SpokenWord Paris

21h00 Open mic/scène ouvert (bilangue anglais-français)

A double-bill poetry reading to celebrate spring, agape, and eros featuring poets Evie Shockley, Jill Alexander Essbaum, Lea Graham, and Timothy Bradford from The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel, Second Floor anthology (No Tell Books, 2007) followed by an open mic with David Barnes and the Spoken Word reading series. The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel, Second Floor, edited by Reb Livingston and Molly Arden from poems that appeared on their on-line journal No Tell Motel http://www.notellmotel.org/, explores the multi-faceted aspects of desire, love, sex, and sensuality. The anthology and No Tell Books can be found at <http://www.notellbooks.org/individual_title.php?id=40_0_1_0_C>. A link to the anthology at Lulu, which offers an online preview, can be found at <http://www.lulu.com/content/1191170>. BIOS: * Evie Shockley is the author of two poetry collections: The Gorgon Goddess (2001) and a half-red sea (2006), both with Carolina Wren Press. A Cave Canem fellow and the recipient of a residency at Hedgebrook retreat center for women writers, Shockley teaches African American literature and creative writing at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. * Jill Alexander Essbaum’s first book, Heaven, won the 1999 Bakeless Prize. Her second book, Oh Forbidden, is a collection of erotic sonnets (Pecan Grove Press). Her latest book, Harlot, is available from No Tell Books. A fourth book, Necropolis, (neoNuma Arts), is forthcoming in spring 2008. She splits her time between Zürich, Switzerland, and the States.* Lea Graham’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Notre Dame Review, American Letters & Commentary, Mudlark, Shadow Train, and The Worcester Review. Her chapbook, Calendar Girls, was published in the spring of 2006 by above/ground Press in Ottawa. She is currently an Assistant Professor of English at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York. * Timothy Bradford’s poetry has appeared in Bombay Gin, CrossConnect, DIAGRAM, H_NGM_N, Mudlark, No Tell Motel, and Runes, among other journals. Currently, he is an associate foreign researcher with the Institut d’Histoire du Temps Présent as he finishes researching and writing a novel based on the history of the Vélodrome d’Hiver. AT: The Highlander, 8 rue de Nevers, just southwest of the Pont Neuf, 75006, Metro St-Michel. (Happy hour from 5-8. Come early and have a glass with us.)

So much going on I’ve had no time to report about the last 2 Spoken Words – lots of good stuff lined up to put here when I have time though. Next Spoken Word is 9pm Tuesday 13th May at L’Ogre a Plumes, theme to be confirmed. (Please email me suggestions!)

And in the mean time Spoken Word regulars Erica & Stefanos are doing a free concert at the Pop In 9pm this Wednesday (7th May); Erica was also briefly mentioned in Telerama and her myspace is:

The Pop In

Would you take a train with this man? Not bleedin’ likely…

Followed by Elena, Pauline, Donald and a very Satanic looking Antonio… the Devil’s Undertaker.

Thanks to Dominic for the title and half the photos.