About this Event
First poet hits the mic at 8:15pm sharp! This series has become a New York favorite and the venue, Book Club Bar, is an exceptional setting! FREE show, donations welcome, come early and enjoy some wine or coffee... this is not an open mic. Featured poets bios below.
MacDowell fellow Chavisa Woods is the author of four books including Things To Do When You’re Goth in the County and 100 Times (A Memoir of Sexism), both out from Seven Stories Press. she is the recipient of the Kathy Acker Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, and Cobalt’s Zora Neale Hurston prize for fiction. She currently serves as the Executive Director of A Gathering of the Tribes (AGOTT) and Editor in Chief of AGOTT Magazine Online at tribes.org .
Dr. Grisel Y. Acosta is an associate professor at the City University of New York-BCC. Her first book of poetry, Things to Pack on the Way to Everywhere, is an Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize finalist released from Get Fresh Books in 2021. Recent work can be found in Best American Poetry, The Baffler, Split this Rock, Acentos Journal, Kweli Journal, Red Fez, In Full Color, Paterson Literary Review, MiPoesias, Short Plays on Reproductive Freedom, and Celebrating Twenty Years of Black Girlhood: The Lauryn Hill Reader. She is a Geraldine Dodge Foundation Poet, a Macondo Fellow, a panelist for the 2020 NYFA Poetry Fellowships, a panelist for the 2020 Rasmuson Fellowships, and the editor of Latina Outsiders Remaking Latina Identity (Routledge, 2019), an anthology that features over 30 Latinx contributors and subjects.
Norman Douglas does way too much even tho he says he does as little as possible. Hood first prose collection dropped in the fall of 2020. He lives in a distant corner of outer space.
Presenter producer Galinsky is an L.E.S. resident most recently invited to perform his poetry at the 2022 Whitney Biennial in honor of poet, friend and mentor Steve Cannon. Galinsky develops and coaches TED Talks, is an Off Broadway playwright and actor with the acclaimed solo show “The Bench, A Homeless Love Story,” and he teaches incarcerated teens at Rikers Island J*il and various NYC prisons and jails. galinskycoaching.com
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Book Club, 197 East 3rd Street, New York, United States
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