The Fourth Annual International Brawl for Art: Poetry at the Speed of Sound with John S. Hall & Heinrich! (aka Rodney Anonymous)

A night of poetry and 80’s German synth pop from the front men of King Missile and The Dead Milkmen

Please note this is an upstairs venue

DOORS @7:30 | SHOW @8PM

$10-15 Sliding scale | BYOB

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

John S. Hall

John S. Hall (wikipedia | instagram) is a poet/spoken word artist, musician and singer-songwriter. He has released numerous recordings, including nine albums with various incarnations of his band King Missile. A new album from the reunited first incarnation of the band, King Missile (Dog Fly Religion), is forthcoming. John has written at least a poem a day, every day, for over four years, and has appeared on Def Poetry Jam (HBO), The United States of Poetry (PBS) and Beavis and Butthead (MTV). He has performed in Europe, New Zealand, Canada, and all over the United States. He is the author of a collection of poetry (Jesus Was Way Cool) and a self-help parody (Daily Negations), both on Soft Skull Press, over 100 published children’s stories, and more than 40 kindle books of poetry, more than 25 of which have also been released as paperbacks. He served on the board of directors of the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church in New York from 2005-2016 and was its president for three years. He performed a major retrospective of his work in 2021 at the Satanic Temple in Salem, MA and in 2022 performed as part of the Whitney Biennial in New York. He is currently in the process of attempting to write 10,000 poems in five years, a project he began in January of 2022. He is more than 4/5 through.

HEINRICH! 

In 1981 minimalist synth pioneer HEINRICH! fled from East Berlin to West Berlin. This act of heroism is in no way diminished by the fact that, at the time, HEINRICH resided in Berlin, Pennsylvania

Rodney Anonymous (wikipedia | instagram)

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