Hi all!
We're back at Shades of Green with three special features in the house!
Welcome Staten Island poets!
Join us at the open mic with poems and songs....
$5 donation at signup is greatly appreciated!
Please support the venue with drinks and/or a meal!
Shoutout to all of our friends at Shades, they're awesome to give us this space!
Please note: in the event of a last minute private booking at the venue, we have a backup venue!
Let's meet the fab three!
MICHAEL GRAVES is the author of Adam and Cain , and In Fragility, Black Buzzard 2006, 2011), A Prayer for the Less Violent Offenders, and Preparing the Apology, Nirala 2017, 2020?) He organized a conference on James Wright held at Poets House., NYC 2006? and read a selection of his Joycean poems to the James Joyce Society at the Gotham Book Mart, April 2002.
RHODA PIERCE is the co-author with Sandie Bernstein of two novels: “Leah’s Blessing” and “The Spirit of Kehillat Shalom,” published by Kehillah Press;, also 3 independently published books of poems: “Nobody Ever Leaves,” “Activities of Daily Living, “and her latest, “Poems From A Round Room.” Her poems are little stories that arise from surprising revelations people share, circumstances she finds herself in most unexpectedly, and her wish for a more equal world.
M. A. DENNIS contains multitudes. Johns Hopkins University Press Blog describes him as “a hilarious but also heartbreaking performance poet.” His collection of poems (published by NYSAI Press) is entitled Mistaken Identity Crisis. He lives in Staten Island, NY and shares an apartment with four pet rocks—Chris, Fraggle, Gibraltar & Plymouth.
Cover Art by Oliver Archibald:
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"Does nobody understand?"
~James Joyce
See you soon!
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