2008:

Monday May 5 NYC
10-YEAR Anniversary launch party + CD recording + Featured poets Patricia Smith and Thomas Sayers Ellis!

WHERE: Bar 13, 35 E. 13th Street, Union Square

WHEN: Monday, May 5 at 7 p.m. -- plus OPEN BAR pre-party from 6:30-7:30!
(2-for-1 drinks after 7:30)

HOW MUCH: $6 / $5 for students.

PATRICIA SMITH is one of the world's most formidable poet/performers. A four-time national individual slam champion, she starred in SlamNation and appeared on HBO's Def Poetry Jam, and travels the world teaching and performing. Her latest book, "Teahouse of the Almighty,"(Coffee House Press) was chosen by Edward Sanders as a National Poetry Series winner, voted as the Best Poetry Book of 2006 on About. com, and was awarded the 2007 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and the Paterson Poetry Prize. Her new book, "Blood Dazzler," will be published by Coffee House in 2008. She is also the author of three previous books of poetry -- "Close to Death" (Zoland Books), "Big Towns, Big Talk" (Zoland) and "Life According to Motown" (Tia Chucha).

THOMAS SAYERS ELLIS co-founded The Dark Room Collective in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1988 and received his MFA from Brown University in 1995. His work has appeared in many journals and anthologies, including Poetry, Grand Street, Tin House, Ploughshares and The Best American Poetry, 1997 and 2001. Mr. Ellis is a contributing editor to Callaloo and Poets and Writers. In 2005 he was awarded a Mrs. Giles Whiting Writers' Award. His first full collection, "The Maverick Room," was published by Graywolf Press in 2005 and awarded The 2006 John C. Zacharis First Book Award. He is also the author of "The Good
Junk" (Take Three #1, Graywolf 1996); a chapbook "The Genuine Negro Hero" (Kent State University Press, 2001) and the chaplet "Song On" (WinteRed Press 2005).

Other performers will include: Willie Perdomo, Samantha Thornhill, John Murillo, Patrick Rosal, Mara Jebsen, Fish Vargas, Emily Kagan, Raymond Daniel Medina, Marty McConnell, Rachel McKibbens, Lynne Procope, Carlos Andres Gomez, David Ayllon, Eliel Lucero, Matthew Charles Siegel, Abena Koomson, Jai Chakrabarti, Elana Bell, Marie-Elizabeth Mali, Rich Villar, Guy LeCharles Gonzalez, Oveous Maximus, Michael Cirelli, Cheryl Boyce Taylor, and more!

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Tuesday February 12, Bronx, NY
Acentos Bronx Poetry Showcase
I will be the featured poet
7 pm, The Bruckner Bar & Grill
1 Bruckner Boulevard (Corner of Third Avenue)
6 Train to 138th Street
FREE ($5 Suggested Donation)
For more information, please call 917-209-4211

Friday-Sunday April 25-27 Bronxville, NY
The Fifth Annual Sarah Lawrence Poetry Festival
I'm reading Friday 25th at 7:30 pm at Heimbold
with Sage Francis and Sonia Sanchez!
See Entire Festival Schedule
The whole festival is free!
Directions to SLC