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with Steve Dalachinsky, Maggie Dubris, Ron Kolm, David Lawton, Tantra-zawadi, Angelo Verga & George Wallace

Mon February 8th, 2016

7:00PM

The Gallery

Minimum Age: 21+

Doors Open: 7:00PM

Show Time: 7:00PM

Event Ticket: $8

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Experience the magic and mystery of the small screen at Prime Time: A Reading in Celebration of Rabbit Ears: TV Poems.
 
Join Editor Joel Allegretti and these contributors to the first anthology of poetry about television as they pay tribute to a medium that has influenced our language, opinions, politics, and lifestyles:
 

Peter Carlaftes
Steve Dalachinsky
Maggie Dubris
Ron Kolm
David Lawton
Tantra-zawadi
Angelo Verga
George Wallace

 
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$8 (admission includes one beer, wine, or well drink with purchase)
 

This is a general admission event in The Gallery at LPR.

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Peter Carlaftes

Peter Carlaftes is a poet, playwright, and performer and also co-director and chief editor at Three Rooms Press. He is the author of Drunkyard Dog, A Year On Facebook, Triumph For Rent (3 Plays), I Fold With the Hand I Was Dealt, & Teatrophy (3 More Plays).

Steve Dalachinsky

Steve Dalachinsky’s books include A Superintendent’s Eyes (Unbearable Books/Autonomedia, 2013); Trustfund (Unlikely Stories Press 2012); Reaching Into the Unknown, with photographer Jacques Bisceglia (RougeArt Paris 2009); and The Final Nite (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2006), winner of the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles National Book Award.

Maggie Dubris

Maggie Dubris is a writer and composer living in New York. She is the author of In the Dust Zone (Centre-Ville Books, 2010), Skels (Soft Skull Press, 2004), and Weep Not, My Wanton (Black Sparrow Press, 2002). She is also a professional hypnotist.
 
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Ron Kolm

Ron Kolm is a member of the Unbearables and an editor of several of their anthologies, most recently The Unbearables Big Book of Sex (Autonomedia, 2011). He is a contributing editor of Sensitive Skin and was the editor of the Evergreen Review from 2013–2015. Kolm is the author of Divine Comedy (Fly by Night Press, 2013) and The Plastic Factory (Autonomedia, 2011). His papers were purchased by the New York University Library and catalogued in the Fales Collection as part of the Downtown Writers Group.

David Lawton

David Lawton is a native of Woburn, Mass., where he was weaned on the poetry of Nipsey Russell, Henry Gibson, and Bullwinkle J. Moose. He studied theater at Boston University alongside George Costanza and Vic Mackey. He still collects residuals for his 1995 appearance on Unsolved Mysteries. He is the author of Sharp Blue Stream (Three Rooms Press, 2013).

Tantra-zawadi

Tantra-zawadi, an international performance poet from Brooklyn, N.Y., has performed in Africa, Europe and Canada, as well as the United States. A mentor for Girl-Child Network Worldwide, she directed two short documentaries, Girl: The Film Vol. I and A Silent Genocide: A Brief Insight into HIV/AIDS. She has collaborated on numerous musical compilations and is the author of two collections, Bubbles (2013) and Gathered at Her Sky (2010), both from Poets Wear Prada.
 
Tantra-zawadi official site

Angelo Verga

Angelo Verga is the author of six books of poetry and is widely published in literary journals and anthologies.

George Wallace

George Wallace is a New York-based poet who travels internationally to perform his work. He is author of 28 chapbooks of poetry, editor of Poetrybay.com, and associate editor of great weather for MEDIA. George teaches writing at Pace University in Manhattan and is writer-in-residence at the Walt Whitman Birthplace.

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