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Bob Black (guitar/vocals), Rebecca Florence (vocals), Mike Morgan Parker 6:20 p.m. a solo record, entitled Creepster Freakster in 2011. The last in English at the University at Buffalo Shoykhet (bass), Nat Pongpanich (drums), and Darrill Forde http://www.morgan-parker.com couple of years he went back out into the world, traveled, and and an M.F.A. in poetry at Columbia (lead guitar), have been making their rounds on the scene since Morgan Parker received her Bachelors in Anthropology and is now one of the founding members of Injecting Strangers, a University, where she also served as a university writing January, and haven’t looked back since. Ben Searcy photo. SAT. AUGUST 3 Jeffrey Cyphers Wright, 12:00 p.m. are being donated to the Girl-Child Network Worldwide. Tantra poetry and photo collages, was published in 2011. 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Prospect Place/St. Marks Avenue) Poets Wear Prada is a small press based in Hoboken, of American Poetry (Thunder’s Mouth Press) Her novel, Kali’s Day Prospect Heights, N.J. devoted to introducing new authors through limited is forthcoming from Unbearable Books/Autonomedia. http://www.jeffreycypherswright.com edition, high-quality chaplets, primarily of poetry. Starting in 1995 the Unbearables literary collective Brooklyn http://www.livemagnyc.com has published five anthologies (The Unbearables, Crimes http://www.spuytenduyvil.net Directions: 2, 3 to Grand Army Plaza, Paolo Javier, Staging Ground Mag 12:30 p.m. of the Beats, Help Yourself!, The Worst Book I Ever Read, C to Clinton-Washington avenues, Q to 7th Avenue Jeffrey Cyphers Wright is an artist, publisher, impresario, and and The Unbearables Big Book of Sex) and nine “novels” critic and is best known as an East Village poet and community (Spermatagonia by bart plantenga, Negativeland by Doug garden activist.