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Cristin to Perform at the NYC-Urbana MegaQuasiSemiFinals
Cristin will be joining Carlos Andres Gomez, Adam Falkner, Elliott D. Smith, Jeanann Verlee, Megan Falley, Jared Singer and Sean Conlon in Urbana’s infamous MegaQuasiSemiFinals. The best poets for the year battle for the last few open slots in the Sat May 8 Finals. Come out and support! For more information, please visit the Bowery Poetry Club website here.
Cristin to Perform at the NYC-Urbana MegaQuasiSemiFinals
Cristin will be joining Carlos Andres Gomez, Adam Falkner, Elliott D. Smith, Jeanann Verlee, Megan Falley, Jared Singer and Sean Conlon in Urbana’s infamous MegaQuasiSemiFinals. The best poets for the year battle for the last few open slots in the Sat May 8 Finals. Come out and support! For more information, please visit the Bowery Poetry Club website here.
Cristin to Perform at Amazing Spoken Word Showcase at the Strand
In honor of National Poetry Month, the Strand Book Store and BUST Magazine are proud to present an evening of spoken word featuring some of the country’s top female performance poets. Cristin (a BUST writer) will host the reading, which will feature electrifying performances by Cristin, National Book Award nominee Patricia Smith (“Blood Dazzler”), Golden Globe nominee Amber Tamblyn (“Bang Ditto”) and Women of the World Poetry Slam champion Rachel McKibbens (“Pink Elephant”). The show is FREE and will start promptly at 7pm at the 2nd Floor of the Main Strand Store at 12th Street & Broadway. For more information, please visit the Strand website here. To RSVP and/or spread the word on Facebook, click here
Cristin will be Performing at Columbus Page Meets Stage
Cristin will be joining page poet Charlene Fix in a “magical merging of poetic voice and performance.” Shappy & some of his Ohio-based family will be in attendence, so please come on out! For more information and to RSVP on Facebook, click here
Cristin Serves as Poet-In-Residence at Culver Academy
Cristin served as Poet-In-Residence at Culver Academy from April 15 thru April 19, a prestigious boarding school located in Culver, Indiana. Cristin taught 6 ninety-minute humanities classes in poetry, and performed both in their Friday Night “Relay for Life” activities and their Saturday Night “Poetry Jam.”
Cristin to Perform at Write Bloody Showcase at the College of Saint Rose
Cristin will be joining her Write Bloody label mates Derrick Brown and Mighty Mike McGee in performing at pal Daniel Nester’s Frequency North reading series at the College of Saint Rose. The show is FREE and open to the public! For more information, click here or RSVP on Facebook here
Cristin’s Poem is Finalist for 2009 Best of the Net
Cristin’s poem “A Short History of Unusual Fish” was chosen as a finalist in the 2009 Best of the Net competition, alongside poems by poets like Sherman Alexie, Bob Hicok, Major Jackson, W.S. Merwin and Ada Limon. To read the complete list of finalists, click here. To read the poem, which is published in Everything is Everything and was originally published in decomP, please click here
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.
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