NYC Spoken Word Poetry All-Star Extravaganza - Thursday, Jan. 13

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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SCHEDULED PERFORMERS

Patricia Smith



Willie Perdomo



Oveous Maximus



Steve Colman



Nathan P. 

Vanessa Hidary



Ngoma

Rico Frederick

Gemineye



Brian Dysktra



Simply Rob Vassilarakis



Sean Patrick Conlon



Osagyefo

Ocean Vuong



Erica Miriam Fabri with Robin Andre



Jane LeCroy



Thomas Fucaloro



Jane Ormerod



Tahani Salah



Jamaal St. John



Advocate of Wordz (Host/MC)



Eliel Lucero (DJ)

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"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."
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The Inspired Word's NYC Open Mic Joint with Special Guest Lythion Music - Jan. 6

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.

Visit http://www.lythionmusic.com/ to hear their music and sound design.



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Mike Geffner
Founder/Producer

Brigitte Viellieu-Davis
Artistic Director/Associate Producer

Marvin Mendlinger
Assistant Director

Nathan P.
MC/Host

Happy New Year, Everyone!

“Another fresh new year is here . . .
Another year to live!
To banish worry, doubt, and fear,
To love and laugh and give!

This bright new year is given me
To live each day with zest . . .
To daily grow and try to be
My highest and my best!

I have the opportunity
Once more to right some wrongs,
To pray for peace, to plant a tree,
And sing more joyful songs!”

- William Arthur Ward

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