Subject: a reminder of Friday's reading event in NYC Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 19:33:23 -0500 To: From: Preston Peet HI all, This is a reminder for all those who may find themselves in= the NYC/Lower East Side area tomorrow evening, Friday, November 21,= 2003. From 8 to 10 PM there is going to be a reading event to draw attention= to the War on Some Drugs and Users and to benefit NY NORML at The Slipper= Room, 167 Orchard Street, at the corner of Stanton Street. All information is below. Thanks and please excuse this repeated information. I sincerely= hope to see many of you there. Peace, Preston (btw, while I believe the other readers are going to= reading poetry, I myself will be reading a couple of stories about street life,= hard drugs, and some who on occasion use those drugs.) Poetry Reading to Benefit NORML (and End the War on Some Drugs= and Users), Features Sam Abrams, Bob Holman, Chi Chi Valenti and Preston= Peet On November 21, 2003, The Slipper Room will host a poetry reading= from 8-10pm to benefit NORML. A suggested donation of $10 will be= charged at the door. Sam Abrams will begin the event by reading selections from his= recently published book, The Old Pothead Poems. Mr. Abrams is a professor= of language and literature in the College of Liberal Arts at Rochester= Institute of Technology. At various times, he was Fulbright Professor of= American Literature in the University of Athens; Workshop Leader, St.= Mark's Poetry Project; Member, Stone Academy, Organic Farming Commune, Enfield,= New Hampshire; Coordinator, Poets' Caravan of Angry Arts Against the= War in Vietnam; Jailed (with Dr. Benjamin Spock, Grace Paley et al) for= civil disobedience. In addition to The Old Pothead Poems, Mr Abrams'= other books include The Post American Cultural Congress, Bobbs-Merrill, 1974;= The Neglected Walt Whitman, Four Walls Eight Windows, 1993; The Old= Pothead Poems (chaplet), Backwoods Broadsides 1999. His most recent= publication, "We Meet Today in Freedom's Name," can be read at http://www.poetspath.com/napalm/nhs03/abrams.html. Sharing the stage with Sam Abrams are: Bob Holman (bobholman.com). Bob Holman is a firm believer in the= "United States of Poetry," fronting poetry into daily life by all means.= Holman was founding editor of the NYC Poetry Calendar in 1977, and has= curated reading series at St. Marks Church (he worked at the Poetry Project for= seven years), the Whitney Museum, the Public Theater, and other= locales. He won three Emmys over six seasons producing Poetry Spots for WNYC-TV,= received a Bessie Performance Award, has twice been Featured Artist at the= Chicago Poetry Video Festival and won International Public Television= Awards for USOP and Words in Your Face, a production of the PBS series= "Alive TV." He produced the reading series rAP mEETS pOETRY with Bill Adler,= which resulted in the "Fighting Wordz" intersticials on MTV. Holman is the= proprietor of The Bowery Poetry Club, chief curator of the Peoples' Poetry= Gathering (peoplespoetry.org) in NYC, and guide for About.com's poetry= section (poetry.about.com). Holman's latest collection of poems, The= Collect Call of the Wild, from Henry Holt is Holman's fifth book. He is= currently collaborating on Praise Poems, a book of poems and photos with= Chuck Close. Preston Peet. Preston Peet is a NYC writer, editor, musician,= actor, dj, activist and adventurer. A regular contributor to High Times= magazine and website, the editor of the controversial website DrugWar.com, and= a columnist for the New York Waste, he has published in a variety= of publications both in print and online, including "Media Bypass",= "Criminal Justice 03/04", "09/11 8:48AM- Documenting America's Greatest= Disaster", and www.Alternet.org. Besides publishing over 60 articles at the= popular website www.Disinfo.com, he has articles in the Disinformation Company's= first two books, "You Are Being Lied To" and "Everything You Know Is= Wrong", and is busy compiling and editing Disinformation's upcoming "Under the= Influence- the Disinformation Guide to Drugs" slated for release in the Fall= of 2004. He lives in Manhattan with his other half and 9 rescued cats, and= has been known to smoke the occasional joint or three. "It's time to end= the War on Some Drugs and Users." ChiChi Valenti. Chi Chi Valenti first emerged as a propagandist= for New York nightclub utopias in the seminal DETAILS in 1988. Before and= since, she's participated in alternative nightlife as a producer (Jackie 60= and Click + Drag,) journalist (Village Voice, ID, Skin Two, Interview)= doorperson (the Mudd Club,) clubowner (MOTHER,) Mistress of Ceremonies and= long-time virtual communitarian (motherboardsnyc.com). Her collected writings can= be read at http://www.mothernyc.com/empress/bibliography.html. For more information, call The Slipper Room at 212-253-7246. The= Slipper Room is located at 167 Orchard Street, at the corner of Stanton= Street in New York City.