PVC:GVB - May 28th!

Cheryl B. Presents
PVC: The Poetry Vs. Comedy Variety Show
Girls Vs. Boys Edition

On May 28th, the show where the stanzas and the stand-up collide, features three female comedians vs. three male poets in the ultimate battle of wits.

Yes, it’s PVC:GVB.

This month we welcome one of London’s brightest performance poets and finalist for the Forward Prize, Tim Wells. Tim will be representing the menfolk alongside Jawnee (Broin’ Out at UCB) and Shawn Hollenbach (Host of HERE TV’s Busted) who will be venturing out from his usual spot behind the judge’s table to be judged himself! The boys will battle it out against Margaret Dodge (Manson Family Singers), Margot Leitman (Late Night with Conan O'Brien) and Becky Yamamoto (Ars Nova)! Michele Carlo (It Came From New York) and Tionna Smalls (RADAR) will judge.

With performances by NYC cabaret stars Mel & El (The Duplex) and the inimitable emcee Carolyn Castiglia (VH1).

May 28th, 8PM
$7, One Drink Minimum
Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery, NYC

Fervor Chapbook Party - May 21

Next Wednesday, I'm reading at this party for Zaedryn Meade's fabulous new chapbook, Fervor.


Pleasure Boat Studio: A Literary Press and The Bowery Poetry Club present:
A book release party for
Fervor: Poems from the East Village By Zaedryn Meade

"Fervor is powerful, beautiful, resonant."

"Reading it is moving and sometimes troubling, a deep look
at love's joys and tragedies, at the ways that love can both enthrall and disturb."

Featuring Zaedryn Meade, Jeanette Anderson, Cheryl B., Ariel Federow, and Emily Haines

Wednesday, 21 May 2008, 8pm
Bowery Poetry Club at 308 Bowery in New York City
no cover

About the performers:

Zaedryn Meade (www.zaedryn.com) is a queer butch activist, classically trained poet, spoken word performer, and smut writer. She has self-published two chapbooks, Covet (2001) and Valence: Fool's Gold in the Shape of Poems (2004), and one spoken word CD, For the Record (2004). The third in her chapbook trilogy, Fervor: Poems from the East Village, was published in 2008 by Pleasure Boat Studio: A Literary Press. Her poetry has been included in various collections including The Seattle Review and NPR's "This I Believe" project. Zaedryn holds degrees in both social change and creative writing from the University of Washington, and she studied and taught performance poetry at the Bent Writing Institute for queers. Born and raised in the rainforest of Southeast Alaska, she now lives in New York City.

Jeanette Anderson, poet and photographer, has received national recognition for her writing from the Scholastic awards in 2006 and 2007. Her work has been published in literary magazines such as Xelas and Magma. Scholastic Alliance for Young Artists & Writers published her first solo chapbook, and her second chapbook was a collaboration with poet and mentor Zaedryn Meade. She has also studied with poet Regie Cabico, and participated in creative writing workshops with PEN American Center, Columbia, Random House and Girls Write Now. She currently attends Eugene Lang College, and lives in Brooklyn.

Cheryl B. is a Brooklyn-based writer and performance poet. Her work appears in several print and online publications, most recently; Word Warriors: 35 Women Leaders in the Spoken Word Revolution (Seal Press, 2007) and Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure (Harper Perennial, 2008). She is the creator and producer of PVC: The Poetry vs. Comedy Variety Show, a monthly competition between comedians and performance poets. Her website is www.cherylb.com and she blogs at theblist.blogspot.com.

Ariel Federow spends her days administering non-profit and her nights and weekends sweating glitter and shitting sequins. She has been seen in various incarnations: Switch'n'Play's Open Drag Nights; Miss Jew-S-A 5767 (crowned by the 14th St Y); the director of Big Moves New York; part of the creative team for the JFREJ/Workmen's Circle Purimshpiel; a variety of other radical Jewish spectacle art. She is currently working on running away with the circus and invites you to visit http://www.queeryenta.com to find whatever it is your queer heart desires.

Emily Haines was born in the Bronx and was politicized by the racial injustices she witnessed in elementary school. Her heroes include her grandmothers, Ella Baker, Assata Shakur, and her students. Her writing influences include KRS-One, Chuck D, Eminem, dead prez, Mos Def, Audre Lorde, Adrienne Rich, Pablo Neruda, June Jordan and the seven fabulous women of FYI who shake her brain and move her soul twice a month.

The Boring List

I interrupt my regularly scheduled non-blogging to blog.

It's been a crazy month-plus here. But after dealing with a series of personal problems, I'm back, hopefully on a semi-regular basis. There are some exciting things upcoming, including a a very cool project taking place this summer. I'll post the details when I have them, which should be soon.

In the mean time, I've put myself on a writing/gym schedule to get both my literal and literary asses in line. That's right I have two asses. I'm special like that. Right now, I'm digging the spring weather, and my new iPod has been keeping me happy on the subway and anti-social at the internet cafe.

More soon, I promise.

Poetry Vs. Comedy - April 30th!

Cheryl B. Presents
PVC: The Poetry Vs. Comedy Variety Show

PVC is not a typical poetry slam nor a regular stand-up comedy show. PVC is a battle of wits and rhymes where the stanzas and the stand-up collide.

$7, One Drink Minimum
www.myspace.com/pvcshow

EMCEE
Carolyn Castiglia (VH1)

MUSICAL GUEST
Wendy Ho

POETS
Andrea Alton (The PIT)
Rain Maker (Nuyorican Poets Café)
Douglas A. Martin (In the Time of Assignments, Soft Skull, 2008)

COMEDIANS
Brian Baumley (Life & Style)
Mike Ennis (The StraightMen)
Livia Scott (MEAT)

JUDGES
Eliot Glazer (Comix)
Shawn Hollenbach (Host of Here TV's Busted)
Tionna Smalls (RADAR)

Benefit Next Friday - Be There!

A Belly Dancer! Raffle Prizes! Speculums!

I'm hosting this benefit next Friday for At Your Cervix, "a film dedicated to making pelvic exams respectful and pain-free" by Amy Jo Goddard and Julie Carlson. This documentary "peek" into the world of pelvic exams puts a spotlight on the Gynecological Teaching Associate (GTA) Program in New York City.

Here's the Info:
Friday, March 21, 2008
Doors 6:30, Show/Screening 7 pm
Collective Unconscious
279 Church Street
$15-$50 Sliding Scale