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PDF EPUB} Words in Your Face a Guided Tour Through Twenty Years of the New York City Poetry Slam by Cristin O Non-Fiction Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Words in Your Face A Guided Tour Through Twenty Years of the New York City Poetry Slam by Cristin O Non-Fiction. The first definitive history of one of the 21st century’s most explosive art movements, Words In Your Face explores the birth, growing pains and continuing development of the Poetry Slam — a raucous poetry event that has been called “a popular culture phenomenon” (Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun Times ), “the death of Art” (Harold Bloom, The Paris Review ), and has been blamed for making “poetry sexy again in a way it hasn’t been since the heyday of the Bears” (Stephen Holden, The New York Times ). Spoken word icons such as Saul Williams, Maggie Estep, Bob Holman and John S. Hall join scores of other poets, organizers, filmmakers, scholars and critics in bring the story of the New York City Poetry Slam movement to life. From its origins in the roofless, unheated Nuyorican Poets Cafe and its mid-90s rise in the pop culture ranks thanks to MTV and Lollapalooza, to its fresh successes on stage and small screen thanks to Russell Simmons’ Def Poetry projects and its devoted following among youth poets, queers poets and poets of color, the Poetry Slam is analyzed, idealized and criticized, all from a uniquely New York perspective. Without question, Poetry Slams have altered the culture landscape of poetry in America, and Words In Your Face offers an insider view of how the New York City poetry community took a simple concept — giving scores to poetry — and helped to forever revolutionize how America views poetry and how poets view themselves. U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins wrote that Words In Your Face “leaves no doubt that the slam poetry scene has achieved legitimacy and taken its rightful place on the map of contemporary literature” and the Washington Post named it as one of the top books for Exploring Poetry in 2008. WATCH Cristin perform the preface to Words In Your Face at its book release party at the Bowery Poetry Club. LISTEN to the nine-part IndieFeed Performance Poetry Podcast series celebrating Words In Your Face by clicking here. READ read reviews of Words In Your Face by clicking on the publication titles below: Library Journal School Library Journal City Limits Galatea Resurrects (review by Nathan Logan) Galatea Resurrects (review by Michael Heath) Words In Your Face can be purchased at the Soft Skull Press website, at Amazon or any at your favorite local (hopefully independent) bookstore! About. Signed Copies of All COA Books Available at BookPeople. If you are looking for a signed or personalized copy of any Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz book (including all seven poetry books, and both works of nonfiction), you can purchase a signed and/or personalized copy at Cristin’s local bookstore, BookPeople. Click the link here for more information. BOOKPEOPLE SHIPS WORLDWIDE. HOW TO LOVE THE EMPTY AIR reviewed in BUST MAGAZINE. “Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz’s stunning book of poetry, HOW TO LOVE THE EMPTY AIR, explores great loss at the height of great success and how we cope not only with the unexpected absence of a life, but also with the endured memories of death,” begins the rave review by writer Amber Tamblyn in the August 2018 issue of Bust Magazine. “Aptowicz writes about losing her mother very suddenly while her personal and writing lives are flourishing—an experience that left her at once devastated and illuminated, reeling from shock and relinquishing herself to the tenderness of new love. These heart-cracking poems humble and haunt the reader, reminding us that with every fall life hands us, a rise awaits us on the other side.” To read the full review, please click here. About. Short Bio : Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz is a New York Times bestselling nonfiction writer and poet. She is the author of seven books of poetry (including Dear Future Boyfriend, Hot Teen Slut, Working Class Represent, Oh, Terrible Youth and Everything is Everything ) as well as the nonfiction books, the >Dr. Mutter’s Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine , which made 7 National “Best Books of 2014″ lists (including Amazon, The Onion’s AV Club, NPR’s Science Fridays and the UK newspaper The Guardian, among others) and Words In Your Face: A Guided Tour Through Twenty Years of the New York City Poetry Slam , which Billy Collins wrote “leaves no doubt that the slam poetry scene has achieved legitimacy and taken its rightful place on the map of contemporary literature.” On the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) podcast Art Works , host Josephine Reed introduced Cristin as being “something of a legend in NYC’s slam poetry scene. She is lively, thoughtful, and approachable looking to engage the audience with her work and deeply committed to the community that art (in general) and slam poetry (in particular) can create.” Cristin’s most recent awards include the ArtsEdge Writer-In-Residency at the University of Pennsylvania (2010-2011), a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry (2011) and the Amy Clampitt Residency (2013). Her sixth book of poetry, The Year of No Mistakes , was released by Write Bloody Publishing in Fall 2013, and would go on to win the Writers’ League of Texas Book of the Year Award for Poetry (2013-2014). Her most recent book of poetry, How to Love the Empty Air was released in the Spring of 2018. Her second book of nonfiction, Dr. Mutter’s Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine , was released by Gotham Books (Penguin) in Fall 2014, debuted at #7 on the New York Times Bestseller List for Books about Health and would stay on it for three months. Cristin is married to fellow bestselling author and screenwriter Ernest Cline. She lives in Austin, Texas with her family and their two eccentric rescue dachshunds. For the truly curious, here’s the longer story: Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz (b. 1978) was born and raised in Philadelphia. In 1996, she graduated from Central High School of Philadelphia, and moved to New York City to attending NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. She was a sophomore at NYU when she was first introduced to poetry slams by her classmate, Beau Sia. In 1998, Cristin co-founded the NYC-Urbana Poetry Slam, a weekly reading series dedicated to showcasing the most innovative voices in poetry. NYC-Urbana has captured the National Slam Championship title three times and won the first ever Group Piece Nationals, which celebrates multi-voice poems. After college, Cristin worked as an editor for the “Adult” section for online portal About.com (serving as inspiration for her book, Hot Teen Slut ), slung coffee as the founding cafe manager for the Bowery Poetry Club and served as a rights manager at the Artists Rights Society. In July 2010, she was named the 2010-2011 ArtsEdge Writer-in-Residence at the University of Pennsylvania, where she spent the year researching and writing a book on Thomas Dent Mütter, founder of the Philadelphia’s (in)famous Mütter Museum. It was during this residency year that she was also awarded a 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry. From February 2013 to August 2013, Cristin was the 2013 poet-in-residence at the Amy Clampitt House, where she finished her sixth book of poetry and sold her second book of nonfiction. Her sixth book of poetry, The Year of No Mistakes , was released by Write Bloody Publishing in Fall 2013, and would go on to win the Writers’ League of Texas Book of the Year Award for Poetry (2013-2014). Her second book of nonfiction, Dr. Mutter’s Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine , was released by Gotham Books (Penguin) in Fall 2014, debuted at #7 on the New York Times Bestseller List for Books about Health. Cristin continues to perform and lecture internationally & nationally, including residencies with or performances at the Sydney Opera House, the Gasworks Art Complex (Melbourne Australia), Joe’s Pub (at NYC’s Public Theatre), the Largo Theatre (Los Angeles) and over 100 universities and colleges, including but not limited to Yale University (CT), Brown University (RI), Columbia University (NY), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MA), Dartmouth College (NH), Boston University (MA), Brandeis University (MA), Amherst College (MA), University of Pennsylvania (PA), University of Chicago (IL), New York University (NY), University of Alabama (AL), University of Arkansas (AR), Minnesota State University (MN), State University of New York (Freedonia) (NY), George Washington University (DC), University of Maryland (MD), Berklee College of Music (MA), Penn State Berks (PA), College of Saint Rose (NY), Columbia College (IL), Hamline University (MN), Eastern Illinois University (IL), Tennessee Tech University (TN), Husson University (ME), Goucher College (MD), Colby-Sawyer College (NH), Slippery Rock University (PA), College of St. Benedict (MN), Universities of California (Santa Cruz and Davis, CA) and Universities of Australia (Melbourne and Sydney, Australia), among others. Her poetry and non-fiction has been published in various journals, including Rattle, McSweeney’s Internet Tendencies, Pank, La Petite Zine, decomP, Umbrella, The Other Journal, Danse Macabre, Conduit, Barrelhouse and Monkeybicycle, among others… She in Austin Texas with two rescue dachshunds, her brilliant stepdaughter, and her husband, novelist/screenwriter, Ernest Cline, whom she met when they were both slam poets at the 1998 National Poetry Slam. Words in Your Face: A Guided Tour Through Twenty Years of the New York City Poetry Slam by Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz. By Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz.
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