The great Andrea Gibson is coming back to Albany on Thursday, August 9, with Megan Falley for a performance at The Linda.
Andrea Gibson is not gentle with their truths. It is this raw fearlessness that has led them to the forefront of the spoken word movement– the first winner of the Women’s World Poetry Slam —Gibson has headlined prestigious performance venues coast to coast with powerful readings on war, class, gender, bullying, white privilege, sexuality, love, and spirituality.
Andrea’s work has been featured on the BBC, Air America, C-SPAN, Free Speech TV and in 2010 was read by a state representative in lieu of morning prayer at the Utah State Legislature.
Now, on their fifth full-length album FLOWER BOY and their second book THE MADNESS VASE, Gibson’s poems continue to be a rally cry for action and a welcome mat at the door of the heart’s most compassionate room.
Megan Falley is the queer femme author of two full-length collections of poetry on Write Bloody Publishing. Her chapbook, Bad Girls Honey (Poems About Lana Del Rey), was the winner of the 2015 Tired Hearts Competition. A Woman of the World and National Poetry Slam Finalist as well as a Pushcart Prize Nominee, Falley’s work is vibrant in both books and theaters. She has been featured twice on TV One’s Verses and Flow, is the co-founder of the touring group SPEAK LIKE A GIRL, as well as the creator of the online writing course Poems That Don’t Suck. Her YouTube videos have garnered over one million views and she has toured over one-hundred colleges nationwide. Her work focuses on LGBTQ issues, sex and body positivity, combating sexism and homophobia, and love. Her fourth collection of poetry is slated for publication by Write Bloody Publishing in September 2018.
Tickets are just $20 and are available here.
