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girlstory performance - next week

Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Girlstory presents:
After the Fall: Stories to Stay Alive
A showcase of girlstory’s Past, Present, and Future
MAY 15th, 7PM
Nuyorican Poets Café
3rd St btwn Ave B and C
$12/$10 with Student ID
Come see girlstory in all its incarnations!
FOUNDING MEMBERS, NEW MEMBERS, MENTORS 
Snippets from the New Show, and introducing:
 girlstory’s 2008 BNV National Youth Poetry  Slam Team
girlstory is a multi-cultural, multi-generational […]

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Fervor! chapbook release party

Wednesday, May 7, 2008

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 […]

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chapbook release party: May 21st

Friday, March 21, 2008

Save the date! The chapbook release party for Fervor: Poems from the East Village has been moved from April 9th to May 21st - 8pm! - due to a scheduling problem at the Bowery Poetry Club. I’ll have a formal invitation to come, meanwhile, make sure it’s on your calendar!
Also: If you’d like to follow […]

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poetry vs comedy: wednesday 2/6!

Monday, February 4, 2008

The lovely Cheryl B has asked me to be a poet in this Wednesday’s Poetry vs Comedy Variety Show at 8pm at the Bowery Poetry Club. It is a really good time, Miss CKC is the MC and she is fantastic, and then there’s the hilarious judges, and, oh yeah, professional comics! It is one […]

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FYI writing group - performance next week

Wednesday, January 2, 2008

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 […]

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Brooklyn Reading Works, November 15th

Saturday, November 3, 2007

I’m thrilled to be reading at Brooklyn Reading Works on November 15th!
Poetry Punch, a delicious and heady mix of poetry at Brooklyn Reading Works on November 15th at 8 p.m. featuring Lynn Chandhok, Michele Madigan Somerville, Marietta Abrams, Zaedryn Meade and Cheryl B. at The Old Stone House. Fifth Avenue and Third Street in Park […]

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fall readings

Wednesday, October 3, 2007

Couple exciting things coming up. Jeanette, my mentee through the Girls Write Now program, and I will be reading from our chapbook Urban Ornithology at the Girls Write Now fall “Friend”raiser on October 18th, and then I will be reading at Brooklyn Reading Works in November.
Here’s the details:
Thursday, October 18th - 5:30pm
Girls Write Now fall […]

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late summer readings

Saturday, August 4, 2007

I’ll be reading at Janine Avril’s Girlsalon at the Perch Cafe in Park Slope on Thursday, August 16th, and I’ll be reading at Sunday Salon in September. More details to follow … Come join me!

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PvC was a blast!

Friday, June 22, 2007

The Poetry vs Comedy show was such a fabulous time. I performed two of my favorite (and gayest) pieces, and made it to the final round against Kelli Dunham where we both had to improv on “clam(s).” Um, what?
So I wrote this:
THE TROWEL
we spent all weekend
digging clams at ocean shores
on the oregon coast
sand between our […]

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PVC = GAY

Monday, June 18, 2007

Poetry! Comedy! Queers! It doesn’t get much gayer than this folks.
*****
Cheryl B. Presents
PVC: The Poetry Vs. Comedy Variety Show
Gay Pride Spectacular!
PVC is not a typical poetry slam nor a regular stand-up comedy show. PVC is a battle of wits and rhymes where the stanzas and the stand-up collide. The show was created by writer […]

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