Jane Ormerod
Spoken Word /Poetry
Previous Featured Readings
2012
New York City
The Bowery Poetry Club
2011
New York City
The Knitting Factory Brooklyn; Jefferson Market Library (presented by the WNBA); The Bowery Poetry Club; The Inspired Word' at (Le) Poisson Rouge; The Inspired Word at One on One; ; KGB Bar; The Cornelia Street Cafe; JujoMukti Tea Lounge; Govenors Island Poetry Festival,
New York
Woodstock Poetry Society and Festival,; Cornucopia's Noshery, Amityville
New Jersey
The Williams Center for the Arts, Rutherford
California
Beyond Baroque, Los Angeles; Stories Books and Cafe, Los Angeles; Open Heart Poetry @ Om Shan Tea, San Francisco; Bird & Beckett, San Francisco;
Tennessee
Global Education Center, Nashville
Washington
Vermillion Gallery, Seattle
United Kingdom
De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea
The Old Bank of England, London
2010
California
Expressions Gallery, Berkeley; Sparring with Beatnik Ghosts @ The Red Victorian, San Francisco
Massachusetts
Stone Soup @ Out of the Blue Gallery, Cambridge; Outpost 186, Cambridge
New York City
Fall for Arts Festival; Parkside Lounge; Vox Pop; Picasso Machinery; The Fourth Annual Make Music New York's Spoken Word Extravaganza; Small's Jazz Club; Mike Geffner's Inspired Word, (Le) Poisson Rouge; 15th Annual Lower East Side Festival for the Arts; Tillies of Brooklyn; Gallery RIVAA; Bowery Poetry Club; Gizzi's Coffee; Space on White; The Perch Cafe,
New York
Wyld Chyld, Merrick; Off The Wall Festival @ Painters Bar, Brookhaven; ArtRage Gallery, Syracuse
New Jersey
Tasty Coco, Caldwell; Mulligans, Hoboken
Oregon
DIVA, Eugene
Pennsylvania
Connie's Ric Rac, Philadelphia
Washington
Victrola Coffee and Art, Seattle
Ireland
On the Nail Literary Reading @ The Locke Bar, Limerick; Last Wednesday Reading Series, Cassidy's Bar, Dublin
United Kingdom
The Workshop, Norwich
2009
California
Sparring With Beatnik Ghosts @ Faithful Fools Street Ministry, San Francisco; LitCrawl @ Artzone 461 Gallery, San Francisco; Adobe Bookstore, San Francisco; The Gallery Cafe, San Francisco
New York
The Bowery Poetry Club; Jackson Heights Poetry Festival; Jimmy's no. 43; Kiva Cafe; Inspired Word Reading Series; Safe-T-Gallery; Huron Club @ SoHo Playhouse; Nightingale; The Cornelia Street Cafe; Bengal Curry;
New Jersey
Cafe Improv, Princeton
Pennsylvania
Paper Kite Studios, Kingston
Utah
Ken Sanders Rare Books, Salt Lake City
2008
New York City
The Knitting Factory; Dactyl Foundation for Arts & Humanities; The Cornelia Street Cafe; The Safe-T-Gallery; Central Park Bandshell; The Stone; The Shooting Star Theatre, Jimmy's No. 43; The Bowery Poetry Club
California
The Adobe Bookshop, San Francisco; Mystic Babylon podcast, San Francisco; The Gallery Cafe, San Francisco
Connecticut
Molten Java, Bethel
Massachusetts
80 Border Street Cultural Exchange Center, East Boston.
Pennsylvania
Paper Kite Studio, Kingston;, Robin's Bookstore, Philadelphia.
The Netherlands
ABC Treehouse, Amsterdam; Salon des Mots Series @Hofman Cafe, Utrecht
2007
New York City
Cornelia Street Cafe,; The Sixth Street and Avenue B Community Garden; Safe-T-Gallery; Nightingale; Naumberg Bandshell; Galapagos Art Space; The Bowery Poetry Club, The Alternative New Year's Day Extravaganza
California
Gallery Cafe, San Francisco; KFJC Radio, Foothills College, Los Altos (spoken word plus interview); Anno Domini, San Jose; Modern Times Bookstore, San Francisco; The Long Haul, Berkeley,
Oregon
The Beanery, Ashland; Chance of Rain Cafe, Portland,
Canada
Spartacus Books, Vancouver
2006
New York City
The Cornelia Street Cafe,; La Negrita; ABC No Rio;Safe-T-Gallery; Cosi's, Manu in Exile Series; The Bowery Poetry Club; The Stone; The Back Fence; The Bowery Poetry Club; Fusion Arts Museum; La Negrita; The Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center; Galapagos Arts Space; Teabag; The Green Pavilion; The Bowery Poetry Club;
Massachusetts
Gallery TK, Northampton
Vermont
Hooker-Dunham Theater, Brattleboro
2005
New York City
La Negrita; The Bowery Poetry Club,; The Cornelia Street Cafe; The Back Fence; The Park Slope Ale House; The Park Slope Ale House; WBAI Radio, City Watch (spoken word plus interview); Teabag; Lower East Side Festival of the Arts; Galapagos Arts Space; Rockwood Music Hall
New Jersey
Moran's, Hoboken; Rue de Jardin, Hoboken
2004
New York City
Charles A. Dana Discovery Center; Nightingale Saturn Series; The Back Fence; Oz Bar and Lounge
1995-2000
Institute of Contemporary Arts, The Troubadour, City Lit, Muswell Hill Bookshop, Adam Gallery, Waterstones (London, England)
The British Council (Cologne, Germany)
"Jane Ormerod gave a virtuoso display of that rich flowing verse that really grips the ear."
TVIVF, Eamonn Lynskey, review of feature at Cassidy's, Dublin.
"The intent was to blow the minds of the audience with Round 8 and Jane Ormerod was the dynamite. No one made it out of the Red Victorian without an aftermath of absolute astonishment from the treads of her words roaring paths around inside their craniums. A recreational vehicle on fire, indeed -- no brakes on the wild mad machine with a gattling gun blazing word bullets in a ratatattat fashion -- plowing over everything on the road ahead -- utilizing the fuel for the fire from her phenomenal language that made me feel like I discovered the leader of a poetic tribe from the cosmos and revealed her to a captive audience shocked with the surreal effect of newfound genius. The Beatnik Ghosts felt her wrath!"
-Daniel Yaryan, Producer of the San Francisco poetry series "Sparring With Beatnik Ghosts."
