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Brad Bathgate aka Blue is the author of “Corner Stores in the Middle of the Block,” and “Don’t Beat Your Children Or They’ll Turn Out Like Me” Both are a collection of original poetry and short stories. In the spring of 2005, he was published in Essence Magazine and in 2005; he was published in “Signifying Harlem,” an anthology of poetry. He has performed at the Nuyorican Poet’s Café, The Bowery Poetry Club, The Poets House and The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church in association with Cave Canem Poets. Blue performs at art galleries, museums, lounges, comedy clubs, colleges, universities and poetry venues in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Philadelphia and Baltimore, at times, walking away as open mic winner from the Nuyorican Poetry Café and Jimmy’s Uptown Hottest Poets to name a few.

His talents do not stop there. Blue has appeared in a New York Lottery commercial, BET’s “106 and Park, New York Newsday newspaper,” and the off-off Broadway production of “Sex is More Than a Three Letter Word.” He is currently working on his forthcoming novel and honing his craft as an actor.

In December 2005, he was featured in “The New York Daily News Paper” and they were quoted saying “His career is on the write track.”