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
 

John Casquarelli is the author of two full-length collections, On Equilibrium of Song (Overpass Books 2011) and Lavender (Authorspress India 2014). He is an English Instructor at CUNY Kingsborough, as well as serving in an advisory role for the Kingsborough Poetry and Creative Writing Club. He was awarded the 2010 Esther Hyneman Award for Poetry. His work has appeared in several journals and anthologies including Storm Cycle: Best of Kind of a Hurricane Press, Pyrokinection, Kinship of Rivers, Miracle, and Downtown Brooklyn.

Tyrek Greene is a 21 year old poet from the Bronx. He began writing poetry at the age of 14 and has been featured in the New York Times and on the New York Knicks fan page. He has performed his original work twice at the legendary Apollo Theater and at the New Amsterdam Theater, as well as published his prose in several literary journals. His biggest inspirations range from Octavia Butler to Tupac Shakur. He uses his poetry as a means to uplift both his community and himself, from the ordinary to the extraordinary. He published his first book, Dawn (evoLution NYC publishing) in mid-August. For more on Tyrek, visit Tyrek Greene official site.

Gabriel Don received her MFA in creative writing at The New School, where she worked as the chapbook competition and reading series coordinator. Her work has appeared in publications such as The Brooklyn Rail, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Understanding Between Foxes and Light, A Minor, Westerly, Mascara Literary Review and is forthcoming in The Legendary and Gargoyle. She has appeared in visual poems such as Woman Without Umbrella and Unbound and has started several reading-soiree series and is editorial staff at LIT.

Professor Righteous is a dynamic poet, writer and performer out of Queens. Though he’s been writing and performing for over 15 years, he just self-published his first collection of poetry and musings, Can’t be Soul(ed) Out, which can be found at cantbesouledout.com and on Amazon.com. He will sometimes make you laugh, but always make you think.

Aimee Herman is a Pushcart Prize nominated performance artist, poet and teacher with an MFA in Creative Writing from Long Island University in Brooklyn, as well as a longtime Inspired Word host. She teaches at Bronx Community College and is a faculty member with Poetry Teachers NYC, offering affordable poetry workshops and creating spaces for other performers to lift their words off the page. She has been published in various journals and anthologies such as:Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics (Nightboat Books) and The Understanding Between Foxes and Light (great weather for MEDIA). Her full-length book of poems to go without blinking was published in 2012 by BlazeVOX books. She can be found wrapped in caution tape in Brooklyn or @ aimeeherman.wordpress.com.