Join the TypewriterGirls along with special guests Slack Buddha Press for an evening of Dada-inspired madness at this year’s AWP in Denver!

The TypewriterGirls’ Dada-bred performances are collage-work theatre formed from sketch comedy, poetry, music, whiskey games, collaborative writing, burlesque, and a little magic. In essence, they strive to embody the Comte de Lautréamont’s creed “poetry must be made by all” with a play and a dance party.

In addition to their regular slew of surrealist, whiskey, and improv comedy games, the TypewriterGirls’ Denver debut will feature quite a fantastic line up of poets and performers including;

Poets:

Sandra Beasley – Sandra Beasley is the author of I Was the Jukebox, winner of the 2009 Barnard Women Poets Prize, selected by Joy Harjo and published by W. W. Norton. Recent work can be found in Pleiades, Gulf Coast, POETRY, Barrelhouse, and Black Warrior Review, which published Bitch and Brew: Sestinas in their chapbook series. Her work has been anthologized on Poetry Daily and Verse Daily and will appear in Best American Poetry 2010, guest edited by Amy Gerstler, the i.e. reader from Narrow House, Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel (Second Story), and the 2005 Best New Poets, guest edited by George Garrett. Beasley is also an essayist whose work has been featured in the Washington Post Magazine. In 2009 she signed with Writers’ Representatives. She is working on Don’t Kill the Birthday Girl: Tales from an Allergic Life, a nonfiction book forthcoming from Crown.

Laura Moran – Laura Moran’s most recent collection is Improper Joy (High Water Mark Sal[o]on: 2007). She travels throughout the country and abroad touring and headlining at numerous universities, elementary schools, festivals, competitions, women’s organizations, literacy groups, coffee houses, churches, and nightclubs. In September 2002, her work was the subject of a half-hour poetry documentary that aired repeatedly on MNN in NYC.

Lynn Wagner is the author of “No Blues This Raucous Song” for which she won the 2009 Slapering Hol Press chapbook competition. Her poems have appeared in Shenandoah, Subtropics, 5AM, Chatauqua Literary Review and other journals. Her awards include an Academy of American Poets Prize and fellowships from the Virginia Center for Creative Arts. She lives and writes in Denver, Colorado, working as a research assistant at the School of Medicine and teaching poetry to youth at Lighthouse Writers Workshop.

Jitterbug group 23 Skidoo will also be performing as well as the band Radical Knitting Circle!

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