...eview, Spoon River Poetry Review, New York Quarterly and Hanging Loose. She teaches creative writing for Urban Word NYC, The School of Visual Arts and Hunter College....
In the final day of summer, find the clockwork tooth that shreds the fat pulp of the hours, find the bones stained white under pine needles. Find the old desires, bottled, labeled and covered in
...p beer, scratches her pup’s furry head, competes in poetry slams, and is coach and Co-Slammaster for the Urban a Poetry Slam series at Bowery Poetry Club in New York City. The moment her five-year old ...
...ething interesting to put in her bio. Beverly visits NYC whenever she is feeling bored with her suburban routine....
...political activists by day, cabbies by night -- and fell in love with the exploring and documentation of urban subculture. Now, as an anthropologist first, photographer second, she's ready to shake th...
... late '70s and has a BFA in screenwriting from Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. She represented team NYC-URBAN A at the National Poetry Slam in 1998 and 1999. In September 2007 she earned her MFA ...
...songs were our anthems, our peculiar impetus for what we believed would be our eventual flight out of suburban Houston, not the dark hymns that they likely seemed to be to outsiders.
Meredith was v...
...e, sharing a plate of disco fries, watching as our customers gleefully scurried about our masterpiece of urban decay. Even without looking at him, you could feel the pride coming off of Appleby like t...
...e of the Chelsea Feast Diner on West 23rd Street – the original home of what would eventually become the Urban a poetry slam, now a centerpiece of the Bowery Poetry Club's eclectic schedule. I recall f...
...completely populated by robots -- visually, at least -- but instead of sci-fi, you deliver a straight-up urban crime drama, and introduce one of the more compelling female leads in comics, Nika. What'...
...ands of NYC teens every year as Executive Director of the award-winning not-for-profit organization Urban Word NYC. ...
...ands of NYC teens every year as Executive Director of the award-winning not-for-profit organization Urban Word NYC. ...
...r President?
Gallet: I moved to New York City on a complete whim. I had all the trappings of a nice suburban life: a cozy little brick house with a rose garden; two dachshunds; a cute little Miata, ...
...l rolled into one. In later years the proud pioneers who had settled -- or resettled anyway -- this urban frontier would point darkly to the day, identifying it as the tipping point, the moment w...
... mop handle. But were we flush, with a dollar nineteen,A&P broom handles launched a spaldeen An urban mile. Below burned-off green straw,Barrels tapered, shafts flared. Sculpted to awe,And be...
... it. Like you own it. When I love you, it's forever. I refuse to allow the trivialities and pettiness of urban living to blind me from what is. If I've wronged you, I'm sorry. If I've neglected you, p...
...y Seasholtz moved to New York City 3 weeks after 9/11 to help open the Bowery Poetry Club. He is now NYC-Urban a's Slammaster and author of the forthcoming book, The Ass Menagerie (Kapow! Press). ...
...love.
Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz founded the three-time National Poetry Slam Championship venue, NYC-Urban a, at age 19. She is the author of four books, including 2007's Oh, Terrible Youth, and he...
Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz founded the three-time National Poetry Slam Championship venue, NYC-Urban a, at age 19. She is the author of four books, including 2007's Oh, Terrible Youth, and her
