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2007 - 2008 season
June 16 , 2008 at 8pm, $7 Contemporary Filipino American poets bring their spoken word and flavor to the La MaMa Club. The evening will feature such artists as Gina Apostol, Regie Cabico, Emmy Catedral, Eric Gamalinda, Jon Pineda, Bino Realuyo, R.A. Villanueva, Eileen Tabios and others. Patrick Rosal is the author of two full-length poetry collections, Uprock Headspin Scramble and Dive , which won the Members' Choice Award from the Asian American Writers' Workshop, and most recently My American Kundiman, which won the Association of Asian American Studies 2006 Book Award in Poetry as well as the 2007 Global Filipino Literary Award. His chapbook Uncommon Denominators won the Palanquin Poetry Series Award from the University of South Carolina, Aiken. His poems and essays have been published widely in journals and anthologies including Harvard Review, Ninth Letter, Indiana Review, North American Review, The Literary Review, Black Renaissance Noire, and the Beacon Best. He has twice served on the creative writing faculty of Bloomfield College, Centre College, University of Texas, Austin, and Kundiman's writing retreat.
Lara Stapleton is from East Lansing, Michigan. She is the author of THE LOWEST BLUE FLAME BEFORE NOTHING (AUNT LUTE) which was a 1998 Pen Open Book Committee Selection and an Independent Booksellers' Selection. She is the co-editor of JUNCTURE: 25 VERY GOOD STORIES AND TWELVE EXCELLENT DRAWINGS (Softskull), and editor of THIRDEST WORLD: STORIES AND ESSAYS BY THREE FILIPINO WRITERS (Factory School), which contains the work of Stapleton, Gina Apostol and Eric Gamalinda. She writes poetry, has recently completed a second collection, a screenplay, and is at work on a novel. R. A. Villanueva holds graduate degrees from Rutgers University and New York University. Twice awarded a Geraldine R. Dodge Educator scholarship to the Fine Arts Work Center, he is a Kundiman fellow and was a semi-finalist for the "Discovery"/The Nation Poetry Prize. His writing has appeared in McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Crab Orchard Review, and RATTLE.
Hossannah Asuncion was raised near the 710 and 105 freeways in Los Angeles. She currently lives near a 3/4 stop in Brooklyn. She is a Kundiman fellow and a Sarah Lawrence College Writing program graduate. Her work has appeared in Calyx, Inc., Ghoti Magazine and Storyscape. Evelyn Ibarra was born and raised in Minnesota. In 2006 she received a PEN Rosenthal Fellowship for Emerging Writers. She currently lives in Brooklyn, where she works as an architect.
Joseph O. Legaspi is the author of Imago, his debut poetry collection from CavanKerry Press. Born in the Philippines, he was raised there and in Los Angeles where he immigrated with his family when he was twelve. He holds degrees from Loyola Marymount University and the Creative Writing Program at New York University. Currently, he lives in Manhattan and works at Columbia University. His poems have appeared in numerous journals, recently in North American Review, Bloomsbury Review, Crab Orchard Review, Gulf Coast, Puerto Del Sol, Seneca Review, Gay & Lesbian Review, The Literary Review, and the anthologies Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond and Titling the Continent. A recipient of a poetry fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), he co-founded Kundiman (www.kundiman.org), a non-profit organization serving Asian American poets. Visit him at www.josepholegaspi.com. Gina Apostol was born in Manila and resides in Dobbs Ferry, New York with her daughter Nastasia Tangherlini. She is the author of the novel BIBLIOLEPSY, winner of the Philippine National Book Award, 1998, and has recently completed THE REVOLUTION ACCORDING TO RAYMUNDO MATA, another novel. She is a graduate of the University of the Philippines and Johns Hopkins University.
Bino A. Realuyo is the author of The Gods We Worship Live Next Door, selected for 2005 Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry. His poems have appeared in The Kenyon Review, Manoa, The Literary Review, New Letters and The Nation. He was a recipient of the Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from Poetry Society of America. The son of a survivor of the Bataan Death March and a World War II Japanese concentration camp in the Philippines, Bino A. Realuyo was born in Manila and raised there and in New York City. He is the author of the acclaimed novel, The Umbrella Country.
BARBARA KAISER - LOCKED IN THE LADIES' ROOM May 19, 2008 at 8pm, $7
Written and Performed by Barbara Kaiser with Music by Elizabeth Woodbury Kasius Locked in the Ladies' Room is the true story of a girl who grew up in Brooklyn, went to Erasmus Hall H.S. with Barbra Streisand and chess champion, Bobby Fischer, had her dream come true of living in Greenwich Village, worked with Jean Shepherd at WOR Radio and ended up in Troy, New York. It was a time when women college graduates were sent directly to the typing pool and men went on to career tracks. The show is made up of humorous and poignant vignettes with music. Barbara is a performance artist, poet and DJ in upstate New York where she hosts a Jazz radio show. She majored in Theater at Brooklyn College, studied acting at HB Studios and the Strassberg Institute and has appeared on stage with Spaulding Gray. Elizabeth Woodbury Kasius is a composer-arranger-pianist.
46 POETS CELEBRATE 46 YEARS OF La MaMa Monday, April 21, 2008 at 8pm, $7 La MaMa’s 46th Anniversary Party continues with a reunion of 46 past and present Poetry Electric artists. Look for Jane LeCroy, Regie Cabico, Ilka Scobie, Jackie Sheeler, Harry Mann and a host of other spoken word artists, each performing one or two poems. If you want to be one of the 45 artists for this unique event, contact Poetry Electric at La MaMa ETC. Vicki Hudspith CLEA RIVERA’S - FOOD OF LIFE II Monday, March 17, 2008 at 8pm, $7
Spend another evening with the eccentric, passionate Michelle Cassis who shares more recipes and stories on life, love, and food. This French chef and would-be philosopher is back in town and welcomes the audience into her colorful, magical and often hilarious world. Food of Life is a sponsored project of New York Foundation for the Arts. A Black History Special Evening Featuring 3 Events: Monday, February 18, 2008 at 8pm, $7 Sparkplug and Miss Jonnie Mae Written by Owa Performed by Scott Williams and Kyle Minshew Directed by Henry Miller A larger-than-life work in a short two character call (white) and response (black) presentation. Aixa Kendrick will perform monologues - Black Circus In AIXA KENDRICK & LEONARDO BENZANT'S's Black Circus, spectators are plunged into a world of absurdity, surrealism and dreams. Using elements of pop culture, mass media and archetypal symbolism interwoven with epic theater, African ritual, Butoh, Commedia del Arte and hip hop, Black Circus engages the spectator in a Kanene Holder will be perform... What Type of Seasoning Do You Like? Throwa Down- Host of the Soul Food Network For The Love of Seasonings Show. She gets a little heated on a tangent sparked by her own racial paranoia. She beckons "What Type Of Seasoning Do You Like?", after channeling her ancestors while using their recipes passed through the generations and realized their harsh treatment was called "seasoning" (preparing new slaves for slavery) by their slave masters.
TRANSIMITTING January 21, 2008 at 8:00pm $7
Celebrating the release of her fourth record "Dark & Full of Life", poet/novelist/singer/songwriter Jane LeCroy brings the musical experience of TRANSMITTING to LaMaMa in NYC. Jane is joined with multi-instrumentalist, Tom Abbs, on cello & electric bass (Andrew Lamb, Triptych Myth, Yuganaut) and specialguest percussionists/beatboxers ...Combining avant-jazz, spoken word, hip-hop, pop and a carefully crafted song style, this group will take you on a journey through language and sound.
GANGS OF NEW YORK SCHOOL December 17, 2007 at 8:00pm $7 New York School is an art and poetry movement that began in the 50s. In poetry its hallmarks include a talky, urbane and diaristic style. Frank O'Hara's "The Day Lady Died" is considered a perfect example. The poem is about Billie Holiday and the poet buys "a copy of the New York Post with her face on it." From Cedar Tavern and MOMA to the Factory and St. Mark's Church, from Club 57 and Nuyorican Cafe to the Bowery Poetry Club, shades of the the New York School resonate a half century after its beginnings. Featuring Monica de la Torre,
Bob Hershon,
Patricia Spears Jones,
Vincent Katz,
Joe Maynard,
Ilka Scobie, Adele Ramos and James Best. Jeffrey Cyphers Wright
Jeffrey Cyphers Wright has been on the scene since 1976, making him third generation New York School. He studied with Ted Berrigan and Alice Notley (both second generation) and was accepted to Brooklyn College's Master of Fine Arts program by John Ashbery (first generation) where he studied with Allen Ginsberg (Beat). A consummate sonneteer, he is author of 10 books, publisher of Cover Magazine (1985--2000) and now publishes Live Mag! A contributing writer for The Brooklyn Rail, he is also the art critic for Chelsea Now. A former board member of The Poetry Project, Wright recently read at St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery.
Joe Maynard
Joe Maynard moved to New York from Nashville some 20-odd years ago. Since then he's blundered in various art forms. His fiction and poetry have appeared in several magazines, including his own zines of an era: Beet and Pink Pages. He's been anthologized in Susie Bright's Best American Erotica, as well as Up Is Up, But So Is Down: New York's Downtown Literary Scene, 1974-1992. He presently writes songs and performs in the band Maynard and the Musties.
Vincent Katz
Vincent Katz is the author of nine books of poetry, including Rapid Departures (Ateliê Editorial, 2005) and Judge (Charta/Libellum, 2007). He is the editor of the poetry and arts journal VANITAS and of Libellum books. His play Hippolyta was performed by The Medicine Show, New York, in June, 2005. He won ALTA's 2005 National Translation Award for his book of translations from Latin, The Complete Elegies of Sextus Propertius (2004, Princeton University Press). He curated the exhibition "Street Dance: The New York Photographs of Rudy Burckhardt," which will open at the Museum of the City of New York in January, 2008
Bob Hershon
Robert Hershon is the author of twelve books of poetry, the newest being Calls from the Outside World, (2006). Others include The German Lunatic and Into a Punchline: Poems 1986-1996. His work has appeared in more than 40 anthologies and in such journals as American Poetry Review, Poetry Northwest, The World, The Nation, TriQuarterly, Verse, Chicago Review, and New American Writing. Among his awards are two Creative Writing Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and three from the New York Foundation on the Arts.
Adele Ramos
Adele Ramos, Poet & Spoken Word artist is originally from the Boogie - Down Bronx, Yet has spent a good portion of her life growing up in the Hudson Valley Region of New York. As a woman of Puerto Rican decent she holds great pride in her heritage. Her family is the core of her foundation.
Ikla Scobie
Ilka Scobie is a poet, art critic and arts educator. Her work appears in Artnet, Italian Marie Claire,
Mónica de la Torre
Mónica de la Torre writes about art and culture for publications in Mexico and the U.S and is the author of the poetry books Talk Shows (Switchback, 2007) and Ac?s, a collection in Spanish published recently in Mexico City by Taller Ditoria. She is co-author of the artist book Appendices, Illustrations & Notes, available on Ubu.com, and co-editor of the anthology Reversible Monuments: Contemporary Mexican Poetry with Michael Wiegers (Copper Canyon Press, 2002). She is currently the poetry editor of The Brooklyn Rail and a Ph.D. candidate at Columbia University
James Best
James Best attends NYU's Creative Writing Program and has published poetry most recently in Outlet and Metaphor. He is from Kalamazoo, Michigan, and received his B.A. in Idaho where he managed and performed with an improv comedy troupe for five years. Besides writing poetry, James is a humor essayist and playwright, with three plays produced in a show entitled Where We Left Our Shadows. He is currently working on a series of monologues for performance and is a member of the mysterious BHC Writers.
CONFESSIONS OF A REBEL DEBUTANTE Monday, November 17, 2007 at 8:00pm $7 - a one-woman show written and performed by Anna Fields -- Confessions of a Rebel Deb is a firsthand look at the world of Southern Debutantes, told by a former Deb, who, never wanting to be a part of her culture, was dubbed a “Rebel Deb”. As she relives her years of training, cotillion, and boarding school madness, AnnaBelle takes us through a whirlwind of Pre-Deb parties, dress fittings, Deb Groom selection, and Deb Ball “Cuts,” culminating in a lifetime’s worth of ladylike behavior: the 74th annual North Carolina Debutante Ball in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Anna Fields is a New-York based television writer, comedian, and Reluctant Debutante. As the youngest scriptwriter for its Emmy award winning show, ONE LIFE TO LIVE, Fields prides herself on nudging ABC Networks thismuch closer to her MTV generation. As a native Southerner, former Debutante and Ivy League graduate, Fields is our present-day, quintessential Rebel Deb. Her intimate knowledge of “Debbing” – one of America’s oldest, most exclusive rites of passage – is first-hand and unsurpassed. Her works have been have been staged and produced by the Arizona Theatre Company in Phoenix, Theatre J and Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C., and the Magic Theatre in San Francisco, California. Her first nonfiction work, Confessions of a Rebel Debutante (forthcoming from Three Rivers Press, division of Random House) is due out in summer, 2008.
WOMEN'S POETRY HAPPENING IV Monday, October 15, 2007 at 8:00pm $7 The Women's Poetry Happening III returns to La MaMa with a diverse group of female spoken word artists electrifying the stage with their words of wisdom and passion. This soulful evening, hosted by Ilka Scobie, will feature Jane LeCroy, Verna Hampton, and other dynamic artists. lka Scobie is a native New Yorker who teaches poetry in the public school system. Her current work appears in Artnet, Italian Marie Claire and Vanitas. She also produces videos for Italian national television with her husband Luigi Cazzaniga. Lynne Procope - is a poet and arts educator. She is one of the foremost women poet-performers in the US and is a former National Poetry Slam Champion as a member of the ground breaking 1998 New York City- Nuyorican Poets' Café team. In 1999, she co-authored the Soft Skull Press poetry collection, Burning down the House. Ellen Lytle - ellen ‘windy’ (aug) lytle writes poetry to match the colors in the sky or the flash of folks flying by in hudson river park every morning where she walks/runs w/goode, a welsh corgi- two books of poetry from IKON press and a book of short fiction from LINEAR ARTS she also teaches writing on staten island and in manhattan- she’s working on a novel for the past 11 years... S. Rudanskaya is a poet, musician, and essayist. She received her BA from Eugene Lang College at the New School for Social Research in New York City where she studied poetry with Mark Statman, Mervyn Taylor, and others. Her poems have appeared previously in various literary publications and she has performed throughout the United States. She is the author of three books of poetry Damn of Consciousness, Armature, and Sinking Into the Earth. She is currently working on an audio album of Damn of Consciousness scheduled to be released next year. Carolyn Baccaro - Originally from central Connecticut, Carolyn is now a resident of Harlem. A recent graduate of Eugene Lang College at New School University, she received her B.A. in writing with a specialization in poetry. Right now, Carolyn works in the publicity department of Wenner Media doing PR for Rolling Stone, Us Weekly and Men's Journal BUT she strives to be much less corporate in her future endeavors. Saeida Hall is a native New Yorker, a poet, singer and performer. Her strong lyrical work reflects her urban multi-cultural heritage. Her Brooklyn roots speaks spicy volumes and echoes of gritty wit. Erika Jo Brown has been published in several tiny literary journals and in the minds eye of numerous supportive friends. She is the curator of Floetry at 169, an occasional booze-soaked reading series in Chinatown. She is currently working on an anthology entitled Stretching Panties. Stacy Szymaszek is the author of Pasolini Poems, Emptied of All Ships and the forthcoming Hyperglossia. She is the Artistic Director of the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church. Clara Sala is a poet, singer, educator, and healer. Raw, lyrical and sensual, her work creates intimate sonic human portraits with a global awareness and compassion. Clara delivers a spoken word performance of searing grace and power, as she takes us through sex, death, awakening and ultimately love. She has shared the work in universities and spoken-word venues across the US. She is the recipient of the 2003 New York Foundation of the Arts Grant in Poetry, and is finishing her first book, The Edge of Creation.
2006 - 2007 Season LOVELY NOWHERE
Lara Stapleton Lara Stapleton was born and raised in East Lansing, Michigan. She lived some time in the Quezon City, in the Philippines also, where her mother is from. Her short story collection The Lowest Blue Flame Before Nothing (Aunt Lute) was a Pen Open Book Award winner and an Independent Booksellers' selection. She edited, with Veronica Gonzalez Juncture: 25 Very Good Stories and 12 Excellent Drawings (Soft Skull) a gathering of stories, drawings and songs featuring 50 of the finest artists of our time. Her work has been published in dozens of journals and magazines, including a forthcoming group of poems from The Bronx Biannual. She has written a second collection, a screenplay, and is at work on a novel. Patrick Rosal Patrick Rosal is the author of two full-length collections of poetry, Uprock Headspin Scramble and Dive, which won the Asian American Writers Workshop Members' Choice Award, and most recently My American Kundiman. His chapbook Uncommon Denominators won the Palanquin Poetry Series Award from the University of South Carolina, Aiken. Rosal's work has appeared in many journals and anthologies including North American Review, Black Renassance Noire, Columbia, Pindledyboz, Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Non-Fiction, and The Beacon Best. He holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. Paolo Javier PAOLO JAVIER is the author of 60 lv bo(e)mbs (O Books) and the time at the end of this writing (Ahadada Books), which received a Small Press Traffic Book Award. He recently completed a play, Lunatic, and a chapbook of his ongoing comic book collaboration with Ernest Concepcion, the original brown boy, will be published by Sona Books in late 2007/early 2008. His work currently appears/and/or/is forthcoming in the journals FO A RM, W13, and Tinfish, as well as in the anthology War and Peace 3: The Future. He edits 2nd Ave Poetry, and lives in New York. R.A. Villanueva R.A. Villanueva holds graduate and undergraduate degrees from Rutgers University. Twice awarded a Geraldine R. Dodge Educator scholarship to the Fine Arts Work Center, he is involved with literary outreach programs throughout New York. His poems have appeared in a number of journals and his songwriting has been featured at the Bowery Poetry Club and the Nuyorican Poets Café. A Kundiman fellow and a semi-finalist for the 2007 "Discovery" / The Nation Poetry Prize, he is currently a MFA candidate at NYU, where he serves as Poetry Editor of Washington Square. Gina Apostol Gina Apostol was born in Manila, the Philippines, and currently resides in Dobbs Ferry, New York, with her daughter Nastasia Tangherlini. She is a graduate of the University of the Philippines and the Johns Hopkins University. She wrote Bibliolepsy, a novel [University of the Philippines, Manila], awarded the Philippine National Book Award for Fiction 1998; she recently finished The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata, a novel [publication pending].
Her stories have appeared in Charlie Chan is Dead, Volume 2, [Penguin]; The Gettysburg Review; Transition: Journal of Afircan-American Studies [Harvard University]; Bold Words: A Century of Asian-American Writing [Rutgers]; Babaylan: An Anthology of Filipina and Filipina-American Writers [Aunt Lute]; Flippin':
Filipinos on America [AAWW]; and Catfish Arriving in Little Schools [Anvil, Manila]. URBAN PREP: COLLEGIATE BOYS ON THE FLY
Intellectual prowess meets imaginitive and powerful delivery in an evening with Collegiate School's finest spoken word artists, poets, and writers at La MaMa. CLEA RIVERA’S “FOOD OF LIFE”
Spend an evening with the eccentric, outrageous, passionate Michelle Cassis who shares her views on life, love, art, and food. A trained French chef, this would-be philosopher welcomes you into her colorful, magical and often hilarious world. Created and performed by Clea Rivera. With musicians Harry Mann and Neal Kirkwood, as Marcel and Pierre. Directed by Kevin Lawler. Clea Rivera is an actress and writer. She has worked extensively with Ralph Lee's Mettawee Theatre Company, most recently performing in "The History of Valentyne and Orson". Other productions include Kazuki Takase's "Love Suicides at Amijima" (at LaMaMa), and the premiere of Maria Irene Fornes' "Last Summer in Gossensass", directed by the playwright. Regionally, she played the title role in Jose Rivera's "Marisol" at the Denver Center Theatre, as well as Celestina in his "Cloud Tectonics" at Merrimack Repertory Theatre. She toured with Shakespeare and Company as Juliet in its co-production of "Romeo and Juliet" with the Buffalo Philharmonic and Virginia Symphony Orchestra. She is a member of poet Richard Lewis' Touchstone Theatre Ensemble, which combines movement, voice, and music to share poetry with children.
45 POETS CELEBRATE 45 YEARS La MaMa’s 45 anniversary Party at Poetry Electric will feature 45 spoken word artists, each performing one or two poems. If you want to be one of the 45 artists for this unique event, contact Poetry Electric at La MaMa ETC. Ilka Scobie
WORDS AGAINST VIOLENCE
SISTER FM DIVA: OUT OF THE MOUTH OF BABES Verna Hampton rerturns with Sister FM Diva!
NAT KING COLE: REVISITED WOMEN'S POETRY HAPPENING III
The Women's Poetry Happening III returns to La MaMa with a diverse group of female spoken word artists electrifying the stage with their words of wisdom and passion. This soulful evening, hosted by Ilka Scobie, will feature Jane LeCroy, Verna Hampton, and other dynamic artists. Caitlin Meissner is an Albany-raised, Brooklyn-dwelling poet, graphic designer, activist and educator. Using a blend of words, heart and message, Caitlin Meissner delivers poems that strive to grab the soul, teach truths and critically examine the world we live in through personal experience. She has just self-published a 16-poem chapbook, titled BRICK/by/BRICK and is currently working on an album that blends poetry and song.
Taylor Mac
Taylor Mac is a playwright, performance artist, actor, composer, and director. His most recent works are “Red Tide Blooming” (a 12 member ensemble musical with puppets by Basil Twist performed at Performance Space 122) and his solo-piece “The Be(a)st of Taylor Mac” (Joe’s Pub, Edinburgh Fringe Festival), and “The Young Ladies Of (also at PS 122). Vintage Press, Smith and Kraus, Lodestar Quarterly, and Allworth Press have published his plays/work and he is the recipient of The Herald 2005-2006 Schedule Richard Lewis is a writer and a teacher who founded and directs The Touchstone Center for Children. Since its founding in 1969, the Center has worked extensively, through its interdisciplinary arts programming, with children and teachers in New York City Public Schools. In addition Richard has edited and written a variety of books on the poetic and imaginative life of childhood, among them being Miracles: Poems by Children of the English-speaking World; When Thought is Young; Living By Wonder, and most recently In The Space of the Sky (illustrated by Debra Frasier) Each Sky Has Its Words (illustrated by Gigi Alvaré) The Bird of Imagining (illustrated by children from NYC Public Schools) Cave: An Evocation of the Beginnings of Art (illustrated Elizabeth Crawford); and A Tree Lives (illustrated by Noah Baen). Harry Mannn -- musician, composer, performance artist, began his career at La MaMa in the 1980’s with Joesph Chaiken. He has performed with many actors and theatre companies assoicated with The La MaMa Club -- The Talking Band, Jim Neu, William Electric Black, just to name a few, and many great designers and dancers. Harry Mann co-wrote an opera Price Slashin’ and a play, Fake Book, and won two Obies. Jim Neu is a writer whose plays have
been performed at La MaMa since 1991. Clea Rivera is a member of poet Richard Lewis' Touchstone Theatre Ensemble, as well as Ralph Lee's Mettawee Theatre Company, with which she has toured for six summers. Regionally, she has worked at the Denver Center Theatre, Merrimack Repertory, Shakespeare and Company, and Missouri Repertory Theatre. Off-Broadway, she acted in the word premiere of Maria Irene Fornes' "Summer in Gossensass", directed by the playwright. She was last seen at LaMama in Kazuki Takase's production of "Love Suicides at Amijima". Favorite roles include Juliet, Grusha in "Caucasian Chalk Circle", and Celestina in Jose Rivera's "Cloud Tectonics". Donysha Smith is a Philadelphia born
writer, actress, singer and NYU Tisch School of the Arts graduate.
Donysha has performed at the Bowery Poetry Club, The Continental,
Collective Unconscious and La Mama.
The editors of Issue 11, A Gathering of the Tribes magazine invite you to join us for a night of soulful, mind-blowing poetry, celebrating the Pushcart Prize nominees. Hosted by Damion Sanders. Damion Sanders (Host) is a Brooklyn
born writer/actor and poet who resides in Flatbush. He is currently
producing a hip-hop driven spoken word album. Carlo Baldi is a poet, who has read
and performed in venues throughout New York City including The
Knitting Factory, The Nuyorican Poets Café, St. Gavin Moses is a graduate of Harvard Divinity school, and former journalist for People magazine. He was also an actor appearing Off Broadway as well as in films, including Bob Fosse's All That Jazz. He coordinated and toured a poetry jazz ensemble with actor, R. Cephas Jones, and storyteller Will Sales. He has performed at The Nuyorican Poet's Cafe, St. Mark's Poetry Project, The Knitting Factory, The Whitney Museum, and Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center with Butch Morris's Poet's Choir. Gavin's work is also featured in the poetry anthology Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican café. Fay Chiang is a poet, visual artist, community and cultural activist. She is author of two volumes of poetry, In The City of Contradictions, and Miwa’s Song, her poetry and prose has been published nationally and internationally in numerous poetry anthologies and literary magazines including: Amerasia Journal, Tribes Magazine, Voci Dal Silenzio (I Canguri/Feltrinelli, Milan), Changer L’Amerique: Anthologie de la Protestaire USA (La Maison de la Poesie, Rhones-Alps) Girls: An Anthology (Global City Press), Quiet Fire, (Asian American Writers Workshop, NY), Ordinary Women (Ordinary Women Books, NY), American Born and Foreign, (Sunbury Press, NY).She is also a recipient of a New York State CAPS Poetry grant, a Revson Fellowship at Columbia University, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from New York University’s Asian/Pacific American Studies Department, Lara Stapleton is from East Lansing, Michigan and the Philippines. New York City is her home. Her 1998 short story collection THE LOWEST BLUE FLAME BEFORE NOTHING (Aunt Lute Press) was a Pen Open Book Committee Selection and an Independent Booksellers Selection. She is, along with Veronica Gonzalez, the editor of JUNCTURE: 25 VERY GOOD STORIES AND 12 EXCELLENT DRAWINGS, published by Soft Skull Press in 2004.
An evening of innovative and engaging monologues written and performed by Marc Arthur, Daniel Cohen, Aaron Eisenberg, Brett Ellison, Duncan Horst, Sarah Schottenstein, and Max Vodkin. The monologues are theme based and cover topics ranging from the Olsen Twins to subway stress. SISTER FM RADIO DIVA
Sister FM Diva stars Verna Hampton as
a Howard Stern meets Whoopi Goldberg talk radio personality who
speaks the truth and nothing but the truth about race, politics, & socio-economics
in Black America. Verna Hampton is a dynamic performer and director. Her career on the stage, TV, and screen has given her the opportunity to work with Robin Williams, Eugene Levy, Richard Pryor, Wesley Snipes, Jay-Z and Peter O’Toole. Her PHAT PHLY AND OVER PHORTY cabaret show has been seen in New York, Boston, and L.A. She recenttly appeared in William Electric Black’s rock musical, Cellphones, at the La MaMa Annex Theatre and Words From The Civil Rights Movement at the La MaMa Club. Ms. Hampton, who has toured throughout Europe and the United States, has this to say about her craft-- “It’s all about the work!” Sister FM Diva features a driving jazz
score. The music, composed by Taka Odaka on upright and electric
bass, is raw, heartfelt, and engaging. ROCK POETS
Parker Pracjek is a spoken word, puppet
and mask perfromer. She has appeared in New York Fringe Festival,
Mulberry Street Theater, and Puffin Room and is a member of the
Wow Cafe Theater. Women of Spoken Word Tuesday, June 28 at 8:00pm, $5 Five female poets take you into their world and beyond. Featuring: Beth Broome, Sarah Gambito, Emily Gordon, Eleanor Levine and Donysha Smith Jane LeCroy's New School Spoken Word With Special Guest - Marci Blackman Tuesday, March 15 at 8:00pm, $5 In this group of word artists, every member is unique. The night will be full of surprises and texture, drama, language, epiphany and wonder; definitely the alphabet at its best. Featuring:Diana Arnold, Daniel Artese, Will Crofoot, Lara Feldmman, Brendan Hancock, Becca Heimlich, Kathleen Kyllo, David Posner, Tiffany Promise, TJ Usiyan, Mirelle Zacharis, Brian Rutty, Cesar Rebollar.  World of Sinatra written & performed by Sean O'Connor music by Matt Zimbelmann (guitar) Tuesday, April 5 at 8:00pm, $5 What happens when Vietnam, Rock n' Roll, Sexual Freedom, Drugs, the 60's... and your childhood... all decide to explode at the same time? Transmitting by Jane LeCroy Wednesday, April 20 at 8:00pm, $5 Music by Tom Abbs (upright bass), Jeremy Carlstedt (drums) BEAT POETS AT POETRY ELECTRIC FEATURING KID LUCKY, CHESNEY SNOW, & ALEX Tuesday, May 10 at 8:00pm, $5 You know this is going to go into some real live Shhh. You know the mics are gonna burn. You will be energized. See ya there. And remember... Beatboxer Entertainment: The voice of a new hip hop nation! Beatboxer Entertainment, (BBE) is an international performance troupe based in NYC. Founded by human beatboxer Kid Lucky, BBE is made up of human beatboxers, and vocal sound artists. BBE has been performing and producing quality human beatbox oriented shows all over NYC and the US since 2002. performing will be Kid Lucky, Chesney Snow and Alex. The Lovely Nowhere 2: New Work by Filipino American Poets Tuesday, June 7 at 8:00pm, $5 Featuring Charles Valle, Lara Stapleton, Patrick Rosal, Sarah Gambito, Jessica Nepomuceno, Joseph O. Legaspi SARAH GAMBITO is the author of Matadora (Alice James Books). Her poems have appeared in The Iowa Review, The Antioch Review, The New Republic, Quarterly West, Fence, and other journals. JOSEPH O. LEGASPI's poems
have appeared in numerous journals, recently in CHARLES VALLE's work
has been published in: Denver Quarterly, KIOSK, eye-rhyme, Lungfull!,
Berkeley Poetry Review, and others. He received his BA from UC
Irvine and his MFA from Notre Dame. By day he is a photo researcher
in educational publishing, at night he is Managing Editor of Fence
Magazine. Previous Poets' Biographies REGIE CABICO - as seen on HBO's Def Poetry Jam/PBS' In The Life & MTV's Free Your Mind Spoken Word TourFormer Nuyorican Grand Slam Champion Recipient of three New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships in Poetry and Performance ArtBust Magazine's 100 Men We Love A. Magazine's new Wave of Asian American Stand Up Comedians. CLARA SALA - is the recipient of a 2003 New York Foundation of the Arts Fellowship in Poetry. Courageous and vulnerable, Clara delivers a spoken word performance of searing grace and power. WANDA PHIPPS - (poet, performer, singer, journalist, translator) has her first full-length volume of poetry forthcoming from Soft Skull Press in spring 2004 entitled Wake-Up Calls: 66 Morning Poems and is the author of Zither Mood (a Faux Press CD-Rom), and the chapbooks Your Last Illusion or Break Up Sonnets (Situations), Lunch Poems (Boog Literature), and After the Mishap (Faux Press) as well as the co-author of Shanar: The Dedication of a Buryat Shaman in Siberia (Parabola). Her poems have previously appeared in over 60 magazines and literary journals including Agni, Exquisite Corpse, Hanging Loose and The World. KATHY PRICE - is originally from San Francisco. Her poetry is
included in Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican's Poet's Cafe. Her
picture book The Bourbon Street Musicians New York Times reviewed
book, won an award from The Children's Literature Assembly as an
outstanding 2003 Notable book in children's literature. JANE LE CROY- "Her poetry & lyrics bring a world weary cynicism and a newborn's sense of wonder to songs about everything from outer space and electricity to sex and numbers. The resulting mix of anger, fear and innocence sounds like Diamanda Galas and Lydia Lunch reading fairy tales to wayward children." KID LUCKY - Beat Poet of Beatboxerent.com
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