Spumoni

​Tonight's political reading was a bit political for my tastes, but just the right amount of reading.

Poets included:
Regie Gibson
delisile
Tom Daley
Ren Gender from girlsnqueers
Nancy Hewitt
Mama Rut (pronounced root)
Douglas Bishop
Sue Savoy
Su Millerz
Chris O'Carroll
Afrodysiac
and Suzie D.

As far as political poetry goes, it was good. Not a lot of sloganeering. Great space. Free sangria for the poets, as well as some baba ganoush and Bush Choker Boquets (some splendidly well put together Rold Golds).

Su, Nancy & I even put on the poem deemed to hot for The Cantab Lounge. Yeup, Su's boob out of a burka with electrical tape covering her nipple. Said Regie Gibson "I had to look away. Otherwise I'd be ogling."

Since I stood behind her for the piece, I still have no idea what Su's breast looks like when exposed to natural elements (or, for that matter, unnatural elements). I'm ok with that.

The night was enough fun that it almost made up for sleeping through Prabakar's feature at The Cantab (I was at home...had I been at The Cantab there'd have been no way I could have fallen asleep, despite my recent bout of narcolepsy). Once again, the highlight of the night for me was hearing Su Savoy refer to a caucasian cop, an asian cop, and an african cop as "A great big spumoni of The Man."
Current Mood:  comatose
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Mon, Jul. 26th, 2004 05:58 pm (local)
radioactiveartDammit. I really should have been there.

I'm doing something next week with a group called Peaceful Tomorrows -- a reading as part of a protest they're staging at both conventions. They're dragging a 1400 pound stone "Tomb of the Unknown Civilian" by hand from Boston to NY. It's a group set up by Sept. 11 families and survivors. I was honored to be asked to participate.
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Tue, Jul. 27th, 2004 09:21 am (local)
akamuuCongratulations. You were missed. Luckily, I'll have a chance to see you at The cantab next week.
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Mon, Jul. 26th, 2004 06:41 pm (local)
kasheWhat piece did Regie do?
Curious, becasue I don't think I ever heard him do anything political, until he moved and visted Chicago for features, and it was some kind of funny call and response piece. Ofcourse alot of his writing is political, but not in the slam way of banging your head against the wall with it. . .
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Tue, Jul. 27th, 2004 09:24 am (local)
akamuuThere was little head-banging politics last night. Most of the line up consisted of page poets or non-slam performance poets. Primo stuff.

Regie did a piece I hadn't heard before, and because the night was so dense with good performances, I couldn't tell you much about it. I don't think it was new, but it definitely wasn't the poem that included the lines about "a feminist wet t-shirt contest." "Can I get an amen?"