FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Media
Contacts:
Larissa Shmailo
(212) 712-9865
Ron Kolm
(718) 721-0946
The
Unbearables and The Feminist Poets in Low-Cut Blouses Perform
for
Global Event:
100
Thousand Poets for Change
@ A Gathering of the Tribes
285 E. 3rd Street
(between Avenues C and D), NYC
Saturday,
September 29, 7:00 – 10:00 pm
Donation
New York City: The Unbearables (“a drinking group with a writing problem”) and The Feminist Poets in Low-Cut Blouses (“we live with the contradictions of feminism”) face off at Lower-East-Side literary landmark A Gathering of the Tribes on September 29, 2012 at 7:00 pm as part of the global arts celebration 100 Thousand Poets for Change.
With rants, humor, avant-garde poetry, and more than a little outrageousness, the two famous New York City literary clans will face off downtown for a first-time ever showdown. Poetry legend Bob Holman, Larissa Shmailo, Ron Kolm, Elizabeth Macklin, Thad Rutkowski, Patricia Spears Jones, Sparrow, Chavisa Woods, Lee Ann Brown, Carl Watson, and other noted poets and writers are scheduled to appear.
September 29 marks the second annual global event of 100 Thousand Poets for Change, a grassroots movement that brings poets, artists, and musicians together worldwide to call for environmental, social, and political change within the framework of peace and sustainability. There are nearly 700 events planned worldwide, including:
• The Occupy Wall Street Poetry group kicks off a weekend of events in New York City with a poetry reading at the famous St. Mark’s Poetry Project.
• 25 different events in the San Francisco Bay Area, the birthplace of 100 Thousand Poets for Change, with live poetry readings by Beat Legend Michael McClure, former US Poet Laureate Robert Hass, and other major poets.
• Poetry and peace gatherings are planned in the strife-torn cities of Kabul and Jalalabad, Afghanistan.
• In Cairo and Alexandria, Egypt, poets, musicians and mime artists, in response to the revolution in Egypt and the major changes taking place in the Arab World, will perform in public spaces.
Events are also scheduled in Albania, Zimbawe, Serbia, Russia, China, Algeria, Scotland, the Udmurt Republic, Somalia, Mexico, and over 100 other countries.
Like Pussy Riot in Russia, The Unbearables and The Feminist Poets in Low-Cut Blouses believe in freedom of speech and seek a world in which artistic expression is open and protected, a goal sought by the larger 100 Thousand Poets for Change organization.
Immediately following September 29th, all documentation on the 100TPC.org website, which will include specific event pages with photos, video and other documentation compiled by each city coordinator, will be preserved by Stanford University in California. Stanford recognized 100 Thousand Poets for Change in 2011 as an historical event, the largest poetry reading in history.
About 100 Thousand Poets for
Change
Co-Founder
Michael Rothenberg (walterblue@bigbridge.org)
is a widely known poet,
editor of the online literary magazine
Bigbridge.org and an environmental activist based in Northern California. Terri Carrion is
a poet, translator, photographer, and editor and visual designer for
BigBridge.org.
100 Thousand Poets for Change
P.O.
Box 870
Guerneville, CA 95446
Phone: (305) 753-4569
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