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Author of Love and Cigarettes, Ray by Ray, Go Go Go Girl, poems, Curve, poems, Back Seat Baby, poems.

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Thank you so much to the poets and listeners who were part of last night’s Easton Book Festival reading for the anthology “This is Poetry Vol. 5: Poets of the Northeast”. This one was hosted virtually, and you can check out the recording of this event on the book festival website at www.eastonbookfestival.com and hear Eliot Katz, Michele McDannold, Puma Perl, George Wallace, Nicca Ray and E. Lynn Alexander. You can pick up a copy at @bookandpuppet, a local independent bookstore. Thank you to Darrell Parry for hosting and Andy Laties for tech. #EastonBookFestival #CitizensForDecentLiteraturePress #EastonPoetry #LehighValleyPoetry Description of a zoom reading with poets on screen. Thank you so much to the poets and listeners who were part of last night’s Easton Book Festival reading for the anthology “This is Poetry Vol. 5: Poets of the Northeast”. This one was hosted virtually, and you can check out the recording of this event on the book festival website at www.eastonbookfestival.com and hear Eliot Katz, Michele McDannold, Puma Perl, George Wallace, Nicca Ray and E. Lynn Alexander. You can pick up a copy at @bookandpuppet, a local independent bookstore. Thank you to Darrell Parry for hosting and Andy Laties for tech. #EastonBookFestival #CitizensForDecentLiteraturePress #EastonPoetry #LehighValleyPoetry

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Tonight! Join this virtual reading of poets from the anthology. Event on www.EastonBookFestival.com and the festival Facebook page. Join Michele McDannold, Puma Perl, Eliot Katz, Nicca Ray, E.Lynn Alexander, and George Wallace. #CitizensForDecentLiterature #ThisIsPoetry #EastonBookFestival #LiteraryUnderground

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Tuesday, October 13, 2026
8:30 PM 10:00 PM
Virtual Online

Please join contributing poets from the poetry anthology “This is Poetry Volume 5: Northeast Poets” for a reading in celebration of the collection, the importance of the literary underground, and independent presses and creative networks to push back on censorship and corporatocracy.

Featuring Michele McDannold, Puma Perl, Eliot Katz, Nicca Ray, E. Lynn Alexander, and more. This event will be virtual and streamed online. Link on festival website.

The anthology is a project of The Literary Underground, published by Citizens For Decent Literature Press- so named because of the pro-censorship advocacy group founded in 1956 that sought government control over literature. The press believes that free expression is essential, cultural gatekeeping and banning to be harmful, and that pushing back against censorship of words and book banning remains a fight whose champions cannot ever consider to be won as are always groups who want to control what we read, watch, and listen to. There will always be groups who see information and ideas and learning and freedom as threats to their agenda of control. This anthology celebrates poetry and freedom of expression.

Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88155608680 Please join contributing poets from the poetry anthology “This is Poetry Volume 5: Northeast Poets” for a reading in celebration of the collection, the importance of the literary underground, and independent presses and creative networks to push back on censorship and corporatocracy.

Featuring Michele McDannold, Puma Perl, Eliot Katz, Nicca Ray, E. Lynn Alexander, and more. This event will be virtual and streamed online. Link on festival website

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Not to be confused with the previously posted anthology reading, we have ANOTHER opportunity to hear poets from “This Is Poetry Vol 5: Poets of the Northeast” at this month’s Friday Collapse on Friday, October 23, 2026 at 6:30 PST 9:30 EST. Hang out with your hosts, @cormanroberts and @elynnalexander and hear anthology poets followed by the open mic. #TheFridayCollapse #CollapsePress #TheLiteraryUnderground #CitizensForDecentLiteraturePress Not to be confused with the previously posted anthology reading, we have ANOTHER opportunity to hear poets from “This Is Poetry Vol 5: Poets of the Northeast” at this month’s Friday Collapse on Friday, October 23, 2026 at 6:30 PST 9:30 EST. Hang out with your hosts, @cormanroberts and @elynnalexander and hear anthology poets followed by the open mic. #TheFridayCollapse #CollapsePress #TheLiteraryUnderground #CitizensForDecentLiteraturePress

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This is Poetry 5: Poets of the Northeast- We are celebrating the anthology as part of this year’s Easton Book Festival programming and you can attend, because this reading is virtual! “This is Poetry Vol. 5: Poets of the Northeast” is available now from Citizens for Decent Literature Press and includes a lot of poets you know from the Northeast, US. Join poets Eliot Katz, Nicca Ray, Puma Perl, E. Lynn Alexander, and Michele McDannold for a reading on 10/13/26, 8:30 PM EST. Zoom. www.eastonbookfestival.com link/details. #ThisIsPoetryAnthology #CitizensForDecentLiterature #TheLiteraryUnderground ***Note: We will also have poets from the anthology at this month’s Friday Collapse!!! (Different event!) This is Poetry 5: Poets of the Northeast- We are celebrating the anthology as part of this year’s Easton Book Festival programming and you can attend, because this reading is virtual! “This is Poetry Vol. 5: Poets of the Northeast” is available now from Citizens for Decent Literature Press and includes a lot of poets you know from the Northeast, US. Join poets Eliot Katz, Nicca Ray, Puma Perl, E. Lynn Alexander, and Michele McDannold for a reading on 10/13/26, 8:30 PM EST. Zoom. www.eastonbookfestival.com link/details. #ThisIsPoetryAnthology #CitizensForDecentLiterature #TheLiteraryUnderground

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✨Library Girl Presents: Love & Cigarettes. Curated with Iris Berry. Featuring Allison Anders, Nicca Ray, James Intveld. One of the best Library Girl events EVER. Thanks to all⭐️. (Photos by Steve Hochman)

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@intveldjames #greatshow #loveandcigerettes #santamonica @niccaraywrites @niccaray

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@intveldjames #greatshow #loveandcigerettes #santamonica @niccaraywrites @niccaray

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So many great artists - @niccaray@jamesinfeldt@msallisonanders@librarygirl must read Nicca Ray’s new book Love and Cigarettes - a brave raw nostalgic journey of a mother and daughter finding their way in a man’s world - and how the story must be told! Sorry for any typos - :(

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2 WEEKS FROM TONIGHT!! Grab a ticket while you can at www.ruskingrouptheatre.com

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Write this one down in your moleskin: In October, we will have a special edition of THE FRIDAY COLLAPSE to celebrate the release of THIS IS POETRY VOL V: POETS OF THE NORTHEAST, the latest anthology from Citizens For Decent Literature Press. Virtual event hosted by Collapse Press in support of CFDL and The Literary Underground. Pre-order now, plan to attend on October 23, 2026. [Note: This date is not the last Friday of the month! It is a week earlier]
Edited by Michele McDannold.
@oneldammit
Poets: E. Lynn Alexander, Jen Ashburn, Alan Catlin, Kristofer Collins, the dirty poet, Heather Dorn, Aleathia Drehmer, James H Duncan, Tony Gloeggler, Nathan Graziano, John Grochalski, Jason Irwin, Lori Jakiela, Jennifer Juneau, Eliot Katz, Diane Lockward, Ally Malinenko, Nancy Mercado, Dave Newman, Puma Perl, Nicca Ray, Cheryl A. Rice, Lynne Savitt, Rebecca Schumejda, Danny Shot, Scott Silsbe, Bud Smith, George Wallace, Francine Witte #TheFridayCollapse #ThisIsPoetry #PoetsoftheNortheast #CitizensForDecentLiteraturePress #TheLiteraryUnderground

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Look at this lineup!💯
See you there💃🏻

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#festival
#nycevents
#spokenword

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