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Cristin hosting Empire State Book Festival First Ever Poetry Slam
Cristin & Shappy will be joining her writer pals Daniel Nester, Richard Eion Nash and Guy LeCharles Gonzalez in Albany NY at the first ever Empire Stage Book Festival. Cristin will be signing her two latest books, and will be hosting their first ever slam happening at on Saturday afternoon. For more information on the Festival, including a complete schedule, click here.
Cristin hosts Monthlong Podcast Series Celebrating the American Literary Journal
Cristin is thrilled to be producing and hosting a monthlong podcast series on the IndieFeed Performance Podcast celebrating the American literary journal. Click the here for links to podcasts celebrating Rattle, Barrelhouse, decomP and PANK.
Cristin poem spotlighted in a New Pages review
Cristin’s poem “On Why I Still Slam” was one of the poems highlighted in a review of the Winter 2009 issue of the fantastic literary journal, Umbrella. To read the review, click here.
Cristin will be performing at the Bowery Women reading
Cristin is performing alongside other poets from the Bowery Women anthology, including Janice Erlbaum, Lynne Procope, Rachel McKibbens and Tara Betts, among others. The reading will take place at the Bowery Poetry Club, and it starts at 4pm. For more information, please check out the Bowery Poetry Club website here.
Cristin announced as Runner Up for RATTLE’s Neil Postman Award for Metaphor
In honor and remembrance of Neil Postman, the Editors of the literary journal Rattle award a Neil Postman Award for Metaphor to a poem which has appeared in the journal to “reward a given writer for his or her use of metaphor.” Cristin was thrilled to hear that her poem, “At the Office Holiday Party,” was the runner-up for this year’s award. To read the winning poem & Cristin
s poem, please check out the latest Rattle e-issue here.
Poetry by Cristin appears in the “DirtyDirty Issue” of The Legendary
Cristin is thrilled that three of her poems from the book, “Hot Teen Slut” (reissue forthcoming on Write Bloody Publishing in 2010) have been published in the “DirtyDirty” issue of The Legendary alongside deliciously smutty poems by Megan Thoma, Nicole Homer and xTx. To read this whole fantastically dirty issue, please click here.
Cristin will be competing at the Women of the World Poetry Slam
Cristin is thrilled to be representing NYC-Urbana the Women of the World Poetry Slam (WOWps) (March 11 – 13), happening this year in Columbus, OH. Cristin will be joining dozens of women poets from around this country for this festival of spoken word. For more information on the show, including the specific WHERE and WHEN, please check out the WOWps website here.
Cristin’s Poem “Ode To My Morning Cup of Coffee” Debuts on the IndieFeed Performance Poetry Podcast
Cristin is proud to be to have her tenth poem appear on the IndieFeed Performance Poetry Podcast, with this recording made at the Junkyard Ghost Revival Show at Dartmouth last Fall. Cristin will be taking over hosting duties on IndieFeed for all of April 2010, so stay tuned for more information on that. In the meantime, please listen to this episode by clicking here.
Cristin & Shappy Make Their Debut at The Encyclopedia Show
Cristin & Shappy are excited to finally make their “The Encyclopedia Show” debut. Brought to you from the quirky minds of poets and producers Robbie Q Telfer and Shanny Jean Maney, The Encyclopedia Show showcases visual art, comedy, music and spoken word on a wide variety of subjects related to a chosen topic. The chosen topic for Cristin & Shappy? FAST FOOD, which they will ROCK amply. For more information on the show, including the specific WHERE and WHEN, please check out The Encyclopedia Show website here.
Cristin to Make Her Normal Slam Debut
Cristin is super excited to finally be seeing the fable Normal Poetry Slam scene firsthand when she & Shappy share a co-feature at their Ear Candy Reading series. The show starts at 7:30pm. For more information, please check out the Normal Poetry Slam website here.
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