Sharon Mesmer reads "Annoying Diabetic Bitch," "Ass Vagina," "Squid Versus Assclown," and "You F***ed Jimmy." It's pretty much like it sounds. At the Flarf Festival, April 21, 2006, Medicine Show Theater, NYC.
Jordan Davis's poetry talk show, live at the Bowery Poetry Club, Sasha Frere-Jones filling in as house band, Joshua Clover, guest poet. Joshua Clover adapts Kenneth Koch's "Fresh Air," then reads the index to The Totality for Kids, "The Other Atelier," "Whiteread Walk," "Whiteread Walk," "Galang" by Ben Friedlander, and "Poem" (about capital) by himself.
Drew Gardner reads "Chicks Dig War" at the Flarf Festival, April 21, 2006 at the Medicine Show Theater, NYC. Lost the last four or five words, d'oh. They're on the closing credits. Whoops.
Kasey Mohammad reads "Chicks Don't Actually Dig War," "Ignore Me, Shorty," "Squirting Ringworm Taco," and "The swans come hither in great numbers..." at the Flarf Festival, April 21, 2006, Medicine Show Theater, NYC.
Tim Peterson's play "Smoky Bar-B-Q Doritos," performed with the help of Michael Magee, Sharon Mesmer, K. Silem Mohammad, and Gary Sullivan, at the Flarf Festival, April 21, 2006, at the Medicine Show Theater, NYC.
Rodney Koeneke reads his poem "Pizza Kitty" at the Flarf Festival 2006, April 21 at the Medicine Show Theater in NYC. Festival host Jordan Davis stops in after the poem to exhort the audience to drink.
Franklin Bruno (of Nothing Painted Blue and the Extra Glenns) performs "Two Knives" on The Million Poems Show, March 16, 2005, Jordan Davis host, JJ Appleton house band, with guest poet Susan Wheeler watching from the couch.
Hoa Nguyen reads from her Effing Press chapbook; her son Keaton joins her onstage at the Unassociated Garden Party at Big Red Sun, Austin TX, March 9, 2006.
Flarf Festival Artistic Director Gary Sullivan reads "Poetry Phone," "That a Hamster Could Be President," and "Bruce" at the Flarf Festival, April 21, 2006, Medicine Show Theater, NYC. Awwwww yeah!
Jordan Davis's poetry talk show, live at the Bowery Poetry Club, with JJ Appleton as the houseband. May 18, 2005 - Daniel Nester, poet, and Walter Salas-Humara of the Silos, musical guest. Part two: "Poems on Cigarettes," "Hairdressers in a Holiday Magazine," and "The Only Defense Against Calvinism Is Yoga"
Joe Massey reads from Property Line and Stephanie Young reads "Things About David" at the off-site AWP Austin 2006 Unassociated Garden Party at Big Red Sun, hosted by Scott Pierce of Effing Press. These are their "living in my cottage" poems.
Jordan Davis's poetry talk show, live at the Bowery Poetry Club, Sasha Frere-Jones filling in as house band, Joshua Clover, guest poet. Banter: Women's History Month; Freebird! You're the poet? From the Atelier Altieri; Hannity's Little Bitch; Schokobananen -- spongey and lemony.
Host Jordan Davis and houseband JJ Appleton kick off the second season of The Million Poems Show. Filmed live at the Bowery Poetry Club, September 14, 2005. In this clip: two poems, banter, blueberry soda, and the awful truth about the Best American Poetry series.
Guest house-band Sasha Frere-Jones sings "A Million Poems," the alternate theme song to The Million Poems Show, Jordan Davis, host. Filmed live at the Bowery Poetry Club, April 12, 2006.
Jordan Davis's poetry talk show, live at the Bowery Poetry Club, with JJ Appleton as the houseband. May 18, 2005 - Daniel Nester, poet, and Walter Salas-Humara of the Silos, musical guest. Part three: Banter! in which we discuss the Delaware sales tax, and competing with the sun.
Jordan Davis's poetry talk show, live at the Bowery Poetry Club, Sasha Frere-Jones filling in as house band, Joshua Clover, guest poet. Poetry in the News: Dance protest? Rioting works; Do people here like politics that work? Schokobananen; Pennies worth more than $0.01; Staves; Sadly, NY first to go; You guys read the New Yorker, don't you.