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Poet Richard Fammeree is the founder and director of UniVerse of Poetry [www.universeofpoetry.org] and Pont des Arts Ensemble [www.myspace.com/pontsdesartsensemble]. A widely published poet, he is a pioneer of the global renaissance of the marriage of poetry & music. He has played the varnish off several guitars in several countries and continues to recite, perform and record internationally. Green Man is from his first album Fammeree & Eurydice. This album marries passion and spirituality echoing his book of poems, Lessons of Water & Thirst, recently included in the Poetry Library of Royal Festival Hall, London. Collaborations include recordings with poet Li-Young Lee and Emmy award-winning singer Toni Childs. David Tickle has produced three Fammeree projects. Recordings of the contemporary art songs of Richard Fammeree are available on Apple iTunes and more than thirty other digital online outlets. http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewArtist?id=74588139 [Fammeree catalogue on Apple iTunes] http://fammeree.blogspot.com www.myspace.com/richardfammeree www.myspace.com/fammereepoet www.myspace.com/fammereelive www.myspace.com/pontdesartsensemble www.cdbaby.com/all/fammeree www.universeofpoetry.org www.reverse1.com director@universeofpoetry.org

Efrayim Levenson reads "Ampersand Ribbon" from his chapbook DANCING WITH TEARS (Poets Wear Prada, 2007) during his interview by Art Wave's Host Anne Cammon, origianally aired on WKCR 89.9 FM New York on Friday September 7th 2007 at 9pm EST. This poem was nominated for a Pushcart prize by his publisher.

"John on the Chrysler" is title poem from LV aka Laura Vookles poetry chapbook JOHN ON THE CHRYSLER from Poets Wear Prada (2007). Chief curator by day, at the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers, NY, where she has worked for over 20 years. A member of the Westchester National Slam team by night. Her most recent scholarly essay is featured in Westchester: the American Suburb, co-published by the Hudson River Museum and Fordham University Press. Her poetry has been included in two anthologies Look! Up in the Sky! An Anthology of Comic Book Poetry (Sacred Fools Press), HIS RIB: Stories, Poems & Essays by HER (Penmanship Books) and has been published in Ballard Street Poetry Journal as well as online at RogueScholars.com and November3rdClub.com.

DR. SWAPAN BASU is originally from Kolkata, India and earned a Ph.D. in Chemistry in US. He started writing poetry few years ago to motivate students. He received a silver bowl and medallion from International Society of Poetry in 2004. He was influenced by the 1913 Nobel Poet Rabindra Nath Tagore, also from Kolkata, and translated few poems that can be sung in original tunes. He became the organizer of the Rhyming Poetry Group at poetry.meetup.com/128 two years ago. The group now has 90 members in 15 different states in America and also in UK, Canada, Sweden and India. The group meets once a month in New York and New Jersey, publishes an emagazine FLUTE and holds an annual Rhyming Poetry Contest. He's appeared on cable TV and his poems have been published in various anthologies and journals. He is in the process of publishing a chapbook. He lives in Newark, NJ. Here he introduces himself, tells us about the Rhyming Poets of NJ/NY and reads his poem "My Boy". http://www.youtube.com/sbrhyme http://poetry.meetup.com/128 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Rhyming

Tantra-zawadi is a performance poet and the published author of "alifepoeminprogress" by Pauline Publishing (Chuma Spirit Books), 1999. A native of Brooklyn, New York, performing at venues as far away as London, Germany, California and Toronto, Tantra is currently attending the Frank Silvera Writer's Workshop in New York and working on her first choreopoem "Girl" (www.girlachoreopoem.com). She hosts WORDSPACE Jam at The Five Spot in Brooklyn, New York. Visit her online at www.myspace.com/tantrais & www.tantrasmasterwordplay.com. You can purchase her lastest album, Collective Spirits "Love Planet EP " (Camio Records CD Promo) at www.traxsource.com. Collective Spirits combines the talents of producers/DJ's Jonny Montana and Neil Maclean, singer Dana Byrd and spoken word artist Tantra-zawadi.