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Memoir and Poetry Reading
Date
- March 14, 2010
- This event starts on March 14, 2010 at 5:00 PM. It ends at 7:30 PM.
Description
- A Sharing of Retrospective Work
Event organized by: Melida G. Rodas
Sunday, March 14, 2010 5 pm
Featuring:
Keith Chiappone, Angel Eduardo, Jaclyn Foglio, Angelique Giron,Mitch Holsten, Aishia Shandrise Martinez, Laura McKeon,Iris Betsy Ortiz, Kathy Potter, Michi Rodriguez, David Sansevere, Jr.,Krystal Anada Sital, Jessica Witte, Melida G. Rodas
“The ReCollective”
Ivory tower writers, musicians and artists, dedicated to composing as a means of surviving, remembering, and celebrating life, while honoring the crafts of memoir, poetry, and experimental narrative—and always relishing in “The Process.”
“The ReCollective”
Solidified in a spectrum of cultural, sexual and creative diversity, through traditional and modern voices.
Their various works are dynamic, heartfelt, and invigorating.
“ The ReCollective ” - BIOS
Keith Chiappone is a writer, musician, student, teacher, and entrepreneur from Bayonne, NJ. He released his first solo album, "The Burden of Being Human" in 2008, teaches guitar, attends NJCU studying Secondary Education and English. He's also the editor for the monthly literary magazine, "The Instigator."
Angel Eduardo is a writer and musician from Fort Lee, NJ who is not above shameless self-promotion (www.BlueFood.com). He writes fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and cupcake recipes and hopes to make a living being creative sometime before December of 2012.
Jaclyn Foglio is a writer/amateur photographer/cat lover/future social worker who enjoys long screams on the beach and bad science fiction movies. She grew up in Livingston, NJ and graduated from New Jersey City University in 2009 with a Bachelor's in Everything. She currently resides in Colorado as an MSW student at the University of Denver, where there are no beaches. Those giant, snow-covered mountains aren't so bad, though.
Angelique Giron is a lover of life and the arts. Without writing, she is wholly lost and resembles the walking dead. Angelique enjoys her two children and her gig teaching English in Jersey City.
Mitch Holsten is a basket of food; his meat is health care, being a chiropractor (1981), and a nurse (2005). His pears are a beautiful wife, five glorious children (Meg,Mindy, Jamar, Uriah, Mackenzie), and one grandchild. Born in Queens, moved quickly to JC and has lived there since, exempting a southern life for 10 years in Georgia, and Mississippi. The potatoes in his life are his writing: poetry, songs, short stories.
Mitch is a natural story teller, able to conjure a real or imagined tale in verse, or song in a manner of minutes.
The salad is multitiered: music, weather it's listening to one of his 1000 cd's, singing, or writing. His Christian song: "Cool Waters" is featured on the CD: Marlinda Ireland & Friends "Amazing Savior" Lastly, some soft bread: acting: Mom was in show biz, so was dad, so is son. Quickly; Appeared in Season 3, episode 4 Ugly Betty, singer in Christ Church Christmas cantata "From Heaven's Throne" appeared and sang as Elvis on Royal Carribean cruise lines. Favorite line: "the best is yet to come."
Aishia Shandrise Martinez born in Jersey City, New Jersey to parents of Puerto Rican descent is a recipient of a scholarship from the NJ SEEDS program and honorable mention award for a The National Poetry contest at the tender age of 15. Aishia is a poet, singer, and writer. She has been published in two literary magazines, Chimera and The Idiom and has performed at The Bowery Poetry Club, Art House and The Lenape House in Jersey City. She was also a featured performer on the main stage at Jersey City's Pride Festival 2009. Aishia is currently studying the art of story telling at New Jersey City University where she is a sophomore. She embraces a close knit family and being surrounded by a strong sense of Latino culture.
Laura McKeon is a writer, closeted curmudgeon and future “average-selling” author who spends endless hours cleaning up after her 7 cats and yelling at the computer. Born in Key West , uprooted (against her wishes) at a tender age raised in Jersey City . A graduate of New Jersey City University with a BA in English & Elementary Education, Laura currently works begrudgingly in the world of pharmaceutical marketing. Her work has been awarded by The NJ Scholarship Project and featured in various college publications, as well as the book “Voices of Student Teachers: Cases from the Field”. Laura currently resides in Belleville and is working on her first memoir “Buried in Paradise Valley.”
Iris Betsy Ortiz is a budding writer whose motto is, "My own life started at 50." She's under the delusion she'll live to be a centenarian like her grandfather and great-grandmother. She currently lives in Rutherford, NJ with her fiance and together they have 3 college-age daughters: Berkeley class of 2010, Georgetown class of 2012, and Kean class of 2014. She is hoping her writing will help pay for all those college bills (good luck with that)! She studies Literature/Creative Writing at New Jersey State University (class of 2010) where she has been published in the school journal, Paths.
Kathy Potter is a student at New Jersey City University majoring in English/Writing with a minor in Women's and Gender Studies. She has been published in NJCU's Women on Campus and PATHS. Kathy is managing editor of Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy, also published by NJCU.
Melida G. Rodas is a, writer and multimedia artist whose work has been published in NJCU on-campus publications, in What We Hold in Common (The Feminist Press), an anthology, American Working – Class Literature, published by Oxford University Press and is forthcoming on a textbook/anthology publication, Literature and Work by Longman Publishers. Also, she co-wrote the sold out play, “The Heist Project”, with Art House Productions in Jersey City.
Ordinarily, she loves relentlessly, laughs viciously and daydreams perpetually twirling her ferociously curly hair.
Michi Rodriguez is a self-proclaimed write-a-holic who spends the remainder of her time watching the world in order to come up with new ideas. She is certifiably obsessed with Shakespeare and is convinced that they were lovers in a past life. Born in NYC and raised by a Puerto Rican father and Chilean mother, Michi seeks to find the story, the purpose, the free food in both countries. She currently teaches High School English Literature to students who have graciously nick-named her "M-Rod." She has a dog named Chuchi and a bird named Chloe.
David Sansevere, Jr. graduated New Jersey City University in 2009 with a unique dual degree in Literature and Creative Writing. Previously an illustrator, David's artwork was featured in the 2006 Hyperion Books release, The Republican Playbook. Concerned with the uncertainty inherent in a career as a freelance artist, David opted to become a writer. The irony of this decision is not lost on David, who understands the correct usage of the word irony. David's motto is "Grade, paid, or laid--nobody writes for free."
Krystal Anada Sital is the past editorial assistant of Transformations, a pedagogical magazine and first student editor of PATHs. Expected to graduate NJCU in May 2010 with a B.A in English - Creative Writing, she will pursue her writing career in graduate school where she hopes to acquire her M.F.A. Krystal has been published in PATHs, NJCU's creative journal and FAMILIES, a journal of representation in India. Currently, she lives in Bayonne, NJ with her loving and supportive husband, Pawel Grzech.
Jessica Witte (pronounced “witty”) is a Jersey City native /writer/vegetarian/cat lover. She has been working toward her Bachelor’s in English/Creative Writing at New Jersey City University since 2002 and currently works for NJIT’s Federated History Department. She has published a short memoir piece online for “Italian Americana” called In Her Kitchen, where she analyzes the relationship between her mother and maternal grandmother. Her plans for the future aren’t certain, but must include writing, publishing, traveling, and cats.
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