Member Since: 08/12/2005
Band Members: 1 woman & 16 small finches singing the blues...
Influences:
Fainting in public, Sunbeams, Espresso, Books, Good ideas, Good scotch, Intentions, Distractions, Losing balance, people, Introspectulations, Kissing in public gardens under full moons, Hot underwear, Hot food, Birds of prey, Cold weather, Writing, Traveling, Things that breathe under water, Science, History, Time, Women who carry guns, Photography, Looking for love in all the wrong places, Quality, Plants, Addiction, Constellations, The way we think we are supposed to be, and Trouble, o precious trouble
There are so many people who have influenced my writing but here are the big ones: Cohen, Brautigan, McCullers, Vonnegut, Eat Lard fudge, Robbins, Rumi, Bukowski, Rilke, J.West, Waits, Dennis Lee, Coelho, Gibran
"A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep" -Salman Rushdie
WHAT HAS BEEN SAID:
"Magpie Ulysses’s confessional poems hit hard and take the reader through intense visceral terrain but never wallow." Robert Priest, NOW Magazine.
"Magpie is some crazy talkative part of the universe that doesn't shut up before she makes you think and wonder at the natural world and the many types of people in it. You won't be able to deny her and that's how it should be." from, Janna slamicide in Baltimore
"Magpie Ulysses does NOT muck around." Simone Beaubien, Boston, Cantab slammaster
"She's no monkey in a f*!ing cage." R.D. of the T-dot
"Either you are brutally honest or the most dangerous kind of liar"
"Magpie Ulysses is a slam poetry artist whose compelling, searingly passionate, yet deeply informed writing convincingly transcends the limitations and conventions of the slam format. Her crossover potential appears without limits. Indeed, she is probably nothing less than a pathfinder for a new generation of performance poets whose work on the page will consistently capture and illuminate much of the dynamic vitality and clarity of the live presentation. Her embodiment of the union of gift and earned skill is such that her poetic vision possesses the power, depth and primal magic sufficient to complete the arc from verses lost in the mists of prehistory to the as-yet inchoate poetry of tomorrow, only beginning to be dreamt."Shadowbyrd, April 2006
Magpie Ulysses on 11/21 at Reflections Cafe in Providence: "Why you brilliant, instinctive, rhythmic, twitching, slightly damaged slammer, you! workin' both sides of the tracks on the Vancouver docks, baby's helpin' folks with needle tracks, maybe layin' soulful slammin' tracks for torn and reborn troubadors and minstrel whores who seemed to slip right on thru the invisible cracks of amorphous life, a coupla which may've held a piece o' you after just wriggling past in your adventure travels and travails, all the while living on the prayerful edge and then surviving therefore thriving on the Pure Power of the Words and your staggering ability to mount your special passion and then hump that quivering truth, conveying climax and sweet release as a rarified free juice for those fortunate enough to be present and then ready and willing to go deep within and ride that baby blue wave and catch that violet wind..." Lori Desrosiers Western Mass, poetry and book reviews.
Some links to interviews, articles, and published things... for you:http://www.ottawaxpress.ca/music/music.aspx?iIDArticle=8602
http://www.straight.com/article/next-gen-slammers-inject-lif e-into-scene-0
http://commonground.ca/iss/0504165/cg165_StorySlam.shtml
http://commonground.ca/iss/0505166/cg166_letters.shtml