Results for "poet/spoken word"

Deborah Rush

Deborah Rush has worked in television, film and on Broadway. In 1984, she was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play for Michael Frayn's comedy "Noises Off". She also acted in Stephen Adly Guirgis' "The Last Days of Judas Iscariot". In 2003 she acted in the comedy film "American Wedding". In 2008 she joined the cast of the Broadway revival of "Blithe Spirit". Rush has acted in a number of movies and television series, including the Woody Allen films "Zelig" and "The Purple Rose of Cairo". She was a regular cast member of the television series "Strangers with Candy"

Raphael Xavier

Yolanda Wisher

Sista Nassunni

Jeff Friedman

Jeff Friedman’s seventh book Floating Tales—a collection of prose poems—was published by Plume Editions/MadHat Press in fall 2017. His poems, mini stories and translations have appeared in American Poetry Review, Poetry, New England Review, The Antioch Review, Poetry International, Plume, Hotel Amerika, Flash Fiction Funny, Agni Online, New World Writing, Flash NonFiction Funny, New Flash Fiction Review, The New Republic and numerous other literary magazines. Dzvinia Orlowsky’s and his translation of Memorialsby Polish Poet Mieczslaw Jastrun was published by Lavender Ink/Dialogosin August 2014

Steve Dalachinsky

Born: September 29, 1946

Steve Dalachinsky is a legendary New York downtown poet. He is active in the free jazz scene. He was born in Brooklyn, New York. He has been writing poetry for many years and has worked with such musicians as William Parker, Susie Ibarra, Matthew Shipp, Roy Campbell, Daniel Carter, Sabir Mateen, Mat Maneri, Federico Ughi, Loren Mazzacane Connors, Rob Brown, Tim Barnes, and Jim O'Rourke. He has appeared at most of the Vision Festivals, an Avant-Jazz festival involving many of these musicians. He also appears often at the Knitting Factory, a unique live music club in Tribeca. He currently lives in Manhattan with his wife, painter and poet Yuko Otomo