MANIC MONDAY!

MANIC MONDAY!
MARCH 5, 7-9

YIPPIE MUSEUM CAFE
9 BLEECKER bet Bowery & Elizabeth

AN ALL-FEATURE SHOW HOSTED BY BIG MIKE
PRODUCED BY BIG MIKE AND PUMA PERL!

FEATURED GUESTS:

Hala Alyan
Allegra Mira
Thad Jasonis
Craig Fishbane
Drew Boston
Dean El Negro
Nikola Kravitt
Angry Bob
Bob Bell
Van Asher
Charles Butler

& a very special performance by Puma Perl &
Big Mike!

VERY LIMITED OPEN MIC!

Yippie Museum Cafe requests a $3 Donation.

For More Info About the Yippie Museum: http://www.yippiemuseum.org/

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Bullying Anthology

I am very happy and honored that my poem, "Girls," was included in this anthology.
Wish I could make the book launch, too far.
Kudos to Magdalena Gomez and Teatro Vida for making this happen, a long labor of love.

DDAY AT THE BOWERY

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2012
8-9:30

DDAY AT THE BOWERY PRESENTS:

FELONIOUS FRAULEINS!
BOWERY POETRY CLUB
308 BOWERY (BET HOUSTON & BLEECKER)

POETRY, PERFORMANCES, & MORE!
HOSTED BY BIG MIKE
PRODUCED BY BIG MIKE, FAUX MAUX & PUMA PERL

FEATURING:

ANNE HANAVAN - FRONT WOMAN HOT PUNK BAND TRANSGENDERED JESUS /WRITER /FILMMAKER/ LOWER EAST SIDE ICON! HER STORIES APPEAR IN THE NEWLYPUBLISHED “UNBEARABLES BOOK OF SEX”. HER BAND RECENTLY OPENED FOR LAURIE ANDERSON & PHILIP GLASS; READING VENUES INCLUDE THE BOWERY POETRY CLUB, WOW CAFE & MUCH, MUCH MORE!

LARA KONESKY - A 32 YEAR OLD PERSON FROM COLUMBUS, OHIO. SHE ENJOYS EXAGGERATIONS, WORKING WITH REFUGEES, BARBARIC AND REBELLIOUS CHILDREN, BURDENS, AND BEING VERY SOBER. AFTER EXTENSIVE PHILOSOPHICAL TRAINING, SHE DECIDED THE ONLY REAL LIFE WAS THE LIFE OF THE WRITER.

NICCA RAY - THE SUBJECT OF GEORGE SPENCER’S DOCUMENTARY PRESENTED BY THE ARTS (PERFORMING) AT TRIBES TITLED NICCA RAY: FROM HOLLYWOOD TO NEW YORK, A BAD TRIP. IT HAD ITS FIRST SCREENING ON JANUARY 2, 2012 ON THE MANHATTAN NEIGHBORHOOD NETWORK AND CAN BE SEEN ON VIMEO. HER POEMS AND SHORT STORIES HAVE APPEARED IN THE UNBEARABLES BIG BOOK OF SEX, HANGING LOOSE, FAROUTFURTHEROUTOUTOFSIGHT, OCTOBER BABIES, AND WE LIVE FOR BLOOD AND GLORY. SHE IS CURRENTLY WORKING ON A BOOK ABOUT HER FATHER, FILM DIRECTOR NICHOLAS RAY.

PUMA PERL –POET/WRITER/PERFORMANCE ARTIST/PRODUCER/CURATOR AND CO-CREATOR OF DDAY PRODUCTIONS AND THIS EVENT - AUTHOR OF THE FULL LENGTH COLLECTION"KNUCKLE TATTOOS," THE AWARD WINNING CHAPBOOK "BELINDA AND HER FRIENDS," WIDELY PUBLISHED IN JOURNALS AND ANTHOLOGIES, INTERNATIONALLY!
http://pumaperl.blogspot.com/

BIG MIKE IS THE AUTHOR OF 2 BOOKS, 81 POUNDS AND SIBLING RIVALRY AND APPEARS IN THE ANTHOLOGY ONE MILLIMETER, ALL PUBLISHED BY PRETTY POLLUTION PRESS. BIG MIKE IS KNOWN FOR HIS PERFORMANCE ART AND WAS AWARDED BEST NEPTUNE IN THE 2004 MERMAID PARADE IN CONEY ISLAND.


$6 AT THE DOOR BUYS YOU A GOSHDARNED GOOD TIME!
3 MINUTE OPEN MIC - SIGN-UP AT 7:45

http://www.bowerypoetry.com/#February_16

DDAY PRESENTS LES DEMOISELLES D'AVIGNON

DDAY at the Bowery presents Les Demoiselles D'Avignon
THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 2012
8-9:30 PM!

BOWERY POETRY CLUB
308 BOWERY (bet. Houston & Bleecker)

POETRY, PERFORMANCES, & MORE!
HOSTED BY BIG MIKE
PRODUCED BY BIG MIKE, FAUX MAUX & PUMA PERL

FEATURING:

CYNDI DAWSON - International Word Rocker and front woman/co-founder for the post/punk, indefinable rock band “The Cynz”, she is constantly writing and recording new material with the group. The Cynz can be found performing at the Delancey, R-B, and many other metropolitan area venues.

The great Henry Seiz of the Cynz will accompany Cyndi on guitar!
Cyndi Dawson is also the author of 'Outside Girl', released July, 2010 by Poets Wear Prada Press. Her poetry has been published in over 50 anthologies & publications, and she has performed both in the United States and abroad. More about Cyndi Dawson and the Cynz here: http://www.reverbnation.com/thecynz and http://www.reverbnation.com/cyndidawsonwordrocker

T. C. GARDSTEIN - T.C. is a writer, copyeditrix, artist, southpaw, and native New Yorker who makes her home in Brooklyn. Her first novel, Circuit, is available on Xlibris.com and Amazon. T.C.'s erotic poetry has appeared on cleansheets.com. She was the best-selling author on the recently defunct Paper Bag Press with her two erotica eBooks, Sandwich Fillingand The Poetry Prostitute (also published as an audio book). Her poetry will be published by First Literary Review-Eastthis month and in March. Her anti-horoscope astrology website is http://pluto-rising-astrology.blogspot.com/. T.C. has given featured reading performances at such NYC venues as Galapagos, Madame X, Cornelia St. Café, Yippie Cafe, and Ding Dong Lounge.

ZOE HANSEN - At the age of 17, Zoe escaped her comfortable upbringing in London, England and, landed in NYC in 1984, where she became a hair and make-up artist for downtown celebrities and musicians. Her first published short story was for the highly acclaimed anthology Ho’s Hookers Call Girls and Rent Boys and she was recently included in the Unbearable’s Big Book of Sex. She is working on a novel about love, sex & NYC. and is the producer of a new reality show “Housewives of the East Village” (in the works). Zoe is an unabashed lover of filth and the written word, likes to talk to the dead, and strives for purity. She still resides in the East Village with her family. For more info, please visithttp://www.lzhansen.com/.

with:

PUMA PERL –Poet/Writer/Performance Artist/Producer/Curator and co-creator of DDAY Productions and this event - author of the full length collection"knuckle tattoos," the award winning chapbook "Belinda and Her Friends," widely published in journals and anthologies, internationally!
http://pumaperl.blogspot.com/

BIG MIKE is the author of 2 books, 81 Pounds and Sibling Rivalry and appears in the anthology One Millimeter, all published by Pretty Pollution Press. Big Mike is known for his performance art and was awarded Best Neptune in the 2004 Mermaid Parade in Coney Island.


$6 AT THE DOOR BUYS YOU A GOSHDARNED GOOD TIME!
3 MINUTE OPEN MIC - SIGN-UP AT 7:45

Watch Live on the Web!
http://www.bowerypoetrylive.com/


http://www.bowerypoetry.com/#January_19

PHOTO BY JODI LYNN CONCEPCION

Homebound - a video

Reading at The Inspired Word Titilating Tongue Series, produced by Mike Geffner, curated by Aimee Herman.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGmlw7OPRVY&feature=share

DAMES OF DECEMBER: A DDAY PRODUCTION

DAMES DO DECEMBER: DDAY AT THE BOWERY!
THURSDAY, 12/15/11, 8-9:30
BOWERY POETRY CLUB, 308 BOWERY

POETRY/PERFORMANCE/MORE!
HOSTED BY BIG MIKE!
CURATED BY PUMA PERL!
A DDAY PRODUCTION!

FEATURING:

REVEREND JEN - Art star, author, troll museum curator, columnist, guru, open mike host, ambassador to the otherworld, underground movie star, Voice of the Downtrodden and Tired and Patron Saint of the Uncool. She has a new book out from Soft Skull Press called "Live Nude Elf." She also writes and stars in a live show called "Reverend Jen's Really Cool Neighborhood." It was recently voted "Best Off-Off-Off Broadway Musical Comedy Theater" by the Village Voice. I am currently making it into a TV show.

NANCY MERCADO - Most recently, Nancy Mercado was featured in a PBS Newshour documentary, Special Report: America Remembers 9/11, PBS Newshour. Also featured in The Encyclopedia of Hispanic American Literature (Facts on File) and inducted into The Museum of American Poetics, Nancy is the author of It Concerns the
Madness.

LIZA WOLSKY One of Liza’s proudest moments was being in a World War III retrospective exhibition and strollling past her own work while Allen Ginsberg read to a packed house. She has performed at numerous NYC venues including Bowery Poetry Club, Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Cornelia St. Cafe and Theater for the New City. She’s been on WKCR Radio’s “Art Waves,” and read on Squat Radio. Most recently her work appeared in the Dada journal Maintenant 5 (Three Rooms Press) and in +gape+seed+ (Uphook Press). She used to be production editor at Pantheon Books, and is now a prof. at FIT-SUNY. She is also affiliated with Spiny Babbler Arts in Kathmandu.


LAUREN MARIE CAPPELLO eats dessert for breakfast. Her work has appeared in Uphook Press's Gape-Seed, Polarity, & Occupy Wall St. Poetry Anthology. Aside from performing her poetry at a variety of local venues, she teaches yoga, and is working to finish her B.A. in Creative Writing with a concentration in Poetics. A former New Yorker, she now resides in New Orleans, LA.

AND THE USUAL SUSPECTS:

FAUX MAUX (MO KELLY) – Lifetime performance artist/actress/playwright and writer, she took her one-woman play “Lil’ Red” and a few burlesque acts to Holland and Scotland. Now, she does the occasional stand-up and continues to creates play, perform outrageous acts of art, and creative havoc here in New York City.

PUMA PERL –Poet/Writer/Performance Artist/Producer/Curator and co-creator of DDAY Productions and this event - author of the full length collection"knuckle tattoos," the award winning chapbook "Belinda and Her Friends," widely published in journals and anthologies, internationally!

BIG MIKE is the author of 2 books, 81 Pounds and Sibling Rivalry and appears in the anthology One Millimeter, all published by Pretty Pollution Press. Big Mike is known for his performance art and was awarded Best Neptune in the 2004 Mermaid Parade in Coney Island.

OPEN MIC SIGN-UP - 7:45
$6 AT THE DOOR

http://www.bowerypoetry.com/

NOVEMBER RAIN!

DDAY Productions presents November Rain!

Thursday, November 17 · 8:00pm - 9:30pm

Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery (bet. Houston & Elizabeth)
New York, New York

POETRY, PERFORMANCES & MORE!
HOSTED BY BIG MIKE!
PRODUCED BY BIG MIKE, FAUX MAUX & PUMA PERL!

FEATURING:

JOANNA C. VALENTE is a native New Yorker. She is a writer who has been featured in publications such as You Say. Say. (Uphook Press), The Westchester Review, The Houston Literary Review, Side B Magazine, among others. In 2011, Joanna was the recipient of the Friends of Humanities/American Society of Poet’s Prize. She is also the founder and editor of the online magazine, Yes, Poetry. Joanna is a graduate of SUNY Purchase College, where she received a BA in Creative Writing and a BA in Literature. She currently attends Sarah Lawrence College for her MFA in Poetry Writing. In the future, she would like to live by the ocean.

JACKIE SHEELER is a native New Yorker, an award-winning poet, songwriter, performer, and renegade. She is the author of The Memory Factory, Off the Cuffs, Poems by and about the Police, to[o] long, a more recent full-length collection, Earthquake Came to Harlem, published by NYQ, and is widely published in journals and anthologies. She founded POETZ, the online poetry calendar, and created and hosted the Pink Pony reading series for over a decade. Jackie was the vocalist for Talk Engine, a popular WordRock band and has recently been performing as a solo artist. She’s performed on radio and TV, and at venues including the Knitting Factory, CBGB’s, Symphony Space, and much much more. Jackie is currently a teaching artist at Voices UnBroken and facilitates poetry workshops from her home.

LAUREN O’BRIEN is a provocative rock poetess and a top act on the NYC underground poetry-performance scene. She was drawn to arts and activism at a young age. In addition to her music studies, she spent three years in the avant-garde troupe, Terra-Incognita Theater, founded and directed by Polina Klimovitskaya; this experience helped to shape her poetry performance style. Lauren later became the poet/lyricist in the band P.O.A. and eventually formed her own rock-poetry outfit. Together with guitarist Thaddeus Wellenc Jr., engineer and synthesizer/drum programmer Sal Chisari, multi-instrumentalist and musical director Gary Pickard, and others, she began playing New York clubs and developed the material for Inconsequential Dream.

& THE USUAL CULPRITS:

FAUX MAUX (MO KELLY) – Lifetime performance artist/actress/playwright and writer, she took her one-woman play “Lil’ Red” and a few burlesque acts to Holland and Scotland. Now, she does the occasional stand-up and continues to creates play, perform outrageous acts of art, and creative havoc here in New York City.

PUMA PERL –Poet/Writer/Performance Artist/Producer/Curator and co-creator of DDAY Productions and this event - author of the full length collection"knuckle tattoos," the award winning chapbook "Belinda and Her Friends," widely published in journals and anthologies, internationally!
http://pumaperl.blogspot.com/

BIG MIKE is the author of 2 books, 81 Pounds and Sibling Rivalry and appears in the anthology One Millimeter, all published by Pretty Pollution Press. Big Mike is known for his performance art and was awarded Best Neptune in the 2004 Mermaid Parade in Coney Island.

$6 at the door
3 Minute Open Mic, sign-up starts at 7:45

Event photo by Jodi Lynn

More Info: http:www.bowerypoetry.com/