Mondays at Bowery Poetry is the Bowery Poetry Club’s premier Poetry Open Mic night. Monday, April 20, 2015 for “The Poet in New York,” the Bowery features New York native, “Canvas of Words” Poet Bonafide Rojas along with Panamanian/Brooklyn Jazz DUO Aquiles Navarro & Tcheser Holmes.
ABOUT MONDAY’S @BOWERY POETRY:
“Bowery’s Premier Poetry Night has one of the best OPEN MICs with Featured Poets, and Music in NYC. Vote for your favorite poem to be published online at www.thepoetinnewyork.com.”
$10 admission at the door. Be there no later than 8:30 to sign up for the OPEN MIC (10 slots, first come, first served.)
ABOUT THE POET:
Bonafide Rojas is the author of “Renovatio, When The City Sleeps & Pelo Bueno”. He was born & raised in The Bronx – the founder of Grand Concourse Press – and considers pizza the greatest food ever created. He’s a Yankee fan for life and loves The Beatles & Jimi Hendrix. He has appeared on “Def Poetry Jam”, the poetry documentary “Spitting Ink” and has been published in numerous anthologies & journals from “Saul William’s Presents chorus”, “bum rush the page”, “role call”, “learn then burn”, “me no habla con acento”, the centro journal, the hostos review, the acentos review, the calabash journal, letras, & palabras. He has performed internationally at venues, colleges, bars & random stages, including: New York University, Galeria De La Raza, Rotterdam Arts Center, London’s “Kid, I Wrote Back”, UC Berkeley, Da Poetry Lounge, El Museo De Barrio, Pregones Theatre, Caribbean Culture Center, Lincoln Center, Museum of The American Indian, Chicago Historical Society, LouderArts, The Acentos Poetry Series, University of Illinois-Chicago, Columbia University, & Mt. Holyoke. He is the co-bandleader of experimental rock band The Mona Passage and a founder of the art group VIKUBO.
“The Poet in New York” featuring “Canvas of Words” Poet Bonafide Rojas
Date: Monday, April 20, 2015
Time: 9:00pm – 11:30pm
Cost: $10
Location:
Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery
Manhattan, New York 10012
http://www.bowerypoetry.com/
For more information on Poet Bonafide Rojas, visit: http://www.bonafiderojas.com/
For booking information, please contact Wendy Angulo Productions: http://www.wendyanguloproductions.com/
To check out upcoming SPOKEN WORD POETRY events at The Bowery, visit their webpage: http://www.bowerypoetry.com/
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