Poet/Spoken Word Artist Conscious @ Mike Geffner Presents The Inspired Word, One and One Bar Restaurant, Manhattan, New York City.
Saturday, July 31, 2010
Conscious @ The Inspired Word NYC Poetry/Spoken Word - July 15, 2010
Poet/Spoken Word Artist Conscious @ Mike Geffner Presents The Inspired Word, One and One Bar Restaurant, Manhattan, New York City.
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
The Inspired Word NYC Poetry/Spoken Word Event - Hallie S. Hobson, Marcus Jackson, Nicole Sealey + Open Mic!
Mike Geffner presents The Inspired Word NYC poetry/spoken word event, featuring Hallie S. Hobson, Marcus Jackson, Nicole Sealey + 10-slot open mic!
When: Thursday, July 29, 2010
Where: One and One Bar & Restaurant (downstairs Nexus Lounge)
76 East 1st Street (corner of 1st Avenue)
Manhattan, NYC
http://www.oneandoneny.com/
Phone: (212) 598-9126
Time: 7pm (open mic sign-up starts at 6:30)
Cover Charge: $10
Must be 21 years of age or older. Please make sure to bring ID.
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Hallie S. Hobson is a poet, playwright and Cave Canem fellow. She has been featured at the LouderArts Project and Bryant Park Reading Room reading series and has read commissioned works in conjunction with exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum and The Studio Museum in Harlem. Hallie received her bachelor’s degree from Yale and an MFA in playwriting from UCLA.
Marcus Jackson was born in Toledo, Ohio. His poetry has appeared in The New Yorker, The Harvard Review, The Cincinnati Review, and Hayden’s Ferry Review, among many other publications. He has received fellowships from New York University and Cave Canem. His chapbook, Rundown, was recently published by Aureole Press. His debut collection of poems, Neighborhood Register, will be released in the Fall of 2011.
Nicole Sealey is a writer, editor and Cave Canem fellow. Her work has appeared in a number of journals including Callaloo, The Drunken Boat, Sou’wester and Torch.
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Sunday, July 25, 2010
Poetry Quotes of the Day
- Ani Difranco
“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.”
- Emily Dickinson
“Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.”
- Kahlil Gibran
“Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.”
- T.S. Eliot
"There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pics - NYC Poet/Spoken Word Artist Corrina Bain @ The Inspired Word
Photos By: Cathryn Lynne
Photos By: Peter Woloszyn
Random Pics @ The Inspired Word NYC Poetry/Spoken Event
Sal Treppiedi, Claudia Alick, Osagyefo
Adrian Wyatt's Birthday Bevy
Kim Howard, Mike Geffner, Jane LeCroy
Brigitte Viellieu-Davis, Lanna Joffrey
Erik "Advocate of Wordz" Maldonado, Jose A. Arias, Marvin Mendlinger, Mike Conroy
Videos! Conscious @ The Inspired Word - July 15, 2010
Conscious @ Mike Geffner Presents The Inspired Word NYC poetry/spoken word event, Thursday, 7/15/10, One and One Bar & Restaurant.
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Pics - Margot Leitman @ The Inspired Word - July 22, 2010
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http://www.margotleitman.com/
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Pics - La Bruja @ The Inspired Word - July 15, 2010
Caridad de la Luz @ The Inspired Word NYC poetry/spoken word event, Thursday, 7/15/10, One and One Bar & Restaurant.
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Tuesday, July 20, 2010
The Inspired Word/Thursday, July 22 - Shappy, Margot Leitman, Omar Ion, Ilya Khodosh!
Mike Geffner presents The Inspired Word, featuring (in alphabetical order) Omar "Ion" Holmon (Slam Champion), Ilya Khodosh (Vanessa Hidary's Monologues), Margot Leitman (Upright Citizens Brigade), and Shappy Seasholtz (HBO Def Poetry, Bowery Poetry Club). + 5-slot open mic. + Guest appearance by poet/multimedia artist Joe Ray Sandoval, the co-writer of the new move "Spoken Word," featuring Ruben Blades and which hits New York City theaters July 23.
Where: One and One Bar & Restaurant (downstairs Nexus Lounge)
76 East 1st Street (corner of 1st Avenue)
Manhattan, NYC
http://www.oneandoneny.com/
Phone: (212) 598-9126
Time: 7pm (open mic sign-up starts at 6:30)
Cover Charge: $10
Must be 21 years of age or older. Please make sure to bring ID.
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Socially awkward with +87 charm points Omar "Ion" Holmon can usually be found standing in a Comic book store hallway talking about how he be in Comic book stores all day. His Slam trading card states accomplishments such as: 2010 Urbana Grandslam champion, 2009 Nuyorican Grandslam champion, Loserslam Grandslam champion (2009,2008).
Ilya Khodosh is a writer and performer in New York. He performs with the improv collective Rural Juror, and his work will be featured in the literary anthology NEXTbook, to be published this fall. He had previously toured nationwide as a company member of the storytelling/spoken word show, Vanessa Hiary's Monologues. Ilya was awarded a Hutchinson Fellowship in theater at Williams College (2008), and top honors at the Dialogue One Theater Festival (2007). He is the chief theater critic for the Berkshire Review for the Arts. He is the associate artistic director of the solo performance festival, United Solo, to take place in New York this November.
Standing 5-foot-6 by the fourth grade, Margot Leitman developed a thick skin and a sharp sense of humor instead of learning how to play basketball. Measuring 5-foot-10 today, Margot’s off beat, brutally honest, fearless comedy has earned her two ECNY “Best Female Stand Up” nominations and the “Joke of the Week” in Time Out New York. She’s appeared as various characters, including the cult favorite Gynoblast on “Late Night With Conan O’ Brien,” in addition to appearances on VH1’s “Best Week Ever,” ESPN’s “Cheap Seats,” AMC, the Style Network, E!, Comedy Central, MTV and NBC Broadband. Every month she and Giulia Rozzi co-host the wildly popular, monthly, sex-themed storytelling show “Stripped Stories." Margot has been featured in Glamour Magazine, and the books “Fifty Dates Worse Than Yours” and “The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Jokes.” She has written online for the Lifetime Network, College Humor.com, EHow.com and in print for Playgirl Magazine. She currently teaches storytelling through the UCB Theatre.
Shappy Seasholtz is the current Slam-Master of NYC-URBANA poetry slam series which runs every Tuesday at 7PM at the BOWERY POETRY CLUB where Shappy is also the surly barkeep. He's the head Dungeon Master of Spoken Nerd and runs the NERD SLAM every year at the National Poetry Slam. He has 12 long boxes of comics, over 100 Viewmaster reels and a complete run of Wacky Packages. He has been seen in DEF POETRY, SLAM PLANET and most recently as a Trekkie in the film FANBOYS. He can be heard on INDIEFEED SPOKEN-WORD PODCAST. He toured this past fall with the Elephant High-Dive Revival tour with WRITE BLOODY PRESS. He is the Chosen One.
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SPECIAL GUEST APPEARANCE
Joe Ray Sandoval, poet, multimedia artist, and the co-writer of the new move "Spoken Word."
http://www.spokenwordmovie.com/
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"Spoken Word" the Movie Hits New York City Theaters July 23!
SPOKEN WORD Opens in NYC on Friday July 23rd!
Big Cinemas Manhattan
239 East 59th Street
Showtimes:
Fri 7/23 - Sun 7/25 @ 11:40a 2:20p 5:00p 7:40p 10:20p
Mon 7/26 - Thurs 7/29 @ 2:20p 5:00p 7:40p 10:20p
Go opening weekend and meet star Rubén Blades at the 7:40pm shows on Friday and Saturday!
From acclaimed director Victor Nunez (ULEE’S GOLD), SPOKEN WORD tells the story of Cruz Montoya (Kuno Becker, GOAL!, FROM MEXICO WITH LOVE), a rock star on the West Coast poetry circuit, where audiences from San Diego to Seattle gather to hear him perform. Just off the road from a successful tour, he gets an unexpected phone call alerting him that his father, Senior (Rubén Blades, PREDATOR 2, ONCE UPON A TIME IN MEXICO), is fatally ill.
Cruz rushes home to his dying father, a reclusive former schoolteacher still leading a traditional life in their once bucolic mountain valley, now ravaged by poverty, drug abuse, and violence. After years away, Cruz quickly begins to retreat into his troubled former life, managing a Santa Fe hip-hop club owned by a local crime boss, Emilio (Miguel Sandoval, BOTTLE SHOCK, CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER), who Senior used to run with back in the day. Seduced by the fast action and easy money, Cruz loses his poetic voice, his identity, and almost his life, before he finds a way to heal his relationships with his family, his community, and himself.
A nuanced depiction of an evolving father-son relationship, SPOKEN WORD depicts the edgy collision of old and new worlds in a rare, authentic portrait of Latino culture in the Southwest, illustrating how cultural roles and machismo can give way when families can move beyond words, both spoken and unspoken, to share the language of their hearts.
For More Information, Please Visit: http://www.spokenwordmovie.com/
Tickets ON Sale Now: Click here!
Sunday, July 18, 2010
Joe Ray Sandoval, Co-Writer of New Flick "Spoken Word," Makes Special Appearance @ Inspired Word Thursday!
Joe Ray Sandoval, co-writer of the new flick "Spoken Word," featuring Ruben Blades and Kuno Becker and hitting New York City theaters this Friday, will makes a special guest appearance @ The Inspired Word on Thursday after the open mic.
Sandoval is a multimedia artist, performance poet, promoter and youth advocate from Santa Fe, NM. He received his MFA in poetry, film and media studies from George Mason University in Fairfax, VA. He has taught creative writing workshops in both the public and private sectors as a member of WritersCorps in Washington DC as well as independently and with Santa Fe Art Works in New Mexico.
His poetry reading series, Poetry Allowed, culminated in a feature length documentary of the same name, which he produced and co-directed and has been selected for several film festivals. He also wrote, directed and produced the short films The Matador and The Hitman.
Sandoval also co-founded ChicanoBuilt, a locally based company created as a vehicle to inspire, celebrate, and reclaim modern Chicano culture through, art, music, fashion and poetry. His work has been published, seen and performed from coast to coast and in Caracas, Venezuela.
Here is one of Sandoval's poems, as featured in the film.
I Want to Get Shot
I want to get shot
And die a noble death
I want to get shot saving someone's life
I want to get shot so that I can go to the hostpital and detox
With a noble causeof course
I want to get shot so that I can rest
Take time away from it all
My body can't afford my lifestyle anymore
I want to get shot so that my pain becomes real
I want to see how many people really like me
I want to smell your flowers
See my name in writing
I want to gwt shot because its quick and painful
I've had a good life, Few regrets
I just want a good scar to remind me how lucky I am
I'd like to wake up tomorrow with a different poem to write
The poem about my life
Is worth the words I write
I know I am going to die
But death has to find me
And until death finds me
Its my life
What am I going to do?
I don't know
As long as I don't get shot
"I Want to Get Shot," by Joe Ray Sandoval, from SUCKERPUNCH. Copyright 2003.
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