SpokenWord Paris

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 explores the beauty and brutality of the world to realize, time and again, that we’re all the same — breathing bodies living between pain and joy, madness and insecurity, kindness and curiosity. With lyrics that meditate on topics ranging from violence and racism to the soft animal habits of love and compassion, every performance is a unique conversation between the pianist, the poet and the audience

Instagram: @moonlitbrooks 

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCfyJVm8mag-HS0AiVyWf5g 

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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 down an escalator made up of 13 schools in 8 countries scattered across 3 different continents. Graduate of the Sorbonne (Language & Literature) and the University of London Institute in Paris (Translation), he is a regular spoken word performer at Au Chat Noir, Culture Rapide, and le Bordel de la Poésie; a fire-spinner; a gamer; and a book nerd with a palate for SF&F.

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 community outreach through the arts. As of 2018, Lane has also begun arts outreach with dementia patients in association with the Alzheimer’s Poetry Project. Lane lives in central North Carolina, and runs from its mountains to its sea.

Zoom link to join this event tonight

Sunday 8pm Paris time / 2pm NYC

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89885001555

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 their 4 minutes of intense condensed life lived and imagination dreamed… Or if you can’t make it to either venue physically, join us on Zoom. (Link will be posted closer to the time.)

8pm Paris time in the Chat Noir.

2pm NYC time in the Nuyorican Poets Cafe

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 festivals, galleries, and other environments including Marché de la Poesie, Slant Events, Cité International des Arts, Irruzioni, The Bloomsday Festival, Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre, Stillpoint Spaces, Carbone 17, and the Edinburgh Art Festival. Alison lives in Paris, and her first book, Stained Glass Poetry, was published in 2020 by Paris Heretics. Her work can be found at alisonkoehler.com, @alisongracekoehler (instagram & facebook), and @AGraceColor (twitter)

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 Blue Window (Ventana Azul), translated by Jennifer Rathbun.(Dialogos Books). He writes in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese,Haitian Creole, and has twenty poetry books; a music album Rankont Dout. He edits The Beltway Poetry Quarterly (www.beltwaypoetry.com) and helps curate http://www.ablucionistas.com. He won the Paterson Prize; received fellowships from The Foundation for the Contemporary Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, and US/Mexico Fund For Culture and the MacDowell Colony. Hosts the Poetry Channel on Youtube (https://youtubm/user/indranam). e.co

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 Good Advice for young trendy people of all ages. She remains a band singer/writer, recent releases include Blowdryer Punk Soul: Pinot Grigio and 4 Essays – the most harmless person you are ever going to meet in your life, Bent Boy Press, SF, 2018. She lives in NYCs East Village.

SpokenWord theme (should you want to follow it): Thieves