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We Heart NYC Writers Night + Open Mic – Poetry & Prose We Heart NYC Writers Night + Open Mic – Poetry & Prose

with Verandah-Maureen Shepard, Anne Born, Poet On Watch, Verless Doran, Jara Jones & hosted by Megan DiBello

Fri July 25th, 2014

7:00PM

The Gallery

Minimum Age: 21+

Doors Open: 7:00PM

Show Time: 7:00PM

Event Ticket: $10

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This is a general admission event in The Gallery at LPR.

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We Heart NYC Writers Night + Open Mic – Poetry & Prose

The Inspired Word Presents We Heart NYC Writers Night + Open Mic in The Gallery at LPR.
 
This is a celebration of New York City writers of all types – poets, novelists, journalists, short story writers. Shows will feature as many as five carefully selected readers and a 7-slot open mic (5-minute time limit).
 
Newly released signed books will be available for purchase – a great chance to show local literary love.
 
Please share this event on social networks with the hashtag #SupportLocalWritersNYC. It’s good karma.
 
Produced by Mike Geffner Presents The Inspired Word
 

Verandah-Maureen Shepard

Verandah-Maureen Shepard, an intense lover of the written word since being able to hold a pencil to paper. The Brooklyn born and bred twentysomething author, educator, and spoken word artist infuses analogy and metaphor to paint larger more vivid, complex, graphic, and entertaining pictures that tell the stories of life’s experiences. Please check out her website @ verandahmaureen.com/.

Anne Born

Anne Born is a Michigan-born, Bronx-based writer who writes about living in a big city after having grown up in a small one. She blogs on Open Salon (as Nilesite), Red Room, and she is a contributing writer at The Broad Side. Anne is also the organizer of the NYC Family History Writing Meetup.You can follow Anne on Instagram and Twitter @nilesite, and visit her website @ thebackpackpress.com.

Poet On Watch

Poet On Watch is a southern rooted performance poet and screenwriter. She has worked with theater companies, universities, cultural organizations, social institutions and individual artists across North America, North Africa, Canada and Europe through her commissioned writing programs. She is also the author of two collections of poetry entitled Sageburner Simple Pleasure and Poet On Watch published by Freeverse Publishing a division of the Media Arts & Literacy Institute. To add to her discography, P.O.W. has just recorded and produced two new dub poetry album’s entitled Sageburner: Urban World Music Vol. 1 and Poet On Watch: The Spoken Word Project.

Verless Doran

A native of East Tennessee, Verless Doran now lives and writes in New York with his wife and 2 daughters. His prose and poetry has been published in The Smoking Poet, Dogzplot Literary Journal, Riverbabble Review, The Thirteenth Warrior Review, and many others, as well as the anthologies “Heroin Love Songs” and “The Better Bombshell.” He is the author of the short story collection “The Tinker of Canaan” and “Some Dark Holler, the Appalachian Poems,” available from Sugar Hollow Press.

Jara Jones

Poet Jara Jones is the sort of chap who’d stab you in the throat.
With a paper clip, and a little determination.
Or maybe he’ll make you some pancakes.
Hard to say, really.
 
You can purchase his book of poetry, RAMSHACKLE here.
He also writes a constant stream of poems, songs and rambles on his site: Odes and Nonsense: 21stcenturynonsense.blogspot.com.

hosted by Megan DiBello

Megan DiBello founded Poetry Teachers NYC in 2010. She holds a M.F.A from Naropa University, in Writing & Poetics and a B.A. from Marymount Manhattan College. She has been published in Fact-Similie, Flanour Foundry, The Bathroom, & Monkey Puzzle Press. Megan has performed at the White Box Gallery, The Bowery Poetry Club, The HOWL Festival, The Socrates Sculpture Park, The Center of Book Arts, Metropolitan Pavilion, Columbia University, and the DUMBO Arts Festival. Her first hybrid book is entitled, Voyeur Without A Title.

 
Poetry Teachers NYC official site
@poetryteachnyc
@megandibello

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