Jon Sands, host of phati’tude’s “Real Poetry, Real Talk”, is a great up-and-coming poet that covers the gamut: teacher, activist, slam poet, spoken word artist and now, published author with his first poetry collection, The New Clean.
Our Launch Party @ the Bowery Poetry Club on Friday was a great success! Everyone had a great time, it was fantastic to meet up with old friends and make new ones. Check out the photos to see more!
The Bowery Poetry Club
Friday, July 9, 2010 @ 7:30PM
featuring
Tara Betts, Timothy Liu, Eileen Myles, Angelo Nikolopoulos,
Nancy Mercado, Jeffrey Perkins, Devi Lockwood,
Sue Sinclair, Jon Sands & Jesús Papoleto Meléndez
with special guest David Henderson
Ekphrasis: A Conversation Between Poets & Artists: When a writer interprets a work of visual art and then creates a narrative in verse form that represents his or her reaction to that work. DEADLINE: August 15, 2010
Beth Bachmann’s Temper, winner of the 2008 AWP Award Series Donald Hall Prize (published in Fall 2009 by University of Pittsburgh Press), was selected by judges Linda Gregerson, Carl Phillips, Paul Muldoon, Ted Genoways, and Charles Harper Webb as winner of this year’s $10,000 Kate Tufts Discovery Award.
Native American author Sherman Alexie won this year’s prestigious PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for his innovative book War Dances, (Grove Press), short stories linked through poems.
“Hemingway, remarks are not literature,” said Miss Stein imperiously. In Dorothy Parker’s case, however, the remarks, the snappy comebacks, live on, no matter how inexpert the witnesses (Mrs. Parker included).
Author Robert Philipson talks about dating and companionship in his book of poems, Very Good-Looking Seeks Same, an eclectic set of poetic profiles that reflect the diversity of the online queer community.
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