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Carl Hancock Rux

Carl Hancock Rux
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Carl Hancock Rux

Carl Hancock Rux is an award-winning writer, poet, playwright, and performance and recording artist. He is the author of the Village Voice Literary Prize winning collection of poetry and prose Pagan Operetta, and the Obie award-winning play Talk. His fiction, poetry, essays, articles, and plays have been widely anthologized in the U.S. and abroad. Mr. Rux is also a New York City Foster Care alumnus and now lives in Brooklyn.

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Excerpt 1 from Asphalt
Oct 14, 2012
Asphalt will be released on June 15, 2010 in eBook
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Asphalt is now available in eBook
Jun 15, 2010
Asphalt will be released on May 24, 2005 in Trade Paperback
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Chapter 1 from Asphalt
Prior to Dec 19, 2008

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Broadway World, March 25, 2013
...Just Healthcare, honoring Michael Moore and featuring performances and readings by Pete Seeger, Tom Chapin, Michael Musto, and Carl Hancock Rux, and Silkwood Today with Meryl Streep, Mike Nichols and Ron Silver. Neiden has guest-lectured at the Eugene...
Broadway World, January 14, 2013
...also performed in music festivals, intimate venues and local clubs. She has worked with Lizz Wright, Ani DiFranco, Carl Hancock Rux, Nona Hendrix, Pete Seeger, Chocolate Genius and many other artists. She performs solo and with BIGLovely, her band of...
The Root, December 13, 2012
...Mine" and an excerpt of The Last Poets' "Niggas Are Scared of Revolution." Author and opera composer Carl Hancock Rux followed with a whirlwind monologue interpretation of his life, after which Kraal "Kayo" Charles, who was New York's Nuyorican Café's...
PR-USA.net, September 15, 2012
...piece from the viewpoint of the character Tea Cake, Janie's love interest, with award-winning poet and actor Carl Hancock Rux. A conversation will follow the performance featuring a panel of men who are leaders in a variety of fields to discuss their...
PR-USA.net, September 12, 2012
...original performance art piece told from the perspective of the character Tea Cake by award-winning actor and poet Carl Hancock Rux and Brandon Dirdon to be presented at The Greene Space on Monday, September 17 at 7pm NYC Communities to Participate in...
24-7PressRelease.com, September 12, 2012
...piece from the viewpoint of the character Tea Cake, Janie's love interest, with award-winning poet and actor Carl Hancock Rux. A conversation will follow the performance featuring a panel of men who are leaders in a variety of fields to discuss their...
Tadias, January 16, 2013
...actors that includes Saul Williams, Chyna Layne, Chris Rock, Osas Ighodaro, Roger Guenvuer Smith, Samson Styles, Rachel Nicks, Carl Hancock Rux, Tilly Scott Pederson and Melvin Van Peebles. According to the the film’s synopsis, “Helen is in Berlin,...
Tadias, January 16, 2013
...actors that includes Saul Williams, Chyna Layne, Chris Rock, Osas Ighodaro, Roger Guenvuer Smith, Samson Styles, Rachel Nicks, Carl Hancock Rux, Tilly Scott Pederson and Melvin Van Peebles. According to the the film’s synopsis, “Helen is in Berlin,...
Tadias, January 16, 2013
...actors that includes Saul Williams, Chyna Layne, Chris Rock, Osas Ighodaro, Roger Guenvuer Smith, Samson Styles, Rachel Nicks, Carl Hancock Rux, Tilly Scott Pederson and Melvin Van Peebles. According to the the film’s synopsis, “Helen is in Berlin,...
Events At Stanford, January 14, 2013
...Stanford faculty and RMK Artistic Director Robert Moses, Obie and BESSIE award-winning writer and performer Carl Hancock Rux; Afro-Celtic, Folk-Funk, Hip-Appalachian vocalist Laura Love; MacArthur Fellow, blues musician, and composer Corey Harris will...
Broadway World, January 14, 2013
...also performed in music festivals, intimate venues and local clubs. She has worked with Lizz Wright, Ani DiFranco, Carl Hancock Rux, Nona Hendrix, Pete Seeger, Chocolate Genius and many other artists. She performs solo and with BIGLovely, her band of...
Dartmouth College The Dartmouth, January 14, 2013
...and orchestra concert led by Paul Finkelstein ’13 and a play titled “Talk: Tunes & Thoughts” based on Carl Hancock Rux’s 2002 award-winning play “Talk.” These grants helped students raise awareness of various types of art performances on...
Broadway World, January 10, 2013
...by Sekou Sundiata (651Arts/BAM), The Love Space Demands by Ntozake Shange (Crossroads), No Black Male Show/Pagan Operetta by Carl Hancock Rux (Joe's Pub/The Kitchen), Banana Beer Bath by Lynn Nottage, (Going to the River Festival), the Obie Award/AUDELCO...