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Fran Montane
Fran Montane is a former Program Coordinator of the New York Open Center and was the International Segment Producer for Stonewall 25: Global Voices of Pride and Protest. In 2005 she worked on the text for Yvonne Hagen's memoir From Art to Life and Back: New York ― Berlin ― Paris 1925-1962. Fran holds a BFA in Communication Arts (Summa cum laude) from the New York Institute of Technology and has studied at Columbia University. She is included in Marquis' Who's Who of American Women, 2004-5.

Barbara Purcell
Barbara Purcell was raised in Northern New Jersey. She graduated with a B.A. from Skidmore College in 2001. Her work has appeared in A Gathering of the Tribes and Readingground, and she has performed in various venues in Manhattan, Copenhagen, Denmark, Mainz, Germany and Melbourne, Australia. Black Ice: Poems (Fly by Night Press) is her first book. She currently resides in Manhattan.

"Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words."
― Robert Frost

AACPO1
At The Grave’s Mouth
Fran Montane
$13.00
www.amazon.com

AACPO2
One Hundred Mirrors
Fran Montane
$10.00
www.barnesandnoble.com




						AACPO4 Remain Jennifer Murphy $11.00 www.tribes.org "Jennifer Murphy is the best kept secret in New York City. Her poetry provokes you toward an inner dialogue and urgent inventory. She perfects the art of confrontation and gives proof that beauty and truth can still be found once we get through the wreckage." - Willie Perdomo, author of Where a Nickel Costs a Dime "Jennifer Murphy's Remain does just that: stays with you, even as it's title also echoes a plea ― if only our loved ones, our memories, really were constant...This is poetry that shows how lives move together and apart through times difficult dance. Remain is sardonic, lyric, sad, and ultimately cathartic." - Todd Swift, author of Rue Du Regard "Jennifer Murphy possesses an undressed ear for heartache. These well-crafted, tightly written poems undercut the city swig with a survivor's bare grip. With astute clarity and flesh-gripped wisdom, Remain shows us how to put the world in a modern vise, squeeze for juice, and get soaked in the love storm. Hard-edged and bare, Murphy knows that what doesn't break you will make you one fierce warrior." - Edwin Torres, author of Fractured Humorous "Jennifer Murphy had been touched by the poetry Goddess. Remain is evidence of that encounter." - Sarah Jones and Steve Coleman, Surface Transit and Def Poetry Jam on Broadway
		AACPO3 Black Ice Barbara Purcell $11.00 www.tribes.org "In Black Ice: Poems you will discover Barbara Purcell's charged landscape of edgy recollections and journeys. Here is a restless probing on three continents, and sharply-limbed portraits abound in the haphazard pleasures of the urban scenes she inhabits. She writes straightforwardly of bulimia, nude modeling, love betrayed., and early warning signs of things amiss. There are no fake notes here. This is a fresh and gritty first book announcing a gutsy presence in our midst. I salute her." - Colette Inez, Spinoza Doesn't Come Here Anymore "Barbara Purcell puts 'Directness' back into poetry, which is not to say she lacks metaphors but rather they're made even more powerful by her allegiance to the truth. She's able to achieve something unique among writers ― self-expression that never sounds confessional. That's because she's very comfortable with who she is. In her breath-taking book, Black Ice: Poems, it's like she's taking the reader by the hand and telling him or her, 'Come with me while I tell you about my life,' And you'll be glad you did." - Hal Sirowitz, Former Poet Laureate of Queens, New York


The Poets Fran Montane Fran Montane is a former Program Coordinator of the New York Open Center and was the International Segment Producer for Stonewall 25: Global Voices of Pride and Protest. In 2005 she worked on the text for Yvonne Hagen's memoir From Art to Life and Back: New York ― Berlin ― Paris 1925-1962. Fran holds a BFA in Communication Arts (Summa cum laude) from the New York Institute of Technology and has studied at Columbia University. She is included in Marquis' Who's Who of American Women, 2004-5. Barbara Purcell Barbara Purcell was raised in Northern New Jersey. She graduated with a B.A. from Skidmore College in 2001. Her work has appeared in A Gathering of the Tribes and Readingground, and she has performed in various venues in Manhattan, Copenhagen, Denmark, Mainz, Germany and Melbourne, Australia. Black Ice: Poems (Fly by Night Press) is her first book. She currently resides in Manhattan.

			"Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words." ― Robert Frost
	AACPO1 At The Grave’s Mouth Fran Montane $13.00 www.amazon.com

		AACPO2 One Hundred Mirrors Fran Montane $10.00 www.barnesandnoble.com