Showing posts with label Annie Finch. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Annie Finch. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 21, 2020

Annie Finch and Hari Alluri at LIT BALM April 25

This Saturday at 5:00 pm. East Coast time, LIT BALM is thrilled to present Annie Finch and Haril Alluri plus open mic! Our question for this reading is "Page or stage?"
Annie Finch is an award-winning feminist poet and writer, author of Spells: New and Selected Poems, The Poetry Witch Little Book of Spells, and Among the Goddesses, winner of the Sarasvati Award for Poetry. She has published influential books on poetry and edited numerous anthologies, most recently Choice Words: Writers on Abortion from Haymarket Books. Her poetry has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Paris Review, The Penguin Book of Twentieth-Century American Poetry, and onstage at Carnegie Hall. Based in Washington, DC, she travels to teach and perform. Visit her website and schedule of classes at www.anniefinch.com
Hari Alluri (he/him/siya) is the author of The Flayed City, Carving Ashes, and the chapbook The Promise of Rust. A winner of the 2020 Leonard A. Slade, Jr. Poetry Fellowship for Poets of Color and a co-founding editor of Locked Horn Press, his current projects are supported by grants from the BC Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts. His work appears recently in Anomaly, The Margins, Massachusetts Review, Poetry, Pulpmouth, and Quiddity, among others.
LIT BALM is a new weekly interactive livestream reading series brought to you by Jonathan Penton of Unlikely Stories Mark V and Unlikely Books, Marc Vincenz of MadHat and New American Writing (Magazine), and Larissa Shmailo of the Feminist Poets in Low Cut Blouses.
Every Saturday at 5:00 pm EST.
Zoom https://us04web.zoom.us/j/461603228
Website: www.litblam.org


Thursday, March 26, 2020

IN LANDMARK ABORTION ANTHOLOGY

I am honored beyond measure to be included in CHOICE WORDS: WRITERS ON ABORTION. The book includes work by Audre Lorde, Margaret Atwood, Lucille Clifton, Amy Tan, Gloria Steinem, Ursula Le Guin, Gwendolyn Brooks, Joyce Carol Oates, Gloria Naylor, Dorothy Parker, Anne Sexton, Ntozake Shange, Sholeh Wolpe, Ai, Jean Rhys, Mahogany L. Browne, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Frank O’Hara, Vi Khi Nao, Sharon Olds, Judith Arcana, Alice Walker, Lucille Clifton, Molly Peacock, Carol Muske-Dukes, Mo Yan, Leslie Marmon Silko, Bobbie Louise Hawkins, Kathy Acker, Langston Hughes, Sharon Doubiago, and many other classic and contemporary writers. Huge congrats to editor Annie Finch on this essential volume!



Thursday, April 11, 2019

APRIL 10th ON POETRY THIN AIR!

TONIGHT - Part 1 of the first SLY BANG launch airs on Mitch Corber's Poetry Thin Air television show featuring readings by Annie Finch and Thaddeus Rutkowski and emcee Ron Kolm. Catch the show on Manhattan Neighborhood Network at 8:30 pm or on BRIC Brooklyn Cable Access at 11:00 pm.

Monday, April 01, 2019

SLY BANG LAUNCH VIDEOS

If you missed the first Sly Bang launch, no worries! Here are the videos for the event.

SLY BANG LAUNCH PART 1 features Thaddeus Rutkowski, Annie Finch, and host Ron Kolm and will air on the television show Poetry Thin Air on Manhattan and Brooklyn Cable Access April 10, 8:30 pm.

SLY BANG LAUNCH PART 2 features Don Yorty, Ron Kolm, and my reading from Sly Bang and will air on Poetry Thin Air  on April 17, 8:30 pm.

Thanks to everyone who turned out for this great read! Save the date for From Russia with Love: A SLY BANG Book Party May 13!

Saturday, June 10, 2017

"Abortion Hallucination" to Appear in Anthology

I  am proud to announce that my poem, "Abortion Hallucination," will appear in the anthology, Choice Words: Poems about Abortion edited by Annie Finch. Keep abortion safe and legal for all women!

Friday, December 16, 2016

New at HOWL (Humanities Opposition World League)

See the HOWL (Humanities Opposition World League) blog for poetry by Rachel Hadas and Annie Finch, performance videos of Anne Waldman, a new translation of Anna Akhmatova's Requiem by Alexander Cigale, and an address to El Dorado by Jonathan PentonCLICK TO READ HERE! 

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