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Tues Sept 25th Gina Inzunza & Betsy Housten read at Women’s / Trans’ Poetry Jam – Bluestockings
Women’s / Trans’ Poetry Jam & Open Mike
Tuesday Sept 25thst 7pm – 9pm
Feature Writers: Gina Inzunza & Betsy Housten
Gina Inzunza’s poetry enlists dramatic voices, humor and a variety of forms to champion the underdog and those who often go unnoticed. Her poems feature characters who search for meaning in adversity, discover their own unique voice and stumble upon ways to celebrate life.
Betsy Housten writes the annual zine You Know Better, exploring queer life in Brooklyn and comprising stories and poems that leave a great deal unanswered.
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
the pigeon without feet
i see it every time in the park,
no feet,
just reddish stumps,
maybe torn off
escaping a cruel trap.
it finds broad branches
to land on
beating its wings
‘til it gets the proper placement
for balance.
it joins the crowd
feasting on rice and stale chinese buns
as the crowd tears into the buns
it chooses the rice
low flying jumps
into ample patches.
all its flying
makes its body lean and strong
it grooms itself well.
i wonder
can it get a mate
pass on that will.
@2012 – Vittoria repetto
maybe it’s my age
watching girls
in summer dresses
passing by,
i note no slips.
i can see
as the light hits them
clear up their legs.
and i think
of Elizabeth Taylor
full slip cat on a hot tin roof
begging Paul Newman
to do her.
@2012 – Vittoria repetto
Poem: she’s doing the dishes
she‘s doing the dishes
that’s the deal
i cook she washes
and i watch her
she laughs
winks
and wiggles her ass at me
so i go behind her
press myself
into her
open her 501’s button flys
trace my fingers down
navel to mount
she stops washing
i say
no keep on washing baby
i part the hairs
the lips major minor
circle her clit
when she comes
she loses her grip on the chef’s knife
almost breaking my favorite blue bowl
@1997 – Vittoria repetto
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
Fri Apr 13 Italian Amer Book Festival
I’ll be attending and selling my books Not Just A Personal Ad and my chapbook Head For The Van Wyck
Special Event for Members*
SAGRA DEL LIBRO
THE ITALIAN-AMERICAN BOOK FESTIVAL
will be held on April 13th at Fordham University.
Please read the announcement below and let us know if you would like to participate.
In past years on a Sunday in May most bookstores remained open in Italy to encourage the sale of books and support and promote its writers. This initiative was called “Celebrazione dei Libri” (Book Celebration). In line with the spirit of this movement, IAWA – The Italian-American Writers Association, in collaboration with Dr. Giuseppe Perricone, Modern Language Department, are launching a “Sagra Del Libro” (Book Festival) on Friday, April 13 from 6 to 9 pm in the South Lounge of Fordham University’s Lincoln Center Campus, 113 West 60th Street (corner of Columbus Avenue) on the Mezzanine Floor. Admission is free to all.
All members of IAWA are invited to showcase their published books. There is no charge for individual authors but they must be members of IAWA. Non members wishing to participate must join IAWA first. Tables will be set up for the display of books and promotional materials, and authors will be available to speak with attendees and sign books. Also lively presentations consisting of readings and panel discussions by the authors will make for a fascinating evening of celebrating our Italian-American writers. Light refreshments will be served.
The Festival committee members are: Emelise Aleandri, Robert Agnoli, Jessica Femiania and Gil Fagiani. IAWA IAWA Authors wishing to participate in this event should contact Gil Fagiani immediately at fagianella@aol.com. Authors who are not yet members and who wish to join IAWA, please take this opportunity to join. Membership categories are: Student ($20), Senior ($20), Regular ($30), Associate ($100-249), Patron ($250- 499), Founder($500-1,000) and Benefactor ($1,000+). Payments and donations can be made through PayPal at http://www.iawa.net. For further information or any questions about IAWA, contact Dr. Robert Viscusi, President, at 718-951-5847 or at rviscusi@brooklyn.cuny.edu. Thank you in advance for your participation.
