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E.K. Bartlett is Our Special Guest at SpokenWord Paris, September 9th! Monday’s Theme: NOISE

E.K. Bartlett is a Paris-based writer, editor, and translator. The recipient of the Gigantic Sequins Poetry Award of 2021 judged by Arisa White, and nominated for Best of the Net in fall 2022, their work has been published or is … Continue reading

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At long last!

Spoken Word Paris returns to the Chat Noir Monday 2nd September! Sign up 8pm in the bar, show begins downstairs 8.45pm. Theme: SKINT Au Chat Noir, 76 rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud, 75011, métro Parmentier (line 3) or Couronnes (line 2)

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Penny Allen is Our Special Guest at SpokenWord Paris, July 29th! Monday’s Theme: FRIENDS

Penny Allen, born in Portland, Oregon, discovered theater and created several shows in English and French before turning to cinema, where, still in Portland, she wrote, directed and produced two features, Property and Paydirt. She then lived in Central Oregon for nine years … Continue reading

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Claudia Talbot is Our Special Guest at SpokenWord Paris, July 22nd! Monday’s Theme: SUBCONSCIOUS

Claudia Talbot is an Australian-born actress and writer, currently based in Paris, who has been steadily creating from a young age. Her debut poetry collection, City Gothic, was published September of 2023 by British indie publisher Dark Thirty Poetry Publishing, and … Continue reading

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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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