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| David Messineo |
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| 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 500th anniversary of Ponce de Leon’s landfall in Florida.
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| 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.
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| 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
203-323-1248
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