The wonderful group of collaborators and accompanists over the years: Stephen B. Antonakos co-composer and guitarist (of Love Camp 7 and Dirty Water Dogs), Gary Lucas on guitar (of Gods and Monsters and formerly of Captain Beefheart), Rebecca Moore on various toy instruments (of Prevention of Blindness and Harvey Mars), Nao on guitar (of Nao's Superfortress), Bradford Reed on pencillina (from The Firefishers and Blue Man Group), Hiroshi Noguchi on guitar, Steve Wishnia on bass (formerly of False Prophets), Marc Sloan on bass and samples (of Gawk and formerly of False Prophets), Andrew Williams on Trombone, Samara on violin, Joe Trump on percussion, Drew Gardner on Drums, Tofu on Percussion, Prageeta Sharma on Drums, Eres on slide guitar, Andrea Urist on drums, Steve Metzgar on drums, Jonathan Moran on bass, Mike Doughty on samples, Christian X. Hunter on guitar, Joel Schlemowitz co-composer and guitarist, Adam Kendall on laptop and others.
“Wanda Phipps and band, a multi-instrument, blues, poetry, and rock ensemble - picture the Velvet Underground, Patti Smith, and Leadbelly thrown into a blender.”
– David Kirschenbaum, Editor & publisher of Boog City
MORE ABOUT WANDA'S POETRY & MUSIC
For over a decade Wanda Phipps has been mining the possibilities of music and poetry and her lucid experiments–both on CD and in performance–are never less than totally liberating.
– Lewis Warsh, author of
The Origin of the World
Uncompromising and relentless, poetry you can dance to. Wanda Phipps takes the experiment to heart and the heart always survives. A sublime poetry of emotion and wit. She never misses a beat.
–Michael Rothenberg, poet, editor of
several Penguin Poets Series books
and the internet arts journal Big Bridge
WHAT THEY HAVE SAID ABOUT WANDA'S RECENTLY RELEASED BOOK
FIELD OF WANTING:
POEMS OF DESIRE
Wanda Phipps’s poetry is so unexpected, it often startles me. In Field of Wanting, she uses devices I’ve seen before, but never this way. Her voice is as unique as her approach to the poems. And, as always, her honesty is refreshing and uniquely personal. It is, simply, poetry you will find nowhere else. Give it a chance and it will seduce you with its clarity and originality. More a voice singing in the rain than crying in the wilderness, even if the rain is sometimes blood red.
– Michael Lally, author of March 18, 2003: A Poem for Peace
Field of Wanting is a charged, radically honest book of poems by a writer/performer who intervenes on many fields of desire with zest and panache. She tells it like it is, with wit and a touch of irony.
–Anne Waldman, author of Fast Speaking Woman and Outrider: Essays, Poems, Interviews
PRAISE FOR WANDA'S BOOK
WAKE-UP CALLS:
66 MORNING POEMS
Wanda Phipps’s poems restored the world briefly into the unbearable longing and clarity of youth, and this old grump wept. Very tonic, very lovely, poetry, definitely.
– Andrei Codrescu, author of it was today: new poems
Reading this book is like getting a wake-up call from the beyond.
– Lewis Warsh, author of The Origin of the World
A truly beautiful and inspiring work.
– Gillian McCain, co-author of Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
Her poems keep us awake, supplying us with love, heartaches, the changing seasons, and the sights and sounds that evoke, surround and encapsulate our world(s).
– Steve Dalachinsky, Boog City
The refreshing feel about this collection comes from Phipps, fresh out of sleep, suddenly conscious, writing suddenly and honestly. There is no hesitation. This is a woman going forward into day through her art.
Wanda Phipps is a writer/performer living in NYC, the author of Field of Wanting: Poems of Desire (BlazeVOX[books]), Wake-Up Calls: 66 Morning Poems (Soft Skull Press), Your Last Illusion or Break Up Sonnets (Situations), Lunch Poems (Boog Literature), the Faux Press issued e-chapbook After the Mishap and CD-Rom Zither Mood. Her poetry has been published over 100 times in a variety of publications, including the anthologies Verses that Hurt: Pleasure and Pain From the Poemfone Poets (St. Martin's Press) and The Boog Reader (Boog Lit). Her poetry has been translated into Ukrainian, Hungarian, Arabic and Galician. She has received awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Meet the Composer/International Creative Collaborations Program, Agni Journal, the National Theater Translation Fund, and the New York State Council on the Arts. As a founding member of Yara Arts Group she has collaborated on numerous theatrical productions presented in Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan and Siberia, as well as in New York City at La MaMa, E.T.C. She’s also curated several reading and performance series at the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church as well as other NYC venues and written about the arts for Time Out New York, Paper Magazine, and About.com.
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Wanda Reading at the Openned Series at The Foundry in London
Curated by Stephen Willey and David Alexander Davies
Camerawork by Stephen Willey
www.openned.com
Big boob housewife show up at shop, have no car but want happy romp with Flapjack. She show number one thick bush, she say she no shave. I say furburger no problem, HA!
featuring dave hillyard - sax, simon chardiet - guitar
The Blue Greens – Jazz/Blues/RnB
April 2 – New York (Harlem), NY – Shrine
www.shrinenyc.com no cover – music starts at 9 p.m. sharp!
April 24 – Brooklyn, NY (red hook) – Sunnys
www.sunnysredhook.com no cover – music starts at 10 p.m.
David Hillyard & the Rocksteady 7 – Reggae/Jazz/Ska
April 11 – New York (Harlem), NY – Shrine
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Just swinging by to say hello and wish you well. I wonder what you're doing at LaMama....and hope it goes well. You know I'm a fan. My readings have been going well up here. Best/
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