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Not just a poetry reading.
Not just a rock band.
Not just a lurid sideshow.

Special Contest for June 6^th show at Arlene Grocery:

Want The Bitter Poet to perform YOUR most bitterest poetry-stylin’ rant?

Just e-mail YOUR bitter-poem to The Bitter Poet (link at bottom of this page). He’ll review all the entries, choose the most bitter, and perform the winning bitter-poem at his June 6 Arlene Grocery gig in NYC!!!

If that’s not enough of a prize for you, the winner also receives two – count them, two – Bitter Poet T-shirts! One for you, and one for that special someone who’s NOT lovin’ you back!!

The winning poem will also be posted on this website for the world to see!

"The Bitter Poet is HIGH ENERGY. He is undeniably a QUIRKY FIGURE  who DEMANDS ATTENTION." -Back Stage West

The Bitter Poet has performed his wild downtown latenight show  at New York City's Cucaracha Warehouse Theater, Fez Under Time Cafe, The Knitting Factory, Westbeth Theater Center, Arlene Grocery, The Fort at Sidewalk Cafe, Baby Jupiter, Surf Reality, and many more.

Like a carnival blowing through your neighborhood dive bar, Bitter's ensemble includes his own backup band The Sound of Angst, an aria-belting diva straight from the Metropolitan Opera, a hot Middle Eastern bellydancer with extraoardinary, er, muscles, and a sideshow contortionist who lies on a bed of machetes while a cinderblock is shattered across her belly by her sexy, sledgehammer wielding sidekick, all set to The Bitter Poet's stinging verse.

'A bitter poet? Isn't that redundant?'  Hell yes, but never before has a spoken-word psalmist rendered his amorous grief with such caustic universality, such acrid musicality, and such masterful, entertaining freakishness as The Bitter Poet.

E-mail The Bitter Poet at bitter@thebitterpoet.com.