Thursday, August 29, 2013

GALWAY: August Over The Edge Open Reading


Thursday, August 29th, 2013, 6.30pm-8pm, FREE

Galway City Library

The Featured Readers are Art Stringer, Ron Houchin and Kernan Andrews. There will, as usual, be an open-mic after the Featured Readers have finished. The evening will also see the announcement of the long list for this year’s Over The Edge New Writer of The Year competition, which received a very healthy number of entries again this year.

Kernan Andrews is from Galway and is the arts editor and political correspondent of the Galway Advertiser. He writes short stories in his spare time and has been published in The Galway Review. He has read his work at Cúirt 2013; as part of the launch for NUI Galway's theatre events in the Galway Fringe Festival 2013; and at numerous Over The Edge open mics.

Art Stringer is the author of three collections of poems, Channel Markers (Wesleyan University Press), Human Costume (Salmon Poetry) and, most recently, Late Breaking, which was published in February by Salmon Poetry. His work has appeared in such journals as The Nation, Antaeus, The Ohio Review, Denver Quarterly, Prairie Schooner, Shenandoah, Poetry Northwest, and in Backcountry: Contemporary Writing in West Virginia.  He also edited and introduced an edition of Louise McNeill’s Paradox Hill (West Virginia University Press). For twenty-four years, he has taught writing and literature at Marshall University.

Ron Houchin was born in San Diego, California, and raised from the age of three in Huntington, West Virginia.  He comes from a family of factory workers, coal miners, and farmers who have always lived in Appalachia.  For thirty years he taught in an Ohio public school in the southernmost tip of Ohio. His most recent books are The Quiet Jars, a new and selected poetry collection, published last spring by Salmon Publishing and a short story collection, Tales Out Of School, published in December from Wind Publications of Kentucky. Louisiana State University Press will publish a new volume of his poems, The Man Who Saws Us In Half, this autumn in its Southern Messenger Series. Ron lives in a haunted house, built by the grandson of an ex-slave, on the banks of the Ohio River.

As usual there will be an open-mic after the Featured Readers have finished. New readers are always most welcome. The MC for the evening will be Susan Millar DuMars.

For further details phone 087-6431748.

Over The Edge acknowledges the ongoing generous financial support of Galway City Council & The Arts Council. http://overtheedgeliteraryevents.blogspot.com 

Saturday, August 24, 2013

SALE: Grey Hen Press launch reading


Saturday, 7th September, 2013, 2-3.30pm, FREE
Sale Library,
Sale Waterside,
Sale,
Cheshire

A reading from the new Grey Hen anthology Running Before the Wind : poems about the sea with Doris Corti, Janet Loverseed and Joan Poulson.

Friday, August 23, 2013

LONDON: Jazz Verse Jukebox


Sunday, 8th September 2013, doors 6.30pm, show from 7.30pm, £8 (on the door only)
Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club (Upstairs),
47 Frith Street,
London
W1D 4HT
Tube: Tottenham Court Road or Leicester Square


It's back to school for the JAZZ VERSE JUKEBOX (Upstairs @ Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club) which resumes with very special guests: acclaimed vocalist Carol Grimes, poetic maverick Joshua Idehen, performance poet Paul Lyalls, hip-hop & spoken word artist The Ruby Kid and emerging poet Sophia Thakur.

PLUS Jukebox Open Mic:
Come & sing with our amazing house band  or perform some poetry.

Compered by & with music from Jumoké Fashola

LONDON: Camden Poetry Series


Friday, 6th September, 2013, 7pm, (doors open 6.30pm), £5/£4, Wine
Trinity United Reform Church,
1 Buck Street,
Camden Town
1-2 mins. Camden Town tube

Ruth O'Callaghan presents Maureen Duffy, Jane Duran and Sharon Morris. 


Poets from the floor very welcome

Please bring a copy of the poem if you wish to be considered for the new anthology.

Tuesday, August 20, 2013

GALWAY: August Over The Edge Open Reading


Thursday, August 29th, 2013, 6.30pm-8pm, FREE
Galway City Library

The Featured Readers are Art Stringer, Ron Houchin and Kernan Andrews. There will, as usual, be an open-mic after the Featured Readers have finished. The evening will also see the announcement of the long list for this year’s Over The Edge New Writer of The Year competition, which received a very healthy number of entries again this year.

Kernan Andrews is from Galway and is the arts editor and political correspondent of the Galway Advertiser. He writes short stories in his spare time and has been published in The Galway Review. He has read his work at Cúirt 2013; as part of the launch for NUI Galway's theatre events in the Galway Fringe Festival 2013; and at numerous Over The Edge open mics.

Art Stringer is the author of three collections of poems, Channel Markers (Wesleyan University Press), Human Costume (Salmon Poetry) and, most recently, Late Breaking, which was published in February by Salmon Poetry. His work has appeared in such journals as The Nation, Antaeus, The Ohio Review, Denver Quarterly, Prairie Schooner, Shenandoah, Poetry Northwest, and in Backcountry: Contemporary Writing in West Virginia.  He also edited and introduced an edition of Louise McNeill’s Paradox Hill (West Virginia University Press). For twenty-four years, he has taught writing and literature at Marshall University.

Ron Houchin was born in San Diego, California, and raised from the age of three in Huntington, West Virginia.  He comes from a family of factory workers, coal miners, and farmers who have always lived in Appalachia.  For thirty years he taught in an Ohio public school in the southernmost tip of Ohio. His most recent books are The Quiet Jars, a new and selected poetry collection, published last spring by Salmon Publishing and a short story collection, Tales Out Of School, published in December from Wind Publications of Kentucky. Louisiana State University Press will publish a new volume of his poems, The Man Who Saws Us In Half, this autumn in its Southern Messenger Series. Ron lives in a haunted house, built by the grandson of an ex-slave, on the banks of the Ohio River.

As usual there will be an open-mic after the Featured Readers have finished. New readers are always most welcome. The MC for the evening will be Susan Millar DuMars.

For further details phone 087-6431748.

Over The Edge acknowledges the ongoing generous financial support of Galway City Council & The Arts Council. http://overtheedgeliteraryevents.blogspot.com 

LONDON: Velvet Tongue


Monday, September 2nd, 2013, £5/£3/free to participants, doors open 7pm; show starts 7.30pm
Bar Kick,
127 Shoreditch High Street,
E1 6JE,
London
Old Street/Liverpool Street tube stations; Shoreditch High Street overground.

London's Erotic Literary Soiree is back this summer, in its pre-equinox edition with writers: ALEX HOPKINS and ANNIE PLAYER...and performers: LAZLO PEARLMAN and MR. MISTRESS. Plus the usual open mic slots.

Hosted by Erotic Award winning poet, Ernesto Sarezale.

Velvet Tongue is dedicated to erotic writing and performance, with poetry, fiction, spoken word, plays, stand-up, comic strips, cabaret, monologues,… 

THINGS PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT VELVET TONGUE:

Velvet Tongue celebrates the hot, the sweet, the viscous, the carnal, the sexy, the racy, the provocative, the lustful, the voluptuous, the libidinous, the playful, the flirtatious, the teasing, the suggestive, the explicit, the cheeky, the bold, the brash, the brassy, the flashy, the risque, the pervy, the licentious, the queer, the depraved and the downright kinky.