With An Open Ear For The Past... And A Constructive Eye To The Future

David Messineo

The real Thanksgiving

David Messineo returns to Barnes and Noble’s Open Mic program this Monday evening after little over a year, this time in the engaging guise of a trans-temporal poet, here to share observations amassed from six centuries’ worth of American/pre-Columbian history. 

Stamford is the second stop in a nine-city tour dubbed “Fading Into the Future” in support of his latest collection Historiopticon: A Rebalancing of American History (Blurb, 2012), which, at 324 pages, is his longest collection to date, begun twenty years ago and launched on the 500^th anniversary of Ponce de Leon’s landfall in Florida.  

First Mother's Day (for Peace), 1870s

In Stamford, David will concentrate mainly on obscure and prominent episodes from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. From the first documented murder of a gay individual in American history, to the Salem witchcraft trials, David will share about one poem per decade of subjective historical honesty and visionary anticipation. The April debut reading in New York on Sensations' Youtube channel reveals his new project’s pronounced anachronistic intimacy (with a seasonal nod to National Poetry Month).

To date, David Messineo has published eight volumes of poetry, including First Impressions, Suburban Gothic (Snake Hill Press, 1999), Restoration: Poems andOther Writings (Snake Hill Press, 2002) and Historiopticon. Trailblazer, a forthcoming collection, will represent his 50th anniversary of poetry writing and the start of his sixth decade in the poetry field. Enjoy a sample reading from 2006’s Formal (Snake Hill Press), courtesy of Nick Miele, here. 

1990s Enola Gay exhibit controversy

Among the twenty longest-serving poetry editors and independent literary magazine publishers in America, David is a three-time-winner in the American Literary Magazine Awards for Sensations Magazine (www.sensationsmag.com), which will cease operation at the end of the year following fifty issues and numerous supplements and special one-off  publications produced over nearly three decades.

He received the Dwyer Award for Journalism in New Jersey History for the magazine’s three history research documents and a New Jersey State Jefferson Award for Public Service, both in 2009.

Tulsa "Black Wall Street" holocaust (1921)

Hosted by Frank Chambers and PoemAlley's Nick Miele, the Barnes & Noble Open Mic Poetry program meets the second Monday of each month in the cookbook section on the main floor of the bookstore (located in the Stamford Down Center), beginning at 7:15 p.m.

For more information, contact:

Barnes & Noble

100 Greyrock Place Suite H009

Stamford, CT 06901

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