Corrina Bain returns to First Fridays

NARROWSBURG, NY — The First Fridays Contemporary Writers Series will conclude the 2009 season with Corrina Bain from Brooklyn, NY on Friday, December 4. An open mic sign up starts at 7:00 p.m., with the open mic at 7:30 and Bain reading at 8:00 p.m. Bain was recently nominated for a Pushcart prize for her poem “In Which the Author, for the Forty-Seventh Time, Forswears the Love of Straight White Men.” To read the poem go to november3rdclub.com/2009/09-2009/poetry/bain.html

Bain was also the very first author of the Friday night series when it started in 2005. She was born on September 18, 1983, and began performing her poems about 14 years later. A former member of three New England slam teams, she has shared stages as a featured reader with legends as diverse as Buddy Wakefield, Jim Carroll and Patricia Smith. In life, she has worked as a nurse’s aide in a detox ward, a community educator on the HIV/AIDS crisis in Mozambique and a health care assistant in an abortion clinic. She is upcoming in the online journal Danse Macabre.

The event is free. For more information call 845/252-3360.