Say "Santa Fe" with a Lisp

Hey anybody who's reading our blog! Malka here. I had my first reading in the snowy desert oasis of Santa Fe, NM last night. In all my weird head-cold glory, I made it to Backroad Pizza (where all the queer events take place) and got through my fifteen minutes. Lisp is a monthly queer and trans cabaret hosted by the incomparable Cooper Lee Bombardier (formerly of the Bay Area as well). There were some hysterical performances last night. And I'm so glad I could go first! (My poetry may have seemed a bit too awkward a segue between the two tranny guys performing a George Michael video and a tranny woman showing us all the possible uses for a post-op "dead dick.") I read some old and some never-before-read-in-public pieces. Most appreciated was the poem to a hated co-worker in the voice of an eighteenth century Romantic poet who happens to work in a low-paying retail job in 2004. There was a local reporter there asking questions about Lisp and taking some pictures. He took one of my poems, so I'll try to put up a link if any article comes of it. All in all, 'twas a fun night that I wish I had been a tad more coherent to enjoy. I'll write some more soon about Lorca, Ghost Girl, and the little book on writing just out by the new poet laureate. Bye!

City Lights Reading

Well, hello everyone. I didn't get it together in time to announce the reading on Monday night at City Lights, so herewith, a report on such.

I spent Valentine's Day reading with Dodie Bellamy, Colter Jacobsen, Donal Mosher, Aaron Nielsen & Zakary Szymanski. It was also Dodie's birthday, and so I hope we all celebrated her duly.

Dodie's The Letters of Mina Harker has just been re-released by University of Wisconsin, and I have a review of it in Bitch and an interview with Dodie in Lodestar Quarterly. (Patience...this is my first blog entry, and I haven't learned how to hyperlink.)

Anyhoo, it was the perfect blood-red Valentine's treat to hear Dodie read from Mina, hear Colter, Donal, Aaron and Zak, and offer some of my Letters to Kelly Clarkson as one of the opening acts. Afterward, I snuck away from the crowd to have the more traditional Val Day with my better half in the Inner Sunset. It was rainy and bright.

More news soon...xoxo julia