Author Archives: Antonia

Indran Amirthanayagam is Our Special Guest at SpokenWord Paris, July 15th! Monday’s Theme: TRAINS

Indran Amirthanayagam is a poet, editor, publisher, translator, youtube host and diplomat.For thirty years he worked for his adoptive country, the United States, on diplomaticassignments in Africa, Asia, Europe and North and South America. Amirthanayagamproduced a “world record” in 2020 … Continue reading

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Kiwi talks too much is Our Special Guest at SpokenWord Paris, July 8th! Monday’s Theme: COURAGE

Kiwi talks too much (they/them) – a queer poet, philosopher, activist, depressivist from Amsterdam. Last year Kiwi travelled to perform poetry all over Europe: in dingy bars where people only spoke Spanish, joined a poetry slam in London and wrote … Continue reading

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Nicolette Daskalakis is Our Special Guest at SpokenWord Paris, July Ist! Monday’s Theme: Apocalypse

Born in the fog of San Francisco, Nicolette Daskalakis is a writer, filmmaker, and visual artist based in Paris. Her work blurs the boundaries between the literary, cinematic, and artistic—offering a multimedia landscape populated by paradox, pop-culture references, and dark humour. … Continue reading

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Christian Yeo Xuan is Our Special Guest at SpokenWord Paris, June 24th! Monday’s Theme: IRRESISTIBLE

Christian Yeo Xuan (christianyeoxuan.com) is a writer and actor from Singapore based in Paris. His work has been published in Oxford Poetry, The Mays and Gaudy Boy’s New Singapore Poetries, among others. He won the Arthur Sale Poetry Prize, placed 2nd for the Aryamati … Continue reading

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Leo Zelada is Our Special Guest at SpokenWord Paris, June 17th! Monday’s Theme: SELF-CONSCIOUS

Leo Zelada. – Literary pseudonym of Braulio Rubén Tupaj Amaru Grajeda Fuentes. Poet and writer. He has published the collections of poems Delirium Tremens, Diario de un Cyberpunk, Opuscule de un Nosferatu a punto fe Amanecer, La Senda del Dragón, … Continue reading

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Antonia Alexandra Klimenko is Our Special Guest at SpokenWord Paris, June 10th! Monday’s Theme: INSIDE-OUT

Antonia Alexandra Klimenko was first introduced on the BBC and to the literary world by the legendary James Meary Tambimuttu of Poetry London–-publisher of T.S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas, Henry Miller and Bob Dylan, to name a few.  After his death, it … Continue reading

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Josh Cake is Our Special Guest at SpokenWord Paris, June 3rd! Monday’s Theme: TIME

Josh Cake has published poetry in Breakwater Review, Teesta Review, and Messages from the Embers, and has held performance residencies in Australia, Italy, and France. Josh writes poetry for both page and stage, and has won a number of writing … Continue reading

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Suzanne Allen and David Barnes are Our Guests at SpokenWord Paris, May 27th! Monday’s Theme: LOST & FOUND

Suzanne Allen is an artist and writing teacher born and raised in the San Gabriel Valley near Los Angeles. In the middle of a whirlwind career in interior design in her twenties, she had a house fire, which led her back … Continue reading

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Cecilia Woloch is Our Special Guest at SpokenWord Paris, May 20th! Monday’s Theme: PASSAGE

Cecilia Woloch is the author of a novel and six collections of poems, most recently an expanded and updated edition of Tsigan: The Gypsy Poem, which has been given multi-lingual, multi-media performances in Los Angeles, Paris, Warsaw, Athens and elsewhere; a poem … Continue reading

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Alex Vellis is Our Special Guest at SpokenWord Paris, May 6th! Monday’s Theme: Skin

l Alex Vellis (they/them) is a Greek-British poet, poetry editor, producer, playwright and installation artist.They hold an MA in Creative Writing and are an associate artist at Open School East, Margate. Vellis’ work explores queering the self, the liminal, the … Continue reading

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