To: Green Earth Poets Cafe Board of Directors
Re: FY 2019 Grants

It gives me great pleasure to inform you that we have received the following news from Mr. Tom Finkelpearl, Commissioner of the Department of Cultural Affairs, as follows:

Oct 17, 2018

Dear Mr. Harris:
On behalf of Mayor de Blasio, Speaker Corey Johnson and the City Council, we are pleased to convey the outcome of the competitive Cultural Development Fund process for Fiscal 2019. Green Earth Poets Cafe, Inc. will receive a total CDF award of $15,000 for the provision of cultural services in New York City,

SIAP Funds: $5,000
2 City Council Member Items totaling: $10,000
1) CM Ampry-Samuel – $5,000
2) CM Cornegy – $5,000.”

I wish to thank the honorable:
NYC Councilwoman Alicka Ampry-Samuel-41st District, Brooklyn,
NYC Council Member Robert E. Cornegy, Jr.,36th CD,
NYC Speaker Corey Johnson and the NYC Council. A special thank you to the Department of Cultural Affairs.
Our programs, “Spoken Word Open Mic Poetry Series”, and “Our Youth Are Slamming-Poetry Workshops” are supported in part by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

Faithfully submitted,

Curtis Harris,MPA
Executive Director
Green Earth Poets Cafe & Poetry Theater

June, 2018

Green Earth Poets Cafe published its first Anthology of poems and short stories of the seniors at the Albany Neighborhood Senior Center. This Anthology is the culmination of the SU-CASA program funded by NYC Council Member Robert E. Cornegy, Jr. 36 CD https://council.nyc.gov/district-36/ . For twenty weeks Green Earth Poets Cafe teaching artist Nicole Najmah Abraham guided and inspired up to 20 seniors in her weekly class where they learned creative writing and poetry performing. The published Anthology was the end result of the seniors creative writing projects collected. Many seniors have never been published authors and welcomed this idea. This is Green Earth Poets Cafe first published book of poetry which is now available on the blurb website (see link) for $9.99. All proceeds will benefit the Albany Neighborhood Senior Center with future poetry programs.

To purchase book follow the link below:

http://www.blurb.com/b/8748477-golden-poetic-moments

Good Morning Curtis,

This year 2018 will make POM’s 7^th year anniversary!  It has been a long wonderful road.  We really are thankful to have supporters like you.  Not only for the big impact you have made in our POM family but also in the community.

Curtis, we are so proud of all of your accomplishments and community service with your company, Green Earth Poets  Café.  You have gone from the state office, to prisons to schools, spreading positive images thru spoken word!

We would like to honor you as POM’s 2018 Man of the Year!  This all White Gala will be held on May 5^th, at St Phillips Hall in Bklyn from 7-11pm.

We do hope you accept this much deserved honor!  If so we need the following information:

Photo for our flyer

Names of two of your artist that would present a spoken word piece- no more than 3 mins each

Name of one additional adult guest for comp list

All children names for comp list.

We will need all of this information by  Mar 1^st.

We do hope that you accept this well-deserved honor!

Sincerely yours,

Gia and Samirat

To: Green Earth Poets Cafe Board of Directors

Re: “No More Silent Voices”- Prison Poetry Program

Date: Jan 14, 2017

It gives me great pleasure to report to you the results of our first prison program for 2017. Today was a day of healing, inspiration, empowerment and fantastic poetry. Green Earth Poets Cafe extended its prison program from Rikers Island to the Brooklyn House of Detention today. For three years we have been visiting and performing at Rikers Island prison with some of the finest poets and artists imagined. Today at the Brooklyn House of Detention, we had eight wonderful artists who amazed, inspired, and empowered inmates of the Brooklyn House of Detention. So much so that the inmates asked that we come back soon. Thank you to 2 of the inmates in particular, Franki and Rico who were moved to share and let their voices be heard. I wish to thank the artists who came and shared including Nicole Najmah Abraham, Debra Bramlett, Devanté Tate, Danyeil Green, Carlos Lavezzari, Raymond Vasquez, Xavier Rice, and special guest artist David Roberts aka D-Black. Thank you all who gave so selflessly today to our incarcerated brothers. A special thank you to Captain Branch and Deputy Warden Evan, Rachel Dutt, and ED Dir of Program Linda Eaddy all of the department of Corrections for helping make today happen.

Faithfully submitted,

Curtis Harris
Executive Director
Green Earth Poets Cafe
www.greenearthpoetscafe.com

cc: Board members- Diane McNeil, Tina Callender, Jeri Baskerville, Sharon Wedderburn, Zulma Rodriguez, Genesis Valdez, Curtis Harris.