TTC To Present 3rd SPOKEN WORD SERIES in Studio C413 12/4

The Theater Company of Hoboken (TTC) will play host to the third SPOKEN WORD SERIES reading in Studio C413 on December 4, 2011 at 3pm. The SPOKEN WORD SERIES honors poetry and
prose alike. Each featured writer, featured below, will read selections from their collection and then the microphone will open to the public to share their work.

ADELE KENNY is the author of 23 books (poetry and nonfiction). Over 700 of her poems, articles, and reviews have been published in journals throughout North and South America, the UK, Europe,
Australia, and Asia, as well as in books and anthologies published by Crown, Mc-Graw Hill, Tuttle, and Shambhala. She served as associate editor of The Antiquer: Fine Art & Antiques from 2000-2005 and is currently poetry editor of Tiferet: A Journal of Spiritual Literature. Adele is the recipient of various honors and awards, including two poetry fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. She has received a Merton Poetry of the Sacred Award and an Allen Ginsberg Poetry Award; and she has been a Pushcart Prize finalist, as well as a finalist for the Paumanok Poetry Award. She has also been awarded first place Merit Book and Henderson Awards, and a Writer's Digest Poetry Award. In 2011, she was honored with a Women of Excellence Award from the Union County Commission on the Status of Women for her
personal achievements and volunteer work in the arts and humanities. One of her poems appeared on the marquee of the Rialto West Theater in NYC as part of the 42nd Street Art Project, and her book Staffordshire Animals has been cited by Home and Garden Television (Episode COL-713).

George Drew was born in Mississippi and raised there and in New York State, where he currently lives. He is the author of four collections of poetry, Toads in a Poisoned Tank, Tamarack Editions; The Horse’s Name Was Physics, Turning Point Press; a third, American Cool, was released by Tamarack in 2009; and a fourth, The Hand that Rounded Peter’s Dome, by Turning
Point in 2010. Drew was the winner of the 2003 Paumanok Poetry Prize, the 2007 Baltimore Review Poetry Prize, the 2008 South Carolina Review Poetry Prize, and was runner-up for the 2009 Chautauqua Literary Journal Poetry Contest, which also nominated him for a Pushcart Prize.
American Cool won the 2010 Adirondack Literary Award for best poetry book of 2009. A fifth collection, The View from Jackass Hill, is the 2010 winner of the X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize, Texas Review Press, 2011.

Spoken Word Series bios and headshots on TTC’s website at: www.thetheatercompany.org/SpokenWord.html

Reading & Open Mic:
December 4, 2011 at 3pm

Location:
TTC's Studio - C413
Monroe Center for the Arts, 720 Monroe, St., Hoboken, NJ

FREE!
Donations accepted - refreshments will be served

For more information about SPOKEN WORD SERIES or TTC please visit
www.thetheatercompany.org or email info@thetheatercompany.org

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