Writing From The Edge: Tony O’Neill and Tommy Trantino
This event is scheduled for Thursday, Jun 21st - 7:00 PM
This is a historic appearance by Tommy Trantino, the prison author whose book Lock The Lock (Knopf, 1974) was lauded by luminaries such as Henry Miller, Allen Ginsberg, Kurt Vonnegut and William Burroughs. Trantinto was convicted of the 1963 murder of 2 New Jersey police officers and spent many years on death row before his sentence was commuted to life. It was while in prison that he turned to art as a means of self-preservation, and his art and writing exudes a powerful influence on the underground writing scene. Tony O’Neill’s work has been championed by such important names in the American underground as Dan Fante, Dennis Cooper and John Giorno. He is the author of Digging The Vein, “Seizure Wet Dreams” and his latest, Songs From The Shooting Gallery: Poems 1999 - 2006. Tommy and Tony will read selections from their work as well as taking part in a Q&A.
