Beauty Keeps Laying Its Sharp Knife Against Me

MUSIC AND POETRY MEET IN THE MYSTIC, BAUDY AND WAR-RAVAGED AS EIGHT POETS RELATE THEIR EXPERIENCES OF BEAUTY IN THE NEW CD COLLECTION “BEAUTY KEEPS LAYING ITS SHARP KNIFE AGAINST ME.”

KGB Bar celebrates the CD release of the Logochrysalis Production “Beauty Keeps Laying its Sharp Knife Against Me” with a free party featuring performances by poets Brant Lyon, E.J. Antonio, Frank Simone, Diana Gitesha Hernandez, Farid Bitar, Robin Small-McCarthy, Hawley Hussey and Anne Cammon.

KGB Bar is located on 85 East 4th Street in New York. Admission is free.

Poets Include:

• Hawley Hussey hails from a lighthouse where pirates pay her in gold doubloons and writes about sundry nautical affairs. Her work, “Coney Island Break-Up Letters,” was recently performed alongside her visual art installation at The Coney Island Museum.
• Frank Simone finds religion in the arms of a Cambodian woman during the Vietnam War era. His work has been anthologized in America, published in France and listed in the ”Top Ten Poetry Books of 2006” by About.Com.
• Diana Gitesha Hernandez began writing haikus at age nine and has been spinning out poetry like spider-woven silk ever since. She is a poet, songwriter and jazz singer who has been published in a Nuyorican Poets Café Anthology, among others
• E.J. Antonio poetry speaks in rhythm to the blues and jazz with fierce grace. She has been a featured reader at Cave Canem, Cornelia Street Café, Harvard Club and more.
• Farid Bitar has lived through bloodshed and violence that still rages in his beloved homeland, Palestine. Editor and translator of the Treasury of Arabic Love, his work is published on Roguescholars.com.
• Anne Cammon sat in meditation in India, now hosts an experimental literary radio show on WKCR FM NY. Collaborator Rob Voisey adds mystic vocalization and electronic playback to Anne’s tracks on the CD. She has been published widely in the US and abroad in The Quarterly Conversation, KGB Magazine, Nth Position, Fly Global Music Culture and many others.
• Robin Small-McCarthy weaves electric, eclectic strands of poetry, music, and song to promote peace, justice, love, and light. She is the co-founder and resident muse of Kairos Poetry Café.
• Brant Lyon believes that—like the ancient mbiras of Africa—music and words coming together have the power to summon the spirit/s. Founder of the jazzoetry music and poetry series “Hydrogen Jukebox,” his work has appeared in Rattle, BigCityLit and more.