"The Poetry Brothel is a unique and immersive poetry event that takes poetry outside classrooms and lecture halls and places it in the lush interiors of a bo****lo. Based in concept on the fin-de-siecle bo****los in New Orleans and Paris, many of which functioned as safe havens for fledgling, avant-garde artists, The Poetry Brothel's "Madame" presents a rotating cast of poets as "wh**es," each ope
rating within a carefully constructed character, who impart their work in public readings, spontaneous eruptions of poetry, and most distinctly, as purveyors of private, one-on-one poetry readings in back rooms. For a small fee, all of the "poetry wh**es" are available for these sequestered readings at any time during the event. Of course, any true brothel need a good cover; The Poetry Brothel's is an immersive cabaret, offering a full bar, live jazz, burlesque dancers, painters, and fortune-tellers, with newly integrated themes, performances and installations at each event. Poets performing at the Brothel are male and female, emerging and established, local and international, and they engage audiences in an immersive experience that flows seamlessly through the Brothel’s public spaces into its private poetry readings. Central to this experience is the creation of character, which for poet and audience function as disguise and as freeing device, enabling The Poetry Brothel to be a place of uninhibited creative expression in which the poets and audience can be themselves in private. Through the vehicle of the private reading, The Poetry Brothel offers access to a part of the artistic process that was previously restricted to individuals in already intimate relationships."
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"Le Bo**el de la Poésie est un événement littéraire unique qui emporte la poésie loin des salles de classe et de conférence pour l’emmener au coeur des intérieurs luxuriants d’un bo**el. Les clients parmi l'audience peuvent se rapprocher des “Poètes prostitués” et, pour une somme modique, s’offrir une lecture privée à n’importe quel moment de l’événement. Bien sûr, tout bo**el qui se respecte a besoin d’une bonne couverture: Le Bo**el de la Poésie est un cabaret immersif et vous propose un bar bien garni, du jazz live, des danseurs burlesques, des peintres et diseuses de bonne aventure, ainsi que de nouveaux thèmes, performances et installations à chaque événement. Les poètes qui se produisent au Bo**el sont des hommes ou des femmes, novices ou reconnus, locaux ou internationnaux, et ils invitent le public dans une expérience immersive qui se traduit sans heurt des espaces publics du Bo**el aux lectures de poèmes privées. On compte, parmi des douzaines de lecteurs invités par le passé, Paul Muldoon, titulaire du prix Pulitzer, Mark Doty, Jerome Rothenberg, Dorianne Laux, Dorothea Lasky et Ariana Reines."
