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About Me

A Long Island native, this now Georgia-based artist has long since found the stage as her home away from home, touring nationally and opening for some of the bigger names in the spoken word and hip hop scenes. Having honed her craft for over a decade, she uses her voice as a tool for progressive activism, presenting her unabashedly political and eloquently delivered spoken word poetry with audiences of both like and unlike minds.
In the early 1990s Corey discovered that spoken word poetry was a medium for artistic expression. After witnessing performance poetry at New York's "Knitting Factory" she realized that she'd been creating this art for years; that, behind the stacks of notebooks in her bedroom, there was a method and a direction for which to push her thoughts. She began frequenting open mics in the Long Island and NYC areas and fast became a regular at venues including the Nuyorican, Zen Den Cafe, and Pride for Youth Coffeehouse.
Corey has three recordings under her belt. Her first recordings were released in 2002 - "Hold the Line" and "Meditate on Madness." Both are compilations of poems she'd been performing publicly for quite a while and, with properly recorded tracks long overdue, she entered the studio with friend, fellow musician, and co-producer Freddy X Vasquez. Then in 2007, she re-entered the studio with an entirely new body of work and the intent to create a hip-hop-influenced record. For this project she collaborated with another friend/artist, New York based Sargon, and "sugar.honey.asphalt" was the product of their joint effort.
Successfully merging politics and verbal rhythms, she has had the opportunity to open for such acts as God-des & She, Adrianne, and several of HBO's Def Poets. A member of the Folk & Spoke Artist Collective, she has performed at festivals such as Homo A GoGo, Ladyfest South and MondoHomo, as well as many universities across the country. She was dubbed by author Michelle Tea as "...the missing link between Gloria Steinem and Eminem." Her ever-evolving, raw, and captivating performances -- delivered with an unmistakable cadence -- give way to intense and powerful live shows.
The Quote Unquotes - We wrote this song over the internet - never rehearsed or played it all together until......
Quote Unquotes Debut
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Member Since: 11/18/2005
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Influences: lack of common social skills
Sounds Like: "I think we just found the missing link between Eminem and Gloria Steinem." - Michelle Tea ************************************************************ ***************** "Corey is passionate about poetry. She creates energy from words that arc out into the audience, electrifying each listener. In isolation, on the written page, her poems still spark with that same passion, daring the dried ink on the page to come alive in the reader's head, but on stage Corey is unmatched--her passion, her flow, her kinetic energy demands our attention, and we in the audience give her nothing less." - Jonathan Russell - MacPhoenix.com ************************************************************ ***************** "Corey Houlihan is an engaging poet with a dynamic stage presence and thoughtful soul. Very worth checking out." - David DeRosa - ArtPrimaDonna.net ************************************************************ *****************
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Record Label: [STARViNG ARTiSTS iNCORPORATED]
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Contemplating Troy Davis

it could be youwrong personwrong placewrong daydespite what we saythey'll shine us up all fancy for a dance before their peersand the streets will all start talkingdown that final hallway walkingthey'...
Posted by corey.e.houlihan on Thu, 25 Sep 2008 07:17:00 PST

The Quote Unquotes

Yes, yes. 7/4 marked the debut performance of The Quote Unquotes a new adventure of a band consisting of Julia Carroll (vox, guitar, bass, percussion, Sean Kagalis (vox, guitar, percussion), Amy Lashl...
Posted by corey.e.houlihan on Fri, 11 Jul 2008 07:06:00 PST

the girl is slow to rise

life is weighing downthe lessonsnever learnedshe's crying at nightlike whens her turnthe paint is getting dry nowwhile her cheeks are getting wetshe's turning down the coversalthough the sun it never ...
Posted by corey.e.houlihan on Mon, 19 May 2008 11:45:00 PST

Limp Wrist

his last breath existsin a kiss limp wristbent lifelessthe beatings of his youthwere twice thisyet somehow that blow hit just righthis nose let loose a riverof everything they've ever said flowed bloo...
Posted by corey.e.houlihan on Thu, 15 May 2008 05:10:00 PST

Gonna Run (writing)

well, i saw them hang herfrom that big 'ol treeand when she closed her eyesshe looked right through meand so I asked myselfSelf, where you gonna run to now?It's been forty years since that tree has se...
Posted by corey.e.houlihan on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:59:00 PST

abstract math (writing)

consider the aftermath of abstract math divided by the time it takes a pessimist to laughhe was always wishing his day would finally come never grasping the concept that the world was on his tonguehe ...
Posted by corey.e.houlihan on Sat, 15 Mar 2008 05:55:00 PST

GOT ME (SHES ALRIGHT) (unfinished)

made you a mix of love songsto show you where my heart isthrew it on a cassette tape cause burned cd's are heartlessmade you origami birdslike i was a japanese artist made 'em out of crossword puzzles...
Posted by corey.e.houlihan on Thu, 28 Feb 2008 05:41:00 PST

(writing)

i’m not trying to be anythingbut eyes, ears, nose, throatlips, tongue, soulmy momma was the bluesmy daddy’s rock and roll i am ink stained train trackslong island sound abstractcarrying th...
Posted by corey.e.houlihan on Tue, 29 Jan 2008 04:10:00 PST

NO ONE COME (writing...)

i've known painas intimate as this skini've run the edge along as deep as daily sin no one's come to save me the road was dust and stonewhen my feet finally failedit was i who fell aloneno one come to...
Posted by corey.e.houlihan on Thu, 24 Jan 2008 07:29:00 PST

TONGUE TIED

we can smile like we're supposed tosing the songs they taught us oncebe the line thats drawnhalf way between 'cause the lights are slowly dimmingand the world just spins awaywe just stand here tongue ...
Posted by corey.e.houlihan on Tue, 22 Jan 2008 03:18:00 PST