WORD X WORD FESTIVAL Pittsfield, Mass. Sunday, August 14, 2011 by Seth Rogovoy (PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – The first indoor event of this year’s Word X Word Festival took place on Sunday night in a raw space on the top floor of the Compuworks building, and featured two spoken-word performers – Taylor Mali and Iyeoka Ivie…
TRIPLEX CINEMA/NEW STAGE Taylor Mali Open Heart Perjury Thursday, July 14, 2011 by Seth Rogovoy (GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – At one point during his terrific, aptly titled one-man show, Open Heart Perjury, at the Triplex Cinema, spoken-word artist Taylor Mali riffed on the fact that a namesake of his in the Berkshires performs an annual…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – Taylor Mali, renowned slam poetry performer, returns to Upstairs Live at the Triplex for his annual summer show on Thursday, July 14, 2011 at 8 at the Triplex Cinema. This year’s one-man show, Open Heart Perjury, is described as “an evening of poetry embracing disruption in the service of clarity and…
(LENOX, Mass.) – National Book Award finalist Kevin Young will read from his poetry at The Mount, Edith Wharton’s historic estate, on Saturday, July 9. The event includes a reading, reception, and book signing and will begin at 4. A 1992 graduate of Harvard College, a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University (1992-1994) and the recipient…
