Events
CAFFEINE CORRIDOR POETRY SERIES
moves to {9} The Gallery
2nd Friday’s of month
beginning January 11, 2013
featuring Jed Allen & Regina Blakely
Open mic starts at 7pm
(sign-up between 6:45 and 7:15)
Hosted by Jack Evans & Shawnte Orion
Turn West On McKinley St. for PARKING LOT in the back
Jed Allen was born on the potholed road between Heaven and Hell and he walks there still. His writing has appeared in numerous journals and in Fever Dreams: contemporary Arizona poets (U of Arizona Press). He has raised goats, worked as a janitor, cut and sold fire wood door-to-door, made adobes, taught English and Creative Writing classes, and is an improvisatory pianist and bassist. His book, The Fear of Algebra, was published in 2011. Across his back he has written: somos todos ilegales.
Regina Blakely has been a team member and three-time competitor at the National Poetry Slam and represented Greater Phoenix as an individual at the inaugural Women of the World Poetry Slam Nationals in Detroit, MI. The Scottsdale Center for the Arts commissioned her to write and perform original work in response to James Turrell’s “Infinite Light” exhibit, and she has performed at the Civic Center Plaza in celebration of Martin Luther King Day. Prior to finding her own voice in poetry, she studied theater and “the bard” with Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, Massachusetts.
