BOWERY MUSIC + POETRY + FILM

H. Paul Moon presents a season of flowing theatrical encounters for you with chamber music, spoken word poetry, and film projections at Bowery Poetry Club.
Tuesday, April 29 at Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery, NYC
7:30pm, doors open 6:30pm with cash bar / $21 admission, in advance or at the door
poetry:
Adeena Karasick, Robert Scotto, Adela Sinclair & djHouston
music:
TJ Borden, cello & direction
Erica Dicker, violin
Zosha Warpeha, hardanger fiddle
Steve Long, piano
production manager:
Kyabell Glass
projections:
H. Paul Moon, Warren Lehrer & more
bios:
Adeena Karasick, Ph.D, is a New York based Canadian poet, performer, filmmaker, cultural theorist and media artist and the author of 18 books of poetry and poetics. Honors include: 2023 Susanne K. Langer Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Symbolic Form (MEA), 2023 Inaugural League of Canadian Poets Spoken Word Award, 3-time recipient of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Award, Voce Donna Italia Award for contributions to feminist thinking, shortlisted for Outstanding Book of the Year Award (ICA, 2023). Karasick teaches Literature and Critical Theory for the Humanities and Media Studies Dept. at Pratt Institute, is Poetry Editor for Explorations in Media Ecology, Associate International Editor of New Explorations: Studies in Culture and Communication, and is Poet Laureate of the Institute of General Semantics. The “Adeena Karasick Archive” is established at Special Collections, Simon Fraser University.
Robert Scotto is an American poet and scholar. His previous publications include a Critical Edition of Catch-22, a book on the contemporary American novel and essays on Walter Pater, James Joyce and other major and minor nineteenth and twentieth century writers. His biography Moondog won the 2008 ARSC Award for Best Research in Recorded Classical Music as well as the Independent Publisher Book Awards 2008 bronze medal for biography. Although he has published poems occasionally in small journals throughout his life, his 2010 book, Journey Through India and Nepal, was his first collection; Imagined Secrets (2019) was his second.
Adela Sinclair is a NYFA (New York Foundation for the Arts) Grant winning Romanian-American poet, translator, and teacher. Fluent in English, French, and Romanian, poetry is her primary, though not exclusive, medium. Her second poetry collection, The Butcher's Granddaughter is being released in June. Her Chapbook entitled LA REVEDERE was released in 2023 through Finishing Line Press. Her poetry explores themes of cultural identity, memory, loss, trauma, and desire. Her work appears on “The Bridge,” published by Brooklyn Poets, and Tupelo Press’ “30/30 Project.” “On April 26, 1986, Chernobyl Exploded”, Adela’s poem is published in the Winter Anthology Healing Felines and Femmes by Other Worldly Women Press.
Deneise Jennings-Houston, pen-named djHouston, has been writing poetry for 40 plus years; she has one self-published collection entitled, “Matter of Time,” with poems written from 1979-2009. She also has a new and emerging body of work “Almonds Must Be Banned,” with poems written from 2010 up until the present.
Tyler J. Borden (tylerjborden.com) is a cellist working with, in, and around the constraints of the cello. Formerly from Western NY, he is now based in Brooklyn NY, where he spends much of his time finding ways to exploit the strengths and failures of himself and his instrument.
H. Paul Moon (zenviolence.com) is a filmmaker based in New York City whose works concentrate on the performing arts, including “Sitka: A Piano Documentary” about the craftsmanship of Steinway pianos, “Quartet for the End of Time” about Olivier Messiaen’s transcendent WWII composition, and an acclaimed feature film about the life and music of American composer Samuel Barber that premiered on PBS. Moon has created music videos for numerous composers including Moondog, Susan Botti and Angélica Negrón, and three opera films set in a community garden, along with “The Passion of Scrooge” awarded “Critic's Choice” by Opera News. He also was cinematographer for director Josephine Decker's “First Day Out” in the anthology film “collective:unconscious.” He is currently finishing another documentary feature about Western poetry, additions to his project “Whitman on Film,” and settings of poems by Bob Holman. His films have been screened to live audiences at over two hundred film festivals around the world, with several awards and museum exhibitions. Highlights include works featured in exhibitions at the Nevada Museum of Art and the City Museum of New York, PBS television broadcasts, and best of show awards in over a dozen international film festivals.

This project is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

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