Open Secret! That intimate SpokenWord Paris open mic, Wednesdays underground @ Le Bistrot des Artistes, 6 rue des Anglais in Paris’ Latin Quarter…At 8pm, nightlong sign-up begins, & at 9 le sptacle! Métro Maubert-Mutualité (line 10) or Saint-Michel (line 4).
This Wednesday features the return of an unprecedentedly special guest writer – the genius wordsmith Amanda Mandala! (See bio below).Theme: “Surprised by Joy,” ~ carrying on our Christmas themes of Peace, Love & Joy. 🙂
Bio:
Amanda is a a writer and performance maker based in between London and the world. She is the author of several chapbooks, pamphlets and the creator behind Prawnstar Poems, a travelling performance/poetry/publication project, mantled in a pink hue. Prawnstar Poems finances itself with self-published chapbooks and palm readings. After travelling extensively around Europe in a nomadic mission to exchange stories for ways of travel, Amanda has now re-settled into the big smoke, where she is currently working on a new publication and an accompanying cabaret piece. Otherwise she is busy working as freelance writer, translator, part time living sculpture, and ultimately trying to make the world a pinker place one shade at a time.
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Amruta Prabhu was born and raised in Mumbai, India, and is a Paris-based polyglot and translator by day and poet, writer, photographer and dancer by night. Drawing heavily from both her Indian culture and love for Europe, her inspiration comes from the details of everyday life and her writing aims at undiluted, honest expression. She studied English literature and Professional Translation, and her poems and prose have been published in Paris Lit Up Magazine N. 3 and the online literary and arts journal Canopic Jar. She will be returning permanently to India next week and hopes that her creative streak finds new inspiration there.
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Multilingual poet/performer Philip Meersman (1971) pushes boundaries of poetry in both written and spoken form, drawing on current affairs, socio-political and environmental issues. He is the author of the poetry collection This Is Belgian Chocolate: Manifestations of Poetry. He is a cofounder of DAstrugis- tenDA, artiestencollectief JA!, and received in 2012 the “D. Buliuk award for outstanding achievements in the field of avant-garde art and the avant-garde in research.” In 2016 he starts a PhD in the Arts at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Antwerp: “the oral performance of visual poetry” based upon the work of the Russian Cubo-Futurists and René Magritte. 
Moe will read from his recently published 5th collection We Want Everything and from his new erotic collection I Wanna Make Jazz To You and from new poems created in recent weeks. Critics review of Seager’s recent book We Want Everything, Onslaught press, Oxford, U.K; 2016. “From its title to the ruminating final free verse 
Maysan Nasser is a Psychology and Theater student. She recently won Beirut’s first Poetry Slam and will compete in Roundhouse Poetry Slam in London this summer. She has taken part of the literary scene in Paris and partook in Paris Lit Up’s Grand Tour in Italy and 100 Thoudand Poets for Change and a few other independent performances at different venues. She was first published by Remus, the American University of Rome’s literary journal, which featured two of her prose poems. Her journalistic work has also been published by the American University of Paris’s newspaper, the Peacock Plume, where she is currently a videojournalist. She recently staged a performance of her original play titled Deadline.
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