Bohemian Roots 1956
A Tribute to Allen Ginsberg and the Beat Generation
List of Performers
Alan Barysh - Coming soon...
Joe Crespo says, "When I was 17 I happened to hear about poetry readings at the Moon cafe in Annapolis, and that was when I was first inspired to write. For years after I'd write a bit from time to time, and then made another jump in the year 2000 when found myself living in Mt. Vernon with some freakish and inspired friends. The One-World Cafe experience followed in 2001, when the Tuesday night open-mic grew to monumental proportions and something of a community was formed. For me, it also brought a "prolific" time in my own writing, even though it hurts to reread a lot of that stuff now. Since then I've come to take writing much more seriously as a life-pursuit, an ambition that was further galvanized last year when I joined my first writing workshop, in my second home in Mexico City. The inter-personal commitment and professionalism (and finally, friendship) I found with that group (called Literagen) as well as writing in the Spanish language seemed to seal my fate as a dedicated writer. I've painted, acted and even played the five-gallon-bucket drums, but I'll bet my bones on writing in the end."
Karen Elliott - Karen Elliott fell in love with the poetry of Allen Ginsberg when she was 11 years old and never looked back. She saw him perform many times up and down the East Coast and considers City Lights Bookstore to be Mecca. She runs the First Saturdays Coffeehouse at the Baltimore Ethical Society, along with Karla Mancero. Her poetry has been published in Poets' Ink. She was food editor of the magazine Joe: A Coffee Companion and works as a technical writer and information systems consultant.
Julie Fisher - Coming soon...
Rosemary Klein - Rosemary Klein is the founding editor of Three Conditions Press, former editor of the Maryland Poetry Review, and executive director of the Maryland State Poetry & Literary Society. She is the author of a chapbook, The Absolute Heart (New Spirit Press, 1996). Her poems have been published in the Antietam Review, Descant, Manhattan Review, and Puerto del Sol, as well as the anthologies Intimate Kisses: The Poetry of Sexual Pleasure (New World Library, 2003), and Prayers to Protest (Pudding House, 1998). Currently, she is editor for the Division of General Surgery at the University of Maryland Medical Center, where her publications include articles in Surgical Innovations and the Vicon Standard.
Brian E. Langston - Brian E. Langston is a poet, short story writer, and musician living in Baltimore, Maryland, where he also works as Senior Developer at Congruent Media, a small Internet development and marketing firm. His poems have been or will be published in various reviews and journals, including Catalyst, Spectrum, The Newport Review, Attic, and, most recently, the PoetryInBaltimore.com anthology, Octopus Dreams. He relocated from idyllic Santa Barbara, California, where he attended the University of Caifornia, founded the poetry journal Into the Teeth of the Wind, organized many poetry and art events, and ran a student colloquium entitled "Jack Kerouac - King of the Beats" under the auspices of the College of Creative Studies.
Karla Mancero - Coming soon...
Gregg Mosson - Gregg Mosson's poems recently appeared in Attic, Poets' Ink, and Perpetuum Mobile, and he publishes the annual magazine Poems Against War: A Journal of Poetry and Action. He is a graduate of The Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars, where he was a teaching fellow.
Tom Reyes - Pianist, Composer Tom Reyes has been an active performer, and jazz advocate for years. He performs with his own group, and as a soloist. The son of a Filipino immigrant father, and American mother, is largely a self taught creative musician grounded in the American jazz lexicon, and drawing from a range of traditions. His current recordings feature his compositions, in the moment improvisations, and innovative arrangements of jazz standards. He is the leader of the mainstream jazz band Lovecraft, and The Tom Reyes Quartet.
Shodekeh - Coming soon...
Daniel Stuelpnagel - Daniel Stuelpnagel has been painting since 1985, after studying under Herb Jackson at Davidson College in North Carolina. The artist pursued studio work with Dan Dudrow at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland in continuing studies between 1991 and 1993. In addition to a 2001 painting trip to Galápagos Islands, Ecuador, the artist spent two years in northern California, where his work is represented by the Exploding Head Gallery in Sacramento. Stuelpnagel's first solo exhibition in Washington, DC opened at Parish Gallery, Georgetown, in January, 2003. He lives and works in Baltimore, where the exhibition View Source opened in January, 2006 at Gallery M.I.M., including 22 paintings spanning five years of work. The artist has studios at the Broom Factory in Canton and LOAD OF FUN studios in the Station North Arts District.
Steve Yorkman - Coming soon...