Ella & the Snowman
Open Secret ~ that intimate open mic, Wednesdays underground @ Le Bistrot des Artistes, 6 rue des Anglais , 5è. At 8pm nightlong sign-up starts, & at 9 the show! Métro Maubert-Mutualité (line 10) or Saint-Michel (line 4). Theme:“Everybody fall in love, already!”
Our special guest poet this Wednesday, visiting us from Glasgow, is Ella Russell, who knows how to distill raw feeling into fine lines, & illuminate topics like friendship & love (which Rilke, of course, told the young poet that they could only be handled in the hands of a mature poet ~ not necessarily mature in age, as Neruda & now Ella will show you, at around the same age). Lovely!
Also, the words/sounds of Didier Cornevin…who turns the poetry of Baudelaire, Rimbaud & others into music, as well as writing his own nouvelle French chanson! See you at le spectacle!
Anna Polonyi is a Franco-American-Hungarian poet and writer. Her first collection of poems, Wayword, is forthcoming with Finishing Line Press in February 2017. She is the former recipient of a Fulbright fellowship in Germany and the 2015 Sylvia Beach Short Fiction Prize, awarded by Paris Lit Up. She works as a journalist in Paris – most recently for the International New York Times. 
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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