Punketry: Music and Poetry

A few weeks ago, a new friend (and incredible poet) Hayden Dansky asked me if I might fill in for them at a show they were going to do in Denver. Live punk music and poetry. I was nervous, but deeply excited to collaborate with local musicians and feel that aliveness that takes over my entire being when I perform.

It went so well, I get to do it again!

This Saturday, July 16th at 7pm, at the Trident in Boulder, CO, a great line-up of poets at an event called Punketry.

Punketry is the profane math of punk+poetry regularly occurring every second Wednesday at the Mutiny Information Cafe and now making not its first but its formal debut in the sandbox theater of downtown Boulder’s historic Trident Booksellers & Cafe!

Improvised psychrock by Black Market Translation in collaboration with feature readers:

Jade Lascelles
Aimee Herman
Kenny White
Eric Fischman
Trey Casen (Kolyah Shoni)

Hosted by Sarah Rodriguez of South Broadway Press.
Live painting by Kaitlyn Sterlace of Exist Vibrantly Art
$5 suggested donation goes to the artists, nobody turned away

Love=Love=Love

The marvelous co-editor/co-director of Three Rooms Press, Kat Georges, will be hosting a discussion and reading in celebration of queer love and sex in literature today. I’m looking forward to joining other great Three Rooms Press writers, Meagan Brothers, Alvin Orloff, Aaron Hamburger, and Julia Watts.

You don’t even need to leave your home! Make some popcorn or dip your largest spoon into a container of peanut butter (my favorite snack!) and celebrate love love love and books books books with me!

The discussion will explore: How love in literature has become more inclusive during recent decades; How each author addresses love in their writing and opens doors to acceptance of love without boundaries; Why literature can provide inspiration in times of loneliness and heartbreak; Different levels of love: from friendship to red-hot lust.

Following the discussion, authors will field questions from the livestream audience.  The event will be livestreamed via Youtube at bit.ly/feb13-lovelovelove-youtube and Facebook via Three Rooms Press Group page at facebook.com/groups/threeroomspresss.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13th at 7pm 

 

Writing Remix Podcast

A lot of hunkering these past few weeks. Baked some homemade pita bread. Walked with my mate and pup to Prospect Park. Felt the previously napping sun against my face. Last week, I was invited to chat with Dan Dissinger and Katie Robison, creators of the Writing Remix podcast through USC Writing Program. We spoke about teaching through this challenging time, managing anxiety (if you have some suggestions, please send some my way!) and trying to find comfort through isolation.

Check out our chat below:

Episode 4: Healing through Language with Aimee Herman

Serious podcasting in progress

Posted by Katie Robison

Gender Reveal Party!

Join me on February 9th from 7-9pm at KGB Bar for Gender Reveal Party, a great NYC reading series exploring queer voices. This month’s theme is…..Euphoria. 

Hmmm….what makes me feel euphoric? Off-leash dog hours with my pup at Prospect Park where dogs can roam, sniff, play, chase, run. Finding a five dollar bill hidden in a pocket of a pair of pants I just purchased at the thrift store. Kissing my spouse. Reading anything by Carmen Maria Machado. Taking a bath and listening to NPR while eating cookies or drinking hot cocoa. Teaching.

Gender Reveal Party is hosted and curated by Robin Gow.

Emotive Fruition!

Emotive Fruition is an inventive merge of poets and actors celebrating spoken word. I am excited to have a poem, “hide-n-seek” featured in the upcoming show celebrating loooooooooove poems.

LET LIGHTNING SET US ON FIRE is a live performance of poetry written by some of New York’s hottest poets and performed on stage by a cast of film and stage actors. This Valentine’s Day, snuggle up with some fiery poems about modern love that will surely get your heart going.

WHEN/WHERE? February 3rd / Caveat Bar / 21 A Clinton Street / New York, NY 10002

Doors 6:30 PM, show 7:00 PM.
Tickets $15 in advance, $20 at the door.
21+
This event is mixed seated and standing room. Seats are first-come, first-served.

PURCHASE TICKETS HERE!!

Poems written by Michelle Bermudez, Michael Broder, Elizabeth Burk, Susana H. Case, Janel Cloyd, LeConte Dill, Jared Harel, Aimee Herman, Emily Hockaday, Quincy Scott Jones, Dara Kalima, Arden Levine, Anna Limontas-Salisbury, Chrissy Malvasi, Cynthia Manick, Caitlin Grace McDonnell, Jason Schneiderman, Lynn Schmeidler, Jackie Sherbow, Kathleen Williamson

Directed by Thomas Dooley

Rainbows Everywhere

On Saturday, October 12th, I will be signing copies of “Everything Grows” at the Rainbow Book Fair at 2pm at Three Rooms Press’s table.

Join me at the LGBTQ Center located at 208 W. 13th St. in NYC and celebrate LGBTQ writers and publishers. There will be poetry readings and panel discussions too!

The Forgiveness of Lightning Bugs

Last Sunday, Trae Durica and I took the stage at Bowery Poetry Club for BOOG’s Poet Theatre. It was a wonderful event, with so many great writers and actors. Take a watch!

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On the Fence

Tonight, Monday, September 23rd, join me alongside a great line-up of writers at Big Words, Etc reading series in conjunction with PEN America’s Breakout Program.

@ 61 Local / 61 Bergen St in Brooklyn

6:30-8:30pm

*I will be reading a brand new piece that explores the theme: on the fence.

BOOG and BOOKS

Today, I get to celebrate poetic theatrics and Brooklyn’s Book Festival.

First, BOOG Poets Theatre Festival

@ Bowery Poetry Club / 308 Bowery NYC

12-3pm

*I will be performing alongside the magnetic Trae Durica in a poetic movement I wrote called “The Forgiveness of Lightening Bugs”, which explores the end of a friendship and a yearning for forgiveness.

AND THEN….

Meet me at the Brooklyn Book Festival 

I will be signing copies of my novel, Everything Grows, at 4pm.

Find me at Three Rooms Press’s booth 333.

Kingston Bound!

Hydrogen Junkbox (poemusic featuring David Lawton, Eric Alter and I) will be driving on down to Kingston, NY to spread our Pixie Dust on Saturday, September 21st at Kingston/NYC 1st Annual Anti-Folk Festival!

@ Deep Tanks 2.0 / 224 East Strand St. in Kingston, NY

12-10pm

Hydrogen Junkbox goes on at 1pm. What a great line-up of musicians including Phoebe Blue & the Make Baleaves. Open mic too!

Deep Tanks & The Kingston Artist Collective Present:

12pm / PHOEBE BLUE & THE MAKE BALEAVES
https://phoebeblue.bandcamp.com/
1pm / HYDROGEN JUNKBOX
https://www.facebook.com/HydrogenJunkbox/
2pm / BILLY WAKEMAN
https://www.facebook.com/billywakemanmusic/
3pm / GROVE RUNE
https://www.facebook.com/groverune/
4pm / WILD BILL DRUCKER & KID BUSY
http://wildbilldrucker.com/
5pm / YOUTH MOOSE
http://youthmoose.com/
6pm / MATTHEW GAFFNEY & FRIENDS
https://mattgaffney.bandcamp.com/
7pm / DEEP SOUND DIVER
https://deepsounddiver.bandcamp.com/
8pm/ PAUL McMAHON & EVA BUBLICK ++
http://paulmcmahon.tv/
9pm / COMFORT CAT & FRIENDS
https://comfortcat.bandcamp.com/
(OPEN MIC TO FOLLOW)