[OutVoice] "PURE POETRY" cast announced! 7/17 NYC

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Media Contact: 
Robert Urban/URBAN PRODUCTIONS - themusenyc at aol.com - 212-932-1044 
Carol Polcovar/FRESH FRUIT FESTIVAL - polcovar at yahoo.com - 212 779-3051
Julie Androshick/WE THREE PRODUCTIONS -  jandroshick at nyc.rr.com - 
212-794-9747

> The 2006 NYC FRESH FRUIT FESTIVAL
> in association with URBAN PRODUCTIONS and WE 3 PRODUCTIONS presents:
> PURE POETRY at the TELEPHONE BAR
> co-hosts Robert Urban and Julie Androshick
> 
> A reading embracing the myriad of poetic styles born of a diverse LGBT 
> reality.
> The diverse cast of LGBT poets include:
> baron - Tamiko Beyer - Angelina Lim - Louis Lopardi - Thomas March - Richard 
> Loranger - Carol Polcovar - Amy Ouzoonian - Chavisa Woods - Tamiko Beyer - 
> Robert Urban - Chocolate Waters
> 
> When: Monday, July 17, 8pm. 
> Where: Telephone Bar 149 Second Ave. (Btw. 9th and 10th Street) NYC 
Admission: FREE!!!
>  
> Thomas March is a poet and essayist who lives in New York City. In 2005, his 
> poem Virginia Woolf Pockets, Full of Stones was a finalist for Gival Press' 
> Oscar Wilde Award for poetry. His poems have appeared (or are forthcoming) in 
> A Café in Space, The Gay and Lesbian Review, The North Atlantic Review, 
> Perigee, Verbatim, and the anthology Poetic Voices without Borders - Volume 2 
> (Gival Press 2006). He regularly reviews books for The Gay and Lesbian Review 
> and American Book Review, and has reviews forthcoming in New Letters, 
> Shenandoah, and The Believer.
>  
> Amy Ouzoonian is a poet, playwright and editor of the recently released 
> anthology of poetry In the Arms of Words: Poems for Disaster Relief (Sherman 
> Asher, 2005). She is the editor for A Gathering of the Tribes magazine and the 
> author of a book of poems, "Your Pill" (Foothills Publishing, 2004). She 
> currently lives and writes in Brooklyn and is working on her second collection of 
> poems What Could Be Invented.
>  
> Chavisa Woods born and raised in Southern Illinois,spent three years in St. 
> Louis Mo., working in theater ,competing in Poetry Slam, political action, 
> and experimental performance art. She was poet in residence at Gathering of 
> Tribes Gallery. Chavisa has appeared at Saturdays, Salient Saturdays at the 
> Bowery PoetryClub, Poetic License, longshot Beat Bush , among others.  Her work  
> appears in Prima Materia, Howl 1003, Fuzion, Rhapsodists, Tribes Magazine, 
> The Gay and Lesbian Poetry Review Worldwide,  Matador, and others. She is 
> currently editing a poetry anthology on the theme of religion and it's impact on 
> the political climate, to be published by Fly by Night Press in the fall of 
> 2006.
> 
> Chocolate Waters was one of the first openly lesbian poets to be published 
> during the "second wave of feminism" . A pioneer in women's publishing and in 
> the art of performance poetry, she has toured throughout the United States, 
> but makes her home in Manhattan. Her three collections: To the man reporter 
> from the Denver Post, Take Me Like A Photograph and Charting New Waters were 
> produced by Eggplant Press during 1975-80 and are considered classics of the 
> early women’s movement. Her CD, “Chocolate Waters Uncensored,” which spans 
> three decades of groundbreaking work, was released by Eggplant Productions in 
> 2001. A receipent of the New York State Foundation for the Arts fellowship in 
> Poetry and a grant from the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund,her work, has 
> appeared in hundreds of publications.
> 
Carol Polcovar, the Artistic Director of the Fresh Fruit Festival, is a 
playwright, director and producer who began her career as a poet. She studied with 
John Ashberry and has been published in many literary magazines-- most 
recently in BROOKLYN. Her work is included in the anthology DOWNTOWN POETS.
 
Robert Urban is also owner/operator of Manhattan-based URBAN PRODUCTIONS 
Recording Studio.  He has composed music scores for numerous professional dance, 
theater and film productions.  In addition to his own 4 CD releases, Robert's 
work (esp. as guitarist) can be heard on the recordings of many other musical 
artists.  He is producer/host of Urban Productions BOLDLY Presents - li
ve-in-concert music series (now in its 6th year). Robert is the author of the poetry 
book Abominations; founder of Gay Guitarists Worldwide and contributing arts & 
culture writer for AfterElton.com and StonewallSociety.com magazines. Robert 
is the recipient of the 2003 PRIDE IN THE ARTS Literary Award for his poem 
"Fable"; and again in 2005 for his poem "Who We Are".

> Tamiko Beyer is a queer, mixed-race poet and freelance writer who lives in 
> Brooklyn, NY. Her poetry has appeared in a variety of publications including 
> Calyx, Crab Creek Review, DMQ Review, and Triplopia . She is a founding 
> member of Agent 409, a multiracial NYC-based writing group of queers and trannies 
> who believe in the power of writing to create social change.
>  
> baron’s talent spans photography, graphic arts, music production, 
> songwriting, journalism, and performance poetry.  As a performance poet, baron's style 
> is vivid and captivating. His brutal and heart-wrenching depiction of urban 
> life shocks audiences again and again, yet a careful listener quickly discerns 
> an underlying message of love. baron's work is truthful, honest and 
> passionate. He candidly speaks about the issues that divide the African American 
> community on the subjects of love, family, community, and sexuality. For baron., 
> our similarities as humans out weigh our differences; we are all created 
> equal. 
>  
> Angelina Lim is a junior, majoring in English at Hunter College. She works 
> part-time at a public library where she is the only one who has unsettled the 
> dust in the poetry section. She greatly advocates that people go out and 
> borrow a book of poems. Save the books from dust!
>  
> Louis Lopardi is equally at home as Music or Stage Director; he has been 
> directing classic and modern theatre for 30 years, and considerable German, and 
> Russian theatre & opera both here and in Europe. A recent premiere of part 2 
> of his ongoing epic The Purgatory Project won Best Play (Frankie award). Last 
> year 42nd Street saw first readings of his full length play: BOLT - The 
> Frankenstein Journals. Michael Chekhov Theatre performed his surreal 1-act, 
> Visiting Grishka. He has read his His poetry was read bi-lingually at this year’s 
> Earth Day festivities in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
>  
> Richard Loranger is a poet, performer, and visual artist currently living in
> Brooklyn, New York.  He is the author of a recent book, Poems for Teeth (We
> Press), which Bob Holman of The Bowery Poetry Club calls one of the most 
> extraordinary and virtuosic poetic feats since Francis Ponge took on Soap. Other 
> books include ,The Orange Book
> (International Review Press) and eight chapbooks.  Recent work can be found 
> in Barrow Street,Interim, and Hanging Loose 83. He currently hosts Queer Ink, 
> a quarterly
> reading series for gay poets at the Bowery Poetry Club.
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> 
> robert urban
URBAN PRODUCTIONS, NYC
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