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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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."

Video - Poet/Musician Tai Allen @ The Inspired Word

Poet/Musician Tai Allen @ Mike Geffner Presents The Inspired Word, Thursday, 2011 @ One and One Bar/Restaurant, Nexus Lounge, Manhattan, NYC.

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.

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.

Videographer: Elaine Delehant

Music by: maJOR LEAGUE, "ROC HORN SOUL"
www.keenentertainmentgroup.com

Legendary Performance Poet jessica Care moore @ The Inspired Word - Jan. 27

Mike Geffner Presents The Inspired Word features one of the all-time great performance poets, jessica Care moore! In town from Motown! Don't miss out on this rare chance to see a living legend!

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Opening for Ms. moore is award-winning poet Tai Allen.

In addition, there will be a 12-slot open mic (open not only to poets and spoken word artists but fiction/nonfiction writers, comedians, monologists, singers, and musicians).


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When: Thursday, Jan. 27, 2011

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: 7:00pm

Cover Charge: $10

Must be 21 years of age or older. Please make sure to bring ID.

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BIOS:

jessica Care moore is an internationally renowned poet, playwright, actor, activist, producer and CEO of Moore Black Press. She is the author of The Words Don't Fit in My Mouth, The Alphabet Verses The Ghetto, God is Not an American, and a forthcoming book of essays, Literary Apartheid. She has performed her poems and solo theater shows all over the United States, in South Africa, and across Europe. From her Broadway performances at Carnegie Hall, or Harlem's Apollo Theater, London's Institute of Contemporary Arts, to New York's Jazz at Lincoln Center, moore believes poems belong everywhere and to everyone.

Her new show, The Missing Project:Pieces of the D is an international storytelling live art music show that features an experimental jazz orchestra and the work of graffiti artist Antonio "Shades" Agee.Her debut rock album, Black Tea will be out when it's finished! moore continues to push the boundaries of genre, with her first conceptual art installation, NANOC: I Sing The Body Electric, opening at Dell Pryor Gallery in 2011. She lives in Detroit, where she is completing her memoir, Love is Not the Enemy, and raising the 4-year old love of her life, King Thomas.

Please visit http://www.mooreblackpress.com/



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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. A record release party for his new LOVE MUSIC will be held at the famed Apollo Theater on April 4th.


Tai Allen @ Poetz Realm - Beautiful Day Is.... from PoetzRealm on Vimeo.