WARWICK The Tuscan Café in Warwick will be transformed into a Greenwich Village coffee house of the early 1960s, as poets, writers, artists and musicians join in “A Joans for Poetry: A Celebration of Ted Joans.” The event will be held at 8 p.m. on Friday, April 21, at 2 South Street in Warwick. Participants will read from the works of the late African-American Beat poet or present original material in his spirit. Local high-school students and teen members of the MCC Actor Training School in Warwick will participate. Copies of Joans’ book, “Wow,” will be available for sale. Joans, who died in late April 2003, was one of the original Beat poets. He was the author of over 30 books of poetry, prose, and collage, including “All of Ted Joans,” “Black Pow-Wow,” “Beat Funky Jazz Poems,” “Afrodisia,” “Jazz is Our Religion,” and “Teducation.” Among those taking part in the program will be Mikhail Horowitz, Andy Clausen, Tad Richards, Guy Burton, and the Joe Payne band. A 12-minute video, featuring Joans with musician and composer David Amram at New York University in 1994, will be shown, courtesy of Amram. Horowitz is the author of “Big League Poets” and “The Opus of Everything in Nothing Flat.” His performance work has been featured on seven CDs, including “The Blues of the Birth,” a collection of his jazz fables, on the Euphoria! Jazz label of Sundazed Records. Clausen has read his poetry all over North America and around the world. Among his best known books are “The Iron Curtain of Love,” “Without Doubt,” and his selected verse of 30 years, “40th Century Man.” Allen Ginsberg once described him as the future of American poetry. Richards’ credits include poetry, fiction, song lyrics, screenplays, nonfiction, journalism, art, and drama. The poetry includes four books, “The Gravel Business,” “The Map of the Bear,” “My Night with the Language Thieves,” and “Situations,” a novel in verse. He teaches poetry at SUNY New Paltz and serves as director of Opus 40 in Saugerties. Burton started the Warwick Writers Association almost 11 years ago, and still convenes meetings every Wednesday. His most recent novel, “Jack in the Pulpit,” was published last year. Burton, who also plays saxophone in the Joe Payne Band, will read “The Sax Bit” by Ted Joans. “I am especially happy that the high-school kids have been so enthusiastic about participating,” said Michael Kaufman of Warwick, organizer of the event, who recalled that he was a high-school student on Long Island when he first heard Joans read in Greenwich Village. Joans was known for bringing jazz and the spoken word together on the bandstand. When his former roommate, jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker, passed away in 1955, it was Joans who first scrawled “Bird lives!” on walls and sidewalks all over Lower Manhattan. Today, some of his admirers write, “Ted Joans lives!” on those same walls. Admission is $5. For more information, call 987-2050.