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Poem: w/ queers 4 economic justice pride march 2012
w/ queers 4 economic justice pride march 2012
1.
1pm
we wait to drive into the parade
but someone got music
I get into a dance
a bit of a trance,
a skinny black cocteau teen angel
catches my eye
as he watches me
we smile at each other
and look away.
2.
driving down
i spot a policewoman
got a rainbow flag
hanging out a leg pocket
she sees me looking
we are two Italian butches
giving the nod and a smirk
3.
the car announces an engagement
jay loves syd
syd loves jay
but
jay walks pumping the chants
and
syd takes pics all the way up the parade
everyone thinks
the driver and me are they
we get lots of congratulations
as i’m older and therefore jay
and must be faithful
i can only give
fleeting glances to pretty girls
@2012 – Vittoria repetto
Tues 6/26 Kate Bornstein & Susan Sherman at Bluestockings’ Women’s & Trans’ Poetry Jam
Women’s / Trans’ Poetry Jam & Open Mike
Tuesday June 26th 7pm – 9pm
Feature Writers: Kate Bornstein & Susan Sherman
Kate Bornstein, gender theorist & performance artist, reads from her wickedly funny and disarmingly honest memoir A Queer and Pleasant Danger which tells the story of a nice Jewish boy who joined the Church of Scientology and left twelve years later, ultimately transitioning to a woman. A few years later, she stopped calling herself a woman and became famous as a gender outlaw.
Susan Sherman’s new and selected poems, The Light that Puts an End to Dreams, (June, 2012) is a mixture of intense political poems, intimate love poems and provocative reflections which Susan Griffin describes as “moving, lucid and revelatory poetry.” Jewelle Gomez calls the suite of poems about Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz that concludes the book “an exquisite evocation of Sor Juana’s fiery brilliance which is mirrored in Sherman’s own.”
Bluestockings Bookstore
$5 suggested donation
Hosted by Vittoria repetto – the hardest working guinea butch dyke poet on the lower east side
Bluestockings Bookstore
172 Allen St.
(between Staton & Rivington)
1 1/2 blocks south from E.Houston
NYC
212-777-6028
info@bluestockings.com
Open mike – sign-up at 7 pm – 8 minute limit
Bring your poetry, your prose, your songs, and your spoken word.
Take V or F train to 2nd Ave. and exit from the 1st Ave exit and walk south down Allen St. (aka. 1st Ave) 1 ½ blocks to the store
Tues 5/29 Laura Boss & Jan Clausen read at Bluestocking’s Women’s / Trans’ Poetry Jam
Women’s / Trans’ Poetry Jam & Open Mike
Tuesday May 29th 7PM – 9PM
Feature Writers: Laura Boss & Jan Clausen
Poet Laura Boss writes about surviving the effects of aging on relationships: romances, family and friends.
Poet Jan Clausen’s concerns include the intersections of private and public experience, the inexhaustible ironies of gender, and the desperate freedom of art in an age when familiar modes of social action seem helpless to address the frightening problems faced by our species and its planet
Bluestockings Bookstore
$5 suggested donation
Hosted by Vittoria repetto – the hardest working guinea butch dyke poet on the lower east side
Bluestockings Bookstore
172 Allen St.
(between Staton & Rivington)
1 1/2 blocks south from E.Houston
NYC
212-777-6028
info@bluestockings.com
Open mike – sign-up at 7 pm – 8 minute limit
Bring your poetry, your prose, your songs, and your spoken word.
Take V or F train to 2nd Ave. and exit from the 1st Ave exit and walk south down Allen St. (aka. 1st Ave) 1 ½ blocks to the store
Jan 31 – Marisa Labozzetta & Tsaurah Litzky read at Bluestockings
Women’s / Trans’ Poetry Jam & Open Mike
Tuesday Jan 31th 7PM – 9PM
Feature Writers: Marisa Labozzetta & Tsaurah Litzky
In Marisa Labozzetta’s new collection of stories, Thieves Never Steal In The Rain, love and the supernatural drive these linked stories about the intertwining lives of five female cousins, who learn that loss, from the trivial to the most painful, is a constant force to be reckoned with.
Tsaurah Litzky’s second poetry collection Cleaning The Duck is a must have for anyone who believes in the redemptive power of poetry.
Bluestockings Bookstore
$5 suggested donation
Hosted by Vittoria repetto – the hardest working guinea butch dyke poet on the lower east side
Bluestockings Bookstore
172 Allen St.
(between Staton & Rivington)
1 1/2 blocks south from E.Houston
NYC
212-777-6028
info@bluestockings.com
Open mike – sign-up at 7 pm – 8 minute limit
Bring your poetry, your prose, your songs, and your spoken word.
Take V or F train to 2nd Ave. and exit from the 1st Ave exit and walk south down Allen St. (aka. 1st Ave) 1 ½ blocks to the store
untitled – an exorcism
1
the one thing
my family did good
was cook
esp. dad
it was his job
ravioli
lentil soup
osso buco
bollito misto.
2
sunday dinners
the arguments
the silent chewing
in between
dad said
it was easier
to clothe nonna
than to feed her
the gulf stream
i was fat
mama was ignored.
3
sometimes
nonna would get mad
enough was enough
ma basta*
the gulf stream
one or two times
but too much
un insulto
basta
dad would continue
next sunday.
4
he said
you’re fat
he said
have some ravioli
you’re fat
have some gnocchi
you’re fat
have some cheese
you’re fat
have some torta
fat
panettone
fat
cioccolate
fat
fat
fat
fat.
5
when i was twenty-eight
i exercised like
no tommorrow
two hrs. on the bike
three times a wk.
three hrs. of wts. and nautilus
three times a wk.
two hrs. of martial arts
three times a wk.
i was
one hundred thirty-three lbs.
no fat
pure muscle
washboard abs.
dad never said
how good
i looked.
6
we’re eating dinner
he cooked for me
ravioli
roast baby lamb
with potatoes
i take another potato
he says
ma no, basta
you’re too fat
i lose it
i throw my plate
take the serrated knife
grab his hair
pull his head back
cut
cross the jugular
the cartoid
ear to ear
as he lays bleeding
i smash the four sets of dishes
hammer the copper pots
pile it all on top of him
i set the apt. on fire
i stand outside the door
i sing a greek chorus.
@1996 _Vittoria repetto
Tues 11-29 Kelli Dunham & Phyllis Capello at Bluestockings
Women’s / Trans’ Poetry Jam & Open Mike
Tuesday Nov 29th 7PM – 9PM
Feature Writers: Kelli Dunham & Phyllis Capello
Kelli Dunham, comic, writer & ex-nun on the run, will be reading from Shut Up and Be Devastated, a work in progress about why grief sucks.
Phyllis Capello’s poems and stories are about women and their work. They often have mythological references or origins.
Bluestockings Bookstore
$5 suggested donation
Hosted by Vittoria repetto – the hardest working guinea butch dyke poet on the lower east side
Bluestockings Bookstore
172 Allen St.
(between Staton & Rivington)
1 1/2 blocks south from E.Houston
NYC
212-777-6028
info@bluestockings.com
Open mike – sign-up at 7 pm – 8 minute limit
Bring your poetry, your prose, your songs, and your spoken word.
Take V or F train to 2nd Ave. and exit from the 1st Ave exit and walk south down Allen St. (aka. 1st Ave) 1 ½ blocks to the store
Tues 10-25 Geri DeLuca & Yu Yan Chen at Bluestockings’ Women’s/Trans’ Poetry Jam
Women’s & Trans’ Poetry Jam & Open Mike
Tuesday Oct 25th 7PM – 9PM
Feature Writers: Geri DeLuca & Yu Yan Chen
Geri DeLuca is a writer and a former English professor, who is completing a novel about three women who started their life in Italian-American Brooklyn in the 1950′s.
Yu Yan Chen’s debut collection Small Hours is imbued with her at once intense but refreshing insights about family, home, identity and the quest for inner strength. From New York to Istanbul to China and beyond, It transports the readers to a passionate conversation about the essence of being alive.
Bluestockings Bookstore
$5 suggested donation
Hosted by Vittoria repetto – the hardest working guinea butch dyke poet on the lower east side
Bluestockings Bookstore
172 Allen St.
(between Staton & Rivington)
1 1/2 blocks south from E.Houston
NYC
212-777-6028
info@bluestockings.com
http://www.bluestockings.com/
Open mike – sign-up at 7 pm – 8 minute limit
Bring your poetry, your prose, your songs, and your spoken word.
Take V or F train to 2nd Ave. and exit from the 1st Ave exit and walk south down Allen St. (aka. 1st Ave) 1 ½ blocks to the store
Press contact person: Vittoriar@aol.com
The 9th Annual Fresh Fruit Festival presents Pears, Prose & Poetry
Monday July 11 7pm-9pm
The LGBT Community Center
208 West 13th Street (off7th Avenue)
New York,NY
With
Austin Alexis
Joel Allegretti
Dorothy Friedman August
Davidson Garrett
Melinda Goodman
Dean Kostos
Michael Montlack
Carol Polcover
John Marcus Powell
Jessica Reed
Vittoria repetto
Jason Schneiderman
Sinclair Sexsmith
Chocolate Waters
Chavisa Woods
Richard Marx Weinraub
with hosts
Roxanne Hoffman & Robert Urban
Please come and support us! Limited edition of chapbook anthology of the readers’ poems will be made available for sale at the event. As well as signed books and CDs
Tues July 26 Raphael Moser & Stephanie Schroeder read at Bluestockings
Women’s & Trans’ Poetry Jam & Open Mike
Tuesday July 26th 7PM – 9PM
Feature Writers: Raphael Moser & Stephanie Schroeder
Raphael Moser’s poetry investigates the world as a chaotic layering of subtext and conflict, it evokes a painterly or sculptural sense of the tension in relationship. The individual committed to a greater community is beholden to a transformation of the self to demarcate an ethical stance which explores the balance in justice.
In Stephanie Schroeder’s darkly humorous and sometimes perverse memoir, Beautiful Wreck: Sex, Lies & Suicide, she chronicles 20 years of misadventures as a transplanted Midwestern lesbian with undiagnosed Tourette Syndrome and bipolar disease in turn-of-the-millennium New York City. From being staffer in a shelter to being locked in a ward, it is a raw account of fifteen yrs both marred and informed by mental illness.
Bluestockings Bookstore
$5 suggested donation
Hosted by Vittoria repetto – the hardest working guinea butch dyke poet on the lower east side
Bluestockings Bookstore
172 Allen St.
(between Staton & Rivington)
1 1/2 blocks south from E.Houston
NYC
212-777-6028
info@bluestockings.com
Open mike – sign-up at 7 pm – 8 minute limit
Bring your poetry, your prose, your songs, and your spoken word.
Take V or F train to 2nd Ave. and exit from the 1st Ave exit and walk south down Allen St. (aka. 1st Ave) 1 ½ blocks to the store
