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Los Lorcas: Poetry in Concert

Los Lorcas Synth Poetry & Music @ Bowery Poetry Lorcapalooza

Sunday, November 5

Vermont-bred troubadours Los Lorcas showcase their vibrant hybrid of sung poetry and poem-songs at The Bowery Poetry Club (308 Bowery, NYC) on Sunday, November 5, 2017 at 3:30 pm. Tickets for their final fall “Poetry in Concert” tour stop are $10 in advance, $15 at the door, and can be reserved at: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/3072695

In the spirit of Federico Garcia Lorca—gifted musician, legendary poet/playwright and ebullient performer—poets Partridge Boswell and Peter Money, along with guitarist Nat Williams, fuse poetry and music in a passionate and surprising mash-up. Los Lorcas blur boundaries between spoken word and song, weaving poetry with Andalusian ballads, blues, rock, folk, Americana and jazz in pursuit of the cante jondo (deep song) Lorca so ardently championed. “Los Lorcas expresses a desire for everyone to realize how beautiful life, love, and loss can truly be,” raves one reviewer of their recent Burlington, Vermont show. “Music and literature are really one and the same, and their inspired conversation of the two art forms is a breathtaking experience.”

Recipient of this year’s Edna St. Vincent Millay and Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Prizes, Partridge Boswell is the author of Some Far Country, winner of the Grolier Poetry Prize. “Such desperate beauty in these poems,” remarks Marie Howe, “such rendered and willed surviving. Read this book if you want to remember what poetry can do to us, how it can find words for what can’t be said and shake us by our shoulders until we feel achingly alive again.” His poems have recently surfaced in The Gettysburg Review, Salmagundi, The American Poetry Review, Green Mountains Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review and Forklift, Ohio. Co-founder of Bookstock literary festival and former vocalist/lyricist of The Cows, he teaches at Burlington Writers Workshop and lives with his family in Vermont.

Poet/editor/teacher Peter Money’s books of poetry include hybrid works such as the prose-poem sequence with Saadi Youssef, To day- minutes only (2004); the poetry/music collaboration Blue Square (2007); Che: A Novella In Three Parts (2010); a book of translations, with Sinan Antoon, of the Arab Modernist Saadi Youssef (2012); and his most recent volume, American Drone (2013), which poet Baron Wormser calls a “full-bore, straight-up, flat-out necessary charge to the poet in these global/electronic times.” His poems have appeared in numerous publications, including in the City Light’s anthology Days I Moved Through Ordinary Sound, as well as on Garrison Keillor’s “The Writer’s Almanac.” Money’s work has also been translated into Spanish in Ultramar Literatura. A student of Allen Ginsberg, he has taught at Lebanon College and the Center for Cartoon Studies.

Contact: Bowery Poetry: http://www.bowerypoetry.com/events/1210-los-lorcas











When: Sun., Nov. 5, 2017 at 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Where: Bowery Poetry
308 Bowery

Price: $10 advance; $15 door
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Los Lorcas Synth Poetry & Music @ Bowery Poetry Lorcapalooza

Sunday, November 5

Vermont-bred troubadours Los Lorcas showcase their vibrant hybrid of sung poetry and poem-songs at The Bowery Poetry Club (308 Bowery, NYC) on Sunday, November 5, 2017 at 3:30 pm. Tickets for their final fall “Poetry in Concert” tour stop are $10 in advance, $15 at the door, and can be reserved at: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/3072695

In the spirit of Federico Garcia Lorca—gifted musician, legendary poet/playwright and ebullient performer—poets Partridge Boswell and Peter Money, along with guitarist Nat Williams, fuse poetry and music in a passionate and surprising mash-up. Los Lorcas blur boundaries between spoken word and song, weaving poetry with Andalusian ballads, blues, rock, folk, Americana and jazz in pursuit of the cante jondo (deep song) Lorca so ardently championed. “Los Lorcas expresses a desire for everyone to realize how beautiful life, love, and loss can truly be,” raves one reviewer of their recent Burlington, Vermont show. “Music and literature are really one and the same, and their inspired conversation of the two art forms is a breathtaking experience.”

Recipient of this year’s Edna St. Vincent Millay and Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Prizes, Partridge Boswell is the author of Some Far Country, winner of the Grolier Poetry Prize. “Such desperate beauty in these poems,” remarks Marie Howe, “such rendered and willed surviving. Read this book if you want to remember what poetry can do to us, how it can find words for what can’t be said and shake us by our shoulders until we feel achingly alive again.” His poems have recently surfaced in The Gettysburg Review, Salmagundi, The American Poetry Review, Green Mountains Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review and Forklift, Ohio. Co-founder of Bookstock literary festival and former vocalist/lyricist of The Cows, he teaches at Burlington Writers Workshop and lives with his family in Vermont.

Poet/editor/teacher Peter Money’s books of poetry include hybrid works such as the prose-poem sequence with Saadi Youssef, To day- minutes only (2004); the poetry/music collaboration Blue Square (2007); Che: A Novella In Three Parts (2010); a book of translations, with Sinan Antoon, of the Arab Modernist Saadi Youssef (2012); and his most recent volume, American Drone (2013), which poet Baron Wormser calls a “full-bore, straight-up, flat-out necessary charge to the poet in these global/electronic times.” His poems have appeared in numerous publications, including in the City Light’s anthology Days I Moved Through Ordinary Sound, as well as on Garrison Keillor’s “The Writer’s Almanac.” Money’s work has also been translated into Spanish in Ultramar Literatura. A student of Allen Ginsberg, he has taught at Lebanon College and the Center for Cartoon Studies.

Contact: Bowery Poetry: http://www.bowerypoetry.com/events/1210-los-lorcas

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