassist Joe Baldizzone & lead guitar Randy Stern joined the fun with Ryn for several performances.  The CD contains many of the "hit" selections.  Even better, most of the text from the poems are in Ryn's chapbooks Soap Would be the Opposite of Mud or Gerbils Eat Their Young.

Makes a great gift set!  Look for accompanying incense & bath oils coming soon.

"I forsee this CD making it to the top 40..."

"Keep your feet on the ground & keep reaching for the stars."

...said Casey Kasem (well, he says the second quote at least).

Rambles & Rumbes sells for $10 and is available by e-mailing your request to Ryn at ryngargulinski@hotmail.com.

Upon special request, cassettes of Rambles & Rumbes is available.

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CHAPBOOK I

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 Gerbils Eat Their Young is the title of Ryn's first chapbook.   The book is fitfully illustrated and received  rave praise in the July-August 2001 issue of Small Press Review.  Poet and critic George Held writes: "In this debut chapbook, with playful illustrations by the author, Ryn Gargulinski has an eye for the shunned....But maybe most to her credit, she sees through the shams of life....Reading Gargulinski could become a healthful habit."

Editor John C. Erianne also reviews Ryn's chapbook in the Fall 2001 issue of The 13th Warrior Review (CLICK HERE to read JCE's review in Vol. 2 - Issue 4).

To order a copy of Gerbils, which sell for $5 each, e-mail your request to Ryn at ryngargulinski@hotmail.com.

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PERFORMANCES
ryninhatex.gif (41448 bytes) Ryn has been the featured poet at a number of New York City venues including the Knitting Factory, Cornelia Street Cafe/Pink Pony West, Nomad's Choir, Moroccan Star and Back Fence.  She has also been featured on WNYE's "Anything Goes" radio show, "PTV: Poetry TV" on Queens Public Television (QPTV), the Poet to Poet show on Manhattan Neighborhood Network (MNN), and on broadcast news on Brooklyn Community Access TV (BCAT).  She competed in Stand Up New York's Funniest Person in Brooklyn Contest (where she placed third -- No, not out of three...).

For several yars she hosted the a monthly poetry, music and prose reading for Poet to Poet in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.

 

 

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NEXT FEATURES:

MON. SEPT. 30 @ 7 p.m.

RYN GARGULINSKI

Saturn Series/ Revival Bar

129 E. 15th Street (@ Irving Pl.), NYC 

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WED. OCT. 9 @ 7 p.m.

RYN & 2/3 of THE NERVE!

The "C" Note

9th Street & Ave. C, NYC 

They will have their CD available ~  RUMBLES & RAMBLES

Photos of Ryn w/ THE NERVE! appear below
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TUES. OCT. 22 @ 8 p.m.

RYN & 2/3 of THE NERVE!

Ozzie's

5th Avenue   & Garfield Place, Bklyn 

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IT WAS A HIT!

SUNDAY 1/20/02

JANUARY 20, 2002 @ 4 p.m.

ORANGE BEAR

47 Murray Street

STAGE RIGHT: Ryn, Randy & Joe

Click HERE for more O.B. Pix

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PROJECTS

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 As a poet, performer and visual artist, Ryn has a wide variety of interests.  Her latest undertakings include Art-o-mat, an fascinating project that sells artwork out of restored cigarette vending machines.  The machines are placed in lobbies of museums and the like.  Ryn has a batch of 50 pieces circulating in Art-o-mat throughout the nation.  CLICK HERE for the Art-o-mat website at artomat.org.

Ryn also had the pleasure of collaborating with fellow poet Maggie Balistreri.  CLICK HERE for Maggie's website at CafeMo.com.  Ryn provided the illustrations for Maggie's book-length poem,  "There Was a Young Lady Who Swallowed a Lie." Coming soon, please check back here or on Maggie's site for future availability.

 

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PANEL #10 of the mural Ryn is creating

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