Open Secret – that welcoming, second SpokenWord – every Wednesday at Le Bistrot des Artistes, 6 rue des Anglais, 5è. Métro Maubert-Mutualité (line 10) or Saint-Michel (line 4). At 8 PM, nightlong signup starts, & at 9 the show…Poetry, music, comedy, theatre, performance art, & dance. This Wednesday’s theme is inspired by a poem of special guest Chris Burke’s – “Write it down dammit!”
Bio:
Chris Burke is an English writer and journalist, whose debut poetry collection, The Noise of Everything at Once, was published by Happy House Books in January. His work has appeared in publications including Antiphon, the French Literary Review, Snakeskin, Prole, the Richmond Review, and Monkey Kettle, and three of his poems were longlisted for the 2014 UK National Poetry Competition. Born in London and raised in Essex, he has also written and consulted on screenplays for film and television.
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James Jewell is a jack of all trades: poet, rambling man, singer songwriter, filmmaker and sometimes slave to the big system to make a buck. James and his wife Kara have been kind of nomadic wonderers from their home in the hills of Pennsylvania to Nashville, Los Angeles, Toronto and now Paris France. James poems have a strong sense of his Pennsylvania roots while being influenced by the weird and wonderful adventures he and his wife have experienced. James has now been part of the Paris scene for almost six years. Strongly influenced and inspired by the Paris scene he has released “Ships Made of Fake Fur” on Corrupt Press.
Chris Burke
Camille Adnot is a Parisian poet and teacher. Graduate of Anglophone Literature from Paris-Diderot University, she specialises in visual poetry and is currently preparing a PhD project on William Blake’s engravings while finishing her studies at the Ecole Normale Supérieure of Paris, which she integrated in 2012. She teaches English, as well as French to foreigners; she has notably taught French for a year in Nottingham University, UK, and to immigrants in Paris. Always passionate about prose storytelling in French, her studies have led her to try her hand at poetry in English. Her poems often deal with perception confusions, shapeshifting, and the female body and psyche, but she also loves to revisit old myths and to give them a contemporary take. She is a regular spoken word performer at Le Chat Noir, and is also fond of Open Secret and the Other Writers’ Group. She has recently been published in The Opiate Magazine.
SpokenWord theme: Reincarnation
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