Pics - Poet Beau Sia @ The Inspired Word in New York City

HBO Def Poetry superstar Beau Sia @ Mike Geffner Presents The Inspired Word Sept. 22, 2011 One and One Bar/Restaurant, Nexus Lounge Manhattan, New York City

Photos By: Raymond Hamlin

Video - Poet Jesús Papoleto Meléndez @ The Inspired Word

Poet Jesús Papoleto Meléndez @ Mike Geffner Presents The Inspired Word, Thursday, June 30, 2011 @ One and One Bar/Restaurant, Nexus Lounge, Manhattan, NYC. Hosted by Gemineye.

Jesús Papoleto Meléndez is a performance and visual poet, and one of the remaining original founders of the Nuyorican Poets' Movement. His poetry publications include Casting Long Shadows (1970), Have You Seen Liberation (1971), Street Poetry & Other Poems (1972), and Concertos on Market Street (1994). His play, The Junkies Stole the Clock (1974), was the first production of Joseph Papp's Public Theatre, New York Shakespeare Festival's Nuyorican Playwrights' Unit. He also formed "Nuroyrican School Original Poetry Jazz Ensemble" with Americo Casiano.Meléndez has received "The Rev. Pedro Pietri Hand Award in Poetry/Playwriting" (2006); "The 2004 Louis Reyes Rivera Lifetime Achievement Award" from Amherst College; a 2001-NYFA (New York Foundation for the Arts) Fellowship in Poetry; the Artist for Community Enrichment (ACE) Award from the Bronx Council on the Arts in 1995; and a COMBO (Combined Arts of San Diego)-NEA Fellowship in Literature. He has performed his poetry with El Reverendo Pedro Pietri at the Folger-Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC. " My poems are written in a stylized technique of word-visualization, which I refer to as 'Cascadance,' because the words seem to cascade down the page in a form of dance," he says. "The words 'play' with their associations to the words around them, becoming a visual statement that the words are making as images upon the page; a kind of visual poetry."

The Inspired Word is New York City's hottest new spoken word poetry open mic series happening every Tuesday and Thursday night in downtown Manhattan, produced by longtime journalist and former Village Voice columnist Mike Geffner and hosted by HBO Def Poetry star Gemineye and the NYC spoken word legend Nathan P.

Videographer: Amanda Hiciano.

Actress/Writer Diana Arnold @ Mike Geffner Presents The Inspired Word

Actress/Writer Diana Arnold performing a new piece celebrating her 10-year anniversary in New York City @ Mike Geffner Presents The Inspired Word, Thursday, Aug. 11, 2011 @ One and One Bar/Restaurant, Nexus Lounge, Manhattan, NYC. Hosted by Gemineye.

Note: Ms. Arnold ended up receiving a standing ovation for this piece.

Diana Arnold is an actress who starred in her own one woman show 86'd, which explored the world of a New York City waitress. In complicated poetic verse, both poignant and comedic, she told her story about a life with a father living with Cerebral Palsy and how restaurants saved her life.

Videographer: Eugene Woody
http://imgonnadieapoet.com/ 

Opening photos by: Jay Franco

The Inspired Word Open Mic of NYC - Poets Nathan P., Jane Ormerod, & Amy Leigh Cutler

Poets Nathan P., Jane Ormerod, and Amy Leigh Cutler @ Mike Geffner Presents The Inspired Word, One and One Bar/Restaurant, Nexus Lounge, Manhattan, NYC.

The Inspired Word is New York City's hottest new spoken word poetry open mic series happening every Tuesday and Thursday night in downtown Manhattan, produced by longtime journalist and former Village Voice columnist Mike Geffner and hosted by HBO Def Poetry star Gemineye and the NYC spoken word legend Nathan P.

Videographer: Eugene Woody
http://imgonnadieapoet.com/
 

Oveous Maximus Headlines! + Writer Stephen A. Dantes & Open Mic - Thursday, Sept. 29

The Inspired Word presents the utterly electric spoken word artist/HBO Def Poet/musician Oveous Maximus, plus special guest author/poet Stephen A. Dantes and a 15-slot open mic open to all types of artists. Hosted by 3-time HBO Def Poetry star Gemineye.

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BIO:

Oveous Maximus is a recording artist who fooled everyone into believing he was a poet. He grew up in the Bronx and Washington Heights exposed to the richness of jazz, soul, hip hop, and Afro Latin music. An honorary member of the world-famous Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Oveous shares his own brand of "rap and spoken word." He became a National Poetry slam finalist three years in a row, is a multiple time winner at the Apollo Theater, has performed on the hit series HBO Def Poetry, starred in the film SP!T, and has recorded music with Grammy Award winner Louie Vega. Has released two critically acclaimed albums and is about to release his 3rd studio album, which he wrote and produced entirely himself.



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Stephen Alexander Dantes is a prolific writer with seven published titles to his name - four digital, three paperback - and is due to release two more titles before the end of the year, one of them his first romance novel. The 28-year-old St. Lucian-born author/poet and certified Mathematics teacher holds the title of “Voice of the Youth” in his homeland as well as the recipient of the "Most Requested Guest Performer," awarded by the St. Lucia Writer's Forum. Coming from an island that boasts two Nobel Laureates, one of them – Derek Walcott, the winner of Nobel Prize for literature - Stephen resigned from his teaching profession to embark on his quest to take his own poetry to the world. For more info, please visit http://www.stephendantes.net/.



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When: Thursday, Sept. 29, 2011

Where: One and One Bar/Restaurant (downstairs Nexus Lounge)
76 East 1st Street (corner of 1st Avenue)
Manhattan, NYC

Phone: (917) 703-1512

Doors open for open mic sign-up @ 6:30pm Show starts @ 7pm

Cover Charge: $10

NO AGE LIMIT.

Please join us on Tuesday nights as well for our all-open mic nights! Same time, same place!

3 Videos - Poet Thomas Fucaloro & :Kiss*Punch*Poem: @ The Inspired Word

Poet Thomas Fucaloro & :Kiss*Punch*Poem: @ Mike Geffner Presents The Inspired Word, Thursday, Aug. 11, 2011 @ One and One Bar/Restaurant, Nexus Lounge, Manhattan, NYC. Hosted by Gemineye.

Thomas Fucaloro is a New York-based poet and one of the most original poetic voice you'll ever find. He is an editor at Uphook Press and authored the much-lauded book of poetry called "Inheriting Craziness is like a Soft Halo of Light." :

Kiss*Punch*Poem: is a New York City-based comedy improv group. The cast in this video consists of Meghann Plunkett, Paul Barker, Rick Andrews, Bianca Casusöl, and Nathan Peterman.
 

New Video from Sylvana Joyce + The Moment - The Break

Sylvana Joyce + The Moment have appeared @ The Inspired Word several times, including a rousing feature performance in May of this year, and they're easily one of our favorites.

New Videos - Poetic People Power @ Mike Geffner Presents The Inspired Word

Poetic People Power (poets Tara Bracco, Justin Woo, Erica DeLaRosa, Frantz Jerome, Deanna Zandt, Jonathan Walton, Andy Emeritz) @ Mike Geffner Presents The Inspired Word on Thursday, June 2, 2011, One and One Bar/Restaurant, Nexus Lounge, Manhattan, NYC. Hosted by Nathan P.

Poetic People Power was founded by writer Tara Bracco in 2003 to create an ongoing project that combines poetry and activism. Each year, Poetic People Power commissions poems about social and political issues. For more info, please visit http://www.poeticpeoplepower.com/.

This show was titled "The Revolution Will Be..." and it focused on what protest and revolution means today. Inspired by world events and the Gil Scott-Heron poem "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised," the poets creatively explored this topic and shared their new work with the audience.

Back to the Future star James Tolkan recites Keats exclusively for Mike Geffner's Inspired Word

Veteran actor James Tolkan, who played the in-your-face Mr. Strickland in Back to the Future and chided Michael J. Fox's character, Marty McFly, for being a "slacker," beautifully recites the famous John Keats poem "When I have fears that I may cease to be" exclusively for Mike Geffner Presents The Inspired Word.

Filmed @ James' home in Lake Placid, New York.

James is also known for his roles as the no-nonsense Commander Stinger in the 1986 box-office hit Top Gun, the coldly determined District Attorney Polito in Sidney Lumet's Prince of the City, Napoleon and a Napoleon look-alike in the Woody Allen comedy Love and Death, Big Boy Caprice's accountant Numbers in Dick Tracy, a police officer in Masters of the Universe, and a government agent in WarGames. He made guest appearances on many TV shows as well, including Naked City, Remington Steele, Miami Vice and The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.

For more info on James, please visit http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0866055/.



When I have fears that I may cease to be
Before my pen has glean'd my teeming brain,
Before high piled books, in charact'ry,
Hold like rich garners the full-ripen'd grain;
When I behold, upon the night's starr'd face, Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance,
And think that I may never live to trace
Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance;
And when I feel, fair creature of an hour!
That I shall never look upon thee more,
Never have relish in the faery power
Of unreflecting love!—then on the shore
Of the wide world I stand alone, and think
Till Love and Fame to nothingness do sink.

- John Keats

HBO Def Poetry Superstar Beau Sia Headlines + People With Teeth + Open Mic - Thursday, Sept. 22

The Inspired Word presents HBO Def Poetry superstar Beau Sia + the hip-hop/punk group People With Teeth +15-slot open mic open to all kinds of artists.

Hosted by another Def Poet, Gemineye.

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BIOS:

Spoken word poet Beau Sia has toured Europe and the U.S. and was one of the true superstars on HBO Def Poetry. He authored the poetry book A Night Without Armor II: The Revenge as well as the spoken word CD's Attack! Attack! Go! and Dope and Wack. His work also appears in numerous anthologies including Bum Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam, and he has appeared in several documentary films, Slamnation, Slam, and Race is the Place. He was featured in the 2000 ESPN X Games and on Hardball with Chris Matthews, Last Call with Carson Daly, Showtime at the Apollo, The Today Show, and The Tony Awards. His film career expanded to include Hitch, with Will Smith, and The Manchurian Candidate, with Denzel Washington. He is one of the original cast members in Def Poetry Jam on Broadway, a 2003 Special Event Tony Award Winner.

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People With Teeth is a hip-hop/punk outfit based out of Brooklyn, NY. Signature songs like "Glenn Beck is Dead" have earned the group a reputation as an aggressive, satirically political trio combining hip-hop music with punk attitude and spoken word elements. Comprised of accomplished spoken word artists, emcees and performers, People With Teeth has made a splash in certain NYC hip-hop, spoken word and comedy circles as a daring, eclectic and wildly fun collective.

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This event was funded in part by Poets & Writers, Inc. with public funds from New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.
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When: Thursday, Sept 22, 2011

Where: One and One Bar & Restaurant (downstairs Nexus Lounge)
76 East 1st Street (corner of 1st Avenue)
Manhattan, NYC
Phone: (917) 703-1512

Doors open for open mic sign-up @ 6:30pm

Show starts @ 7:30

Cover Charge: $10

NO AGE LIMIT.

"The Inspired Word isn't just a series, it's a movement."

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And please join us for our Tuesday Night Open Mic Joint - same time, same place!

“Ten Years Later,” A 9/11 Poem by Marlenas McMahon-Purk

(Photo taken by Marlenas McMahon-Purk on Sept. 11, 2001)

On the day of the recent earthquake, a friend of mine called the reaction of uneasy New Yorkers “pathetic.” A decade ago, as a student at Stuyvesant High School, I was only four small city blocks from the Twin Towers on 9/11, with a rare, unimpeded view of the horrors of that day. We were inside our school when the second building collapsed (when the above picture was taken) and felt the building shake, saw the lights flicker. Tower 1 was falling as we evacuated, but the debris was falling so fast and we had to run from the smoke. So, as you can imagine, on the day of the earthquake, when my office building was evacuated, I couldn't help relieving the incredible uneasiness of my 9/11 experience. Despite my attempts to evoke understanding in my friend, I was startled by a general lack of compassion for my experience with trauma. I ask not for sympathy, but understanding, at the very least.

“Ten Years Later,” by Marlenas McMahon-Purk

The guilt that accompanies posttraumatic stress disorder begets itself
It is the magic of a starfish turned into something ugly
Where regeneration generally signifies life and rebirth,
Every leg of guilt is merely an adjunct to the body of the PTSD starfish
And every successful excision is a hidden future failure
Leading to the introduction of a new feeling of guilt,
Familiar, because it is still a leg,
But new because it slightly differs from the guilt once had

Trauma is castanets that start slowly, rhythmically
Completely attuned to your auditory aesthetic
Increasing to a rate aligned with the tachycardia pulsating through your atrioventricular canal
Now-marauding palpitations demanding you to hear,
An involuntary listener from valve to vein
In an aching atrium in the
amplified amphitheater of the heart

Trauma is vengeful and unforgiving
It does not seek truth or progress like people can
PTSD is addicted to itself
It is its own trigger
It is the herpes of the mind
Trauma lies dormant until you’re absolutely convinced that you’re in the clear for an emotional flare-up

And you knew, friend, that 9/11 was but one of my traumas

Trauma is desperately needing a muhfuckin benzo when there is
Not a Xanax, not a Klonopin, not an Ativan, not a Valium in sight.

It is the feeling at the precipice of inspiration, the birth of a good idea, quelled and internalized into an aborted thought that will not bleed out, the once-life now a paralysis anything but peripheral

Trauma is shock-value advertising for its own propaganda


I left work early today
I left school early nearly 10 years ago to the date
Another Tuesday, no less
Another beautiful Tuesday, to be more precise
I’m already embarrassed about being a grown-ass woman still affected by this shit

An evacuation is not just an exit to me
I see New York as the dormant Middle East
With good reason

September 11th wasn’t just a day
It was the birth of fear exploitation

And it worked
Like soldiers programmed to attack,
My autonomic nervous system is armed with ammunition
To attack me
…And it works

I feel like a bitch
I feel like a bitch for being unable to relate my feelings to my coworkers
Whether New Yorkers
Or “New” New Yorkers, to put it kindly

Truthfully, the only people who I feel comfortable sharing with are the two women who ran with me down the west side highway
I Usain Bolted my life
By foot back to Chelsea
With each hand held in solidarity,
One foot in front of the other
One girl, feel bleeding in stilettos,
Because at age 16
She didn’t expect to have to run from the sweetheart skyscrapers of New York

But please,
Make jokes in times of emergency
Say things like “Emergencies can be fun sometimes!”
Dripping with suburban privilege

While we evacuate the building
I only WISH my mind could check out
I only WISH I could have the same emotional emptying
But instead, I feel like a bitch

How do you explain to your job that the mere thought of having to forcibly leave the building is enough for a panic attack?
...because of something that happened 10 years ago?

Panic, which semantically lends itself to colloquial sentiments of
frivolous hysteria
Which lends itself to metapanic:
Feeling guilty about involuntarily instilled instincts

I just want a day when—whether AM or PM—9:11 is just a time

Yet it’s 9:11 every time I look on the clock
On the conspiracy theory of time

Trauma never has time for me
But there’s always time for trauma
Her watch, which defies the conventions of general cognition and behavior
Her watch, which is really a multifunction clock—
It stops time, it resets your time
And owns all time in between

And then you realize
You’ve just been playing chess with the grandmaster this whole time
When I hit the clock, it’s trauma’s move,
But it doesn’t guarantee my next one

…And until 9:11 is just a time again,
It has me

I’m not here to play the “I have it worse” game
Because like many games will delude you into thinking so,
No one wins this game

My question to you is this, though:
What was your trauma that shaped you to be so callous as to wear presumptuousness like a mime wears suspenders
Self-identifying as one who acts without speaking and who wears proudly her costume,
But suspending aggressive retorts to my pain,
But still assuming that things must be black and white
Because of the clear binary in the stripes of your makeup
But, mimes are misunderstood if nothing else,
Because they act without speaking

So I wonder
If you could speak from behind the outfit
Who would your mime mime?
Marseau surely saw
Parcels of Marcel
Who are you under “you?”
Rather—why are you under you
Because you’re fucking yourself
As long as you lack compassion
So, why don’t you hear me—
And then speak…without acting?

Major Studio/Network Exec Eve Brandstein Joins The Inspired Word Family

Mike Geffner Preents The Inspired Word is thrilled to announce that Eve Brandstein has joined The Inspired Word family as Series Consultant. Her amazing passion, her innovative ideas, her undying love of poetry will make a great addition to the team.

Besides being a poet, Eve Brandstein has been a major studio and network executive, a producer, a film and theater director, writer/creator, and casting director. She is also an artist, teacher and workshop facilitator, who has led writing and performance groups.

Her poetry appears in national publications and she is one of the organizers of the celebrated reading series – Poetry In Motion, launched in 1988 with fellow poet, Michael Lally. Eve is once again producing Poetry in Motion as a monthly series at the venerated home of Los Angeles poetry, Beyond Baroque.

She is a publisher of The Hollywood Review an anthology of L.A. poets and also the author of “The Actor – A Practical Guide to a Professional Career” plus has published several collections and anthologies of poetry chapbooks. Recently she co-produced and co-directed 13 episodes of "John Waters Presents Movies That Will Corrupt You.” Currently she directed the premiere of Revisiting Wildfire which is at the Odyssey Theater., LA. As an accomplished artist her work is shown at TAG Gallery at Bergamot Station, Los Angeles.

Her next poetry collection will be published and distributed by Zeitgeist Press. For more info on Ms. Brandstein, please visit evebrandsteinproductions.com and http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0104843/.

HBO Def Poet Joaquín Zihuatanejo & Austin Slam Champion Natasha Carrizosa + Open Mic - Thurday, Sept. 15

Mike Geffner Presents The Inspired Word proudly features HBO Def Poet Joaquín Zihuatanejo and Austin Slam Champion Natasha Carrizosa + 15 slot open mic open to all types of artists.

Hosted by 3-time HBO Def Poetry star Gemineye.



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Natasha Carrizosa is a mother, a dreamer, and a lover of music and life. She is a poet/spoken word artist who celebrates her dual heritage (African- and Mexican-American) with works that weave an intoxicating blend of cultures, languages and impressions. She has shared the stage with Maya Angelou, Jill Scott, Erykah Badu, E. Lynn Harris and countless other poets, authors, and artists. Her writings have been featured in Rhapsody, Her Mark, and x magazine (United Kingdom.) She is the author of mejiafricana, a spoken word CD and nude – a collection of love and erotic poems. She recently recorded her second spoken word CD – the dreamcatcher. In 2008 she collaborated with Joaquín Zihuatanejo on of fire and rain - a spoken word CD that is a testimony of life/love that spans from the barrios of East Dallas to the ghettos of the west indies. Selections from of fire and rain were published by Poetry in Motion, and organization that promotes the work of young American poets by publishing their work alongside the work of masters from the past on trains, subways, and buses across The United States. Natasha is the 2010 Austin International Poetry Slam Champion and one of two American poets (Joaquín Zihuatanejo, below, is the other) chosen to represent The United States at El Proyecto Poesia Slam 2010 in Madrid, Spain.



Joaquín Zihuatanejo is a father, husband, poet, and award-winning teacher. In his work he strives to capture the duality of the Chicano culture - the conquered and the conqueror, the Pagan and the Christian, the earth and the sky all find refuge in his voice. He has shared a stage with Maya Angelou, Billy Collins, E. Lynn Harris, Saul Williams, and Alicia Keys among others. He appeared on HBO Def Poetry in 2005 and is the author of Barrio Songs and co-author, along with Natasha Carrizosa, of the collection of poems of fire and rain. Joaquin has recorded seven spoken word CDs, Barrio Songs, Stand Up and Be Heard, Live at Longwood, of fire and rain, a spoken word collaboration with Natasha Carrizosa, Child of the Hood Days, HOPE 5 MILES, and Barbaric Yawps: Best of Joaquín Zihuatanejo. He is the winner of the 2008 Individual World Poetry Slam Championship and the 2009 European World Cup of Poetry Slam Championship held in Paris, France making him the number one ranked slam poet in the world on both sides of the Atlantic in the same year. He was recently awarded the Artist in Residence Award by the National Hispanic Cultural Center and will spend most of the summer writing and teaching at the NHCC in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The two passions in his life are his wife Aída and poetry - always in that order.



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This event was funded in part by Poets & Writers, Inc. with public funds from New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.

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When: Thursday, Sept 15, 2011

Where: One and One Bar & Restaurant (downstairs Nexus Lounge)
76 East 1st Street (corner of 1st Avenue)
Manhattan, NYC
Phone: (917) 703-1512

Doors Open for open mic sign-up @ 6:30pm

Showtime @ 7pm

Cover Charge: $10

NO AGE LIMIT.

"The Inspired Word isn't just a series, it's a movement."

*****

Please join us for our Tuesday Night Open Mic Joint - same time, same place!

"One and One: The Obscene Gravity of [the] Pear" - A Poem Curated By Joseph A. W. Quintela

One and One: The Obscene Gravity of [the] Pear A Poem Curated by Joseph A. W. Quintela   It is fascinating how photographs capture selves that we want [or don’t want] in certain moments.      -Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Mule & Pear (approximation, extracted from reading comment)   I have a habit that a lot of my heroes are dead.      -Paulie Lipman, The Obscene Gravity of Silence (approximation, extracted from reading comment)

When I tell

where the blood is, my

too-often, bull-mouth,

word-fracturing,

hissing, breeze-through-the-girl,

barbed teeth

coil. Part his lips,

thick as autumn vines, to grin flint at me

like a spike. Keep light out. And I must take

my own hand, all willow wispy,

as if it were a stave, but nowhere as strong,

brokenly bleating, Let the light through.

A thousand-throated neighbors

call beneath me

(nobody listen),

call me to say,

The men have left, except for the reporters,

the women like it here,

piled like a beige heap of trees,

to be ironed & mended. Cold shadow

of 3 fathers, all mothers have left,

but in their shadow

let me be the chandelier.

Family: where your body,

in its cradle, shared a name with

me. And

there is far more blood between us, if I'm answering

you. He

was soil and light in my lungs

where screams fired me back to nothing.

Truly, I wear golden lamps,

after midight raised me;

shaped us into lips of light opening

for his divine imagination

(& we would plague

again). The things

I have lived hold me now.

I am no more. Life,

a frament. And wish.

His sense of purpose. The clouds behind me.

The last body expands,

indifferent as the first luminous stain.

All I wanted was to tell him,

You, the others, Mr. President,

you, and the rest of your kind: be near me.

Us: where the blood tipped on the brink

learned beauty.

I was blood at their feet.

Stir the leaves & tell me

where the blood is going. Ancient,

bull-bellied clouds (slow death).

Our hips bleed

into surrender. Girl & woman:

so barbed.

Coil at the very root.

Thick as autumn vines, the barest glimpse

of my--(keep the light out!)--

own hand. I am 60 years old.

The forest, as if it were a stave of notes

grown crooked, brokenly bleating

in the shadow of a thousand-throated

third. A preserved hummingbird.

Listen to us: The tourists

weakened branches say to

whither and return to dirt. The men have left,

the women (I am not a murderer!) have

been piled. I've only ever loved.

I am a parolee, to be ironed and mended.

I have left you.

I am no one's daughter.      Blood

(Our)                                                   drips from the chandelier

 

[Joseph A. W. Quintela's Note: The poem presented here is a composite (or mash-up) of The Two Elizas by Rachel Eliza Griffith and Squeaky by Paulie Lipman. The title is a composite of the titles of their most recent collections. The two poets performed together on 8 September, 2011 as featured poets at Michael Geffner’s Inspired Word hosted at One and One in New York City. Poems used with the permission of the poets.]

 

Poets Rachel Eliza Griffiths & Paulie Lipman Headline + Open Mic - Thursday, Sept. 8

Mike Geffner Presents The Inspired Word proudly features two extraordinary poets - Rachel Eliza Griffiths (recently featured in Oprah's O Magazine) and Denver's Paulie Lipman. In addition, there will be a 15-slot open mic open to all types of artists.

Hosted by the legendary Nathan P.

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Rachel Eliza Griffiths is a poet and a photographer. She is the author of Miracle Arrhythmia, The Requited Distance. Her visual and literary work has been widely published, including in Callaloo, Crab Orchard Review, Indiana Review, and RATTLE. She is the recipient of numerous fellowships, including Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, Vermont Studio Center, and the Cave Canem Foundation. This year, Griffiths was included in the first ever O magazine poetry issue. Her latest collection of poems, Mule & Pear (New Issues Poetry & Prose) will be released this fall. Currently, she teaches at Sarah Lawrence College. For more info, please visit http://www.rachelelizagriffiths.com/.

Paulie Lipman is a poet/writer/musician/performer out of Denver, CO. He has been a part of 7 Denver Mercury National Slam Teams (including '04's second place and '06's national champions). In addition to extensively touring the U.S. and Canada, he has just put out a poetry w/music album The Obscene Gravity of Silence. His work has appeared in The Legendary, Borderline, and the Write Bloody anthology: The Good Things About America. He is a Libra, enjoys windy walks, and can't wait to meet you. For more info, please visit http://paulielipman.bandcamp.com/.



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When: Thursday, Sept. 8, 2011

Where: One and One Bar & Restaurant (downstairs Nexus Lounge)
76 East 1st Street (corner of 1st Avenue)
Manhattan, NYC
Phone: (917) 703-1512

Doors Open for open mic sign-up @ 6:30pm

Showtime @ 7pm

Cover Charge: $10

NO AGE LIMIT.

"The Inspired Word isn't just a series, it's a movement."