Revisiting a performance from two summers ago with the great, great Trae Durica for Nerve Lantern.
This is about love. About lovers. About jumping off the ledge of a body. Saying what you need to say even when the one who needs to hear it is no longer listening.
Aimee Herman performs the piece “a meeting of selves through the salve of love” and an excerpt from “Postulation” in the Nerve Lantern poets’ theater show: An Afternoon of Sparking Poetry.
Additional performers: the phenomenal poet, artist, music making Trae Durica.
Intro by Kris Lew.
Hosted by Medicine Show Theatre as part of its Word/Play series of writers’ readings. New York City. July 19, 2014. Co-organized by Kris Lew and Ellen Redbird.
Nerve Lantern: Axon of Performance Literature is a literary journal published by Pyriform Press and edited by Ellen Redbird.
This program at Medicine Show Theatre was made possible in part by a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency.
Videography by Caryn Waechter
Video editing by Dan V. Weiss
© Nerve Lantern
I’m excited to host the first (of many) Queer Art Organics, which is a monthly showcase of LGBTQI artists showcasing their particular creative language(s). We feature poets, writers, music makers and performance artists of all kinds. Come and soak up the sounds or sign up for the OPEN MIC!!
Come to Branded Saloon located at 603 Vanderbilt Ave/ Brooklyn. SUNDAY OCTOBER 19th from 8-10 pm
Suggestion donation of $5 (no one ever turned away for lack of funds)
STARRING:
Jenna Leigh Evans was named one of LAMBDA Literary’s Emerging LGBT Voices of 2014. Recent publications include Electric Literature’s The Outlet, The Nervous Breakdown, The Toast, Autostraddle and the Billfold. Her debut novel, Prosperity, was a finalist for the Eludia Award and a semifinalist for the Black Lawrence Press’s Big Moose Prize. Published in July of this year, it is available in print and as an e-book.
Trae Durica is a genderqueer poet, writer and artist living in Brooklyn. Trae’s work can be found in NYSAI’s first Issue Flush’d,great weather for MEDIA’s latest anthology I Let Go of the Stars in My Hand, a self published chapbook Cacophony Worth Remembering, and on the undersides of overturned picnic tables. Trae Durica has mixed feelings about the Oxford comma.
Nerve Lantern is celebrating its latest journal with a reading by many of the contributors. This is a special publication, showcasing experimental works of poetry.
Featuring work by Nerve Lantern contributors:
Joel Allegretti, Allan Andre, Michelle DuPré, Kim Essex, Aimee Herman, Dennis Leroy Kangalee, Kris Lew, Magus Magnus, & John J. Trause
I’ll be performing alongside my pen pal, Trae Durica a piece called postulation and a meeting of selves through the salve of love
Join us at the Medicine Show Theater
549 West 52nd St. 3rd Floor
New York, NY 10019
3pm Saturday, July 19, 2014
Co-organized by Kris Lew & Ellen Redbird
Tickets $7
Aimee Herman 