what do forty ecuadorians, a loom & salsafest have in common?

mo problems

for the immediate future, this blog is gonna be all about promo and pics. thats all i got time for. look at this schedule to your right. ob.promotin, indeed!

of course, that aint nuthin compared to bella’s schedule
jus reason #374 why i love her so much

enough of the marzipan*

come out tomorrow and enjoy some poetry in da bX

FIRST WEDNESDAYS
Downtown Bronx Bar & Cafe
141 East 149th Street — 718-585-5255
8:00 – 9:30pm

Reading by Maria Negroni
Hosted by Oscar Bermeo

Maria Negroni, an Argentinian native, is a writer, poet, essayist, translator and professor. As a poet, she is celebrated throughout South America. She is the author of two books of essays, one novel, and six books of poetry. In 1994, her book Night Journeys received the Argentina National Book Award. The collection of 62 tightly-woven narrative poems is Negroni’s first work of poetry to be translated into English. “This book is pervaded by the spooky sense of a woman traveling in many directions, most of them unrequested, journeying through shadows and mirrors, navigating the mysteries by shuttling between life and death” (The Washington Post). She currently teaches Latin American Literature and Creative Writing at Sarah Lawrence College in New York.

An open mic session will follow Ms. Negroni’s reading.

Sponsored by the Bronx Writers’ Center

PARSE Invite
Originally uploaded by oscarb.

PARSE Book Release Party
Saturday, October 15, 2005
8:00 – 10:00 PM
Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery at Bleeker Street
$10 cover

Please join Friendlyfire Press (Chad Griffin and Scot Lee Williams) as they celebrate the release of PARSE – Alchemy, a new collaboration of visual artistry and poetry featuring poems by:

Elana Bell
Oscar Bermeo
Jai Chakrabarti
Robert Bevan Dalton
Sabrina Hayeem-Ladani
Mara Jebsen
Raymond Daniel Medina
John J Trause
Rich Villar

With readings by the poets, musical collaboration from synonymUS and Raj spinning tunes.

PARSE Volume 1 – Alchemy is the first in a series of books based on the fruits of collaboration between artists of different disciplines.
Friendlyfire Press is dedicated to promoting the arts through the creation of beautiful books and amazing poetry. Hope to see you there!

Re: the cantankerous yahoos known as the louderARTS project

y’all is mah peoples!!

we all rocked the ef out last night at the bowery which was packed to capacity, a wonderful show of support from the artistic community or, as the kids might say, putting your money where your mouth is. or sumthin like dat.

first off, we got the cool ass intro to amiri baraka courtesy of bob Holman & willie perdomo. then got down with some serious jackassery with pat rosal.
amiri after seeing the fellas with willie & pat: oh, you brought your WHOLE crew!

abena brought the house down with her bluesed out version of sonnet to east st louis. fish got props for his till pieces. i missed profe on the mic but saw him get the full rock star treatment after his reading. and as for me, i was on fkcin fire!

well, maybe not so much. i did ‘like dawn in new york’ to a so-so reaction but then I busted out ‘about b-boys in the boogie down’ and it was on like grits with gravy. damn, that poem makes me happy (for a variety of reasons*). love the twists and turns it takes me on and how the poem dee-mands i modify my voice.

at one point, i hit the refrain and heard “say it louder!” even though i was already on blast. note to self: memorize that fuckin piece already. i already have it down but I need to have it DOWN.

afterparty at Galapagos in Brooklyn as we play “help profe get out the hood” a fun and wonderful educational TV series that lets us study all the geography and cultural diversity between nyack, ny and da ghetto.
“ok kids, one mo time, whats the statue of limitations on assault & battery?”
SIX YEARS!!!

ya know its only funny cuz that’s how it actually went down.

we missed the performance of louderARTS blue team (dats right! we roll deep like dat) but got to hear some funky ass prog rock that had me acting all kinds of foolish.
*strike the derek jeter running to first base pose*