Shotsie Gorman

Poet

Warwick, NY
New York US
Email: 
contactus@shotsiesoulsigning.com
Website: 
shotsiesoulsigning.com

Author's Bio

Featured Poet at:
School of Visual Arts spoken word artist series.
The Back Fence Cafe Bleeker Street in NYC.
November 19th at Knitting Factory reading series
Featured poet along with Bret Axel, Donna Spector, Lyn Lifshin, in Middletown NY at the Thrall Library
Greens Cafe 90 North Street Middletown November
Greenwood lake Library
GoPoetry Online TV featured with Orange County Poets GoPoetry.com
JCC Metro West Orange, NJ
School Of Visual Arts NYC
Woodstock Poetry society Festival
Poetry on the Loose- Sponsored by Orange county Arts council
With Bill Seaton director Middletown NY
Alice's Tuscan Cafe, Warwick NY
Goshen Village book Store, Goshen NY
Goshen Village library, spring writers series
Mug and the Bean poetry Series, Rutherford,
Soda Pop Shop Montclair NJ reading series
Allen Ginsberg Award Ceremony, Paterson Museum, Paterson NJ
Greens Cafe Middletown NY
Barnes and Noble reading series West Paterson NJ
Jersey City University NOVEMBER 4-25TH A POETRY READING SHOTSIE GORMAN RETROSPECTIVE PAINTING AND TATTOO EXHIBITION "Word art GREENWOOD LAKE WINTER VOICES SERIES
JOSHUA TREE - WOODSTOCK NY 10 FEATURED poets
Goshen Village Library- Goshen NY
Well Red Coyote- Sedona AZ
Poets Corner Sedona Az
Anthologies:
Will Work For Peace
Paterson the poets City

Shotsie's First book of poetry "THE BLACK MARKS HE MADE"
Published by Proteus Press, Albany NY and released IN SEPTEMBER 1999 with a companion spoken word CD produced by Record Plant Inc. See enclosed press release Winner of Allen Ginsberg award 1999

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:
Paterson The Poets City (Passaic Community College, 2006)
,
Will Work For Peace: New Political Poems (Zeropanik Press, 1999)
Book:
The Black Marks He Made (Proteus Press, 1999)
Journals:
At Your Leisure Magazine
,
Black Swan Review
,
Fertile Ground
,
Heaven Bone
,
Lips
,
Paterson Literary Review
Prizes won: 

second place Winner of Allen Ginsberg award 1999

Personal Favorites

What I'm reading now: 
Fire to Fire by MArk Doty, Zorro by Isabel Allende, Passing Through by Stanley kunitz, Shoji Hamada by Susan Peteron

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
Irish American, Italian American
Prefers to work with: 
Any
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Paterson
Raised in: 
Paterson, NJ
New Jersey
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Last update: Jun 08, 2009