[Yale-readings] GHOSTLIGHT Poetry Series at Long Wharf Theatre in August

Mon Aug 1 11:08:54 EDT 2005

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>NEW SUMMER POETRY SERIES!
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>MONDAY EVENINGS, AUGUST 8 - 29
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>Aug. 8:     ELIZABETH THOMAS
>Aug. 15:   RAVI SHANKAR
>Aug. 22:   NGOMA
>Aug. 29:   CHARLES RAFFERTY
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>July 28, 2005 / New Haven, CT – Artistic Director Gordon Edelstein and 
>Managing Director Michael Stotts are proud to announce a new four-part 
>series of poetry readings, GHOSTLIGHT: Poetry for a Dark Stage, at Long 
>Wharf Theatre in August.
>GHOSTLIGHT: Poetry for a Dark Stage celebrates the region’s leading poets 
>and spoken word artists.  Original work will be presented every Monday 
>evening in August by Elizabeth Thomas (Aug. 8), Ravi Shankar (Aug. 15), 
>Ngoma (Aug. 22), and Charles Rafferty (Aug. 29).  Following a question and 
>answer session with the featured artist, the stage will be set for the 
>audience to share a favorite poem or original work in an open mic format.
>Doors open at 7 p.m. with opening performances beginning at 7:30 p.m. in 
>Long Wharf Theatre’s rehearsal hall, located above Stage II (222 Sargent 
>Drive, off exit 46 on I-95). General admission tickets are $5 and student 
>tickets are $3 with ID.  There is plenty of free parking in our lot.  For 
>directions and theatre information, please visit our website at 
>longwharf.org.  Tickets can be purchased at the door only so plan on 
>arriving early to register for open mic and guarantee your admission!
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>ARTIST BIOS
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>August 8:  ELIZABETH THOMAS
>Elizabeth Thomas is a published poet who designs and teaches writing 
>programs at schools and organizations throughout the U.S.  These programs 
>promote literacy and the power of both written and spoken word.  An 
>outstanding advocate of youth in the arts, she started UpWords Poetry, an 
>organization dedicated to promoting programs for young writers.  She is an 
>organizer and coach of the CT National Youth Poetry Slam team and hosts a 
>website at www.upwordspoetry.com.  She will be joined this evening by some 
>of the young poets she has worked and traveled with.
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>August 15:  RAVI SHANKAR
>Ravi Shankar is poet-in-residence at Central Connecticut State University 
>and the founding editor of the internationally acclaimed online journal of 
>the arts, www.drunkenboat.com. His first book, Instrumentality, was 
>published by Cherry Grove in May 2004. His work has previously appeared or 
>is forthcoming in such places as The Paris Review, Poets &Writers, Time 
>Out New York, The New Hampshire Review, Blackbird, Gulf Coast, The 
>Massachusetts Review, Descant, LIT, Crowd, The Cortland Review, Catamaran, 
>Caketrain, Fourth River, 88: A Journal of Contemporary American Poetry, 
>The Paris/Atlantic, Ecopoetics, The Indiana Review, The Electronic Book 
>Review, Western Humanities Review, The Iowa Review, Smartish Pace, and the 
>AWP Writer’s Chronicle, among other publications, including two 
>anthologies of contemporary poetry. He has taught at Queens College, 
>University of New Haven, and Columbia University, where he received his 
>MFA in Poetry. He has read at such venues as The National Arts Club, 
>Columbia University, KGB, the Asia Society, Artspace, University of 
>Virginia, the St. Mark’s Poetry Project, and the Cornelia Street Café, has 
>held residencies from the MacDowell Colony, Ragdale, and the Atlantic 
>Center for the Arts, has served on panels at UCLA, Poet’s House, 
>South-by-Southwest Interactive/Film Festival, and the AWP Conference in 
>Baltimore and Vancouver, been a commentator for NPR, KKUP and Wesleyan 
>radio and been featured in the Hartford Courant, The Journal Messenger and 
>in the Shoreline Press, reviews poetry for the Contemporary Poetry Review 
>and is currently editing an anthology of South Asian, East Asian, and 
>Middle Eastern poetry. You can read an interview with him at: 
>http://jacketmagazine.com/16/dev-iv-shank.html. As a youth, he was once 
>forced to conjure silken scarves from an empty hat as his father's, Sam 
>the Super's, magician's apprentice.
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>August 22:  NGOMA
>Ngoma is a performance poet, multi-instrumentalist, singer/songwriter and 
>paradigm shifter, who for over 30 years has used culture as a tool to 
>raise sociopolitical and spiritual consciousness through work that 
>encourages critical thought.  A former member of the Spirit House Movers 
>and Players with Amiri Baraka and the Contemporary Freedom Song Duo, 
>Serious Bizness,  Ngoma weaves poetry and song that raises contradictions 
>and searches for a solution for a just and peaceful world.  Ngoma was the 
>Prop Slam winner of the 1997 National Poetry Slam Competition in 
>Middletown, CT and was  published in African Voices Magazine, Long Shot 
>Anthology, The Underwood Review, Signifyin’ Harlem Review and 'Bum Rush 
>the Page/Def Poetry Jam Anthology.  He was featured in the PBS Spoken Word 
>Documentary, "The Apro-Poets" with Allen Ginsberg.  Ngoma has hosted the 
>slam at the Dr. Martin Luther King Festival of Social and Environmental 
>Justice Festival (Yale University-New Haven, CT) for the past 9 
>years.  His newest CD release, Ngoma's Take Out (Smokin' Spoken Word 
>Cuisine w/Jazz-Funk-Fusion) and his CD Movie Documentary Ngoma:Alive and 
>In Your Face from NYC, takes Jazz/Funk/Fusion and the Spoken Word to the 
>next level.  His CDs Didgitation: Solo Didgeridoo Musik for Meditation and 
>Ancient Future Meditational Musik are must haves for those interested in 
>altered states of consciousness.
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>August 29:  CHARLES RAFFERTY
>Charles Rafferty's book The Man on the Tower was published by the 
>University of Arkansas Press in 1995 after winning the Arkansas Poetry 
>Award, and Where the Glories of April Lead was published by Mitki/Mitki 
>Press in 2001. His latest book, During the Beauty Shortage, has just been 
>released by M2 Press. In addition, Charles Rafferty’s poems have appeared 
>in such journals as Massachusetts Review, DoubleTake, TriQuarterly, The 
>Southern Review, The Underwood Review, Quarterly West, Washington Square, 
>Connecticut River Review, Louisiana Literature, The Laurel Review, Poetry 
>East, and Connecticut Review, as well as in American Poetry: The Next 
>Generation, an anthology published by Carnegie Mellon University Press. He 
>has received the Robinson Jeffers Tor House Prize for Poetry, the 
>Brodine/Brodinsky Poetry Prize, and a grant from the Connecticut 
>Commission on the Arts. He currently works as an editor for a technology 
>consulting firm.
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>ABOUT THE THEATRE
>LONG WHARF THEATRE (Gordon Edelstein, Artistic Director; Michael Stotts, 
>Managing Director), is recognized as a leader in American theater, 
>producing fresh and imaginative revivals of classics and modern plays, 
>rediscoveries of neglected works and a variety of world and American 
>premieres.  More than 30 Long Wharf productions have transferred virtually 
>intact to Broadway or off-Broadway, some of which include the Pulitzer 
>Prize-winning plays Wit by Margaret Edson, The Shadow Box by Michael 
>Cristofer, and The Gin Game by D.L. Coburn.  Long Wharf has received New 
>York Drama Critics Awards, Obie Awards, the Margo Jefferson Award for 
>Production of New Works, a Special Citation from the Outer Critics Circle, 
>and the Tony® Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre.  Long Wharf Theatre 
>is dedicated to cultivating audiences that reflect the state of 
>Connecticut and the diversity of its cities as well as its rural and 
>suburban areas, and serving as a forum for the examination of historical 
>and current issues through humanities programming.
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