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It's back! RUTHLESS GRIP POETRY SERIES Saturday, March 11 8:00 PM Chris Vitiello & Magus (M.) Magnus @Pyramid Atlantic Art Center Please join us this weekend to launch the Ruthless Grip Poetry Series in its new location at Pyramid Atlantic Arts Center in Silver Spring with poets Chris Vitiello and Magus Magnus. Chris Vitiello is the author of Nouns Swarm A Verb (Xurban Books). He is a contributing editor for Fascicle and blogs at The Delay. Last month, a play of his was performed at the Poet's Theater in San Francisco. Magus (M.) Magnus will be reading selections from a book-length work-in-progress, titled Verb Sap. M. has a volume of poetry published, Little Puddles (New Orleans, 1993), and has had plays and theatrical pieces performed in a variety of contexts both in New Orleans and in the D.C. area. He is the founder and current festival coordinator of the upcoming Yockadot Poetics Theatre Festival, set to have its inaugural run April 2007 in Alexandria, Virginia. Poems from Verb Sap have been published in WORD, at PEEKreview.net, and an earlier selection was read at the i.e. reading series in Baltimore. M. Magnus lives in Alexandria with his wife, Manya Magnus, and their two children, Hero and Gryphon. Pyramid Atlantic is located in Silver Spring, Maryland at 8230 Georgia Avenue, three blocks south of the Silver Spring Metro Station (red line). Directions