Cliff Lynn
Cliff "you can't make me smile" Lynn is a Navy man who spent a lot of time getting on and off submarines and surface ships in the Phillipines, sex capitol central. He has been accused of ripping off "perfectly good" shirts from his own torso in the name of poetry.
Baby Oldster
Baby Oldster writes wordy songs about things he can't yet speak and sounds best in his bathroom.
Tanefa Shoshonia
Tanefå aka The One Who Loves has been writing erotica since she picked up that first Noire book about Lady and the Beast... Her soon to be released book of poetry overflows with sensual sexiness and is awaited with baited breath, but the novel she is working on has been compared to the likes of Zane. Having been on the poetry scene for almost 10 years in Baltimore and Philadelphia, she is ready to come display her wares for you.
Kathleen Brasington
Kathleen Brasington has just realized that she might actually be good at
this: "this" meaning songwriting and performing. Since graduating from the
College of William and Mary in Virginia in 2008 with a completely
irrelevant degree, she's been slowly nursing her creative side while wallowing in the
world of waitresses and baristas. Unsurprisingly, this leaves her a lot of
time to wail away at the old ivories. When she's not steaming up lattes,
she's performing in a wide variety of venues: children's story telling at
the Annapolis Bookstore, open mic nights at local bars. This is her first
performance with Poetry in Baltimore. contact me: [email protected]
this: "this" meaning songwriting and performing. Since graduating from the
College of William and Mary in Virginia in 2008 with a completely
irrelevant degree, she's been slowly nursing her creative side while wallowing in the
world of waitresses and baristas. Unsurprisingly, this leaves her a lot of
time to wail away at the old ivories. When she's not steaming up lattes,
she's performing in a wide variety of venues: children's story telling at
the Annapolis Bookstore, open mic nights at local bars. This is her first
performance with Poetry in Baltimore. contact me: [email protected]
Alison Eve Samuels
Allison Samuels, is a Fiber major/Photography &
Experimental Fashion concentrator at Maryland Institute College of Art.
She reads about sex, the act itself, and perhaps most importantly what
leads up to and from it, both physically and emotionally. It pushes
what should/should not be spoken about in public, and is an intimate
portrait of sexual travels.
JeQuiche
Jequiche (J-Keesh) was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. A natural artist, she began writing and drawing before primary school. She has communicated across many genres; from writing the play Give Me My Fix to writing and directing the film, The Newspaper. Her lyrical ardor shows through in her writings, and engenders passionate narratives like, The Scent of a Woman and sensual poems like, Do it in the Dark. This spoken word artist captivates her audience by stimulating emotion and delivering tasty erotic tails of ecstasy. She has performed in California, Georgia, Virginia, Washington DC and Maryland. Currently she resides in Baltimore where she co-owns and operates RaeKi Publishing Company (RPC). Jequiche’s first book of short stories and poetry, Wanted, was published by RPC in 2007. Jequiche regularly performs in Baltimore and DC while attending The University; she majors in Creative Writing. You can contact JeQuiche here: www.ourstage.com/epk/jequiche
Tom Swiss and Alison Chicosky
Holy Roman Underwire
The Holy Roman Underwire is the frisky tag-team of Babs & Emmy who are happy to take a break from their midget porn vandalism tour to bring you high quality erotic theater. Graduates of the Excitement Video Ladies' Night Limbo College, The Holy Roman Underwire is licensed to rock your world.
M. S. Sanders
Mark S. Sanders is a Baltimore native and has been writing for over 26 years.
He has hosted and organized scores of literary and mulimedia events and has been a featured poet at such venues as Artscape, The Martin Luther King Memorial Library and the WHFS Festival at RFK Stadium.
He has won two Baltimore's Best awards from the City Paper for his literary events and publications and garnered first prize in their 8th Annual Poetry Contest. In 2000, he was honored with an individual artist grant for poetry by the Maryland State Arts Council.
He has hosted and organized scores of literary and mulimedia events and has been a featured poet at such venues as Artscape, The Martin Luther King Memorial Library and the WHFS Festival at RFK Stadium.
He has won two Baltimore's Best awards from the City Paper for his literary events and publications and garnered first prize in their 8th Annual Poetry Contest. In 2000, he was honored with an individual artist grant for poetry by the Maryland State Arts Council.
Paco Fish
Paco Fish thrives on duality. The cabaret-performing alter ego of Paul Galbraith, a cytogenetics technologist by day, Paco Fish is a dynamic performer of spoken and physical comedy, burlesque, circus, and any other medium where he can find a stage. Most of Paco’s characters exist in multiple worlds at the same time and his acts are visual representations of the transitions between different, but coexisting realities. Whether playing the aggressive lion with a heart (and thong) of gold, the go-go dancer working part time as the Grim Reaper (also with a thong of gold), or the bride of indeterminate gender, Paco dismantles assumptions and defies convention with humor and passion.
Mary Knott
mary knott has been publishing & performing stories & poems in & out of
B.more city since 1989. a graduate of Towson University & a native of
Maryland's Eastern Shore, she has also hosted her own spoken word & live
music shows at Club Medusa, The Mojo, & St. John's of Hamilton. her
hosting duties also included a six year stint hosting Talk It Up, a weekly
open mike at Funk's Democratic Coffee spot from 1997-2003. and if all
that wasn't enough mary has a band called the dirt & has a comic book with
her sister beppi called "Pretty Beaver" & have published comics around the
country & the world in such publications as "The New York Waste,"
"Stripburger,"& "Gambazine."
B.more city since 1989. a graduate of Towson University & a native of
Maryland's Eastern Shore, she has also hosted her own spoken word & live
music shows at Club Medusa, The Mojo, & St. John's of Hamilton. her
hosting duties also included a six year stint hosting Talk It Up, a weekly
open mike at Funk's Democratic Coffee spot from 1997-2003. and if all
that wasn't enough mary has a band called the dirt & has a comic book with
her sister beppi called "Pretty Beaver" & have published comics around the
country & the world in such publications as "The New York Waste,"
"Stripburger,"& "Gambazine."
Rebecca Nagle
REBECCA NAGLE is a performance, new media and community artist. She grew up in Kansas. After attending Interlochen Arts Academy, Nagle studied at
Maryland Institute College of Art. She is an internationally exhibited and
collected artist with works in the New Museum (New York) and Ssamzie Art
Warehouse (South Korea). Nagle has shown at Current Gallery, Art in
General, Site Santa Fe, Artscape and Conflux Festival. Baltimore City
Paper senior arts editor Bret McCabe has hailed her as “Baltimore’s very
own life-is-art-is-life performance maven…mingling the Internet and
performance into a fresh and vital new thing.” Nagle's performative,
interactive and community art projects challenge people on issues of
intimacy, the body, power, boundaries and efficacy. She is currently
trying to make the world a more open, equitable and creative place through
community organizing and radical performance art. To follow her efforts,
visit www.rebeccanagle.com.
Bruce A. Jacobs
BRUCE A. JACOBS writes for a living and plays drums, poems and saxophone
in real life. His books of poetry include Cathode Ray Blues (Tropos Press)
and Speaking Through My Skin (MSU Press). Jacobs’s work has appeared in a
slew of poetry journals and anthologies, including 180 More, edited by
Billy Collins. He has won poetry slams in Baltimore and New York City. He
is also the author of the nonfiction book Race Manners for the 21st
Century. You can find him online at www.aliasbruce.typepad.com or on
Facebook. He lives in Baltimore.