Category: Poetry at Large
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A Randy Round-Up of Reads (& listens)
While I’m busy working, you should probably keep yourself busy, too! Busy thinking about awesome sex-positive and sex-related stuff! So here’s a randy round-up of some great places to start!
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Come See Me at the 4th Annual New York City Poetry Festival
It’s that time of year again! What time of year? you may be asking. The time when we take off our shoes and lay around on the grass? The time when we buy food-truck morsels and have a picnic? The time when we take a free ferry to a free poetry festival and enjoy the…
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Poetry Brothel this Sunday!
Hello my lovelies! It’s been a while since a Poetry Brothel event featuring yours truly rolled around, but this Sunday it’s going to happen! I’ll be at the Mardis Gras-themed Brothel at the Back Room the evening of February 23rd, dressed in all Fanny Firewater’s finer, sipping whiskey or absinthe, and providing private readings to…
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Lily Myers: “Shrinking Women”
Oh. Em. Gee. To anyone who’s confused about the nuances of what feminists often call “male privilege,” check out this spoken word poem, “Shrinking Women,” by Lily Myers. This. It’s this. So much this.
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Linksalot
Links, links, so many links, it’s Sir Linksalot up in here! (Okay there are only two links.) 1) Hollywood, seriously. Really. You cast an actress to play Linda Lovelace who, in an interview with GQ, says about the movie Deep Throat, “There’s no point in watching the whole movie. It’s the same shit for an…
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I’m in the Wall Street Journal?!
I bet, if you were to make a list of all the people you could think of, in order of most- to least-likely-to-ever-be-pictured in The Wall Street Journal, I would be near the bottom. Right? I’d be near the bottom of my own list. Except maybe for some of the people I knew in college…
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A Litany for Survival
I can’t believe I’ve never read this before. Mind = blown. For those of us who live at the shoreline standing upon the constant edges of decision crucial and alone for those of us who cannot indulge the passing dreams of choice who love in doorways coming and going in the hours between dawns looking…
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Poetry Brothel at Figment NYC this Weekend! Wheeeee!
The New York Poetry Brothel will be at Figment this weekend on Governor’s Island, lounging our finest whore wear! The festival is going to be aMAZing and full of collaborative (and free!) art for attendees to admire and help create, music, dancing, face-painting, and weirdness of all kinds! I may be less my usual Fanny…