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Larissa Shmailo's Interests
General
Writing poetry, reading poetry, modern art esp.
Kiki Smith, singing
Music
Almost all but What Becomes of the Broken Hearted and Capriccio Italien most special
Movies
Hal Hartley, old movies about big spiders.
Television
South Park, and now hooked on Rome and The Tudors
Books
Everywhere in my house, even the laundry hamper -- poetry and literature, some criticism, mainly.
Heroes
Anna Akhmatova, Kiki Smith, John Ashbery, Russian Futurists esp. Mayakovsky and Khlebnikov, Roland Barthes, Vladimir Nabokov, Pushkin, Joseph Brodsky, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wilbur, Theodore Roethke, to be continued....
Poet, writer, editor, translator, troublemaker. Buy my poetry CD The No-Net World for $9.99 (limited time only) at www.cdbaby.com/shmailo/CD. Here's your link: The No-Net World
For more information and more poetry, you can see Gloria Mindock's interview with me at Cervena Barva Press , or visit my other blog at Larissa Shmailo Blog Spot . Definitely come visit my new myspace audio page featuring spoken words tracks at www.myspace.com/larissashmailoexorcism
BIO
Larissa has been or will shortly be published in Fulcrum, About: Poetry, Rattapallax, BigBridge.org, Drunken Boat, We (Naropa), Lungfull!, American Translator’s Slavfile, and many other publications. Larissa has received “Critic’s Picks” notices for her readings and radio appearances from the New York Times, Village Voice, Maud Newton, and Time Out magazine. Her CD, The No-Net World has been heard on radio stations across the country. Her chapbook, A Cure for Suicide, is forthcoming from Cervena Barva Press. She is proud to be a director of TWiN Poetry, an informal collective of over 8,500 spoken word artists, poets, and poetry lovers. Larissa is also public coordinator for the acclaimed annual Fulcrum.
TRANSLATIONS Larissa translated the Russian Futurist opera Victory over the Sun which was performed at the first Next Wave Festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and internationally; a DVD of the original English-language production is part of the collection of the New York Museum of Modern Art. She recently contributed translations to the anthology Contemporary Russian Poetry published by Dalkey Archive Press.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND RECORDINGS The No-Net World(Poetry CD with music by Bobby Perfect)
SongCrew Records 2006
Eggplant Press ISBN 0-935060-01-4.
Poem "Madwoman" nominated for 2007 New Century People’s Choice Award, Best Spoken Word Track. Poem "Quantum Love Remix 2008" nominated for 2008 New Century People’s Choice Award,
Poems published in :
About: Poetry (Spring Poems 2007 Anthology), The Argotist Online, Babel, Bathyspheric Reviewm Behind the Lines, Big Bridge, BigCityLit, CLWN WR, Crit Journal, Curare, Downtown Magazine, Drunken Boat, Erato, Excursus, Fieralingue Poet's Corner, FourW (Anthology), Fulcrum, Ginosko, Grist Online, The Half-Naked Muse (Hungarian bilingual Beat anthology), Idiolexicon.com (recording with music by Bobby Perfect),Ignavia, In Between Hangovers, In Your Face, i-Outlaw (recording, Joe Brainard's Pyjamas, Just Add Water, Little Red Leaves, Lungfull!, MiPoesias, The New Press Literary Quarterly, Newsweek, Pagan Place, PFS Post, Pink Pages, PlanetAuthority.com, Poets in Performance 35 (Anthology, City College of New York), poetz.com, Rag Shock, Rattapallax, Rogue Scholars, Saint Elizabeth Street, Salonika Quarterly, Songs of Seasoned Women (Anthology), Stained Sheets, Street News, Tamarind, Unbearables Assembly Magazine at the Whitney, We (Naropa University.
Reviews: Letters from Aldenderry by Philip Nikolayev, Jacket; Ripple Effect and Selected Poems by Elaine Equi,BigCityLit; EXCHANGE VALUES, Galatea Ressurrects.
RECENT REVIEWS OF THE NO-NET WORLD From THEPEDESTALMAGAZINE.com: Larissa Shmailo's...poems also crackle with breathtaking language. Shmailo's expert understanding of the close relationship between poetry and drama, music and language, and the primal human need to just hear a really, really good story make The No-Net World a truly unique contribution to twenty-first century American poetry, and a CD worth listening to frequently and carefully.
From LITKICKS.COM: "Larissa Shmailo has compiled some of her best work in her new poetry CD, The No-Net World. The No-Net World is a solid collection of Shmailo's intensity, heart and wit. Her poetry is careful, considered, yet powerful... The No-Net World takes you on one woman's tour of the globe, combining stark reality with lush hope. I recommend that you go along for the ride.
From BOOG CITY: "Larissa Shmailo ...really knows how to write, how to read, how to present her poetry. She is masterful in the wonderfully rhythmic "Johnny I Love You Don't Die"...Shmailo's album is thoughtful, entertaining, and bears repeated listens."
From POETIX.COM:"'How My Family Survived the Camps,' [IS] the strongest, the most important poem here. . . In it she describes the combination of luck and ingenuity that enabled her family to survive the Holocaust. The key poem on the CD, it gives by far the best realization of her running theme, that how we react to what happens to us is as important as the events themselves."
From NEW CENTURY: Larissa Shmailo- her poem "Madwoman" with guitar on the track is pretty rad- if this isn't a Urban AntiFolk poet who is? Some of these posers just make like they've got street cred but this woman has walked on the wildside and now she lives to tell us about it.
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Who I'd like to meet: Artists of all stripes and our most beloved audiences (we need you like drunks need booze), troublemakers, nerds, etc. Also anti-poverty, antiwar, and green activists, people challenging racism and homophobia. People who love animals including humans.
Hey Larissa, Thanks for your get well wish. After a few weeks of illness I am health and emerging from my cocoon. I am bursting with creative energy and have a need to scramble up a mountain—Maybe I will touch the sky tomorrow or Tuesday.
Fair blows the winds from my door to yours on these sunny days of summer. -Duane
Bliss In the middle of the night, My bedroom washed in moonlight And outside The faint hush-hushing Of an ebbing tide, I see Venus Close to The waning moon. I hear the bubbling hoot Of a playful owl. Pierrot's purrs Ripple under my hand, And all this is bathed In the scent of roses By my bed Where there are always Books and flowers. In the middle of the night The bliss of being alive!
Larissa - It was a pleasure and an honor working with you and producing your latest CD, Exorcism. As with all your work, the writing is cutting edge and holds nothing back. I wish you lots of success with Exorcism lets look forward to the next one! Rembrandt (Bobby)
Hey Larissa - can't wait to see you in NYC! If you have events on that week where I can see you perform please let me know. July 2-8 (am tied up other nights). More power to your pen sista!
Hey there! I hope everything is going well for you, especially on this Memorial Day weekend. I would really like to know what you think of my poetry. It's in my blogs. Thanks!
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