Luciole Press friend and contributor Ellyn Maybe reads tonight at Beyond Baroque at 7:30 pm in the 40th Anniversary Series



            

Ellyn Maybe   Contributor --- California 
             


Ellyn Maybe is the author of The Cowardice of Amnesia (2.13.61), Walking Barefoot in the Glassblowers Museum (Manic D Press), The Ellyn Maybe Coloring Book (Sacred Beverage) and Putting My 2 Cents In.  Her latest book, Praha and the Poet (2006) is inspired by the two years spent studying film abroad at FAMU in Prague. She has read all over the country, including Bumbershoot, the Poetry Project, the NewSchool, Taos Poetry Circus, South by Southwest, Lollapalooza, Albuquerque Poetry Festival and Seattle Poetry Festival.  She has also read in Europe at the Bristol Poetry Festival, on the BBC, and in poetry slams and readings in Munich, Frankfurt, Hamburg and Stuttgart.  She opened the MTV Spoken Wurd Tour in Los Angeles.  In addition, she has also read at USC, UCLA, CSUN and Cal State Fullerton, among other colleges.  Writer's Digest named her one of ten poets to watch in the new millennium.  Her work has been included in many anthologies, including Word Warriors: 35 Women Leaders in the Spoken Word Revolution, Blue Arc West, Poetry Slam, Another City: Writing From Los Angeles, Poetry Nation, The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry and American Poetry: The Next Generation.  She was on the 1998 and 1999 Venice Beach Slam teams.  She was seen reading her work in Michael Radford's (Il Postino) film, Dancing at the Blue Iguana.  She is a member of the Screen Actor's Guild, Film Independent and the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. 


Her website is
www.ellynmaybe.com.

                                                            





                                        24 October, Friday - 7:30 PM
                                        40th ANNIVERSARY SERIES
                           BILL MOHR, ELLYN MAYBE, & MARK SALERNO

BILL MOHR's books of poems and spoken word recordings include Hidden Proofs (Bombshelter), Vehemence (New Alliance), and Bittersweet Kaleidoscope (If). His writing was included in BEST OF THE WEB 2008 (Dzanc). He edited and published two major anthologies of Los Angeles poetry, The Streets Inside and Poetry Loves Poetry and typeset the latter, along with many other books from his Momentum Press, at BB. He has served as advisor and volunteer to the institution from its beginnings on Abbot Kinney Blvd, and recently served on its board. ELLYN MAYBE is author of The Cowardice of Amnesia (2.13.61), The Ellyn Maybe Coloring Book (Sacred Beverage), Walking Barefoot in the Glassblowers Museum (Manic D), Putting My 2 Cents In, and Praha and the Poet, as well as the CD, Ellyn Maybe Live. She has appeared in many anthologies and has read internationally. Ellyn worked in our bookstore for several years and facilitated the Wednesday Night Workshop. MARK SALERNO is author of Odalisque (Salt), So One Could Have (Red Hen), Method (The Figures), and Hate (96 Tears). He edited the important literature and arts magazine Arshile. Salerno has served as guest curator at BB for some of its most important events.

http://www.beyondbaroque.org/

 

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