Reading at the 1st New York Poetry Festival

Nancy Agabian, Lola Koundakjian and Alan Semerdjian reading at the 1st New York Poetry Festival

Sunday 1pm, on Stage 2.

Free and open to the public, the first annual New York Poetry Festival (NYPF) on Governors Island will showcase all of the different formats, aesthetics, and personalities of New York City reading series and collectives, in one place at one time, July 30th and 31st.

With over 30 reading series, 100 poets and tons of vendors on board, the festival intends to create branches between disparate poetry communities, and other artists and artisans, by bringing poetry out of the dark bars and universities and by placing it amongst sycamores on an island in the sun.

For more information about The Poetry Society of New York and updates about the festival, please visit www.tpsny.org.

Bob Holman will serve as our Grand Marshal

Reading at the New York Poetry Festival Pre-Fest Party and Fundraiser

Time
Thursday, July 21 · 8:00pm - 11:00pm
Location
The Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery
New York, NY


I will be reading a long piece at this event. 

The invitation to this event states:
This Thursday night the curators of more than 30 of New York City's best poetry reading will have their moment in the spotlight. We have asked them to come and read for us and the city they so passionately serve. We will be gathering with the goal of raising very necessary funds to make The First Annual New York City Poetry Festival, www.tpsny.org , the most amazing poetry event this city has ever seen.

Reading at ABOVE THE BRIDGE series - Monday, July 18, 2011

Reading at WordUp Bookstore in Washington Heights

THURSDAY, JULY 7
7-9pm

Here and There: Travel Readings with Led Black, Lola Koundakjian, Iskandar Andrews, and Veronica Liu. Uptown Collective’s editor in chief Led Black will read from his work in progress, DR Travelogue. Poet Lola Koundakjian, a 2011 NoMAA grantee, will be reading a selection of travel pieces—some real, some imaginary—with a sprinkling of poems about food and drinks. Iskandar Andrews will read from Drinking and Driving in Urumqi, a seriocomic travelogue/meditation recounting immersive misadventures and multiple baptisms by culture shock, linguistic overload, and corn vodka into the diverse culture of the city of Urumqi, Xinjiang Province, Peoples Republic of China.Veronica Liu will read from her novel Your Chinese Tea is Getting Cold!, written with 2010 support from Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance (NoMAA), JPMorgan Chase Foundation, and the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone (UMEZ).




WORD UP
4157 Broadway @ 176 St.
Monday-Friday 4-9pm | Saturday-Sunday 12-4pm