A gallop to love: Laura E. J. Moran (USA) & Peter S. Sragher (Romania) la Readers Cafe

by laura ej moran - usa and peter sragher - romania

with the invaluable help of guitarist costin din abis - romania

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verses musicked and music versified

 

cover - 10 ron

 

Laura E. J. Moran - USA

is a twenty-year veteran performance poet who has toured throughout the USA, Ireland, Canada and Mexico. An interview with Laura by poet Jeffrey McDaniel can be found The Poetry Foundation’s “Harriet the Blog” (April 22, 2011.) Her collection of poetry Improper Joy is published with Stockport Flats Press and she has published Live Bait (2005,) a CD of her poetry with her band, on Great Divide Records. She has created three one-woman poetry shows entitled Inhibition Exhibition (2006), Improper Joy Live (2008), and Eden: The Dark Side of Paradise (2010.) Laura works intimately with internationally renowned NACL Theatre creating roles for such productions as Hatchings (2009,) Stray Dog (work in progress) and Jump the Snake, a reader’s theatre version of her novel-in-verse by the same name (2012.) She has received grants from the New York State Council on the Arts, The Center for Book Arts in NYC, and Poets and Writers. Laura is the 2011 Beverly Hiscox Scholar at Wilkes University Creative Writing Graduate Program where she will earn her M.F.A in June 2012. As Programming Director for Western Sullivan Public Library for over nine years, Laura Moran is also the curator of the award-winning program First Fridays Contemporary Author’s Series also supported by Poets and Writers now in its seventh year. In 2011, she created “Unearthed: Oral History of the Upper Delaware River Region” which formalizes an on-going relationship with the people, places, and stories belonging to her valley community. She lives with her daughter, partner and overflowing gardens in Northeastern Pennsylvania near the Delaware River where the north and south branches of Calkins Creek meet.

 

Peter S. Sragher – Romania

born in 1960 in Bucharest, Romania. Married with Cristina with whom he has a boy, David-Thomas. He took his B.A. in German & English languages & literatures at the Bucharest University, 1984. He worked as a translator of scientifical texts and after 1989 as an editor athe the daily “Adevarul”. Since 1995, freelance writer, journalist & photographer. He has translated and published in Romania in bilingual editions the Austrian contemporary poets Bernhard Widder, Ernst David, Gerhard Kofler, Bruno Weinhals & Christian Loidl. He has published several collection of his own poems in Romania, the latest in Romanian & Spanish translation “de ce m-ai facut sarutul urii / Por que me hiciste, Dios”, 2005, a volume launched in Mexico. He authored also a black-and-white photographical exhibition about the Prater & Lobau parks in 2007 in Romania titled “Lebendiges, gebrochenes, totes Holz in dem Prater und der Lobau” that was enriched by a multimedia presentation. He had several stipendiums in Austria. He is a member of the Council of the Romanian Writers’ Union and of Grazer Autorenversammlung.

 

Costin din Abis – Romania

since 200 owner & producer at „traian 150 – recording studio” and since 2010 also at „traian 150 - a creative boutique”. He is a guitar player of the band called abis (abyss). He also plays guitar in experimntal project margento.

 

venue

Readers Cafe

55-57 Iancu de Hunedoara Bld., Metropolis Center, 010624 Bucharest, Romania