First Wednesday Spoken Word Series
featuring poets John Burroughs, Tony Brewer, john compton
Music by saxophonist Catherine Sikora
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JOHN BURROUGHS of Cleveland served as the 2019-2021 Beat Poet Laureate for the state of Ohio. He is a dynamic performer who has wowed audiences from Oakland to New York City and myriad points in between. His more than a dozen books include Rattle and Numb: Selected Poems, 1992-2019 (2019, Venetian Spider Press) and Loss and Foundering (2018, NightBallet Press). Since 2008 as the founding editor for Crisis Chronicles Press, publishing over one hundred books by esteemed writers from around the world. www.crisischronicles.com
TONY BREWER is a poet, live sound effects artist, and event producer from Bloomington, Indiana. He frequently collaborates with the experimental audio collective Urban Deer Recording Co. and appears on the albums Paris Suite (2017) and The Six Realms of Rebirth, due out later this year. He is the author of 7 books – the latest is Pity For Sale, just out from Gasconade Press. https://tonybrewer71.blogspot.com/
JOHN COMPTON (b. 1987) is a gay poet who lives in Kentucky. He has published 2 books and has 5 chapbooks published and forthcoming: [books]: trainride elsewhere (Pressed Wafer, 2016); stranger in the attic of clouds (dead man’s press inc, 2021); [chapbooks]: that moan like a saxophone (kindle, 2016); ampersand (Plan B Press, 2018); a child growing wild inside the mothering womb (ghost city press, 2020); i saw god cooking children / paint their bones (blood pudding press, 2020); to wash all the pretty things off my skin (ethel zine & micro-press, 2021). He has been published in numerous magazines and anthologies.
Tenor and soprano saxophonist, improviser, and composer CATHERINE SIKORA was first electrified by the sound of air vibrating in a metal tube when, as a child, she heard the wind playing tones and overtones in a metal gate. She has devoted her life to researching the magic of that sound with her saxophones, particularly in her solo work, which forms the main backbone of her creative output. Her latest album is Corners, recorded live in the Brooklyn Navy Yard on a beautiful Sunday in May 2021, and is available along with her other albums on bandcamp: https://catherinesikora.bandcamp.com
https://catherinesikora.wordpress.com/
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