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NPR’s STATE OF THE RE:UNION show does a segment on Cristin’s Latest Book
Cristin is honored and thrilled to her book, THE YEAR OF NO MISTAKES be the inspiration for a gorgeously produced segment of Al Letson’s NPS show, STATE OF THE RE:UNION, including audio clip cameos from some of her favorite NYC poets, including Beau Sia, Taylor Mali and Evert Eden, as well as selections of Cristin’s own poems. To here the segment in its entirety, click here.
THE YEAR OF NO MISTAKES is reviewed in BUST
Poet and actress Amber Tamblyn reviewed Cristin’s latest poetry book, The Year of No Mistakes, in the April / May 2014 issue of BUST Magazine. In her review, Tamblyn writes, “Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz leaves no nerve unturned with her latest collection, The Year of No Mistakes, an impressive saga of growth and transformation. Her poems follow a long-term relationship through its many geographical, physical and emotional incarnations until a new romance blossoms in its place… The Year of No Mistakes doesn’t just take you from pot of gold to pot of gold–it lets you lick every layer of color that arches high in between.” To read the full review, snag the latest issue of BUST with Amy Schumer on the cover!
Cristin To Be Performing Several Times During AWP 2014
Cristin is very excited to be attending the 2014 AWP conference. She is one of the readers at the official AWP event celebrating the 10th Anniversary of Write Bloody Publishing, alongside Write Bloody founder & chief, Derrick Brown, as well as other WB authors: Jon Sands, Brendan Constantine and Mindy Nettifee (Saturday Morning, 9am). She will also be in THREE evening performances: the WRITE BLOODY SHOWCASE on Thursday evening (Feb 27; Re-Bar 7pm); the LITERARY DEATH MATCH on Friday evening (Feb 28; Lucid Bar, 9:30pm); and the SARAH KAY & CRISTIN O’KEEFE APTOWICZ BOOK RELEASE (March 1; St Mark’s Cathedral BLOEDEL HALL; 1245 10th Avenue East 8pm) Here latest book, The Year of No Mistakes, will be available so please come on by & visit her!
Cristin to be Keynote Performer at Southeast Missouri State University’s biannual Wordsfair
Cristin is honored to be invited as the Keynote Performer at Southeast Missouri State University (Cape Girardeau campus)’s biannual Wordsfair: Celebration of the Arts. The Wordsfair is free, and Cristin will be giving her hourlong keynote performance and Q&A on Friday February 14, 2014. For more information, please visit the SEMO website here.
Cristin’s Sixth Book of Poetry, THE YEAR OF NO MISTAKES, Officially Release
Cristin is deeply honored & thrilled that Write Bloody Publishing be releasing her sixth book of poetry, The Year of No Mistakes. The book contains many of Cristin’s best known work written in the last few years including Op-Ed for the Sad Sack Review, December, Not Doing Something Wrong Isn’t the Same as Doing Something Right, Brooklyn and more! The book is the product of both her ArtsEdge Writer-in-Residency at the University of Pennsylvania and her Amy Clampitt House residency as well as her Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Please pick up the book at your favorite online or brick-and-mortar bookshop and keep your eyes peeled for forthcoming tour dates!
Cristin to Perform at Voices for a Cause Benefit (9/29)
Cristin is honored to be performing alongside Write Bloody founder Derrick Brown, Timbermouse founder Kevin Burke and other fantastic Austin poets at the Voices for a Cause benefit to raise money for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. For more information, please visit the Facebook Event page here.
Cristin to Perform and Host Workshops at the Berkshire WordFest (Sept 19 – 20)
Cristin is thrilled be invited to participate in the Third Annual Berkshire WordFest (Sept 19 – 20), which is organized by The Mount, the historical home of American powerhouse writer, Edith Wharton. On Friday, Sept 19th, she will be participating the festival’s first ever Literary Death Match along with Jim Shepard, Jason Diamond, Rachel Shukert, Brando Skyhorse and one of Cristin’s favorite writers, Steve Almond. On Saturday, Sept 20th, she will be hosting a workshop for the high school winners of the Edith Wharton Poetry Prize. For more information, please visit The Mount website here.
Cristin Returns to NYC w/ FOUR Awesome Events! (Sept 14 – 18)
Cristin is thrilled to be returning to her old stomping grounds, NYC, with four completely awesome poetry events. On Saturday, Sept 14th, Cristin will be performing in the killer KISS! PUNCH! POEM! show 9pm at the Magnet Theater. On Monday, Sept 16th, Crisin will be performing at the amazing Write Bloody Big Ass Poetry Showcase at the Bowery Poetry Club (308 Bowery) alongside incredible poets like Derrick Brown, Sarah Kay, Jeanann Verlee, Taylor Mali, Jeremy Radin, Jon Sands & more! On Tuesday, Sept 17th, Cristin will be featuring at the venue she founded 15 years ago: NYC-Urbana! The show starts at 7pm at the Sidewalk Cafe at the Lower East Side. And finally, on Weds Sept 17th, Cristin will be hosting the Page Meets Stage show featuring Taylor Mali & Faith Shearin. The show starts at 7pm at the DL Lounge (95 Delancey St. at Ludlow). Come out to one or all! See you then!
Cristin to be Poet-in-Residence at the 2013 WordXWord Festival
Cristin is thrilled to be invited back to participate in the Fifth Annual WordXWord Festival, which will present an unprecedented array of poetry, spoken word, storytelling, workshops and word-related activities August 11 – 17, 2013 at locations throughout the Upstreet Cultural District of Pittsfield, Massachusetts. The festival will be anchored by the week long residency of four dynamic, nationally acclaimed poet/spoken word artists: Jon Sands, Robbie Q Telfer, Omar Holman and Cristin. Sands and Telfer will share hosting/emceeing duties for the week-long festival, while Aptowicz and Holman will serve as resident personalities, popping up and chiming in throughout the week’s events. In addition, all four will present their own work as part of the Feature Night and Finale programs. The festival schedule includes poetry performances and readings by both local and national artists; the finale of the WordXWord Story Slam series; the popular WXW Poetry Slam; an iPhone Poetry festival-within-a-festival; the Amazing Poetry Race, pitting teams of two against each other as they unravel clues to move from location to location and face a variety of challenges involving words, mental and physical challenges; Feature Night, a gathering spotlighting some of the most significant poets and spoken word artists on the national scene including the four poets-in-residence; the Encyclopedia Show, a variety extravaganza in which artists and experts from multiple disciplines use their talents to present a verbal and musical encyclopedia entry, with the mission to “chafe against logic and proof and find meaning in obfuscation”; and the Grand Finale destined to top last year’s Poetry Olympics in spectacle. For more more information on how to be a part of this FREE poetry event, please click here.
Cristin’s “Curiosity” Bought By Gotham Books / Penguin
From Publishers Weekly: “Poet and 2011 NEA Fellowship recipient Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz sold a book about a man considered one of the fathers of modern medicine, Dr. Thomas Dent Mütter, to Charlie Conrad at Gotham. Foundry Literary + Media’s Yfat Reiss Gendell sold world rights to the book, called Curiosity, at auction. Mütter, who died in 1859, was a renowned surgeon and lecturer, and his vast collection of medical specimens, which he donated to the College of Physicians of Philadelphia (CPP) in 1856, today makes up Philadelphia’s Mütter Museum of medical oddities. Aptowicz, whose previous books include 2008’s Words in Your Face: A Guided Tour Through Twenty Years of the New York City Poetry Slam (Soft Skull Press), wrote a screenplay about Mütter that, in 2004, earned her a Sloan Foundation Fellowship from the Hampton International Film Festival. (The screenplay remains unproduced.) The Mütter Museum, Foundry noted, is the country’s most popular science museum among those between the ages of 25–35.”
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