louderARTS: the reading series celebrates NINE YEARS of presenting the best in poetry and performance!
Join us for the louderARTS NINE-YEAR ANNIVERSARY SHOW featuring ANIS MOJGANI and RUTH ELLEN KOCHER, plus a showcase of louderARTS community members and rockstar features!
Ruth Ellen Kocher is the author of One Girl Babylon (New Issues Press 2003), When the Moon Knows You're Wandering (New Issues Press, 2001), winner of the Green Rose Prize in Poetry, and Desdemona's Fire (Lotus Press, 1999), winner of the Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award. Her work has appeared in various journals, including Washington Square Journal, Ploughshares, Crab Orchard Review, Clackamas Literary Review, The Missouri Review, African American Review, The Gettysburg Review, and Antioch, among others, and has been translated into Persian in the Iranian literary magazine She'r. She has also worked as a fellow in the Cave Canem Workshop and Retreat. She lives in St. Louis, Missouri and teaches literature and writing at the University of Missouri, St. Louis.
Anis Mojgani is the 2005 Indy Poetry Slam Champion. He is an independent visual and performing artist and a graduate of Savannah College of Art and Design. He has written and performed spoken word for nearly 10 years and has represented slam teams of New Orleans and New York City in past national competitions. He shares the individual championship title of the 2005 National Poetry Slam held in August in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Celebrate nine years of the country's best poetry and performance with a line-up of poetry luminaries, local superstars, and writer/performers louderARTS loves to love. Showcase poets include Patrick Rosal, Ross Gay, Evie Shockley, Mara Jebsen, Caitlin Meissner and Sonia Mukherji, Emily Kagan, Abena Koomson, Chris Lee, and other invited guests! Hosted by your loyal curators, Roger Bonair-Agard, Marty McConnell, and Lynne Procope.
louderARTS: the reading series
every Monday at 13 Bar/Lounge
35 East 13th Street @ University Place, 2nd Floor
4, 5, 6, L, N, Q, R, W to 14th Street/Union Square
7 p.m.
$6 ($5 for students)
2 for 1 drinks all night!
Official Website: http://louderarts.com