BOWERY BEATS

BOWERY BEATS IV

A New York avant-garde poetry experience

hosted and curated by Marcos de la Fuente

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FEBRUARY 11th WEDNESDAY

Bowery Poetry Club. 308 Bowery. Manhattan

6:30 PM OPEN DOORS

3 PERFORMERS + 1 HOST

Jaap Blonk (born 1953 in Woerden, Netherlands) is a self-taught composer, performer, poet and visual artist. His unfinished studies in mathematics and musicology mainly created a penchant for activities in a Dada vein, as did several unsuccessful jobs in offices and other well-organized systems. In the early 1980s, he discovered the power and flexibility of his voice, and set out on long-term research of phonetics and the possibilities of the human voice. At present, he has developed into a specialist in the creation and performance of sound poetry and a unique vocal improviser, supported by a powerful and uninhibited stage presence. He has performed and taught around the world, on all continents. 

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Poet and musician Bonafide Rojas was born and raised in the Bronx. He is the author of four collections of poetry: Pelo Bueno: A Day in the Life of a Nuyorican Poet (Dark Souls Press, 2004), When the City Sleeps (Grand Concourse Press, 2012), Renovatio (Grand Concourse Press, 2012), and Notes on the Return to the Island (Grand Concourse Press, 2017). 
Rojas is the 2002 slam this! champion and has performed on HBO’s Def Poetry Jam as well as in numerous venues in New York City and internationally. He is a guitar player and the leader of the rock group Mona Passage.

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Maria De Victoria is a performance artist and co-founder of Artists & Mothers, a nonprofit organization that provides childcare grants. Born in Lima, Peru, and raised in Miami, her work critically engages with politics and amplifies the voices of marginalized individuals, exploring broader themes of migration, labor, and the conditions of contemporary art.

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Marcos de la Fuente is a poet, therapist and culture maker.
He organizes at the Bowery Poetry Club the Open Mic monthly series Se Buscan Poetas (Wanted Poets) He works on the poetry reading, action poetry, performance and spoken word, with or without music.
He has been organizing the Kerouac Festival in Vigo (Spain) since 2010, in New York since 2016, and in Mexico City since 2019.