January 2012
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it’s a new year, and i’m starting it sharing a new art studio/practice & workshop space (exciting big/bright/lovely/accessible to Bostocamberville friends!) i hope to have zine/creative writing mentoring options available soon, and eventually mirror-virtual writing workshops. woo!
in other news, i’m going to be helping ‘VIDA: women in literary arts’ folks again...
December 2011
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October 2011
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September 2011
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Keyring/calendar x-post (Welcome to my Fall!)
(http://bit.ly/keyringcal ~ jojolazar.com)
9/16 jojo’s *art for Aliza’s brain trust will be on sale via roving cigarette/merch girl & available as a special bundle during the raffle! —all at the RE-SCHEDULED Traniwreck!
FRI. Sept 16, 2011
TraniWreck: a benefit for Aliza
at OBERON - 2 Arrow Street Harvard Square Cambridge, MA
doors: 8pm show: 8:30pm 18+
advanced...
August 2011
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Updated keyring calendar! →
mlle.tumblr x-post, because i love:
with immediate future-shows of the riff raff i get up to no good jewlesque awkville bandcestuous carny fambly steam crunks music with: WHY ARE THOSE GIRLS SO LOUD it’s ‘cos we’re jewish, Meff ‘n’ jojo’s Tiny Instrument Revue, Walter Sickert & The Army of BRoken TOys.
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jojo's paintbox presents: ART for Aliza's Brain...
{mlle.tumblr x-post} i’m selling high quality card stock prints of my portraits of Aliza Shapiro/Heywood Wakefield. Your donations go straight to Aliza’s Brain Trust to support this pillar of light/life of the Boston community, aiding her ongoing medical/living expenses as she recuperates from a cerebral hemorrhage and stroke. (Read more here)
The donation amount is up to you, but here’s my...
June 2011
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Words i may (over)use.
In editing a new manuscript assortment (how motley motley from my MFA thesis, your poem-requests, and my poem-a-day project)— i realized i use some words truly frequently (at least in this collection):
champagne
skeletal
specter/spectre
ghoul
“red & black” (replaced one w. ‘coal ruby’)
spirals
The spiraling specter of champagne-skulled skeletal ghouls red...
May 2011
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Shameless upcoming show-cal' x-post.
(from jojolazar.com’s http://bit.ly/keyringcal)
Achtung, new project: WHY ARE THOSE GIRLS SO LOUD it’s ‘cos we’re jewish
Premiere of my outdoor voices awkville in excelsis project with my colleague in cabaret verse slinging, Amy Macabre… 6/25, “Drive in Saturday.” (FB event page) Niki Luparelli’s loving tribute to David Bowie (sequel) @...
April 2011
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My cento for NaPoMo
Lying: to drink a dark with tiny
shards plunge me deep in love. Put out.
Emerge, twitch green trousers,
naked man full of salt
all dopey in the glass. To open your tiny…
Beak-mouth, the trick
is to make it pilot-personal.
Little corners of a kind of ham,
and candy limbs. Something offensive?
A carousel-sweet dress, someone
stands and weeps in the glass.
I stand in duct...
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March 2011
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The Spring Issue is Live!
The greatest cultural event of the season is finally here: the Spring 2011 issue of A Bad Penny Review has gone live!
Poetry, Brown Paper Portraiture, and Nu-Vaudeville Performance from jojo Lazar!
Mark Powell takes us through the painful process of Murdering His Darlings!
James Claffey offers a “cuckoos nest of oddities” in “Where’s me dinner woman”!
Twain...
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February 2011
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Breaking TOys tiddly bits (plz help your broken...
[auto-reblog of mlle.tumblr self]
for the record, mine ye olde neologism of Pornival (n.): implies the Walter Sickert portable carnival of possible/likely pornographic intent. emphasis on the portability and carnal carnival aspect of our tiny instrumentalist selves, biensur.
X please write-in & vote for Walter Sickert as best Artist in the Phoenix’s Best of Poll (put Janaka Stucky...
January 2011
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38. For @wil329 on "teething toddlers" (crossover...
“Let me show you these photos of a desert sex-toy tupperware party”
While the first, early tooth is an event
And the calendrical leapfrog a reason
To become a rum-runner, remember:
Paul Revere’s lantern flashing garishly
With a gauzey red scarf to set
The bloody mood, my teeny
Trunk’s indiscrete SEX in progress
Lamp trampolines teething toddlers
Out with...
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37. The ancestral shell has been lost
(x-post LJ) Crossies, combination of poem-a-day #240 about December 30, 2010 (Bacon Day)
And @popplers request for a poem on Squid/rain
Frying pan and spatula melted
Into early retirement— reservé aux mutiliés de la guerre
Tail-gating scorched to new heights
Roaring pork in the back of a Cherokee? Was it?
Vagabond squid differentiated from ancestral
Squatters, denim-stripped...
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36. on being "in like" / return of the...
(x-posted to LJ) A game of online poem-project “crossies.” (Poem-a-day #239 meet poem-requests) Take 1!
This is an ol’ poem-request from @jewelpike. A poem about “being ‘in like.’”
You saw a face in that pile of shards
A smashed tea set? By the trash bins
Wind-blown corner lashes (subtle as twist ties)
A painted vine on a lost saucer
Flapper...
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November 2010
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poem-a-day week27 "If you can't sweat your way...
November 1-7, 2010 week27: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 http://locksmithy.livejournal.com/tag/poem-a-day http://poetesss.tumblr.com/PAD
The 2 Boston nights of the Dresden Dolls Reunion Tour…epic and rare. So they as a pair are the teaser. i was part of the meta-crowd-busk-ruckus, majorette-ing w. fellow Broken TOys Kevin Corzett (bari sax) & Tj “Terrorence” Horn (Rufio hobo drum...
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poem-a-day week26 "Nintendo conjured cock" & suchs
October 25-31, 2010 week26: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 http://locksmithy.livejournal.com/tag/poem-a-day http://poetesss.tumblr.com/PAD
close 2nd for this archived week’s teaser-poem is my kindof cousin/companion piece to “guitar hero
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poem-a-day week25 "Confounding but fun-sounding!"
October 18-24, 2010 week25: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
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Tales of Polish bday week/month of more shows than sleep, decadence and melty fondue memories of floral wreathlets that don’t slip off your halo. In close decisions equally-worthy of being the teaser-poem— read my bday poem & my 2nd-to-last...
October 2010
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poem-a-day week24 "Delicate deli inappropriacy in...
October 11-17, 2010 week24: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
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(re-demonstrating how not to stash money your first day of busking in broad daylight)
164. October 15, 2010 (fri. rain’d out buskin’ lead to Brookline flyering/debauchery)
Desire is matched by
The distant rhythm
Telegraph the breast
This tasteless...
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poem-a-day week23 "The radical civility of the...
October 4-10, 2010 week23: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
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Close 2nd place choices for this week’s teaser(s) are the really neat collab. art/dada writing ex. zine pages from the workshop i taught 10/7, online now: Yes I’ll bill rarely, Sherry. And a poem i wrote that’s a kind of conversation w. a variety of...
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show tonight shameless reblog
(via myself/la mlle.tumblr)
A SHOW TONIGHT TUMBLE xxxo
Heywood Wakefield sent a message to the members of The New Jew* Revue.
—————————— Subject: Barry Manilow! Madonna! Oy Vey! Ticket still available!
Tickets are still available for the show! We’ll have them at the door at 7:30pm. Bring your parents! Barry and Madonna are...
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poem-a-day week22 "Cheaper workmanship in the...
September 27-October 3, 2010 week22: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
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above-the-cut teaser this week includes my gift-art to Salter Wickert in honour of him finishing his first year of Inkdrips! & because my *other top-choice poem? edrie was already kind enough to pimp the hell out of on the facebook. i have a nice carnie...
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poem-a-day week21 "Broad hip'd broadcast markup...
i’m everso everso tardy/be-hind/betwixt & ‘tween & playing awful ketchup, mes amis. do forgive me. last sat. (Cynthia von Buhler-world) to now (and it’s not over yet!) have been some of the most overstimulating art wankery ginormous and important-to-me performances of my life. and i started teaching my zine workshop! happy lady. full service multimedia freelance burlesque...
September 2010
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be my facefriend?
the burlesque poetess
xo
p.s. did you cats know aboot ~ http://jojolazar.com , too? /shameless-dvertisements
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poem-a-day week20 "Here agony-- In bloomers,...
September 13-19, 2010 week20: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
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135. September 14, 2010 (tues.)
Walk-in appointment with the architect
Of my collapsible midway, a myriad of mumbling
Intoxicating monologues from con-artists
Illustrated scholars in each booth
Twirling their kimono belts suggestively
Narcissus flower...
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poem-a-day week19 "The short life span being...
September 6-12, 2010 week19: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
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131. September 10, 2010 (fri.)
“Don’t you know you have to wear eyeliner in your twitter picture?”
Exhausted by beauty marks
Knee Boop-bent inward
Lower eyelids spider weighted
Cartoonish astonishment, celluloid sensuality
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“How...
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poem-a-day week18 "The Art Deco spire, impractical...
August 30-September 5, 2010 week18: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
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123. September 2, 2010 (thurs., 2nd day busking for cabaret) Erotika Nostalgia
Reunited shells
Shopping for very bright grapes
Corkscrews around your finger
Ampersands ~ kiss curls
Lovenotes stitched to satin lapels
Glitter shapes for eyes
A venue...
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poem-a-day week17 "subdued 'morse code' section...
August 23-29, 2010 week17: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
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118. August 28, 2010 (sat. New Blood ORG, cloud club)
Cleverly parking
Below piano factory
Balconies, cops and
Construction to seduce
Me away from the cookies
Spose i can learn you
Some Ziggy in the extra
Courtyard mossy “green room” rail...
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#wordnerd-ing & new jew revue
Wordsmith.org word of the day: enfant terrible
PRONUNCIATION:
(ahn*-fahn* te-REE-bluh)
[* these syllables are nasal]
plural enfants terribles (ahn*-fahn* te-REE-bluh)
MEANING:
noun: A person, especially someone famous or successful, whose unconventional
lifestyle, work, or behavior appears shocking.
ETYMOLOGY:
From French enfant terrible (terrible child).
USAGE:
“Once an...
August 2010
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poem-a-day week16 "clothing style worn by members...
August 16-22, 2010 week16: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
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106. August 16, 2010 (mon., TOys photoshoot!)
Afternoon freak trickle down
Driveway puddles red
Teacups’ black teeth leer
Horse haunches ~ knock off ink drops
The quite mad supper
Quaint late apostles
Bunnies in the opium
Inhaling darjeeling
The...
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poem-a-day week15 recapping the "retrosexual"
August 9-15, 2010 week15: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
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i’ve decided like that no-good army of TOys band i’m in (who defines its genre as steam crunk) i’d like the tiny instruments to be categorized as “retrosexual.” all of last-last week was spent gearing up for the tiny instruments’s...
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poem-a-day week14 "Ziegfeld's midnight jinks"
August 2-8, 2010 week14: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
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97. August 7, 2010 (sat.)
Carjacking nightmare
For me, recurring bridges
For you no teeth lost
Nosing Inuits
Frisky dolphins on black sheets
Smoke rings stick around
Ukulele Ike’s
High note on Storrow detour
Next car’s doing blow
The Hills...
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"combining elements of Velvet Goldmine and The...
[x-posted in part from burlesque poetess myspace blog (what the hell was i doing on that site?)]
words. we like them. feel free to distribute/quote while talking saucily about our project to anyone, y’know. suit bands and ilk.
P.S. we perform TO-NIGHT! (i shld go back to bed) 8pm Nick’s absinthe bar, Worcester, MA opening for the Slomski Bros.! http://bit.ly/revuedetails
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poem-a-day week13 (tiny instruments, big/glam...
July 26-August 1, 2010 week13: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
sorry for the tardy poem-a-day archival…i believe the teaser is self-explanatory/excited. NEW ENGLANDER poetesss.tumblr readers! you are most cordially invited to the premiere of “meff ‘n jojo’s tiny instrument revue!” this coming Thurs. 8/12 at a legit. delic’ absinthe bar— Nick’s in Worcester,...
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Sea Song (Mare Carmen), by Walter Sickert & The... →
via Edrie Edrie: We’re offering Sea Song for FREE to CELEBRATE down with hate no more Prop8!!!! - Tell all!!!
from our album, STEAMSHIPKILLERS. when we perform this song live we break into a commercial break for love & marriage! (equality) and start a rousing queer lovin chant! xo
July 2010
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poem-a-day week12 (lots of cats)
SPANKIN’ new poem-a-day ultimate table of contents/archive
—-> http://poetesss.tumblr.com/PAD
July 19-25, 2010, week12: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
being the hermit-poet turned social leads to silly poem-a-days! teaser be-low.
83. July 24, 2010 (sat.)
At B’s i meet Malloy cat the second, chic in
double-breasted black, radiator perched. Shy
with a silken proud tuft, a white...
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poem-a-day week11
SPANKIN’ new poem-a-day ultimate table of contents/archive
—-> http://poetesss.tumblr.com/PAD
July 12-18, 2010 week11: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
this week’s teaser-poem comes w. my original art and wouldn’t be complete with *video of us playing to the masses in broad daylight without frying like vampires? eternal thanks to NilesZ of the Atari Wallet Empire for coming to...
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i just took more advantage of the wonderful...
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poem-a-day week10 (bugbite polka dots)
SPANKIN’ new poem-a-day ultimate table of contents/archive just made!
—-> http://poetesss.tumblr.com/PAD
(no more icky huge headers!)
July 5-11, 2010, week10: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
poem/days of ridonk & “only in Boston”/adventures note: thurs.’s amanda palmer ninjagig, sat. at cloud club improv ORG soiree, and sun. was Dr. Sketchy’s w....
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