Featuring Marina Kazakova and Bruce Weber

Hosted by David Lawton

Plus open mic

21+

$3 suggested donation. Two drink min, alcoholic or non.

Marina Kazakova (b. Gorky, Russia, 1983) is a Belgium-based writer, poet and audio-visual artist. Published internationally in magazines and journals, she is author of the verse novel Tishe...Piano, the film adaptation of which was shortlisted for International Short Film Festival Leuven 2013, Miami Indie Wise Festival 2018, XpoNorth Festival 2018, and received “The Best Narrative Short Award” at the International Film Festival behalf Savva Morozov in Moscow in 2015.

Bruce Weber is the author of six published books of poetry, These Poems are Not Pretty, How the Poem Died, Poetic Justice, The First Time I Had Sex with T. S. Eliot, The Break-up of My First Marriage, and the just published There Are Too Many Words In My House from Rogue Scholars Press. He has performed regularly in the tri-state area, both alone and for many years with his former performance group, Bruce Weber’s No Chance Ensemble, which produced the CD Let’s Dine Like Jack Johnson Tonight. He is currently producing Brain Storms: The Hudson Valley New Year’s Day Spoken Word/Performance Extraganza, to be held in Kingston on January 1st, 2020.