Theater Company of Hoboken To Host 2nd SPOKEN WORD SERIES Reading

The Theater Company of Hoboken (TTC) will play host to the second SPOKEN WORD SERIES reading in Studio C-413 on November 6, 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.

This event is also part of the Hoboken Artists' Studio Tour - a larger arts event at the Monroe Center for the Arts. The Studio tour is a free city-wide self-guided walking tour of artist's studios, galleries and community exhibitions, which features the work of over 150 artists in over 40 locations.

A native of Woodbridge, NJ, ED ROMOND's most recent book of poetry is Alone With Love Songs (Grayson Books, 2011). His poems have been featured on NPR, in anthologies, college texts, and in journals such as The Sun, The Rockhurst Review, Tiferet, Barrow Street, Poet Lore, and many others. He has been awarded poetry fellowships from both the New Jersey and Pennsylvania State Arts Councils and, in 1993, a $20,000 prize from the National Endowment for the Arts. In addition to his poetry, he has also written the book, music, and lyrics for two musical plays, A Family Life and Robin Hood, both produced at New Jersey community theaters. His prose memoir, "The Ticket," appears in Tim Russert's book, Wisdom of Our Fathers.

BURT KIMMELMAN has published six collections of poetry. A poem from his most recent book, As If Free (Talisman House, Publishers, 2009), was featured on NPR's The Writer's Almanac. A seventh collection, The Way We Live, is forthcoming (from Dos Madres Press in 2011). For over
a decade he was Senior Editor of the now-defunct Poetry New York: A Journal of Poetry and Translation. He has also published a number of books of criticism, including The "Winter Mind": William Bronk and American Letters (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1998), as well
as scores of essays on medieval, modern, and contemporary poetry. Kimmelman is a professor of English at New Jersey Institute of Technology who lives in Maplewood, NJ with his wife, the multiple award-winning novelist and short-story writer Diane Simmons.

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

Reading & Open Mic: November 6, 2011 at 3pm

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

Suggested Donation: $5 per person - refreshments are included

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