Chocolate Waters
Chocolate Waters
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I Was Performance When Performance Wasn't Kewl
Female
60 years old
NEW YORK, New York
United States
Last Login: 12/4/2009
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| General | Rubber stamp art, the paranormal,UFO's, psychics, Tarot, anthroposophy, astrology, current events, women's herstory, sci-fi. | | Music | Joan Armatrading, Elvis, Dylan, Pink, David Bowie, Joni Mitchell, Janis Joplin, Nina Simone, Judy Henske, Bonnie Raitt, Dori Hartley, Meg Christian, Annie Lennox, Stevie Nix, Melissa Etheridge, k.d. lang, Patti Smith, Joy of Cooking, Buffy St. Marie, Dory Previn, Laurie Anderson, Jamie Anderson. | | Movies | Harold & Maude, Freeway, the Red Violin, Whale Rider, the first Matrix, Il Postino, American Beauty, V for Vendetta, the Rocky Horror Picture Show, the Illusionist, The Others, Babe in the City (yes, I admit it!) and a million more. | | Television | My latest fave is Six Feet Under, which recently aired on Bravo. Also love Any Day Now, which stopped being produced way too soon. And I can't stop myself from watching Judging Amy re-runs (somebody help me, please)! Also follow Medium, the Dead Zone, the 4400,A Haunting, Psychic Detectives. the L Word and Lost - even though I think the show got lost. The Daily Show - yes! My late night guy is definitely naughty Craig Ferguson, even when he does the same jokes over and over again. Also love Northern Exposure, Weeds and currently on Logo: Bad Girls. Yes! | | Books | These days, I mostly read poetry. Love Oliver, Bukowski, Yeats, Auden, Grahn, Lux, Simic, Sapphire and all my friends who write poetry. | | Heroes | Superman, of course :-) |
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Writing and poetry exposed to agents and publishers (for serious writers and poets), Modern Metrics
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| Status: | Single | | Here for: | Networking, Friends | | Body type: | 5' 7" | | Ethnicity: | White / Caucasian | | Zodiac Sign: | Aquarius | | Occupation: | Poet |
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Chocolate Waters still home recovering from latest knee surgery... oh boy. Posted at 3:54 PM Dec 3
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About me:
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At the moment I'm too lazy to create something new, but rather than having nothing here I'm posting a pre-written bio. When/if the spirit moves me :-) I'll write something newer.
During the "second wave of feminism," Chocolate Waters was one of the first openly lesbian poets to be published. A pioneer in women's publishing and in the art of performance poetry, she has toured throughout the United States, but makes her home in Manhattan. Her three collections: To the man reporter from the Denver Post, Take Me Like A Photograph and Charting New Waters were produced by Eggplant Press during 1975-80 and are considered classics of the early women’s movement. Her CD, Chocolate Waters Uncensored which spans three decades of groundbreaking work, was released by Eggplant Productions in 2001.
Waters is the recipient of a New York State Foundation for the Arts fellowship in Poetry and has also been awarded a grant from the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund. In 1995 she was one of five featured artists in the "Artist As Citizen" exhibit, curated by Amy Ernst, at the American Council for the Arts in New York City.
Her work, which has been nominated for several Puschcart prizes, has appeared in hundreds of publications, most recently in Bay Windows, Thunder Sandwich, Mom – Candid memoirs by lesbians about the first woman in their life, Hell’s Kitchen – Slices of Life, and in the My Lover is A Woman anthology edited by Leslea Newman. Since Waters began publishing electronically, her work can also be found on the Internet at CreativeWomen.com, 2RiverView, ThePedestalMagazine.com, Stirring, Samsara Quarterly, PoetryMagazine.com and the Astrophysicist’s Tango Partner Speaks, among others.
Hailed as the "Poet Laureate of Hell’s Kitchen," Waters teaches poetry workshops, tutors individual clients and directs Eggplant Submissions – a submission service for poets. She makes her home in Manhattan where she is a frequent participant in the New York poetry circuit.
Visit me on the web at ChocolateWaters.com
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Who I'd like to meet:
Upbeat people, poets, writers, artists of all shapes, sizes and disciplines. People who are in control of their lives and not whining victims. People who are AWAKE!
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