[Antiracism] Lenelle Moise: Upcoming Events

[K Villon]

Dear All,

Lenelle Moise is a self-identified "culturally hyphenated pomosexual 
poet." She is also a wonderful playwright and performance artist.

Best,
Krysia
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Sticks and stones may break my bones but words can never hurt me?
 
Poets know: that cliche is a cup of crap! Words can shoot from a soft 
mouth bullet-mean and rock-hard. Words can shatter hearts, teeth, and 
other bones...
 
Once, a tired student (too irritated to be challenged), mouthed off to 
one of my favorite acting teachers, Susannah Barryman. Susannah simply 
raised her eyebrows, took a minute to realign her spine and projected 
her voice to fill the classroom. "I want everyone to pick a partner and 
sit down," she said. "Look that person in the left eye and just breathe 
together." After five minutes of shrugging giggles and awkward 
inhalations and exhalations she instructed, "Continue to look your 
partner in the eye. I want you to take turns. I want you to tell your 
person, 'I have the power to HURT you.'" My partner and I both 
hesitated, then shivered as we recited the phrase, five 
times each. "Now," Susannah continued, "say 'I have the power to HELP 
you.'"
 
That exercise changed my life! It also changed the dynamic in the 
classroom. Once we articulated our knowledge of the power to hurt or to 
help, we knew that every praise or curse we made from then on wasn't a 
fluke, but a choice. Words can rouse WORLDS. We can pronounce ourselves 
into oblivion or we can prophet into existence a planet abundant with 
love...
 
I know I'm a boho-hippie-homo...but it's true.
  
OCTOBER 2006 LIVE EVENTS!
 
Sunday October 1 Lenelle opens for the amazing Erin Mckeown with Allison 
Miller (one of the best percussionists I've ever seen/heard). Don't miss 
it! Iron Horse Music Hall/ Northampton, MA. 7PM. $15 in advance/ $18 at 
the door.
 
Saturday October 7 Lenelle shares the stage with activist-poet Jared 
Paul. Produced by the incredible Jessica Nappa-Siegel. P.A.C.E./ 
Easthampton, MA. 8PM. $7
 
Wednesday October 18 Lenelle's solo show WOMB-WORDS, THIRSTING at 
Evergreen State College/ Olympia, WA. Check out 
www.lenellemoise.com/aboutwombwords 
<http://www.lenellemoise.com/aboutwombwords> for more info. 
 
OCTOBER READS!
 
This Fall, my writing is featured in THREE new anthologies!
 
1. WE DON'T NEED ANOTHER WAVE: DISPATCHES FROM THE NEXT GENERATION OF 
FEMINISTS (Seal Press). Edited by the very cool Melody Berger (also the 
editor-at-large of the F-Word Zine). The anthology features good writing 
by some of my favorite writerly people on the planet: Maria Cristina 
Rangel, Staceyann Chin and Elena Azzoni. My confessional essay "Rice 
Tight with Beans: Loving Caribbean Skin" is all about the trials and 
triumphs of being in an interracial lesbian relationship. Support your 
local bookstore OR pre-order a copy of the book at: 
http://www.amazon.com/Dont-Need-Another-Wave-Dispatches/dp/1580051820/ref=sr_11_1/104-3208696-8912757?ie=UTF8
 
2. BRASSAGE: AN ANTHOLOGY OF POEMS BY HAITIAN WOMEN (a joint publication 
of the Multicultural Women's Press and the UCSB Center for Black 
Studies). Edited by Claudine Michel, Marlene Racine-Toussaint and 
Florence Bellande-Robertson with a forward by Chryss Yost.
 
3. I'm really proud of the characters I created a couple of years ago 
for We Got Issues! a multi-genre project about young women and 
leadership. Now you can read excerpts of those poems/monologues 
(and more) in WE GOT ISSUES: A YOUNG WOMAN'S GUIDE TO A BOLD, COURAGEOUS 
AND EMPOWERED LIFE (Inner Ocean Press). Edited by Rha Goddess and J-Love 
Calderon. 
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1930722729/sr=8-1/qid=1154542149/ref=pd_bbs_1/102-2208058-9481721?ie=UTF8 The 
We Got Issues! performance piece is also on tour in the Southwest and 
Northeast. I conducted a couple of intensive acting workshops with the 
cast this year. Check these fierce women out: www.wegotissues.org 
<http://www.wegotissues.org/>
 
ALSO
 
Did you know I'm the new book reviewer for Velvetpark Magazine?! Pick up 
a copy of the Summer 2006 Issue (#1) and you can read about more good 
reads. www.velvetparkmagazine.com <http://www.velvetparkmagazine.com/>. 
There's also a wonderful article about the June Millington & Ann Hackler 
of the Institute for the Musical Arts (www.ima.org <http://www.ima.org/> 
- June is producing MADIVINEZ, my upcoming spoken word CD). You might 
recognize the lanky, laughing poet on the right in really sweet photo 
spread that compliments the article  
 
GOOD NEWS!
 
I was awarded a Sea Change Residency from the Gaea Foundation 
(http://www.gaeafoundation.org <http://www.gaeafoundation.org/>) and 
will be living in P-town, MA for two months to work on my new play, 
ECLIPSE. It's a murky comedy about academia, class, creativity and 
Vodou. I'm too shy to say more, but I'll keep you posted!
 
CD NEWS!
 
COMING VERY SOON! We're in the final mastering stages at the IMA 
studio. 2007 y'all: DON'T SLEEP. 
 
Words Rouse Worlds, Lenelle.
www.lenellemoise.com <http://www.lenellemoise.com/>
www.myspace.com/lenellemoise <http://www.myspace.com/lenellemoise>
www.lenellemoise.blogspot.com <http://www.lenellemoise.blogspot.com/>

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Krysia L. Villon '96
Assistant Director of Clubs
Alumnae Association of Mount Holyoke College
50 College Street
South Hadley, MA 01075-1486

Direct: 413-538-2738  
Fax:    413-538-2254
Web: http://www.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu/

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krysia lycette villón 
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All things in nature grow best under restraint. The human 
birth process. A young plant pushing through the soil. A 
tree growing struggles against gravity and weather. Great 
songs, great art, great preaching comes from great struggle.     
-- Bishop Yvette Flunder

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