From The Inspired Word Family - Happy Holidays & Have An Awesome 2012!

From Mike, Marvin, Nathan, Chris, Christina, Aimee, and Jay: Have the best holiday season and New Year's!

The Inspired Word Adds Poet Aimee Herman to Host Erotica & GLBT Events!

The Inspired Word is proud to announce the addition of dynamic poet Aimee Herman as host of our erotica and GLBT events. Aimee becomes the third regular host of the series, joining the amazing Gemineye (Wednesday Night Showcase) and Nathan P (NYC Open Mic Joint) to form arguably the best team of poetry hosts in the country.

Aimee's first night hosting will be Monday, Jan. 9, for our Titillating Tongues event @ Le Poisson Rouge's Gallery Bar. http://titillatingtongues.eventbrite.com/.

BIO:

Aimee Herman, a queer performative poet, has been featured at various New York venues such as the Happy Ending Lounge, Dixon Place, Wow Café Theatre, Public Assembly, and Sidewalk Café. She has performed at reading/performance series such as: In the Flesh erotic salon, Hyper Gender, Sideshow: Queer Literary Carnival, and Red Umbrella Diaries. Her poetry can be found in Clean Sheets, Cliterature Journal, InStereo Press, and/or journal, and Polari Journal. She can also be read in hell strung and crooked (Uphook Press), Best Women’s Erotica 2010 (Cleis Press), Best Lesbian Love Stories 2010 (Alyson Books), Nice Girls, Naughty Sex (Seal), and the upcoming Women in Lust (Cleis). She currently works as an erotica editor for Oysters & Chocolate. She can be found writing poems on her body in Brooklyn. Find her at http://aimeeherman.wordpress.com/.

NYC Open Mic Joint Debuts @ The Nuyorican Poets Café! Saturday, Dec. 10

This Saturday night, history is being made – The Inspired Word and the famed spoken word mecca, the Nuyorican Poets Café in Manhattan’s East Village, join forces to present the NYC Open Mic Joint, hosted by former Nuyorican Slam Master Nathan P.

Founded by award-winning sports journalist and former Village Voice columnist Mike Geffner, The Inspired Word is one of the hottest open mic series in the country - graced by the likes of Grammy nominated singers, HBO Def Poetry stars, American Idol finalists, Golden Globe Award-winning actresses, and poets from The Best American Poetry anthology.

It’s open to all types of artists - comedians, musicians, storytellers, singers, poets, fiction/nonfiction writers, playwrights, spoken word artists, performance artists, dancers, ANYTHING and EVERYTHING.

So, if you’re looking for a cool downtown spot to do your thing, this is definitely the place.

All you have to do is bring the talent, we’ll bring the rest.

25 slots, 4 minute time limit.

The venue: Nuyorican Poets Café 236 East 3rd Street (between Avenues B and C) Manhattan, New York

Phone: (212) 505-8183 (917) 703-1512

Time: 6:30-9:30pm

Cover charge: $10

To purchase tickets in advance online, click on this link http://nyopenmic.eventbrite.com/.

NO AGE LIMIT!

For Nuyorican Poets Café info, please check out http://www.nuyorican.org/

Big Mike Takes Down 1st Slam Master Jam Championship - The Videos!

Congrats to Big Mike!







What a blast of a night!

The Inspired Word's Slam Master Jam Championship Hosted by HBO Def Poetry star Gemineye Thursday, Dec. 1, 2011

The way it finished.

1st Place - Big Mike - $300 2nd Place - Robert Quote Rosa - $100 3rd Place - Omar Ion Holman - $75 4th Place - Christine-Jean Blain - $15 5th Place - Peter Seaton AKA Rain Maker - $10

The Inspired Word's 2-Year Anniversary Marathon - 30+ Artists! New Venue!

The Inspired Word 2-Year Anniversary Marathon! A not-to-be-missed all-star lineup of spoken word artists, poets, singers, and comedians.

To purchase tickets in advance online, click here http://inspiredwordanniversarynight.eventbrite.com/

Hosted by HBO Def Poetry star Gemineye and NYC spoken word legend Nathan P. and in our brand new venue - 116 in Greenwich Village! Formerly The Gaslight Cafe or Village Gaslight.

First Bob Dylan, Kerouac, Ginsberg, Bill Cosby...Now THE INSPIRED WORD!

When: Friday, Jan 6, 2012
Where: 116
http://116macdougal.com/
116 MacDougal Street (between Bleecker Street and Minetta Lane)
Downstairs lounge
Manhattan, NYC
Phone: (212) 254-9996
(917) 703-1512

By subway, take the A, B, C, D, E, F to West 4th Street-Washington Square.

Doors open @ 6:00pm

Show - 6:30-11:00pm

Cover Charge: $15

Scheduled Performers (subject to change)

Patricia Smith
Regie Cabico
Oveous Maximus
Vanessa Hidary
Ngoma
Jesus Papoleto Melendez
Bonafide Rojas
Erica Miriam Fabri and Robin Andre
Big Mike
Osagyefo
Jamaal St. John
Jane LeCroy
Advocate of Wordz
Ocean Vuong
The MarXman
Simply Rob
Eliel Lucero
Jane Ormerod
Jazz Horn
Thomas Fucaloro
Sylvana Joyce + The Moment
Emanuel Xavier
David Lawton
Vince Royale
Eve Brandstein
Aimee Herman
Carolina Hidalgo
Yenny Love
Amy Leigh Cutler


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

The Inspired Word's New Home - Coming in 2012! Every Wednesday Night!

First Dylan, Ginsberg, Kerouac, Cosby, and Springsteen...Now The Inspired Word! The legacy continues!

On Friday night, Jan. 6, 2012, The Inspired Word is psyched to debut @ our new, ultra-cool venue, 116 (formerly The Gaslight Café or The Village Gaslight) in the West Village. And starting on Wednesday, Jan. 18, we're there EVERY WEDNESDAY NIGHT, between our usual 7-10pm and hosted by HBO Def Poetry star Gemineye.

Address: 116 MacDougal Street (between Bleecker Street and Minetta Lane)
Downstairs Lounge
Manhattan, NYC.
Phone: (212) 254-9996

http://116macdougal.com/

http://116nyc.tumblr.com/

http://www.facebook.com/116macdougal

By subway, take the A, B, C, D, E, F to West 4th Street-Washington Square.



116.



Bob Dylan in 1962.



William Morris reading his poem Lyric for Children @ The Gaslight in 1959.

For more info on the history of this famed spot, check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gaslight_Cafe.