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Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz

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Poetry, Humor, Nonfiction


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Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz is an American poet who was recently awarded a 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry.

She is the author of five books of poetry, including the recently released Everything is Everthing (Write Bloody Publishing), as well as the canonical slam history, Words in Your Face (Soft Skull Press), which U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins wrote “leaves no doubt that the slam poetry scene has achieved legitimacy and taken its rightful place on the map of contemporary literature.”

Founder of the three-time National Poetry Slam Championship venue, NYC-Urbana, Cristin has toured widely with her poetry, at venues as diverse as NYC’s Joe’s Pub, LA’s Largo Theatre and Australia’s Sydney Opera House. Cristin’s poetry...more


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Average rating: 4.23 · 110 ratings · 18 reviews · 9 distinct works
Words in Your Face: A Guide...
4.31 of 5 stars 4.31 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2007
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4.31 of 5 stars 4.31 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2009
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Everything Is Everything
4.43 of 5 stars 4.43 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions
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Hot Teen Slut
4.25 of 5 stars 4.25 avg rating — 16 ratings — 2 editions
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Dear Future Boyfriend
4.38 of 5 stars 4.38 avg rating — 13 ratings — 3 editions
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Oh, Terrible Youth
4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 11 ratings — 2 editions
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Working Class Represent
3.56 of 5 stars 3.56 avg rating — 9 ratings — 3 editions
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Words in Your Face: A Guide...
3.0 of 5 stars 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2007
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“This poem is the poem I'm writing because
we aren't speaking, and it is making my heart hurt
so bad that sometimes I can't make it up off the floor.”
― Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz
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“Let's feed out tears to the dragons of misery, but let's never crawl in their mouths.”
― Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz
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