InspiredWordNYC (http://inspiredwordnyc.com) presents BK Voices: A Poetry, Prose, Spoken Word Experience @ Hell Phone (http://www.hellphonebrooklyn.com/) in Bushwick – an amazing and amazingly diverse quarterly event celebrating Brooklyn based literary artists at a French restaurant that harkens back to the days of the secret backroom speakeasy.
This is something pretty special.
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Featured Poets, Writers, Spoken Word Artists for Saturday, June 3:
Kurt Nelson Peloquin
Erica Buddington
Dean Andrews
Safi Brown
Diana Arnold
Molly McNeely
John Grochalski
Ally Malinenko
Jade Benoit
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Hosted by Scott Raven
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When: Ongoing quarterly event
Where: Hell Phone (in the back of the Ange Noir Cafe),, 247 Varet Street, Bushwick, Brooklyn
Why: Because culture, the arts, great literary events are vital to Brooklyn and NYC
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Doors open at 7pm, event starts at 7:30pm
Cover: $10 at the door. Group options available.
***2 ITEM (food or drink) MINIMUM INSIDE VENUE PER PERSON*** Menu can be found @ http://www.hellphonebrooklyn.com/#!menu/cr2d.
Donations are welcome and appreciated. Use the donation option on the event page. 100% of the money collected goes to the featured writers.
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Make sure to bring a printed out version of your ticket/tickets or be prepared to show your ticket/tickets (with confirmation number) on your phone.
Please Note: No TRANSFERS or REFUNDS will be granted, though you are welcome to find REPLACEMENTS for your tickets.
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Produced by the long-running Mike Geffner Presents The Inspired Word, which has featured Grammy, Golden Globe, Tony, Obie, and Pulitzer Prize winners, as well as Emmy nominatees, American Idol finalists, America’s Got Talent finalists, and HBO Def Poetry stars.
Directions
Take the L train to Morgan Avenue (a couple of blocks away)
- When
- Friday, October 7, 2016 from 6:30 PM to 10:30 PM (EDT)
- Where
- Parkside Lounge – 317 East Houston Street, New York, NY 10002 – View Map
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Better Luck Next Year is out July 23rd! Come by. I promise not to be depressing!
Low Ghost Press & Six Gallery Press are hosting a sizzling summer book party! Join us for a triple launch for Ally Malinenko’s ‘Better Luck Next Year’ (Low Ghost Press), Jason Irwin’s ‘A Blister of Stars’ (Low Ghost Press), and John Grochalski’s ‘Wine Clerk’ (Six Gallery Press).
East End Book Exchange
Saturday, July 23
7pm
BYOB
A brief q&a will follow the reading
Ally Malinenko is the author of the poetry collections The Wanting Bone and How To Be An American (Six Gallery Press) as well as the novel This Is Sarah (Bookfish Books). She lives in Brooklyn with her husband.
Jason Irwin is the author of Watering the Dead (Pavement Saw Press, 2008), winner of the Transcontinental Poetry Award, and the chapbooks Where You Are (Night Ballet Press, 2014), & Some Days It’s A Love Story (Slipstream Press, 2005). He has also had work published in Poetry East, Sycamore Review, Confrontation, and Poetry Ireland Review, among others. He grew up in Dunkirk, NY, and now lives in Pittsburgh.www.jasonirwin.blogspot.com
John Grochalski is the author of The Noose Doesn’t Get Any Looser After You Punch Out, Glass City, In The Year of Everything Dying, Starting with the Last Name Grochalski, and the novel, The Librarian. Grochalski lives in Brooklyn, where he constantly worries about the high cost of everything.
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Sunday September 2, 2012
1 pm at Awesome Books – Come on by!
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