Showing posts with label Aimee Herman. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Aimee Herman. Show all posts

Monday, March 24, 2014

10 Questions with...NYC Poet Aimee Herman

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Aimee Herman will be one of the featured poets in(as well as the host of) Raining Words: A Spring Poetry Extravaganza on Saturday, April 12 @ The Pomegrante Gallery, produced by 3Po3try NYC (https://www.facebook.com/3po3trynyc).

Herman is a performance artist, poet and teacher with an MFA in Creative Writing from Long Island University in Brooklyn, as well as a longtime Inspired Word host. She teaches at Bronx Community College and is a faculty member with Poetry Teachers NYC, offering affordable poetry workshops and creating spaces for other performers to lift their words off the page. She has been published in various journals and anthologies such as: Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics (Nightboat Books) and The Understanding Between Foxes and Light (great weather for MEDIA). Her full-length book of poems to go without blinking was published in 2012 by BlazeVOX books. She can be found wrapped in caution tape in Brooklyn or at aimeeherman.wordpress.com.

The following is our quick 10-question interview with Ms. Herman, who like poet e.e. cummings believes in writing all in lowercase:

What one word describes your writing style?

experimentallyserrated.

What's your idea of the perfect poem?

there is no such thing.

What's your best writing moment?

when the words arrive.

What's your worst writing moment?

when they forget themselves.

What time of the day do you mostly write?

all times.

What do you do to get into your writing sessions?

disembowel my brain stem, remove my clothes, eat nato with okra, masturbate, read, listen to miles davis (not necessarily in that order).

What's the weirdest place you ever wrote?

in a dungeon on a saturday surrounded by various forms of bdsm.

What's the weirdest thing you ever wrote on?

none of it's been weird. i'm just grateful that there are other things to write on besides paper. bodies. trees. buildings. bathroom doors. library books, refrigerators, on bread......

What book changed your writing forever?

blood and guts in high school by kathy acker.

What poet, dead or alive, would you like to be friends with?

tie between kathy acker and bukowski.

To purchase advance tickets to Raining Words: A Spring Poetry Extravaganza, go to http://3po3trynycdebut.eventbrite.com.

Photo credit: Jay Franco (http://jayfranco.co/).

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Titillating Tongues: NYC Erotica Open Mic @ The Gallery at LPR - EVERY 3rd Friday of the Month!

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The Inspired Word presents a hot night of sexy fun, lip-licking words, and utter debauchery – Titillating Tongues: NYC Erotica in Poetry & Prose, featuring our 20-slot open mic (6 minutes each) open to all types of artists, where you can bring your own heat to the party. Hosted by the fiery redheaded poet Aimee Herman and in the elegantly sexy Gallery at LPR (Le Poisson Rouge).

FREE drink to the 1st 10 people who sign up to perform.

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When: EVERY 3rd Friday of the month

Where: The Gallery at LPR (Le Poisson Rouge)
158 Bleecker Street
New York, NY 10012
(212) 353-3474



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

Doors open for sign-up @ 7pm.

Cover Charge: $10

21+ Age Limit!

Purchasing tickets in advance via Eventbrite guarantee you a slot in the open mic:

http://titillatingtongueserotica.eventbrite.com/

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Produced by Mike Geffner Presents The Inspired Word

http://inspiredwordnyc.com

Friday, November 9, 2012

Titillating Tongues: NYC Erotica in Poetry & Prose Open Mic @ The Gallery at LPR - Friday, Nov. 16

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The Inspired Word presents a hot night of sexy fun, lip-licking words, and utter debauchery – Titillating Tongues: NYC Erotica in Poetry & Prose, featuring our 20-slot open mic (6 minutes each) open to all types of artists, where you can bring your own heat to the party. Hosted by the fiery redheaded poet Aimee Herman and in the elegantly sexy Gallery at LPR (Le Poisson Rouge).


*****

When: Friday, Nov. 16, 2012

Where: The Gallery at LPR (Le Poisson Rouge)
158 Bleecker Street
New York, NY 10012
(212) 353-3474
(917) 703-1512

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

Doors open for sign-up @ 7pm.

Cover Charge: $10

21+ Age Limit!

Produced by Mike Geffner Presents The Inspired Word

http://inspiredwordnyc.com

Wednesday, July 25, 2012

All-Star Storytellers Night - Leslie Goshko, Gabrielle Selz, Joanne Solomon + Open Mic




The Inspired Word presents a night of some of New York City's finest storytellers, featuring Leslie Goshko, Gabrielle Selz, Joanne Solomon + a 15-slot open mic (5 minutes each slot) to bring your own story to the party.

Prepare for a night of dazzle and laughs.

Hosted by Aimee Herman.

*****

When: Friday, July 27, 2012

Where: The Gallery at LPR
158 Bleecker Street
New York, NY 10012
(212) 353-3474
(917) 703-1512

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

Doors open for sign-up @ 7pm.

Cover Charge: $10

21+ Age Limit!

*****

Feature Bios:

Leslie Goshko is a Manhattan Monologue Slam Champion, recipient of the NY Fringe Excellence Award, and host of the monthly storytelling series, Sideshow Goshko (Time Out NY "Critics' Pick"). Her stories and comedy writing have been featured on The Huffington Post, Sirius XM, WNYC, NY Metro, and her one-woman show, Vodka Shoes, played to rave reviews as part of the NY Frigid Festival. She’s also pretty proud to have performed in “Hairspray” on Broadway. Her website can be found @ http://www.ohmygoshko.com/.

Gabrielle Selz is an award-winning writer, live story-teller, art critic, teacher and mother. Her essays have appeared in More Magazine, The New York Times, and Newsday among others. Her fiction has appeared in Fiction Magazine and her art criticism in Art Papers and Newsday. Gabrielle writes regularly on art for the Huffington Post. She has received a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in nonfiction and was a New York Moth Story Slam Winner. Her memoir, Unstill Life, about growing up in the outrageous and uncontained art world of the 60s and 70s, is forthcoming from W.W. Norton &Company.

Joanne Solomon is a writer/performer who feels like she is perpetually trapped inside a Christopher Guest movie called “The Story Teller.” She first performed her stories at Luna Lounge in 1994 and has been featured on the Moth Main stage. After finishing an almost seven year run with the off Broadway show De La Guarda, Joanne is attempting to combine her skills of writing and movement in her own aerial theater piece (without making her main character a flying bug or superhero). Joanne can be seen around town at Steamboat, Story Collider, How I Learned, Told, Pacific Standard, The Liar Show and Soundtrack Series. This past summer, Joanne turned forty… then broke her face in two places and tore three ligaments in her shoulder flying off her bike, avoiding a pedestrian on the Manhattan bridge. Not to be slowed down, she has traded in her bike for a kick scooter. Stay tuned for her collection of essays, "Walking Mr. Lieberman”

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Produced by Mike Geffner Presents The Inspired Word

http://inspiredwordnyc.com


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

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Friday, March 16, 2012

Titillating Tongues: NYC Erotica in Poetry & Prose + Open Mic @ The Soho Playhouse - Tues, March 20




The Inspired Word presents a hot night of sexy fun, lip-licking words, and utter debauchery – Titillating Tongues: NYC Erotica in Poetry & Prose, featuring three of New York City's best erotica writers and performers, Sinnamon Love, Tina Horn, and Jennifer Sky +15-slot open mic open to all types of artists, where you can bring your own heat to the party. Hosted by the fiery redheaded poet Aimee Herman and our debut in the elegantly sexy Huron Club in the famed Soho Playhouse.


*****

When: Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Where: Soho Playhouse (downstairs Huron Club room)

http://sohoplayhouse.com/

15 Vandam Street

Manhattan, NY 10013

Phone: (212) 691-1555

Phone: (917) 703-1512


By subway take the E or C to Spring St. station and use Vandam St. exit (middle of station). Or take the 1 (local/red) to Houston and walk 3 blocks south.


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


Cover Charge: $10


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FEATURE BIOS:

Sinnamon Love is an adult film star, fetish model, professional dominatrix, writer and single mom of three teenagers living in Brooklyn, NY. Since 1993, Love has appeared in over 250 hardcore movies, numerous men’s magazines and countless appearances on Playboy TV & Radio. In 2010, Sinnamon took on a year-long tour with The Punany Poets of HBO’s “Real Sex” fame, a sex positive erotic poetry & sex education theater show. She is a frequent guest on Shade 45 on Sirius/ XM radio, and is currently a staff writer & relationship columnist for TheWellVersed.com. In 2010 she was inducted into the Urban X Awards’ Hall of Fame followed by induction into the AVN Awards’ Hall of Fame in 2011. Love is an outspoken Autism/ Asperger’s parent advocate and has recently taken on improving sex education in Inner City schools.



Since 2006 Tina Horn has worked in the Bay Area as a professional BDSM switch and porn performer. She is the co-creator of QueerPorn.Tv, a sex positive documentary masquerading as a hardcore-porn site; within a year of its launch it’s already a Feminist Porn Award winner and AVN nominee. Tina has led kink workshops in settings as varied as Good Vibrations, Evergreen University, Femina Potens, and the SF Citadel. Her writing has been published in AORTA, Whore!, and several Cleis Press anthologies. She is currently working on a Writing Masters in New York and thus cannot even begin to tell you how badly she could use a spanking right now.



Jennifer Sky is a writer of fiction and nonfiction, a student, an actress, a former model, and believer in magical things. Her work has appeared online at Tin House, The Rumpus, Interview Magazine, Electric Literature, AOL, 12th Street, and in short story anthology Love Magick. She modeled for such top magazines as Seventeen, YM, Allure, Elle, Vogue, and Maxim and appeared in recurring roles on CSI: Miami, Xena, and Fastlane, as well as playing the title character on the cult Sci-Fi series Cleopatra 2525. She lives in Brooklyn.



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For more info, please check out our website http://inspiredwordnyc.com/.

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Sunday, January 8, 2012

Titillating Tongues: NYC Erotica in Poetry & Prose + Open Mic @ Le Poisson Rouge - Monday, Jan. 9




The Inspired Word presents a hot night of sexy fun, lip-licking words, and utter debauchery – Titillating Tongues: NYC Erotica in Poetry & Prose, featuring some of New York City's best erotica writers - Sam J. Miller, Audacia Ray, Richard Berkowitz, Rev Jen, Mo Beasley, and L.Z. Hansen. +12-slot open mic open to all types of artists, where you can bring your own heat to the party.

Hosted by the very sexy Aimee Herman.

And in hottest club in Greenwich Village - (le) poisson rouge!

*****

When: Monday, Jan. 9, 2012

Where: (Le) Poisson Rouge 158 Bleecker Street Downstairs Gallery Bar Manhattan, NY 10012 Phone: (917) 703-1512

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

Cover Charge: $10

MUST BE 21 YEARS OLD OR OLDER!

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FEATURE BIOS:

Mo Beasley is an award-winning performance poet and storyteller. He is also a sexuality educator, author, and public speaker. He has successfully integrated his love of performing with his love of education and community building. In the fields of sexuality, race, manhood, and arts advocacy, he has over 20 years experience as a stage performer, teaching artist, workshop facilitator, consultant, activist, and mentor to youth. Mo Beasley’s presentations range from cutting-edge perspectives on sex, sexuality, to art as action, fatherhood and family building, hip hop as a tool for education, to re-defining masculinity for the 21st century.



Richard Berkowitz is the subject of Daryl Wein's 2009 documentary, SEX POSITIVE, which tells his story: coming out as a gay man in the 1970s, becoming a sex worker in NYC at the peak of the sexual revolution, and how that led to his involvement in the invention of safe sex (for AIDS.) In May 1983, Berkowitz co-authored How to Have Sex in an Epidemic, along with Dr. Joseph Sonnabend and activist Michael Callen. Their 40-page booklet is widely regarded as the invention of safe sex as we know it today. He majored in journalism at Rutgers University, where he used his position as the Film editor of the school newspaper to promote LGBT and feminist arts and activism. He spent two decades writing to promote safe sex, culminating in his 2003 memoir, "Stayin Alive: The Invention of Safe Sex, A Personal History." That book became the inspiration for SEX POSITIVE, which won the Grand Jury prize for Best Documentary at Outfest.



Rev Jen is an art star, author, troll museum curator, columnist, guru, open mike host, ambassador to the otherworld, underground movie star, Voice of the Downtrodden and Tired and Patron Saint of the Uncool. I was born on the same day as Zelda Fitzgerald and Amelia Earhart. I want to conquer the world while simultaneously inhabiting an imaginary one. She published a book with Soft Skull Press called Live Nude Elf, and also writes and stars in a live show called Reverend Jen's Really Cool Neighborhood, which was voted "Best Off-Off-Off Broadway Musical Comedy Theater" by the Village Voice.



Audacia Ray is a former sex worker and current media maker. She has blogged about sexuality, culture, and politics since 2004 -including stints blogging for Fleshbot and the Village Voice - and spent three years as an executive editor at the Utne Reader award-winning $pread magazine. She is the author of Naked on the Internet: Hookups, Downloads, and Cashing In on Internet Sexplorationand won a Feminist Porn Award for her film The Bi Apple. These days, Audacia is the director of the Red Umbrella Project, which amplifies the voices of people in the sex trade through live storytelling events, media training, and advocacy workshops. Her monthly storytelling series the Red Umbrella Diaries and her blog Waking Vixen were named to the Village Voice’s Best of 2010 list. Learn more about her work at http://www.redumbrellaproject.org/ and http://www.audaciaray.com/.



Sam J Miller is a writer and a community organizer. His work has been published in The Minnesota Review, Fiction International, Arts & Letters, West Branch, Washington Square, and The Rumpus, as well as anthologies like Best Gay Erotica 2006 & 2008. He's the co-editor of Horror After 9/11, forthcoming from the University of Texas Press. For more info, please visit http://samjmiller.com/.



L.Z. Hansen, known to friends as Zoe, ran from a comfortable upbringing in London, England to NYC in 1984. She worked as a hair stylist to the fabulous, an escort, brothel ho, street walker, jerk off technician, & owner of her own NYC brothels, & a clothing store called Jezebella. Currently she’s a writer, of many short stories, and is working on a novel about love, sex & NYC. Producer of a new reality show “Housewives of the East Village” (in the works), she’s an unabashed lover of filth and the written word, likes to talk to the dead, and strives for purity. She still resides in the East Village with her family. For more info, please visit http://www.lzhansen.com.



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Monday, December 12, 2011

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 CafĂ© Theatre, Public Assembly, and Sidewalk CafĂ©. 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/.



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Sunday, October 30, 2011

Titillating Tongues: NYC Erotica in Poetry & Prose + Open Mic - Thursday, Nov. 3




The Inspired Word presents a hot night of sexy fun, lip-licking words, and utter debauchery – Titillating Tongues: NYC Erotica in Poetry & Prose, featuring some of New York City's best erotic writers: Rachel Kramer Bussel, Janice Erlbaum, Uche Nduka, Jennifer Blowdryer, Aimee Herman, Kathleen Warnock, Puma Perl, Elizabeth Rivera De Garcia, Jane LeCroy, and Sam J. Miller.

There will also be a 12-slot open mic open to all types of artists, where you can bring your own heat to the party.

Hosted by HBO Def Poetry star Gemineye.
*****
When: Thursday, Nov. 3, 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

Must be 21 years old or older.

"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.
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FEATURE BIOS (in alphabetical order):

In 1988, Ms. Jennifer Blowdryer founded Smut Fests, a show that mixed sex workers performing their own material, however they saw fit, along with some burlesque, spoken word, and other ephemera. She took it on the road to London, Chicago, Hamburg, and Baltimore, Maryland. London was the most crazily good show, but Hamburg's red light district offered the best theater on earth, the Schmidt Tivoli. JB's currently working on a documentary called The 86ed Project, and an ebook called The Bitchez Guide to the Lower East Side. She resides on East 2nd Street, which is still Sport Bar free. For more info, please visit http://blog.jenniferblowdryer.com/.



Rachel Kramer Bussel is an author, editor, blogger and event organizer. She is the editor of 40 anthologies, including Women in Lust, Obsessed, Orgasmic, Gotta Have It, Fast Girls, Best Bondage Erotica 2011, Spanked, Bottoms Up, and more. She is Senior Editor at Penthouse Variations and writes a sex column for SexIs Magazine. She writes widely about sex, dating, books and pop culture, and blogs at Lusty Lady (http://lustylady.blogspot.com/) and Cupcakes Take the Cake (http://cupcakestakethecake.blogspot.com/). For more info, please visit http://www.rachelkramerbussel.com/.



Janice Erlbaum is the author of Girlbomb: A Halfway Homeless Memoir (Villard, March ’06), and Have You Found Her: A Memoir (Villard, Feb. ’08). A founding member of the now defunct performance collective Pussy Poets, her poetry and prose has been featured in anthologies including Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets CafĂ©, The Bust Guide To The New Girl Order, The Best American Erotic Poems From 1800 To The Present, The Autobiographer’s Handbook: The 826 National Guide to Writing Your Memoir, and Verses That Hurt: Pleasure and Pain from the Poemfone Poets.



Nicknamed SoulSistaRican (by artist/activist Earline Fisher) and Lovely Liz (by host Angel G of The Nuevo Latino Radio Show when sharing her erotic poetry), Elizabeth Rivera de Garcia is a poet, spoken word artist, actor and founder of MyPeopleProductions. She made her poetic debut at The Nuyorican Poet’s CafĂ© in Lady l for Banana Puddin’ Jazz and was invited again for Lady ll. Elizabeth has collaborated with Jazz singer Rome Neal for The Brooklyn Jazz Festival and has performed with Jazz Mojo at The Bowery Wine Co. She featured for Heaven on the Hudson at The Hudson River CafĂ© and is currently a resident poet of La Familia and company member of The Haiku Empire.



Aimee Herman, a queer performative poet, has been featured at various New York venues such as the Happy Ending Lounge, Dixon Place, Wow CafĂ© Theatre, Public Assembly, and Sidewalk CafĂ©. 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, Pregnant Moon Review, InStereo Press, and/or journal, and Polari Journal. She can also be read in Focus on the Fabulous: Colorado GLBT Voices, 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 @ http://aimeeherman.wordpress.com/.



Jane LeCroy is a poet and performance artist, home-birthing mother of three, teacher, atheist, vegetarian, hedonist, who fronts the avant-pop band Transmitting with Tom Abbs. Her last book of poetry, “Names” was published by Booklyn (no “R”) as part of the award winning ABC Chapbook series. Her work has appeared in many publications including: Mudfish, Frank 151, Vector, and Teachers & Writers Magazine. LeCroy's last CD, Transmitting "Dark and Full of Life” was released on the European label, Delphy Records. She is a teaching artist working in New York schools through Teachers & Writers Collaborative, Global Writes and DreamYard, she does literacy advocacy through Read To Me. LeCroy has many books and recordings available at www.janelecroy.com where you can request to be put on her e list and receive free poems hot off her brain with every show invite.



Sam J. Miller is a writer and a community organizer. His work has been published in The Minnesota Review, Fiction International, Arts & Letters, West Branch, Washington Square, and The Rumpus, as well as anthologies like Best Gay Erotica 2006 & 2008. He's the co-editor of Horror After 9/11, forthcoming from the University of Texas Press. For more info, please visit http://samjmiller.com/.



Born and raised in Nigeria, Uche Nduka is a collagist, eroticist, and songwriter. He is the author of eight books of poems and winner of the Association of Nigerian Authors Poetry Prize in 1997. Some of his writings have been translated into German, Dutch, Romanian, Serbo-Croat, and French. He currently lives - and writes constantly - in New York City.



Puma Perl is a poet and fiction writer, producer, and performance artist who believes strongly in the transformative power of the creative arts. Her work has been published in over 100 print and online journals and anthologies. Her first chapbook, Belinda and Her Friends was awarded the Erbacce Press 2009 Poetry Award; a full length collection, knuckle tattoos, was published in 2010. She lives on the Lower East Side and has facilitated writing workshops in community based agencies and at Riker’s Island, a NYC prison. She is a founding member of DDAY Productions, and curates monthly shows at the Bowery Poetry Club.



Kathleen Warnock is series editor for Best Lesbian Erotica. Her own erotica has appeared in BLE, A Woman's Touch, Friction 7, and Best Lesbian Romance. She curates the reading series Drunken! Careening! Writers! at KGB Bar the third Thursday of every month (since 2004). For more info, please visit http://www.kathleenwarnock.com/.


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Saturday, October 8, 2011

Poet Aimee Herman @ The Inspired Word - Manhattan, NYC



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

Aimee Herman is a performance poet who has been featured at various NYC reading series including In the Flesh Erotic Salon, Hyper Gender, Sideshow: Queer Lit Carnival, and Red Umbrella Diaries. She can be read in anthologies such as: Best American Erotica 2010 (Cleis Press), Nice Girls, Naughty Sex (Seal), hell strung and crooked (Uphook Press), and Focus on the Fabulous: Colorado GLBT Voices. Beyond poetry, Aimee edits erotica for Oysters & Chocolate and also has a column called: notes from a dirty young woman. She is deeply inspired by Charles Bukowski, gender deconstructors, and alphabetized book shelves. She can next be seen at the HOTT festival in July at Dixon Place.

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.

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Sunday, June 26, 2011

JesĂșs Papoleto MelĂ©ndez of the Nuyorican Poets' Movement & Erotic Poet Aimee Herman + Open Mic - Thursday, June 30




Mike Geffner Presents The Inspired Word features poets JesĂșs Papoleto MelĂ©ndez (of the Nuyorican Poets' Movement) and Aimee Herman + a 15-slot Open Mic open to ALL types of artists.

Hosted by 3-time HBO Def Poetry star Gemineye.

ARTIST BIOS:

JesĂșs Papoleto MelĂ©ndez 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.MelĂ©ndez 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."



Aimee Herman is a performance poet who has been featured at various NYC reading series including In the Flesh Erotic Salon, Hyper Gender, Sideshow: Queer Lit Carnival, and Red Umbrella Diaries. She can be read in anthologies such as: Best American Erotica 2010 (Cleis Press), Nice Girls, Naughty Sex (Seal), hell strung and crooked (Uphook Press), and Focus on the Fabulous: Colorado GLBT Voices. Beyond poetry, Aimee edits erotica for Oysters & Chocolate and also has a column called: notes from a dirty young woman. She is deeply inspired by Charles Bukowski, gender deconstructors, and alphabetized book shelves. She can next be seen at the HOTT festival in July at Dixon Place.



*****

When: Thursday, June 30, 2011

Where: One and One Bar & Restaurant (downstairs Nexus Lounge)
76 East 1st Street (corner of 1st Avenue)
Manhattan, NYC
Phone: (212) 598-9126

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

Showtime @ 7:30pm

Cover Charge: $10

NO AGE LIMIT.

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

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