Choc
with Fruit of Distinction award, presented in April for my performance
at the "Pure Poetry" event which was part of the 2006 Fresh
Fruit Festival. Thanks for a great evening, fruities! This
year's events will be held from July 9-22. Click on the Fresh Fruit Festival
link for updates.
Feminists
Who Changed America 1963-1975 Edited by Barbara J. Love
This is the first
comprehensive directory to document many of the founders and leaders of
the second wave women's movement. It tells the stories of more than two
thousand individual women and a few notable men who reignited the women's
movement and made permanent changes to entrenched customs and laws (yes,
I'm in it and perhaps you and/or some of your friends are too). Order
the book from the University
of Illinois Press.
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Experience
the *"quirky eroticism" of Chocolate Waters,
the brilliance of Stephanie Emily Dickinson as she outshines
her namesake, the courageous and tender Tony Vlachos,
the down-home humor of the inimitable Mark Larsen, the
"elegant yet gritty" words of Madeline Artenberg,
the "quizzical eyebrow" of Larry Mallory, the
"head-spinning punning" of Howard Fisch, the
"idiosyncratic muscle" of Karl Gluck, the poignance
of Ellen Golberg, the "graceful language" of
Eileen Brilliant, the honesty of Sharon Silber,
the distinctive yet gentle black humor of Nicholas Johnson and Paul Espel and the "lush, disturbing Third world
of Andrew Kaufman" plus the work of 15 more outstanding,
prize-winning poets and performing artists from New York City
and beyond.
This
limited edition has just been released from Eggplant Press so order your copy before they're all gone. A steal at $10. plus
$1.50 postage and handling. order
online here
*Quoted
material from the introduction, "The Hudson Pier Poets:
Ten Years by the River" by Stephanie Dickinson and Ellen
Goldberg.
Hi,
thank you for stopping by. My name is Chocolate Waters and
I'm a lesbian feminist poet and pioneer performance artist, and yes, Chocolate
is my real name. I've been writing, performing and publishing
my work for over three decades. Please enjoy the writing and audio
files featured here and come back anytime.
Have
Poet Will Travel
I'll
be delighted to appear at your event. Contact
me here for scheduling opportunities.
Looking
for something different? Let Choc add flash and pizazz to
your next event: a party, a roast, a toast, a bookstore reading,
a high school assembly, a workshop, a protest … You
name the event and she will tailor the material specifically
for you and your audience. Always fun and thought-provoking;
sometimes controversial, but a good time is guaranteed –
or you'll be charged twice as much. ;-) Book Me
Now
"Chocolate
Waters is brave, intrepid and funny!" - Robin Morgan,
Sisterhood is Powerful, Ed.
The
aim of Eggplant Submissions is to send out a poet's work
to markets which will offer the poet the best chance for
publication. In other words, we try to make the poems and
the market be the best possible match. Of course, we cannot
guarantee publication, but we can guarantee that we will
do our absolute best to place your work. More >>
New
York based Chocolate Waters found her name near Hershey,
PA-- as you will hear in the first cut of her CD, a comedic/dramatic
poetic monologue, a performance poetry taking its earliest
cues from the Second Wave of Feminism. This dishy stuff
is cooked up from a recipe of one part political sensibility,
another part herstory, healthy amounts of sensitivity, splashes
and dashes of the tummy tickling, and is ultimately topped
off with personality that is both sassy and savvy. More >>
Written
works on the web!
These
poems are examples which span more than three decades. Early
poems like "The Interview" and "Our Mothers
Ourselves" were written in the 70's during what I now
refer to as my "stomping radical feminist days".
More current work like "The Wild Man of Ninth Avenue"
and "The Singer" are about people in Hell's Kitchen
in Manhattan where I have lived for nearly twenty years.
Many of the poems here are included in To the man reporter
from the Denver Post, Take Me Like A Photograph and Charting
New Waters and may be ordered online here Enjoy! More >>
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