Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012,
8pm-11pm, FREE
Negotiants,
45-47 Lothian Street,
Edinburgh
Inky Fingers Poetry Night and Open Mic Slot
This month, we're featuring the poetry of
JL Williams. Born in New Jersey, she moved to Edinburgh in 2001, and has since
then been active both as a poet and in the performing arts as a director and
producer. She was awarded a grant from the Scottish Arts Council for a poetry
collaboration entitled chiaroscuro pentimenti with composer Martin Parker and
artist Anna Chapman, and the Edwin Morgan Travel Bursary from the Scottish Arts
Trust. Her poetry has been published in various journals, and her collection, Condition
of Fire, is published by Shearsman Books. She plays in the band Opul and can
be found on the Live Literature funded list of Scottish Book Trust Authors.
The Inky Fingers Open Mic takes place every
fourth Tuesday of the month, from 8-11pm. It’s free to come and free for anyone
to perform, regardless of style, experience, or identity.
We want to hear from everybody. We want
your poems, your rants, your ballads, your short stories, your diaries, your
experimental texts, your heart, your mind, your body. We want the essay on your
summer holidays you wrote when you were four, your adolescent haiku, and
extracts from your eventually-to-be-completed epic fantasy quadrilogy. We want
to hear your best new work as well. And we want people to care about the way
words are performed.
Open Mic slots are five minutes long;
e-mail inkyfingersedinburgh@gmail.com
to sign up and be sure of a slot, and check our website at http://inkyfingersedinburgh.wordpress.com
for more details.
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