Reading and Panel: The Lost Edge of Bohemia - Kathe Izzo, Eileen Myles, Sal Randolph, Oona Patrick, 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.
Oona Patrick is a writer who grew up in Provincetown and now lives in New York. She is the co-editor of Behind the Stars, More Stars, The Tagus/Disquiet Collection of New Luso-American Writing (Tagus/UMass, 2019), featuring work from the early years of the Disquiet International Literary Program, which she helped create in Lisbon, Portugal in 2011.
Kathe Izzo is a conceptual poet, guide & matriarch, raising her daughters & grandaughters on the Outer Cape for the past 35 years.
