http://www.issueprojectroom.org/2009/09/21/poetry-to-the-infinitive-powers/ Wed, 01 Feb 2012 04:53:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://www.issueprojectroom.org/2009/09/21/poetry-to-the-infinitive-powers/comment-page-1/#comment-1224 THANK YOU, SUZANNE FIOL « Viceland Today Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:47:08 +0000 http://issueprojectroom.org/?p=2546#comment-1224 [...] Suzanne Fiol, founder of Issue Project Room, died of cancer on Monday. Issue is my favorite legal venue in NYC — I’ve wandered in there and seen many bizarre, funny and beautiful things, including world-famous Pamelia Kurstin doing theremin stand-up comedy with Carla Rhodes– and a personal favorite, a bunch of ornate pagan transvestites enacting fertility rituals for Mary Magdalene Day: a strange passion play with a nearly nude young man posing as a tree for a human maypole dance, all synched up to the sweet sounds of Brian Ferry. Suzanne and Zach Layton also let my band Flaming Fire do all manner of fun, obnoxious things at her space — stuff we could never get away with anywhere else –including attack her charity Walkathon participants with megaphones and fire, just because we could. You can go there today and hear These Are Powers tell ghost stories. [...] [...] Suzanne Fiol, founder of Issue Project Room, died of cancer on Monday. Issue is my favorite legal venue in NYC — I’ve wandered in there and seen many bizarre, funny and beautiful things, including world-famous Pamelia Kurstin doing theremin stand-up comedy with Carla Rhodes– and a personal favorite, a bunch of ornate pagan transvestites enacting fertility rituals for Mary Magdalene Day: a strange passion play with a nearly nude young man posing as a tree for a human maypole dance, all synched up to the sweet sounds of Brian Ferry. Suzanne and Zach Layton also let my band Flaming Fire do all manner of fun, obnoxious things at her space — stuff we could never get away with anywhere else –including attack her charity Walkathon participants with megaphones and fire, just because we could. You can go there today and hear These Are Powers tell ghost stories. [...]

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