Monday, November 15th, 2004
Simone Felice & Donna Stonecipher

Simone Felice is a New York born author and word artist writing today in the related disciplines of fiction, poetry, and song. His work, both on the page and in performance, is charged with an honest, hypnotic quality that rises out of a masterful use of language, imagery and metaphor. In a New America, where fear is the order of the day, his writings speak to the frail beauty and sufferings that follow the human animal in our search after real freedom, love and the promise of a brighter time.

Goodbye, Amelia., the young authors critically acclaimed novella, was published in 2004 by Monkfish Book Publishing Company and has been hailed as revolutionary. Felice worked as co-writer and lyricist on the highly anticipated debut album from Arista recording artists Lo Mass Republic.

An album, The Big Empty (SuperStar Label), was released in 2002, featuring the work of his songwriting collective. His first book of poetry, The Picture Show, was published in 2000 by Hunger Press. One Hundred Years Ago We Were Science Fiction, an early spoken word recording was released in 1999.

Felice has performed as a featured artist to mesmerized crowds in some of the worlds premier spoken word venues and his work has appeared in journals and on sound records internationally. He lives in the Hudson River Valley, not far from where he was born, and continues to travel giving readings and college lectures all over North America and Europe.

More info at http://simonefelice.ghod.org/engine/

Donna Stonecipher

Donna grew up in Seattle and Tehran. She lived in Prague from 1994 to 1998 and graduated from the Iowa Writer¹s Workshop in 2001. Her poems have appeared in Denver Quarterly, Field, Indiana Review, New American Writing and Web Conjunctions, among other journals. She now resides in Berlin, which she says is "like New York, but more livable."