Rotunda covered all angles:geekgonzo supercedes old school punk

Matters "SquidLing" does the machete ladder while Jelly boy talks the walk with genuine folk ballyhoo aplomb...








Ebony Collier was there one of genuine "new" poets of Philly come up in the Naughts, Devin D'Andrea, doing the SUPERCOIL was there holding down the fort for the redemption of all our mortal souls with the backing keyboard improv of WEST PHILTH PRODUCTIONS' Matt Broomfield, so was the amazing MY IMAGINARY BAND along with the passionate ST. SKRIBBLY LA CROIX, AND foxy SISTER BLU there were tones of samples to imbibe, the "goods" zeenes and metazines like AMERICAN DISSIDENT, THE SLUSH PILE, CITIZEN 32, LETTERHEAD I, THE IDIOM ANTHOLOGY, COVERT PRESS JOURNAL, THE COLLECTIVE PRESS, and a good sampling of the ULA/LITVISION PRESS line of books...



Mark Baird and JJ Petrolino III skold forth the "idiomatic" volcano!



Another complementary 7/8ths profile from the editor and publisher of the Anthology


Steve McNamara lays into the Poetry whore muse.....
King Wenclas bangs out Totem and Taboo to the concern of the poetry police
Mark again with a piece of his mind intact and dangerous...






Shaun Terreri aka "Alabaster" breaks a movement body language not just mere words...









Rebecca cuts the strings as the "Matriot" transforms literally time and space...













Play this over and over until you can here what our parents and grandparents heard over the racket of the traveling circus midways







A team, Eric and Betty Bloomerz, worth the price of admission tho the Rotunda show was generously open and free to the public which came in droves throughout the evening. The aspect that made it all worth while was the mix and diversity of ages, the relative sobriety of the student rovers, but most of all the number of ethnic Philadelphians of colour and their families including kids that stopped in... and stepped out. Real populist audiences for real underground literature and arts...