Boston/New York bonanza! Poetry, music, fiction, New Orleans reportage, and/or spontaneous collaborations. Optional eats by oft-applauded naked chef Abby Hitchcock. Every dime of the pay-what-you-want admission, book and CD sales, and bribes goes straight to the MusiCares Hurricane Relief Fund for displaced New Orleans musicians—it buys shelter, food, medicine, new instruments, and other necessities.

Location: the celebrated neighborhood bistro Camaje ("cahm-ajh"), at 85 MacDougal St. between Bleecker and Houston (212-673-8184). If you've been reluctantly skipping Katrina-relief benefits because you can't swing the tickets or there's no chocolate soufflé on the menu, this is your chance.

Susan Brennan is the producer and host of Radio Poetique Ink., a poetic-audio project which is linked on line to Brooklyn Heights Radio and PENNSound. Most recently, Radio Poetique ventured to Brazil to meet with local Bahian poets and poems. Susan is co-founder and member of Acts of Art, a newly forming, political organization for artists. Susan is also a performer and Jivamukti yoga teacher, NYC. She received her MFA in Poetry at NYU. She's very happy to be reading and eating at Camaje for such a good cause.

Oni Buchanan holds a B.A. in English and Music from the University of Virginia, an M.F.A. in poetry from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and a Masters in piano performance from the New England Conservatory of Music. Her first book of poems, What Animal, won the University of Georgia Press Contemporary Poetry Series competition and was published in October 2003. She has released two solo piano CDs, the most recent in September 2005.

John Cotter has published work in 3rd Bed, Hanging Loose, Pebble Lake, failbetter, Goodfoot, Hunger, and The Good Luck and All The Best. His recently completed novel, Under The Small Lights, is currently undergoing spell-check.

Adam Golaski's poetry, fiction and non-fiction has appeared in a number of journals including Lit, All Hallows, American Letters & Commentary, LVNG, Hanging Loose and Supernatural Tales. He is the horror fiction editor of New Genre (www.new-genre.com) and associate editor at Flim Forum, an independent press for the publication of contemporary poetry.

Jeff Paris was a Boston poet up to a year ago. Now he's ... some kind of New York poet. This will be his first reading in NYC. He makes his money singing and dancing with tiny people. He also writes fiction, edits New Genre with Adam Golaski, and is looking to move (to Brooklyn or Manhattan--make him an offer).

Brandon Patton's solo career was born from the ashes of the band three against four. After the Boston-area trio broke up in 2000, Patton moved to San Francisco, where he played bass with Matt Nathanson, Joe Sibol, Solea, and John Vanderslice. He released the album Should Confusion in 2004 on his own label, then moved to Brooklyn, NY. The album got glowing reviews, and grew into an invitation to play at the Newport Folk Festival and a nomination for Album of the Year by the 2004 Independent Music Awards. He signed with ACM Records and is currently working on his next album, which will be released on his own label, Merlin Pool. In New York City he has also played in the rock musical Young Zombies in Love, and composed for the A-Train Musicals. His music can be downloaded at www.brandonpatton.com.

Matthew Power is a Contributing Editor for Harper's Magazine and National Geographic Adventure. For much of the last three years he has been based in New Delhi, covering the tsunami in Thailand, the rebuilding of the Buddhas of Bamiyan in Afghanistan, and motorcycling through Kashmir to the highest road in the world. His report on the disaster in New Orleans will be in the December issue of Harper's. He lives in Brooklyn.

Steve Roberts is a Brooklyn-based poet and blogger. He can be found at www.stevepoetsteve.blogspot.com.

Jon Woodward currently works at the Harvard University Museum of Comparative Zoology. His first book of poems, Mister Goodbye Easter Island, was published in 2003 by Alice James Books. His second is forthcoming from Verse Press/Wave Books, in Fall 2006.

Feast is a tasty, free reading series on a Sunday each month at Camaje. Come share a bottle with the city's best poets--past readers include Richard Allen, Kirsten Andersen, Michael Broder, Steve Roberts, Jason Schneiderman, Maureen Thorson, Susan Brennan, Jennifer Chapis, John Cotter, T.M. De Vos, Jordan Davis, Kathleen Graber, Shafer Hall, Jennifer Knox, Eleanor Levine, Daniel Nester, Patrick Phillips, Katha Pollitt, Evelyn Reilly, and Marion Wrenn. Don't miss the celebrated wine list and the poet-friendly Feast version of the award-winning menu! Featured in the New York Sun and elsewhere, and hosted by Emily Gordon of Emdashes.