Category Archives: Special guests

Nina Karacosta is an actor and poet.  Born in Athens, Greece she moved to London, to New York City and then in 2009 to Paris. Since 2003 she has studied with many exuberant living poets (Ann Waldman, Alice Notley, Marge Piercy, … Continue reading →

 Bruce Sherfield is an American artist living in Paris. He is a co-editor/designer of The Bastille,  and co-runs the Other Writers’ Group at Shakespeare & Company. He has been an invited artist/speaker to mentor young poets in Africa three times in 2015 … Continue reading →

Hailing all the way from Toronto, Canada, Jeff Cottrill is a journalist by day, performance poet and classic-film nerd by night, who likes to make audiences laugh, cringe or (preferably) both. His performance style is influenced by slam conventions, but … Continue reading →

Beth is from Alsager the North West of England. She was born in 1985 and grew up between England and France. She has a BA in Art History and moved to Paris in 2008 where she gained a few years … Continue reading →

Deborah Bogen’s three books of poems are “Living by the Children’s Cemetery,” “Landscape with Silos” and “Let Me Open You a Swan.”  Her young adult novel “The Witch of Leper Cove; was published in 2014. Theme – Photographs  

Theme – Baksheesh Our guest poet Iris Colomb co-organised Spraypaint Poetry underneath London’s Waterloo station – what was that I hear you thinking. See here for an article about it. She also cohosted Metrotextuel.  Photos by Benjamin Toren.

Janine Booth (www.janinebooth.com) is a poet, trade unionist, author and lefty campaigner from the UK. As ‘The Big J’, Janine was part of the 1980s ‘ranting poetry’ movement, and last year took up the muse again, publishing a poetry book, … Continue reading →

The theme is The Harsh Light of Day. Zarina Zabrisky and Simon Rogghe write merging voices and genres and travel around the US and Europe, performing poetry to music, blending choreography and visual arts to create literary theater shows. Their … Continue reading →

Adeena Karasick is a New York based poet, performer, cultural theorist and media artist and the author of seven books of poetry and poetics. Writing at the intersection of Conceptualism and neo-Fluxus performatics, her urban, Jewish feminist mashups have been … Continue reading →

Rita Malikonyte Mockus, born in Lithuania, is a classically trained pianist who has studied philosophy and creative writing and has a degree in art history. Her poetry has appeared in Salos (Sviesa Press, Lithuania). She was a featured vocal performer … Continue reading →