Second Sunday Stories and Songs residency to begin January 9th, 2011

Hello Folks:

After the holidays, we will begin a yearlong residency of writers and musicians at The Living Room. It's the continuation of the series we started at Googies (upstairs from The Living Room) in September. We'll be appearing every second Sunday of the month, beginning with January 9th. The format will be similar. A wordsmith will kick off the night, followed by yours truly (that's a dumb expression) with The Liars Club, followed by a musical act. The first week, we have a very special show featuring three terrific poets, Liz Axelrod, Mario Alberto Zambrano and Rebecca Melnyk. Their bios are below.

We hope to see you throughout the year. I'll be in touch after the new year. I hope everyone has a wonderful holiday season. Thanks again to everyone who made the release of Gadfly and Declaration of Us such a success. You can buy the book (and eventually the EP) and get updates about future residency performers at dannylanzetta.com.

Toodaloo!

Danny

Liz Axelrod: A former DJ, Music Industry Promoter and Publicist with four gold records under her belt, Liz is well into her third life as a creative writing student. Liz has been making the rounds of the NYC Poetry Circuit for over a decade and has been both reader and judge at the Bowery College Poetry Slam, a regular at Smalls Jazz Club’s Saturday Open Mic Poetry Readings, and a featured poet at the Phoenix Poetry Series and the Yippie Museum’s Monday Night Poet’s Café. She is currently working on her first collection of poems, entitled “Flash Upon My Grid,” an eighties DJ girl collection of short stories, finishing her novel, and rearranging the Earth’s gravitational pull to make the day at least three hours longer. 

Mario Alberto Zambrano: Mario was a contemporary ballet dancer for fifteen years. He has danced for Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Nederlands Dans Theater, Batsheva Dance Company and Ballett Frankfurt, and has lived in Holland, Germany, Spain, Israel, Japan, and Chicago. His writing has been published in Dance Europe Magazine, Skive, Thieves Jargon and The Brooklyn Rail. Currently, he is working on his first novel, a collection of fifty-four vignettes.

Rebecca Melnyk: Rebecca was born in Canada during a snow storm. She has lived in New York for awhile, enough that she can’t shake the city off her bones.  She dedicates her time to studying literature, writing poems and stories, and is currently kicking around in the cacophony of the East Village by interning at the Poetry Project.