Mike Geffner Presents The Inspired Word - One-Year Anniversary All-Star Extravaganza
Patricia Smith
Willie Perdomo
Vanessa Hidary
Oveous
Steve Colman
Ngoma
Ocean Vuong
Nathan P.
Jamaal St. John
Tahani Salah
Jane Ormerod
Thomas Fucaloro
Gemineye
Brian Dyksytra
Simply Rob
Rico Frederick
Jane LeCroy
Erica Miriam Fabri with Robin Andre
Osagyefo
Advocate of Wordz
Eliel Lucero
Sean Patrick Conlon
Place: (Le) Poisson Rouge
Downstairs Gallery Bar
158 Bleecker Street (between Sullivan and Thompson)
Manhattan, New York City
Mike Geffner Presents The Inspired Word features two of today's finest crime fiction writers, Thomas H. Cook(Edgar Allan Poe Award winner) and Bruce DeSilva (widely acclaimed for his recent debut novel Rogue Island).
In addition to Mr. Cook and Mr. DeSilva, there will be a 12-slot open mic (open to all types of artists).
When: Thursday, Jan. 20, 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: 7pm
Cover Charge: $10
Must be 21 years of age or older. Please make sure to bring ID.
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Thomas H. Cook is the author of twenty-five novels and two works of non-fiction. He has been nominated seven times for the EDGAR ALLAN POE AWARD in five different categories. His book, THE ChATHAM SCHOOL AFFAIR won the EDGAR for Best Novel in 1996. In addition his works have won the MARTIN BECK AWARD of the Swedish Academy of Detection twice, the only author ever to have done so. His book, RED LEAVES, won the Barry Award and he has been nominated for the Macavity, the Anthony, the Silver Dagger from the British Association of Crime Writers and the Hammett Prize. His short story, "Fatherhood" won the Herodotus Prize. His books have been translated into twenty languages. He lives with his family in Cape Cod and New York City.
Bruce DeSilva worked as a journalist for 40 years, most recently as a senior editor for The Associated Press, before retiring to write crime novels full time. Stories edited by DeSilva have won virtually every major journalism prize including the Polk Award (twice), the Livingston (twice), the ASNE, and the Batten Medal. He also edited two Pulitzer finalists and helped edit a Pulitzer winner. His first novel, "Rogue Island," is being praised by 14 A-list crime writers including Dennis Lehane, Harlan Coben and Michael Connelly and has received rave reviews from The New York Times, The Associated Press, and KIrkus Reviews, to name just a few. The Dallas Morning News said the novel "raises the bar for all books of its kind." The Washington Post called it "as good and true a look at the news game as you'll find this side of "The Front Page." And Publisher's Weekly called its protagonist "a masterpiece of irreverence and street savvy." DeSilva is also a book critic whose reviews have appeared in The New York Times book review section and continue to be published occasioonally by The Associated Press. He and his wife Patricia Smith, an award-winning poet, live in Howell, NJ, with their granddaughter Mikaila and an enormous Bernese Mountain Dog named Brady. For more info, please visit his website http://brucedesilva.com/ and blog: http://brucedesilva.wordpress.com/
Mike Geffner Presents The Inspired Word celebrates its one-year anniversary with a spoken word/poetry event of a lifetime, a lineup to end all lineups, a night you'll remember.
A special event fundraiser for The Inspired Word, featuring 20 of the best performance poets in the NYC area!
Show your love and support! And feel it right back!
When: Thursday, Jan. 13, 2011
Where: (Le) Poisson Rouge (downstairs Gallery Bar)
158 Bleecker Street (between Thompson and Sullivan)
Manhattan, New York City http://www.lepoissonrouge.com/
Phone: (212) 505-3474
Time: 6:00pm
Cover Charge: $15
Must be 21 years of age or older. Please make sure to bring ID.
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Yellow journalism - a type of journalism that downplays legitimate news in favor of eye-catching headlines that sell more newspapers. Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst were American newspaper publishers who used melodrama, romance, and hyperbole to sell millions of newspapers; a style that became known as yellow journalism.
"If I chance to talk a little wild, forgive me."
- William Shakespeare
"It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous."
- Robert Benchley
"Like stones, words are laborious and unforgiving, and the fitting of them together, like the fitting of stones, demands great patience and strength of purpose and particular skill."
- Edmund Morrison
"My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way."
- Ernest Hemingway
"Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason."
- Andre Gide
"Poets need not go to Niagara to write about the force of falling water."
- Robert Frost
"Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it, and above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light."
- Joseph Pulitzer
Mike Geffner Presents The Inspired Word launches its 2011 season by featuring a night showcasing open mic talent and offering a musical interlude by special guest Lythion Music.
It will also be the debut of poet/former Nuyorican Poets Cafe host Nathan P. as Inspired Word special Guest MC/Host.
There will be 15 available open mic slots, each as long as FIVE minutes, and open to ALL types of artists: poets, spoken word artists, fiction/nonfiction writers, comedians, monologists, singers, actors, playwrights, musicians, ANYTHING.
Just hit us with your best stuff!
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When: Thursday, Jan. 6, 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: 7pm
Cover Charge: $10
Must be 21 years of age or older. Please make sure to bring ID.
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Lythion Music is the husband and wife duo of James Harrell (composer, producer, multi-instrumentalist, engineer) and Ilyana Kadushin (singer, songwriter, producer, performance coach). Together they have been composing and producing music for television, theater, film, studio and live performance for the last ten years. In addition to their music, Ilyana is widely known as the narrator for Stephenie Meyerʼs “Twilight”
series audiobooks.
After scoring music for Nickelodeon Television, they brought forth their talents as artists and activists to produce works for pieces that include:
“Separate, But Equal,” the upcoming documentary they scored and co-produced about the Mississippi photographs of Henry Clay Anderson which will be on display at the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, DC.
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