Spring Season 2012 Finale at 17 Poets! with Kim Vodicka's Aesthesia Balderdash

FINAL SHOW FOR THE SPRING 2012 SEASON AT 17 POETS!

JUNE 14TH, 8PM

GOLD MINE SALOON

KIM VODICKA SIGNS HER NEW BOOK 

FROM TREMBLING PILLOW PRESS

www.17poets.com

Belatedly—like everything we wait for—Kathy Acker’s great, I mean really great, grand‐ daughter appears...in Louisiana, naturally (or un‐naturally). Her “blood runneth cheesecake” who penneth this collection of see‐sick lyrics drunk w/ semantic play and painful as “all lights...even stars.” Vodicka’s Aesthesia Balderdash sisters the disaster of gender in ways that matter: “chronically, / abashedly, / rosily, cockily, / dazzlingly.” Not for the faint of art, this is poetry that cunts, I mean counts.” 
—Laura Mullen, author of Dark Archive

Kim Vodicka grew up in Lafayette, Louisiana and received her B.A. in English from UL Lafayette in 2010. She is currently working on her M.F.A. in Poetry at LSU, where she is also a Graduate Teaching Assistant and Co-Coordinator of Delta Mouth Literary Festival 2012. Kim is an avid lover of music, hosts a psychedelic rock show, "Shangri-La-La Land," on KLSU, and is involved in musical-poetic projects. She believes that poems want to be songs very badly, and she can recite most of her work from memory. Her artwork has been published in Tenderloin, and her poems have been published in Shampoo, Ekleksographia, and Dig. Aesthesia Balderdash is her first book.

Thursday, Oct. 20: 17 Poets! Dara Wier, Jen Tynes and Jen Denrow

This Thursday, 17 Poets! welcomes back fantastic poet Dara Wier. There is a beautiful interview with Dara by Cynthia Arrieu-King in the (old layout) Jacket Magazine (2010). Dara says: "Imagination is something that you’re supposedly able to own yourself. It’s your imagination. If anybody starts telling you what you should be imagining or what would be appropriate or good or just to imagine, or necessary or required to imagine, you better be suspicious of that."

Excellent advice. And she will probably be laying so more wisdom pearls out among her wonderful verse, so don't miss her.

Also, super excited to have first-time-with-us readers Jen Tynes and Jen Denrow both of Horse Less Press. Here's a great interview with Jen Tynes from over at the infamous rob mclennan blog. Horse Less press not only puts out a wonderful review in .pdf format for your viewing pleasure stocked full of amazing poets but they just recently started publishing full length books including Richard Froude's Fabric, which I reviewed over at Tarpaulin Sky. 2012 books include: Daniela Olszewska’s cloudfang : : cake dirt  and Kate Schapira’s The Soft Place.

Jen Denrow has a great interview here with Thermos about the publication of her first book, California (Four Way Books). 

I'm super excited about this line up this Thursday at 8:00 (www.17poets.com). 

These poets are gonna rock your world.