the burlesque poetess(s)

jojolazar.com / @poetessS on IG/Twitter

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New RPM Challenge record from your Burlesque Poetess's current musical incarnation avec Brother Bones from Army of Toys/The I Want You. "Death and The Poetess" bring you: https://deathandthepoetess.bandcamp.com/album/on-ghoulie-isle Reviewed everso kindly by If It's Too Loud blog! http://www.ifitstooloud.com/2019/03/friday-freebie-death-and-poetess-on.html x (Our fb page, http://facebook.com/deathpoetess)

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Doug Holder was kind enough to feature me/my collages in The Sunday Poet: http://dougholder.blogspot.com/2018/07/the-sunday-poet-jojo-lazar.html

And include me in this week’s Somerville Times, Lyrical Somerville. You can pick up a copy for the next week in print. I am deeply grateful for my Instagram/Facebook audience, and that years of collage oracle cut-ups have become something of their own voices. A tightened personal genre that I can share in many spaces and medias, live and offline too! To mirroring back all the art enabling. So grateful to be a lyrical Somerville poet/poetess. http://www.thesomervilletimes.com/archives/85350

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that last link to my Kickstarter update didn’t have the lovely preview image and text it does when you’re reading it from a tumblr dashboard so i had to snazz it up a bit with some teaser images!

i wrote an update for our Kickstarter that includes some nostalgia, some sappy thoughts, and new ***rewards from yours truly including visual art, burlesque poetessing, and steam beanies! enjoy:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/edrie/come-black-magic-walter-sickert-and-the-army-of-br/posts/1408981

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Update 3: jojo - LA MAGIE ~ NEW REWARD · Come Black Magic - Walter Sickert & the Army of Broken Toys

UPDATE FROM jojo / Dear Toychest Lovelies, creeper keepers of our cauldron covenant...I am overwhelmed with nostalgia as the band continues to evolve and change. While digging through my flickr album for some tarot art to share I came across pictures of the band and friends frolicking in my bed at an after party in 2010, we are trading hats, hypnotizing then-kitten cats and cuddling and cackling. Our friends have always been our most supportive fans, and our fans are our found family. We are a truly blessed bunch to have you all casting runes and spells and coming to our scantily clad or super-overdressed Edwardian séances! I just want to voice my gratitude, here we are already at 50% of our funding for our latest project, and I want to offer lots of treats for those of you who have yet to contribute. . . . (READ ON!)

i wrote an update for our Kickstarter project, it includes a package deal with ukulele lessons and my poetry/arts/craftwork as a reward! hope you enjoy the trip down memory lane and the incantations to come.

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Meghan invited me to throw a free salon/faux welcome home soiree this saturday! Please come if you want to cool off from the week of Boston’s babelicious alterna-tease burlyq fest!

https://www.facebook.com/events/488775194610324/ http://www.sallyobriensbar.com/

9p SATURDAY 8/15 Sally O’s in Somerville - FREE - 21+

Music! literary delinquency & poetry! EMCEE’d by Meghan Chiampa (MCMC)

Performances & Readings by Ryan Alvanos (music/beat verse shenans) Kristen Schaer (from Old school game show & more!) Mark Phinney (film-maker, writer, man about town) ‘jojo’ Lazar (ukulele lady-ing & poetry) Russell Turnquist (musics!)

http://www.sallyobriensbar.com/

jojo is back in beantown from a summer spent being a Victorian waif convalescent in dc, and you should come out for free! to heckle some glamkele tunes and listen to talented people read talented writ things!

[poetesss]

After “Psalm: Cris de coeur”

Inspired by April Bernard - http://mlle.tumblr.com/post/123584816698 (I'm attempting to encapsulate my summer of waif-convalescing, recovering from a long-term health crisis, and I am on the mend/returnin' to Beantown yet!) Why not - LET THE JOURNEY BE THE JOURNEY? Let (the snow encase your house) Let (the fever take your feet) Let (the needle slip into your vein) Let (the spotlight become vertigo) Let (your muscles atrophy) Let (the meat rot) Let (the potion remain half-quaffed) Let (Gatorade become coconut water) Let (acupuncture buttons wear off) Let (the blood-soaked cotton do its job) Let (the bottom fall out) Let (it lead to a slip-stream of constellations) Let (Ensure drinks become bone broth) Let (the free fall be a beginning) Let (crisis be opportunity) Let (the ex-yogi take your blood) Let (illness become recovery) Let (bananas become hamentashen) Let (peanut butter become solid food) Let (convalescence become decadence) Let (surviving flirt with thriving) Let (yourself go to guided meditation) Let (yourself off the hook for all the things you won't) Let (the future be less doomed) Let (fear-the-bully get a divorce from fear-the-ally) Let (the pile of new age/self help books grow) Let (yourself journal) Let (yourself do one thing at a time) Let (yourself draw) Let (yourself email friends and mentors) Let (yourself imagine a new home) Let (go of the fear you know-- the fear you fear) Let (go of the past) Let (yourself dive into arts again) Let (yourself pick up where you hardly left off) Let (the present drown in Brit-mystery shows) Let (everything be a blue herring) Let (the worst be a virtual visual cliff) Let (night be a time of magical realist novels) Let (go of perfectionism) Let (corpse pose become plank) Let (child pose become head-stands) Let (your radiant heart lift to sky-light) Let (yourself be, just as you are without needing to change anything) Let (a day of hippy retreat closed eyes wake you up) Let (your sister communicate in emojis and apps) Let (the cat howl as you untangle mats) Let (go of bad predictions) Let (yourself shake with disuse) Let (yourself get a haircut) Let (yourself try to meditate) Let (audiobook of the history of private life whisper you to sleep) Let (yourself return without being Michelangelo) Let (the time to ostrich end) Let (the journey be the journey)

[jojolazar]

vine collage of uke-tantalizings from last-semester last day of class (incl borrowed Kala ubass!) tiny orange crush gift-amp (from student) i play EVERYTHING (even 3/4 scale bass-bass) through, my applause-ovation soprano uke and yeah, we were working on fingerpicking before our salon-recital-party! come join me this coming semester svp :)

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http://passim.org/school-of-music?sort=title&tid=12&tid_1=All

Beginning Ukulele with jojo Lazar Starts: 05/20/2014 Tuesdays 6:30PM - 7:45PM 6 Sessions / $140 / 120 members

Learn the very versatile and more than a tad vaudevillian tiny instrument in a relaxed workshop setting. This unique class gives you a fun and thorough introduction to the ukulele (tuning, posture, strums, chords, reading charts, standard and rock tunes, fingerpicking) followed by attention to your own song projects. After a few sessions you won’t be a beginner, you’ll simply be a ukulele player! —one ready to be the life of any party or speak easy.

—- Continuing Ukulele with jojo Lazar Starts: 05/21/2014 Wednesdays 6:30PM - 7:45PM 6 Sessions / $140 / 120 members

So you’ve learned to play some tunes on uke, but want to expand your abilities, chords and strum vocabulary— beyond! In this environment you can challenge yourself, make personal goals, (try a new size/type of uke? play standing?) and develop your own songbook. This unique group will teach you some intermediate strumming/fingerpicking, more complex songs, techniques in transposing contemporary music and a bit more music theory as relates to ukulele. A supportive fun atmosphere for post-beginner level students interested in a unique collaborative environment. Vaudevillian standards and rock songs I can/will teach you, but what you want to do next is up to you!

any queries: burlesque.poetess@gmail plz have a clip-on head stock tuner :)

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U GUYZ my dream of a drop-in ukulele practice circle has come true, and Passim is letting me host it alongside my beg/cont. ukulele classes! pay when you play! come play! come learn :D

http://www.passim.org/school/drop-ukulele-circle-jojo-lazar

Drop-in Ukulele Circle with jojo Lazar Starts: 01/14/2014 Tuesday 6:30PM - 7:45PM ($10 / $8 members)

Hey hep cats on tiny instruments! Now being offered every other week (option of additional) a fun ukulele practice community hosted by jojo Lazar. Stop by a supportive performative salon space for ukulele players (prior Passim student attendees, self-taught, wherever!), folks looking to keep their chops up welcome. Drop in and share a tune you’re working on and listen to others, stay and strum a while. Queries? burlesque.poetess@gmail / jojolazar.com **NOTE: This class is $10nm/$8m per class meeting.

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later that same week, STARTING THURS 1/16: i’m teaching beginning -and- continuing ukulele

http://passim.org/school/beginning-ukulele-jojo-lazar http://passim.org/school/continuing-ukulele-jojo-lazar-0

happy new year! may it be full of love and serenading folks you like on tiny instruments, shld you fancy of course ;) best, jojo

http://facebook.com/ukejojo http://vimeo.com/ukejojo (has some sample strum-along videos)

PS online skype/gchat ukulele lessons or independent mentoring? email me if interested! burlesque.poetess@gmail

[mlle]

'A Necessary Autumn Inside Each' (transl Coleman Barks, The Soul of Rumi)

Birthday of Rumi <3

"Be crumbled, so wildflowers will come up / where you are. You’ve been / stony for too many years. Try something different. Surrender."

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gift watercolour & (cut-up/lifted magazine lines) poem on ‘a clockwork cowboy’ (originally, the requested topic) as a gift for Clint :)

"I treat art as a service." she says “I think of myself as a service worker.” -Pipilotti Rist

What makes a game a game him, with his strong features and a lanterns tune they hum

Wire writing marvelous, with tattoos down their necks

master hobnobbing with the other salute Partners, use that wanking

your hair will look great after… jack virgin

eye on the— it’s perfect! Timeless Import he preferred backstage, then watching musicians

(with lines from ‘09? and other rando: Penthouse, Harvard Magazine, Marie Claire, NYT magazine, etc….)

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Passim School of Music free open house this THURS!

Open House at the Passim School of Music! Starts: 09/05/2013 Thursday 7PM - 9PM 1 Session / $0 Join us for a free open house at the Passim School of Music! Come tour the School and find out more about our classes; meet instructors and take a 15-minute Class Preview; and meet other like-minded students. Instructors leading Class Previews include: Jenna Moynihan, Lloyd Thayer, Joanna Katzen, Janet Feld, Bertrand laurence, jojo Lazar, and Ben Krakauer. The event will take place at: Passim School of Music 26 Church Street, 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA 02138 *NOTE: No tickets necessary for this event - just walk in! And remember, this does not take place at Club Passim - it’s on the 3rd floor of the same building via our 26 Church Street entrance.

http://www.passim.org/school/open-house-passim-school-music

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it’s that time again!

One Room Uke Schoolhouse with jojo Lazar Starts: 09/10/2013 Tuesdays 6:30PM - 7:45PM 6 Sessions $140 / 120 (members) Are you just starting out on the ukulele, continuing, or need a refresher group to practice with? This 6 week course begins with a supportive fast paced intro/review of ukulele basics, designed around your skill level. Some students can focus on learning initial tunes ‘n tricks while others can hone their fingerpicking, strum patterns, and learn new styles. This class will cover vaudeville standards, rock, folk, and whatever you fancy to build a songbook and style all your own.

http://passim.org/school/one-room-uke-schoolhouse-jojo-lazar

[poetesss]

Sometimes i play flute in back to the future. (Goblin Market, Steampunk World's Fair this past sat!) annnd freaking out finale like Walter's little uke-familiar, too. hehe. Preview of more pics to come, by "other jojo" (Joan!)

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Canto/lifepigraphs via New Yorker/O Magazine

Power of suggestion: The asymmetrical Compared with other cultures we live in a touch-phobic society that's made affection with anyone but loved ones taboo. Like a degree but quicker; like a job but more fun; like a boyfriend but forever. At ten minutes a man gets more successful, everyone is rooting for him. As a woman gets more successful, both men and women like her less. Break glass in case of could be more confidence.

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One-Room Uke Schoolhouse with jojo Lazar Starts: 05/07/2013 Tuesdays 6:30PM - 7:45PM 6 Sessions $140 members / 120

Just starting out, continuing, or need a refresher group to practice ukulele with? This 6 week course begins with a supportive fast paced intro/review of ukulele basics, designed around your skill level. Some students can focus on learning initial tunes ‘n tricks while others can hone their fingerpicking, strum patterns, and learn new styles. This class will cover vaudeville standards, rock, folk, and whatever you fancy to build a songbook and style all your own.

Contact jojo Lazar – jojolazar.com - [email protected] May 7, 14, 21, 28, June 4, 11

http://passim.org/school/one-room-uke-schoolhouse-jojo-lazar

(screencap of my silly youtube homework helpers i make for homework helpers!)

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The Burlesque Poetess @ Twisted World: Divine Decadence [my FB event page/sched] FEAT. guest jew harp & multi-strumentalist poet performer AMERIGO MACKERAL!

April 26-28, Doubletree Hotel, Somerset NJ

set times for your busking nakey ruffian

FRIDAY…April, 26, 2013 8:30 pm - 9:30 pm Acoustic Stage

10:30 pm - 11:30 pm Lobby Stage .

SATURDAY… 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm Mirabelle Stage

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm Upstairs Stage

And a guest appearence in one miss rollerhoops’s set likely as well?!

ABOUT: Celebrate the Decadence of Decades and World Visions! Twisted World: Divine Decadence is an 18+ festival that spans 3 days of avante garde performances, bands, writers, artists, vendors, costuming, and more.

We are multicultural, multi-genre, sex-positive, feminist, and welcoming of all genders. Our staff members all have a track record of being the best at what they do. Our attendees aren’t numbers – they are a part of our community.

We envision a world where all people can come together and celebrate what makes us different…together.

www.thetwistedworld.com https://www.facebook.com/TheTwistedWorld.RFP http://www.facebook.com/events/333108596745124/

(photo by Hans Wendland/Soft time cd release)

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WALTER SICKERT & THE ARMY OF BROKEN TOYS on tour with JAGGERY!

***SOFT TIME TRAVELER TOUR***

4/13 - Royal Room Seattle, Seattle -> http://www.facebook.com/events/123273141196789/

4/14 - Hollywood Theatre Portland -> http://www.facebook.com/events/446651692079856/ PreSale tickets will be here -> http://hollywoodtheatre.org/

4/15 Cafe Du Norde , San Fransisco -> http://www.facebook.com/events/580883078591665/ PreSale Tickets -> http://www.ticketweb.com/t3/sale/SaleEventDetail?dispatch=loadSelectionData&eventId=3416004

4/16 Queen Bee, San Diego -> http://www.facebook.com/events/389215141177859/ PreSale Tickets -> http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/348969

4/17 - Rogue Bar, Scottsdale -> http://www.facebook.com/events/324559277666422/

4/19 - JAM Fest - DeLeon Plaza Band Stand, Victoria, TX -> https://www.facebook.com/events/145884895585565/

4/20 - Swan Dive, Austin -> http://www.facebook.com/events/555289794491148/