This year, as part of our annual festival on 14th Street, we are making the INVISIBLE visible with the truth of the Spoken Word.
AiOP INVISIBLE presenting Spoken Word: A Band of Bards/Bardesses on the Boulevard!
In Memory of Steve Cannon and Steve Dalachinsky
Spoken Word Coordinator: Ron Kolm
The event will take place Sunday, October 20, 2019 4-6pm performing from the POEMOBILE courtesy of Steve Zeitlin and City Lore. 14th Street, Southside between Seventh and Eighth Avenues.
Our bards and bardessses are: Joel Allegretti, Amy Barone, Phyllis Capello, Esther Cohen, Mitch Corber, Kathryn M. Fazio, Davidson Garrett, Phillip Giambri, Gordon Gilbert, Ron Kolm, Peter Kozlowski, Maria Lisella, Tsaurah Litzky, Ralph Nazareth, Karen Neuberg, Yuko Otomo, Poez, Flash Rosenberg, Jane Schulman, Suzanne Vega, Lehman Weichselbaum, Steve Zeitlin.
Joel Allegretti is the author of, most recently, Platypus (NYQ Books, 2017), a collection of poems, prose, and performance texts, and Our Dolphin (Thrice Publishing, 2016), a novella. He is the editor of Rabbit Ears: TV Poems (NYQ Books, 2015) http://www.joelallegretti.com/
Amy Barone’s poetry collection, We Became Summer, from New York Quarterly Books, was released in early 2018. She wrote chapbooks Kamikaze Dance (Finishing Line Press) and Views from the Driveway (Foothills Publishing.) Barone’s poetry appears in Café Review, Paterson Literary Review, Sensitive Skin, and Standpoint (UK.) She lives in NYC. We Became Summer, latest poetry collection from New York Quarterly Books, now available https://books.nyq.org/title/we_became_summer Twitter: AmyBBarone
https://www.facebook.com/amy.barone.98
Phyllis Capello is a writer, musician, storyteller and teaching artist. A NYFA fellow in fiction & a winner of an Allen Ginsberg award, her full-length poetry collection, Packs Small Plays Big, was published by Bordighera Pressin 2018. As Dr. Aloha she entertains children and seniors in hospitals with the Red Nose Docs of Healthy Humor. She teaches poetry in the schools with Community-Word Project.
Esther Cohen: On good days Esther Cohen posts poems at esthercohen.com.
Mitch Corber
Artist and poet MITCH CORBER was an original member of Colab. He became a cable TV producer, creating the series Original Wonder and Grogus, and co-producing Collaborative Projects’ live Potato Wolf, 1979-1984. In 1989 he launched his cable TV series Radio Thin Air/Poetry Thin Air. Mitch Corber is the author of the poetry books Weather’s Feather and Quinine, and soon-to-be-published, Conundrum. He is the winner of a NYFA grant. In 2016 he created the art/poetry film “Nomads of New York”.
Kathryn M. Fazio is an internationally published poet, artist, and dancer. She was the Poet Laureate of the College of Staten Island, C.U.N.Y.. Her poem, War, was translated into French and she is the author of A Taste of Hybrid Vigor: New Poems of War, Passion, and Social Significance, which includes her paintings. She is a member of Brevitas, and is published in the Bowery Woman Anthology. Ms Fazio edited a collection of poems, Our World in an Onion, for residents of a treatment program who were coping with A.I.D.S.
Davidson Garrett is a poet and actor who has worked in theater, film, and television. His poetry has been published in numerous literary journals and he is the author of the poetry collection, “King Lear of the Taxi.” Davidson is thrilled to read poetry in Art In Odd Places, 2019
Phillip Giambri aka “The Ancient Mariner” left home at eighteen and never looked back. He’s seen and done what other’s dream of or fear. That’s how he lives and that’s what he writes. www.AncientMarinerTales
Gordon Gilbert, longtime west villager, performs his poetry, songs and monologues in the metropolitan area. He also has written short stories and a play, Monologues from the Old Folks Home. Gordon has hosted many NYC poetry readings celebrating famous poets and writers and seven September “Remembrances of 9/11″ readings.
Ron Kolm is a contributing editor of Sensitive Skin magazine. Ron is the author of Night Shift, A Change in the Weather and Welcome to the Barbecue. He’s had work in Great Weather for Media, Maintenant, Live Mag!, Local Knowledge and the Outlaw Bible of American Poetry. Ron’s papers are archived in the NYU library.
Peter Kozlowski
Ptr Kozlowski has been taxi driver, deliveryman, poet and printer, singer-songwriter and guitarist. Published in Hobo Jungle, Stained Sheets, and South Florida Poetry Journal; Great Weather for Media and Performance Poets Association anthologies. Performed at CBGB, Cornelia Street Cafe, Brownstone Poets, Silver-Tongued Devils and Conklin Barn in Huntington.
Maria Lisella is the sixth Queens Poet Laureate 2015-2019. Twice nominated for a Pushcart Poetry Prize, her collections include Thieves in the Family (NYQ Books), and two chapbooks, Amore on Hope, and Two Naked Feet. She curates the Italian American Writers Association readings, contributes to USA TODAY, the bilingual, La Voce di New York and The Jerusalem Post.websites: https://books.nyq.org/title/thievesinthefamily
https://marialisella.contently.com
Tsaurah Litzky, long time trendsetter in the margins, writes poetry, fiction, nonfiction prose, erotica, memoir, plays and commentary. Her poetry collections are Baby On The Water (Long Shot Press) and Cleaning The Duck (Bowery Books). Her recent chapbook is Under The Brooklyn Bridge. She is a writing coach and yoga teacher. Tsaurah believes it is a great privilege to be a poet.
Ralph Nazareth
Fifty years after he left India, Ralph Nazareth, poet, teacher, and publisher, continues to tease out, between a stutter and a scream, the meaning of being a product of the world’s most populous and the most powerful “democracies.” He has published and read widely but isn’t sure to what purpose.Managing Editor of Yuganta Press: www.yuganta.com
President of GraceWorks, Inc.: www.graceworksinternational.org
Karen Neuberg is a Brooklyn-based poet. Her full length collection, Pursuit, is forthcoming from Kelsay Books. Her latest chapbook is the elephants are asking (Glass Lyre Press, 2018). Her poems and collages can be found in numerous publications including 805, Canary, New Verse News, and Verse Daily.My website is karenneuberg.blogspot.com
Yuko Otomo A visual artist & a bilingual writer of Japanese origin. She writes poetry, haiku, art criticism & essays. Her publications include “Garden: selected Haiku” (Beehive Press); “STUDY & Other Poems on Art” (Ugly Duckling Presse); “KOAN” (New Feral Press); “FROZEN HEATWAVE: a collaborative linked poem project with Steve Dalachinsky” (Luna Bisonte Prods) & “Anonymous Landscape” (Lithic Press). She lives in New York City.
Poez “Spoken-word pioneer” (NEW YORK TIMES) Paul Mills aka Poez originated in 1975 — first in Boston and then in New York — a performance art known today as “spoken-word poetry.” He was born in DC, raised in Illinois and Massachusetts, lives in Manhattan, and posts Poez videos online. https://poezthepoet.com/
Flash Rosenberg is an “Attention Span for Hire” who draws, animates, photographs, writes, and performs. She is a 2011 Guggenheim Fellow, member of the poetry collective Brevitas, served as Artist in Residence for LIVE from the NY Public Library, and graduate of Sears Charm School. She lives in Harlem with two turtles and infinite questions. www.flashrosenberg.com
Jane Schulman
Jane Schulman is a poet and essay writer. She works as a speech pathologist with children with autism and cognitive delays in a Brooklyn public school, teaching them to find and hone their voices. She’s been a featured poet in local venues and taught senior citizens to write their lives.
Suzanne Vega emerged as a leading figure of the folk-music revival of the early 1980s –accompanying herself on acoustic guitar singing original neo-folk songs in Greenwich Village Clubs.She has sold over 7 million albums and has been nominated for 7 Grammy awards. She continues to tour playing to sold-out concerts in many of the world’s best-known concert halls. http://www.suzannevega.com/
Lehman Weichselbaum Poet & journalist. Associate editor Home Planet News. Many reviews on poetry & theater for same publication, also inaugurated column “Hot Mike” with critical reviews of poetry readings in NYC. Hundreds of articles on politics & culture for mainstream & alt publications, incl. NY Daily News, East Village Eye, Downtown, Dance Enthusiast, bklyner.com, Moment, Urban Graffiti, Jewish Week et al.
Steve Zeitlin is a folklorist, filmmaker, writer, and cultural activist. He is the founding director of City Lore, an organization dedicated to fostering New York City – and America’s – living cultural heritage. He is the author of a volume of poetry, and his latest book is The Poetry of Everyday Life.
