17 Poets! Literary and Performance Series
Upcoming Events
Spring Season 2012
All shows followed by an open mic.
Limited Sign up begins at 7:30 PM
Limited Sign up begins at 7:30 PM
Readings begin at 8pm, NOLA Time
17 Poets! Literary and Performance Series
looks forward its 9th year
of fantastic poetry and performances.
17 Poets! Literary and Performance Series
looks forward its 9th year
of fantastic poetry and performances.
May 17th
Poets Clark Coolidge and Joel Dailey
Clark Coolidge’s most recent books are The Act of Providence, a long poem about his home town (Combo Books, 2012), and This Time We Are Both, the result of a trip to the USSR with the Rova Saxophone Quartet in 1989. A collection of the writings, lectures and conversations of Philip Guston, edited by Coolidge, has just appeared from The University of California Press. He lives in Petaluma, California.
Joel Dailey lives in New Orleans and teaches writing at Delgado College. Recent books are Lower 48 and My Psychic Dogs My Life as well as his newest collection Surprised by French Fries (Ugly Duckling Presse). He runs Fell Swoop Press.
"Dailey uses an extremely sharp facet of the Language Crystal to operate on a flabby world that has the nerve to be his…. Joel Dailey is the Robinson Jeffers of Post-Pop…. His work contains also the most thorough on-going critique of pretension in whatever form she may have been proclaimed….." —ANDREI CODRESCU
May 24
TBA
May 31
Poet and Designer HR Hegnauer
HR Hegnauer is the author of Sir (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, 2011), from which she enjoys performing monologues. She is a freelance book designer and website designer specializing in working with independent publishers as well as individual artists and writers. She maintains a portfolio of her work at hrhegnauer.com. HR has also acted in two movies directed by Ed Bowes: The Value of Small Skeletons (2011) and Essay on Ash (forthcoming). She is a member of the feminist publishing collaborative Belladonna* and the poets’ theater group GASP: Girls Assembling Something Perpetual.
HR has a special connection to our series as she designs the site for Trembling Pillow Press (www.tremblingpillowpress.com).
June 2012
June 7
Poet Debrah Morkun
Debrah Morkun believes in near death experiences and prays to the old gods. She is the author of The Ida Pingala (BlazeVOX 2011) and Projection Machine (BlazeVOX 2012) and several chapbooks. She lives in Philadelphia, where she curates The Jubilant Thicket Literary Series & co-curates (with Kim Gek Lin Short) The G.I. Reading Series. Visit Debrah at www.debrahmorkun.com
June 14
Book Signing and Release from Trembling Pillow Press
Celebrate the release of Kim Vodicka's Aesthesia Balderdash
Kim Vodicka grew up in Lafayette, Louisiana and received her B.A. in English from UL Lafayette in 2010. She is currently working on her M.F.A. in Poetry at LSU, where she is also a Graduate Teaching Assistant and Co-Coordinator of Delta Mouth Literary Festival 2012. Kim is an avid lover of music, hosts a psychedelic rock show, "Shangri-La-La Land," on KLSU, and is involved in musical-poetic projects. She believes that poems want to be songs very badly, and she can recite most of her work from memory. Her artwork has been published in Tenderloin, and her poems have been published in Shampoo, Ekleksographia, and Dig. Aesthesia Balderdash is her first book.
Advance Praise for Aesthesia Balderdash:
Like it's dangerous, seductive cover, Kim Vodicka's first book seems birthed from the mouth of a southern belle's rotting corpse, a trellis of roses bursting out her lips. You'll follow the flowers inside the corpse because the language of flowers is tipsy and strange. Once inside, Vodicka's bejeweled, poisonous songs will wind their intoxicating vines around your heart. Down into the glittering you will go, where a pack of pearl-girls and a flock of doves "[will] beat the shit out of [you]." Yes, this book will eat you, and the flies will come for you next.
-Kate Durbin, author of E! Entertainment
“Belatedly—like everything we wait for—Kathy Acker’s great, I mean really great, grand‐ daughter appears...in Louisiana, naturally (or un‐naturally). Her “blood runneth cheesecake” who penneth this collection of see‐sick lyrics drunk w/ semantic play and painful as “all lights...even stars.” Vodicka’s Aesthesia Balderdash sisters the disaster of gender in ways that matter: “chronically, / abashedly, / rosily, cockily, / dazzlingly.” Not for the faint of art, this is poetry that cunts, I mean counts.”
–Laura Mullen, author of Dark Archive
Poets Clark Coolidge and Joel Dailey
Clark Coolidge’s most recent books are The Act of Providence, a long poem about his home town (Combo Books, 2012), and This Time We Are Both, the result of a trip to the USSR with the Rova Saxophone Quartet in 1989. A collection of the writings, lectures and conversations of Philip Guston, edited by Coolidge, has just appeared from The University of California Press. He lives in Petaluma, California.
Joel Dailey lives in New Orleans and teaches writing at Delgado College. Recent books are Lower 48 and My Psychic Dogs My Life as well as his newest collection Surprised by French Fries (Ugly Duckling Presse). He runs Fell Swoop Press.
"Dailey uses an extremely sharp facet of the Language Crystal to operate on a flabby world that has the nerve to be his…. Joel Dailey is the Robinson Jeffers of Post-Pop…. His work contains also the most thorough on-going critique of pretension in whatever form she may have been proclaimed….." —ANDREI CODRESCU
May 24
TBA
May 31
Poet and Designer HR Hegnauer
HR Hegnauer is the author of Sir (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, 2011), from which she enjoys performing monologues. She is a freelance book designer and website designer specializing in working with independent publishers as well as individual artists and writers. She maintains a portfolio of her work at hrhegnauer.com. HR has also acted in two movies directed by Ed Bowes: The Value of Small Skeletons (2011) and Essay on Ash (forthcoming). She is a member of the feminist publishing collaborative Belladonna* and the poets’ theater group GASP: Girls Assembling Something Perpetual.
HR has a special connection to our series as she designs the site for Trembling Pillow Press (www.tremblingpillowpress.com).
June 2012
June 7
Poet Debrah Morkun
Debrah Morkun believes in near death experiences and prays to the old gods. She is the author of The Ida Pingala (BlazeVOX 2011) and Projection Machine (BlazeVOX 2012) and several chapbooks. She lives in Philadelphia, where she curates The Jubilant Thicket Literary Series & co-curates (with Kim Gek Lin Short) The G.I. Reading Series. Visit Debrah at www.debrahmorkun.com
June 14
Book Signing and Release from Trembling Pillow Press
Celebrate the release of Kim Vodicka's Aesthesia Balderdash
Kim Vodicka grew up in Lafayette, Louisiana and received her B.A. in English from UL Lafayette in 2010. She is currently working on her M.F.A. in Poetry at LSU, where she is also a Graduate Teaching Assistant and Co-Coordinator of Delta Mouth Literary Festival 2012. Kim is an avid lover of music, hosts a psychedelic rock show, "Shangri-La-La Land," on KLSU, and is involved in musical-poetic projects. She believes that poems want to be songs very badly, and she can recite most of her work from memory. Her artwork has been published in Tenderloin, and her poems have been published in Shampoo, Ekleksographia, and Dig. Aesthesia Balderdash is her first book.
Advance Praise for Aesthesia Balderdash:
Like it's dangerous, seductive cover, Kim Vodicka's first book seems birthed from the mouth of a southern belle's rotting corpse, a trellis of roses bursting out her lips. You'll follow the flowers inside the corpse because the language of flowers is tipsy and strange. Once inside, Vodicka's bejeweled, poisonous songs will wind their intoxicating vines around your heart. Down into the glittering you will go, where a pack of pearl-girls and a flock of doves "[will] beat the shit out of [you]." Yes, this book will eat you, and the flies will come for you next.
-Kate Durbin, author of E! Entertainment
“Belatedly—like everything we wait for—Kathy Acker’s great, I mean really great, grand‐ daughter appears...in Louisiana, naturally (or un‐naturally). Her “blood runneth cheesecake” who penneth this collection of see‐sick lyrics drunk w/ semantic play and painful as “all lights...even stars.” Vodicka’s Aesthesia Balderdash sisters the disaster of gender in ways that matter: “chronically, / abashedly, / rosily, cockily, / dazzlingly.” Not for the faint of art, this is poetry that cunts, I mean counts.”
–Laura Mullen, author of Dark Archive
