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."