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Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Joel Allegretti in Hoboken Poetry Festival, Sat., Nov. 6


JOEL ALLEGRETTI
Photo Credit: Jon Paul
 

Dear Friends and Colleagues:


I'll be a featured reader in a poetry festival at the Monroe Center for the Arts in Hoboken on Saturday, Nov. 6.  I'm scheduled to go on at 3 p.m. I'll read primarily from my Poets Wear Prada chapbook, Thrum. The organizer of the event is David Vincenti, chief curator of the DeBaun Spoken Word Series of Stevens Institute for Technology.

The show starts at noon and runs till 5. In between the featured poets will be musical artists and open-mic poets.

The Monroe Center is located at 720 Monroe Street between 7th and 8th Streets.

Hope to see you.

Joel

http://www.joelallegretti.com/


THRUM, a new chapbook by Joel Allegretti from Poets Wear Prada
ISBN 978-0-9841844-4-6, Trade Paperback, 38pp., $12.00


"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


Now Available on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Thrum-Poems-Joel-Allegretti/dp/0984184449/


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