Poetry, comedy, solo performance, monologuists, storytelling, basically anything involving words and a microphone.
Heroes
Past PVC Performers:
Comedians
Dan Allen, Andrea Alton, Adira Amram, Craig Baldo, Brandy Barber, Sue Ball, Brian Baumley, Bryan and Rexxx, Desiree Burch, Michelle Buteau, Michele Carlo, Christian Cintron, Tara Clancy, Robin Cloud, Claudia Cogan, Katina Corrao, Sean Crespo, Abbi Crutchfield, Michael Cyril Creighton, Dustin D'Addato, Joe Dixon, Margaret Dodge, Kelli Dunham, Jen Dziura, Mike Ennis, Emily Epstein, Lang Fisher, Jon Friedman, Eliot Glazer, Shawn Hollenbach, Jawnee, Robert Keller, Rob Lathan, Margot Leitman, Matt Little, Laura Mannino, Matt McCarthy, Liz Miele, Micia Mosely, Rob O'Reilly, Rachael Parenta, Ryan Paulson, Mindy Raf, Giulia Rozzi, Jenny Rubin, Livia Scott, Maria Shehata, Mama Spell, Charles Star, Lianne Stokes, Luke Thayer, Greg Walloch, Allen Warnock, Sven Wechsler, Jodi Wasserman, Elon James White, Baron Vaughn, Becky Yamamoto.
Poets
Claudia Alick, Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz, Tamiko Beyer, La Bruja, Regie Cabico, Jane Cassady Angela Davison, Brother Earl, Evert Eden, Anne Elliott, Janice Erlbaum, Gloria, Helen Gregory, Lisa Haas, Christine Hamm, Andy Horwitz, Boni Joi, Tsaurah Litzky, Douglas A. Martin, Zaedryn Meade, Carol Novack, Thad Rutkowski, Hal Sirowitz, Nicole Steinberg, Kathleen Warnock, Tim Wells, Bakar Wilson, Chavisa Woods, Jhon Valdes and Emanuel Xavier.
PVC is not a typical poetry slam nor a regular stand-up comedy show. PVC is a battle of wits and rhymes where the stanzas and the stand-up collide. The show was created by writer and literary series curator Cheryl B. and is emceed by comedian Carolyn Castiglia.
August 27th, 8PM
$7, One Drink Minimum Bowery Poetry Club 308 Bowery, NYC
Cheryl B. Presents
PVC: The Poetry Vs. Comedy Variety Show
Lineup coming soon!
PRESS QUOTES:
“superbly of the moment.”
--The Smart Set, MaudNewton.com
“For centuries, they have walked among us, waging an eternal war, bloody and chaotic, trying to settle the age-old question: Who’s better in the sack – poets or comedians?”
-- The L Magazine
"tonight it is ok to laugh at the poets at Galapagos. At the Poetry Vs. Comedy Variety Show poets rage against comedians in a battle of wits."
-- Gothamist.com
"another celebratory night of the hottest talents on the downtown comedy scene."
-- TheTicker.com
Past PVC Winners 2008:
July - Eliot Glazer
May - Tim Wells
April- Livia Scott
March - Micia Mosely
February - Craig Baldo
January - Thaddeus Rutkowski
Past PVC Winners 2007:
November - Sara Guttierez
October - Lubka Bubkova (Margaret Dodge)
September - Cheryl B.
August - Elon James White
July- Kathleen Warnock
June- Zaedryn Mead (Two-time winner!)
May - Leibya Rogers (Mindy Raf)
April - Sue Ball
February - La Bruja
Past PVC Winners 2006:
December - Gloria
November - Emanuel Xavier
October - Tsuarah Litzky
August - Zaedryn Meade
June - Allen Warnock
May - A tie! Gloria and Baron Vaughn
April - Dan Allen
February - Becky Yamamoto
Registration is free as is almost all the site! All I'm asking is for a user name, password and date of birth. You can even upload a 100x100 pixel pic to appear as you in the forums. Your work appears in a very cool virtual book where the pages turn as you move your mouse over them (I spend many minutes just holding the mouse button over the page and flipping it about-could be a man thing because it looks so cool!lol!!)
Anyhow I diverse - I would love to have you visit - even better register - and better again join in. My biggest ambition is to pay you your just rewards for your talents. In return novel-storm will do just fine - 20% is not greedy, but is sensible without 'ripping authors and illustrators off!
FOURTEEN SHOWS, SIX POETS, ONE VAN…
… YES, IT’S GENERATION TXT
Following the success of acclaimed new poetry anthology Generation Txt, penned in the margins is taking the six gifted young poets featured in the book on a national tour to fourteen venues. Hand-picked from a nationwide search for writing talent, the poets include former Northern Young Writer of the Year Emma McGordon and celebrated performance poet Inua Ellams, as well as Joe Dunthorne, whose debut novel Submarine has just been snapped up by Hamish Hamilton. Natural Sciences graduate Laura Forman, creative writing student Abigail Oborne and experimental poet and text artist James Wilkes complete the bill.
Hailed by distinguished poet and critic Roddy Lumsden as 'a vital cross-section of the poetry that will progress and flourish' and by the TES as 'a creative ideas manual', the Generation Txt tour will be a must-see event for anyone interested in the future of literature.
May 17 – GREAT TORRINGTON Plough Arts Centre
May 18 – SWINDON Festival of Literature
May 19 – STROUD Artspace
May 22 – LONDON Bloomsbury Theatre
May 24 – MAIDENHEAD Norden Farn Centre for the Arts
May 25 – OXFORD Playhouse
May 26 – MANCHESTER Contact Theatre
May 28 – LIVERPOOL The Pilgrim
May 29 – DURHAM Gala Theatre
May 30 – NEWCASTLE Lit & Phil
June 1 – BIRMINGHAM MAC
June 2 – NORWICH Norwich Arts Centre
June 3 – CAMBRIDGE JE Wilson Drama Studio
June 5 – BRIGHTON Earth & Stars
'City Smells' is a new literary project set up by the Edit Red Writing Community.
We are running three writing competitions, Flash Fiction, Creative Non-Fiction and Poetry, all with the theme 'City Smells. The winners of each of these competitions will win $100. But more than this, we will take the best work from each competition and compile a paperback 'City Smells' anthology. The writers who make it into the 'City Smells' anthology will each receive free copies of the book and be paid a royalty in book sales.
To submit to these competition and stand a chance of being published in the 'City Smells' book you must be a member of Edit Red, as the submission process is automated. Joining Edit Red and entering these competitions is 100% free. If you make it into the book, we will pay royalties based on book sales.
Edit Red has existed for many years and was created and is still managed today by non-fiction author Alan Emmins, creative writing teacher Chris Lee Ramsden and literary reviewer Sean Merrigan.
If you are not already a member, we hope you will join and take part in this great literary event. Sign up here for free!
The East Coast tour dates. Praise me, draw a burlesque girl, or throw a tomato, on the following days
February 27th, 2007
Washington, DC
Dr. Sketchy's takes the Capital
at The Palace of Wonders
1210 H Street NE
Washington DC
$10, 21 +
7-10 pm
A full Dr. Sketchy's extravagenza, with the lovely Amber Ray modelling and performing her peacock dance, and me reading the most salacious parts of my book
March 2nd, 2007
Richmond, VA
Signing and mini-Dr. Sketchy's at Chop Suey
Books
1317 West Cary Street
6-8pm
with Mimi Noir of Nouvelle Burlesque
March 3rd, 2007
Greensboro, NC
Molly hosts Dr. Sketchy's with body-painted burlesque goddess Foxy Moxy
at Two Art Chicks Studios
609 South Elm St.
March 4, 2007
Durhem, NC
Signing and Dr. Sketchy's at Jigsaw Comics, with the lovely Audra Gwarskitty
305 South Anti-Mall
305 South Dillard Street
4-7 pm
March 5th, 2007
Norfolk, VA
Molly hosts Dr. Sketchy's and does booksigning at Relative Theory Records, with Jen Dziura modelling her Wonder Woman panties
6:30-8:30 pm
271 Granby St, Suite 200
March 8th, 2007
Baltimore, MD
Atomic POP
3620 Falls Road
7-9PM
Signing and Mini-Dr. Sketchy's with the lovely Kitty Victorian Visit Our Website
Hi! I’m Generation Txt, the acclaimed new anthology of poetry featuring Joe Dunthorne, Inua Ellams, Laura Forman, Emma McGordon, Abigail Oborne and James Wilkes.
'The current generation of poets under 30 sees the factional stances which lead their predecessors as petty and limiting. Generation Txt looks at all points of poetry's star and is less concerned with the middle ground, which makes this selection of young writers more vital and a truer cross-section of the poetry that will progress and flourish.' Roddy Lumsden
So, every show you have comedy, poetry, celebrity judges, a showdown, prizes, *and* a freestyling, rhyming emcee?! And it's the perfect length show?! And it's free?
