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Spoken Word Series |
Past artists who have been featured include: Diane Lockward, Sander Zulauf, Deena Linett, George Harvilla, Meg Kearney, BJ Ward, Faith Vicinanza, Joel Lewis, Renee Ashley, John-Paul Marotta, postmidnight, Edmund Conti, Peter Murphy, Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Laura Boss, Jack Wiler, Mike Fleming, Tina Kelly and David Messineo. First Sunday of each month at 3pm: October 2, 2011 - BOB ROSENBLOOM November 6, 2011 - ED ROMOND & BURT KIMMELMAN December 4, 2011 - ADELE KENNY & GEORGE DREW February 5, 2012 - L.A. KUEHLKE March 4, 2012 - MILTON LOUIS STEINBERG April 1, 2012 - OPEN MIC Location: TTC's Studio - C413 Monroe Center for the Arts 720 Monroe St., Hoboken, NJ Suggested Donation: $5 per person refreshments are included |
After a successful run with their good friends at Symposia Bookstore, the Spoken Word's co-hosts David Vincenti and Siobhán Barry are please to announce the series move from bookstore to performance space at TTC's Studio C-413. |
Who is Who in the Series (listed in chronological order to their reading dates) |
BOB ROSENBLOOM's (October 2, 2011) poetry has appeared in the Paterson Literary Review, The Edison Literary Review, Tiferet, and US 1 Worksheets, among other magazines. He's co-director of the Somerset Poetry Group. NJ and lives in Bound Brook, NJ with his wife. He's a certified civil trial attorney and has an MA in Creative Writing from The City College of New York. |
ED ROMOND's (November 6, 2011) most recent book of poetry is Alone With Love Songs (Grayson Books, 2011). His poems have been featured on NPR, in anthologies, college texts, and in journals such as The Sun, The Rockhurst Review, Tiferet, Barrow Street, Poet Lore, and many others. He has been awarded poetry fellowships from both the New Jersey and Pennsylvania State Arts Councils and, in 1993, a $20,000 prize from the National Endowment for the Arts. In addition to his poetry, he has also written the book, music, and lyrics for two musical plays, A Family Life and Robin Hood, both produced at New Jersey community theaters. His prose memoir, "The Ticket," appears in Tim Russert's book, Wisdom of Our Fathers. A native of Woodbridge, NJ, he now lives in Wind Gap, PA with Mary Zanette, his wife, and their son, Liam. http://www.edwinromond.com/ |
BURT KIMMELMAN (November 6, 2011) has published six collections of poetry. A poem from his most recent book, As If Free (Talisman House, Publishers, 2009), was featured on NPR’s The Writer’s Almanac. A seventh collection, The Way We Live, is forthcoming (from Dos Madres Press in 2011). For over a decade he was Senior Editor of the now-defunct Poetry New York: A Journal of Poetry and Translation. He has also published a number of books of criticism, including The "Winter Mind": William Bronk and American Letters (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1998), as well as scores of essays on medieval, modern, and contemporary poetry. Recent interviews of Kimmelman can be accessed online: a video interview with George Spencer that was broadcast on Poetry Thin Air, and a lengthy email exchange with Tom Fink published in Jacket 40; Kimmelman's interview of Michael Lally, moreover, has just appeared online in Jacket2. Kimmelman is a professor of English at New Jersey Institute of Technology. He lives in Maplewood, NJ with his wife, the multiple award-winning novelist and short-story writer Diane Simmons. BurtKimmelman.com |
ADELE KENNY (December 4, 2011) is the author of 23 books (poetry and nonfiction). Over 700 of her poems, articles, and reviews have been published in journals throughout North and South America, the UK, Europe, Australia, and Asia, as well as in books and anthologies published by Crown, Mc-Graw Hill, Tuttle, and Shambhala. She served as associate editor of The Antiquer: Fine Art & Antiques from 2000-2005 and is currently poetry editor of Tiferet: A Journal of Spiritual Literature. Adele is the recipient of various honors and awards, including two poetry fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. She has received a Merton Poetry of the Sacred Award and an Allen Ginsberg Poetry Award; and she has been a Pushcart Prize finalist, as well as a finalist for the Paumanok Poetry Award. She has also been awarded first place Merit Book and Henderson Awards, and a Writer's Digest Poetry Award. In 2011, she was honored with a Women of Excellence Award from the Union County Commission on the Status of Women for her personal achievements and volunteer work in the arts and humanities. One of her poems appeared on the marquee of the Rialto West Theater in NYC as part of the 42nd Street Art Project, and her book Staffordshire Animals has been cited by Home and Garden Television (Episode COL-713). http://www.adelekenny.com/index.html |
GEORGE DREW (December 4, 2011) was born in Mississippi and raised there and in New York State, where he currently lives. He is the author of four collections of poetry, Toads in a Poisoned Tank, Tamarack Editions; The Horse’s Name Was Physics, Turning Point Press; a third, American Cool, was released by Tamarack in 2009; and a fourth, The Hand that Rounded Peter’s Dome, by Turning Point in 2010. Drew was the winner of the 2003 Paumanok Poetry Prize, the 2007 Baltimore Review Poetry Prize, the 2008 South Carolina Review Poetry Prize, and was runner-up for the 2009 Chautauqua Literary Journal Poetry Contest, which also nominated him for a Pushcart Prize. American Cool won the 2010 Adirondack Literary Award for best poetry book of 2009. A fifth collection, The View from Jackass Hill, is the 2010 winner of the X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize, Texas Review Press, 2011. www.pw.org/content/george_drew |
L.A. KUEHLKE (February 5, 2012) is the author of Pursuit and is currently working on Redemption, book two in the Pursuit Series. From Hillsdale, L.A. is a sometimes snarky lover of a good paranormal romance, a seeker of balance, and is a firm believer that a tasty soy chai and the color pink make life happier. She is a member of the International Women’s Writing Guild (IWWG) and the American Christian Fiction Writers (ACFW). http://www.lakuehlke.com/ |
MILTON LOUIS STEINBERG (March 4, 2012) resides in Peekskill, NY. He is professor emeritus from Marymount College of Fordham University where he taught psychology, neuroscience, statistics and computer courses. He sings with a Barbershop Harmony chorus (Westchester Chordsmen), plays guitar, writes songs and, lately, writes novels. https://sites.google.com/site/miltonlouissteinberg/ |
When she’s not listening to Moshav or Soulfarm, SIOBHÁN BARRY likes to write screenplays, short stories, and poetry. She is the author of two books, Brushstrokes: A Work In Progress, a memoir about growing up in Brooklyn during the 1950s, and Golden, a young adult historical novel set in the late 1960s. When Siobhán grows up, she would love to be a staff writer for HBO. She lives in Hudson County, New Jersey. |
Series Co-Hosts |
DAVID VINCENTI has always devoted his energy to the making and publishing creative writings, including poetry to class magazines and original speeches for forensics competitions in high school, editorship of the campus literary journal and articles for the newspaper in college, and publications in regional and national arenas since then. His poems have appeared in such journals as The Journal of New Jersey Poets, The Paterson Literary Review and The Christian Science Monitor. He has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and has contributed articles to Poetic Voices. David is an alumnus of Stevens Institute of Technology. www.davidvincenti.com |
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