Zaedryn Meade

Pleasure Boat Studio: A Literary Press
and The Bowery Poetry Club present

A book release party for
Fervor: Poems from the East Village
By Zaedryn Meade

“Fervor is powerful, beautiful, resonant.”
“Reading it is moving and sometimes troubling, a deep look
at love’s joys and tragedies, at the ways that love can both enthrall and disturb.” 

Featuring Jeanette Anderson, Cheryl B.,
Ariel Federow, and Emily Haines

Wednesday, 21 May 2008, 8pm
Bowery Poetry Club at 308 Bowery in New York City

www.zaedryn.com  |  www.pleasureboatstudio.com  |   www.bowerypoetryclub.com

About the performers: 

Zaedryn Meade (www.zaedryn.com) is a queer butch activist, classically trained poet, spoken word performer, and smut writer. She has self-published two chapbooks, Covet (2001) and Valence: Fool’s Gold in the Shape of Poems (2004), and one spoken word CD, For the Record (2004). The third in her chapbook trilogy, Fervor: Poems from the East Village, was published in 2008 by Pleasure Boat Studio: A Literary Press. Her poetry has been included in various collections including The Seattle Review and NPR’s “This I Believe” project. Zaedryn holds degrees in both social change and creative writing from the University of Washington, and she studied and taught performance poetry at the Bent Writing Institute for queers. Born and raised in the rainforest of Southeast Alaska, she now lives in New York City.

Jeanette Anderson, poet and photographer, has received national recognition for her writing from the Scholastic awards in 2006 and 2007. Her work has been published in literary magazines such as Xelas and Magma. Scholastic Alliance for Young Artists & Writers published her first solo chapbook, and her second chapbook was a collaboration with poet and mentor Zaedryn Meade. She has also studied with poet Regie Cabico, and participated in creative writing workshops with PEN American Center, Columbia, Random House and Girls Write Now. She currently attends Eugene Lang College, and lives in Brooklyn.

Cheryl B. is a Brooklyn-based writer and performance poet. Her work appears in several print and online publications, most recently; Word Warriors: 35 Women Leaders in the Spoken Word Revolution (Seal Press, 2007) and Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure (Harper Perennial, 2008). She is the creator and producer of PVC: The Poetry vs. Comedy Variety Show, a monthly competition between comedians and performance poets. Her website is www.cherylb.com and she blogs at theblist.blogspot.com.

Ariel Federow spends her days administering non-profit and her nights and weekends sweating glitter and shitting sequins. She has been seen in various incarnations: Switch’n'Play’s Open Drag Nights; Miss Jew-S-A 5767 (crowned by the 14th St Y); the director of Big Moves New York; part of the creative team for the JFREJ/Workmen’s Circle Purimshpiel; a variety of other radical Jewish spectacle art. She is currently working on running away with the circus and invites you to visit http://www.queeryenta.com to find whatever it is your queer heart desires.

Emily Haines was born in the Bronx and was politicized by the racial injustices she witnessed in elementary school. Her heroes include her grandmothers, Ella Baker, Assata Shakur, and her students. Her writing influences include KRS-One, Chuck D, Eminem, dead prez, Mos Def, Audre Lorde, Adrienne Rich, Pablo Neruda, June Jordan and the seven fabulous women of FYI who shake her brain and move her soul twice a month.

The FYI: You’re a Poet writing group - to which I belong - is having a fantastic reading next week, Wednesday, January 9th, at 6pm at the Bowery Poetry Club. This group consists of six women, all high school teachers (except me), working together on writing craft, workshopping, revision, feedback, fun, and performance. I really cherish this group for their intellect and generosity, and the reading will, no doubt, be brilliant.

We will be selling our new chapbook, too! Come out & see us.

FYI: You’re a Poet
January 9th 2008, 6pm
Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery in NYC

FYI is a writing group of six women exploring spoken word, form poetry, plays, memoirs, and short stories together for more than two years. Join us for our second performance showcase!