Women’s Poetry Happening
December 5, 2011 at 8pm
Women’s Poetry Happening, hosted by Ilka Scobie
Ilka Scobie
Ilka Scobie is a native New Yorker poet and art critic, whose work appears in Artnet and Italian Marie Claire. She is honored to be again working with LaMama Theater, where she has curated womens and student readings. She teaches poetry in public schools for Teachers & Writers Collaborative and Lincoln Center. Collaborative work with her husband, Luigi Cazzaniga includes documentary shorts for Italian TV and recent interviews with artists Jiom Dine, Jeff Koons and Ugo Rondonine.
HD Artemis
HD Artemis – considers herself a relational artist and primarily explores intersecting experiences between subject and object, the mystical and the mundane, and people, places and things. Various art forms provide an outlet for her creative expression including creating images in stained glass, folding origami, writing, dancing and producing events that bring people together for meaningful reasons. She lives in Exotic Brooklyn and her poetry is just beginning to be published.
Jackie Sheeler
Jackie Sheeler is a multitasking mofo as well known for juxtaposing divergently brilliant artists at the many NYC shows she’s developed as she is for her own written and WordRocking poetic creations. She is delighted to once again don her MC cap as host of this eClectiC eLectriC, and will be debuting some new work of her own that night.
Lee Ann Brown
Lee Ann Brown is the author of two books of poetry: The Sleep That Changed Everything and Polyverse. She has received poetry fellowships from NYFA, The Fund for Poetry and the Howard Foundation, and teaches poetry at St. John’s University. She is also the founder of Tender Buttons press and of the community performance space, The French Broad Institute (of Time & the River).
Shelly Millers
Shelley Miller is a poet, singer, and songwriter who has been writing and performing, primarily in her hometown of New York City, for over twenty-five years. She is also a member of Poets & Writers, having published in numerous NY magazines.- She’s appeared in poetry videos with Allen Ginsberg, in poetry cabaret, and on cable TV. As a singer, she’s performed with The Roches, Tuli Kupferberg, and many other musicians and bands, and recorded and written for film. She was named after Percy Bysshe, and is proud to consider herself a true (and New) Romantic.
Tavi Fields
Tavi is a brooklyn-based independent hip-hop artist.
Hobbies: Performing w/ her 8-piece band, Mamarazzi; Audio Engineering
Where u can see/hear more: rawrhymes.wordpress.com, www.mamarazzisounds.com
Wanda Phipps
Wanda Phipps is a writer/performer living in NYC. Her publications and recordings include Field of Wanting: Poems of Desire, Wake-Up Calls: 66 Morning Poems, and the CD-Rom Zither Mood. Her poetry has been translated into Ukrainian, Hungarian, Arabic and Galician. She has received awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the National Theater Translation Fund, and others. As a founding member of Yara Arts Group she has collaborated on numerous theatrical productions presented in Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, Siberia, and at La MaMa, E.T.C. in NYC. She’s curated reading series at the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church and written about the arts for Time Out New York,Paper Magazine, and About.com. Her website is www.mindhoney.com.