Storytelling on Orchard Street

Jennifer Blowdryer is a poet, writer and musician. Formerly known as Megan Baring-Gould Waters, she got her name from her San Francisco punk band The Blowdryers. As an author she has written a novel, a memoir, a dictionary, and an advice book. As a journalist she wrote a column for Maximum Rock and Roll, New York Press and Downtown. She’s still very active in the artist and cultural scene of NYC.

Rich Dana is a zine-maker and a lover of arcane technologies, visionary art, and analog anarchy. Rich also runs  Obsolete Press , creating limited edition books and zines with artists and writers from around the world, editing and publishing OBSOLETE! Magazine, and teaching workshops on historical printing techniques and zine-making. His latest book is  Cheap Copies!: The OBSOLETE! Press Guide to...

In this episode, host Pete Solomita talks to Farid Bitar. Farid, who has roots in Palestine, is a published author of two poetry books, an artist and a musician.

Cheryl J. Fish is a poet, fiction writer and environmental humanities scholar. Her debut novel Off the Yoga Mat , the story of three characters coming-of-middle age, was published by Livingston Press/UWA in Oct. 2022. She is also the author of The Sauna is Full of Maids and  Crater & Tower .

In this episode, host Pete Solomita talks to Felicia. Felicia is an essayist, cultural critic, and historic preservationist of the Lower East Side neighborhood. She loves rivers, as well as roads, and is the Podcast Studio Associate at P&T Knitwear Bookstore, Cafe, and Podcast Studio. Her great-great grandparents lived at 21 Essex Street.

Host Pete Solomita talks to Paul Schack, a Nebraska to New York City transplant with a passion for art, wellness, the great outdoors and human potential. Paul is a theater director, a cross country cyclist, a yogi and a very nice guy.

Host Pete Solomita interviews Aria Anjali and Anand Agneshwar. Aria Anjali is a 14 year old singer/songwriter, piano player, guitarist and performer in the New York area. She has performed at various venues in the Hudson Valley and New York City, including The Towne Crier in Beacon, the Hoot Festival in Cold Spring, and City Winery in Manhattan.  You can find her on instagram at @ariaanjali a...

Host Pete Solomita interviews George Wallace, writer in residence at the Walt Whitman Birthplace, author of 40 chapbooks of poetry, and editor of NYC: An Anthology of New York City Poems (2022). From his base of operations in New York City he travel internationally to share his work, and has received top honors in major international festivals in China, Greece, Bulgaria, Macedonia and the US. He i...

Ron Kolm is a contributing editor of Sensitive Skin . Ron is the author of Divine Comedy , Suburban Ambush, Night Shift, A Change in the Weather, Welcome to the Barbecue and Swimming in the Shallow End. He's had work in many well regarded publications including: Gathering of the Tribes, Great Weather for Media, NYC From the Inside, The Opiate,  Public Illumination Magazine, the Riverside Poet...

In this episode, host Pete Solomita interviews Jennifer Juneau. Jennifer is poet & novelist with numerous short stories published in magazines like Columbia Journal and Evergreen Review. Prize nominee. She also studied literary  theory and criticism at the University of Zurich. Jennifer has lived and traveled abroad for 18 years. She is the host of the popular weekly Phoenix Poetry open m...

Host Pete Solomita interviews Adam Selbst, a designer, writer and storyteller from Brooklyn, NY. He has been mugged over 15 times, attacked by a tiger his mother was taking care of and once meandered into a foreign war because he wasn’t paying attention. He is not smart. He’s been featured on McSweeney’s, The Moth, Risk!, Story Collider, the Artichoke, WBAI and many other places. He is the host of...

Host Pete Solomita interviews Madeline Artenberg. Madeline was a photo journalist and street theater performer before discovering her love for poetry.  Her work appears in publications such as, Rattle, The Poet and MacQueens Quinterly. She was a semi-finalist in Margie, The American Journal of Poetry contest and finalist in Mudfish 2020 contest. One of her poems was nominated as Best of the N...

Host Pete Solomita interviews long time friend, musician and songwriter Fred Argenziano. They talk about their history, music influences in playing and songwriting and their Fred's contribution to Pete's spoken word project The Bitter Pill Collective. 

Pete Solomita interviews Mimsey Mack, a musician, writer and poet. Mimsey talks about her childhood, becoming a born again christian and then getting away from an abusive husband and the steps it took to heal herself and familly. In 2006 Mimsey moves to NYC making a living as a physical therapist, becomes a musician and part of the music scene of the city. She reads very powerful poems about being...

Pete interviews Begoyna Plaza-Rosenbluth, film and stage actress, writer and director. Begonya reads her new essay The Passion Flower, dedicated to Delores Ibarruri, "La Pasionaria" for her 127 birthday  on 12.9.22. Delores was a heroine of the Spanish Civil War that overcame huge obstacles in life and made a big impact on Begonya's life and roots in Spanish culture.

Pete Solomita interviews singer/songwriter, author and designer Phil Gammage. They talk about Phil moving from Texas to NYC, his love of film noir and pulp fiction, early musical influences, 90's nyc music scene, Phil's current blues and country recordings and bands plus other artistic endeavors such as writing short stories and fiction.

Author Phillip Giambri talks to Pete about his Poetry Reading Series Rimes Of The Ancient Mariner and the Silver Tongued Devil anthology of the over 100 authors who graced his stage, released on Pink Tree Press. They also talk about Phillip's new Pink Trees published memoir Good Boy, Bad Boy, A Better Man, a Cautionary Tale. 

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Pete Solomita and Wayne talk about poetry, music, art and NYC cultural life