The Inspired Word NYC Poetry/Spoken Word Event - Hallie S. Hobson, Marcus Jackson, Nicole Sealey + Open Mic!

Mike Geffner presents The Inspired Word NYC poetry/spoken word event, featuring Hallie S. Hobson, Marcus Jackson, Nicole Sealey + 10-slot open mic!

When: Thursday, July 29, 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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Hallie S. Hobson is a poet, playwright and Cave Canem fellow. She has been featured at the LouderArts Project and Bryant Park Reading Room reading series and has read commissioned works in conjunction with exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum and The Studio Museum in Harlem. Hallie received her bachelor’s degree from Yale and an MFA in playwriting from UCLA.

Marcus Jackson was born in Toledo, Ohio. His poetry has appeared in The New Yorker, The Harvard Review, The Cincinnati Review, and Hayden’s Ferry Review, among many other publications. He has received fellowships from New York University and Cave Canem. His chapbook, Rundown, was recently published by Aureole Press. His debut collection of poems, Neighborhood Register, will be released in the Fall of 2011.

Nicole Sealey is a writer, editor and Cave Canem fellow. Her work has appeared in a number of journals including Callaloo, The Drunken Boat, Sou’wester and Torch.

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10 Random Things about me.....

10 Random Things about me.....

1. I lost my mother when I was 16 to breast cancer, just a month before my high school graduation, and I often say that my mother's death was the "best and worst thing that ever happened to me." Worst, for the obvious reasons. Best, in that it made me not only independent at a young age but determined to honor her life by achieving something great.

2) I'm often accused of being a bleeding-heart liberal, but I'm actually fiercely independent.

3) Every time I walk into a room, I alternately think I'm the best or worst person there. Am I alone in this feeling?

4) Despite being a fairly public person and someone who's appeared live on radio and TV before millions of people - and sound pretty good, if I don't say so myself - I'm often very shy in one-on-one situations.

5) My father was the greatest man I've ever known, a man of principle and character. A father and husband first, everything else a distant second.

6) I hate talking on the phone most of the time.

7) I get compliments for my blue eyes all the time. Not only from women but from men. Favorite compliment: "Wow, do they glow in the dark?"

8) My first girlfriend's name was Amy Fisher. Nooooooo, not THAT ONE!

9) I dont have many close friends, but the ones I do have couldn't be closer. They'd do anything for me and vice versa.

10) I may be a sports journalist, but the truth is, I almost never watch a sporting event unless I'm working it. In fact, I haven't been a fan for decades and, quite frankly, don't get the whole idea of being a fan of a team once you've entered adulthood. I guess I'm the weirdest sportswriter you know.