Gabriel Welsch - March’s Spoken Word Artist

Performance Date: March 1, 2009, at 3 p.m., with open microphone following
Location: Symposia Bookstore, 510 Washington St., Hoboken, NJ (Accessible by PATH & Light Rail), www.symposia.us
Admission: FREE, with $3 suggested donation
Information: www.debaun.org/SpokenWordSeries.html or 201-216-8937

For the sixth installment of the Spoken Word Series, DeBaun Center for Performing Arts and curator David Vincenti have chosen an eclectic artist to be featured on Sunday, March 1, 2009, at 3 p.m.—Gabriel Welsch. The Spoken Word Series, co-hosted by Siobhan Barry-Bratcher and David Vincenti, is presented monthly at Symposia Bookstore, 510 Washington St., Hoboken, NJ.

Gabriel Welsch, a former garden designer, landscaper, and nurseryman, is the author of Dirt and All Its Dense Labor, a collection of poetry published by WordTech Editions in 2006. His poetry, short fiction, essays, and reviews appear widely, in national publications and venues including Georgia Review, New Letters, Harvard Review, Isotope, Other Voices, Mid-American Review, Chautauqua Literary Journal, Rapportage, From the Fishouse (www.fishousepoems.org), Missouri Review, Slope, and many others. His honors include a Pennsylvania Arts Council grant for fiction, appointments as the inaugural Thoreau Poet-in-Residence at the Toledo Botanical Garden and as a poet-in-residence at the Chautauqua Institution’s Writer’s Center, and two nominations for the Pushcart Prize. For eight years, he taught creative and professional writing in the Department of English at Penn State University. Currently, he is assistant vice president for marketing at Juniata College, and lives in central Pennsylvania, with his wife, Jill, and daughter, Isabella. You can see some of Gabriel's work at: www.fishousepoems.org/archives/gabriel_welsch/, www.wordtechweb.com/welsch.html, and www.smallspiralnotebook.com/Spring2003/gabrielwelsch.shtml

Gabriel will read from his works and then the microphone will be open to the public to share their work. Although it is not necessary to pre-register to attend the event, those interested in sharing their work during the open mic are asked to sign up at 2:45 p.m. Open mic participants are asked to limit their work to five minutes per person.

The Spoken Word Series takes place at Symposia Bookstore, 510 Washington St., Hoboken, NJ. Symposia is the only used bookstore in Hoboken and has great prices for used books, wireless Internet access and many events every week. This is the fifth year DeBaun Center for the Performing Arts and Symposia Bookstore have teamed up to co-produce the Series. With each reading, more and more people are introduced to this wonderful bookshop and the work of many superb artists.
The next Spoken Word event will be on April 5, 2009, at 3 p.m. with George Witte and Tina Kelley.