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"Word Warriors: 35 Women Leaders in the Spoken Word Revolution" (Seal Press, edited by Alix Olson with a foreword by Eve Ensler)
Available at:
• Amazon, Barnes and Nobles, and Powells.
• Also available to Educators from Perseus.
Coming to voice is coming to power ~ daring to make life in words ~ daring to be heard. That is the story this anthology tells. Hear it, listen in, let it resurrect you, let it take you from the deep silence into the comfort of soulful sound. ~ bell hooks
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CAN'T FIND ALIX'S CD AT A LOCAL STORE?
If you know of a local store that you want to see carry Alix's CD or book, please contact Goldenrod Though their focus is independent stores, they distribute to Tower, Border's, etc. so let 'em know where folks in your town are able to shop.
Goldenrod Music
1310 Turner St.
Lansing, MI 48906
Ph 517.484.1712
www.goldenrod.com
sales@goldenrod.com
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LEFT LANE — on the road with FOLK POET ALIX OLSON (DVD)
A Film by Samantha Farinella
A year in the making, LEFT LANE chronicles life on the road with Alix and her road manager/filmmaker Samantha Farinella as they tour the country connecting the dots from a high school visit in Lincoln, Nebraska to a cd release party in New York City.
LEFT LANE highlights spoken-word performances from around the country and a plethora of behind the scenes glimpses at the search for independent thought, grassroots defiance, passionate connection, organic food and clean laundry. Accompanied by the music of Pamela Means, Melissa Ferrick, Ember Swift, Lyndell Montgomery, Chris Pureka, and Peter Mulvey, LEFT LANE offers a few more untethered voices to the nucleus of grassroots progressive struggle and the future of laughter, rage, and optimism.
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2006 Winner
Audience Award for Best Documentary
Out Takes 2006: A Reel Queer Film Festival
New Zealand
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2005
"Best Documentary"
Reel Pride Michigan |
"Editor's Pick" &
"DVD of the Month"
Curve Magazine,
August 2005, Vol. 15 |
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2005 "Audience Award,
Best Feature"
Newfest: NYC Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
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2005 Jury Award
Best Female Feature
Long Island Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
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2005 "Audience Award,
Best Documentary"
Kansas City Gay & Lesbian Film+Video Fest
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INDEPENDENCE MEAL: THE INGREDIENTS
The written companion to the CD.
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Alix's sophomore album "Independence Meal" "Independence Meal" is chock full of brand new tracks, with assistance from musical greats like Pamela Means, Ubaka Hill, Lyndell Montgomery (of Ember Swift), Chris Pureka, and Alix Dobkin.
Track Listing: (Click a song name to hear it in lo-fi MP3.
- Pirates
- Unsteady Things
- Independence Meal
- Beautiful Bones
- Dorothea Tanning
- 8x10
- Subway Lips
- Wholly Human
- Bedtime Poem
- Kindness and Rage
- Womyn Before
- Blessed with a Family
Play all tracks (Lo-Fi: dial-up)
Play all tracks (Hi-Fi: broadband)
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CD - built like that (the cd)
> VIEW LYRICS
Built Like That was the first spoken word cd to reach #1 on Outvoice charts! The week of 7.09.02 [more info]
Not only does this cd include all of alix's known and loved pieces from her tape Only the Starving Favor Peace, it ALSO features new and enhanced work with a little help from her musical buddies: Catie Curtis, Pamela Means, Trina Hamline, Chris Pureka, and others!
1. eve's mouth real audio
2. daughter
3. cute for a girl
4. built like that real audio
5. deadbeat daddy
6. america's on sale real audio
7. checking my pulse real audio
8. subtle sister
9. the compliment
10. dear mr. president
11. warriors
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12. myth
13. sticks
14. hit it girls
15. armpit hair (mammally factual)
16. witches
17. picnic table
18. popcorn and laughter
19. gender game
20. criminal
21. cunt cuntry
22. i believe |
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| NEED HELP WITH THE AUDIO FILES? click here |
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"Built Like That: The Word" is HOT OFF THE PRESS! [3.29.03]
This book is the companion to the cd "Built Like That" with lyrics/text of all pieces, plus some cool pictures and other fun stuff.
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Skin is where this revolution's gonna begin...touching one woman at a time
muscle tees (colors may vary)
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"Queer Stock, Queer Soup"
Produced by Doria Roberts for HD Records
Due Out June 2002 (32 Track Double CD compilation)
Cover artwork donated by Mario Gomez
Distribution through Goldenrod and Ladyslipper
Liner Notes by Urvashi Vaid and Alix Olson.
Available for online purchase through cdbaby.com
This CD will raise money and awareness for queer youth advocacy agencies around the country. Benefit concerts will begin on the West Coast starting in July 2002 and will extend through November 2002. The Queerstock Tour & Festival will resume in 2003 with stops everywhere. Check out the new website (www.queerstock.org) for updates!
If you're interested in putting together a Queerstock CD release/ benefit show in your city, please send Doria Roberts a proposal here: queerstock@hotmail.com (Please put your city in the subject and venue/performer suggestions in the body as well as your complete contact information. Thanks in advance for your help and interest!)
To find out more about Queerstock, click here.
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Liner Notes Essay by Urvashi Vaid
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Melissa Ferrick
Jill Sobule
Holly Near
The Butchies
Toshi Reagon
Ember Swift
Gooselove & Antara
Pansy Division
Angela Motter
Scott Free
Ani DiFranco
Bitch & Animal
Alix Dobkin
Sailor J
June Millington
Tret Fure |
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Testosterone Kills
Alix Olson
Pamela Means
Phranc
Tribe 8
Barnes
Doria Roberts
Tami Hart
Sarah Sougher
Winter Machine
Jamie Anderson
Elaine Townsend
STB
Catie Curtis
Kevin Allred
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COMING SOON: Sound Clips and Artist Websites… |
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Bullets & Butterflies: queer spoken word poetry
edited by Emanuel Xavier
foreword by Bob Holman
5.5 x 8.5, 216 pages, $16.95, ISBN: 0-9746388-5-4
www.suspectthoughtspress.com
Emanuel Xavier has edited an extraordinary anthology collecting work from America’s hottest queer spoken word performers and slam poets. Bullets and Butterflies features luscious, vibrant, and wicked new poetry focused on sexuality, gender, class, race, religion, and politics by Cheryl Boyce-Taylor, Regie Cabico, Staceyann Chin, Celena Glenn, Daphne Gottlieb, Maurice Jamal, Shane Luitjens, Marty McConnell, Travis Montez, Alix Olson, Shailja Patel, horehound stillpoint, and Emanuel Xavier.
"With its wide-open definition of the word queer and fearless publishing choices that ricochet from risky to risqué, San Francisco's Suspect Thoughts Press has made the book world a more interesting place to inhabit. Suspect Thoughts has swiftly become the hot press for connoisseurs of transgressive, intelligent literature."
--SF Bay Guardian
NEW YORK POST (5/2/05) — 3 out of 5 stars
"When spoken word became the trend du jour for wannabe intellectuals and aspiring bohemians, a frightening new wave of redundant, vacuous poetry focused not on honesty of emotion, but on clever rhyme patterns, took center stage. "Bullets and Butterflies" restores some much-needed honesty to the genre with its poignant poems, which touch upon subjects such as love, identity, ruptured families, revolution, death, rejection and bigotry. Although not all of the poems dazzle, there are no space-fillers here. Puerto Rican and Ecuadorian poet Emmanuel Xavier hits high notes with "A Simple Poem" and "Legendary," but it's Travis Montez and Staceyann Chin who steal the show with their viscerally visual accounts." -Celia San Miguel, New York Post-Tempo, Wednesday, April 13, 2005
Queer Ramblings, Summer 2005
"The photograph of Alix Olson shows that a picture is worth a thousand words. It could have been used as the book cover because her words hit harder than a fist.. Olson reminds us of the dangers of painting our sex lives as white as a picket fence...I cannot recommend this book enough. If words could catch paper on fire, Bullets and Butterflies could burn down every bookstore and library in the world" www.queerramblings.com
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ReGeneration [1.2.03]:
Alix will be included in an anthology "ReGeneration", to be released by Penguin Putnam Publishers on January 6th. ("ReGeneration" turns the idea of a generation on its head, it reflects the process of loss and repair of self and culture through photos, essays, poems) You can learn more at: www.regenproject.com and it will be on sale at a local bookstore near you! (booksense.com can help you locate this book and independent bookstores in your area)
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Burning Down the House (Anthology)
Roger Bonair-Agard, Stephen Colman, Guy LeCharles, Alix Olson, Lynne Procope
Available for online purchase through
www.softskull.com or www.booksense.com (Independent Bookstores for Independent Minds... online!)
Selected poems from the Nuyorican Poets Café National Poetry Slam Champions. In summer of 1998 they took the belt at the National Poetry Slam, the first team from the Nuyorican Poets Café/. These five poets stand at the vanguard of the slam movement, with verse that is passionate, tight, political and lucid.
Excerpt:
i wanna propose we follow those
who chose a different
way to knock.
those who banged with persistence
like the audre lordes of my existence.
who chose a different way to walk--
took a chance, didn't prance, tiptoe,
twirl thru this world.
i refuse to slide past
even if it means coming in last.
i'm gonna stomp and rage and kick,
talk hard, think thick, see it don't
take a dick to have balls.
~alix olson
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