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Event Name:

IAWA's Power of Poetry: Grisly and Bawdy Meets Searing Anger

Address:

Cornelia St. Cafe, 29 Cornelia St.
New York City, NY

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Event Date/Time:

Starts:	Sat Aug 11 2012 at 5:45 PM
Ends:	Sat Aug 11 2012 at 7:45 PM

Hosting Organization:

IAWA

Contact Name:

M. Lisella

Contact Email Address:

marialisella@aol.com

Contact Phone Number:

212-989-9319

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Event Cost:

$8.00

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Event Description:

Featured writer Tony Gloeggler is the author of several full-length poetry collections, including The Last Lie (New York Quarterly Books, 2010.) His poetry has been thrice nominated for a Pushcart Prize, his chapbook One on One received the 1998 Pearl Poetry Prize and his collection, One Wish Left (Pavement Saw Press, 2002), is now in its 2nd edition. His work has appeared in such literary journals as Washington Square, The Ledge, Poet Lore, Rattle, and Skidrow Penthouse. A native of New York City, Gloeggler has managed group homes in Brooklyn for developmentally disabled men for over 30 years. Over a plate of eggs and bacon, Barbara Fragoletti Hoffman discovered she was a writer. Named 1st runner-up in 2008 for the Bordighera Poetry Prize her work has been widely published in the U.S. and abroad, in The New York Times and Newsday. She was the subject of a WLIW channel 21 show “Originals” an “Arts on Long Island” series. Her latest publication, The Life & Hard Times of..., marks her second chapbook. Of her poetry, poet and scholar Michael Palma writes: “Barbara Fragoletti Hoffman’s book contains a poem called “The Heat of Burnt Stubble.” There is the searing heat of anger and anguish at the cruelty and violence of the world, whether inflicted by a single gunman or by terrorists in airplanes; the stifling heat of heaviness and oppression, as the spirit struggles with the burdens of family, religion, and marriage; and the glowing heat of sexual desire and its occasional fulfillments.