Ren Jender and the hottest spoken-word artists in Boston.
Influences
Dorothy Allison, Leslie Feinberg, Kate Bornstein, Susie Bright, Pamela Sneed, Sapphire, The Five Lesbian Brothers, Lisa Kron, Marga Gomez, Lisa King, Gail Burton, Amatul Hannan, The National Queer Poetry Slam at Outwrite (RIP), Gendercrash, The Amazon Slam, Sister Spit, The Lizard Lounge Poetry Jam, The Cantab Poetry Slam, Yvette Leaphart, Zilla McCue, Lee Wolfer, Letta Neely, Imani Henry, Deb McKee, Dawn Daugherty, Shawnee, Skian McGuire, Lani Radack, Kit Yan, S. Bear Bergman, Elena Georgiou, Cheryl B, Staceyann Chin, J*me, insafemode, Craig Hickman, Thomas Grimes, Michelle Tea, Sini Anderson, Daphne Gottlieb, Peaches, The Blow, The Magnetic Fields, Sleater-Kinney, Rebecca Gates, Lauren Greenfield, Miranda July, Lynda Barry, Laurie Anderson, Pauline Kael, Joan Didion (sometimes), Debra Dickerson (sometimes), Jo Ann Beard, Barbara Ehrenreich, Natalie Angier, Paul Monette, Eric Bogosian, Lenny Bruce, Richard Pryor, drag kings, drag queens, our genius government, Grace Jones, Joan Jett, David Bowie, Patti Smith, Blondie, The Eurythmics, Marianne Faithfull, Nico, Brian Eno, Antony and the Johnsons, Hot Chip, Le Tigre, Cat Power, OOIOO, Lily Allen, Psychic TV, Califone, LCD Soundsystem, Leonard Cohen, Johnny Cash, TV on the Radio, Camera Obscura, Annie(mal), Danielle Dax, Goldfrapp, The Slits, Elliot Smith, Smog, Sufjan Stevens, Peter Bjorn and John, The Blow, Jennifer Camper, Hanifah Walidah, Electrelane, Carmelita Tropicana, Peggy Shaw, Holly Hughes
Ren Jender is a writer/performer who for eight and a half years was the host and founder of The Amazon Slam, a Boston-based all woman
poetry slam that won "The Best Poll" of The Boston Phoenix from
1998-2003 and was named "Best of Boston" in Boston Magazine in 1999. Her work has
appeared in Bitch Magazine, Bay Windows and
Spare Change. She has been profiled in The Boston Globe, The Boston
Herald, The Boston Metro, The Boston Phoenix, Curve and Teen Voices.
She was the co-curator/co-producer of
the Lisa King Memorial show in Boston in May of 2006 (Go here for the Lisa King Memorial MySpace page which includes audio of Lisa performing at The Amazon Slam.)
SISTER SPIT IS COMING TO YOUR TOWN! One vanload of queer female artists + writers + bon vivants coming to your town for one awesome night of shameless literary hijinks. Featuring Michelle Tea, Texta Queen, Chelsea Starr, Meliza Banales, Tara Jepsen, Dexter Flowers, and Kat Marie Yoas. Check out www.sisterspitnextgen.com for more info! Spread the word!
OCTOBER 24 Minneapolis, MN Pi Bar 8:30pm 25 Milwaukee, WI University of Wisc-Milwaukee, Greene Hall 7pm 26 Chicago, IL Women and Children First Books 9pm 27 Bloomington, IN Boxcar Books 8pm 28 Ann Arbor, MI Aut Bar two shows- 6pm and 8pm 29 Columbus, OH Scully's 8pm 30 New York, NY Rapture Cafe 8pm NOVEMBER 1 Brooklyn, NY Cattyshack 7:30 2 Middletown, CT Wesleyan College 3 Northampton, MA Smith College 4 Boston, MA Spontaneous Celebrations 5 Chester NH Chester College 6 Baltimore, MD Metro Gallery 7 Washington, DC Phase 1 8 Williamsburg, VA College of William and Mary 9 Bronxville, NY Sarah Lawrence College 10 TBA 11 TBA
BRING US TO YOUR TOWN!
BRING US TO YOUR SCHOOL!
Sister Spit: The Next Generation is an all-queer-girl spoken word roadshow! We're touring the nation this April/May, and we still have a few open dates! Check out our website at www.sisterspitnextgen.com, or email info@sisterspitnextgen.com for more info!
See you out on the road!
xoxoxoxoxo
Thanks for the add all the way from the US.. we dont get a great deal of perfomance poetry in rural england! But i recently discovered Kit Yan (i think it was a poem called 'straight girls') and really want to make an effort to check out some slams.. what u guys do sounds really interesting :D
Hey! Thank you! So glad you made it out. We always appreciate the support of our Boston pals:) Heave some great holidays and we'll keep you posted next time when in you neck o' the woods!
Ren Jender~You're so rad. Thanks for finding me. Please stay in touch and thank you for keeping me in the loop. I love hearing the word. Haven't had strap on sex, yet...;)
