Celebrate Regie Cabico's new book with a reading followed by an informative discussion from Mid-Atlantic Review Editorial Board Chair, Gregory Luce. Learn about what poetry journal editors look for and more submission insight. Day Eight publishes poetry books and the Mid-Atlantic Review (online with some print issues.) Q&A will follow.
Regie Cabico is a spoken word pioneer having won The Nuyorican Poets Cafe Grand Slam and later taking top prizes in three National Poetry Slams. Mr. Cabico is the author of A Rabbit In Search of a Rolex and other hyperboles, mysteries & fantasias (Day Eight, 2023.) Mr. Cabico is a 2006 NYU Asian Pacific American Studies Artist In Residence. Television credits include 2 seasons of HBO's Def Poetry Jam, NPR's Snap Judgement & MTV's Free Your Mind. His work appears in over 30 anthologies including Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Café, Spoken Word Revolution & The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry. Mr. Cabico received the 2006 Writers for Writers Award from Poets & Writers for his work teaching at-risk youth at Bellevue Hospital. As a theater artist, he received three New York Innovative Theater Award Nominations for his work in Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind with a win for Best Performance Art Production The Kenyon Review recently named Regie Cabico the "Lady Gaga of Poetry" and he has been listed in BUST magazine's 100 Men We Love. He has shared the stage with Patti Smith, and Allen Ginsberg, He's been featured at Howard Zinn's Portraits Project at NYU, where he performed with Stanley Tucci, Jesse Eisenberg & Lupe Fiasco. He is featured at MLK LIbrary's DC Activist Exhibit and a literary consultant with IAMNOTAVIRUS where he edited The Queer Asian American Mental Healthbook. He is the founding and current board member for Split This Rock and is the publisher of Capturing Fire Press.
Gregory Luce is the author of Signs of Small Grace, Drinking Weather, Memory and Desire, Tile, and Riffs & Improvisations. His poems have appeared in numerous print and online journals, and in several anthologies, including Written in Arlington (Paycock Press) and This Is What America Looks Like (Washington Writers Publishing House). In 2014 he was awarded the Larry Neal Award for adult poetry by the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities. In addition, he serves as Editorial Board Chair for The Mid-Atlantic Review and writes a monthly column for Scene4, an online arts journal. Retired from the National Geographic Society, he lives in Arlington, VA, and works as a volunteer writing tutor/mentor for 826DC.
The mission of Day Eight is to empower individuals and communities to participate in the arts through the production, publication, and promotion of creative projects. Day Eight publishes poetry books and the Mid-Atlantic Review (online with some print issues).
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