SARANAC LAKE –Think poetry is quiet and polite? Think again.

The Adirondack Center for Writing presents an explosive poetry performance featuring Roya Marsh and Jon Sands on Wednesday, Oct. 30 at 7 p.m. at BluSeed Studios in Saranac Lake.

This is not your grandmother’s poetry performance, to say the least.

Bronx native Roya Marsh is a nationally ranked poet/performer/educator/activist. She is the poet in residence with Urban Word NYC and works for LGBTQIA justice and dismantling white supremacy. Her work has been featured in Poetry Magazine, Flypaper Magazine, Frontier Poetry, Nylon Magazine, the Village Voice, Huffington Post, Blavity, The Root, Button Poetry, Def Jam’s All Def Digital, Lexus Verses and Flow, NBC, BET and the Breakbeat Poets Black Girl Magic Anthology (Haymarket 2018).

Jon Sands is a writer known for electric readings, and the author of The New Clean (2011, Write Bloody Publishing). His work has been featured in The New York Times, published widely in various journals, and anthologized in The Best American Poetry 2014. He starred in the award winning web-series Verse: A Murder Mystery from Rattapallax Films, is the co-founder of Poets in Unexpected Places, and a facilitator with the Dialogue Arts Project. He is a Youth Mentor with Urban Word-NYC, and teaches creative writing for adults at both Bailey House in Harlem (an HIV/AIDS service center) and the Positive Health Project (a syringe exchange in Manhattan). He tours extensively, but lives in Brooklyn.

The event is free. Books from Roya Marsh and Jon Sands will available for purchase (cash and check accepted).

For more information about the poetry reading or the Adirondack Center for Writing visit www.adirondackcenterforwriting.org.