| abstract | - Finnegan the Poet (born March 17, 1969) is a bisexual queer American expatriate poet, writer and performance artist of Afro-Caribbean, Irish and Cuban descent. Originally from New York City he is on tour and is presently touring across the United States, after four years abroad in Europe . Image:Finnegan Performance250.jpg Finnegan has performed at the following New York venues: Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Knitting Factory, BAM Next Wave Festival, CBGB, Nells, West End Gate, ABC No Rio, Surf Reality and Collective Unconscious. He has also performed at venues in Buffalo, Chicago, Toronto, Sydney, Melbourne, Cologne, Berlin and Amsterdam, where he is currently a regular at the American Book Center. Finnegan is also a regular performer at Queeruption events including London, Berlin, Amsterdam and Barcelona. Though primarily an English language writer, Finnegan has produced two bilingual volumes of poetry, Dunkelheit, (Darkness) which is written in both English and German and De Verraderlijke Illusie van Keuze, (The Insidious Illusion of Choice) written in English and Dutch. Presently, Finnegan is working on a French and English volume of poetry, samples of which can be seen at www.finneganthepoet.com
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