Ken Siegelman’s Brooklyn Poetry Outreach Featuring Mike Figliola
Mike Figliola is an author and television producer who has written hundreds of poems and has read them live at such venues as the famed Cornelia Street Café in NYC with actor John Ventimiglia and poet Frank Messina, and famed jazz instrumentalist composer and close friend of Jack Kerouac, David Amram.
He has been a featured poet of the late Brooklyn Poet Laureate’s “Ken Siegelman's Brooklyn Poetry Outreach” in Park Slope Brooklyn. His debut novel, The Slow Midnight on Cypress Avenue, was published through Permuted Press; an imprint of Simon and Schuster. His sophomore offering, "Fine is Flying Without You" is due out next year.
Here is what some folks are saying about Mike and his work:
“Mike Figliola’s The Slow Midnight on Cypress Avenue is a street level gaze at Queens, New York in the offbeat tradition of Henry Miller and Charles Bukowski. There is a raw honesty to this three-part novel which kept me spellbound. Figliola is an irrepressible writer with the heart of a poet and the eyes of a journalist. Highly recommended!!"
— Douglas Brinkley, Editor of Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac and Literary Executor of the Hunter S. Thompson Estate
"I spent five seasons in Queens, NY, prowling center field of Shea Stadium. Mike Figliola captures the heartbeat of NYC better than any book I know."
— Lenny Dykstra, New York Times Bestselling Author of "House of Nails"
And here are two advanced blurbs for Fine is Flying Without You:
“Fine Is Flying Without You is raw, honest, and true. The kind of storytelling you can’t fake. The streets breathe, the people bleed, and you feel the pulse of it long after you close the book.”
— Brad Meltzer, Emmy-nominated, #1 New York Times bestselling author of “The Viper: A Zig & Nola Novel”
“Fearless writing. No filler. Figliola’s work hits every line like a deal that can’t be ignored.”
— Kevin O’Leary, Chairman, O'Leary Ventures; Judge on “Shark Tank”
Mike has just finished two successful book signing at two Barnes and Noble locations in Long island. You can follow him on Instagram and Facebook @mikeafigs
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Ken Siegelman’s Brooklyn Poetry Outreach Featuring Mike Figliola
<p>Mike Figliola is an author and television producer who has written hundreds of poems and has read them live at such venues as the famed Cornelia Street Café in NYC with actor John Ventimiglia and poet Frank Messina, and famed jazz instrumentalist composer and close friend of Jack Kerouac, David Amram.</p><p>He has been a featured poet of the late Brooklyn Poet Laureate’s “Ken Siegelman's Brooklyn Poetry Outreach” in Park Slope Brooklyn. His debut novel, The Slow Midnight on Cypress Avenue, was published through Permuted Press; an imprint of Simon and Schuster. His sophomore offering, "Fine is Flying Without You" is due out next year.</p><div>Here is what some folks are saying about Mike and his work:</div><div> </div><div>“Mike Figliola’s The Slow Midnight on Cypress Avenue is a street level gaze at Queens, New York in the offbeat tradition of Henry Miller and Charles Bukowski. There is a raw honesty to this three-part novel which kept me spellbound. Figliola is an irrepressible writer with the heart of a poet and the eyes of a journalist. Highly recommended!!"</div><div> — Douglas Brinkley, Editor of Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac and Literary…
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