Book Reading/Signing/Discussion May 4, 2007

Who: John Amen, Colette Inez & Larissa Shmailo
What: Reading/Discussion/Book signing (Books from Mobile Libris; Wines from 67Wines)
When: Friday, May 4, 2007, 7:30 PM
Where: West Side YMCA-- The George Washington Lounge
5 West 63rd Street (between Central Park West & Broadway)
Accessible Trains: A, C, B, D, 1 & 9 to Columbus Circle.
Cost: Admission Free and Open to the Public
For More Info: Contact Glenn Raucher, Literary Arts Director, (212) 875-4124, [email protected]

About the Authors
John Amen is a writer, musician, and artist. He is the author of two poetry collections: Christening the Dancer (Uccelli Press 2003) and More of Me Disappears (Cross-Cultural Communications 2005). He has also released one folk/folk rock CD, All I’ll Never Need (Cool Midget 2004). His second CD, Buddha Cat Wishbone, will be released in Spring 2007. He is featured in the 2007 Poet’s Market and he founded and continues to edit the award-winning literary bimonthly, The Pedestal Magazine (www.thepedestalmagazine.com). More information is available on his website: www.johnamen.com.

Colette Inez has authored nine poetry collections, most recently Spinoza Doesn’t Come Here Anymore from Melville House Books, and has won Guggenheim, Rockefeller, and two NEA fellowships. She is widely anthologized and teaches in Columbia University’s Writing Program. Her forthcoming memoir, The Secret of M. Dulong, was published in 2005 by the University of Wisconsin Press.

Larissa Shmailo translated the Russian Futurist opera Victory over the Sun by A. Kruchenych, performed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave Festival, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Hirshhorn Museum, and internationally. Widely published, she has received “Critic’s Picks” notices for her readings and radio appearances from the New York Times, Village Voice, and Time Out magazine. Her new poetry CD, The No-Net World, has received critical acclaim and is available at http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/shmailo, City Lights, and St. Mark’s Books. She is curator of the Sliding Scale Poetry series and founder of The Feminist Poets in Low-Cut Blouses poetry group.

Official Website: http://www.ymcanyc.org/westside