Trial Runs for Ezra and Eliot

Photos Courtesy of Rob Gray with Junktape Productions

The TypewriterGirls Try Drag

Featured Readers: Aaron Kunin, C.A. Conrad, and Magdalena Zurawski

Sunday March 15

Doors Open 7:00/$5.00 Cover

On March 15th at Pittsburgh’s recently voted “Best Coffee House,” Your Inner Vagabond in Lawrenceville, The TypewriterGirls are hosting yet another theatrical evening of avant-garde poetics, performance, dance, and whiskey-inspired surrealist games. The show will feature the debut of the TypewriterGirls hyper-masculine alter-egos, Ezra and Eliot—modeled after the High-Modernist poetry duo renowned for their abilities to woo ladies, shine in battle, and refinance their home mortgages at ridiculously low interest rates; gender-bending punk-rock burlesque by Burning Angel’s own Nova and Archangel Romeo; Dadaist sound poetry performances featuring two of the NEO MFA’s finest faculty members Mary Biddinger and Jay Robinson; and Featured Readers Aaron Kunin, C.A. Conrad, and Magdalena Zurawski. The evening will be wrapped up with a whiskey-whipped dance party provided by Junktape Productions. Belly-dancing, collaborative writing and whiskey games start at 7:00 pm. Show starts at 7:30 pm.

Cost: $5.00 cover— includes cheap whiskey, use of a Studio 44 Olivetti Underwood, a kiss from a typewritergirl of your choice.

Your Inner Vagabond Coffeehouse & World Lounge

4130 Butler St. ? Lawrenceville,

Pittsburgh, PA 15201/412-683-1623

The Next Full-Length TypewriterGirls’ Cabaret has been scheduled!

March 15th ? Your Inner Vagabond

Doors Open 7:00 pm / Show Starts 7:30 pm

Cover: $5.00

Featured readers are:

AARON KUNIN is a poet, critic, and novelist. He is the author of Folding Ruler Star (Fence Books, 2005), a collection of small poems about shame. He lives in California, where he is an assistant professor of negative anthropology at Pomona College. His novel The Mandarin is just out from Fence Books.

CAConrad is the son of white trash asphyxiation whose childhood included selling cut flowers along the highway for his mother and helping her shoplift. He escaped to Philadelphia where he lives and writes with the PhillySound poets www.PhillySound.blogspot.com. His latest book The Book of Frank (Chax Press, 2009) received The Gil Ott Book Award. He is also the author of Deviant Propulsion (Soft Skull Press, 2006), (Soma)tic Midge (FAUX Press, 2008), and two forthcoming books, advanced ELVIS course (Soft Skull Press, 2009), and a collaboration with poet Frank Sherlock titled THE CITY REAL & IMAGINED: Philadelphia Poems (Factory School Press, 2009). He invites you to visit him online at www.CAConrad.blogspot.com

MAGDALENA ZURAWSKI was born in Newark NJ and grew up in Edison NJ, but Providence RI feels like home because that\’s where she started writing and meeting writers and thinking of herself as a writer. Currently, she lives in Durham, NC, where she is studying 19th-century American literature at Duke. The Bruise, out now from Fiction Collective Two, is the winner of the 2006 Ronald Sukenick prize for innovative fiction. It is her first book.

More info soon!

TypewriterGirls to Emcee Variety Variety Variety–Antics will ensue in full-force

Hoested by Open Thread as a Fundraiser for Poetsburgh

Saturday, January 31, 2009 at 9:00pm

brillobox ? Penn and Main–Pittsburgh, PA

otinfo?openthread.org

The comedic stylings of Hustlebot, Pittsburgh’s best improv troupe!

The high-steppin tunes of Mariage Blanc!

The world premiere of Therm & Soul’s new music video, directed by Michael McParlane and Michael Pisano!

A freaking DANCE PARTY with DJ Thermos providing the tunes and Tom McConnell supplying the video! (Also serving as the semi-official after-party for Jon Brodsky’s release with Encyclopedia Destructica!)

All this, plus the Typewriter Girls as emcees, plus artist-vendors, plus drunk and possibly sexy people dancin up on you! OMG THIS IS ALL TOTES WORTH A SMALL COVER CHARGE TO BENEFIT OPEN THREAD!!!

Variety 9-11
Dance 11-2
21+ / $5 for whole night / $4 after 11

www.openthread.org
www.hustlebot.com
www.myspace.com/mariageblanc
www.myspace.com/souldividerx
www.typewritergirls.com

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The TypewriterGirls have finally done it–They’ve harnessed the powers of the eternal and infinite creative and destructive flames that inspired and consumed our great artistic and mystical heroes– from Enheduanna and Sappho to Byron and Shelly. Join The Philly Area Cabaret and ourselves as we delve in the forces of nature which most choose to leave in the shadows and release the powers of our collective unconsciousness.

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Explore the murderous side your being with a terrifying story-telling session by Elizabeth Carter; watch burlesque dancing by dark, punk rock bacchanals, Dirty Deeds from West Philly; allow yourself to be hypnotized by the verbal spells of poets Molly Prosser and Mary Biddinger; and then let dark cabaret singer Julianne Marie Dous enchant you until night’s end. As always, your spiritual guides Crystal and Margaret will be leading the evening with necromantic theatrics, esoteric performance, and three bottles of cheap whiskey.

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Throughout the night a typewriter exquisite corpse, a fortune teller, a magician will be available to help you release your inner daemons. And, of course, in true Your Inner Vagabond style, there will be a lovely belly dancer—just, in case—you never know when you’ll need one of those.

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Doors Open at 7:30� Show Starts at 8:00

$5.00 cover—includes tarot card reading, palm reading, and cheap whiskey

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Directions follow this link http://www.yourinnervagabond.com/contact.php#directions

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4130 Butler Street, Lawrenceville ? 42nd Street

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Just to let you all know. Something. Something strange. Something powerful. Something magical. Something horrific. Something mystical. Something involving sacrifices of small furry creatures. Something without consciouness. Something undead, yet strangely arousing in a bright pink tubetop. (Are you getting the idea yet?) Will occur at Your Inner Vagabond on January 18th at 7:00. Be there. With a vile of rodent blood. We’ll let you know why later.