Writers Cribs! Decolonize Your Bookshelves, Regie Cabico: Poet
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April is National Poetry Month. May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month.
On Thursday, April 30th at Enoch Pratt Central, we will be joined by critically acclaimed Filipino American poet/author Regie Cabico. Regie Cabico is a spoken word pioneer having won The Nuyorican Poets Cafe Grand Slam and taking top prizes in three National Poetry Slams. Television credits include 2 seasons of HBO's Def Poetry Jam, Tedx Talks, NPR's Snap Judgement & MTV's Free Your Mind. His work appears in over 30 anthologies including Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Café, Spoken Word Revolution & The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry. He has been on faculty at Kundiman, Banff Arts Center and NYU Asian Pacific Studies Artist in Residence. Mr. Cabico received the 2006 Writers for Writers Award from Poets & Writers for his work teaching youth at Bellevue Hospital. The Kenyon Review named Regie Cabico the "Lady Gaga of Poetry" and has shared the stage with Patti Smith, Allen Ginsberg and through Howard Zinn's Portraits Project at NYU, has performed with Stanley Tucci, Jesse Eisenberg & Lupe Fiasco. He is publisher of Capturing Fire Press and producer of Capturing Fire Slam in Washington, DC.
This event is in partnership with the Enoch Pratt Library. Enoch Pratt Writers LIVE! programs are supported in part by a bequest from The Miss Howard Hubbard Adult Programming Fund.
Free, no registration required. Seating is first come, first serve. Please note that marking interest does not reserve a seat.