misterjim and AWP 2k8

Well, due to the overwhelming response to last year's poetry slam at AWP, I have been asked to take over the nightly open mics! So this year AWP 2K8 will feature a nightly slam and open mic!

(The 2008 AWP Conference will be held at the Hilton on Times Square in mid-town Manhattan from 1/30-2/2/08)

Taken from the AWP website program. . .

10:30 p.m.-11:30 p.m.

Gibson SuiteHilton, 2nd Floor

R. All Collegiate Afterhours Poetry Slam. (Jim Warner)
All Collegiate Afterhours Slam sponsored by Wilkes University and Etruscan Press.

Event is open to all undergraduate and graduate students attending the conference. Participation is capped at ten slammers a night. Slam pieces must be no longer than three minutes in length.

Limited open mic to follow slam (time permitting).

Sign-up at the Wilkes University low residency MA/MFA in Creative Writing/Etruscan Press table in the book Fair.

Prizes, judges, and organization of the event all handled by Wilkes University Asst. Program Director and poet Jim Warner.

For more info on AWP: www.awpwriter.org

all points bulletin. . .

More news to come about readings in the following towns:

-Baltimore, MD
-Bethlahem, PA
-Binghamton, NY
-Charlotte, NC
-Greenville, SC
-. . . and somewhere(s) in Virginia

Plus: News about AWP and NYC to follow as well!

My next victim. . .

Taken from the Anthology website(www.myspace.com/scranthology):

Friday Night at Anthology!!

Hey, everybody--Start your weekend by listening to some kickass poetry from Jim Warner! It's free, highly entertaining, and early in the evening, so you can go wreck your brain AFTER feeding it something healthy...Jim will read and sign (if your buy) his new book, Too Bad It's Poetry, published by Paper Kite Press.If you've never heard Jim read, then you've never experienced the true rock and roll spirit of the spoken word. He will make you rethink everything you've ever been taught or heard about poetry. Do not miss it.

Anthology New and Used
Books515 Center St. Scranton, PA
570.941.9630
Friday, November 2nd, 6:30pm
Free and open to the public

Random Press

Here's some additional stories about my new book and whatnot. . .

Colonel Connection

Diamond City Weekly

The Beacon

TOO BAD IT'S POETRY! Now Available!

My first full length book is called TOO BAD IT'S POETRY.
It is out and available through Paper Kite Press. Click here to visit Paper Kite Press and to buy my book.

Praise for TOO BAD IT'S POETRY:

"The amazing poem "east/west" is a must read. Warner successfully weaves--or more aptly fuses--references to music, spirituality, psychology, pop culture and literature as he explores themes of exile and identity. In these electric poems we journey with him as he both searches for and invents a new home--this one made of language. " -Toi Derricotte