Poetry Electric: Voices of the New Resistance
Against the President on President’s day!
Voices of the New Resistance
Hosted by Jane LeCroy & Kaila Mullady
Money gives us its paper cuts from which we are bleeding to death. How will we save the world? Diversity, Inclusion, Acceptance. NYC poets and beatboxers demonstrate the art of the new resistance.
FEATURING:
| John S. Hall | Heide Hatry | Aimee Herman | David Lawton | Jane LeCroy | Maria Muentes |
| David Mills | Jimi Pantalon | Puma Perl | Liza Jessie Peterson | Peter Spagnuolo |
| Norman Stock | Jeff Wright | Susan Yung |
AND Beats of…Kaila Mullady & Beatbox House Collective
Jane LeCroy poet, performance artist, home-birthing mother of 3, teacher, atheist, vegetarian, hedonist, fronts the avant-pop band The Icebergs with Tom Abbs and David Rogers-Berry. She has toured as part of Sister Spit the west coast women’s poetry troupe, the experimental improv band, Ω▽Ohmslice with Bradford Reed, and Nu Voices, Kid Lucky’s hip-hop a capella orchestra. “Signature Play” her multimedia book from Three Rooms Press, http://threeroomspress.com/authors/jane-lecroy/ features her lyric poems, musical scores, visual art, and access to audio files and a pushcart nomination. Jane is a teaching artist in NYC public schools. The Icebergs just released their debut album, Eldorado, release party at Sunnyvale in Brooklyn, Wed. 2/8. Check out her many books and recordings at www.janelecroy.com and request to be put on her list to receive free poems hot off her brain with every show invite, find her by name on social media.
Poetry Electric
The Poetry Electric fuses music, movement, sound, and dance with the spoken word and presents artists working in a wide range of styles including beatboxing, jazz and hip-hop theatre. This series has presented over 200 emerging poets from diverse cultural backgrounds.