the burlesque poetess(s)


i'm jojo lazar, each and every one of your/s burlesque poetess(s) ~ vaudeville/verse upon request for all your parlour room seance needs.
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~ Friday, May 25 ~
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A selection of souvenirs to scratch the bronzed surface: The Cohens’s steambaby, Steampunk World’s Fair friends & shenanigans from last weekend in steam-arts, Taylor & Sarah *Egress, literary caricatures in a gazebo full of Neo-Victorians! i cannot complain. it was a lovely time. i can’t believe i’ve been privileged enough to attend & perform at all 3 years of SPWF. Thank you for the generous reception to my new seance parlour project ensemble, **The Burlesque Poetess & Those No-goodniks**

Anyhoo, if you missed out on your chance to get an on-the-spot poem-llustration, poetic portrait, palmistry via blind contour drawing… well you still can. Comment here, email (burlesque.poetess@gmail) or challah at me @poetesss on twitter. i’m always avail for commiss’ of many sizes/price ranges/styles. You can send me a photo you want done quick-like or more intricately immortalized on brown paper. So, let’s taaalk.

xo your steamBUNNk wordsmithy and *painter-poetess

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~ Monday, April 30 ~
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mlle:

Do please explore and enjoy some (of my) 28 Seeds photos & press! Then buy yourself a half-off ticket (discount code ERB)— to 1 of the remaining 6 shows before the pale horse arrives to take us.


*5 Questions with Somerville’s Burlesque Poetess, Somerville Journal By Auditi Guha (Wicked Local Somerville, April 24, 2012)

*The Burlesque Poetess: A Jewess with “Artitude”, Jewesses with Attitude blog at Jewish Women’s Archive. By Leah Berkenwald (April 24, 2012)


Above please see @DoctorOctothorp’s report that levitating poets did not in fact prevent the end of the world! Tis my apoca-girl scout Act I costume (flickr set). Yes i even hop in this play, while playing my Eleuke. / See also the offic’ show-preview pix by Hans Wendland (here are his flickr sets of photo-call night collection1, two, and three! for you to peruse)… hoozah for Hans making me look like a truly antiqued Havisham-lette with filter fun! (Do you like my floral fascinator i made from my recently ‘harvested’ dread and m’old zombielocks of yore? were just as dead when attached to my head ‘til ‘06 after all)

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~ Monday, April 16 ~
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OUR SHOW OPENS THURS! Holy asty-roid chucking deities, co-underoo scholars! Understorians of the steam-pocalypse? You have roughly a month to experience the magic, i do hope you’ll consider coming. ;) jojolazar: What happens when an experimental theatre co. launches into the ether of steam-crunk, a sea of squid ink in collaboration with Walter Sickert and the Army of Broken TOys, making beautiful mad sense of Earth’s last lost radio emanations…The world is ending. Let’s die art. Behold A Pale Horse!April 19th - May 12th Boston Center for the Arts | 539 Tremont St, Boston, MA Wednesdays & Thursdays at 7:30pm Fridays & Saturdays at 8:00pm Sundays at 4:00pm *** Tickets are now available at http://bit.ly/28seedstix *** http://28seeds.org (and our funded kickstarter, merci buckets! has more det’s/pretty things) So this is a thing. A thing i daresay that is axually happening and was born in a basement with teething walls, with much wine, close quarters and all for one of those madcap RPM challenges back in 2010! Madness i tells ya. i play a very unusual character. A future-past-meta-metaphorical-famous-not-me character called jojo The Burlesque Poetess. Strange indeed. Come see us, it’s easy to remember. We open on 4/20 or so. xo

OUR SHOW OPENS THURS! Holy asty-roid chucking deities, co-underoo scholars! Understorians of the steam-pocalypse? You have roughly a month to experience the magic, i do hope you’ll consider coming. ;)

jojolazar:

What happens when an experimental theatre co. launches into the ether of steam-crunk, a sea of squid ink in collaboration with Walter Sickert and the Army of Broken TOys, making beautiful mad sense of Earth’s last lost radio emanations…
The world is ending. Let’s die art.

Behold A Pale Horse!


April 19th - May 12th
Boston Center for the Arts | 539 Tremont St, Boston, MA
Wednesdays & Thursdays at 7:30pm
Fridays & Saturdays at 8:00pm
Sundays at 4:00pm

*** Tickets are now available at http://bit.ly/28seedstix ***

http://28seeds.org

(and our funded kickstarter, merci buckets! has more det’s/pretty things) So this is a thing. A thing i daresay that is axually happening and was born in a basement with teething walls, with much wine, close quarters and all for one of those madcap RPM challenges back in 2010! Madness i tells ya. i play a very unusual character. A future-past-meta-metaphorical-famous-not-me character called jojo The Burlesque Poetess. Strange indeed. Come see us, it’s easy to remember. We open on 4/20 or so. xo

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~ Monday, April 9 ~
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mlle:

Todah rabah much ahavah to *Leah! We’ve known e/o since we were 15 y/o punks!

{ via Jewish Women’s Archive’s blog, “Jewesses with Attitude” ! Gorsh. / The Burlesque Poetess reads “One taught the word diaspora before diaphanous” }


One taught the word diaspora before diaphanous

Hide the crown
Of matzo pyramid, kiss bitter herbs hello
Ransom Gramps later for green bills’ third eyes
Mash Charoset more, taste apple un-scarred

Careless whips, cat-tails ‘gainst knees
Because He split the sea for us
Under the Red waves of tablecloth
Napkins vanish, sometimes forty years (mica in the gums)

The river child rattles rust and hinges
We only think it’s a Bast cat
Ancient sculpture, Elijah’s staccato chisel tap
Is the sun-room unlocked? Tubers, bulbs

The one without mezeuzah
An artisan clay goblet of water
For Miriam’s thirsty bruised hip
The desiccated bellydance, Spring
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Unleavened Schadenfreude
For former captors, yet more bloody wine
Stick ‘em up, pops, let’s finish Seder
Pass the linen, Afikomen with ghost emergent
Burn-shaped face, is that Yitzhak? Yasser?

Present the prize
He has fed us manna
Next year in Glamsrael

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p.s. so, FYI the Ep-iolas & i filmed *THIS grannycore-in’ immediately after the above. Artathon, my hamsa bling gets AROUND. i heart my extended bandly family/friends. And our art-lives!

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~ Tuesday, March 13 ~
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jojolazar: My beloved villanelling vaudevillian co-loudling Amy Macabre made me (into) a delic’/debauch sounding tea!? How lucky am i. (image-label by amy, photos i believe both by Justin Moore)https://www.adagio.com/signature_blend/blend.html?blend=20048the burlesque poetess created by: amy macabre Sweet as a Victorian strumpet -er I mean crumpet- with just a touch of cheeky Parisian florals and chocolate dipped strawberry to make you say ooh la la! Honeybush vanilla, chocolate dipped strawberry Ceylon and just a bit of fresh sweet cream flavor!This blend is inspired by jojo the burlesque poetess Which lead to me super-belatedly learning my “what a dull day without tea and something filthy” poem-prelude (from ‘Commuting to make love’ commis’ for Mika!) had some tumblr-reblog-enjoyment action/traction when i wasn’t looking? anyhoo- neat! P.S. DRINK ME.

jojolazar:

My beloved villanelling vaudevillian co-loudling Amy Macabre made me (into) a delic’/debauch sounding tea!? How lucky am i. (image-label by amy, photos i believe both by Justin Moore)


https://www.adagio.com/signature_blend/blend.html?blend=20048


the burlesque poetess
created by: amy macabre
Sweet as a Victorian strumpet -er I mean crumpet- with just a touch of cheeky Parisian florals and chocolate dipped strawberry to make you say ooh la la! Honeybush vanilla, chocolate dipped strawberry Ceylon and just a bit of fresh sweet cream flavor!


This blend is inspired by jojo the burlesque poetess


Which lead to me super-belatedly learning my “what a dull day without tea and something filthy” poem-prelude (from ‘Commuting to make love’ commis’ for Mika!) had some tumblr-reblog-enjoyment action/traction when i wasn’t looking? anyhoo- neat!

P.S. DRINK ME.

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~ Friday, December 30 ~
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End times TMW night! Boston, Hynes Convention Center, main auditorium. 7-11pm Yours truly, jojo the burlesque poetess (though some PR had an autocorrect plague and is calling me royalty…) as your inappro’ but totally appro’ for G audience surrealiste emcee hostess for the whole night (uke-pocalypse)! There’s going to be multiple Army of TOys musical sets, as well as Johnny Blazes and The Pretty Boys, and Emperor Norton’s Stationary Marching Band. Woo, do come out and play! Entry by first night button. http://www.facebook.com/events/200539566697553/

End times TMW night! Boston, Hynes Convention Center, main auditorium. 7-11pm

Yours truly, jojo the burlesque poetess (though some PR had an autocorrect plague and is calling me royalty…) as your inappro’ but totally appro’ for G audience surrealiste emcee hostess for the whole night (uke-pocalypse)! There’s going to be multiple Army of TOys musical sets, as well as Johnny Blazes and The Pretty Boys, and Emperor Norton’s Stationary Marching Band. Woo, do come out and play!

Entry by first night button.

http://www.facebook.com/events/200539566697553/

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~ Thursday, January 6 ~
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my page in The Starving Artist’s Diet collection i contributed to. thanks for including me, @jackodile! i wrote the piece 2 years ago as part of a bigger/multi-part poem that didn’t make it to my final MFA manuscript. anyhoo. photo is by Justin Moore : http://flickr.com/bdjsb7 (x-posted like whoa - mlle. - jojolazar.com) + A note to dear neglected poetesss.tumblr readers, i mean to catch up on the poem-a-day project weekly round-up/recaps/archives, until then you can catch ‘em as they come in on *Locksmithy livejournal. also, yup, i’m still crazy busy doing performancey stuff. solo, with the army of broken toys, and as half of the tiny instrument revue. i don’t mean to be a stranger :) i’m very pester-able w. ASK functions on all m’tumblrs, very best wishes in this divinely decadent new decade. onward, to debauch, at will!

my page in The Starving Artist’s Diet collection i contributed to. thanks for including me, @jackodile! i wrote the piece 2 years ago as part of a bigger/multi-part poem that didn’t make it to my final MFA manuscript. anyhoo. photo is by Justin Moore : http://flickr.com/bdjsb7

(x-posted like whoa - mlle. - jojolazar.com)

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A note to dear neglected poetesss.tumblr readers,

i mean to catch up on the poem-a-day project weekly round-up/recaps/archives, until then you can catch ‘em as they come in on *Locksmithy livejournal. also, yup, i’m still crazy busy doing performancey stuff. solo, with the army of broken toys, and as half of the tiny instrument revue. i don’t mean to be a stranger :) i’m very pester-able w. ASK functions on all m’tumblrs, very best wishes in this divinely decadent new decade. onward, to debauch, at will!

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