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Rich Villar

Rich Villar

April 09, 2008

Poet, teacher and occasional actor, Rich Villar performs in English and Spanglish. Villar’s poetry is published in several journals, including the new Achiote, and was nominated by Rogue Scholar....

David Gonzalez

David Gonzalez

April 09, 2008

Poet, performer and musician David Gonzalez takes a global village approach to his art. The musician-poet grew up in the Bronx and creates musical and dramatic works about frog brides, ceiba trees, C....

Regie Cabico

Regie Cabico

April 09, 2008

After Cabico graduated from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, he headed a few blocks east to explore the 1990s poetry scene in Alphabet City. A gay, Filipino man, he says he looks for sincerity in th....

Poet Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz

Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz: Poet and Sassy Upstart

April 04, 2008

Boot-stomping poet Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz holds a record as one of the youngest poets to become a slammaster in 1998 at the age of 19, later winning the National Poetry Slam competition twice. ....

Sarah Gambito

Sarah Gambito: Poet, Mentor and Teacher

April 01, 2008

Sarah is a co-founder and Executive Director of Kundiman, a Filipino term for a patriotic love song, that now represents a network of writers and poets dedicated to the cultivation of new Asian-Amer....

Poet Bob Holman

Bob Holman: Master of all things poetry

March 31, 2008

Poetry Czar, Dean of the Scene—Bob Holman has been dubbed with more poet titles than he can count on one hand. The award-winning, prolific re-creator of poetry already brought together all kinds of....