Phillip Giambri aka “The Ancient Mariner”
A product of the streets of South Philadelphia, he obtained his deviant perspective on life listening to Jean Shepherd on WOR radio back in the ‘50s. Fleeing Philly at eighteen, he served in the US Navy Submarine Force, has been an actor, hairstylist, stoner, janitor, writer, drifter, recording engineer, hired hand, poet, traveling salesman, barfly, banker, biker, bronco buster, announcer, mail-order minister, photographer, and “Computer Guru”.
He arrived in NY City in ’68, joined the Hippie pilgrimage to St. Marks Place, and never left. He’s attended too many schools to mention, studying nearly everything, without ever attaining a degree in anything.
His 2016 book “Confessions of a Repeat Offender” is a compilation of his performance stories and poems. His work has also appeared in Eternal Snow: A Worldwide Anthology of 100 Poets with Yuyutsu Sharma, Artists in the Kitchen, “Walt’s Corner” in The Long Islander, Silver Birch Press, NewYorkCityTalking.com and Revista de traduceri literare" (Review of Literary Translations) no. 5 Bucharest, Romania. Featured in 2016 New York Times interview and 2017 WBAI’s “Talk Back” radio with Corey Kilgannon.
He produces and hosts a popular monthly spoken word/poetry event, Rimes of The Ancient Mariner, now in its fourth years, as well as special collaborative events with other artist/performers; the very successful, Barflies & Broken Angels, What the Hell Is Love? and The Losers Club. His website “Ancient Mariner Tales” offer bored web surfers a glimpse into his futile search for self-discovery and meaning. He’s been a featured reader at the historic Club A in Bucharest, Romania.
He can be found in downtown NYC hanging in dive bars and regularly spinning yarns and telling tall tales anywhere that will tolerate him.
