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May 5: louderARTS 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY LAUNCH PARTY!

Join louderARTS as we launch a year-long series of events celebrating 10 years of presenting the very best in poetry and performance. On May 5, we have two fabulous featured poets and a full line-up of readers to be recorded for the anniversary CD!

THOMAS SAYERS ELLIS co-founded The Dark Room Collective in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1988 and received his MFA from Brown University in 1995. His work has appeared in many journals and anthologies, including Poetry, Grand Street, Tin House, Ploughshares and The Best American Poetry, 1997 and 2001. Mr. Ellis is a contributing editor to Callaloo and Poets and Writers. In 2005 he was awarded a Mrs. Giles Whiting Writers' Award. His first full collection, The Maverick Room, was published by Graywolf Press in 2005 and awarded The 2006 John C. Zacharis First Book Award. He is also the author of The Good Junk (Take Three #1, Graywolf 1996); a chapbook The Genuine Negro Hero (Kent State University Press, 2001) and the chaplet Song On (WinteRed Press 2005).

PATRICIA SMITH is one of the world's most formidable poet/performers. A four-time national individual slam champion, she starred in SlamNation and appeared on HBO's Def Poetry Jam, and travels the world teaching and performing. Her latest book, Teahouse of the Almighty, (Coffee House Press) was chosen by Edward Sanders as a National Poetry Series winner, voted as the Best Poetry Book of 2006 on About.com, and was awarded the 2007 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and the Paterson Poetry Prize. Her new book, Blood Dazzler, will be published by Coffee House in 2008. She is also the author of three previous books of poetry -- Close to Death (Zoland Books), Big Towns, Big Talk (Zoland) and Life According to Motown (Tia Chucha).

louderARTS: the reading series
every Monday at Bar 13
35 East 13th Street @ University Place, 2nd Floor
7 p.m.
$6 ($5 for students)
2 for 1 drinks all night