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
 

Bridgett M. Davis is a Detroit native who now calls Brooklyn her home. Davis’ newest book, “Into the Go-Slow,” has been getting rave reviews, and Time Out New York recently listed her as one of the 10 New York Authors to Read Right Now. With an early career as a newspaper reporter at The Philadelphia Inquirer and the Atlanta Journal/Constitution, her articles have appeared in a host of newspapers and magazines; more recently her reviews and essays have appeared in The Washington Post, Essence, O, The Oprah Magazine, TheRoot.com, The Chicago Tribune, and The Detroit Free Press.. Davis’ debut novel, Shifting through Neutral, was a finalist for the 2005 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. Davis is the books editor at Bold As Love Magazine, an online black-culture site, and her work has appeared in the Washington Post, Essence, O, The Oprah Magazine, and TheRoot.com, among other publications. She is a professor at Baruch College, City University of New York, where she is the director of the Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence Program. Check out Ms. Davis’ website.

Scottt Raven is the co-founder of Mayhem Poets a traveling trio of wordsmiths performing at colleges, conferences and schools around the world. He is the author of Sconnettts, a collection of Shakespearean Sonnets (available in print and on Amazon) that compile poems from his relationships over the past 15 years. He’s a member of the Spoken Word Almanac Project (S.W.A.P.) and Poetic People Power. He is also an actor in commercials and the creator of Milkshakespeare, a TV series in development based on his book. Follow Scottt and Spott here.

Gabriel A. Tolliver is a 2009-2010 veteran of Operation Enduring Freedom (Afghanistan), where he served with distinction as a US Army video journalist. While deployed to Afghanistan, Gabriel wrote and published a daily meditation book; Embrace The Suck: 366 Days of courage, strength, inspiration, wisdom and hope-featuring quotes from notable people past and present to help one through the challenges of military deployment and life itself. Prior to joining the Army, Gabriel was a Fort Greene, Brooklyn based freelancer who’s past work includes MTV(most notably YO! MTV RAPS), VH1, Elektra Records, Russell Simmons/Stan Lathan Entertainment Group, National Black Programming Consortium, CURRENT TV and Sesame Street. , he is the 2012 WInner of Best Horror Screenplay, Terror Film Festival. He directed and co-wrote with his wife, Jackie, the crime caper short film “Fleecing Led Zeppelin” and the web series BLACK CAB DIARIES – a re-imagined “Taxi Driver” set in Brooklyn. His passion is creating content/programming across media platforms and diverse worlds as a self described, “creativemothership.”

Barbara Moore is a NYC based poet. Her work has been published in the anthologies How Dirty Girls Get Clean (Art Soldier Liberated Press), In The Company Of Women (Edgar & Lenore’s Publishing House), and …And It Happened Under Cover (NightWing Publications.). Her poetry has appeared in numerous journals, including Wild Goose Poetry Review, Red Fez and Gutter Eloquence. Dancing On Broken Glass is her first published solo collection of poetry. It was released by NightWing Publications in September 2014.

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.

 
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