September 11, 2010: The Undercurrents at Pandemonium. The theme for this
year’s annual fundraising extravaganza for the Cleveland Public Theater is "The Wild Side." Come wander through this modern circus from the Middle Ages that features a
rainbow of wallwalkers, acrobats, singers, dancers, spoken word
artists, bands, stiltwalkers, performance artists, food, drink, and much
merriment. 7 PM. 6415 Detroit Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44102. 216-631-2727
for
more info.
July 25, 2010: Poetry & Polka at the SNPJ Farm in Kirtland, OH. What
says "Cleveland" more than lively polka music, sausages -- and
poetry? They all come together at SNPJ
Farm, Sunday, July 25th, for "Poetry and Polka," an unforgettable day
of music and the spoken word. Some of the area's best-known poets celebrate the
people, places and traditions that make Northeast Ohio great:
Gail Bellamy, Poet Laureate of Cleveland
Heights
Katie Daley, Ohio Arts Council Award Winner
Rita Grabowski, Cleveland State University Poetry
Center Director
Ray McNiece, Captain of 2 National Poetry Slam
Championship Teams
John Panza, President of Heights Arts
Cindy Washabaugh, CSU's Creative Writing Program
Bruce Weigl, Pushcart Prize Winner and Pulitzer
Nominee
Poets on Stage: 2:30
p.m.
Down-Home Dinners: 2:00
to 4:00
Polka Dance with the Al
Battistelli Band: 3:30 to 7:30
Bocce, Beverages and
Sandwiches All Day
Start
with your choice of a smoked sausage or roast beef dinner ($8). Enjoy the poets
at 2:30. Then dance the day away with Cleveland-style polka and waltz
favorites. Battle it out on the bocce courts or stroll among the tall trees of
SNPJ Farm, a summer polka destination since 1939. Sandwiches and beverages
served all day. Horseshoes, playground and corn toss, too.
Admission
$6 per person. Under 16 free.
SNPJ Farm is located in Kirtland at
10945 Heath Road, off Chardon Road (Route 6), three miles east of Route 306.
June 19th, 2010: The Undercurrents at Larchmere Porchfest: 20 Bands on 20 Porches. The Undercurrents are deeelighted and honored to be part of the 2nd annual Larchmere Porchfest, an absolutely free festival of local bands playing on front porches in the Larchmere neighborhood near Shaker Square. Pack up your
kids, lawnchairs and coolers and drive, ride, walk or bike to
Larchmere for this day of music and summer celebrating. Absolutely free! The Undercurrents go on at 4:15 PM at the front porch on 2656 E. 126th St., between Shaker Blvd. and Larchmere.
June 15, 2010: The Undercurrents play a few numbers at the 6th Annual Daniel Thompsonathon. Poets, puppeteers and musicians gather to celebrate the life and impish rebelliousness of
the late, great activist and poet Daniel Thompson. Featured performers
include Maj Ragain, Wendy Shaffer, Barry
Zucker, Gail Bellamy, Michael Salinger, Bill Arthrell, Michael Bradley and his Daniel puppets, Danyl Chambers, and the Undercurrents. 5:30 PM potluck supper, and at 6:30 PM the festivities begin.
Horseshoe Lake Park Pavilion in Shaker Heights, on Park Drive east of
Lee Rd. between South Park and North Park Blvds.
May 27, 2010: Poemusic
in the Woods:
The Undercurrents
and
Barry Zucker with musicians John Emery and Jeff Grau
You may not be able to sit still during this one. Come hear poetry shake its booty to the tune of acoustic and slide guitars, mandolins, and song. As always, we will transform the institutional library into a nightclubby
vibe for you by zapping the flourescent overheads and replacing them
with mellow lamplight, funky tablecloths and exotic refreshments. 7 PM, Bertram Wood Public Library, 20600
Fayette Road, Shaker Heights, Ohio 44122, 216.991.2421
April 10, 2010: Heights Arts & Heights Writes present Poetography opening reception at Tommy's Restaurant and reading at Mac's Backs. Poetography pairs 10 local poets with 10 local photographers to create 10 photo-poem explorations of the people, places and spirits of Coventry Village. Katie pairs up with photographer David Brichford for a psychedelic reminiscence of the point building at Lancashire and Coventry. Opening reception at Tommy's, 2-4 PM, 1824 Coventry Rd., Cleveland Hts., OH 44118. 216-321-7757. Reading right next door at Mac's Backs, 3 PM. 216-321-2665.
April 8, 2010: The Undercurrents at the Mad Greek. Private party for the national board members of Beyond Pesticides to kick off the 28th National Pesticide Forum.
March 27, 2010: Benefit at Mac's Backs for Cleveland Heights Schools poetry clubs. Katie will perform along with Gail Bellamy, Ray McNiece, Allison McClain, Zion Venia, Tierra Briggs, and more. 6-8 PM, 1820 Coventry Rd., Cleveland Hts., OH 44118. 216-321-2665. Students get in free; adults pay $10 donation at the door.
March 8, 2010: The Undercurrents at the Cleveland Food Coop. International Women's Day gets a bountiful tribute at the Food Coop with the Undercurrents, an array of drummers, and more. 5 - 7 PM, 11702 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44106.
March 6, 2010: The Undercurrents at Kan Zaman. To celebrate the upcoming International Women's Day, the Undercurrents will perform a women/human rights piece for this gathering sponsored by Women Speak Out for Peace and Justice. Brazilian music and great Middle Eastern food will accompany the fiesta, followed by a human rights awards ceremony. 1 - 3:30 PM, W. 25th St. & Franklin St., Cleveland, OH.
March 1, 2010: Take Nine at The Alcazar. Katie performs with 7 of Take Nine (Darlene Montonaro, Bonnie Jacobson, Gail Bellamy, Meredith Holmes, Cindy Washabaugh, Kathleen Cerveney & Katie Daley). 7 PM, $5 admission to pay for venue rental. 2450 Derbyshire Road, Cleveland Heights, OH.
January 8 & 9,
2010: Wordscapes at the Cleveland Playhouse. The music and dance in this show alone is beat-happy enough to get
you shaking off your post-holiday, mid-winter blues. Woven into that wild
fabric is a spangled celebration of storytelling, skits, poems, humorous
motivational speaking, and spoken word galore. Katie appears as Brigid Mulrooney, a 15 year-old Irish lass, and as a member of the Take Nine Poets. 7 PM both nights. 8500 Euclid
Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44106. 216-795-7000 for more info.
September 12, 2009: The Undercurrents at Pandemonium. This
year’s annual fundraising extravaganza for the Cleveland Public Theater features the Undercurrents as well as a
rainbow of wallwalkers, acrobats, singers, dancers, spoken word
artists, bands, stiltwalkers, performance artists, food, drink, and much
merriment. 7 PM. 6415 Detroit Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44102. 216-631-2727 for
more info.
June 18, 2009: The Undercurrents at the Barking Spider. Starting at 8 PM, The Undercurrents, a poemusic band featuring John Emery, Jeff Grau and Katie Daley, will be warming up the mics for Hillbilly Idol. Come on down to the best bar in Cleveland to sit under old trees and let young summertime swirl in through your ears. 8 PM, Barking Spider, 11310 Juniper Rd. in University Circle (216-421-2863).
June 16, 2009: Fifth Annual Daniel Thompsonathon. Come hear poets celebrate the life and impish rebelliousness of the late, great activist and poet Daniel Thompson. Featured poets include Katie Daley, Chris Franke, Jim Lang, Peter Leon, Ray McNiece, Maj Ragain, Kathy Smith, Steven B. Smith, Brian Taylor, and Barry Zucker. 5:30 PM potluck supper, and at 6:30 PM the poetry begins. Horseshoe Lake Park Pavilion in Shaker Heights, on Park Drive east of Lee Rd. between South Park and North Park Blvds.
April 23, 2009: Hathaway Brown Writers Festival. Katie performs along with novelist Terry Dubow and poet and essayist John Verbos. 7 PM. Hathaway Brown School, 19600 North Park Blvd., Shaker Heights, OH 44122. Call 216-320-8796 x7252 for more info.
April 18, 2009: Vagina Monologues!!! As part of the 2009 V-Day Community Campaign, Cleveland is proud to present a benefit production of The Vagina Monologues to raise awareness and funds for local organizations working to end violence against women and girls. Katie will be part of the company performing this funny, heartbreaking, heartlifting play about the female experience from a global perspective. 8 PM, East Cleveland Theater, 14108 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, Ohio 44112. Venue Phone: 216-851-8721.
April 1, 2009: Highlander's Writers Festival. Katie performs new work along with David Adams and Phil Metres as a part of Edinboro University's Highlander's Writers Festival in Edinboro, PA. More details coming soon.
March 14, 2009: Katie's the entertainment at this year's Poetry Out Loud competition in Columbus, Ohio. Come hear high school students from around the state performing other people's (kinda famous) poems as they vie for a spot at the national competition in Washington, D.C. It's like Akeela and the Bee on poetry, but you gotta fill in the back story with your own imagination. 12:30 PM. Ohio Dominican University, Matesich Theater, 2nd Floor, Erskine Hall, 1216 Sunbury Rd., Columbus, OH 43219. 614-253-2741.
March 11, 2009: Hosted by Edinboro University in Edinboro, PA, Katie performs lyrical skits, original monologues and poems interspersed with music by Andy Miller, vocalist and acoustic guitarist, and Brock on percussion. Show begins at 7:30 PM, Reeder Lecture Hall, Edinboro University. Open to all, so come on down!
February 11, 2009: Poemusic in the Woods
The Undercurrents
and
Barry Zucker with Matt Harmon
7 PM, Bertram Wood Public Library, 20600 Fayette Road, Shaker Heights, Ohio 44122, 216.991.2421
Are you cold? Tired? Tired of poetry traipsing through your eardrums all by itself? Wishing you had a little time between metaphors to kick back and soak up what that poet just laid on your shivering, world-weary ears? We've got just the answer for you: hot shots of poetry chased down by face-melting guitar licks, mandolin riffles, and three-part harmonies.
Yup, there's something truly rare and risky going on at the Bertram Woods branch of the Shake-Your-Money-Maker Heights Public Library next Wednesday, Febrary 11 at 7 PM: After all these years, we're finally going to hear Poetry In the Woods host/impressario Barry Zucker do an ENTIRE poetry set to the musical accompaniment of guitarist Matt Harmon.
Also appearing: The Undercurrents, A.K.A. Katie Daley on spoken word, John Emery on guitar and vocals, and Jeff Grau on electric guitar, lap slide, and mandolin. (We're thinking of changing our band name once a week or so; possible future AKAs include "The John Wayne Jesus Complex" and "The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement"--whaddaya think?)
True to form, we will transform the institutional library into a nightclubby vibe for you by zapping the flourescent overheads and replacing them with mellow lamplight, funky tablecloths and exotic refreshments.
So come on down and rock-a-by your frostbitten ears in our heat-seeking, heart-seeking soundscapes!
Poemusic in the Woods: Wednesday February 11, 7 PM
The Undercurrents
and
Barry Zucker with Matt Harmon
Bertram Wood Public Library
20600 Fayette Road
Shaker Heights, Ohio 44122
216.991.2421
Hope to see you there!
January 20, 2009: Big Bouncing Inaugural Ball. It's a party!!! To celebrate the end of the Bush regime and the hope for big, heartfelt, heartful changes with Obama's inauguration, Katie will perform poems as a member of the music-poetry band The Undercurrents with John Emery on guitar and vocals. Also performing: Q Nice and Ray McNiece. Eat, drink, and be hopeful. See below for more info. 7 PM, The Grog Shop, 2785 Euclid Heights Blvd. at Coventry in Cleveland Heights.
Bring a dish with international flair for the global potluck. Bring kids, parents, grandparents, friends, neighbors. Bring campaign mementos or memorabilia. Also, please bring a non-perishable food item to donate to the Heights Emergency Food Center.
There will be television coverage, Obama video and live entertainment.
Admission is free.
Yes We Did!
December 10, 2008: Reading Race at MOCA. Katie and 5 other poets gather to respond with poems to the Facing Race and Suburbia exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA). Other poets performing will be Kazim Ali, Cavana Faithwalker, Q-Nice, Michelle Rankins and Ray McNiece. Refreshments galore! 7 PM, MOCA, 8501 Carnegie Avenue, Cleveland 44106.
October 25, 2008: To heat up the mic for Taylor Mali of National Poetry Slam and Def Poetry Jam fame, Katie performs two monologues, including a new one in the voice of an elderly woman in a shower cap who listens in on phone calls for the CIA. ***Plus***a music-poetry number with John Emery and Jeff Grau on guitars and voice. Other poets warming the stage will be Kisha Foster, Michael Salinger and One Truth. 7 PM, Idea Center, Westfield Insurance Studio, Playhouse Square, Euclid Avenue, Cleveland.
August 2, 2008: Waterloo Arts Festival. Katie performs poems with John Emery on accoustic guitar and voice and Mike Modlin on electric guitar and back-up harmonies. 6 PM, Sculpture Garden Stage, E. 156th and Waterloo, Collinwood/Cleveland.
June 20, 2008: Come join the poets (including Katie) featured in Cleveland Poetry Scenes: A Panorama and Anthology to celebrate the book's publication with a PARTY! Oh, yeah, and a reading and book signing, too. Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), 8501 Carnegie Avenue, Cleveland, OH, 44106, 216-421-8671. Starts at 7:30 PM. (See April 27 listing for more info about the book).
May 9, 2008: Book signing party and reading at The Lit, Cleveland's Literary Center (Artcraft Building, 2570 Superior Avenue, Suite 203, Cleveland, OH 44114; 216.694.0000). In celebration of the publication of After the Bell (University of Iowa Press), an anthology of short essays about the experience of school, Katie and fellow contributors will read their pieces and sign copies of the book. The reading will feature anthology editors Maggie Anderson and David Hassler and Ohio poets Maj Ragain, Larry Smith and Leonard Kress. The book includes essays by Sherman Alexie, Audre Lorde, Barbara Kingsolver, Henry Louis Gates, Naomi Shihab Nye, Annie Dillard, Mark Doty, Garrison Keillor, and a host of other nationally known writers.
About After the Bell
The sixty-two short essays in After the Bell describe in many voices the emotional complexity and historical record of one experience most of us have in common: elementary and secondary school, from our first day all the way to graduation twelve years later. Whether public or private, rural or urban, school is the first place we navigate on our own, learning how we stand apart, how we stand out, and where we do—or don’t—fit in.
The essays are by emerging as well as established fiction writers, poets, social commentators, and educational theorists. Told from the point of view of students, teachers, parents, and administrators through the multiple perspectives of race, class, physical and intellectual abilities, and sexuality, the stories reveal how memories of our school days haunt and sustain us.
April 27, 2008: Come celebrate the publication of Cleveland Poetry Scenes: A Panorama and Anthology with a reading and book signing by many poets featured in the book, including Katie. Cleveland Public Library, 325 Superior Ave. NE, Louis B. Stokes Auditorium, Cleveland, OH 44114, 216-623-2800. Starts at 2 PM.
About Cleveland Poetry Scenes: A Panorama and Anthology:
Detailed Cultural Chronology; 20 Articles on: 1960s Mimeograph Revolution, Performance Poetry, Slam Teams, Black Poetic Society, Independents, University Writing Programs, Presses & Magazines, Poetry Web Presence, Poetry Organizations, Lists of Cleveland Area Poets, Publishers, Venues, Photos from Jim Lang, Pete Dell, and Others, 40 Poet Anthology with Statements from the Poets: From Hart Crane and Langston Hughes through d.a.levy and Daniel Thompson to Kelly Harris and Adam Brodsky. 304 pages, 50 photos, $19.95, 978-1-933964-17-1
April 12, 2008: Katie performs solos and duets with poet Wendy Shaffer for this Women's History Month Celebration (snow date from last month) at Arabica Coffee House, 818 E. 185th St., Cleveland, OH, 216-486-7777. Show starts at 7 PM. Other female artists include singers, singer-songwriters, dancers, and more.
February 28, 2008: Hathaway Brown Writers Festival. Katie performs along with writers David Hassler and Sarah Willis. Shaker Heights, OH. 7 PM.
February 5, 2008: John Carroll University, Donahue Auditorium in the Dolan Science Center, University Heights, OH. 7 PM. Katie performs with Q Nice and Liberty for the JCU Office of Multicultural Affairs as part of the Shirley S. Seaton Cultural Awareness series. Contact Katie for more info.
January 12, 2008: C-Space, 4323 Clark Avenue, Cleveland, 8:00 PM (watch out-- we're starting on time!). Katie warms up the crowd for the wonderful, incisive Kate Sopko, who'll be reading from her new book, Stewards of the Lost Lands (see below for a description). One of those legendary Tremont DIY dance parties will follow.
A combination of poetry and essays, 'Stewards' looks
at this generation of Americans' inherited social
responsibilities, and the difficulty many people have
shouldering them. Drawing from her experience working
within the anti-nuke and anti-war movements, and on
DIY community projects like C-Space, Sopko looks
broadly at the roadblocks placed in front of people
looking for a more balanced, loving world by our
culture's mental terrain.
Come on out to C-Space for the reading, and help make this the starting point of a larger community discussion about how we relate to social justice nowadays. DANCE PARTY: 10:00-ish (when the reading's over...), The Language Foundry (downstairs), 2335 West 11 Street, Apartment #3. Bring music, bring friends.
January 4, 2008: There Will Be Jazz and Poetry In Cleveland! Barking Spider Tavern, 11310 Juniper Rd. in University Circle (216-421-2863), 10 PM-12:30 AM. Katie reads to jazz along with fellow poets Ben Guylas, Sara Holbrook, Adam Brodsky, Jim Lang, Russ Vidrick, Wendy Shaffer, Michael Salinger and Bree. Jazz by the delightful!
Gene Epstein-a real stand-up gal on stand-up bass
John Richmond-blows them horns, all kinds
Rockin' Robin-legend on them pearly ivories
More info: greenpandapress@yahoo.com
no cover charge www.barkingspidertavern.com
December 20, 2007: Poetry in the Woods. Shaker Heights Public Library, Bertram Woods Branch, 20600 Fayette Road, Shaker Heights, Ohio 44122 (216.991.2421). 7 PM. Come take a break from Jingle Bells and candy canes to get a dose of the real solstice sugar. Katie performs solo numbers as well as duets with one of her favorite poets, Wendy Shaffer. They'll each do a solo portion of the show, then join their voices to perform poems they've written together and/or rewritten to work as duets. By turning off the overhead lights and using warm lamplight brought from home, your poet hosts will transform the library's institutional atmosphere into a nightclubby vibe, and there'll be plenty of homemade refreshments to fortify you for the afterburn. Come on down!
Nov 10, 2007: Katie performs for the Alliance of Artists Communities. Hilton Silver Spring, Silver Springs, MD. 6:30 to 9 PM. Contact Katie for more info.
Oct 20, 2007: Along with an unruly gang of local poets, Katie reads Jack Kerouac at the Barking Spider for the 50th anniversary of the publication of Kerouac's On The Road. All readers backed by live jazz. 5-8 PM, Cleveland, OH.
July 28, 2007: Katie performs duetic poetics with Wendy Shaffer at the Waterloo Arts Festival. Collinwood, Cleveland, OH. 4:30 PM.
July 21, 2007: Katie sits in with Ray McNiece and his band Tongue 'n Groove at the Ingenuity Festival. Euclid Avenue and E. 18th St., Cleveland, OH. 7 PM.
June 22, 2007: The Other War: IRTF Coffeehouse. Katie performs poems at this special event to spread awareness about the US military involvement in Columbia. Also appearing will be poet Kate Sopko, photographs taken in Columbia by Steve Cagan, and a variety of musicians and speakers. Sponsored by IRTF (Inter-religious Task Force). Cleveland, OH. 7 PM.
June 10, 2007: OCAMP benefit (Ohio Committee Against the Misuse of Pesticides). Katie performs poems accompanied by accordioniste Pat Tamburro. Investigative journalist Harvey Wasserman and other environmentalists will also speak. Good food and drink provided! Pay what you can. Cleveland, OH. 2-6 PM.
April 26, 2007: Edinboro University, Edinboro, PA. 8:30 PM. Katie performs new monologues and old favorites at Edinboro University Theater. Contact Katie for more info.
April 14, 2007: Kenneth Patchen Festival at the Barking Spider. Backed by a jazz band made up of exceptional listeners, Katie and other local/national poets will read Kenneth Patchen poems as well as their own work. Cleveland, OH. 7 PM.
April 12, 2007: Katie and C. Allen Rearick perform at the Literary Cafe. Audience is encouraged to heckle and write poems as featured poets perform. A boisterous open mic follows the features. Literary Road, Tremont, Cleveland, OH. 9:30 PM.
March 19, 2007: City Hall Women's History Month Reading. Along with several other local female poets, Katie performs one of her own poems as well as one by an established female poet. City Hall Rotunda, Cleveland, OH. 3:30 PM.
March 15, 2007: NOAC (Northeast Ohio Anti-War Coalition) anti-war vigil. As part of the rally to close this 8-day vigil against the war, Katie will perform her AWOL poem in the voice of a US soldier in Iraq. Soldiers and Sailors Monument, Public Square, Cleveland, OH. 4:30 PM.
March 12, 2007: Touched in the Head Festival, Harry Schwartz Bookstore (Downer store), Milwaukee, WI, 7 PM. Katie performs poetic monologues, including several from her Irish character, Brigid Mulrooney, as part of this weeklong festival "celebrating the fierce genius of the Irish." John Throne will also read from his new novel The Donnegal Woman.
March 11, 2007: Touched in the Head Festival, Broad Vocabulary Bookstore, Milwaukee, WI, 7 PM. Katie performs poems as part of this weeklong festival "celebrating the fierce genius of the Irish." Several other female poets will also read. Milwaukee, WI. 3 PM.
March 10, 2007: Second Saturday Coffeehouse. Katie joins poet Wendy Shaffer, singer-songwriter Amy Fish and a slew of other female artists as they celebrate Women's History Month with plenty of feline vigor. Collinwood, Cleveland, OH. 7 PM.
March 8, 2007: Hathaway Brown Writers Festival kick-off reading. Katie performs along with writers David Hassler and Sarah Willis. Shaker Heights, OH. 7 PM.