Mindy Nettifee is Pushcart Prize nominated writer and accomplished performance poet.She is the author of two full-length collections Sleepyhead Assassins (Moon Tide Press) and Rise of the Trust Fall (Write Bloody Press), and has her first collection of essays forthcoming in Fall 2012 from Write Bloody titled Glitter In The Blood – A Poet’s Manifesto for Better, Braver Writing.
She has competed in five National Poetry Slams, performed and taught in over 500 hundreds of venues, colleges and universities across America and Europe, opened for indie rock act the Cold War Kids, headlined national poetry tours The Last Nerve – A High Tea Poetry Brawl and The Whirlwind Company, featured in the poetry concert documentary The Drums Inside Your Chest, and been as a castmember of the groundbreaking Poetry Revival.
Mindy believes poetry should hammer all the nerves and swell the heart and shake the sleeping. She believes we need it like we need clean air and people to smile at us every once in awhile. She director of the nonprofit poetry organization Write Now Poetry Society, which she co-founded with actress and author Amber Tamblyn. Write Now’s mission is simply to build the audience for poetry, and expose as many people as possible to the good stuff (writenowpoets.org). Towards that end, Mindy has curated poetry events for the Smithsonian, The Getty Museum, GirlFest, the Los Angeles County Arts Commission and more.
Mindy will be reading and answering questions. This event is free and open to the public.
For more information visit www.thecultofmindy.com.