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Finnegan the Poet (born March 17, 1969) is a bisexual queer American expatriate Poet, Writer and Performance Artist of Afro-Caribbean, Irish and Cuban decent. Originally from New York City he currently resides in Amsterdam. March 17 is the 76th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (77th in Leap years). ... 1969 (MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday For other uses, see Number 1969. ... In human sexuality, bisexuality describes a man or woman having a sexual orientation to persons of either or both sexes (a man or woman who sexually likes both sexes; people who are sexually and/or romantically attracted to both males and females). ... Queer has traditionally meant strange or unusual, but is now often used in reference to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex communities. ... An expatriate (in abbreviated form expat) is someone temporarily or permanently in a country and culture other than that of their upbringing and/or legal residence. ... Poets are authors of poems, or of other forms of poetry such as dramatic verse. ... The term writer can apply to anyone who creates a written work, but the word more usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, or those who have written in many different forms. ... Performance art is art where the actions of an individual or a group at a particular place and in a particular time, constitute the work. ... You might be looking for: the Caribbean — a group of islands in the Caribbean Sea; the British Afro-Caribbean community; the African diaspora This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... New York City, officially named the City of New York, is the most populous city in the United States, the most densely populated major city in North America, and the largest financial center in the world. ... Amsterdam Location Country The Netherlands Province North Holland Population 739,295 (1 January 2005) Coordinates 4Â°54Â´E 52Â°22Â´N Website www. ...

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, Melborn, 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. The Nuyorican Poets Cafe is a New York City performance venue, best known for slam poetry, but also presenting theater, stand-up comedy, Latin jazz, hip-hop performance, and screenplay readings, the café is a non-profit organization. ... Brooklyn Academy of Music ( pronounced BAM! in Emerilese) is located in Brooklyn, a borough of New York City, at 30 Lafayette Avenue near the Flatbush Avenue Station of the Long Island Rail Road and the Williamsburgh Savings Bank, the tallest building in Brooklyn. ... The outside front facade of CBGB CBGB, also CBGBs or CBs is a club in the Manhattan Bowery district of New York City, New York. ... ABC No Rio is a social center located at 156 Rivington street in New York Citys Lower East Side that was founded in 1980. ... Collective unconscious is a term of analytical psychology, and was originally coined by Carl Jung. ... A buffalo is one of several species of bovine. ... Chicago (officially named the City of Chicago) is the third largest city in the United States (after New York City and Los Angeles), with an official population of 2,896,016, as of the 2000 census. ... Template:Hide = Motto: Template:Unhide = Diversity Our Strength City of Toronto, Ontario, Canadas Location. ... Sydney is the capital city of the Australian state of New South Wales and Australias largest and oldest city (founded in 1788). ... Cologne skyline at night with river Rhine in the foreground and famous Cologne Cathedral on the right. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... Amsterdam Location Country The Netherlands Province North Holland Population 739,295 (1 January 2005) Coordinates 4Â°54Â´E 52Â°22Â´N Website www. ... Queeruption - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Part of the London skyline viewed from the South Bank London is the most populous city in the European Union, with an estimated population on 1 January 2005 of 7,421,328 and a metropolitan area population of between 12 and 14 million. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... Amsterdam Location Country The Netherlands Province North Holland Population 739,295 (1 January 2005) Coordinates 4Â°54Â´E 52Â°22Â´N Website www. ... Barcelona within BarcelonÃ¨s Population (2003) 1,582,738 Area 100. ...

Though primary 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. The term bilingualism (from bi meaning two and lingua meaning language) can refer to rather different phenomena. ...

Biography

Finnegan was born and raised in New York City where he graduated from Harvey Milk High School. He began writing while still in High-School, forming a poetry collective with classmates and friends which in 1989 eventually became the nuclease of the poetry and performance group the Dark Star Crew. New York City, officially named the City of New York, is the most populous city in the United States, the most densely populated major city in North America, and the largest financial center in the world. ... Harvey Milk High School is a high school for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or questioning (LGBTQ) students located in the East Village of New York City, and named after Harvey Milk, the first openly gay city supervisor of San Francisco, California, who was assassinated in 1978. ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

After the Dark Star Crew disbands in 1994 he went on to a solo career as a performance artist and poet becoming a regular in the New York City's downtown art's scene. During that time he also finished his first major collection I'm Not Afraid of the Dark which he completed in 2002. 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ...

At the end of 2002 Finnegan moved to Europe. He first settled in Cologne Germany where he wrote and performed in both English and German in various venues throughout Germany and produced a body of work that in 2003 would become Dunkelheit. After a visit of several months to Australia, Finnegan returned to Europe in 2004 where he settled in Amsterdam where he currently resides. In 2005 he produced latest volume of work, De Verraderlijke Illusie van Keuze. A satellite composite image of Europe Europe is the worlds second-smallest continent in terms of area, with an area of 10,600,000 kmÂ² (4,140,625 square miles), making it larger than Australia only. ... Cologne skyline at night with river Rhine in the foreground and famous Cologne Cathedral on the right. ... Look up English in Wiktionary, the free dictionary As an adjective, English refers to anything from or pertaining to England. ... A satellite composite image of Europe Europe is the worlds second-smallest continent in terms of area, with an area of 10,600,000 kmÂ² (4,140,625 square miles), making it larger than Australia only. ... Amsterdam Location Country The Netherlands Province North Holland Population 739,295 (1 January 2005) Coordinates 4Â°54Â´E 52Â°22Â´N Website www. ...

Themes

As Finnegan explains, "I deal readily with themes of Repulsion and Desire, Love and Hate, Truth and Lies, Power and Passion, and Light and Darkness."

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As a know personality in New York City's downtown art scene, Finnegan has been seen in various walk on's in such varied Film & TV Productions as NYPD Blue and Basquiat. NYPD Blue was a long-running American television police drama. ... Basquiat (pronounced BAS-KEE-AH) is a 1996 film directed by Julian Schnabel which is based on the life of Black avant-garde artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. ...

Finnegan was the subject of Dutch Photographer Marjan Borsjes' series Finnegan In Holland that won honorable mention in the IPA 2005 Photographer of the year Competition.

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