Exile in Guyville at 30
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As Phair composed each song on her Exile as an answer to the same number track on The Rolling Stones' Exile on Main St., we’re opening the show with six poets taking one three-song slot each from Guyville and penning response poems to those songs. Following those new Guyville-inspired poems, we will perform the album, in order, track-by-track.
First, the Guyville inspired poems
**GILLIAN MCCAIN
Gillian mccain is the co-author of two non-fiction books: Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk and Dear Nobody: The True Diary of Mary Rose, both with Legs McNeil. She is also the author of three books of poetry: Tilt, Religion and, in collaboration with Jeffrey Conway and David Trinidad, Descent of the Dolls. In the early 90s she was the Program Coordinator of the Poetry Project at St. Marks Church, where she originated the Friday Night Event Series.
"6'1"" "Help Me Mary" "Glory"
Rachel Allen is a poet in New York, sometimes North Carolina. Recently, her work has been published by Spectra, Expat, Archways Editions, the Poetry Project Newsletter, Best American Experimental Writing, and Metatron. She was previously an editor at Asymptote and Guernica; she presently assists production at The Poetry Project and operates Hypothetical Books from her backyard in Brooklyn.
"Dance of the Seven Veils" "Never Said" "Soap Star Joe"
Rebecca Faulkner is a London-born poet based in Brooklyn. The author of Permit Me to Write My Own Ending, (Write Bloody Press, 2023) her work appears in New York Quarterly, Solstice Magazine, The Maine Review, CALYX Press, Berkeley Poetry Review, and elsewhere. She is the 2023 recipient of the Barbara Deming Fund for Women, the 2022 winner of Sand Hills Literary Magazine’s National Poetry Contest, and the 2021 Prometheus Unbound Poetry Competition. Rebecca was a 2021 Poetry Fellow at the Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts. She is currently at work on her second collection, exploring female identity and artistic endeavor.
"Explain It to Me" "Canary" "Mesmerizing"
Orly Bendavid has the soul of a poet and the heart of a warrior. Her songs often explore life’s darker side, shining a light onto difficult emotional situations with unforgettable melodies and lyrics that combine humor and uncompromising honesty.
"Fuck and Run" "Girls! Girls! Girls!" "Divorce Song"
**DIDI CHAMPAGNE
"Shatter" "Flower" "Johnny Sunshine"
Cecilia Stelzer is a poet and painter living in Brooklyn. She received her Master's in creative writing from Eastern Michigan University. She is an intern with Roof Books and an events volunteer with The Poetry Project. She currently works as an assistant at The Metropolitan Opera Guild. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Moss Trill, Sonora Review, White Wall Review, The Ana, and Pank, among others.
"Gunshy" "Stratford-on-Guy" "Strange Loop?"
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–Followed by the album performed live by
**TODD CARLSTROM
"6'1"" "Help Me Mary" "Glory"
**REW STARR
"Dance of the Seven Veils" "Never Said" "Soap Star Joe"
**SU POLO
"Explain It to Me" "Canary" "Mesmerizing"
**ORLY BEN DAVID
"Fuck and Run" "Girls! Girls! Girls!" "Divorce Song"
**BLUEBERRY HI HEELS
"Shatter" "Flower" "Johnny Sunshine"
**PTR KOZLOWSKI
"Gunshy" "Stratford-on-Guy" "Strange Loop?"