Tonight, the flamingos will be flying with Baltimore’s best “Death in Hampden” poetry, along with bands Midway Fair, Baltimore String Felons, and Vib!

Come out to Frazier’s on the Ave at 7:00p.m. for A Flamboyance of Flamingos. Hear a flock of poets and three stellar bands, all while supporting the city’s Health Care for the Homeless. At $5 at the door, we’re an evening of gloriously kitschy entertainment!

Wear your best Boh, Utz, Hon, or flamingo impression and rock the joint with your awesomeness. Participate in our flamingo-calling contest–don’t know what a flamingo sounds like? Neither do we! Make one up, toss back a shot, and have at it, hon.

Like I said before, I’ll be performing on the Ed Schrader Show on September 13th, at the Metro Gallery in Baltimore.

The Lineup

The Ed Schrader show always features a variety of shenanigans and this show should be no exception.

Honnie Wells & The Hundred Quart will perform music that has been described as “making Tom Waits look like a sissy”, with a bluesy raspy sound.

The more obscure Teeth Mountain will also perform.

The manager of Baltimore infamous night spot, The Talking Head, will make an appearance, presumably to discuss the reopening of the aforementioned night spot.

Baltimore’s self-styled vigilante super-hero, Blue Leader is sure to bring some gut-busting laughs to the whole affair. Check out his “Do The Math Comics” for even more laughs.

I’ll be performing spoken word, as well.

This is the flyer for my next reading, in Shepherdstown at Reynolds Hall on Saturday, 9 PM. The performance will also be broadcast on 89.7 WSHC FM.

my set of poems for the event

I would like to help everyone who helped me pick them out. It wasn’t easy. For some reason, I’ve been nervous about this.

• Eviction
• a poem in progress
• Excuses Not to Speak
• Drowned in the loud

The Poets

Ethan Fischer edits Antietam Review and teaches English at Shepherd University. His book of poetry, Beached in the Hourglass, was recently published by Bunny & Crocodile Press. Ethan’s poems have been published in many literary journals, including Pembroke Magazine, Potomac Review, Tuscarora Review, Dickinsonian, and Mountain Pathways. His work was honored by inclusion in Wild Sweet Note: Fifty Years of West Virginia Poetry.

Todd Young is currently an adjunct professor of English at Shepherd University. Todd has performed his poetry in various venues around the Shepherdstown area and has most recently appeared onstage as Falstaff in the latest production by the Rude Mechanicals Medieval and Renaissance Players. Performing poetry with musicians is something that Todd enjoys, having been involved in several local experimental music projects such as Vox Populi, A Thousand Names, and Veritas.

Dylan Kinnett has been an active writer, poet & performer in the Shepherdstown community for a decade. Dylan spent the late nineties producing the local zine, Apocalypse Playground. He has written a stage play about a street preacher, several published short stories, and the occasional dirty limerick on a bathroom wall. Dylan is currently writing a novella in hypertext, To Win, Simply Play which began as an undergraduate writing thesis.

paradigm9 is a group of sound designers and recording artists who, for the last 6 years has produced music for films, plays, eclectic art installations, and the occasional good old fashioned live rock n’ roll show. Dani Seiss, Jim Pilato and Curt Seiss started the Shepherdstown-based experimental music label, Magnanimous Records in 1999 and have since grown to include a modest roster of both local, national and international recording artists. Recently paradigm9 composed a score to local film-maker Lars Wigren’s “Animus” and have just completed their fifth original score for the (not-so) traditional Rude Mechanical Medieval and Renaissance Players, directed by Shepherd University’s Dr. Betty Ellzey.