March 13, 6-8PM @ the Cincinnati Public Library, Northside Branch
Lyrical Synaesthesia 2
Presented by the Bardic Arts Council and Justin Patrick Moore

READING MARCH 13:

MATT HART
NICK BARROWS
ABIYAH
BETSY YOUNG

Where: Northside Library, 4219 Hamilton Avenue, 45223
Web: www.cincinnatilibrary.org/branches/northside.html >>>>>

Lovers of literature and language, please join us for Lyrical Synaesthesia 2, a series of poetry and short story readings hosted by the Cincinnati Council for the Bardic Arts, and MC’d by Justin Patrick Moore at the Northside Branch Library. PLUS, Aurore Press is putting together a signed and numbered limited edition chapbook to commemorate the event featuring the writers. The books will be EXTREMELY LIMITED, so be sure to arrive early to get yours!

Featuring March 13:

MATT HART is the author of several books of poems, most recently Sermons and Lectures Both Blank and Relentless (Typecast Publishing, 2012). Additionally, his poems have appeared and disappeared. A co-founder and the editor-in-chief of Forklift, Ohio: A Journal of Poetry, Cooking, & Light Industrial Safety, he lives in Cincinnati, where he teaches at the Art Academy of Cincinnati and plays in the band TRAVEL.

NICK BARROWS comes from the hills of the Westside of Cincinnati, Ohio where he began his first days behind the bar of his father's tavern down by the river Ohio. His works have appeared in Forklift, Ohio: A Journal of Poetry, Cooking, & Light Industrial Safety, Trained Monkey Press, Aurore Press, and the website Semantikon. He was also the music editor for The Citizen. Music escapades include The 4 Track All-Stars, Eagle To Squirrel, and Jack Burton Overdrive. In 2007 Barrows released his chapbook Rockets on Bibles and in the past few years he has been seething in the concrete and playing concertina.

ABIYAH has an edge that you rarely find in contemporary women singers—White-bred and pre-packaged, ol’ girl isn’t. As a writer, she’s passionate and onstage she sings, rebel-yells, dub-chants or raps about empowerment like she’s this cunning linguist who studies different languages and stirs ...them up in her own little dutchie. Abiyah skirts convention, and there are obviously some influences from a wicked orgy of pop-culture pacesetters. Seven years ago, Abiyah began performing at spoken word venues, and wasted no time moving into pairing her words with music. Abiyah is electronic/world/pop anchored by Hip Hop roots and a rock diva with a Hip Hop soul, skipping across genres with ease, and hanging her rhymes on guitar hooks nailed to the wall with electronic beats. She smudges the line of class, race and music genre under her thumb, flipping the script of what people expect from a Midwestern white rocker chick. Just let her do her thing, ‘cause whatever it is, it’s more global than it is local.

BETSY YOUNG dreams of the finer things while spending most of her energy working for others. She divides whatever remaining time she has on earth pursuing more meaningful endeavors like Aurore Press, reading books, listening to old punk on her iPod and not wasting a single moment with her daughter. Editor, writer and curator of Aurore Press titles such as Stories for Shorty about the famed Jockey Club, and every other title in the catalog to date, come to think of it. The hope is 2012 is the year she starts finally going places.

ABOUT THE HOST, JUSTIN PATRICK MOORE: Justin Patrick is a writer and broadcaster. His essays have been featured in a number of themed anthologies from Aurore Press, the most recent appearing in Living In the Lap of Labor. He is a contributor to the independent music website Brainwashed.com where he has written on the works of Karlheinz Stockhausen in the essay Music from Sirius and interviewed Nigel Ayers, the man behind the experimental music project Nocturnal Emissions. A long time library employee, in September 2011 he gave a talk at the Esoteric Book Conference in Seattle on the subject of The Library Angel and It's Oracle. His most recent short story, Gertrude and Ludwig Spin A Web, appeared in Flurb #12, a webzine of astonishing tales, edited by Rudy Rucker.

March 13@ 6:00-8:00 PM | Northside Branch | 4219 Hamilton Avenue | Cincinnati, OH 45223 | www.cincinnatilibrary.org