Three great poets perform live sets at the famed downtown NYC performance venue.

15 MP3 Songs in this album (36:44) !
Related styles: SPOKEN WORD: Poetry, SPOKEN WORD: With Music



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Marjorie Tesser is the editor of Bowery Books, an independent poetry press, as well as the publisher for the journal The Mom Egg. She has won the inaugural Firewheel Chapbook Award for her manuscript The Important Thing Isâ¦, she produced Bowery Women: Shoot the Poem! Video-poetry Festival, and has been featured at the Howl Festival of East Village Art.

Cynthia Kramanâs new book of poetry is The Touch (Bowery Books 2009). Her previous collections are Taking on the Local Color (Wesleyan University Press 1977), Club 82 (1979) and The Mexican Murals (eg press, 1986). She formed the band Chinas Comidas with Rich Riggins in Seattle in the late seventies, and a CD of their live and studio recordings was released in 2006. She has a doctorate in medieval literature from the University of London, Queen Mary, and lives in New York City.

Kristin Prevallet is a poet, essayist, performer, and educator whose literary focus is to integrate political and personal consciousness into radical poetic forms. She has taught poetry and poetics, critical thinking and close reading at NYU, The New School, Bard College, and Naropa University. She is currently teaching in the Institute for Writing Studies at St. Johnâs University in Queens, NY. She has received a 2007 New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship in Poetry and a 2004 PEN translation fund award.

Esfand Pourmand is an Iranian Artists with deep roots in Sacred Persian music, making big noise through electronic/pop sounds. Many know Esfand from his Sacred Persian music performances at the U.N., Asia Society, Lincoln Center, and his collaboration with Rumi scholar Iraj Anvar. Esfand's first solo EP released under Green Army Records called "Martyr for Love", is an electronic/pop experimental experience that showcases his middle eastern influence and culture.

Tracks:

MARJORIE TESSER-
1. Strip
2. Rain Season
3. Lune
4. Neverland
5. By Moonlight
6. Now On Tour
7. Smile
8. Here After

CYNTHIA KRAMAN-
9. The Touch
10. My Own Private Itiderod
11. Summer Night Poem
12. My Heart Was Like A Sword
13. Speak In The Dark
14. Little Ginko

KRISTEN PREVALLET w/ESFAND POURMAND-
15. Because Love/War Is A Force
1.) Facade
2.) Past Tense Based
3.) Release
4.) Because War Is A Force
5.) Clarity