Poetry Electric
William Electric Black, series director

Poetry Electric fuses music, movement, sound, and dance with the spoken word. A poetry scene dedicated to poets who seek an alternative way to present the spoken word and word performance. Poetry Electric will be performed at the Club at La MaMa. Visit the Poetry Electric Archives page

Funding for this program provided in part by the New York State Council on the Arts, the Department of Cultural Affairs of New York City and Axe-Houghton Foundation.

May 19, 2008 at 8pm, $7
BARBARA KAISER - LOCKED IN THE LADIES' ROOM

Written and Performed by Barbara Kaiser with Music by Elizabeth Woodbury Kasius

Locked in the Ladies' Room is the true story of a girl who grew up in Brooklyn, went to Erasmus Hall H.S. with Barbra Streisand and chess champion, Bobby Fischer, had her dream come true of living in Greenwich Village, worked with Jean Shepherd at WOR Radio and ended up in Troy, New York. It was a time when women college graduates were sent directly to the typing pool and men went on to career tracks. The show is made up of humorous and poignant vignettes with music.

Barbara is a performance artist, poet and DJ in upstate New York where she hosts a Jazz radio show. She majored in Theater at Brooklyn College, studied acting at HB Studios and the Strassberg Institute and has appeared on stage with Spaulding Gray.

Elizabeth Woodbury Kasius is a composer-arranger-pianist.
She received her formal musical training at the University of Washington and Cornish College of Arts in Seattle.  She received her B.A. from Brown University in African Studies. Elizabeth leads the modern chamber ensemble HEARD.

2007 - 2008 Schedule

June 2008
THE LOVELY NOWHERE 6

Contemporary Filipino American poets bring their spoken word and flavor to the La MaMa Club. The evening will feature such artists as Gina Apostol, Regie Cabico, Emmy Catedral, Eric Gamalinda, Jon Pineda, Bino Realuyo, R.A. Villanueva, Eileen Tabios and others.

Other artists returning to Poetry Electric in 2007-2008 -- Sasha Painter, Ilka Scobie, Wendy thorpe Phyllis Capello, Liza Jesse Peterson, Ellen Aug, Vincent Katz, Tongo, Jeff Wright, Stephan Bondel Val Oisteanu, Bob Holman, Carolyn Baccaro, Corie Feiner, S. Rudanskya, Gabriella Santoro James F. Gleeson, Clara Sala, Jie-Song Zhang, Anna Limontas-Salisbury

Poetry Electric Seeks spoken word and word performance artists

Drop off a sample of your work, press clippings, etc.
at the La MaMa Box Office
Attn: Poetry Electric
74A East 4th Street (bet 2nd Ave & Bowery)