fanny firewater

Come one, come all! Sit right there in the front row, if you wish! You’ll never be able to discern the sorcery of the poets at the Poetry Brothel, no matter how hard you try, ladies and gentlemen. Their magic is real. But we invite you to try to figure them out in public and private readings [...continue...]

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 [...continue...]

My darlings, I know I am occasionally over the moon about the Poetry Brothel and constantly trying to get anyone within earshot to hear how great it is. And I often try to force you poor people to dish out some dough to attend a brothel event. So please, do bear with me as I do it again. But this [...continue...]

After an extended bout of craziness involving running my porn panel at apexart last Wednesday, hosting several out-of-town visitors and one Madison Young at my tiny Bronx apartment for many evenings, showing said out-of-town visitors around the city, and juggling many ideas and projects… I am [...continue...]

Fanny Firewater preparing for the April 15 Poetry Brothel–Film Noir. I don’t talk much about the Poetry Brothel here, for some reason that, in retrospect, I can’t discern. I think when I started writing about porn, I was eager to keep my “respectable” life separate [...continue...]

Well, if it’s not a writer’s duty to post videos of herself reading her writing, then I don’t know what is. But… man, I really hate watching myself on video. And I hate to think other people might see it. But that’s what video is FOR, and I DID record this video for [...continue...]

I’m a member of the Poetry Brothel here in NYC. We, the whores, dress up in tartish outfits and read poetry for cash, and it is hot, hot, hot! I was thinking of keeping this part of my life away from my blogging life, but the photo they put up on their website is just too good not to share. [...continue...]