BROKEN LIGHT: ALTERNATIVE NEW YEAR’S DAY SPOKEN WORD AND PERFORMANCE EXTRAVAGANZA
Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery between Houston & Bleecker Sts.
Friday, January 1, free, 2:00 pm – 12 midnight
212-614-0505
www.bowerypoetry.com
www.spokenwordextravaganza.org
The Bowery Poetry Club is hosting its sixteenth annual New Year’s Day poetry reading, featuring more than 150 performers, as an alternative to other literary events being held at such nearby venues as the Poetry Project and the Cornelia Street Cafe. Participating readers include Hobo Bob, Steve Cannon, Steve Dalachinsky, Bingo Gazingo, Bob Holman, Eve Packer, Angelo Verga, Bruce Weber, and Zork, some of whom will be at the other readings as well. Although the event is free, attendees are encouraged to bring paperbacks for Books Through Bars, which supplies reading material to prisoners, and canned goods for Urban Pathways, which provides food and other services for the homeless. Of course, these three poetry events don’t really have to be an either/or proposition, as poetry lovers could easily schedule in visits to each one.