LIFT-OFF PARTY: OFFICIAL LAUNCH
OF NYC-BASED great weather for MEDIA
OF NYC-BASED great weather for MEDIA
The latest ‘incarnation in print’ of the edgy, the provocative, the experimental and the new -- NYC-based great weather for MEDIA -- holds its NYC Lift Off Party this week.
The event, to be held Apr 17, 7-9 p.m. at Swift Hibernian Lounge (back bar), 34 E4th St in Manhattan, will not only showcase an eagerly anticipated new entity on the Poetry In Performance scene, but will additionally thread through the party the spoken word and musical talent of top performers on the scene today.
Showcased reader/performers are HALA ALYAN, ROBERT GIBBONS, JANE LECROY, and RICHARD LORANGER (see bios below).
Founded in January 2012, great weather for MEDIA focuses on the unpredictable, the bright, the dark, and the innovative. As well as publishing the highest quality poetry and prose, it is deeply engaged in creating literary and performance related happenings around NYC and beyond.
great weather for MEDIA is currently accepting poetry and prose submissions for our first print anthology. Editors JANE ORMEROD, BRANT LYON, THOMAS FUCALORO, and GEORGE WALLACE welcome experimental and edgy work from both national and international writers.
Writers and performers are invited to meet great weather for MEDIA editors, find out about submissions and future events, mingle, drink, hear a few of today’s favorite poets in performance, and have fun.
It’s the official launch of our press! All welcome.
For more information: jane.ormerod@greatweatherformedia.com or visit http://greatweatherformedia.com/
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FEATURED PERFORMER BIOS
HALA ALYAN is a Palestinian-American poet who has lived in various parts of the world, spanning from Oklahoma to Beirut. She is a doctoral student and has a collection of poetry, entitled "Atrium", forthcoming by Three Rooms Press.
ROBERT GIBBONS moved to New York City in the summer of 2007 in search of his muse-Langston Hughes. He has since featured in numerous venues around New York City and also in Washington D.C., Maryland, and Florida. Moreover, Robert has been published in Uphook Press; Three Rooms Press; Brownstone Anthology; Dinner with the Muse; Cartier Street Review; Palm and more. He has taken classes with Cave Canem, the 92Y, and has studied under master poets such as Cornelius Eady, Marilyn Nelson, Kimiko Hahn, Nathalie Handal, and Linda Susan Jackson
JANE LECROY is a poet and performance artist, home-birthing mother of three, teacher, atheist, vegetarian, hedonist, who fronts the avant-pop band Transmitting with Tom Abbs. Jane has performed as part of San Francisco’s women poetry troupe Sister Spit and Kid Lucky’s spoken-word, beatboxing orchestra, Nu Voices. Jane’s latest book of poetry, “Names” was published by Booklyn and purchased by the Library of Congress.
RICHARD LORANGER is a writer, performer, visual artist, and all around squeaky wheel, currently residing in Oakland, CA. He is the author of "Poems for Teeth", as well as "The Orange Book" and eight chapbooks, including "Hello Poems" and "The Day Was Warm and Blue". He’s just finished a series of poems that ask questions, and is currently working on a series of ecstatic odes. His work can be seen in the anthologies" Diving Divas: 100 Gay Men on Their Muses", and "you say. say" and "hell strung and crooked" (both Uphook Press).
