Nutley Sun editorial on Yountakah Rite

 A recent Nutley Sun editorial discusses the scary and continuing story of local youths who walk across the railroad trestle, as documented in Yountakah Rite a poem by Anthony Buccino in his latest collection YOUNTAKAH COUNTRY.

Editorial: Nutley tracks can lead to tragedy
NorthJersey.com
Awhile ago, the Nutley Police Department received information that a number of children were walking on the railroad tracks and trestles throughout the township. The railroad companies informed the department that the tracks were active and trains ...

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YOUNTAKAH COUNTRY
A Poetic View of Nutley Old and New

Local writer takes some history, some folk lore and some current news and mixes them together in this humorous and thoughtful collection of verse about the little town in north eastern Essex County. On these pages, Anthony Buccino brings together the Lenni Lenape, Annie Oakley and pizza wars.

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YOUNTAKAH COUNTRY collection

YOUNTAKAH COUNTRY 
A Poetic View of Nutley, Old and New


Cherry Blossom Press presents YOUNTAKAH COUNTRY A Poetic View Of Nutley Old And New by Nutley writer Anthony Buccino. The poetry collection is available on  in print and on Amazon's Kindle ereader. and BN's Nook.

Buccino's own take on the township mixes history, tales and observations in a rich mix of what may or may not be the true history of Annie Oakley, the ITT tower, Leni Lenape, a Valium breeze, not to mention the Velodrome and the headless rider or the parlous water that rage through town on rainy days.

Knowing some of Nutley's history, readers will appreciate the twists and turns and maybe even learn something about the quiet little "Norman Rockwell town" in northern New Jersey.

For instance, did you know that the quiet little river that runs through Nutley was called Yountakah by Lenni Lenape, and so was their annual autumn feast - a predecessor to the Pilgrims' Thanksgiving? The name was also used by a large country club and golf course that bordered the Passaic River in town.

Buccino's verse also tackles a few local customs, including the senior high grads swimming in pool across town, and the rite of crossing the perilous rail overpass at Memorial Park.

And, of course, Buccino would never write about Nutley without homage to the men who paid the price for our freedom. Four poems recall the men who died in service and the veterans who lived in town and made it what it is today.

In other nostalgic verse, Buccino recalls summers at Booth Park, ice skating at ITT tower, school air raid drills at Holy Family School, pieces of an airplane landing on a Nutley lawn one night, the Nutley Museum and the Nutley Little Theatre.

Buccino weaves his poem Wonderful Life around Frances Goodrich, who grew up in town and went on to write the “Thin Man” film series and later won a Pulitzer Prize for the play “The Diary of Anne Frank.”

Buccino’s poem suggests Goodrich’s screenplay for the popular Christmas film “It’s A Wonderful Life” has hints of old Nutley, and that the scene of the angel and George on the bridge may have been inspired by the Lyndhurst bridge over the Passaic River, not far from where Goodrich grew up.

In recalling Nutley of about 100 years ago, Buccino cites Guthrie’s Dry Good Store and some of our famous residents and visitors, including Mark Twain, Annie Oakley and Richard Stockton lining up for that new invention called ice cream.

Goodrich was inducted into the Nutley Hall of Fame in 2005. Buccino stood in for the writer and her family at the ceremony.

Copyright © 2010 by Anthony Buccino, all rights reserved.

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Joel Allegretti at Il Trapezio Cafe on Friday

Friday, August 22, 2008, at 8:30 PM:
distinguished North Jersey poet

Joel Allegretti
will perform selections of his work, as part of the

North Jersey Literary Series (see bio below).

The reading will be held at Il Trapezio Cafe -- there will be an Open Mic between the two sets by our feature. Paul Nash and Denise La Neve are your hosts for this series, now in its eleventh year. We look forward to seeing you this Friday the 22nd!

Il Trapezio Cafe is located conveniently at 120 Franklin Avenue in Nutley , NJ . The readings, which feature both poetry and music, will continue to be held on the fourth Friday of each month. The cafe has homemade Panini's and miniature Italian pizzas, hot and cold drinks (espresso drinks, teas, hot chocolate, etc), assorted desserts, plus other cold beverages. So come early, grab a good seat at a table, and enjoy a relaxed meal or snack. Their phone is: 973 235 0188.

Regards, Paul Nash & Denise La Neve

Joel Allegretti is the author of The Plague Psalms, which appeared in 2000 from The Poet's Press and is now in its third edition.

His second collection, Father Silicon, also from The Poet's Press, was selected by the Kansas City Star as one of the 100 Noteworthy Books of 2006, a list that included novels by Thomas Pynchon and Cormac McCarthy.

Allegretti's poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Art/Life, Rattapallax, New York Quarterly, descant, The Laurel Review, Margie, Anglican Theological Review, BigCityLit, Wandering Hermit Review, Manhattan Literary Review, Sensations, Porcupine, Knock, Confrontation, River Oak Review and other publications.

He is represented in the anthology Chance of a Ghost (Helicon Nine Editions, 2005), which also includes work by Billy Collins, Rita Dove and James Tate. His poem in that collection received an Honorable Mention in the 2006 edition of The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, published by St. Martin's Press.

Allegretti was a quarter-finalist in the 2002 Lyric Recovery Festival and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

Thanks to the Star Ledger

On Page 2 of Newark This Week in the May 1, 2008, edition of The Star-Ledger, the story Neighborhood snapshot: Yantacaw mentions our Nutley poetry blog - Yountakah Country.

The doubles are in bloom

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Closets Revisited

Unofficial poet laureate of Nutley, N.J.

Closets revisited.

Yountakah Country

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Café Il Trapezio: North Jersey Literary Series

SUSANNA RICH in Nutley

Friday, March 28 @ 8:30PM and 10PM
North Jersey Literary Series

Café Il Trapezio
120 Franklin Avenue
Nutley, NJ

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Attention, Nutley poets, here's your chance to enjoy poetry and sign up to read a poem at Open Mike. And you don't even have to go to Barnes & Noble way over in Clifton on the first Thursday of the month! It's happening in good Old Nutley!

Café Il Trapezio is hosting the North Jersey Literary Series on Friday night.

So, bring an open mind, bring a date, bring friends, bring your best poetry, have a cup of coffee, some dessert and enjoy.

Hope to see you there.

(Who knows, maybe your photo and poem will make it to this blog?)
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Susanna Rich is author of Television Daddy (Finishing Line Press, 2008), a recipient of the first joint Fulbright and Collegium Budapest Fellowship in Creative Writing, and a Pushcart Prize nominee.

Her work appears in dozens of publications internationally, notably English Journal, The Evansville Review, Feminist Studies, Nimrod, Phoebe (both Fairfax and Oneonta), Pilvax (Budapest), Porcupine, Southern California Review, Tiferet, VerseDaily.org, Urthona (UK), Willow Review, and Zone 3

Free

9:00 Open Mike - Poetry

Contact: Paul Nash and Denise La Neve at cedarsap@yahoo.com
or Café Il Trapezio @ 973-235-0188

Website: http://www.susannarich.com/


CHECK OUT THE FINE ART

La Follia Art Sale - through May 30.

Inspired by the Veronese masterpiece La Follia was painted by artist Damien Grey and installed by Daniel P Quinn.

Group art show includes a homage to Verdi's FALSTAFF and various work from Tu-Be Blue.

Show also includes two works by Thomas Micchelli, and for Carnevale only a salute to Verdi's comic masterpiece FALSTAFF.
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Some Pieces I Had To Lose

For now, anyway. In this latest revision of Yountakah Country, I’m condensing this poetry collection to chapbook length. That usually means about 20 pieces, but no more than 30. And that’s opposed to the book-length version of more than 50 pages.

The first culling to about 30 pieces was relatively easy. I took away pieces that went out in other submissions, and was slightly surprised at how many of those there were. And then I pulled out the pieces that I plan to use in other submissions.

So I had a collection of a bit more than half of where it started. That’s when I looked again at what was here, after a few months of not looking at any of it, with cold eyes.

I thought it would be easy to see now how bad these pieces were and how much work they would need in order to stay in this or some other collection.

The pieces were actually better than I remembered them. I changed a few words here, and a title there. And I changed the order around a bit, but too much of it was in tact and I needed to cut it down.

There were some pieces I had to lose, but which ones were they?

I took out NUTLEY HEIGHTS with its reference to the NYC skyline and Tozzi’s. Somehow I managed to work in Cambridge Heights, funky water and “the carp splash.” I think this needs to ripen.

PARLOUS WATER went on the back burner, too. I liked when it says, “your parents may have/swung from a rope over the brook/ and splashed sneakered feet into/the cool wetness on a steamy summer day.” But towards the end it references A&P carts and the “whirling waters.”

Back to draft mode went U.N. GARDENS. That piece reflects on the long-neglected gardens that were planted long ago “in hopes of peace and love.” The gardens are beyond the “gazebo where the Yanticaw Creek splits…”

It wasn’t for the obvious reason that I held back VALIUM BREEZE. The Roche plant and vitamin fumes are as much a part of Nutley history as is Miss Annie Oakley who wintered with the Eaton Stone Circus on the grounds where the drug company stands. No. I held this one back because it is not ready.

NUTLEY DINER was a tough one to pull out. I liked the mentions of the Centennial Clock, and the references to the long-gone Town & Country and the Onyx Club.

Some day these pieces may see the light of day, in slightly different form, as we say.



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FREEDOM RING

Two thousand eight hundred eighty-two
Nutley sons fought in World War II
bravely boarding the bus
in the parade past the high school
and on off to Fort Dix & beyond.
The grunts in the ditches,
the pilots, navigators & bombardiers in the clouds,
the privates, sergeants and officers, too.
The heroes of north Africa
Sicily, the Boot, D-Day & Guadalcanal
Iwo Jima and so many more places
no one, then or since, ever heard of.
Our Nutley sons fought & many died
to prove that freedom is not free.

The chime, soft and soothing, struck
when each name is read.
Seventeen here – World War I
Twelve there – Korean War
Nine more here – Peacetime Vigilance
Nine there – Vietnam War
Ninety-two here – World War II.
And we remember the
Nutley sons who played on our streets
marched in the high school band
camped as young boy scouts
delivered our newspapers
hit a long, fly ball over the Oval fence
and reached out and caught that touchdown pass.
They played on our streets.
They lived in our houses.
They loved our town.
They let freedom ring.


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Memorial Day Parade - Monday, 11 a.m.

MEMORIAL GREENS

We remember our war dead
With their names raised on bronze
And etched in stone
We remember their lives
And families’ sacrifice:
The best and the brightest
And the bravest, too.

We forget the children
They left with lonely spouses,
We never saw the long tears,
And the proud sadness of those
Who gave us their loved ones.

On these memorial greens
We gather to remember
The sons, the fathers
The homes, the children
And stop to say thanks
For the price you paid
For our freedom
to gather in peace
On these memorial greens.



Info on Monday's parade in Nutley.

Info on Monday pre-parade memorial tour.

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