Amy Lemmon is the author of two poetry collections: Fine Motor (Sow’s Ear Poetry Review Press, 2008) and Saint Nobody (Red Hen Press, 2009) and co-author, with Denise Duhamel, of the chapbooks ABBA: The Poems (Coconut Books, 2010) and Enjoy Hot or Iced: Poems in Conversation and a Conversation (Slapering Hol Press, 2011). Her poems and essays have appeared in Rolling Stone, New Letters, Prairie Schooner, Verse, Court Green, The Journal, Marginalia, and many other magazines and anthologies. Twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize, she has contributed articles to The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poets and Poetry, and the Facts on File Companion to Twentieth-Century British Poetry. Amy holds a PhD in English/Creative Writing from the University of Cincinnati and is the recipient of a Walter E. Dakin Fellowship, as well as scholarships from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Vermont Studio Center, West Chester Poetry Conference, and Antioch Writers’ Workshop. Awards include the Elliston Poetry Prize, the Ruth Cable Poetry Prize, and the Ruskin Art Club Poetry Prize. She is Associate Professor of English at New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology and Poetry Editor of the online literary magazine Ducts.org. Amy lives in Astoria, Queens, with her two children.

LEMON ANDERSEN is a critically acclaimed artist who has been a pioneer in the spoken-word and theater scene for the past decade. He has the greatest number of appearances on HBO’s Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry, with eight performanc­es in six seasons. Lemon is an original cast member of Rus­sell Simmons’ Def Poetry Jam on Broadway; the show took home the Tony Award for “Special Theatrical Event” and the Drama Desk nomination for “Unique Theatrical Ex­perience.” His most current appearance will be as “Geronimo” in the highly anticipated movie The Son of No One starring Al Pacino, Channing Tatum, and Ray Liotta. Lemon appeared in and wrote for Joe Wright’s The Soloist, starring Robert Downey Jr. and Jamie Foxx. His other film credits include Spike Lee’s Miracle At St. Anna, Sucker Free City, She Hate Me, and he appeared op­posite Denzel Washington in Inside Man. His other theater credits include Slanguage, which was directed by Jo Bonney and premiered at the New York Theater Workshop to rave reviews and sold out shows. He is currently touring County of Kings, the show was produced by Spike Lee and the Culture Project and premiered at the Public Theater. His most recent stop on the tour was the prestigious Spoleto Festival in Charleston, South Carolina. The book based on the show was the Grand Prize Winner of the 2010 New York Book Festival. His poetry has been featured on various media channels from radio and viral spots, to print ads, on the limited edition Absolut Brooklyn bottle, and most recently he wrote and narrated the Boost Mobile commercial “Be Heard” for basketball superstar Carmelo Anthony. Lemon has performed at such prestigious venues as the Apollo Theater, The Chicago Theater, Hollywood’s Ko­dak Theater, and The Nuyorican Poets Cafe. Lemon has taught performance art workshops at both colleges and correctional facilities; from the University of Michigan, to Harvard University, to New York’s infamous Sing Sing prison. He has studied master acting with Wynn Handman at Carnegie Hall and has trained with the Public Theater’s Shakespeare Lab. He is also the author of Ready Made Real, a collection of original poems. A native New Yorker, Lemon was born, raised, and currently resides in Brooklyn.

Page Meets Stage was born in 2005 when Billy Collins and Taylor Mali read together on the same stage in an event called “Page vs. Stage: The Final Smackdown!” Now it is a monthly series curated by Taylor and Marie-Elizabeth Mali which brings together two poets—one ostensibly repping the “page,” the other ostensibly repping a more performative style—to read/perform back and forth, poem for poem, continuing the conversation of where poetry exists. Some of the most prominent poets in the United States both in the “academy” and in spoken word circles (Gerald Stern, Mark Doty, Carol Muske-Dukes, Valzhyna Mort, Paul Muldoon, Thomas Lux, Roger Bonair-Agard, Patricia Smith, Rives, Lynne Procope, to name just a few) have been involved.

All Page Meets Stage events are co-productions of Words Worth Ink and Blue Flower Arts in collaboration with Bowery Arts & Science, the educational wing of the Bowery Poetry Club). Check out YouTube to see some of the more memorable moments in the series (search for “Page Meets Stage”), or go to www.PageMeetsStage.com for the complete schedule.
Tickets are $12 ($6 students) and are available ONLY at the door on the night of the show. Call 917-743-6911 for more information.
Bowery Poetry Club (308 Bowery, between Houston & Bleecker, F train to Second Ave, or 6 train to Bleecker)

MARIE-ELIZABETH MALI is the author of Steady, My Gaze (Tebot Bach, 2011) and co-editor, with Annie Finch, of the anthology, Villanelles (Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets, 2012). She serves as co-curator for Page Meets Stage at the Bowery Poetry Club in New York City. Before receiving her MFA in poetry from Sarah Lawrence College, she practiced Traditional Chinese Medicine. Her work has appeared in Calyx, Poet Lore, and RATTLE, among others. www.memali.com

CARLOS ANDRÉS GÓMEZ is an award-winning writer and performer from New York City who has been described as “raw and intense…a rebel Don Juan with a sensitive edge” by Underrated Magazine. A former social worker in Harlem and the south Bronx and public school teacher in Philadelphia and Manhattan, Gómez has performed at over 200 colleges and universities and toured across North America, Europe, the Caribbean, and Africa.  Nominated for the Pushcart Prize and named Artist of the Year at the 2009 Promoting Outstanding Writers Awards, Carlos co-stars in Spike Lee’s #1 movie “INSIDE MAN” (Universal Pictures) with Denzel Washington, Jodie Foster, and Clive Owen. He also appears on the 6th season of HBO’s “RUSSEL SIMMONS PRESENTS DEF POETRY” – voted “Favorite Poet” of his episode by viewers.

Page Meets Stage was born in 2005 when Billy Collins and Taylor Mali read together on the same stage in an event called “Page vs. Stage: The Final Smackdown!” Now it is a monthly series curated by Taylor and Marie-Elizabeth Mali which brings together two poets—one ostensibly repping the “page,” the other ostensibly repping a more performative style—to read/perform back and forth, poem for poem, continuing the conversation of where poetry exists. Some of the most prominent poets in the United States both in the “academy” and in spoken word circles (Gerald Stern, Mark Doty, Carol Muske-Dukes, Valzhyna Mort, Paul Muldoon, Thomas Lux, Roger Bonair-Agard, Patricia Smith, Rives, Lynne Procope, to name just a few) have been involved.
All Page Meets Stage events are co-productions of Words Worth Ink and Blue Flower Arts in collaboration with Bowery Arts & Science, the educational wing of the Bowery Poetry Club). Check out YouTube to see some of the more memorable moments in the series (search for “Page Meets Stage”), or go to www.PageMeetsStage.com for the complete schedule.
Tickets are $12 ($6 students) and are available ONLY at the door on the night of the show. Call 917-743-6911 for more information.
Bowery Poetry Club (308 Bowery, between Houston & Bleecker, F train to Second Ave, or 6 train to Bleecker)

Svoboda’s writing has been featured in The New Yorker, Times Literary Supplement, The New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, Slate.com, Bomb, Lit, Columbia, Yale Review and The Paris Review. Her honors include an O. Henry for the short story, a nonfiction Pushcart Prize, a translation NEH fellowship, a PEN/Columbia Fellowship, two New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships in poetry and fiction, a New York State Council on the Arts grant and a Jerome Foundation grant in video, the John Golden Award in playwriting, the Bobst Prize in fiction and the Iowa Prize in poetry. A University of British Columbia and Columbia graduate, she has taught at Sarah Lawrence, Fordham, Williams, the College of William and Mary, the University of Hawaii, the University of Miami, Fairleigh Dickenson, the New School, St. Petersburg, Russia, Nairobi, and held the McGee Professorship at Davidson College.

Mahogany L. Browne The Cave Canem Fellow is the Editor of the women’s anthology His Rib: Stories, Poems & Essays by HER and author of several books including her latest book of poems: Swag. She has released five LPs including the live album Sheroshima. As co-founder of the Off Broadway poetry production, Jam On It, and co-producer of NYC’s 1st Performance Poetry Festival: SoundBites Poetry Festival, Mahogany bridges the gap between lyrical poets and literary emcee. Her freelance journalism can be found in magazines Uptown, KING, XXL, The Source, Canada’s The Word and UK’s MOBO. She facilitates performance poetry and writing workshops throughout the country, focusing on women empowerment and youth mentoring. She is the publisher of Penmanship Books, a small press for performance artists and owns PoetCD.Com, an on-line marketing and distribution company for poets. Mahogany is currently the slam host & curator of the Friday Night Slam Series at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe.

Page Meets Stage was born in 2005 when Billy Collins and Taylor Mali read together on the same stage in an event called “Page vs. Stage: The Final Smackdown!” Now it is a monthly series curated by Taylor and Marie-Elizabeth Mali which brings together two poets—one ostensibly repping the “page,” the other ostensibly repping a more performative style—to read/perform back and forth, poem for poem, continuing the conversation of where poetry exists. Some of the most prominent poets in the United States both in the “academy” and in spoken word circles (Gerald Stern, Mark Doty, Carol Muske-Dukes, Valzhyna Mort, Paul Muldoon, Thomas Lux, Roger Bonair-Agard, Patricia Smith, Rives, Lynne Procope, to name just a few) have been involved.
All Page Meets Stage events are co-productions of Words Worth Ink and Blue Flower Arts in collaboration with Bowery Arts & Science, the educational wing of the Bowery Poetry Club). Check out YouTube to see some of the more memorable moments in the series (search for “Page Meets Stage”), or go to www.PageMeetsStage.com for the complete schedule.
Tickets are $12 ($6 students) and are available ONLY at the door on the night of the show. Call 917-743-6911 for more information.
Bowery Poetry Club (308 Bowery, between Houston & Bleecker, F train to Second Ave, or 6 train to Bleecker)

Keetje Kuipers was born in Pullman, WA to a fishing guide and a sociologist. Since then, she’s lived in Idaho, Montana, Minnesota, California, Pennsylvania, New York, and Oregon. Though she’s pursued all manner of careers–from midnight baker to Google desk jockey, publisher’s assistant to Off-Off-Broadway actress–poetry has been her passion for many years. Writing directly to the themes of loneliness, longing, and loss, Kuipers’ first collection, Beautiful in the Mouth, contains, as The Rumpus put it, “pitch-perfect poems about topics that are expected in a poetry collection, but that are crafted so well that they transcend cliché to flower into these plainly beautiful chunks of text.” Still obsessed with restlessness and isolation, Kuipers is currently at work on a manuscript entitled “The Keys to the Jail” which contains poems that examine the crimes we commit against ourselves–our acts of faithlessness, and the redemption of returning home to the self we left behind. As Kuipers herself has said, “[Poems] are beautiful, necessary attempts, the same way that standing on top of a mountain and shouting your name into the uninhabited air is an attempt—we must declare ourselves over and over again, and still never really find a way to understand how we exist.”

Andrea Gibson is not gentle with her truths. It is this raw fearlessness that has led her to the forefront of the spoken word movement– the first winner of the Women’s World Poetry Slam –Gibson has headlined prestigious performance venues coast to coast with powerful readings on war, class, gender, bullying, white privilege, sexuality, love, and spirituality. Her work has been featured on the BBC, Air America, C-SPAN, Free Speech TV and in 2010 was read by a state representative in lieu of morning prayer at the Utah State Legislature. Now, on her fifth full-length album FLOWER BOY and her second book THE MADNESS VASE, Gibson’s poems continue to be a rally cry for action and a welcome mat at the door of the heart’s most compassionate room.

Page Meets Stage was born in 2005 when Billy Collins and Taylor Mali read together on the same stage in an event called “Page vs. Stage: The Final Smackdown!” Now it is a monthly series curated by Taylor and Marie-Elizabeth Mali which brings together two poets—one ostensibly repping the “page,” the other ostensibly repping a more performative style—to read/perform back and forth, poem for poem, continuing the conversation of where poetry exists. Some of the most prominent poets in the United States both in the “academy” and in spoken word circles (Gerald Stern, Mark Doty, Carol Muske-Dukes, Valzhyna Mort, Paul Muldoon, Thomas Lux, Roger Bonair-Agard, Patricia Smith, Rives, Lynne Procope, to name just a few) have been involved.
All Page Meets Stage events are co-productions of Words Worth Ink and Blue Flower Arts in collaboration with Bowery Arts & Science, the educational wing of the Bowery Poetry Club). Check out YouTube to see some of the more memorable moments in the series (search for “Page Meets Stage”), or go to www.PageMeetsStage.com for the complete schedule.
Tickets are $12 ($6 students) and are available ONLY at the door on the night of the show. Call 917-743-6911 for more information.
Bowery Poetry Club (308 Bowery, between Houston & Bleecker, F train to Second Ave, or 6 train to Bleecker)