keeps going...and going...and going...

last night at rob hylton's slammetry in new jersey, i featured with hbo def poet gemineye and reknowned dub poet osagyfoe...hosted by the always entertaining and terribly funny big mic (who, if you will remember, is my fave white poet in the world!)...crowd of about 80 people. the show was cool but the vibe was very butch...lots of posturing, rage, screaming etc...it's a wonder that so many women were in attendance...am always worried that the very limited and masculine rage/lust emotional location in performance poetry will continue to discourage women from feeling (and i mean that word literally) as if there is a place for them in the art. was glad to see so many people out listening to poetry...it's unfortunate that so much of it sounded the same...oh! except for ASHLEY! korean seoul sista extraordinaire and part of the youthspeaks (i think in jersey it's youthspeaks) posse...she RIPPED it in the slam...bigUP...

tonight am back in MA at the pioneer arts center in easthampton...it's an all bent (i.e. unstraight) lineup; myself, blair (who is totally stalking me!...everywhere i go, he's either already been there or is following me...we'll finally meet tonight!)...and maya hersh, a solid young poet that i had the opportunity to hear the last time a few days ago at my last show in northhampton...and then, i get to sleep in tomorrow before the lizard lounge in boston...OH! AND BEFORE I FORGET! WAS INVITED TO FEATURE AT AN EVENT WHERE CORNEL WEST IS THE KEYNOTE SPEAKER! very excited about that...more later...cbell