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Ryan Anderson
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Sep 27, 2024 1:03 pm
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Written Quincey at LowDown
Written Quincey &GÜDPPL LowDown Tulsa Sept. 21, 2024
The Sanctuary — a dimly lit Chicago nightclub where jazz, blues, and poetry collided — was a pivotal place in the movie Love Jones, where a young poet named Darius Lovehall (Larenz Tate) attempts to woo Nina Mosley (Nia Long), an aspiring photographer. Tulsa has its own version of The Sanctuary at LowDown, where Written Quincey (still young) recently took the stage as a teacher, a poet, and a rapper, in front of a crowd that loves jass. (I’ll explain what that means in a minute.)
BANANAREPUBLIC/FRATRICIDE Tom of Finland House Los Angeles Aug. 22, 2024
The Tom of Finland House is separated from Laveta Terrace by a tall green hedge. It’s not immediately clear whether this is to shield the outside world from what is going on inside or the inside world from what is going on without. Either way, whenever I come to the House, I feel as though I’m passing through a membrane to another universe. Butch lesbians roam in button-ups or harnesses, a given individual simultaneously sports a beard and a visible thong, top surgery scars flash through the open sides of DIY muscle shirts, and — like a cherry on top — a jacked man clad in dark leather vest, shorts, and canine muzzle-mask searches for a master.
Presidential Debate National Constitution Center 525 Arch St. Philadelphia Sept. 10, 2024
While this year’s presidential nominees prepped for their only formal face-off inside Philly’s constitution center, cops, protestors, reporters, and more cops poured around the outskirts of the perimeter to prepare their personal, localized responses to the event. Review Crew Deadline Poet Lindo Yes was on the scene — providing live “typewriter poetry” to passerby along with Marshall James Kavanaugh and other activist writers — and ready to put forward his own freedom of expression. Watch the video above to hear his free-styled poem, which starts like this: “Election season, another quarter at the arcade…”
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Lindsey Smith
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Sep 8, 2024 10:03 am
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Elisa Harkins performing "Deadly"
Indigenous Language Poetry Night Woody Guthrie Center Tulsa Aug. 31, 2024
The story in Tulsa this Labor Day weekend was all about the Big Dam Party, and amid the celebration (and lingering questions) about the state of Water in the River, it stands to reason that other happenings in town may have been overlooked. Indigenous Language Poetry Night with Words of the People had additional wrinkles with last-minute lineup changes and technological hiccups. Nevertheless, a few enthusiastic poets and poetry fans ventured out into a rainstorm Saturday night to visit a different gathering place, the Woody Guthrie Center, for an evening that was a call to language reclamation in varying forms and presentations.
Rally for Eddie Irizarry Center for Criminal Justice 1301 Filbert St. Philadelphia August 8, 2024
One year after Philadelphian Eddie Irizarry was killed by a cop through his car window, family and protesters gathered to commemorate his life — and to protest the release of his shooter, ex-cop Mark Dial, on bail. Watch the video above to see testimony from the rally, filmed by Deadline Poet Lindo Yes, who also performed a poem about police brutality live at the scene. All of this comes after the District Attorney’s Office withdrew a first-degree murder charge against Mark Dial last week; read more about that, and about the circumstances surrounding Irizarry’s tragic death, here.
AMERICANGOTHICREADING Night Gallery Los Angeles July 25, 2024
The United States is definitely haunted. I mean, the whole country is built on an “Indian” graveyard. And it has all the trappings of a horror movie: dark forests, hypersexual teens, and a news cycle that makes jump-scare clips look like meditation videos. (Plus, according to a speech Donald Trump made last Wednesday, the infamous Silence of the Lambs villain Hannibal Lecter is not only “real,” but he also “wants to have you for dinner. He’d like to have you for dinner.”)
U‑Arts Closure Poetry Slam The Velvet Whip 11th and Vine St. Philadelphia June 16, 2024
In the aftermath of the historic University of the Arts abrupt announcement of imminent closure on May 31, the Velvet Whip arts and social club invited the public to a poetry slam to protest and process the news. Few showed up besides Review Crew Deadline Poet Lindo Yes, who took to an otherwise empty stage to reflect on the abandonment of people by institutions that are simultaneously saddling students with debt. Watch that video above, which also includes interviews with two U‑Arts alum — Nox Shou and Sue Moerder — who attended but did not perform at Sunday night’s event. “It’s about this whole image Philadelphia is getting as a really non-art city,” Moerder said. “To lose art schools and creative schools is a really bad look for Philadelphia.”
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Jennie The Lloyd
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Jun 2, 2024 11:14 am
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Community and poetry for a state in crisis
Lyrical Lifelines for Mental Health and Sobriety Living Arts of Tulsa May 25, 2024
In the Tulsa Arts District on a humid May evening, electric as a storm cloud and ominous with tornadoes on the eastern horizon, the brightly lit Living Arts building was a beacon.
Watch Lindo emerge from the stocks, seeking revenge.
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Philadelphia Renaissance Faire at Fort Mifflin 6400 Hog Island Rd. Philadelphia May 27, 2024
Deadline Poet LindoYes checked out the Philly Faire, a three-day event held this year at the historic Fort Mifflin on the Delaware River, where he found himself a more active participant than he expected amid the scene of medieval confusion. Watch a video story of his time there above (including getting pelted with fluffy tomatoes in the stocks); read his poetic review to pictures below.
Philadelphia’s Parker administration took action Wednesday to remove 50 people remaining at a Kensington Avenue tent city, the final push in a month-long “encampment resolution” that’s cracking down on an area estimated to hold about 39 percent of Philly’s unhoused population. That news inspired community organizer and poet LindoYes to write the following poem, recalling the eviction of his own family when he was in the third grade. In the video above, he performs that poem, titled “Landlord,” from the scene of the encampment sweep.
Woodworker Jesse Rinyu and Poet LindoYes attempt to fix their shared sculpture's nutty brain.
LindoYes performs his poem, "Irregular Heartbeat."
The Poetry Gumball Machine Project Museum for Art in Wood 141 N. 3rd St. Philadelphia April 27, 2024
“Tough love is being punched until you don’t cry — and crying is the only thing that stops the punching from hurting as much,” Philly Poet and local organizer LindoYes recited softly. His words were resonant enough to reach his audience without relying on a mic as he stood next to a wooden robot designed to dispense his poems — and social service supports — to the city at large.
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K Hank Jost
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Mar 20, 2024 2:21 pm
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The Palace Reading Series Greenpoint, Brooklyn 2/19/24
I do my best in these articles to avoid reviewing the same folks. In a city like this one there’s always plenty new to find if one is willing to do the necessary seeking out. However, there’s also a fair amount of tried-and-true staples, places and recurring events that function as carousels of variety and, in the best of cases, serve as centers of gravity for the development of social scenes. Marissa Cadena and Rita Puska’s Palace Reading Series is increasingly becoming one of these events.
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K Hank Jost
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Mar 13, 2024 3:14 pm
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Micsters Peter Vack, Serena Rubin
Lily Lady Presents Honey’s Brooklyn, NYC 3/12/2024
In writing this review, I’m struggling up front with where to put my focus. A six-person bill is quite a lot for a reading —usually, four readers is the max my attention can tolerate, though it is often also the case that the readers are unified in theme, approach, and scene.
This event, curated by artist/writer/filmmaker/the other usual etceteras Lily Lady, covered a wide spread of approaches and genres. To put it all as shortly as possible before I make my decision about who and what to discuss, we the audience were treated to autofiction, diary entries, curatorial notes, a critical essay, and Peter Vack … There was a lot going on.
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Alicia Chesser
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Feb 9, 2024 3:10 pm
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Sharing stories in the light
Live Lit Night Heirloom Rustic Ales Tulsa Jan. 25, 2024
If, like me, you sometimes harbor romantic fantasies about literary experiences that happen in dark, gritty, hole-in-the-wall venues (probably with some sort of bongo drum / absinthe accompaniment), trying to find something like that in Tulsa may leave you disappointed. “Beat” we ain’t. But there’s something to be said for sharing stories in the light. About as far from dark and gritty as it’s possible to be, Heirloom Rustic Ales is one of several local spots hosting regular writer’s nights these days — all rooms that turn out to be warm, welcoming, well-lit settings for, well, lit.
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Brandon Sward
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Jan 19, 2024 9:07 am
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Cyrus Dunham reads at Casual Encountersz.
CASUALENCOUNTERSZ Baert Gallery Los Angeles Jan. 17, 202
One day I googled how to create the perfect cheese board. I came across the following formula: something sharp, something creamy, something fresh, something funky, something nutty. On the surface, it is difficult to find much to argue with. A variety of textures and flavors, like flowers in a bouquet. Both the assembly of the cheese board and the literary reading must make a whole greater than the sum of the parts, while catering to a seemingly diverse clientele of largely bourgeois sensibility.
