The Writer's Voice Visiting Author Series Presents:
John Amen, Colette Inez & Larissa Shmailo
Friday, May 4, 2007
7:30 PM
Reading/Discussion/Book Signing
West Side YMCA-- The George Washington Lounge
5 West 63rd Street (between Central Park West & Broadway)
Accessible Trains: A, B, C, D, 1 & 9 to Columbus Circle.
~Admission Free and Open to the Public~
Wines from 67Wine: _http://www.67wine.com_ (http://www.67wine.com/)
Books will be available for sale at this reading from BookCourt.
John Amen is a writer, musician, and artist. He is the author of two
collections of poetry, Christening the Dancer (Uccelli Press 2003) and More of Me
Disappears (Cross-Cultural Communications 2005). His work has been nominated
for various awards, including the Kate Tufts Award, the Lenore Marshall Award,
the Oscar Arnold Young Award, and the Brockman-Campbell Prize. In addition,
he was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize. His work has appeared in
various journals and magazines, and he is featured in The 2007 Poets Market. His
first solo music CD, All I'll Never Need, was released by Cool Midget in 2004.
Amen travels widely giving readings, doing musical performances, and
conducting workshops. He founded and continues to edit the award-winning literary
bimonthly, The Pedestal Magazine.
Colette Inez has authored nine poetry collections, most recently Spinoza
Doesn’t Come Here Anymore from Melville House Books, and has won Guggenheim,
Rockefeller, and two NEA fellowships. She is widely anthologized and teaches in
Columbia University’s Writing Program. Her forthcoming memoir, The Secret
of M. Dulong, was published in 2005 by the University of Wisconsin Press.
Larissa Shmailo has been published in About Poetry, Rattapallax, Big
Bridge, and other journals. She translated the Russian Futurist opera Victory over
the Sun by A. Kruchenych and recently contributed translations to New Russian
Poetry forthcoming from Dalkey Archive Press. Her poetry CD is The No-Net
World. She is active in the New York City Poetry community as curator of the
Sliding Scale Poetry reading series.
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