Gig: When I Knew Everyone on Avenue A
When I Knew Everyone on Avenue A at Bluestockings Bookstore on February 21, 7pm. This will be a reading of a memoir-in-progress. Free. Details below.
When I Knew Everyone on Avenue A is Cheryl B.’s personal, irreverent take on New York City in the 1990s. In this humorous one-woman spoken word/storytelling presentation, Cheryl offers up bits of her twenty-something existence; logic-defying relationships, sexual bewilderment, artistic experimentation, fleeting friendships, the death of her father, high doses of self-medication and ultimately, sobriety. While in the background, some of her beloved NYC haunts fade into relics.
Poem up on Salonzine
I have a poem called “Noise” in the latest issue of Sunday Salon Salonzine . Check it out.
Homonerd Alert
My brilliant and lovely gf Kelli Dunham, a self-described homonerd, has created a portal for her Examiner.com NYLGBT Events column. Read it, Kelli really knows the gay.
November 7th: Ping Pong Reading
I’m honored to be in this issue of Ping Pong!
The Ping•Pong East Coast Launch Party at Happy Ending
The Henry Miller Library is pleased to announce the annual publication of Ping•Pong, a journal of the arts. The editors continue to serve up the best artists from the the global art and literary scene by publishing a vibrant group of poets, writers, artists, and photographers. This issue continues Ping•Pong’s commitment to a cultural dialogue between contemporary artists and the aesthetics set forth by Henry Miller and Anais Nin.
The 2009 issue of Ping•Pong features an international collection from Iraq, Ireland, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Japan. Ping•Pong also offers the finest in American writers including Kim Addonizio, Tony Tost, Matt Hart, Kim Chinquee, Jason Morris, Erica Wright, Kate Greenstreet and performance artist/poet, Cheryl Burke, among many other luminaries.
The Ping•Pong East Coast Launch Party will take place at the Happy Ending Bar on November 7, and will feature readings by contributors Cheryl Burke, Erica Wright, Jennifer Firestone, Whitney Porter, Kate Hall, Erika Lutzner, and Joey Cannizzaro, as well as editors Maria Garcia Teutsch and Christine Hamm Special guests (to be announced) will also perform. Readings will begin at 7:00 pm. The event is free and open to the public.
Be gentle, it’s my first
YouTube video. My chins and I star in this clip (on the Sunday Salon page). I’m reading my poem “When I Knew Everyone on Avenue A,” which is also the working title of my one-woman show in-progress premiering in February. Video shot after last week’s reading with lots of chatter in the background.
