Caitlin Meissner
Performance Poet
Presenting:
Performance Poetry by Caitlin Meissner
On participating in Vagina Festival 2008:
A long-time supporter of the "more platforms for women" cause, Caitlin Meissner is thrilled to be participating in a festival that honors, upholds and gives safe space to female artists. Contributing her own words to the mix, performance poet Caitlin will explore, celebrate, break down, tear up issues, triumphs, challenges and stereotypes relevant to women in our current society.
About Caitlin Meissner:
Albany, New York raised, Brooklyn based Caitlin Meissner is a poet, performer, educator and graphic designer with a BFA from Pratt Institute. Using her background in visual art, anti-racism work, disability advocacy and youth empowerment, her poems are visually rich testaments to the complexities of the human spirit. As a performer, she has featured for the progressive literary collective louderArts; Opened for the acclaimed Page Meets Stage series (with Thomas Lux); Shared sets with musicians such as Immortal Technique, Grandmaster Caz, Boot Camp Clik and many others; And has performed on countless stages- from street corners to Columbia University, The Nuyorican Poets Café to Rikers Island.
Her poems have been published in the independently released His Rib and Got Poetry 2007 anthologies, as well as in various literary journals. For two years Caitlin served as Project Coordinator of the successful all-woman Saturday Performance Series at The Lower Eastside Girls Club and is now one half of Hopscotch & Concrete, a multi-level production duo that creates intentional safe spaces for women artists. Recently honored as the winner of the OneWorld Poetry Contest, Caitlin attended the inaugural Pan African Literary Forum this past July in Accra, Ghana, studying under Pulitzer Prize winner Yusef Komunyakaa and other luminaries from the literary African diaspora.
Contact: caitlin.meissner@gmail.com
Website: www.myspace.com/caitlinmeissnerpoetry
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