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Hey Everyone,
Come on out for a queer old time the Sunday after Thanksgiving. After
spending the holiday with your relatives you'll need it. Details below. Ren
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Sunday, November 26
Thankgiving Weekend: Flee Your Family!
Ren Jender (host of GirlsNQueers First and The Amazon Slam) is the feature at
The Poetry Jam
With The Jeff Robinson Trio
The Lizard Lounge
1667 Mass. Ave.
(Near Harvard Square)
Cambridge, MA.
(617) 547-0759
http://poetryjam.com
$5 cover, 21+
On Sunday 11/26, writer/performer Ren Jender will do a set accompanied
by the acclaimed jazz band The Jeff Robinson Trio. The feature is at
9:30 PM but the evening starts at 7:30 with an open poetry slam and
continues at
about 10:30 PM with an open mike, also accompanied by the Trio.
BIO
Ren Jender is a writer/performer who for eight and a half years was the
host and founder of The Amazon Slam, a Boston-based all woman poetry
slam that won "The Best Poll" of The Boston Phoenix from 1998-2003
(links: http://www.bostonphoenix.com/supplements/the_best/98/text/AE_AMAZON_SLAM.html
http://www.bostonphoenix.com/supplements/the_best/00/text/AR_SPOKEN_WORD.html
http://www.bostonphoenix.com/supplements/the_best/03/ART/AR_157.asp)
and was named "Best of Boston" in Boston Magazine in 1999. Her work has
appeared in Bitch Magazine, Bay Windows and Spare Change. She has been profiled in The
Boston Globe, The Boston Herald, The Boston Metro, The Boston Phoenix,
Curve and Teen Voices
(http://www.teenvoices.com/issue11_1/tvspecial_2.html). You can hear a
clip of Ren performing at http://www.myspace.com/girlsnqueersfirst
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