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Moonlit Brooks–Our Special Guests at SpokenWord Paris, April 11th! Monday’s Theme: Demons

Posted on April 5, 2022 by Antonia Alexandra Klimenko

Bio: Moonlit Brooks is a spoken word duo from Heidelberg, Germany. With Tanya Gautam as the poet and Dizzy Rodriguez on the keys, we combine poetry and piano to process and share our experiences as people and artists. Our work … Continue reading →

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Yann Rousselot is Our Special Guest at SpokenWord Paris, April 4th ! Monday’s Theme: April Fools

Posted on March 30, 2022 by Antonia Alexandra Klimenko

Yann Rousselot is a translator and writer living in Paris, originally from England, but also from Brittany, and more realistically from nowhere at all, being an expat-brat with serious issues of cultural schizophrenia. His childhood could be likened to falling … Continue reading →

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Looking back at SpokenWord Paris in 2021

Posted on January 9, 2022 by David Barnes

Photo by Sabine. We were first back in the Chat Noir in July, then regularly every Monday from September. Before that we did some SpokenWords outside when the weather was good enough. It was great to be back at the … Continue reading →

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1st SpokenWord of 2022

Posted on January 2, 2022 by David Barnes

10th January theme – Imaginary friends

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Kim Lane, Our Special Guest at SpokenWord Paris, November 22nd–Monday’s Theme: Rituals

Posted on November 20, 2021 by Antonia Alexandra Klimenko

Kim Lane is a former National Poetry Slam champion (Team Asheville, NC,) author, marathoner, and gifted education advocate. Educated at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and Duke University, she is a tenacious advocate for developing student voices and … Continue reading →

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Zoom link for tonight’s event Spoken Word Paris meets the Nuyorican Poets Cafe

Posted on November 14, 2021 by David Barnes

Zoom link to join this event tonight Sunday 8pm Paris time / 2pm NYC https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89885001555

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Two Venues – One Mic. Sunday 14th November 8pm Paris time, 2pm NYC.

Posted on November 12, 2021 by David Barnes

An exchange of poetry between poets an ocean apart – 8 poets in the Chat Noir, 8 poets in the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, linked and projected in sound and vision. Come to either venue to hear all 16 poets do … Continue reading →

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Alison Grace Koehler, Our Special Guest at SpokenWord Paris November 15th–Monday’s Theme: Confessions

Posted on November 10, 2021 by Antonia Alexandra Klimenko

Alison Grace Koehler is a stained glass poet. These two mediums cross, fragment, break, and get rebuilt in her work. In live, reflective, evolving ways. Making windows with words, and soldering poems into spaces. She has performed or exhibited at … Continue reading →

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Indran Amirthanayagam, Our Special Guest at SpokenWord Paris, Monday October 25th. Theme: Maps

Posted on October 16, 2021 by Antonia Alexandra Klimenko

Indran Amirthanayagam produced a “world’ record in 2020 by publishing three new poetry books written in three languages: The Migrant States (Hanging Loose,Press, New York) Sur l’île nostalgique (L’Harmattan, Paris) and Lírica a tiempo(Mesa Redonda, Lima). He has just published … Continue reading →

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Jennifer Blowdryer, Our Special Guest at SpokenWord Paris, Monday, October 4th. Theme: “Thieves”

Posted on September 30, 2021 by Antonia Alexandra Klimenko

JENNIFER BLOWDRYER got her dumb name from her SF punk band, the Blowdryers, in 1977. She’s written columns for Maximum rock’n’roll, New York press, and downtown, and her books include: white trash debutante, modern English : a slang dictionary, and … Continue reading →

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