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hey! welcome to my new home. couldn’t upload audio tracks on the old page so i packed all my sh*t in a U-haul and am slowly but surely rolling it over here. am working on some new audio tracks now that i hope to have finished, polished, fluted, curled, toothbrushed and shining by some time in february. please come visit with me when you’ve got nothing to do. entertain whoever’s in the next cubicle with your amazingly eclectic musical and spoken word taste!
and now, the obligatory bio. soon as i get my new home page all tarted up, i’ll drop this stuff from here because who gives a fuck, really?
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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Hey,jackie, long time no hear. How are you? Anyhoo, to answer your question...it all depends on what is "living right" to you. TO ME...living right is obeying the word of GOD.
Have a sensational week darlin have a wonderful fortnight away and remember to smile I am sending angel eyes to keep you safe and watch over you hugs Kazzie xoxo
Didn't realize you'd never seen my house, but thought I'd send that just in case.
Yes yes, that's been my big complaint, that Wednesday never hooked us up all my long suffering months in NY, where I was stuck up in Harlem (no, not STUCK UP, never that!), but maybe you haven't known her so long?
Yes, they seem to be taking good care of my baby, and yes, I receive visitors all the time, and you are always welcome -- the place was built for folks to come to -- I just hope we can get Wednesday there at the same time.
Don't know when you'll even see this, as I reckon you must be in the air by now, but here's hoping your hotel has internet, and I'm betting it does.
Have a great trip. I'm envious of your workshop, my fellow drop out!
Thank you for the interesting and impassioned blog comment, Jackie, on our former fiction editor's excellent essay on sexism in the cigar industry. We feel exactly the same way. Like you, we also feel there is a very real connection there... first in the process of abuse of another human being is this, the desensitization, all wrapped up in "pretty packages." Goes down like sugar, comes up in a myriad of ugly forms.
Keep reading. This and other such essays will be appearing in our summer issue.
