Greetings, DCW fans!
This reading marks the anniversary of the only time we have
ever
cancelled DCW! D
o you remember the freak blizzard of last November? We do! And this month we are hoping to make up for the cancellation to one author who was stuck on the bus from Maine until everyone was thrown out in the Bronx.
But first, a HUGE DCW shoutout to our October readers: Dan Berkowitz gave us the ultimate "post-show discussion" with his fabulous solo piece; Felice Picano twisted our hearts with his story of a man's career caring for Miss Ginger Rogers's hair; Deborah Randall (accompanied by Amy Belschner Rhodes) gave a glimpse of the never-before-seen rock goddess musical that is opening later this month at
Venus Theater
; and Meri Weiss, read from her novel-in-progress about writers discovering their voices...and their desires...in the jungles of academia.
This month, there's plenty to give thanks for, with the wonderful Anne Elliott making her way down from Maine AGAIN with her new novel, along with playwright/actor/man-about-town Chris Harcum, Queens Poet Laureate Maria Lisella, and the Obie-award-wining Caridad Svich!
I mean, REALLY!
Join us in the friendly confines of KGB in the lovely & fragrant EVill.
Gobble gobble,
Kathleen W.
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Drunken! Careening! Writers!
Noteworthy November
Anne Elliott
Chris Harcum
Maria Lisella
Caridad Svich
and your hostess, Kathleen Warnock
Thursday, November 21, 7pm
85 E. 4th St.
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Anne Elliott
is the author of
The Artstars: Stories
(Blue Light Books / Indiana University Press, 2019) and
The Beginning of the End of the Beginning
(Ploughshares Solos, 2014). Her short stories can be found in
Crab Orchard Review, Witness, Hobart, Bellevue Literary Review, Fifth Wednesday Journal, Fugue, The Normal School
, and elsewhere. Elliott is a veteran of the New York spoken word circuit, with stage credits including The Whitney Museum, Lincoln Center, PS122, and St. Mark’s Poetry Project. Honors include fellowships from Vermont Studio Center and the Table 4 Writer's Foundation. She now lives in Portland, Maine. Learn more at
www.anneelliottstories.com.
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Chris Harcum
is an actor and playwright in New York City. His writing has appeared in the Plays and Playwrights series, the
New York Times
and the
Brooklyn Rail.
He runs a theatre company called Elephant Run District with his partner in life and art Aimee Todoroff.
www.chrisharcum.com
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Maria Lisella
is the sixth Queens Poet Laureate 2015-2019 and the first Italian American to be so named. Twice nominated for a Pushcart Poetry Prize, her collections include
Thieves in the Family
(NYQ Books), and two chapbooks,
Amore on Hope Street
(Finishing Line Press), and
Two Naked Feet
(Poets Wear Prada). She curates the Italian American Writers Association readings, contributes to
USA TODAY
, the bilingual,
La
Voce di New York
and
The Jerusalem Post
.
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Caridad Svich
received 2012 OBIE for Lifetime Achievement and 2011 American Theatre Critics Association Primus Prize. Her plays include 12 Ophelias and Iphigenia Crash Land Falls... She is published by Methuen Drama Intellect Routledge and TCG, among others.
https://caridadsvich.com/
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Drunken! Careening! Writers! is a reading series based on the proposition
that all readings should be by: 1) Good Writers; 2) Who read their work well;
3) Something in it makes people laugh (nervous laughter counts.)
Since 2004.
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