Sharing this email from Marty McConnell ...

Hello good people. I'm writing you today not with news of upcoming shows, but with a call for support for a stellar human being and wonderful poet. Derrick Brown ( www.brownpoetry.com or www.writebloody.com for those of you who don't know him), as you may or may not know, recently suffered a major medical incident, the cause of which is still not known. His whole story is below, but in summary he's recovering and looking at massive medical bills.

I have been writing and performing spoken word for 6 years. I would like to perform my work at bars/colleges/Universities for a living but I don’t really know which booking agency to go through in Manhattan. Would anyone here know? Also, what is the average percentage that they would take for each booking?