Mike Amado

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  Published on: 6/19/2008    Last Visited: 6/19/2008  

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  Mike Amado is a performance poet, a percussionist and drummer who does lyrical, rhythm-based tomes attuned to the social and semi-political.His first book is entitled: "Poems: Unearthed from Ashes" (2006).He is the host and co-founder of POETRY: THE ART OF WORDS, a poetry venue in Plymouth, MA.Amado is currently working on two chapbooks.One, "Stunted Inner-child Shot the TV" (Cervena Barva Press) are spokenword pieces of self actualization and pop culture "player-hating".The second entitled, "Rebuilding the Pyramids" (Ibbetson Street Press)are medically-inspired poems, rants and healing poems.He has been published in the Wilderness House Literary Review, the Bagelbard's anthology 1,2 & 3 Apt magazine #12, Down in the Dirt and elsewhere.

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  Published on: 7/1/2008    Last Visited: 3/31/2009  

  Next week, a new chapbook will be released by spoken word poet Mike Amado called Stunted Innerchild Shot the TV.
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  We also have two regular "scribes" that we have named "Word Catchers"- Irene Koronas and Mike Amado.

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  Published on: 3/1/2008    Last Visited: 3/31/2009  

  Feature info: Mike Amado, spokenwarrior@verizon.net
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  HOSTED BY MIKE AMADO Mike Amado is a performance poet from Plymouth. He published his first volume of verse in 2006. His work has appeared in many magazines and online journals. In 2008, two chap books are slated for release. He has featured at over 20 poetry venues in MA and R.I.

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  Published on: 12/18/2007    Last Visited: 12/18/2007  

  Review by Mike Amado
  
  THE RED LIGHT WAS MY MIND
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  Mike Amado, a performance poet from Plymouth Massachusetts who has been published in the Wilderness House Literary Review, the Sherman Café Poetry Box among others.

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  Kathleen Aguero | Mike Amado | Rane Arroyo
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  Mike Amado
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  Stunted Inner-child Shot the TV by Mike Amado
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  Stunted Inner-child Shot the TV by Mike Amado
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  "Take Mike Amado's red Morpheus pill and follow him down the rabbit hole of America's mad matrix of warped dreams, tabloid icons, chrome-eyed military men and infopreachers....His writing is elastic, vivid and wise. With a heart for an undetermined and undetermining God, Amado's revolution cannot be downloaded. It's amazing any of us make it out alive ." -Lo Galluccio
  
  Mike Amado is a performance poet, percussionst and drummer painfully in touch with the real-everyday and his work is filled with the real-time force of tough, hard-core lyrics and life that drags you into the midst of contemporary real reality: "There is a dealer/that sells lives/like pre-owed cars./I'm gonna trade in Angelina Jolie./Like a rusted up Chevy Sloper/she needs her soul rebuilt...//born to a fifteen year old,/a doomed kid/on the block/dodging bullets and rocks/and a life of Government checks.
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  Amado is especially relevant today because of his total immersion in the working-class/middle-class sense of downturning lifestyles and ways of coping. He's like radical news-reports stripping off the overlays and lies and getting to the hard-cores: "Blessed be the bartenders and poker table dealers,/They are the certifiable psychos./They attach themselves to people who have/Knuckle-dragging tantrums and sing/the same, old song.../ "My money's all gone, free-drink me!"No sprites or sun-gods, romantic landscapes, gods in the underbrush.

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  We also have two regular "scribes" that we have named "Word Catchers"- Irene Koronas and Mike Amado.

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  Published on: 5/26/2007    Last Visited: 5/26/2007  

  Mike Amado poet/wordslinger

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  Published on: 2/1/2008    Last Visited: 3/31/2009  

  Stunted Innerchild Shot the TV by Mike Amado
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  Feature info: Mike Amado, spokenwarrior@verizon.net
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  Hosted by MIKE AMADO

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  Meet Poet, Mike Amado, Feature Wrangler
  
  Be a Feature - Talk to Mike Amado!
  
  Every Saturday Night from 8:15 onward!
  
  OPEN BARK POETRY/MUSIC NITE.I have features now at my reading every Saturday night, and I want everyone to know that.All you need to do is talk to poet, Mike Amado and write in to Deborah Priestly at ootb@att.net and let both of them know that you want to be a feature some Saturday night.
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  You may also email Mike at scully-j@jud.state.ma.us.Tell us about yourself and your creative side, any chapbooks you have published, places you have read and possibly send us some samples of your poems (shorter ones preferred).If you want to include where you attended college, you may ... but we are more interested in your poetry and your exhibition and expresssion of your creative works.Musicians are also encouraged to be features and musician/songwriters are encouraged especially to participate and respond to this posting.Mike Amado is an excellent resource to get to know - he's a wonderful, caring spirit.
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  Priestly has recently teamed with Mike Amado (pictured above, from his October 2nd Stone Soup performance) in an effort to start including regular features at the Open Bark.

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  Cervena Barva Press August 2007 Newsletter - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 8/1/2007    Last Visited: 3/31/2009  

  Feature info: Mike Amado, spokenwarrior@verizon.net
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  Hosted by Mike Amado
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  Hosted by MIKE AMADO

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