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the burlesque poetess

About Me

hullo, i'm jojo. i like to host salons.
i do too much schtick about twatter, so i had to make a burlesque @ poetesss (the extra 's' is for saucy/sestinas)-- account for the stalking/gratuitous tweenage shots.)
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where i stash poem-requests. virt(ual) merch.
read my Boston Globe article! clickez-above!
"we all suspect the feel of threadbare velvet..."
presenting: words + scandale
choose your own adventure! ghazals in my garters, sonnets in m'stockings, villanelles...well, i'm the villanelling vaudevillian.
i aim to convince people that Betty Boop has come to life. i was an awfully nice little girl wearing trifocals, reading Proust, making masques for a theatre troupe and living in an attic (no really, this was my senior year of college to a tee) --until one day a cabaret crashed my nunnery and a circus interrupted my hermitude. c'est la vie. so now i shamelessly share my erotic sonnets and ditherings to anyone interested in being a little mo-lested in the process. (think Sally Bowles yammerings, sometimes in verse) i'm the extra broken (emphasis on functionality) costume trunk/trunk of the Saturn stowaway set-crasher sometimes emcee tag-along to Walter Sickert & the Army of Broken Toys . NOW i come complete with tenor ukulele & a set of skeleton keys! check out my calendar below to see where we're bringing the tiny instruments, bubbles and fancy knickers next.
i suppose i'ma comedic/poetic/ridic-ulous lounge act. the burlesque poetess: hostess for all your salon & carnival needs.
speak easy, mister.
(is it ogle or oogle, anyway?) I created my layout at KillerKiwi.net

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

inhabitants of a venue for vices, parisian ex-patriates lounging in a salon, cads with Dickensian complexes

My Blog

full summer calendar! fall preview!

where can you find/get your fix of the burlesque poetess?sat, july 11, 2009 9:30pm, 21+4 year anniversary of The Steamy Bohemians' JERKUS CIRCUS!tag-along to >> Walter Sickert & The Army of Brok...
Posted by on Thu, 09 Jul 2009 11:26:00 GMT

youlube. boobstream. (video links cache + mo')

request for writing exercises? answer-ed! i wrote a blog about a fun form (practically game)-- Jim Simmerman's "20 Little Poetry Projects" and included some of my examples from *gasp* college. poems t...
Posted by on Sun, 21 Jun 2009 17:40:00 GMT

VIDEO! schtick about twatter, etc. @3.20 odditorium

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRZMyAEI7E4 i get my very first verbal parental warning/rating! and i'll let you guys be the judge if my vocab/neo...
Posted by on Fri, 01 May 2009 15:03:00 GMT

burlesque painteress? (upcoming shows & 2 flyers using my paintbox)

tomorrow/marrow/horror night! wed. 9pm on 91.5 FM (boston)the TOYS + moi interviewed on WMFO's "on the town"no one will be able to see what i'm doing (climbing under) the tablemethinks streaming somew...
Posted by on Tue, 28 Apr 2009 12:45:00 GMT

post-show coitus blog the first

1st blogverse x-post fo' me too.REPORTS FROM THE CARNIE TRENCHES! wee roadtrip avec the army of toys!to-night i won the twatter award for 17 updates >> @un_gout before/pseudo-during/after our s...
Posted by on Sun, 19 Apr 2009 23:19:00 GMT

running away for 420 early-- to Gloucester? Mr. Fox CD release show!

i will be crashing the TOYS' set-- debuting new knickers/wiggles and in general being an opera house stray. this multimedia spectacular will be unlike any other show, for sure. and boy do i love me so...
Posted by on Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:44:00 GMT

voila video evidence!

@Molly Zenobia's DADA show 2.12.09shot by the lovely Alexia...i wear a towel & an edrie hat (and not a whole lot else)but not til i've commissioned an exquisite corpseCORPORATE POET creation from the ...
Posted by on Wed, 08 Apr 2009 13:15:00 GMT

the daily rag, feat. my ripped knickers...

a very nice piece from a very nice lady and good listener. if this had to be an artist's first character/show piece, well, gawsh did i luck out. (just replace every use of 'fanny' with 'bum bum' is al...
Posted by on Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:25:00 GMT

my respiratory system ruined taking hits off rachmaninoff for years...(new poem)

...showing its ankles. for the very first time-- here. just for you jitterbugs. dunforgit you can see this very piece maychance appear magically from my underthings and read perhaps in your very lap a...
Posted by on Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:02:00 GMT

attempt to spread the good salon e-vent word take II

Hosted By: jojo lazarWhen: Friday Aug 29, 2008 at 8:00 PMWhere: the amazing firehouse160 hollis st.framingham, MassachusettsUnited StatesDescription:salon gone wrong: an evening of poetry & delinquenc...
Posted by on Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:08:00 GMT