| Sunday, May 23, 2004 8 pm $6 (suggested donation for artists) Please join CHELA for a very special evening with a wealth of amazing music, words, and .... homemade tamales and sangria. The evening will begin with collaborations by Baltimore writers.  SEAN
MEEHAN:Website Sean
Meehan became musically active in the late 80's at the Amica Bunker Series
for improvised music which was then housed at ABC No Rio in New York City.
Current performances generally find Meehan playing only the snare drum
in a manner that sheds conventional usage and reconstructs the conception
and function of the instrument. Concert activities, both at home and away,
are generally divided between playing in conventional settings for experimental
music and in seeking out unique locations that are often in the unwatched
and unconsidered corners of the city. Meehan's recordings document some
of his collaborations including work with Sachiko M; Mamoru Fujieda and
Michihiro Sato; Edwin Torres and Miguel Algarin; and Tamio Shiraishi. JOHN
DIERKER: Since the mid-eighties JOHN DIERKER has been
forging new ground from his hometown Baltimore, MD. A highly versatile
musician who plays with equal inspiration in the most extreme avant-garde,
R & B, jazz, and rock music. Some of Dierker's current projects included,
Lafayette Gilchrest and the New Volcanoes, and ilculo. He can be heard
on a large number of recordings on Megaphone, Generate Records, and Mass
Particles. Dierker has worked with a diverse group of musicians including,
Vattel Cherry, John Hughes, Paul Hoskin, Sean Meehan, Toshi Makihara,
Bob Wagner, and Jason Willett. ROD
SMITH: Website Rod
Smith was born in Gallipolis, Ohio in 1962 and grew up in Northern Virginia
where he attended Stonewall Jackson High School. His first publication
of poetry was a Ferlinghetti imitation in the Baltimore Sun in 1982. In
the early 80s Smith was a rural carrier for the US Postal Service in the
vicinity of the Manassas Battlefield, during which time he studied Pound,
Stein, Williams, Ashbery, O'Hara, Oppen, and others. He began the journal
Aerial with Wayne Kline in 1984 and published the first Edge Book in 1989.
He moved to DC in 1987 and became part of the DC poetry community. He currently
manages Bridge Street Books in DC and presents a monthly reading
series. Previous readers include: Bruce Andrews, Rae Armantrout, Anselm
Berrigan, Lee Ann Brown, Norma Cole, Tim Davis, Peter Gizzi, Carla Harryman,
Lyn Hejinian, Lisa Jarnot, Melanie Neilson, Alice Notley, Lisa Robertson,
David Shapiro, Juliana Spahr, Edwin Torres, and Rosmarie Waldrop.Photo credit: © 1998 Marianne Shaneen |