{"id":33330,"date":"2016-05-03T10:00:29","date_gmt":"2016-05-03T15:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=33330"},"modified":"2016-05-04T12:24:15","modified_gmt":"2016-05-04T17:24:15","slug":"the-poetry-brothel-rouses-literary-intimacy-may-7-at-shelter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/the-poetry-brothel-rouses-literary-intimacy-may-7-at-shelter\/","title":{"rendered":"The Poetry Brothel Rouses Literary Intimacy May 7 at Shelter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The Poetry Brothel: Derby Day Delights<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Doors 8pm | Show 9 pm \u2013 midnight<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">$12 at the door, $10 online, includes one free token<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Mississippi\u2019s first <strong>Poetry Brothel<\/strong> will come to <strong>Shelter on Van Buren<\/strong> Saturday, May 7 kicking off with live jazz by <strong>The Skid Rogues<\/strong> at 8 pm. Sophisticated Southern attire is encouraged to celebrate Derby Day and encourage attendees to step into another persona for a night of anonymous soul searching.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The Poetry Brothel is an interactive cabaret set up as a <em>fin de si<\/em><em>\u00e8cle<\/em> brothel. Poets performing under pseydonyms offer private, one-on-one poetry readings of their original work in candlelit back rooms for a small fee. The main room presents an immersive themed party, which consists of live music, burlesque performances, sketch artists, magic tricks, and more. The Poetry Brothel premiered in New York City in 2008 and now has branches in Los Angeles, Paris, Portland, Barcelona, Belgium, and beyond.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The evening, entitled \u201cDerby Day Delights,\u201d is hosted by <strong>Missy Assink<\/strong> and <strong>Bruce Butler <\/strong>and will feature a sultry lineup of poets consisting of Oxford locals as well as Ole Miss MFA program students and staff including but not limited to:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Verbena Sappho<\/strong>, the elegant Greek goddess and poetess<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Witch Baby<\/strong>, a spooky and sly creature of the night<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Pipi de Toilette<\/strong>, the dark -ipped dame who was raised in the sewers<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Betty Biscuits<\/strong>, who may look as luscious and tender as grandma\u2019s dumplings, but is rarely seen without her trusty rolling pin. Set a spell and try a bite (or three)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Missy Assink, formerly Green, discovered the magic of the Poetry Brothel while living abroad in Paris and has since attended and participated in poetry brothels in New York and Belgium. \u201cSharing a poem with someone is an intensely intimate experience that can make you peak in mysterious ways,\u201d said Assink. \u201cCome and see for yourself.\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14544 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"The Local Voice Ligature\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Photograph by\u00a0Gaetano Catelli.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Poetry Brothel: Derby Day Delights Doors 8pm | Show 9 pm \u2013 midnight $12 at the door,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":33332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2239],"tags":[8498,3081,6946,8527,4,8497,4905,7727,8528],"class_list":["post-33330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-literary-events","tag-brothel","tag-bruce-butler","tag-gaetano-catelli","tag-missy-assink","tag-oxford","tag-poetry-brothel","tag-reading","tag-shelter-on-van-buren","tag-the-skid-rogues"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/2016-04-28-Poetry-Brothel.jpg?fit=620%2C349&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}