SLAPERING HOL PRESS
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Wednesday, May 17th at 7:30 pm Jean-Jacques’
Culinary Creations welcomes a reading of the Slapering
Hol Press Poetry Series featuring Nicholas Johnson Nicholas Johnson is Co-Founder and Senior Poetry Editor of Big City Lit (BigCityLit.com), an on-line literary magazine. He is a MacDowell Colony fellow, Pushcart Prize nominee, and winner of The Lyric Recovery Festival Award 2000 at Carnegie Hall. Nick Johnson's degrees include an MFA in poetry from Brooklyn College, and an ABD from the Catholic University of America. He has taught creative writing for many years at the Payne Whitney Clinic and The Lighthouse in New York City, and has published work in Rattapallax, The Journal, Poetry Wales, Pivot, Mudfish, American Letters & Commentary, American Poetry Review, Confrontation, Chance of a Ghost anthology, and other literary magazines. Nick Johnson's new chapbook, Degrees of Freedom, is now available from Bright Hill Press. Linda Simone Linda Simone's chapbook, Cow Tippers, won the 2006 Shadow Poetry Chapbook Competition. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in print and online journals, including Westview, Potomac Review, Cezanne's Carrot and Perigee. Her work has been anthologized in Essential Love, en(compass), Poems about Madrid and several issues of Let the Poets Speak. She is faculty advisor for Inkwell, the literary journal of Manhattanville College, where she is Associate Director, Graduate Writing. Moon: A poem, her first children's book, was published in 2002 by Richard C. Owen Publishers. She is a founding member of the Poetry Caravan, a group of volunteer poets who bring poetry to nontraditional venues. A longtime Westchester County resident, Simone now lives in New York City. Ilene Starger Ilene Starger resides in Brooklyn, New York. She is presently at work on a first collection of poems. Her poetry has appeared in Bayou, Oyez Review, Georgetown Review, Tributaries, Folio, Oberon, Paper Street, SecondWind, Tar Wolf Review and will appear in upcoming issues of Manzanita and, again, Georgetown Review. She received Honorable Mentions in the 2004 Ann Stanford Prize sponsored by the Southern California Anthology, and in the 2005 New Millennium Writings Competition; she was an International Merit Award Winner in Atlanta Review's 2005 International Poetry Competition, and was a finalist in the 2005 Ann Stanford Prize. $7 admission includes coffee and a pastry Jean-Jacques'
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