Natalie E. Illum…   is a poet, performer and disability activist. Bring her stumbling to your city.

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Robbie Q. Telfer and Shanny Jean Maney, founded The encyclopedia Show in 2008 in Chicago. We are thrilled to share it with Washington DC!

The Encyclopedia Show is a live variety extravaganza that commissions local and touring artists and experts from many disciplines to use their individual talents to present a different verbal encyclopedia entry each month.

The Encyclopedia Show endeavors to …build an age-integrated community cultivating accidental knowledge and irreverent loving kindness. Though the show is accredited by the Institute of Human Knowledge and Hygiene, it is our ongoing mission to chafe against logic and proof, find meaning in obfuscation, and wrest truth from fact once and for all.

https://twitter.com/EpediaDC
Website http://www.epediadc.com

Stories with a beat!

Please listen to mine.  It’s part of their Sugar & Spice Episode.

http://snapjudgment.org/falling

New Video from Beltway Poetry Slam (November 2011) — thank you Scott Stead and Sarah D. Lawson.

The poem’s called “It Really Was a Vespa.”

We all have busted chins; scars

the shape of half-moons.

Bullies we can count on

10 fingers.

The day they pants you

in Defiance, Ohio

was the same day

they called me crippled

near the Hudson Valley. I’m convinced

I’ve always known you like that.

We are currently booking Natalie E. Illum’s 2011-12 “Bulldozer Tour.”  Natalie is a nationally-recognized  spokenword performer and activist with a physical disability.  This tour will celebrate the release of her first album, The Bulldozer Never Comes and feature poems from her next book, Every Medicine (The Fridge Press; March 2012.)

Natalie E. Illum is also available for poetry and memoir workshops, panels and special events related to disability, feminism and sexual and gender identity.

photo by Corwin Levi