Writers Guild Spoken Word Series, with April Ridge / Boy Dirt Car / A. S. Coomer (Open Mic to follow)

APRIL RIDGE scrawls messages in the night on the clouds that dreams are made of. She whispers sweet nothings to the muses of time and revels in the chance to swim in the deep nothingness of silence, if only to shout ‘Echo’ in it. April prides herself on finding the perfect outfit in which to adorn the skeleton of the soul. She hopes to highlight the needs of poems in danger, on the run, escaping from the need to fit into one form or another, on their way to the freedom of epiphany. You can find her on Facebook, Instagram, a few anthologies and magazines, and other echoing canyons of the internet poetry landscape. “April Ridge can take a Disney movie and weaponize it against an audience. For real, it’s like she has crafted an intricate web that’s just sparkling with jewels.” –Jonathan S Baker, Pure Sleeze Press, publisher of April’s debut chapbook MONSTROUS.

A.S. COOMER is a writer & musician. Books include BIRTH OF A MONSTER, THE FLOCK UNSEEN, MEMORABILIA, THE FETISHISTS, & many others. He runs Lost, Long Gone, Forgotten Records, a “record label” for poetry.

Outlaws, Outsiders, and Artifacts have played a part of BOY DIRT CAR from its inception in 1981, along with the nightmarish chaos and improvisation that has exposed evidence of a decaying culture in 1980’s abandoned soundscapes. These sounds have now been replaced with an artifact that echoes the final vision of destruction of the western world. “An American analogue to Einstürzende Neubauten.”