4th Annual Get Lit Crawl
*The event has already taken place on this date: Thu, 08/17/2017
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Schedule:
6:00PM - We All Write
Location: The Daily Refresher
We All Write is a writing collective of dynamic Black women located in Rochester, NY. Members of the collective include Tokeya C. Graham, Founder, Selena Cochran, Kristen Gentry, Reenah Golden, Lu Highsmith. Their work has appeared widely, everything from poetry to plays, and they have performed at numerous venues throughout the city.
To learn more about We All Write, visit their Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/
7:00PM - Straw Mat Writers
Location: Roc Brewing Company
Straw Mat Writers are a group of four extraordinary women with ordinary lives who challenge and inspire each other to write and to workshop original works that will ultimately compete in the public space of the literary world. Our works, as varied as our membership, include poetry, non-fiction, fiction, and drama. Members include Maria Brandt, Elizabeth Johnston, Angelique Stevens, and Pam Emigh Murphy.
As a group, they have won numerous awards including the Solas Award for Best Women’s Travel Writing, the Grassic Short Novel Prize, a Best of the Net nomination, three Pushcart Prize nominations, and a Notable Essay listing in Best American Essays. The Straw Mat Writers have published nationally and internationally in literary magazines and anthologies, with small presses, and through a production license venue, and they have produced short and long plays through various theatre companies and venues across the country.
To learn more about the Straw Mat Writers, please visit their website:
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8:00PM - Dead Metaphor Cabaret
Location: Skylark Lounge
Dead Metaphor Cabaret is a stripped down incarnation of the long-running Dead Metaphor literary music project featuring Curt and Nani Nehring Bliss as instigators, joined over the years by upwards of a dozen instrumental collaborators from FLCC’s student body, alumni, and faculty.
The Dead Metaphor concept is bound up in the idea of revival. Named for the notion that our language is prolific with figurative utterances, all lost to their original denotations because of over-use, the Dead Metaphor project pursues the habituated expression, adapting and recontextualizing the familiar to make it new again. As poets are prime movers in this business of linguistic resurrection, Curt and Nani turn to poems by the likes of Mary Oliver, Elizabeth Bishop, Jane Kenyon, William Stafford, and Margaret Atwood for inspiration. Drawing from blues, cabaret and art song, Curt and Nani use original musical interpretation to explore the territory that straddles the fruitful borders of music and poetry.
For more information about The Dead Metaphor Cabaret please visit:
https://www.facebook.com/
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