{shameless plug}

but it's not for me, except in the sense that the love of my life has a MAJOR show on Saturday -- tomorrow! -- and it's going to be brilliant and wonderful and I will be far far away in Los Angeles.

so please, if you are in the NYC area, and by that I mean within any distance that would allow you to attend an evening show and be home before dawn (if you're into that sort of thing,) go to the Bowery at 7 p.m. tomorrow, grab yourself a seat and hold onto it. I will personally refund your money if you're disappointed by the poetry. (being disappointed that Roger keeps his clothes on doesn't merit a refund; sorry folks.)

here are the details -- oh, and note that the poetry is preceded by this fantastic a capella group, SAHELI. sometimes I can't stand how talented my friends are. for real.

Roger Bonair-Agard presents

MASQUERADE: poems of Calypso and Home

Saturday September 11, 2004
7:30 p.m.
at the Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery, between Bleecker and Houston
(6 train to Bleecker, F/V to Broadway/Lafayette)

also featuring the a cappella sounds of SAHELI
$10

Roger Bonair-Agard is a native of Trinidad and Tobago, a national poetry slam champion and a widely anthologized poet. Through poetry and song, MASQUERADE explores the ways in which distance, remembrance, and seventeen years away from home shape a man. MASQUERADE critiques and celebrates the Trinidadian ethos by examining the influence its seminal music -- calypso -- exerts on a poet and the larger world.