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The Inspired Word Presents - Titillating Tongues: NYC Erotica in Poetry & Prose w/ Akinfe Fatou, Francis "Faceboy" Hall, Monica Day, Big Mike, Billy Pelt and host Aimee Herman |
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About This Event
Minimum Age:
21+
Doors Open:
7:00 PM
Show Time:
7:00 PM
Description:
The Inspired Word presents a hot night of sexy fun, lip-licking words, and utter debauchery – Titillating Tongues: NYC Erotica in Poetry & Prose, featuring some of New York City's best erotica writers/performers, Monica Day, Akinfe Fatou, Billy Pelt, Francis Faceboy Hall, and Big Mike. +15-slot open mic open to all types of artists, where you can bring your own heat to the party. Hosted by the very sexy Aimee Herman and in hottest club in Greenwich Village - (le) poisson rouge!
This is a general admission event in The Gallery at LPR.
Artists
The Inspired Word Presents
Titillating Tongues: NYC Erotica in Poetry & Prose
The Inspired Word: A poetry/spoken word event, a reading series in downtown Manhattan featuring the best poets, spoken word artists around the country as well as showcasing new talent with an open mic.
Akinfe Fatou
Akinfe Fatou is a Poet, Activist, Collaborative Artist and Author of Once As Lovers. She is the co-founder of Indigo Souls Unite Collective and a service oriented advocate for social change. Infused with passion her work is both eclectic and intrinsic, expanding across genres. Her poetry has been well received at numerous historic/artistic venues nationwide and featured in countless literary magazines, journals and anthologized nationally.
http://akinfefatou.com/
Photo by JC McIlwaine
Francis "Faceboy" Hall
Francis "Faceboy" Hall is an actor, producer, and activist working in the New York City arts community. He has appeared in stage productions and several films, including Robert Downey Sr.'s Too Much Sun. Faceboy was a founding member of the Dance Liberation Front, where he has worked to overturn New York City's "no dancing" cabaret laws.
Monica Day
Monica Day is the founder of The Sensual Life. She specializes in creating safe spaces for people to explore, experience and express their sensuality. Day is best-known for finding playful ways to engage people into exploring what it means to live a more feeling, more passionate, more fully-expressed sensual life. She has spent the last 18 years as a writer, trainer and facilitator in areas ranging from personal growth and awareness, race and gender, class and power, sensuality and sexuality, communication skills, and relationship dynamics. She splits her time between Philadelphia, where she is raising two beautiful daughters with her former spouse and co-parent, and New York City, where she is active in various communities that explore sensuality, intimacy, communication and other opportunities for relating to the self and others through this core part of our being.
Big Mike
Big Mike curates/co produces the monthly D - DAY Productions poetry reading series at The Bowery Poetry Club and The Manic Mondays at The Yippy Café. He’s the author of two memoirs: "8 1 Pounds" and "Sibling Rivalry,” has been anthologized in One Millmeter and Wormwood Press, and hosts a weekly cable access program called Are You a Star? Or Just Bizarre?! "
Billy Pelt
host Aimee Herman
Aimee Herman, a queer performance poet, 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: www.aimeeherman.wordpress.com/a>. |
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