Tues 9/27 Phoebe Fico & Deirdre Sinnott Read at Women’s & Trans’ Poetry Jam – Bluestockings
Women’s & Trans’ Poetry Jam & Open Mike for Women & Trans’
Tuesday Sept. 27 th 7pm – 9pm
Feature Writers: Phoebe Fico & Deirdre Sinnott
Deirdre Sinnott will be reading from her upcoming novel The Third Mrs. Galway. Set in 1835 Utica, NY a young bride finds two people hiding on her husband’s property. They are running away from slavery and she must push aside her prejudices and fears in order to help them while Utica convulses in an anti-abolition riot. Based on actual historical events.
$5 suggested donation This series, started in 1999, is 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 ( for women & trans only) – 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 7/26 Heather Sellers & Elaine Sexton Read at Women’s & Trans’ Poetry Jam – Bluestockings
Women’s & Trans’ Poetry Jam & Open Mike for Women & Trans’
Tuesday July 26th 7pm – 9pm
Feature Writers: Heather Sellers $ Elaine Sexton
Two poets, Heather Sellers and Elaine Sexton will read poems and prose poems from a collaborative sequence of pieces about the limning spaces created in comings and goings, the idea of “after” and all that comes from the space made by departure.
$5 suggested donation This series, started in 1999, is 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 ( for women & trans only) – 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 6/28 Linda Lerner & Jane Summer At Women’s & Trans’ Poetry Jam – Bluestockings
Women’s & Trans’ Poetry Jam & Open Mike for Women & Trans’
Tuesday June 28th 7pm – 9pm
Feature Writers: Linda Lerner & Jane Summer
A lot of Linda Lerner’s recent poems have to do with the city, recent events, death of well known musicians, and always relationships I’m in and changing feelings about my parents and that complicated business. She will also read poems from her last collection Yes, The Ducks Were Real and her chapbook Ding Dong the Bell Pussy in the Well
Jane Summer’s hybrid book Erebus examines issues of public and private mourning, identity and branding, corporate responsibility and personal ethics, loss and death–always death. These themes continue in her current project, which throws into the mix 1960s Italian cinema, fetishizing, suicide and how being an outsider makes you an honest liar.
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 ( for women & trans only) – 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 5/31 Jan Clausen & Sophia Wortzel At Women’s & Trans’ Poetry Jam – Bluestockings
Women’s & Trans’ Poetry Jam & Open Mike for Women & Trans’
Tuesday May 31st 7pm – 9pm
Feature Writers: Jan Clausen & Sophia Wortzel
Jan Clausen’s new poetry/hybrid Veiled Spill: A Sequence bridges poetry and prose, lyric and documentary, sampling and improvisation, conventional stanzas and impertinent word-bursts. Key preoccupations include: gender and race, our complicity in state terror, the persistence of religious questions in the absence of gods, the brooding presence of uncontrollable technologies, and the desperate freedom of art at a time when conventional social action seems powerless to halt the wreck of the biosphere.
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 ( for women & trans only) – 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 4/26 Clare Ultimo & Madeline Artenberg read at Women’s & Trans’ Poetry Jam – Bluestockings
Women’s & Trans’ Poetry Jam & Open Mike for Women & Trans’
Tuesday April 26th 7pm – 9pm
Feature Writers: Clare Ultimo & Madeline Artenberg
Clare Ultimo writes about the comedy and tragedy of being a human being in the 21 century and the challenge of thinking for yourself no matter how crazy you seem to others
Madeline Artenberg writes poetry on varied themes, including family, relationships, sexuality, aging, Jewish identity, social and peace issues.
This series, started in 1999, is 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 ( for women & trans only) – 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 3/29 Nicole Rasmussen & Ilka Scobie read at Women’s & Trans’ Poetry Jam – Bluestockings
Women’s & Trans’ Poetry Jam & Open Mike for Women & Trans’
Tuesday Mar. 29th 7pm – 9pm
Feature Writers: Nicole Rasmussen & Ilka Scobie
Nicole Ramussen discovered writing as a mode of survival when she was 5 years old. Ever since, she has written in order to return to a level of emotion that she could handle safely. Each of her poems are about survival, whether it be from external demons in the form of a society designed to deny her existence or those trapped inside her mind.
Ilka Scobie is a native New Yorker, a feminist and writer who focuses on poetry that is accessible, progressive, and hopefully compassionate. She is inspired by rebellion, breakthroughs and secret gardens.
This series, started in 1999, is 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 ( for women & trans only) – 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 2/23th Grey Vild & Julia Guzzio read at Women’s & Trans’ Poetry Jam at Bluestockings
Women’s & Trans’ Poetry Jam & Open Mike for Women & Trans’
Tuesday Feb 23th 7pm – 9pm
Feature Writers: Grey Vild & Julia Guzzio
Grey Vilds’ writing is mostly concerned with dysphoria and displacement, (trans-ly/ if that’s a word) reclaiming hysteria, disrupting trans narrative and white masculinity. He makes use of voices that range from the narrative to abstract, political to lyrical, all of which claim no innocence.
Julia Guzzio writes hypothetical love poems along with poems about society and poems that are loosely autobiographical. When not in verse, Julia Guzzio is drawn to writing flash short fiction about the mysterious quality of being on the out skirts of a situation.
This series, started in 1999, is 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 ( for women & trans only) – 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.
an old poem
great reading w Alyssa Harley & Claire Olivia Moed tonight
Claire Olivia Moed reminded me about the first time I read at the WOW Cafe…poem in the series on Albert Einstein, written while in a poetry workshop w Maureen Owen…i read it forward and then backwards…here it is:
flip a coin
any coin
heads or tails
record
velocity
mass
moment of inertia
all other relevant factors
still no answer
it is the law of probability
with all facts in
it’s still 50/50
and god plays dice with the universe
place your bets ladies and gentlemen
let them roll
little joe
luck be a lady tonight
luck be a lady tonight
little joe
let them roll
place your bets ladies and gentlemen
and god plays dice with the universe
it’s still 50/50
with all the facts in
it is the law of probability
still no answer
all other relevant factors
moment of inertia
mass
velocity
record
heads or tails
any coin
flip a coin
Tues 1/26 C.O. Moed & Alyssa K. Harley read at Women’s & Trans’ Poetry Jam at Bluestockings
Women’s & Trans’ Poetry Jam & Open Mike for Women & Trans’
Tuesday Jan 26th 7pm – 9pm
Feature Writers: C.O. Moed & Alyssa K. Harley
C.O. Moed will read from her work-in-progress: Wire Monkey. it’s almost the 1980’s and Bets all of almost nineteen, once again get jettisoned from the ancestral home on Columbia & Broome. With nowhere to go she returns to her ‘second home’ – the east Village, determined tostart a new life, if you call stealing, getting drunk on St/Patty’s day, selling rings door to door, punching yr best friend in the face and selling off the family possessions starting a new life.
Alyssa K. Harley’s project is to find meaning based in the music of the English language. What she has searched for most is how to create a sense of real evidence through art of the absolute smallest of hopes, the ones that matter.
This series, started in 1999, is 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 ( for women & trans only) – 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 12/29 Deborah Hauser & Miriam Stanley read at Women’s & Trans’ Poetry Jam at Bluestockings
Women’s & Trans’ Poetry Jam & Open Mike for Women & Trans’
Tuesday Dec. 29th 7pm – 9pm
Feature Writers: Deborah Hauser & Miriam Stanley
Deborah Hauser writes about cancer, breast cancer, illness and women’s bodies, pink ribbon exploitation and writes a series of alphabet poems-a poem for each letter of the alphabet with heavy alliteration about women, illness, relationships, and, sometimes, Moby Dick.
$5 suggested donation
This series, started in 1999, is 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 ( for women & trans only) – 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.
