Jackie Sheeler & Electric Birth
(you can find him at myspace.com/electricbirth)
and you can find our new music at:
www.reverbnation.com/jackiesheeler
Influences
bob holman once said, "if patti smith and lou reed had a child, it would be jackie sheeler". that's close enough for me!
grew up to the sounds of jethro tull, patti, nina hagen, joni mitchell, james brown. now listening to a lot of pj harvey, amanda palmer, the yeah yeah yeahs, michael franti. mixed bag? you tell me.
Jackie Sheeler is a native New Yorker, an award-winning writer, a teacher, a vocalist, and a renegade. When she was named Poet Laureate of Riker's Island for her volunteer work with young inmates, Martín Espada said, "Being Poet Laureate of Riker's Island is far more honorable and valuable than being Poet Laureate of the United States..." Jackie’s first collection of poems, The Memory Factory, won the Magellan Prize from Buttonwood Press in 2002. Her second book, Off the Cuffs, Poems by and about the Police, was published by Soft Skull Press in February 2003 and Thomas Lux says "This anthology should be in every police station in the US!" She recently published a chapbook, to[o] long, with Three Rooms Press and her poems often appear in literary journals such as New York Quarterly, Phoebe, The Ledge, Rattapallax, Slant, and others. Much of her work has been recorded, and CDs of her and her band, Talk Engine, still sell briskly on CDBaby. She's performed on radio and TV, at Symphony Space, Vassar College, The Nuyorican Poets Cafe, The Knitting Factory, the Austin International Poetry Festival, The Bowery Poetry Club and hundreds of other venues nationwide.
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Get your copy of ARC AND HUE at Willow Books Poetry and Aquarius Press online at 20% off before 9/1/09. Available on Amazon soon.
ARC AND HUE will be available at the NYC book party on Sunday, Sept. 20, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery, New York, NY 10012. Between Houston & Bleecker, near the F & 6 trains.
hey! since you're from the new york city area, thought we'd invite you to our show at the Bowery Ballroom tomorrow. would be awesome to see you there. either way, thanks for the support :) cheers, -TCL
ARC AND HUE will be in stores soon! Pre-order your copy for 20% off before 9/1/09. Look out for the book of lesson plans and the NYC & Chicago release parties too. http://stores.aquariuspressbookseller.net/Categories.bok?category=Poetry
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