Stadler Center Slams

Poetry Slam Featuring
Michael Cirelli

includes Open Mic and One-Round Slam

Friday, April 12, 2013
8 p.m. Uptown

 

Michael Cirelli's newest collection, Everyone Loves The Situation (Penmanship Books, 2011), deconstructs MTV's hit reality show, Jersey Shore, flipping the cultural zeitgeist on its (gelled and sprayed) head. He is also the author of Vacations on the Black Star Line (Hanging Loose Press, 2010), which was named in About.com's Poetry Picks "Best Books of 2010," and Lobster with Ol' Dirty Bastard (Hanging Loose Press, 2008), which was a NY Times bestseller from an independent press and was featured in the "Debut Poets" issue of Poets & Writers Magazine. His work has appeared in The Best American Poetry, Hanging Loose, Texas Review, World Literature Today and King Magazine, among others. He is the Executive Director of one of the nation's largest youth literary arts organization, Urban Word NYC, and has authored two poetry curricula, Poetry Jam (Recorded Books, 2010) and Hip-Hop Poetry & the Classics (Milk Mug, 2004). He teaches courses on Hip Hop & the Teaching of English at New York University, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Bank Street College of Education. He has also appeared on HBO's Def Poetry Jam and Brave New Voices.