InspiredWordNYC Presents The Poetry Hour at the Brooklyn Music Kitchen, featuring 3 talented poets doing 20 minutes apiece.About this Event
InspiredWordNYC Presents The Poetry Hour at Brooklyn Music Kitchen in the heart of Clinton Hill, BK.
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Sunday, May 5
3:30-4:30pm
S. Galvin 3:30pm
Chloe Miller-Bess 3:50
Dub Poet Anton 4:10
Feature Bios:
Chloe Miller-Bess
Bay Area born and raised but now proud resident of Harlem, Chloe Miller-Bess is a lyrical and narrative poet. Her work focuses on themes of familial grief, intergenerational trauma, and the dynamics of human connection through persona poetry. She draws inspiration from writers like Rita Dove, Ocean Vuong, and Rachel Eliza Griffiths. When she's not writing you will find her at home practicing a new Vegan pastry recipe.
Dub Poet Anton
Born in Trinidad, Anton Bernard aka Dub Poet Anton started writing poetry as a form of therapy when he moved to Toronto Canada in the 80's. His first publication (It's Time We Speak) was done in Toronto Canada. He then realized he can take the poems off the page and present them in a performance to music. He moved to America in the late 90s and met up with the New York City Reggae Collective where he was able to grow as an artist. Today, he's not just a published Poet... He's a Recording artist, who produces himself. You can find his work on all Streaming platforms. @dubpoetanton
S. Galvin
S. Galvin is a the author of Ugly Time, The Three Einsteins and The Best Party of our Lives; contributor to The Guardian, Vice Magazine, The Stranger, and City Arts; and also a human bottle rocket. They have an MFA in poetry from the University of Washington. Their website is at http://sarahgalvinwrites.squarespace.com/.
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Sunday, May 19
4-5pm
Walt Panfil 4pm
Alex Crowe 4:20
Kelly Lynn Noll 4:40
Feature Bios:
Kelly Lynn Noll
Born and raised in Queens, Kelly Lynn Noll has also been involved in many theatre productions over the years, wearing many hats as a performer, director and producer (including at the Off Broadway Comedy Club and at Playwrights Downtown). As a poet, Kelly represented Queens at the very popular InspiredWordNYC event, NYC Voices. She has been writing poetry since 11 years old and has worked on curating and editing her life’s work and will be publishing her first book. In her work you will see her passion for philosophy, her personal ups and downs, as well as her relationship to nature, God, religion and (un)requited love. Reading her work is like watching her grow up, all through the lens of her autistic-mind.
Walt Panfil
Walt Panfil is a poet and actor living in Bed Stuy. Their work uses uneven rhythms and extended metaphor to evoke emotional experiences ranging from paralyzing fear and uncertainty to unrestrained hope and wonder. They approach poetry like theatrical soliloquy; a chance to step into another person’s innermost thoughts and experience something through their senses. They draw work from writers across a variety of media, including Vladimir Nabokov, John Darnielle, and Richard Siken.
Alex Crowe
Alex Crowe is an ex punk rocker turned spoken word poet who grew up writing riddles under bridges in New York City. He was the frontman and lyricist for a hardcore and punk band on two separate occasions and even trained to be a professional wrestler before deciding to give spoken word/ slam poetry a chance. He draws inspiration for his poetry from his passion for lyricism, and intricate rhythm technique in underground hip hop. He cites underground hip hop artists Aesop Rock and Eyedea as major influences in his writing style . His subject matter is thought provoking, personal, empathetic and getting down to the harsh truth in a raw, visceral, emotional and performative artistic design.
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Sunday, June 2
3-4pm
King Shawn Da Dawnn 3pm
AC Lightnin 3:20
Will Succeed 3:40
Feature Bios:
Will Succeed The Artist
William Edward Graham III A.K.A. Will Succeed The Artist is a poet and songwriter. He enjoys encouraging fellow talents and finds inspiration from his underground peers. Rarely did he listen to music in his childhood he'd hum his own tunes to his writings and eventually participated in 3 poetry slams where he won 2nd place. Will finds his life to be living poetry and has hosted several open mic events throughout New York City. He's become a proud member of The Harlem Bomb Shelter, a cultural literary program that inspires the creativity of the pen in every shape and form. When he's not storytelling with concepts of tragedy, love and imagination in a performance, he loves to shine the light on others. He touches people with his craft despite an antisocial disorder that comes with paperwork saying any friendships made will be "A Miraculous Manifestation."
AC Lightnin
New York-based spoken word-emcee, AC Lightnin always aims to bring his audience on a journey with his work. Born and raised in New York, with a love for Hip-Hop, spoken word and Christian rap, he incorporates his faith into topics such as love, masculinity, and other perspectives that don't get talked about a lot.A multifaceted artist who has a passion for hosting, filmmaking, music and poetry, AC has taken his craft across NYC's open mic spaces. His witty, creative and Rap-Style flow gives his craft an upbeat, conscious and provocative feel. AC uses his craft as a gateway to paint a picture of his reality as a black man and an Christian man. Merging his real life issues with his faith and pointing it all back to God. AC Lightnin has been featured on MNN’s The Spotlight TV show, his music has been featured on blog sites such as Solomon's Porch, Trackstarz and YouTube channels such as More Than Music.
King Shawn Da Dawnn
Shawn Lackerson better known as King Shawn Da Dawnn is an English graduate student at Lehman College. Shawn has lived in The Bronx for a little over 22 years. Born in Harlem, he moved to the boogie down when he was 11 with his little brother (and later in 2003 with his little sister). He's been writing and performing poetry since fourth grade. His love for and dedication to poetry advanced after winning first place [placing first] in a 5th-grade poetry slam for his perfomance of "America," a poem written his mother. Since then he's been writing his own poetry and competing and performing in competitions and open mics throughout NYC. He has perfomed at "The Urban Juke Joint, The Harlem Bomb Shelter, and The Nuyorican Cafe, among others. He was recently awarded first place for his poem "Brother Belize" in the Alice Minnie Hertz Heniger Prize for Graduate Creative Writing.
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Sunday, July 7
3-4pm
King Kamayera 3pm
Angel Torres 3:20
Tea 3:40
Feature Bios:
Tea
Words steeped with emotion flow out of the mouth of Brooklyn born poet, fondly known as Tea. Her intentions are to open your mind by taking small moments in time inviting us to see them in a more robust and meaningful way. Tea began writing poetry to make sense of her world and expand not only her perspective, but that of others. Maya Angelou and Toni Morrison are just a couple of her literary influences. She also finds inspiration spending time out in Nature and finds joy in delving deeper into the mysteries of physics. Performing barefoot she remains grounded and present as she performs her art.
Angel Torres
Angel Torres is a writer, poet, storyteller and filmmaker born and raised in the Bronx. He had been a journalist in his early days of writing in high school and college and has transitioned into the realm of creative story telling when delving deeper into his novelist side with an indie-published novel titled Light Minutes. Concurrent with that 14-month project, he decided to dive into his poetic hemisphere, which can be considered long-form poetry due to Angel’s meticulous yearn for detail and parables. Angel’s career as a writer has allowed him to transcend into storytelling for the screen. His most recent release, Unconditioned Opposites, which he wrote, directed, and co-produced, has (so-far) been selected in six film festivals, one of which earned him an award for Rising Director.
King Kamayera
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Monday, July 29
7-8pm
Angiie Brito 7pm
Karina Ordóñez 7:20
Sean Patrick Mulroy 7:40
Feature Bios:
Sean Patrick Mulroy
Sean Patrick Mulroy is a writer, actor, visual artist, and musician from the American South, who now lives in New York City. An internationally recognized writer and performer, as well as a featured poet Off-Broadway at the iconic Triad Theater, Sean is an award-winning professor of poetry, a 2013 Lambda Literary Fellow, a 2017-2018 Writer-in-Residence at The Kerouac Project in Orlando Florida, and a 2019 Writer in Residence at Villa Sarkia in Sysma, Finland. In 2020, Sean won the Button Poetry Chapbook Contest, and is the author of Hated for the Gods (2023 Button Poetry).
Karina Ordóñez
Karina Ordóñez is a multidisciplinary artist, poet, writer and organizer based in Queens, New York. She has headlined as a featured poet in various venues around New York City, most recently having her work displayed at the AMPM gallery in Williamsburg for their Women’s History Month exhibition, “Her Gaze.” Ordóñez uses her writing to bring awareness to social justice issues, specifically but not limited to intersectional feminism and her own Colombian-American experience. She is a senior producer at the social enterprise “RDXL” where she oversees public relations, media, and work by BIPOC, queer, and other underrepresented creatives. When she isn’t writing, she organizes with YDSA (Young Democratic Socialists of America) and The Others Collective, a radical artist collective based in the Bronx.
Angiie Brito
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SUBWAY LINE - G to Clinton-Washington Avenue
Event Venue
Brooklyn Music Kitchen, 177 Vanderbilt Avenue, Brooklyn, United States
Tickets
USD 0.00 to USD 15.00
