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Cristin’s Poetry in Rattle E-Issue
Cristin is thrilled to have her poem, “Op-Ed For the Sad Sack Review, Regarding News of Another Rash of Writer Suicides,” be included in the most recent e-issue of Rattle celebrating the forthcoming winter issue. To read e-issue, please click here. The paper issue will be out in December.
Cristin to be perform at SUNY Freedonia
Cristin is thrilled to be the opening poet for the SUNY Fredonia English Department’s Visiting Writers Series. Cristin and the English Department will hold a craft talk at 4 p.m. on Sept. 30, in Room 127 of Fenton Hall, and a reading of her work will follow at 7 p.m. in Room 101 of Thompson Hall. Students, faculty members and the general public are invited to attend. After the reading there will be a pie-raffle with baked goods provided by Fredonia’s Uppercrust Bakehouse as well as a book giveaway made possible by The Book Nook, also of Fredonia. For more information, please visit the SUNY Freedonia website here
New Poetry by Cristin appears in NOVEMBER 3rd CLUB
Cristin is thrilled that her poem, “Poet Not About the Brooklyn Bridge,” is in the latest issue of the November 3rd Club, a fantastic literary journal with a political edge that is edited by her pal & fellow Write Bloody author, Victor D. Infante. Also, published in this issue are wonderful new poems by Jon Sands, Tony Brown, Emily Kagan Trenchard, Geoff Kagan Trenchard and Corrina Bain. To read Cristin’s poem & the rest of wonderful version found in the premiere issue of November 3rd Club, click here.
Cristin to be roasted & toasted at NYC-Urbana’s Shaptowicz Send-Off Party
Cristin and Shappy will be roasted & toasted by the NYC poetry slam community at this one-of-a-kind event hosted by Taylor Mali. Show will start at 7pm, but definitely show up early for good seats! For more information, please visit the Bowery Poetry Club website here, or to RSVP (and/or spread the word) on Facebook, click here.
Cristin to Perform at the Shappy’s Roast & Toast
Cristin is thrilled to be joining a long list of the lower east side literary, comedy & burlesque stars celebrating Shappy, the last original employee of the Bowery Poetry Club, before he ships off to Philly. It should be a CRAZY night, so show up early for seats. Show will start at 8pm, and there will be burlesque dancers dressed as nerd icons, so prepare yourself! For more information, please visit the Bowery Poetry Club website here, or to RSVP (and/or spread the word) on Facebook, click here
Cristin & Shappy to feature at to Perform at Louder Arts Poetry Series at NYC’s Bar 13
Cristin & Shappy will be performing their second joint feature at the flagship reading series of the louderARTS project. The last time the duo featured there was at the “Welcome to NYC Shappy” feature in 2001, so this feature — their last non-BPC NYC feature — serves as a nice bookend. Show starts at 7pm. Show up early for good seats. For more information, please visit, the louderARTS website here.
Cristin to Perform at The Drums Inside Your Chest Concert Series
Cristin will be joining extraordinary poets like National Book Award Finalist Patricia Smith, two-time National Poetry Slam champion Anis Mojgani and international-known musical mastermind C.R. Avery, among others, at the fourth incarnation of The Drums Inside Your Chest, a concert series celebrating the best of contemporary poetry. The show, which is being produced by poets Amber Tamblyn and Mindy Nettifee and is being hosted by Derrick Brown, will happen in LA at the Largo Theatre, Saturday August 14th. If you are in LA, please come out! For more information (and to buy tickets in advance), please visit the Drums website here.
Cristin to Perform at 20th Annual National Poetry Slam
8.3.10 – 8.7.10 —
Cristin and the rest of the NYC Urbana 2010 Poetry Slam Team (Elliott D. Smith, Brian Omni Dillon and Omar Holmon) will battle poets from across the nation at the 2010 National Poetry Slam (Aug 3 – Aug 7). In addition to competing in the evening, Cristin will be participating in numerous day and late night events including hosting a panel discussion on publishing (with Penguin’s Karen Finneyfrock, Write Bloody’s Anis Mojgani and Penmanship Books’s Mahogany Browne), performing with her partner Shappy at the Encyclopedia show and being the resident lady nerd at the National Nerd Slam, hosted by Robbie Q Telfer and Shappy Seastholtz. If you are in the area, come on down! For more information, please visit the 2010 National Poetry Slam website here.
Cristin named 2010-2011 ArtsEdge Writer-In-Residence at University of Pennsylvania
From the press release: “The University of Pennsylvania’s Kelly Writers Houseis excited to announce the recipient of the 2010-2011 ArtsEdge Residency: New York City-based poet and author Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz. ArtsEdge is a collaborative residency project designed to encourage the careers of emergent writers. Residencies last for one year and include an apartment, studio space in the AIR Space artistic nexus on 40th street, and close affiliation with Penn’s writing communities. Aptowicz plans to use the ArtsEdge residency to work on a non-fiction book about the life and times of Thomas Dent Mutter, founder of the Philadelphia’s Mutter Museum. The Mutter Museum has granted Aptowicz full access to their museum, library and archives so that she may conduct her research for the book. Additionally, the Mutter Museum’s Francis C. Wood Institute for the History of Medicine has awarded Aptowicz with a Wood Institute Travel Grant to help further fund and support her work on this project. In addition to her writing projects, Aptowicz will get involved with Kelly Writers House programs and teach a Spring 2011 Creative Writing course at Penn focusing on non-fiction and poetry.” To read the full press release, click here.
Cristin to Perform at the NYC-Urbana Group Piece Recording Party & Send-Off Show
Cristin and the rest of the NYC Urbana 2010 Poetry Slam Team (Elliott D. Smith, Brian Omni Dillon and Omar Holmon) will record all of the group pieces we will be taking to Nationals for both video & audio purpose at this annual event. But really, it’s a party & send-off show, featuring all kinds of awesome local poets, auction items and maybe a burlesque dancers or two. Doors open at 6:30pm! Show up early for seats! All proceeds go towards sending the team to NPS 2010 in St. Paul, MN! For more information, please visit the Bowery Poetry Club website here.
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