Poetry at Fed Square

Free poetry readings with Nick Modrzewski, Misbah Khokhar and George Mouratidis plus open mic

Where: The Atrium (near the Flinders Street entrance)

When: 20/07/2013, 2-4pm

Entry: Free

Join a free program of poetry, music and performance at Federation Square.

Each month a group of different poets present their new (or not) works in a public setting to an ever-changing audience. It is an opportunity to hear new words and voices.

Readers and presenters come from all walks of literary life; some are published authors; some are translators; some are first-time authors with a piece of work in progress to test; while others will read/present a bilingual writing of another author. Over the years more than 1000 different poets, translators and open readers have participated in the program.

The regular format allows for two (or three) feature presenters, reading up to 20 minutes each. Then an opening reading session can follow in either English or other languages for 5 minutes each.

The program is supported by Fed Square and Multicultural Arts Victoria.

Nick Modrzewski is a Melbourne-born writer of fiction, poetry and theater. He has written and performed his own own work at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, The Melbourne Fringe Festival, Short And Sweet, White Night Melbourne (through The Emerging Writers’ Festival) and The Edinburgh Fringe Festival.His writing has been published in The Lifted Brow, Rabbit Poetry Journal, Voiceworks and Helmet Magazine. He studied Law and Arts (creative writing major) at The University of Melbourne, graduating in 2011. He spent a year living in Berlin, developing his writing, and now he works at a Melbourne-based consultancy company, Philanthropy Squared, advising large arts organizations and charities on strategic philanthropy.

Misbah Khokhar is an Australian citizen who was born in Karachi, Pakistan, and has been living in Brisbane most of the time. She recently moved to Melbourne. She completed her Masters of Philosophy in Poetry at the University of Queensland and her manuscript Rooftops in Karachi has been highly commended in the 2010 and 2011 Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize. She has also recently had work accepted in Cordite and the Australian Poetry Journal. She has also published a spoken word cd with Ladybug Press called ‘The Pythia’, and various poems and musical pieces in collaborative CD’s and magazines. She lives inside an op-shop lamp with reasonably adequate lighting and ambiance.

George Mouratidis is a Melbourne poet of Greek origin and the author of an extensive introduction to On the Road: The Original Scroll by Jack Kerouac. He is teaching Mass Media and Communication at RMIT and doing his PhD at Melbourne Univerisity on the subject of beat generation of poets in USA in ‘50s and ‘60s. He is also the organiser and curator of a monthly poetry event (every first Friday of the month) in Red Whilbarrow bookshop in Brunswick.

More Info:

http://www.fedsquare.com/events/poetry-at-fed-square/

http://www.multiculturalarts.com.au

Please email troaditisdimitris@gmail.com