The Inspired Word presents the release of Aimee Herman's full-length book of poetry, to go without blinking[BlazeVOX Books], with the help of two of her favorite poets, Willie Perdomo and Eric Alter.
to go without blinking features poems of all forms and experimentations. It is a journey through gender, sexual imprints, narration of memories, observations, life, love, lust and language. There will also be a 20-slot open mic open to all types of artists (comedians, musicians, storytellers, fiction/nonfiction writers, as well as poets and spoken word artists). Hosted by HBO Def Poetry star Gemineye.
***** BIO: Aimee Herman, a queer performative poet and the host of The Inspired Word's erotica and LGBT events, has been featured at various New York venues such as the Happy Ending Lounge, Dixon Place, Wow Café Theatre, Public Assembly, and Sidewalk Café. She has performed at reading/performance series such as: In the Flesh erotic salon, Hyper Gender, Sideshow: Queer Literary Carnival, and Red Umbrella Diaries. Her poetry can be found in Clean Sheets, Cliterature Journal, InStereo Press, and/or journal, and Polari Journal. She can also be read in hell strung and crooked (Uphook Press), Best Women's Erotica 2010 (Cleis Press), Best Lesbian Love Stories 2010 (Alyson Books), Nice Girls, Naughty Sex (Seal), and the upcoming Women in Lust (Cleis). She currently works as an erotica editor for Oysters & Chocolate. She can be found writing poems on her body in Brooklyn. Find her at http://aimeeherman.wordpress.com/. ***** Willie Perdomo is the author of Where a Nickel Costs a Dime and Smoking Lovely, which received a PEN America Beyond Margins Award. He has been published in the New York Times Magazine and Bomb and his children's book, Visiting Langston, received a Coretta Scott King Honor. He is a NYFA Arts Fellowship winner, Pushcart Prize nominee, a Urban Artists Initiative/NYC grant recipient and was recently a Woolrich Fellow in Creative Writing at Columbia University. He has been featured in several PBS documentaries, including Words in Your Face and The United States of Poetry. His work has been anthologized in Step into a World: A Global Anthology of The New Black Literature, Listen Up! Spoken Word Poetry, Boricuas: Influential Puerto Rican Writings, and Aloud!: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Café. He has also written a picture book entitled Visiting Langston and co-wrote an episode for the HBO series Spicy City. Eric Alter a Staten Island based Pushcart Prize nominated poet, has been published in Spectrum, the Brooklyn Paramount, Downtown Brooklyn,and By the Overpass.Uphook Press. *****
When: Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Where: 116
116 MacDougal Street
(between Bleecker Street and Minetta Lane)
Downstairs Lounge
Manhattan, NY 10012
(212) 254-9996
(917) 703-1512
By subway, take the A, B, C, D, E, F to West 4th Street-Washington Square.
Doors open for open mic sign-up @ 6:30pm
Show starts @ 7pm
Cover Charge: $10
NO AGE LIMIT.
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