Also, Bob Feldman on sax, plus it'll be wide open for poets to jam with the music.
Admission is FREE!
Sunday, December 2 from 7:30 - 9:30 p.m.
GO CAT GO Jazz Poetry Reading
Greenwich Village Bistro
Father Demo Square
13 Carmine St between Bleecker and 6th venue
212-206-9777
greenwichvillagebistro.com
A, C, E, F, D to West 4th Street
Bios:
Cynthia Toronto
Cynthia
Toronto, a California transplant, is recognized as a forerunner
of cutting-edge Spoken Word Performance. Since the early‘80’s she has pioneered
a form combining elements of poetry, music, theater and media in work that
portrays unique glimpses of urban life and virtually any subject relevant to
humans. Her poetry has been called ‘jolting, shocking, Dr. Seuss-like,
relevant, profound, and often hilarious’. An award-winning poet, she has
written eight books of poetry with her work appearing in several anthologies,
including the recently released Token
Entry:
New York City Subway Poems by Smalls Books, Three Rooms Press’ Maintenant 6 and Maintenant 5, A
Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing and Art, Poison Ivy Magazine,
L. A. Driver, Verve, Brownstone Poets and Nomad’s Choir, The Poetry Bomb Word
Tour 2010, and
video documentaries on Los Angeles poets. She has been featured in venues on
both coasts, including New York’s Bowery Poetry Club, Small’s Jazz Club, Four
Horsemen and Pink Pony readings at the Cornelia Cafe, The Lower East Side Arts
Festival, Prairie Fire Jazz Poetry Series, The Telephone Bar, Stark, Nomad’s
Choir, Brownstone Poets, The Green Pavillion, Poetry in Central Park, The
Yippie Museum Cafe, Otto’s Shrunken Head, Gathering of the Tribes, and the
national Poets for Peace readings, amongst others. Also a seasoned character
actress and educator, she has appeared in most mediums, including stage, film,
television, radio, voice overs and nightclubs and studied with legendary
teachers such as groundbreaking vocalist, Lynn Book and the late Gene Frankel.
She holds a Master’s Degree in Educational Theatre from New York University,
has been commissioned as a Theater Teaching Artist in residencies sponsored by
The National Endowment for the Arts, The California Arts Council, Arts Alaska
and currently teaches Acting and Speech as an Adjunct Professor at City College
of New York, and Hostos Community College, City University of New York sites.
George Wallace
George Wallace (born March 22, 1949 in Hempstead, New York) is an American poet and poetry organizer.
Working from a base of operations in downtown New York City's poetry scene, from his family roots in Brooklyn and Long Island, and from his experiences living and working in Northern California, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Oregon and the United Kingdom, Wallace has created a grassroots network of venues for poetry.
His own poetry, in particular his performance oriented work, is imagination-based in its creation, emerging from a process of wordplay, surrealist deconstruction and bricolage into a final form that is typically characterized by accessible narrative and forceful rhythmic impetus. It is built on a foundation of a musical talent that emerged at the age of four, when he began reading and performing music, and shaped by his extensive readings in the literature of European Surrealism, the Whitman/Sandburg vortex, and the Beats. His work also bears the mark of 1960s concerns, particularly the social witness and aesthetic consciousness of that time.
His organizational efforts on behalf of poetry are based on professional training and disposition to community service developed through graduate studies with Guy Stuart and others at UNC-Chapel Hill in the mid '70s.
Peter Chelnik
Peter Chelnik's books include Railroad Heart, East Coast Line, Manhattan Wilderness, Eternity Road and Wildflower Serenade. He has had seven plays produced Off-Off-Broadway. These dramatic works include Street Rag, Prairie Fire, Parking Lot, Moving Target, Scarsdale Station and Tremont Vortex. Peter has also written Trick Bag, a novel of the 1960's. And yes, he does believe "the word will set you free." His latest book is STRAWBERRY HARMONY New Poems (Little Sky Press, March 2010).
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