Thanks all who came out and many thanks to Beyond Baroque for hosting such a wonderful night!
Ellyn Maybe introduced us to a Poetry Rodeo. Many thanks to the incredible band and the rest of the poets!
Posts Tagged ‘Hen House Studios’
Gorgeous New Video! Parallel Universe off of Rodeo for the Sheepish
Thursday, October 21st, 2010Video by: Jacob Mendel
Greil Marcus on Rodeo for the Sheepish in Mother Jones!
Wednesday, October 20th, 2010— By Michael Mechanic Mon Oct. 18, 2010 4:00 AM PDT
Excerpt from article:
MJ: What about something totally outside your genre?
GM: I like to think there’s no outside; that I can hear whatever has a claim to make, but if you’d asked me if I were interested in poetry set to music, I’d probably say no. When I heard Ellyn Maybe’s “City Streets” on KALX in Berkeley I had no idea what it was, just that I was transfixed. I called up the DJ, went to Amoeba Records, couldn’t find it, wrote away—and after listening to Maybe’s album Rodeo for the Sheepish (Hen House) half a dozen times, I had no idea who the people behind it were—a poet, and a musician/singer who sounds like many of himself, or for that matter her-himself. But there’s a pathos cut with self-lacerating humor that makes this the most surprising and painful music I’ve come across.
New Video! Ellyn Maybe – Sylvia Plath
Friday, October 15th, 2010
Video by: Nisey Jay and Riccardo Spinotti
Next Friday, October 22 I’m participating in Hen House Studios Presents…a night of Poetry and Music at Beyond Baroque!
Thursday, October 14th, 2010
Press for Upcoming Sparring with Beatnik Ghosts NorCal Tour
Saturday, October 2nd, 2010
Join Us Tomorrow Night for the Start of Poetry Rodeo!
Thursday, September 30th, 2010
***Read about the Gig in the LA Weekly, Experience LA, RentFoodBroke, YoVenice, and VenicePatch!
Thank you Moontide Press!
Thursday, September 23rd, 2010
Definitely, it’s Ellyn Maybe
September 30 kicks off a monthly series with Ellyn Maybe and her Band performing songs from her acclaimed pop poetry album, Rodeo for the Sheepish (Hen House Studios) as well as other works. The readings will feature guest musicians and an open reading where poets can bring up to five minutes of poetry and the band will improvise with them.
Hen House Studios is proud to host Maybe and her band September 30 at 7:30pm. The series will be held at Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center at 681 Venice Blvd. in Venice Beach. Tickets are $7, $5 for students, seniors and children, free for members with free parking in the lot next to Beyond Baroque.
Maybe is the author of The Cowardice of Amnesia, The Ellyn Maybe Coloring Book, Putting My 2 Cents In, Walking Barefoot in the Glassblowers Museum, Praha and the Poet and A Talk With Nature. Rodeo for the Sheepish was featured as the top album of 2010 in famed critic Greil Marcus’s column for The Believer magazine. Ellyn opened the MTV Spoken Word Tour in Los Angeles and has read widely, from Bumbershoot, the Poetry Project and the New School to South by Southwest, Lollapalooza, all over Europe and on the BBC, just to name a few. Writer’s Digest named her one of ten poets to watch in the new millennium.
Rodeo for the Sheepish Recommended by Perceval Press!
Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010Viggo Mortensen’s imprint Perceval Press is a small, independent publisher specializing in art, critical writing, and poetry. They were gracious enough to feature Ellyn Maybe’s Hen House release Rodeo for the Sheepish as one of their recommendations! Check out the spotlight and all the great content on their site.
Ellyn’s Poetry Rodeo in the LA Weekly!
Tuesday, September 21st, 2010
Ellyn Maybe
Thu., September 30, 7:30pm
MAYBE BABY
By Falling James
In her song-poem “There Were Two Girls Who Looked a Lot the Same,” the local poet Ellyn Maybe celebrates her titular subjects with a profusion of succinct details and a steadily rhythmic accumulation of playful phrases, such as “One wore lipstick/One bit her lip” and “The astronomy was tangible” and “They had eyelashes that looked like a hula skirt made of coal.” When Maybe declared, “They wanted a bite from each world,” she was marveling about how the girls appreciated both Gidget movies and Tennessee Williams plays. However, the L.A. wordsmith could have also been describing the sinuous way she moves between the worlds of poetry and music on her new CD, Rodeo for the Sheepish . Maybe’s homages to Picasso and Sylvia Plath are infused with beat-driven, soulful trip-hop moods from her simpatico band, who’ll not only back her tonight at this monthly event but will also whip up cool grooves for adventurous poets in the audience, who’d like to marry their words with this mysterious thing called music.
Location
Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center
681 Venice Blvd.; Venice CA