emchy | Here come the poet soldiers

Hey All

Here are the fucking awesome, amazing and incredibly exciting features coming up at my open mic. If they were any edgier, we'd fall off, if their words were sharper, i'd be bleeding (hey... ow!)

Be there or be square hepcats! and hey bring your friends, there's beer at the cafe now!

xo Cindy

Host, Queer Open Mic

1800 Market @ Octavia www.threedollarbill.com

3/25 Jacub Perez
Jacub Perez, aka Scarletto is an API, Traniboy, Hip-Hop Artist from the South Pacific and has been performing in various queer venues of San Francisco for about 5 years now. Scarletto is a natural born Tension Raiser among all "haters," whether politician, right wing religiousness or even the machismos. Scarletto unveils his own truths and struggles to the stage with his fierce lyrics and feisty flame indeed!

4/8 Tim’m West *special SF performance*
Tim'm is a funky derivative of a biblical name out of which a stutter name came. It is a speech impediment transformed into ghettofab sig in which he takes pride; for that which hasn't killed him makes him alive. He spits lyrics ‘bout poetics, politics, or the country side, and he's proud to be a memba of the Deep Dickollektive tribe. His book and CD are in the process of being weaved together to produce a Hip Hop theatre work, tentatively called “7th Breath”. He expects to tour this work in early 2005. Though in DC, 25 is still very much active in this band of Diasporically Displaced Colored Boys. You can find out any and all things about this country-bumpkin (including updates on his travels and shows) at his own website: www.reddirt.biz

4/8 Transition
Transition consists of the next wave of angsty teen idols, Butch Greenblatt and Crystal Vines. They came together at San Francisco State University where they study their hot intellectual asses off. They express their broken hearted struggles through emotional rock confessions. This contemplative trannyboi and hot luscious engineer lady lover are going to rock your genderfucking socks off! Soon to come: www.transitionrock.net!

4/22 Thea Hillman
Thea Hillman is an activist and author from Oakland. She's performed her work at schools and performance venues across the U.S. Thea's first book, Depending on the Light was published in 2001. These days you can find her writing in an upcoming issue of On Our Backs magazine and the anthology 50 Ways to Support Lesbian and Gay Equality. Her next book about growing up and coming out intersex, entitled For Lack of a Better Word, will be released in 2006. For more info and performance schedule, visit theahillman.com.

5/13 Ryka Aoki de la Cruz
Ryka Aoki de la Cruz (www.rykaryka.com ) is a trans goth dyke who has been published most recently in Beyond the Valley of Contemporary Poets, Girlchick.com, Grand Street, FEM Magazine, the Southern Poetry Review, Lodestar Quarterly, and Tsur. Ryka has work in the forthcoming anthology Poetry is Not a Luxury: Poems by L.A. Women of Color. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from Cornell University, is a founder of Cornell University's Asian American Playhouse, and head coach of Cornell's Ivy League Judo Championship Team. She is the recipient of a University Award from the Academy of American Poets.

5/20 Meliza Bañales
Meliza Bañales has been called, "The girl with the sense of humor of a jackknife." She originally hails from Los Angeles and is the youngest of four kids from working-poor parents. The first Latina to ever win a Bay Area slam championship, she has been a fixture in the poetry slam community for the past six years. She has performed in just about everywhere--parks, bars, street corners, universities, restaurants, cross-country, internationally-- and with just about everyone from school children to Alice Walker, June Jordan, and Ana Castillo. Her work can be found in numerous anthologies and magazines, including Revolutionary Voices, Lodestar Quarterly, and Laundry Pen, and through her own publications, published on both Chula and Monkey Press. Her work has often been called "edgy", "political", and "muy caliente". Always looking to fight the good fight, Meliza's work uses humor and personal stories to display larger truths and oppressions. She has co-written the play Starfuckers (2004), is a regular contributor to On Our Backs, and released the album Happy Accident (2004). Her first collection of poems, Say It With Your Whole Mouth, can be found on Monkey Press.

Here come the poet soldiers

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