Palabras Luminosas: (Luminous Words) (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780984098231)

The annual event, which has taken place every New Year's Day since 1995, was founded by poet and art historian Bruce Weber and quickly became one of the most popular events on the city's poetry scene. Mr. Weber returns to oversee this year's production after a one-year hiatus, ably assisted by a staff of poets, writers and designers. "This is an amazing contingent of performers rocking all day and into the night from all sides of the city and beyond - lots of fresh voices and new discoveries," Mr. Weber said. The Alternative New Year's Day Spoken Word / Performance Extravaganza features poets, monologists, musicians, dancers and other performers in a 10-hour showcase of some of New York's most talented writers and artists. The lineup that evolves each year to keep the event as fresh and democratic as possible. Collected here in this volume is just a fraction of the talented voices brought to bear every New Year's Day in New York's East village. This anthology is the next best thing to being there. If you sniff the pages, you can actually smell the poets. Smells like wine, ink, and existential crisis.