Jive Talk is a place for artists who dare to be different: poets who perform with music, musicians who perform with spoken words, genre bending writers and composers.
Jive Talk is the word on the street. It’s the talk of the town. It’s all that jazz and it’s jumpin’ jive. It’s a true acoustic venue for creative words and music. Bring your words. Bring your roots drums and shakey things. Bring your acoustic instruments. Do not, however, expect to be able to plug in to a sound system. This scene is about art and entertainment, not about volume.
This event will take place at The Mug and Truffle and admission is free.
This week will feature Bruce Kauffman. Bruce Kauffman has written poetry since he was a student at the University of Colorado/Boulder, but became passionate about it in 1990’s. In 1995, while living in Denver, one of his poems was shortlisted in a regional poetry competition. In 1998 he was the research editor/volunteer coordinator for a 74 page regional poetry reference manual (Poiesis Poetry Guide). His work has appeared in five compilations, several anthologies, his chapbook Seed was published in 2005, a single stand alone poem, streets, was published in 2009 by Thee Hellbox Press, and a book review of John Pigeau’s the nothing waltz appears in the current edition of The Antigonish Review.
One of Bruce’s poems was included in the November 2008 Kingston Theatre production of the Flowers and the Garbage. In the June 2009 Kingston Theatre production of a moveable feast, one of his poems, hunger, was personally performed. In May 2009, Bruce launched and is currently hosting a monthly open mic poetry reading series at the Artel. In May 2010, he launched and continues to host an hour long weekly poetry series called “finding a voice” on CFRC 101.9fm, with the personal mission of both showcasing and promoting local talent and of bringing the “magic” of the spoken word to the air. Bruce has lived in Kingston since 2001.
