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Tuesday, July 13, 2010

JOEL ALLEGRETTI reads from THRUM Tues, 7/13 at 7 P.M.
























Event: Word for Word Presents Poetry
Date: Tuesday July 13, 2010
Time: 7PM - 8:30PM
Place: Bryant Park Reading Room, West 42nd Street & 6th Avenue, New York City

American Poet JOEL ALLEGRETTI reads from THRUM (Poets Wear Prada, March 2010) and other work when Word for Word Presents Poetry in Bryant Park this Tuesday, July 13 from 7PM to 8:30PM. Joining him at the podium will be Timothy Liu, Jacob Scheier and Jeff McDaniel. This event is free and open to the public.

THRUM is Allegretti's 3rd collection of poetry and includes 22 poems on 20 string instruments or chordophones. Preview his book at http://www.previewthebook.com/book.php?id=2462

Signed copies of THRUM will be available for sale at this event courtesy of Kinokuniya Bookstore at Bryant Park.

Rain Venue(s):
*The General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen
20 West 44th Street (between 5th & 6th Avenues)

*Not all rooms in The General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen are handicapped accessible - we are sorry for the inconvenience.


THRUM
Poems by Joel Allegretti
ISBN 978-0-9841844-4-6
6" x 9" Saddle Stitched, 38 pp.
$12.00 (+ $2 S&H by Mail Order)
Release Date: March 2010
Perfect Bound Edition Now Available from Create Space
www.createspace.com/3447574
and on Amazon.com:
http://www.amazon.com/Thrum-Poems-Joel-Allegretti/dp/0984184449/



In Thrum Joel Allegretti, deftly and delightfully, strums his magical musical instrument, which is poetry, as he forges fresh forms of songs and stories that are inspired by strummers' strings. “Context is everything,” Allegretti reminds us, and we’re planted in the heart of a global ancient/modern orchestra. Prepare yourself for the revelatory performance.

Martine Bellen
Author of Tales of Murasaki and Other Poems,
1997 National Poetry Series selection

Joel Allegretti's latest collection of poems is as enjoyable as it is different. Thrum takes the reader on a journey that explores known musical instruments, such as the mandolin, dulcimer and fiddle, as well as some not-so-known instruments, such as the oud, koto and theorbo. But what makes this journey unique is that each instrument is in a sense personified as the emotive element of each instrument is brought to life. Allegretti does a wonderful job tuning every poem so that the music of each instrument is realized again and again in the words on the page. An intriguing and must read for anyone who has a sense of all that culminates in the commingling of the arts.

Raymond Hammond
Editor, The New York Quarterly



About the Author

Joel Allegretti is the author of The Plague Psalms, which appeared in 2000 and is now in its third edition, and Father Silicon, selected by The Kansas City Star as one of 100 Noteworthy Books of 2006. Allegretti’s work has appeared in many national journals, including The New York Quarterly, Margie, The Laurel Review, Art/Life Limited Editions, Rattapallax, Slipstream, Confrontation, and Xcp Cross-Cultural Poetics. He is represented in the anthology Chance of a Ghost (Helicon Nine Editions, 2005), and his poem in that collection received an Honorable Mention in the 2006 edition of The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, published by St. Martin’s Press. In April 2009, Kean University in New Jersey presented the world premiere of a song cycle based on Allegretti’s poetry, “A Cycle by the Sea” by Frank Ezra Levy, who served several decades as cellist with the Radio City Music Hall Orchestra and whose symphonic work is available in the American Classics series on Naxos. Allegretti is a graduate of New York University and lives in Northern New Jersey. His website is www.joelallegretti.com

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