Hi friends,
I’m very excited to announce that my 1-woman poetry show, The Personal is Political: These Simple Truths will make its theatrical debut at Poetic Theatre Productions’ Poetic License Festival this month. Directed by the amazing Sherri Eden Barber, this show explores how current events in the media surrounding issues like gay marriage, gun control, bullying and xenophobia are rooted in very personal, lived experiences, in the hopes of inspiring political beliefs to be shaped by compassion and empathy rather than vague notions of right or wrong. This show is really the embodiment of what I hope to do as a writer and performer, and it would mean so much to have you there.
Joanna Hoffman in The Personal is Political: These Simple Truths
Wednesday, March 23rd, 7pm
Wild Project Theater, 195 East 3rd St (at Ave B), New York, NY
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Joanna Hoffman is a poet and teaching artist living in Brooklyn, New York. She has been on five National Poetry Slam teams. In 2011, she represented Urbana at the 2011 Women of the World Poetry Slam (WOWPS), National Poetry Slam, and Individual World Poetry Slam, placing in the top 10 at all three. In 2012, she was the Urbana Grand Slam champion, 4th place finalist at the 2012 Women of the World Poetry Slam, and the 2012 champion of Capturing Fire, the international queer poetry competition. Her work has appeared in decomP, PANK, Union Station Magazine, The Legendary, Spindle, Sinister Wisdom and in the anthologies Women’s Work and Milk and Honey: A Celebration of Jewish Lesbian Poetry. Her full-length book of poetry, Running for Trap Doors, was recently released by Sibling Rivalry Press. She has been nominated for a Pushcart and a Lambda Literary Award. When not performing poems, Joanna works at a nonprofit, bikes around Brooklyn and tries to convince her cat to wear bow ties.
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