Spoken Word Poet Stephanie Rogers @ Mike Geffner Presents The Inspired Word - Part 1

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Spoken Word Poet Stephanie Rogers @ Mike Geffner Presents The Inspired Word, Jan. 25, 2012, 116 MacDougal Street Bar/Lounge, Manhattan, New York City. Hosted by Gemineye.

This is the first of two parts.

A spoken word performer, former competitive storyteller and a Twitter-wiseass, Stephanie Rogers realized her love for the written word early, reciting poetry in her community church. However, thanks to a congregation member appropriating a particular favorite reading, she was inspired to create her own poetic works. Since receiving her Bachelor's Degree from the College of Mount St. Vincent, she has been published in the Iliad Press Anthology "MUSES" and Playboy Magazine, participated in workshops with Cave Canem and Urban Word, and has performed in open-mic poetry events in New York and New Jersey. She's been a featured performer at STARK Wide Open, as well as the famed Nuyorican Poets Café. Recently she's been embraced by the The Inspired Word community, as well as the Open Mic Joint and considers both venues her poet/performer homes. Her first book, "Just Something I've Got to Say", dedicated to the middle-finger moments of city living, loving and writing will be released in January 2012. Her ambition is to take her poetry to the four corners of the US (perhaps two in Canada), to finish and produce the one-act plays she started in college, and to use her writing in a positive fashion; a little scathing, sometimes amusing, but always inspiring.

The Inspired Word is one of the country's hottest open mic spoken word poetry/performance series. Produced by longtime journalist and former Village Voice columnist Mike Geffner and hosted by HBO Def Poetry star Gemineye, NYC spoken word legend Nathan P., and poet Aimee Herman, it happens every week in downtown Manhattan, New York City.

Video by Mike Geffner.

Find The Inspired Word blog @ http://inspiredwordnyc.blogspot.com/ and follow The Inspired Word on Twitter @ https://twitter.com/InspiredWordNYC

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