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Marty McConnell with Tatyana Brown and Sean Mulroy
Please join us on April 26th,
featuring the remarkable talents of:
Marty McConnel, Audre Lorde Award & Lambda Literary Award Finalist, seven time National Poetry Slam Representative & 2012 Newpick Champion.
Tatyana S Brown, Poet, Activist and Founder of the San Francisco Based Lit Slam.
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Sean Patrick Mulroy Internationally touring poet and Hampshire Slam Collective founder.
Rising Tide Brewery
103 Fox St. Portland, ME at 7:00pm
Tickets available via brownpapertickets.com: $15.00
Student Price: $10 [must have valid student ID at door]
All Door Tickets $17.00
Marty McConnell is the author of wine for a shotgun, released in October 2012 on EM Press. Part of the vanguard of poets fusing and refusing the delineations between literary and oral poetry, McConnell's work blurs the lines between autobiography and personae to comment on and illuminate what it means to live and love outside the lines in early 21st century America.
"wine for a shotgun" is a finalist for both the Audre Lorde Award (Publishing Triangle) and the Lambda Literary Award for lesbian poetry. Both prizes will be announced in spring 2013.
McConnell's work has been published in numerous anthologies, including A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poetry, City of the Big Shoulders: An Anthology of Chicago Poetry, Word Warriors: 35 Women Leaders in the Spoken Word Movement, Spoken Word Revolution Redux, Women of the Bowery, Homewrecker: An Adultery Reader, Bullets and Butterflies: Queer Spoken Word Poetry, Will Work for Peace, Women.Period and In Our Own Words: Poetry of Generation X, as well as journals including Gulf Coast, Indiana Review, Crab Orchard, Salt Hill Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Drunken Boat, Rattle, and more.
Her poetry has been cited in nonfiction works ranging from How to Read the Oral Poem (by John Miles Foley, University of Illinois Press, 2002,) to The God of Yes: Living the Life You Were Promised (by David Edwards, Howard Publishing, 2003).
A member of seven National Poetry Slam teams representing New York City and Chicago, McConnell is the 2012 National Underground Poetry Individual Competition (NUPIC) Champion. In 2011, she completed her first European tour and debuted her one-woman show, "vicebox." She is a two-time recipient of the Community Arts Assistance Program grant from the City of Chicago's Office of Tourism and Culture, and received a 2013 grant from the Illinois Arts Council.
McConnell transplanted herself from Chicago to New York City in 1999, after completing the first of three national tours with the Morrigan, an all-female performance poetry troupe she co-founded. She received her MFA in creative writing/poetry from Sarah Lawrence College, and for nearly a decade, co-curated the flagship reading series of the New York City-based louderARTS Project. She appeared on both the second and fifth seasons of HBO's Def Poetry Jam. She returned to Chicago in 2009 to co-found Vox Ferus, an organization dedicated to empowering and energizing individuals and communities through the written and spoken word.
She has performed and facilitated workshops at schools and festivals around the country, including The Dodge Poetry Festival, Palm Beach Poetry Festival, Wicker Park Arts Festival, Connecticut Poetry Festival, Cornell University, University of Utah, James Madison University, Old Dominion, University of Connecticut, University of Arkansas, DePaul University, and more. She lives in Chicago, and travels the country performing and leading workshops.
Tatyana Brown is currently ranked fourth in the world of competitive performance poetry after participating in the 2011 Individual World Poetry Slam. She is also the founding Captain of The Lit Slam (www.thelitslam.com), a monthly live-audience curated literary journal, and a co-host of San Jose's Oversocial Mofo Revue. She has toured both coasts as a poet, read poems to teenagers on the mountaintops of British Columbia, told tales on NPR's hot new true-life narrative storytelling show, Snap Judgment (www.snapjudgment.org), and sold instant literature ranging from short fiction to wedding vows as a street vending freelance writer in New York City. She holds the distinct honor of winning the longest consecutive string of XXX Haiku Deathmatch Championships at Oakland's own Tourettes Without Regrets. Most recently Tatyana has begun guest lecturing in university classrooms (including the University of Indiana Bloomington and Yale University) on the subject of poetry slam as a contemporary American literary tradition specifically, and the rich, vibrant, vital nature of American oral tradition more generally. She also teaches workshops on poetry (writing as well as performance), storytelling, and the use of shock-value comedy as a tool to interrupt and dismantle systemic oppression.
Sean Patrick Mulroy is a musician and songwriter (a.k.a. Sean Conlon) who found himself on the breaks and without a band mid-tour in 2004. After about a year and a half of playing Nintendo in his basement, he re-emerged briefly, only to find himself drawn to the basement of the Cantab Lounge for the weekly slam. An intense listener and quick study, he burst onto the Cantab slam scene not long thereafter with his rockstar's sense of showmanship and acerbic, Southern sense of humor.
After capturing the Cantab's informal Rookie of the Year award in 2005, Sean subsequently went on to found the first PSi-certified slam based on a college campus, the Hampshire College Slam Collective (HCSC), fostering the western Massachusetts college's continuing close relationship with the Boston Poetry Slam. He is the only poet to be invited to showcase on two national Finals stages in the same calendar year (CUPSI 2008 and NPS 2008).
Sean performs upstairs at the Cantab Lounge. Photo by Patricia Smith.
Sean performs upstairs at the Cantab Lounge. Photo by Patricia Smith.
Sean's one-man multimedia rock show about the effects of media upon sex and love in modernity, The Pornography Diaries, began as his final undergrad project for Hampshire in 2009. After graduation, he toured nationwide with the show (and its eponymous chapbook and CD), returning home in time to compete at the National Poetry Slam with the 2009 Cantab Slam Team. He departed Boston to pursue his craft in NYC after NPS 2009, embarked on a wildly successful international tour in 2012, and returned to launch the venue's queer open mic and reading series, Moonlighting.
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103 Fox St
Portland, ME 04101
United States
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