Reading and Panel: The Lost Edge of Bohemia - Kathe Izzo, Eileen Myles, Sal Randolph, Nick Flynn, Mackenzie, Pat Kearns and guests.
Moderator: Kathe Izzo Venue: Wilde Room, Gifford House Date: August 24, 2-4pm
‘Bohemian’ infers a person who lives an unconventional lifestyle, often with few permanent ties, involving musical, artistic, or literary pursuits. It is a word which has defined places like the East Village, Greenwich Village and Provincetown among others.
Panelists will discuss the history & current state of this culture on the Outer Cape.
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Pat Kearns is a poet who keeps the people’s parlor/a reading series and has written for the Provincetown Independent.
Sal Randolph is an artist and writer who lives in New York and works between language and action; she is the author of The Uses of Art.
Mackenzie is a ten-year wash-ashore and seventeen-year career queer, gender-f*ck drag artist, creator of 4/20 HONEY & Macknifique! Ptown’s first local, queer, body-positive burlesque show,
Eileen Myles (they/them, b. 1949) is a poet, novelist and art journalist whose practice of vernacular first-person writing has made them one of the most recognizable writers of their generation. Pathetic Literature (editor) and a “Working Life” are their newest books. They live in New York & in Marfa, TX where they are currently holed up completing their masterpiece and living with dog Honey.
Nick Flynn is the author of thirteen books, including Low (Graywolf, 2023) and Some Ether (Graywolf,, 2000), winner of the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award. His bestselling memoir Another Bullshit Night in Suck City (Norton, 2004) was made into a film starring Robert DeNiro (Focus Features, 2012), and has been translated into fifteen languages.
Kathe Izzo is a conceptual poet, guide & matriarch, raising her daughters & grandaughters on the Outer Cape for the past 35 years.
