Oct. 25: Women's Poetry Jam & Open Mike

Bina Sharif (no photo credit available)

Oct. 25, 7PM

Women's Poetry Jam & Women's Open Mike
Featuring: Donna Minkowitz and Bina Sharif


BLUESTOCKINGS
172 Allen St (at Stanton-1 block south of Houston)
212.777.6028
$3 to $5 Suggested (You will not be turned away from an eventat Bluestockings for lack of $)
Open mike sign-up starts at 7PM, so come and deliver (up to) 8 min of your poetry, prose, songs, and spoken word.

Donna Minkowitz's memoir Marvelous Toy is funny, sexual, and disturbing. It is the story of a woman who comes of age at 40 and whom, paradoxically, upon receiving a disabling injury becomes emotionally independent for the first time. [Donna also wrote reviews, etc. for the Guardian and is one of the most astute political comentators-Dan]
Bina Sharif's "Manhattan Spleen" prose poems speak to the daily struggle to find meaning in life amongst its chaotic mix of nothingness, loneliness and sadness, but her poems speak with the bitingest, blackest hilarious humor.
Women's Poetry Jam is hosted by Vittoria Repetto, the hardest working guinea-butch- dyke poet in the Lower East Side.