Singer/Poet Tai Allen Headlines + Comedian Ilya Rashkovskiy + Open Mic - Sept. 12

he Inspired Word presents one of the most powerful and versatile performers in NYC, Tai Allen + comedian Ilya Rashkovskiy + our amazing 20-slot open mic open to all types of artists. Hosted by Nathan P.

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BIOS:

Tai Allen is a poet, singer, musician, designer and multi-talented artist. His influences range from Bob Marley and Aretha Franklin to Norman Connor and Gil Scot-Heron to the Beatles and Post-Modernism. His writing and essays have appeared in Bomb Magazine, Uptown Magazine Online, the NYC Underground (France) and the Daily Challenge. Tai's chapbook, Easy Readin, and companion CD, For Easy Readin, have been featured on BET/CentricTV, Soultracks and Nu-Soul Magazine. He is the National Poetry Awards 2010 Winner for best album and was a nominee for best single. He is also shares a partnership with Jonn Nubian on an interactive/music production company called Vicelounge (http://vicelounge.com/).



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Ilya Rashkovskiy has had an unusual trek to the New York City comedy scene. He was born in Russia, but moved to America when he was 7 years old. He had a job in finane, but quit after only two months. He played poker for two years, but left that too. For the last two years, he’s split his time between selling real estate and making people laugh. He’s performed and hosted at the Comic Strip and produced his own comedy shows at Will McBride’s in Hoboken, New Jersey, where he currently resides.

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Produced by: Mike Geffner Presents The Inspired Word

http://inspiredwordnyc.com/

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When: Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012

Where: 116
116 MacDougal Street
(between Bleecker Street and Minetta Lane)
New York, NY 10012
Phone: (917) 703-1512

Doors open for open mic sign-up @ 7pm

Show starts @ 7:30pm

Cover Charge: $10

NO AGE LIMIT.


"It's not just a series...it's a movement."

2011 Individual World Poetry Slam Champ Chris August + Poet Stephanie Rogers & Open Mic - Wed, Jan. 25

The Inspired Word presents the 2011 Individual Word Poetry Slam Champion Chris August + spoken word poet Stephanie Rogers & our amazing 20-slot open mic open to all types of artists (comedians, musicians, storytellers, fiction/nonfiction writers, as well as poets and spoken word artists).

Hosted by HBO Def Poetry star Gemineye.

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BIOS:

Chris August was crowned the best performance poet in the country last year, winning the prestigious Individual World Poetry Slam in Cleveland, Ohio. He is a special educator, writer and activist from Baltimore, Maryland. He has been involved in the national performance poetry community since 2002, and has been published in numerous collections and toured and competed throughout most of the country.



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A spoken word performer, former competitive storyteller and a Twitter-wiseass, Stephanie Rogers realized her love for the written word early, reciting poetry in her community church. However, thanks to a congregation member appropriating a particular favorite reading, she was inspired to create her own poetic works. Since receiving her Bachelor’s Degree from the College of Mount St. Vincent, she has been published in the Iliad Press Anthology “MUSES” and Playboy Magazine, participated in workshops with Cave Canem and Urban Word, and has performed in open-mic poetry events in New York and New Jersey. She’s been a featured performer at STARK Wide Open, as well as the famed Nuyorican Poets Café. Recently she’s been embraced by the The Inspired Word community, as well as the Open Mic Joint and considers both venues her poet/performer homes. Her first book, “Just Something I’ve Got to Say”, dedicated to the middle-finger moments of city living, loving and writing will be released in January 2012. Her ambition is to take her poetry to the four corners of the US (perhaps two in Canada), to finish and produce the one-act plays she started in college, and to use her writing in a positive fashion; a little scathing, sometimes amusing, but always inspiring.



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When: Wednesday, Jan. 25 , 2012

Where: 116 116 MacDougal Street (between Bleecker Street and Minetta Lane) Downstairs Lounge Manhattan, NY 10012 (212) 254-9996 (917) 703-1512

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

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

Show starts @ 7pm

Cover Charge: $10

NO AGE LIMIT.

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

For more info on The Inspired Word, check out our website @ http://inspiredwordnyc.com/

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 1st Slam Championship w/Host Gemineye - Thursday, Dec. 1

Thursday night goes BOOM!

This year's Slam Master Jam winners - 5 of the Tri-State's most dangerous slam poets, Omar Ion Holman, Big Mike, Peter Seaton AKA Rain Maker, Robert Rosa AKA Quote, and Christine-Jean Blain - battle it out for $500 in prize money, a feature spot in 2012, and bragging rights to The Inspired Word's 1st Slam Master Jam Championship.

Hosted by 3-time HBO Def Poetry star Gemineye.

1st Place - $300 (plus a feature spot for 2012 and included in the 2 year anniversary show on Jan. 6)

2nd Place- $100

3rd Place - $75

4th Place - $15

5th Place - $10
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The Combatants:

Christine-Jean Blain














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When: Thursday, Dec. 1, 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 @ 6:30pm

Showtime @ 7pm

Cover Charge: $10

NO AGE LIMIT.

HBO Def Poetry Superstar Shihan + Singer Jazz Horn, Welsh Poet Rhian & Open Mic - Thursday, Nov. 17

The Inspired Word presents HBO Def Poetry superstar Shihan + singer Jazzmeia Horn + Welsh poet Rhian + 15-slot open mic open to all kinds of artists.

Hosted by Def Poet Gemineye.
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Shihan is undoubtedly one of the most dynamic spoken word artists of our generation. He made seven appearances on HBO Def Poetry and is the first and only poet to have a poem named “Download of the Week” on iTunes. He was the National Poetry Slam Champion, twice National Poetry Slam Finalist, and has been featured on a variety of media outlets, including NBC, Oprah Winfrey's Oxygen Network, Al Gore's Current TV, Nike Battlegrounds, Reebok, Adidas, NBA, CNN, Artisan Films Belly DVD, Complex, Billboard Magazine, several national commercial spots, five national tours (including the Tony Award Winning Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry Jam International Tour) and two upcoming Spoken Word documentaries (SP!T and the sequel to the 1997 cult doc Slam Nation, Slam Planet). His ability to transcend cultural and generational boundaries has made Shihan a much-sought-after talent.







With a name like Jazzmeia Horn, she was obviously born to be a songstress in the great tradition of America's classic music, a throwback to the days of Ella and Lena and Nina and Billie. With a voice so irresistibly smooth and grounded in the utmost respect for the vocabulary of the song, she'll take you on a luscious journey down memory lane. "I approach a song with moral and reasonable certitude that lies within my voice," she says. She has performed at such notable New York City jazz clubs as Fat Cat, Miles' Cafe, and Dizzy's, and has been a Downbeat award-winning vocalist three years in a row. For more info, please visit http://www.theartistryofjazzhorn.com/.



Rhian is a poet, singer and songwriter. Her first collection of poems Clueless Dogs is due to be published by Seren in February 2012. Rhian's pamphlet Parade the Fib, (Tall-Lighthouse), was awarded the Poetry Book Society Choice for autumn 2008. Rhian has been published in the Times Literary Supplement, Poetry Review, Arete, Stand Magazine, the Spectator, Poetry London, Poetry Wales, Planet and the London Magazine.


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When: Thursday, Nov. 17, 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!

Video - Poet Rachel Eliza Griffiths @ The Inspired Word Spoken Word Series of NYC

Poet Rachel Eliza Griffiths @ Mike Geffner Presents The Inspired Word, Thursday, Sept. 8, 2011 @ One and One Bar/Restaurant, Nexus Lounge, Manhattan, NYC.

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/.

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

Spoken Word Poet Dwayne Morgan @ The Inspired Word NYC Poetry Event

Spoken Word Poet Dwayne Morgan @ Mike Geffner Presents The Inspired Word, Thursday, July 7, 2011 @ One and One Bar/Restaurant, Nexus Lounge, Manhattan, NYC.

Dwayne Morgan began his career as a spoken word artist in 1993. In 1998, Morgan received both the African Canadian Achievement Award and the Harry Jerome Award for Excellence in the Arts. He is also the winner of three Canadian Urban Music Awards (2001, 2003, 2005). In 2005 he was recognized as Poet of Honour at the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word in Vancouver. In 2008 Morgan's contribution to the Arts and Canadian society were recognized on the Official Black History Month poster.

Videographer: Denise Goins (http://www.denisegoins.com/) and Alan Mohammed.

Actor Rock Wilk + Poet E. Amato + The Truth Urban Theater Group + Open Mic - Thursday, Aug. 18

The Inspired Word presents actor/playwright/poet Rock Wilk and The Truth Urban Theater Group + special guest poet E. Amato + 15-slot open mic open to all kinds of artists

Hosted by 3-time HBO Def Poetry star Gemineye.

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ARTIST BIOS:

An actor, a playwright and a poet, New York City's own Rock Wilk is also a socially and politically charged vocalist and an accomplished multi-instrumentalist. He creates all of this art while riding the subways of NYC. Along with being a Nuyorican Poet's semifinalist and 2010 runoffs qualifier for The Nuyorican's national team, Rock also was recently a featured performer for Amnesty International at an event for human rights.

He has worked as a studio and touring background vocalist for many years, most recently singing with the legendary Patti LaBelle and contributing vocal and horn arrangements to the Grammy Award winning Les Paul compilation album, LES PAUL AND FRIENDS. Rock's music can also be heard on such TV shows as MTV's "The Real World" and "Making The Band," among others.

He is currently developing his play, BROKE WIDE OPEN, a one person show, which was presented in July of 2010 at undergroundzero, as part of the Playgroundzero Festival at PS 122 in Manhattan. In September of 2010, BROKE WIDE OPEN was also mounted as a 3 week, 12 performance workshop at The Medicine Show Theatre, also in NYC. Rock is currently touring BROKE WIDE OPEN all over the United States. BROKE WIDE OPEN will also be presented as part of The Camden Fringe Festival in London, England, in August of 2011.

For more info on Rock, please visit http://www.brokewideopen.c​om/home.html.



The Truth Urban Theater Group, a youth/young adult theater organization based out of Long Island, New York, takes the audience on an emotional journey with a riveting performance using poetry, music and drama. Their passion has earned them the National NAACP-ACT-SO Gold medal, a headline spot at the Nuyorican poets cafe and countless invitations to perform at colleges, festivals and state functions. For more more, please visit http://www.thetruthplay.we​bs.com/.



E. Amato is privileged to perform her words around the world. Her first poetry collection, Swimming Through Amber, was published in 2010 by Zesty Pubs. In 2011, she competed as a storm poet at WOWps and is a member of the Los Angeles Slam Team. Down Home, her performance venue, made its international debut at the Festival Fringe in Edinburgh in 2007, earning 5 star reviews 2 years in a row. She was an Associate Coordinator for Youthspeaks’ Brave New Voices in 2004 as well as coach of the beloved Peace4Kids team.



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When: Thursday, Aug. 18, 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!

Poet Amy Leigh Cutler @ The Inspired Word Spoken Word Poetry Event

Poet Amy Leigh Cutler @ Mike Geffner Presents The Inspired Word, Thursday, July 21, 2011 @ One and One Bar/Restaurant, Nexus Lounge, Manhattan, NYC.

Cutler is the author of Orange Juice and Rooftops and the chapbooks "American Woman" and "You Gentle Thing." In 2011, she received the Esther Unger Poetry Prize, the Goodman Fund Poetry Award, and the David Markowitz Poetry Award. She has toured the United States and in the UK, and was nominated for the Best Performance by an International Poet at the Farrago Poetry Slam in London. She works as a photojournalist for The Basics online magazine and will continue writing her words around the world until it stops turning. For more info, please visit http://www.amyleighcutler.com/

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.

Filmed & Edited By: Eugene Woody.
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Video - Spoken Word Poet Esoteric Structure @ NYC's Inspired Word

Spoken Word Poet Esoteric Structure @ Mike Geffner Presents The Inspired Word, Thursday, May 26, 2011 @ One and One Bar/Restaurant, Nexus Lounge, Manhattan, NYC. Hosted by HBO Def Poetry star Gemineye.

Esoteric Structure is a spoken word poet and the winner of the 2nd Inspired Word "American Idol" contest. He's also a clothing designer, illustrator and filmmaker. He recently completed a short film called "Dom & Magdalena."

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.

Venue: One and One, downstairs Nexus Lounge, 76 East 1st Street (corner of 1st Avenue), Manhattan, New York City.

Videographer: Amanda Hiciano

Poets Kamilah Aisha Moon & Dwayne Morgan + Open Mic - Thursday, July 7

Mike Geffner Presents The Inspired Word features two amazing and amazingly different artists - Brooklyn-by-way-of-Nashville poet Kamilah Aisha Moon and Toronto superstar spoken word poet Dwayne Morgan.

Plus, a 15-slot open mic (open to poets, spoken word artists, actors, fiction/nonfiction writers, comedians, storytellers, singers, musicians, ANYTHING and EVERYTHING).

Hosted by 3-time HBO Def Poetry star Gemineye.

BIOS:

Kamilah Aisha Moon is an alumna of Cave Canem. A recipient of fellowships to the Prague Summer Writing Institute, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA, and the Vermont Studio Center, her work has been featured or is forthcoming in several journals and anthologies, including The Harvard Review, jubilat, Sou’wester, The Oxford American, Lumina, Callaloo, Bittersweet, Open City, Essence, Bloom, Obsidian III, Mosaic, Gathering Ground, The Ringing Ear and Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry. A featured poet in conferences and venues around the country, she has also led creative writing residencies for the Langston Hughes National Poetry Project, Community~Word Project, Acentos and Voices UnBroken. Moon received her MFA in Creative Writing from Sarah Lawrence College. A native of Nashville, Tennessee, Moon currently lives in Brooklyn, NY. For more info on Ms. Moon, please visit http://www.kamilahaishamoon.org/

Kamilah Aisha Moon reads "Borderless Country" from heather christle on Vimeo.

Dwayne Morgan began his career as a spoken word artist in 1993. In 1998, Morgan received both the African Canadian Achievement Award and the Harry Jerome Award for Excellence in the Arts. He is also the winner of three Canadian Urban Music Awards (2001, 2003, 2005). In 2005 he was recognized as Poet of Honour at the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word in Vancouver. In 2008 Morgan’s contribution to the Arts and Canadian society were recognized on the Official Black History Month poster.



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When: Thursday, July 7, 2011

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

Time: Open Mic sign-up starts @ 6:30pm. Show starts @ 7:30pm

Cover Charge: $10

NO AGE LIMIT!

Jesús Papoleto Meléndez of the Nuyorican Poets' Movement & Erotic Poet Aimee Herman + Open Mic - Thursday, June 30

Mike Geffner Presents The Inspired Word features poets Jesús Papoleto Meléndez (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:

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."



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.



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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."

Poet t'ai freedom ford @ The Inspired Word NYC Spoken Word Poetry Event

Poet t'ai freedom ford @ Mike Geffner Presents The Inspired Word, Thursday, Feb. 24, 2011 @ One and One Bar/Restaurant, Nexus Lounge, Manhattan, NYC.

She is a recovering slam poet who was a member of the 2003 and 2005 Louder Arts/Bar 13 National Slam teams. Having retired from the scene, t'ai has taught high school English for the last 7 years, but, like any recovering slam addict, she occasionally finds herself in dusky bars with a mic in her hand, fiending for applause. For more info, please check out her site http://www.taifreedomford.com/

The Inspired Word is New York City's hottest new spoken word poetry series happening every Thursday night in downtown Manhattan, produced by longtime journalist and former Village Voice columnist Mike Geffner.

Videographer: Elaine Delehant

Music: 1 HORN LOVE 86BPM Keen Entertainment
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The Inspired Word's NYC Rising Stars Night + Open Mic - Thursday, May 26

Mike Geffner Presents The Inspired Word features Rising Stars Night: spoken word poet Esoteric Structure, actress/poet Lillian Rodriguez, and Blues/Art Rock/Baroque Pop band Sylvana Joyce + The Moment.

Also a 15-slot open mic (open not only to poets and spoken word artists but fiction/nonfiction writers, comedians, monologists, singers, and musicians).

Hosted by 3-time HBO Def Poetry star Gemineye.

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ARTIST BIOS:

Lillian Rodriguez was raised in the Bronx. She is an actor and a spoken word poet. First working with International WOW Theatre Company in the summer of 2009, she has since, had her Fringe Festival, NYC debut in "Survival of the Fittest," was 'Helen of Troy' in "The Trojan Women" at Looking Glass Theatre, and acted in "Men Die and They Aren't Happy," a film touring the world (from Miami to Haifa, Israel). She works as an Associate Correspondent on Diplomatically Incorrect at the United Nations, where she interviews women active in art and diplomacy; exploring the notion of the "Diplomat Artist." Lillian just finished shooting the second webisode of "Red Notice," she plays a lead in this webseries based off Dante's Inferno. For more info, please check out http://www.lillianrodriguez.com/.

In the summer of 2010, Sylvana Joyce (piano/voice/music/lyrics) founded a five-oiece band with her childhood friend, Sean-David Cunningham (violin), after finally deciding to get her lifelong itch to perform out of her skin. The granddaughter of the late Romanian composer/celebrity George Sbarcea, Sylvana took to songwriting early in life. Her compositions range the spectrum of Blues, Soul, Jazz, Cabaret, and Gypsy, with a nod to her Eastern European heritage and theatre background that has drawn comparison to Gogol Bordello, Dresden Dolls and Billie Holiday. So far, the band has garnered a respectable reputation among Boston and NYC venues, having impressed McGann's, Parkside Lounge and The Bitter End, as well as having enjoyed a long summer residency at Northern Soul in Hoboken, NJ, where they later performed as nominees for Best Band of 2010 at the Hoboken Music Awards. Their next show will be as headliners at the Algonquin Seaport Theater at South Street Seaport, Pier 17, on May 28. For more info, go to sylvanajoyce.com.

Esoteric Structure is a spoken word poet and the winner of the 2nd Inspired Word "American Idol" contest. He's also a clothing designer, illustrator and filmmaker. He recently completed a short film called "Dom & Magdalena."



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When: Thursday, May 26, 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's Hot NYC Spoken Word Poetry Open Mic

The Inspired Word's hot open mic @ One and One Bar/Restaurant, Nexus Lounge, Manhattan, NY.

Featured in this video: Featuring Nathan P., Alexander Hu, Mark Anthony Vigo, Starski, Kevin Patrick Nelson, Dean El Negro, Joy Deva Baglio, Ululy Rafael Martinez, Maria Chisolm, and Romeo Ballantine. Host: Erica Bradshaw.

The Inspired Word is New York City's hottest new spoken word poetry series happening every Thursday night in downtown Manhattan, produced by longtime writer/journalist and former Village Voice columnist Mike Geffner.

The Inspired Word open mic is open to ALL types of artists - comedians, storytellers, musicians, singers, as well as poets and spoken word artists. 

Filmed and Edited by: Laurence Wallace
http://www.laurencewallace.com/

Music by: Oveous
http://oveous.blogspot.com/

Mike Geffner's Inspired Word NYC Poetry/Spoken Word Event - Thursday, Sept. 16!

Mike Geffner Presents The Inspired Word poetry/spoken word event, featuring poets/spoken word/performance artists Luis Bernard, Jason Schneiderman, the Three GoD/Desses + 10-slot open mic.

When: Thursday, Sept. 16, 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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Bios:

Born in Spanish Harlem and, as he puts it, "raised in Activism." Luis Bernard is a Residential Mentor and Director of Workshops for the performance poetry group The Babble{0}nianz, which addresses community issues. He created a youth outreach organization called “The In Progress Group," has been a staunch advocate for citywide educational support for the physically challenged, and taught poetry, creative writing, public speaking and has coached participants for the ACT-SO (Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics) Regional competitions as well as being a committee member. He's been a featured poet at “Soul Food @ Bookies” in Portland Oregon, appeared in “DuEwa M. Frazier’s “Bringing in the New: Poems for the City” at the Nuyorican Poets Café, Vibe Theory in both Manhattan and Brooklyn. He currently lives in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn.

Jason Schneiderman is the author of Sublimation Point, a Stahlecker Selection from Four Way Books, and Striking Surface, winner of the 2009 Richard Snyder Prize from Ashland Poetry Press. His poetry and essays have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including American Poetry Review, The Best American Poetry, Poetry London, Grand Street, The Penguin Book of the Sonnet, Story Quarterly, and Tin House. He has received fellowships from Yaddo, The Fine Arts Work Center, and The Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. He was the recipient of the Emily Dickinson Award from the Poetry Society of America in 2004. A graduate of the MFA program at NYU, he is currently completing his doctorate at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

"A Night Of Three GoD/Desses" Presents: Land of Milk, Honey and Rose" featuring MilDred "Dred" Gerestant, Tantra-zawadi and Sokhna Heathyre Mabin in an evening of music, dance/movement, poetry, and gender expression. MilDred Gerestant's work is about BEing FREE to be yourSELF without worrying about if society will accept you or not. Tantra-zawadi describes her work as "the love that I make through my art to the vision of the unseen reality." Soulful and sublime, her poetry explores love in all its forms. Tantra's latest book "Gathered at Her Sky" is available at Lulu and Amazon.com. Sokhna Heathyre Mabin creates from self-reflected observations of longing to be one with nature. A self taught artist, she has performed on stages, beaches, in caves and in sacred gardens all around the world. For more information about the God/desses or to have "A Night of Three God/desses" perform at your event, please contact Mildred Gerestant at www.dredlove.com.

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New Vid! Tongo @ Mike Geffner's Inspired Word NYC Poetry/Spoken Word Event

Poet/Spoken Word Artist Tongo Eisen-Martin @ Mike Geffner Presents The Inspired Word NYC poetry/spoken word event, Thursday, Aug. 19, 2010, One and One Bar & Restaurant, Manhattan, NYC.

Videographer: Elaine Delehant (bonobofilms.com)

Pics - Joanna Hoffman @ The Inspired Word NYC Spoken Word Poetry Event

 

Photos by: Cathryn Lynne

Poet/Spoken Word Artist Joanna Hoffman
Mike Geffner Presents The Inspired Word NYC Poetry/Spoken Word Event
July 15, 2010 @ One and One Bar and Restaurant, Manhattan, New York City